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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9622

14 March 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
EU and US to continue discussions on visa system

Brdo, 13/03/2008 (Agence Europe) - The EU and US have decided to continue their discussions to allow the 12 member states that are not part of the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) to finally be allowed to participate in it (EUROPE 9620). On Thursday 13 March at a press conference in Brdo Pri Kranju, the Slovenian minister of the interior, Dragutin Mate, declared: “We have found a solution for the Union and the US”. In a joint declaration the two parties indicated that the aim was to obtain a...

Contents

THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/TRIPARTITE SOCIAL SUMMIT: Europe prepares for coming of third industrial revolution
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN COUNCIL: Summit opens - debate with Hans-Gert Pöttering
(EU) EU/MEDITERRANEAN: Further information on UFM project
(EU) EU/UNION FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN: Commission internal analysis welcomes initiative but points at risks of duplication
(EU) EU/CROATIA: Commission is to suggest a date for concluding accession talks - dispute over fishing zone is settled
(EU) EP/AFGHANISTAN: Call for release of journalist Perwiz Kambakhsh
(EU) EP/ARMENIA: Request for state of emergency to be lifted
(EU) EU/IRAQ:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/JHA: EU approves external border security reinforcement - Frattini wants to replace “old” visas with electronic system
(EU) EU/JHA: EU and US to continue discussions on visa system
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Successes and shortfalls in Eurozone economic policy coordination
(EU) EP/DEVELOPMENT: Parliament calls on EU to draw on added value of new member states in enriching development policy
(EU) EU/TAXATION: Opinion on review of tax of commercial diesel
(EU) EP/TRANSPORT: Parliament resolutely in favour of market instruments to reduce transport sector emissions
(EU) EP/TRANSPORT:
(EU) EP/ENERGY: Parliament supports setting up of Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund
(EU) EP/ENERGY: In first reading parliament validates its compromise with Council on new regulation on energy statistics
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE/ENERGY: Biogas, a “green energy” to be developed
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: European agricultural income boosted by rise in cereal prices
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Germany has to recover aid to greenhouses
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: New guidelines on state aid to fisheries and aquaculture
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Poland exceeded cod quota by 8000 tonnes in 2007
(EU) EU/FOOD: Council adopts common position on “food improvement agents”
(EU) EU/MEDICINES: Commission envisages measures to combat counterfeit medicines
(EU) EU/ENTERPRISE: Commission proposals for fast track administrative burden reductions in 2008
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission authorises Italian aid scheme to promote biodiesel
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission refers Italy to Court of Justice for failure to recover illegal state aid
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission requests that Italy recover €123 million of unlawful fiscal aid from nine privatised banks
(EU) EU/EIB:
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission authorises French tax scheme reducing solidarity tax on wealth to promote investment in SMEs
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Proposed acquisition of UBI Vita by Aviva Italia approved
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission opens in-depth investigation into Polish aid to BVG
(EU) EU/TELECOMMUNICATIONS: ENISA provides network security experience to companies
(EU) EU/EDUCATION: Life-long learning at centre of Slovenian presidency conference
(EU) EU/YOUTH: Commission rethink on how best to encourage most deprived youngsters in Europe
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Main legislative acts published in EU Official Journal
(EU) EU/INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION:
(EU) EU/ECONOMY:
(EU) EU/COLLOQUIUM:
SUPPLEMENT
EUROPE/Documents No. 2481: Space policy in the Lisbon Treaty
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