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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9605

20 February 2008
Contents Publication in full By article 32 / 32
GENERAL NEWS / € value in different currencies on 19/02/2008

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
€ VALUE IN DIFFERENT CURRENCIES ON 19/02/2008:
 USD  1.4742  HUF  263.57  CHF  1.6123  BRL  2.5480  MYR  4.7513 
 JPY  158.64  LTL  3.4528  ISK  98.42  CAD  1.4836  NZD  1.8410 
 BGN  1.9558  LVL  0.6967  NOK  7.8605  CNY  10.5523  PHP  59.853 
 CZK  25.319  PLN  3.5682  HRK  7.2815  HKD  11.5000  SGD  2.0829 
 DKK  7.4548  RON  3.6353  RUB  36.1580  IDR  13518.41  THB  46.658 
 EEK  15.6466  SEK  9.3164  TRY  1.7565  KRW  1392.31  ZAR  11.2474 
 GBP  0.75550  SKK  33.051  AUD  1.5984  MXN