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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9622
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/mediterranean

Further information on UFM project

Brussels, 13/03/2008 (Agence Europe) - As pointed out yesterday, the French president was to present, on Thursday 13 March, a watered down version of the Union for the Mediterranean (EUROPE 9621). The text forwarded to delegations on the eve of the European Council read as follows (unofficial translation):

“The Union for the Mediterranean aims to open a new stage in cooperation in the Mediterranean, giving fresh impetus to the process initiated in Barcelona in 1995. With this aim in mind,...

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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