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27-10-2005 • News & Events
European Union leaders gather Thursday in the splendor of a 16th-century English palace for a free-wheeling debate on
how to spur growth and create jobs in a 21st century defined by globalization.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair will host the day-long informal summit in the lush Tudor surroundings of Hampton
Court Palace, a former home of King Henry VIII on the River...
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Published at 26-10-2005 from STRATEGMA AGENCY
Romania and Bulgaria greeted Tuesday an EU report on their eventual membership of the 25-nation bloc as fair, even
though it called on both countries to push ahead with reforms and threatened both with accession delays.
Romanian President Traian Basescu told reporters the report was "objective and demanding." He said it "gives Romania
the chance to join the EU on January 1,... |
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26-10-2005 • News & Events
The European Commission says Bulgaria and Romania must root out corruption and speed up reforms in order to join the
EU on schedule in 2007.
The Commission also said it wanted to see borders more tightly controlled and standards of food hygiene raised.
Both countries were urged to improve systems for managing EU farm subsidies.
But the Commission said they should be...
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Published at 26-10-2005 from Delegation of the European Commission to Bulgaria
Any candidate country wishing to join the EU must meet the political and economic criteria and has to fully transpose
and implement EU laws and standards[1].
The Comprehensive Monitoring Reports assess the progress made in all these areas by the acceding countries since the
signature of the Treaty of Accession[2]. The reports highlight the main achievements and pinpoint the... |
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25-10-2005 • News & Events
The European Commission has unveiled a €70 million per year strategy to protect Europe’s marine environment.
The ‘thematic strategy on the protection and the conservation of the marine environment’ aims to ensure that all
EU marine waters are environmentally healthy by 2021.
Stavros Dimas said that his marine strategy would serve as “the environmental pillar” of the...
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25-10-2005 • News & Events
Eight SE European countries will today sign an agreement with the EU to create a regional energy market in line with
EU energy legislation. This is a first step towards integrating the sector into the internal energy market.
The EU and eight countries in South-East Europe (SEE) will today (25 October 2005) meet in Athens to sign the Energy
Community Treaty, which foresees...
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25-10-2005 • News & Events
Europe must reform and modernise its policies to preserve its values. Modernisation is essential to continue keep
Europe’s historically high levels of prosperity, social cohesion, environmental protection and quality of life. The
European Commission’s Report ‘European Values in a Globalised World’, its contribution to the Informal Summit of
Heads of State and Government on 27...
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Published at 24-10-2005 from Deutsche Welle
Official talks on forming a grand coalition between the Germany's bloc of conservatives and outgoing Chancellor
Gerhard Schröder’s Social Democrats will be going into a second round on Monday.
The talks between the Christian Union and the SPD on Monday aim to break barriers to a working grand coalition
The negotiating parties are set to analyze the findings of... |
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24-10-2005 • News & Events
Poland on Sunday elected the conservative, staunchly Catholic Lech Kaczynski president by a definitive margin, bucking
pre-vote surveys that had given his liberal rival the lead.
Kaczynski, of the Law and Justice (PiS) party, garnered 55 percent of the vote compared with 45 percent for his
liberal, Europe-friendly opponent, Donald Tusk. The numbers were officially reported,...
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21-10-2005 • News & Events
“The reforms of 2003 and 2004 gave a major boost to efforts to simplify the CAP, by combining a large number of direct
payments into the Single Farm Payment scheme,” said Mariann Fischer Boel, Commissioner for Agricultural and Rural
Development. “I now want to build on this to create a simpler and more streamlined set of laws to govern EU farm
policy. The creation of a single...
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20-10-2005 • News & Events
With only one month to go before the COP-11 meeting in Montreal, EU environment ministers have been trying to boost
the EU's chances of bringing more countries into global talks to take action on global warming.
With the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol closing in 2012, the EU has launched discussions on its future
long-term strategy to fight global warming. The...
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19-10-2005 • News & Events
US president George W. Bush and European commission president Jose Manuel Barroso both reaffirmed their backing for a
cut in world-wide agricultural subsidies on Tuesday (18 October), after the first visit of a commission president to
the White House since 1989.
The White House talks came two months before a key World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting on world trade...
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19-10-2005 • News & Events
The European Commission is set to adopt a “transparency initiative” next Thursday.
European Commissioner for administrative affairs, audit and anti-fraud, Siim Kallas has called for more openness on
issues in relation to the public.
“Transparency is a strong objective of this commission, and I hope that this Thursday the college will adopt a
‘European transparency...
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18-10-2005 • News & Events
EU environment ministers are meeting today in Luxembourg in order to try and agree a post-2012 environment strategy for
next month's UN climate negotiations.
However, green groups fear that the bloc is losing its steam when it comes to living up to its rhetoric on the
environment.
Tony Blair, UK prime minister and current head of the EU, appeared last month to back away...
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18-10-2005 • News & Events
EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson is likely to come under fire from EU foreign ministers for making too many
concessions on farm aid in trade talks.
Mr Mandelson is negotiating on the EU's behalf to seal a global trade accord by the end of the year which involves deep
agricultural tariff cuts.
EU foreign ministers are holding an extraordinary meeting in Luxembourg....
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Published at 18-10-2005 from Deutsche Welle
Scientists and the European Union's political chiefs are trying to ease public concern after the H5N1 virus was
confirmed in Romania at the weekend, only two days after its presence was identified in Turkey.
EU foreign ministers will discuss the outbreak at emergency talks in Luxembourg on Tuesday, while the bird flu scare
will dominate the agenda of a meeting of health... |
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10-10-2005 • News & Events
The risk of a global avian flu pandemic seems to be being taken more seriously after new cases were reported in Eastern
Europe over the weekend. In the US, an alarming draft federal report has been published..
EU states are stepping up border controls after cases were reported in Romania and Turkey over the weekend. In
Romania's Danube Delta, emergency measures have been taken...
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10-10-2005 • News & Events
Within five years China will be investing a higher proportion of its gross domestic product in research and development
than the European Union, as more western companies move their R&D eastwards, the European Commission fears.
At present growth rates, the EU's public and private spending on R&D is set to rise from 1.93 per cent of GDP in 2003
to 2.2 per cent in 2010, well short...
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Published at 07-10-2005 from
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In a few weeks time, the PO (Civic Platform) and the PiS (Law and Justice) will take over the running of Poland.
However, the two parties will not start to shape Polish policy in Europe on 25 September. They are, in fact,
co-responsible for the direction of the SLD (Democratic Left Alliance) Government's EU policy. After all, it was Jan
Rokita, the PO candidate for... |
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30-09-2005 • News & Events
"There is only one point still outstanding, but there is a lot of political pressure for the two sides to announce an
agreement in London," on Tuesday, the official said after a meeting of the EU's 25 ambassadors in Brussels.
If an agreement is announced, the accord would be signed at a meeting of EU interior ministers in Luxembourg on October
13.
The main sticking point had...
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30-09-2005 • News & Events
European Research Commissioner Janez Potočnik and senior Eurocontrol officials are meeting in Brussels today to
discuss the needs for future air traffic management research in the next European research framework programme
(2007-2013). The Commission is proposing the allocation of significant resources from the Seventh Framework Programme
for the research component of a full...
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Published at 30-09-2005 from Deutsche Welle
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül said the EU was putting up conditions Turkey could never accept and threatened
not to show up for talks with the EU after Austria blocked an accord to start entry negotiations.
EU foreign ministers will meet in an emergency meeting on Sunday to try and reach the unanimous agreement needed for
talks with Ankara to start --- leaving... |
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Published at 01-09-2005 from Deutsche Welle
Tensions between key EU member states over Turkey's bid to join the bloc threaten to cloud a meeting of its foreign
ministers starting Thursday, only weeks before Ankara is due to start EU entry talks.
"Turkey is a key political issue," said one British official ahead of the EU talks. "We know that there are
concerns, but that doesn't change the fact the talks are going to... |
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25-08-2005 • News & Events
The international radio broadcaster Deutsche Welle will receive 138,000 euros from the Commission to air 'independent'
programming to Belarus
The Belarusian public's need for independent information was underlined by the fact that yet another independent
newspaper, Den, was shut down on 22 August 2005 by the Belarusian authorities, the 20th over the last two years
according to...
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04-08-2005 • News & Events
The Commission is about to launch 276 new research projects in the field of Information and Communication Technologies
(ICT) with €1 billion in EU funding. This is the result of the fourth Information Society Technology Call for
Proposals under the EU’s Sixth Research Framework Programme. This EU contribution is one of the largest totals
awarded as the result of a single Call...
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04-08-2005 • News & Events
The European Commission has decided to pursue infringement procedures against 13 Member States for failure to
implement in national law one or more of eight different Internal Market Directives. The Commission will ask Belgium,
Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and the
United Kingdom to implement quickly...
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02-08-2005 • News & Events
The European Commission’s latest report on car prices shows new car prices continuing to converge across the
enlarged EU. New Member States are responsible for this convergence, while convergence in older Members seems to have
peaked. In the euro zone, pre-tax prices are generally lowest in Finland and most expensive in Germany. Looking at the
EU as a whole, Denmark is least...
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A European Commission staff report published today highlights the considerable progress made in the EU in eliminating
special rights, often referred to as golden shares, in privatised companies. Such rights often claim to protect the
general interest by giving governments veto rights on takeovers or management decisions of such companies. In the
framework of the Internal... |
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Published at 26-07-2005 from Deutsche Welle
Turkey will sign a protocol Wednesday extending its current EU ties to the bloc's 10 most recent member states in a
move which will see Ankara meet the final condition for opening membership talks on October 3.
The statement issued by a senior EU diplomat on Monday revealed that an accord extending the customs union to Cyprus,
whose government Turkey does not recognize,... |
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19-07-2005 • News & Events
A survey conducted among EU-15 citizens living in cities shows that the vast majority are satisfied with their quality
of life.
The results of a survey entitled 'Local perceptions of quality of life in 31 European cities' and conducted in January
2004 in the EU-15, have been published by Eurostat. The survey ranks the cities according to the following issues: job
opportunities,...
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