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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9514
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/seats

Large majority in parliamentary committee for Lamassoure/Severin proposal on assigning EP seats

Brussels, 02/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 2 October, it was with a comfortable majority (17 votes for, 5 against and three abstentions) that the constitutional affairs committee of the European Parliament approved the report by Alain Lamassoure (EPP-ED, France) and Adrian Severin (PES, Romania) on how seats should be distributed at the EP after the 2009 European elections. This clear committee vote is expected to open the way for the text to be approved in plenary on 11 October and...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Quick reminder of the importance of “Galileo” for Europe
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EP/SEATS: Large majority in parliamentary committee for Lamassoure/Severin proposal on assigning EP seats
(EU) EU/TREATY: Member state legal experts' agreement
(EU) EU/UKRAINE: José Manuel Barroso, Javier Solana and Portuguese presidency call for swift formation of government after Sunday's general election
(EU) EU/SWITZERLAND: Mid-November launch of discussions on tax dispute
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/JHA: Gilles de Kerchove to carry out broad assessment of fight against terrorism in Europe
(EU) EU/JHA: EU wants to create interconnected child kidnap alert system, but no agreement on centralised system
(EU) EU/JHA: Investigating technical ways of blocking websites
(EU) EU/JHA: EU intends to continue down path of “e-justice”
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT COUNCIL: Council reaffirms importance of Galileo but bickers about its funding
(EU) EU/TARNSPORT COUNCIL: EU27 want to enhance inter-operability of Community railways
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT COUNCIL: EU27 decide to create European long-range identification and tracking data centre
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT COUNCIL: EU27 acknowledge measures must be taken to improve airport efficiency - Capacity planning must remain under member state responsibility
(EU) EU/ENERGY: Commission defends its position at Madrid conference - President Barroso argues in favour of debate on nuclear power
(EU) EU/COMMUNICATION: Commission proposes interinstitutional agreement to formalise commitment of European institutions to communicate
(EU) EU/REGIONAL POLICY: Commission approves national strategy and priorities for Belgium 2007-2013
(EU) EU/REGIONAL POLICY: Commission approves seven new operational programmes for Polish Regions
(EU) EU/RUSSIA: Pascal Lamy reminds Moscow that accession to WTO, which in part depends on bilateral discussions with EU, involves sacrifice
(EU) EU/WTO/DOHA: Status quo on industrial tariffs
(EU) EU/COMMUNITY LAW: Exchange of information would promote better application of Community law by national courts
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission green light to five acquisitions
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EU/IMF:
(EU) EU/EIB: Bank pulls out all stops on clean energies
(EU) EU/EESC/ECONOMY: Recommendations of Committee to increase growth and employment in context of healthy economy
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Main legislative acts published in Official Journal
(EU) EU/HEALTH:
(EU): Tourism
(EU): Privatisations
(EU): Trade
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