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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9969

4 September 2009
Contents Publication in full By article 13 / 27
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/agriculture
Dairy crisis will make going tough for Swedish Presidency

Brussels, 03/09/2009 (Agence Europe) - Eskil Erlandsson, Sweden's Agriculture Minister, pulled out all the stops on Wednesday 2 September to convince members of the European Parliament's agriculture committee to do everything in their power to help resolve problems encountered by the dairy sector. He was unable, however, to give any details on likely measures, in the knowledge that European agriculture ministers will be discussing the matter on Monday 7 September in the light of the European...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Immigration: A few home truths about European Commission position
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/COMMISSION: José Manuel Barroso outlines political goals for next five years and proposes “special partnership” to EP
(EU) EP/DEVELOPMENT: Incomplete G20 promises made to poor countries
(EU) EU/EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Middle East are focus of informal (“Gymnich”) meeting in Stockholm
(EU) EU/EGYPT/ISRAEL: Solana completes visit to region and confirms need for change of style in peace talks
(EU) EU/SYRIA: Association agreement is again up for discussion at European Council of Ministers
(EU) EP/DEVELOPMENT:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/ECB: ECB maintains rates and revises growth forecasts upwards
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Franco-German-British offensive against pay policies that encourage excessive risk taking
(EU) EU/ENERGY: Landabaru appeals for “energy treaty”
(EU) EP/FINANCIAL SERVICES: Swedish Presidency wants agreement on financial supervision reform before end of year
(EU) EP/INTERNAL MARKET: Björling says open internal market is needed in face of economic recession
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE: Dairy crisis will make going tough for Swedish Presidency
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE: EP committee approves extension until end February 2010 of intervention purchases for butter and milk powder
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission probe into takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Swedish presidency intends to act with European Parliament on future transport policy
(EU) EP/JHA: MEPs denounce agreement negotiated with Americans as matter of urgency on Swift
(EU) EP/JHA: Terrorist threat as serious as ever in Europe, says Gilles de Kerchove
(EU) EP/EMPLOYMENT: New chairwoman of employment committee, Pervenche Berès, sets out ambitious programme
(EU) EP/EDUCATION/CULTURE: Swedish Presidency sets out education and culture priorities
(EU) EU/CONSUMERS: More information in new member states on quality, safety and prices of purchased goods
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Industrial producer prices down by 0.8% in euro area
Down by 1.0% in EU27
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Distance consumers who revoke contracts are not obliged to compensate seller for use of product
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Freezing funds of suspected terrorist does not automatically breach principle of presumption of innocence
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Main acts published in Official Journal of EU
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT:
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