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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9969

4 September 2009
Contents Publication in full By article 27 / 27
GENERAL NEWS / € value in different currencies on 03/09/2009

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:
€ VALUE IN DIFFERENT CURRENCIES ON 03/09/2009:
 USD  1.4335  HUF  273.95  NOK  8.6200  CNY  9.7915  NZD  2.1025 
 JPY  132.47  LTL  3.4528  HRK  7.3455  HKD  11.1108  PHP  69.824 
 BGN  1.9558  LVL  0.7027  RUB  45.3400  IDR  14493.04  SGD  2.0620 
 CZK  25.615  PLN  4.1210  TRY  2.1549  INR  70.1200  THB  48.817 
 DKK  7.4438  RON  4.2405  AUD  1.7037  KRW  1784.75  ZAR  11.1046 
 EEK  15.6466  SEK  10.3138  BRL  2.6780  MXN  19.4120  GBP  0.87470 
 CHF  1.5143  CAD  1.5742  MYR