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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8752

21 July 2004
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: Our offices will be closed on Wednesday 21 July for the Belgian National Day celebrations. EUROPE No8753 will be dated Friday 23 July 2004.

 

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: Our offices will be closed on Wednesday 21 July for the Belgian National Day celebrations. EUROPE No8753 will be dated Friday 23 July 2004.
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EP/PRESIDENCY: Josep Borrell elected European Parliament president in first round by 388 votes - Bronislaw Geremek obtains 208 votes and Francis Wurtz 51 - Graham Watson and Monica Frassoni mention "unnaturual alliance" between EPP and PES
(EU) EP/CONSTITUTATIVE SESSION: Senior member, Giovanni Berlinguer welcomes MEPs from new Member States and a Europe of "work, solidarity, social justice, welcoming and integration"
(EU) EP/PRESIDENCY/ALDE: Bronislaw Geremek admits he is disappointed about not being elected - Graham Watson notes group has free hand for second half of legislature
(EU) EP/PRESIDENCY/PES: Martin Schulz repeats why Socialists did not vote for Geremek
(EU) EP/PRESIDENCY/EPP: Hans-Gert Pöttering is hardly impressed by fact that elected members of Polish civil platform voted for Bronislaw Geremek
(EU) EP/COMMISSION: No link between confirmation of Barroso and my election, Borrel says, not shocked by agreements between groups
(EU) EU/MIDDLE EAST: Javier Solana insists Palestinian Prime Minister should have real authority
(EU) EU/CONSTITUTION: Nicole Gnesotto finds new treaty practically "unreadable" - Bringing Europe out of "institutional convolutions"
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/STATE AID: France Télécom to pay back exemption from business tax (amount still to be worked out)
EU) STATE AID: Commission authorises rescue aid to Alitalia - Low-cost airlines threaten referral to Court of Justice
(EU) EU/COMPETITION: Commission concludes there is not sufficient proof and unconditionally authorises merger between Sony and BMG
(EU) EU/OPEN SKIES: Infringement proceedings and agreements are criticised
(EU) EU/FISHERIES: Commission partially authorises French aid to fisheries and fish farmers after Erika disaster and storms in 1999
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Aid is cleared for rural development in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Several countries refuse to take orders on how to spend next wave of rural development aid
(EU) EU/EEA:
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Most Member States concerned at plans to reform sugar sector
(EU) EU/TRADE: Mr Supachai calls for WTO text to be accepted - France against, endangering late July deadline
(EU) EU/DEVELOPMENT/ENVIRONMENT: Commission presents measures to fight illegal logging
(EU) EU/ENVIRONMENT: Commission in favour of using existing Community instruments to pay for Natura 2000
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL: First round-the-table discussion on future of JHA
(EU) EU/EUROPOL: Go-ahead to Europol-Switzerland agreement
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL/PRESIDENCY/COMMISSION:
(EU) EU/IMMIGRATION: Discrete adoption of report on their confidential report on readmission negotiations with third countries
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL: Presidency "very impressed" by security measures taken by Greece for Olympic Games
(EU) EU/SOCIAL: Commission pursues six Member States to get them to enforce EU anti-discrimination law
(EU) EU/CROATIA: Commission grants Croatia 76 million EUR for 2004 under CARDS programme
(EU) EU/MOROCCO: Agreement imminent on "national action plan" - Tunisia and Jordan in Morocco's wake - Israel hesitant
(EU) EU/INDUSTRY/TRANSPORT:
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: France called on to implement single status for taking aerial photographs
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: Italian Areo club centrale di volo a vela has to modify rules
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: Italy called on to revise status for staff who prepare payslips
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: Reasoned opinion sent to Italy for extra-judicial loan recoveries
(EU) EU/INTERNAL MARKET: Spain will have to defend its position on transfer of insurance portfolios at Court of Justice
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Electricité de France must stop discharging water from Saint-Chamas hydroelectric power station into "étang de Berre"
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Advocate General Geelhoed considers problem of pollution generated by Pera Galini discharge in Crete is clearly of a structural kind
(EU) COURT OF JUSTICE: Finnish tax on vehicles, autovero, is a tax on the use of certain goods even if a vehicle is imported
(EU) EU/INDUSTRY: Next congress of Confederation of Agro-Food industries end of September
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