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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8565

17 October 2003
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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: EUROPE's greatest minds defend opposing positions on the future composition of the Commission- how can the stalemate be broken?
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/IGC: Italian presidency tries to identify difficult points and envisage bilateral consultation for smoothing out final difficulties before presenting overall compromise before end of November
(EU) EU/IRAQ: France, Germany and Russia are to vote in favour of US resolution on Iraq but will not provide a military contribution
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN COUNCIL: Trichet is appointed as ECB Director
(EU) EU/EP/EUROPEAN COUNCIL: EP/Council/Commission interinstitutional summit
(EU) EU/EPP/EUROPEAN COUNCIL/IGC: European People's Party insists on a reference to Europe's "Jewish-Christian" heritage in Constitution, Wilfried Martens says
(EU) EU/PES/EUROPEAN COUNCIL/IGC: According to Giuliano Amato, it would be dangerous to miss the December IGC opportunity
(EU) EP/IGC:
(EU) EU/EUROPEAN COUNCIL/LIBERALS: After Summit of Liberal Prime Ministers, Mr Verhofstadt hopeful of breakthrough on defence
(EU) EP/IGC/DEFENCE: Mr Watson calls upon IGC to benefit from Berlin's progress between France, Germany and United Kingdom
(EU) EU/CONSTITUTION:
(EU) EP/CFSP: Brok report suggests focusing Union action on resolving conflicts close to external borders
(EU) EU/IRAN: Teheran finds EU criticism unacceptable
(EU) EU/MEDITERRANEAN:
(EU) EU/APCEA:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/UNITED STATES: Still no progress on audit and passenger indexing after Frits Bolkestein's visit to Washington
(EU) EU/CHEMICAL PRODUCTS: According to new study, estimated cost of new chemicals policy will be EUR 10 billion below initial estimates
(EU) EU/AFGHANISTAN: 11.53 MILLION EUR in humanitarian aid
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Legal proceedings against eight Member States in rail sector
(EU) EU/NUCLEAR ENERGY: Commission refers United Kingdom to Court of Justice for failing to apply Euratom Treaty requirements on radioactive waste
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Court of Justice against nine Member States involving "1st rail infrastructure package"
(EU) EU/TAXATION: Rome conference on Commission's next communication of corporate taxes
(EU) EU/WTO/AGRICULTURE: European and American agricultural leaders draw conclusions from Cancun
(EU) EU/SPACE:
(EU) EU/INDIA: Towards definitive compensatory duties on Indian bed linen
(EU) EU/FRAUD: Corruption suspected within DG Agriculture
(EU) EU/StATE AID: Commission decides Italian and Portuguese broadcasters are in line with State aid requirements
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: Authorisation of aid to Dutch airlines
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Yes to aid for Dutch arable farmers
(EU) EU/AGRICULTURE: Aid for citrus fruit sector in Sicily
(EU) EP/OCTOBER SESSION: Debate over Brussels European Council with Silvio Berlusconi - 2004 budget, rail package, automotive insurance - CFSP priorities, armaments industry - Speech by Senegalese President
(EU) EP/PRESTIGE: European Parliament Conference of President postpones decision over establishment of temporary committee on prestige
(EU) PE/IMMIGRATION:
(EU) EU/COMPANIES: World standards day illustrates need to speed up certain procedures
(EU) EU/RESEARCH: French national assembly supports Community defence research programme
(EU) EU/TEPSA/CONFERENCE:
(EU) EU/ENLARGEMENT/YOUTH: Eurobarometre survey shows young people of 10 accession and 3 candidate countries feel EU is way to better future, and that education and training should be priority
(EU) EU/CULTURE:
SUPPLEMENT
“EUROPE”/Document No. 2326: EU/China: EU Council welcomes European Commission paper with a view to Beijing Summit
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