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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9645

18 April 2008
Contents Publication in full By article 29 / 34
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/brazil
Commission and Brazil launch structured dialogue on social policies

Brussels, 17/04/2008 (Agence Europe) - Vladimir Spidla, Employment and Social Affairs Commissioner, and the Brazilian minister for social development and the fight against hunger, Patrus Ananias da Souza, signed, on Wednesday 16 April in Brussels, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) laying the foundations for structured dialogue between the Commission and Brazil on improving social cohesion. Dialogue will cover social issues of common interest such as human and social development, poverty...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Agricultural crisis: Three simple principles not sufficiently recognised
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/LISBON TREATY: Barroso reassures Irish on taxation, neutrality and rural development - “No Plan B”
(EU) EP/PALESTINE:
(EU) EU/ZIMBABWE: EU concerned by violence, but international pressure remains weak
(EU) EU/BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA:
(EU) EU/ROMANIA:
(EU) EU/RUSSIA/GEORGIA:
(EU) EU/DRC:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EP/ACP: Peter Mandelson and Cariforum praise EPAs for development - warning against food protectionism
(EU) EU/CONSUMERS: RAPEX passes test of its effectiveness with flying colours in 2007, but China remains main source of dangerous products
(EU) EU/ENERGY: With energy cooperation agreement with EU close, Iraq promises more oil and gas
(EU) EU/ENERGY: Turkmenistan promises to export gas to EU from 2009
(EU) EU/ENERGY: Gazprom interested in trans-Saharan gas pipeline project
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE: EP agriculture committee is in favour of improving aid to cotton producers
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE: Aid to tobacco producers must be maintained until 2013, says Sergio Berlato's report
(EU) EU/JHA: EU citizen awareness of data protection is low
(EU) EU/JHA: EDPS suggests improvements to personal data protection directive review
(EU) EP/JHA:
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: Commission proposes simplification of company law and accounting rules
(EU) EU/STATE AID: Commission opens investigation into tax benefits for steel producer Dunaferr
(EU) EU/ANTITRUST: Public consultation on operation of Insurance Block Exemption Regulation works
(EU) STATE AID: Commission prohibits Hungarian export-credit guarantee scheme
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission opens in-depth investigation into proposed acquisition of parts of GBI by Associated British Foods
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission approves proposed acquisition of Activision by Vivendi
(EU) EP/SESSION: Food price rises, implementation of directive on posted workers, and Galileo on agenda
(EU) EU/HOMAGE:
(EU) EU/SOCIAL: Social and intercultural dialogue, solidarity and higher education access keys to challenge of globalisation
(EU) EU/GLOBALISATION: French report in favour of adding external chapter to Lisbon strategy
(EU) EU/BRAZIL: Commission and Brazil launch structured dialogue on social policies
(EU) EU/REGIONAL: Cohesion policy and NATURA 2000: friends or foes?
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: ETUC reacts positively to Court decision in IMPACT case
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: German consumer protection law out of step with Community rules
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Main acts published in Official Journal of EU
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