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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9548
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competitiveness council

Integrated industrial approach, patent litigation and research institute on agenda

Brussels, 22/11/2007 (Agence Europe) - Under the chairmanship of the Portuguese ministers Manuel Pinho (Economics) and Mariano Gago (Science and Technology), the Competitiveness Council will deal with issues linked to industry, the internal market and consumer protection on Thursday 22 November, before tackling points relating to research the following day. In the evening of Wednesday 21 November, the ministers participated in an informal dinner on the future of energy-intensive sectors in...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: TELECOMS: Thanks to Viviane Reding, European debate becomes transparent
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EP/ENLARGEMENT: Rehn says Croatia may finalise its negotiations in first half of 2009 and join before end of 2010
(EU) EU/TREATY: “Legal impossibility” for Warsaw to renounce its “opt-out” on charter? Tusk visit to Brussels
(EU) EP/MIDDLE EAST: Exchange of views between Solana, Ferrero-Waldner and conference of presidents of the parliament in view of forthcoming Annapolis conference
(EU) EU/DEVELOPMENT:
(EU) EU/DEVELOPMENT:
(EU) EU/ACP: Disarming different armed groups in eastern Congo priority to prevent unrest across entire Great Lakes region
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL: Integrated industrial approach, patent litigation and research institute on agenda
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Commission recommends tackling basic causes of low growth of productivity in Europe
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES: Commission suggests several practical ways of improving cooperation among national regulators
(EU) EU/TRADE DEFENCE: Peter Mandelson gives himself extra-time before submitting his new revision proposals
(EU) EU/AUSTRALIA: Draft bilateral agreement on trade in wine
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Neelie Kroes presents proposed transaction procedure for cartels
(EU) EP/JHA: Mr Frattini denies any intention of bringing in profiling to planned “European PNR”, despite MEPs' strong suspicions
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Commission favours rail and cross-border sections
(EU) EP/TRANSPORT: No agreement between Council and Parliament on Community civil aviation safety rules
(EU) EU/REGIONAL: Informal Azores meeting to adopt initial action plan on implementation of EU's territorial agenda
(EU) EU/ACP: Commission under fire over EPAs - “Declaration of Kigali” calls for time to conclude their agreements
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: Mixed reactions to revised strategy for internal market
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE: Parliamentarians give fairly positive welcome to common agricultural policy “health check”
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Proposal on 2008 Black sea fishing quotas
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: Appeal to Japan not to hunt whales
(EU) EU/FISHERIES:
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EU/INFORMATION: Europe Direct receives its 100,000th call
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Major legislation published in EU Official Journal
(EU) EU/CONSTRUCTION:
Supplement: EUROPE/Documents No. 2470: Common Agricultural Policy 'Health Check'
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