login
login

Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9673

3 June 2008
Contents Publication in full By article 10 / 35
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/entreprise
Christoph Leitl says small business act will help change mind-set and behaviour towards SMEs

Brussels, 02/06/2008 (Agence Europe) - In an interview to EUROPE, Christoph Leitl, the president of the “SME Union” network affiliated to the EPP-ED at the European Parliament, explained how the Small Business Act (SBA) could help change the mind-set and behaviour of policy on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Europe. He also expressed some of the grievances the SME-Union has about this initiative, which is supposed to stimulate growth of European SMEs. The European Commission...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Union for the Mediterranean: reasons for subsisting scepticism
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EP/EUROMED: Draft resolution on Union for the Mediterranean
(EU) EU/FYROM: Election violence might impact on opening of EU accession talks
(EU) EP/NEIGHBOURHOOD: Socialist Group at EP wants EU to implement “Union for Black Sea” that covers Russia and Turkey
(EU) EU/INDIA:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/EUROGROUP: No EU tax measures to combat rising oil prices - All member state budgets must be back in balance by 2012
(EU) EU/TAXATION: Christine Lagarde proposes that surplus on VAT on oil products be used to stimulate purchasing power
(EU) EU/ECOFIN COUNCIL: conclusions on progress of four dossiers related to compensation and delivery versus payment sector
(EU) EU/ECOFIN: Finance ministers discuss measures to tackle food price rises
(EU) EU/ENTREPRISE: Christoph Leitl says small business act will help change mind-set and behaviour towards SMEs
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Airlines banking more on single sky than ETS for tackling sector emissions
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: Bathing water quality remains high
(EU) EU/CLIMATE: Commission calls on public to tell it if it is well informed about new car fuel consumption levels and co2 emissions
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Commission announces further restrictions for 2009
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Commission calls on France to recover €65 million paid to fishermen in 2006
(EU) EU/REGIONS: Towards greater emphasis on peri-urban dimension within Common Agricultural policy
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Agreement in pipeline on RWE gas network
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Investigation launched against Sanofi-Aventis
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET:
(EU) ACP/EU/IMMIGRATION: ACP group calls for migrants to be respected and for innovative solutions to stop brain drain and illegal immigration
(EU) EU/WTO/TEXTILES: Euratex says it is 'shocked' by latest WTO NAMA text (industrial goods)
(EU) EU/JHA: Schengen opens to Switzerland in December
(EU) EU/JHA: Austria reintroduces border controls
(EU) EU/JHA: Ms Alliot-Marie recommends concerted action against trafficking in human beings
(EU) EP/JHA: criticism of closed Belgian centres
(EU) EP/JHA:
(EU) EP/PLENARY: MEPs to discuss CFSP, CFDP, financial services, Union for the Mediterranean and situation in Georgia
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EP/OMBUDSMAN: Threat to citizens' document access
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Main legislative acts published in EU Official Journal
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
(EU) Telecoms:
(EU) Telecom:
SUPPLEMENT
EUROPE/Documents No. 2490: The first ten years of the ECB
€ VALUE IN DIFFERENT CURRENCIES ON 02/06/2008: