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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9605

20 February 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/regional
Commission approves Ireland and UK cross-border cooperation programme and Rhineland Palatinate operational programme

Brussels, 19/02/2008 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has approved the 2007-2013 cross-border cooperation programme “Northern Ireland, the Border Region of Ireland and Western Scotland”. The programme has a total budget of €256 million. Community investment through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) amounts to €192 million.

The Commission has also approved the Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) Regional Development Programme for 2007-2013. This programme falls within...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: The EU and an independent Kosovo: light and darkness, certainty and confusion
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/FUTURE OF EUROPE: Sweden seeks “strong, modern, open” Europe and hopes to be part of EU “hard core”
(EU) EU/RUSSIA: Poland withdraws reservation on new partnership agreement
(EU) EU/CUBA: Willing to engage in constructive political dialogue with Cuba, Louis Michel will be in La Havana on 6 and 7 March
(EU) EP/KOSOVO: Daniel Cohn-Bendit objects to “global legality” of Kosovo's independence being dictated by President Putin
(EU) EP/KOSOVO: Watson says fears of Balkanisation are exaggerated
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Five stability and convergence programmes are assessed
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Commission rejects increase in export aid for pigmeat
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Council completes first part of debate on CAP Health Check
(EU) EU/WTO/DOHA: Large majority of EU member states denounce discrepancies of revised compromise texts on agriculture and NAMA
(EU) EP/TRADE: European Parliament supports and backs Commission improvements to third country market access strategy
(EU) EP/INTERNAL MARKET: Free movement of goods package under way - Launch of study on European safety marking
(EU) EP/COMPETITION: Parliament requests investigation into abuses in supermarket sector
(EU) EP/BUDGET: Parliament wants every EU institution to have its own rules on professional ethics
(EU) EP/FRAUD:
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EP/JHA: Parliament rejects report on prevention of terrorism
(EU) EU/JHA:
(EU) EU/JHA:
(EU) EU/SOCIAL: Commission invites European social partners to negotiate changes to directive on European works councils - first reaction from social partners
(EU) EU/SOCIAL: European Unions on offensive for fair wages - Call to EU Finance Ministers
(EU) EU/EMPLOYMENT: Slight rise in overall EU employment rate in 3rd quarter of 2007
(EU) EU/REGIONAL: Commission approves Ireland and UK cross-border cooperation programme and Rhineland Palatinate operational programme
(EU) EU/PUBLIC PROCUREMENT: Commission clarifies law on institutionalised public-private partnerships
(EU) EU/REGIONAL: EU contributes €583.5 million to regional development programme for Yorkshire and Humber (UK)
(EU) EU/REGIONAL: Veneto region's contribution to “National Energy Saving Day”
(EU) EU/REGIONAL: Commission's second annual conference on regions for economic change
(EU) EP/TECHNOLOGY: Industry committee approves common position on EIT
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Main legislative acts published in Official Journal
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