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GENERAL AFFAIRS AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS COUNCIL: FOREIGN MINISTERS TO LAY GROUNDWORK FOR EU AND RUSSIA SUMMITS.
; EU Summit. Foreign Ministers are due to finalise draft Conclusions for the November 4-5 European...Strategy; - Justice and home affairs (JHA): adoption of a new multi-annual agenda for the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice; - Communicating Europe ; - EU enlargement: the European Commission will ...
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EU/KOSOVO : MINISTERS TO PASS DECISION ON KOSOVO TO EU LEADERS.(European Union)
; EU foreign ministers held a debate on Kosovo on 10 December in a bid to iron out the remaining differences among EU member states on further steps to be taken to determine its...unity, ministers failed to agree on a common position on the EU's further involvement in Serbia's province. They agreed to...
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EU/CENTRAL ASIA : GERMAN PRESIDENCY PRESENTS DRAFT EU STRATEGY ON CENTRAL ASIA.(member of the European Parliament )
; The EU is seeking to step up its cooperation with the energy-rich region of Central Asia. EU enlargement has brought us closer to Central...engagement with the Central Asian countries, said EU External Relations Commissioner Benita-Ferrero...
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EU offered WTO farm tariff cut of 48%--sources.(European Policy News)
; The EU's last-ditch attempt to keep the Doha Round...negotiations at the weekend involved an offer to cut EU farm tariffs by an average of 48.3%, official...would no doubt have caused horror among the EU's agrarian lobby groups and the more protectionist...
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MIGRATION: FRATTINI HINTS AT EU GREEN CARD PLANS.
; EU Green Card? While insisting he has no 'pre-cooked solutions...Frattini already has certain things in mind. On admitting non-EU nationals, for example, he said a fast-track procedure is needed...promptly to labour market needs. He supported setting up an EU Green Card system, provided that the member ...
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EU/UKRAINE: SOLANA WARNS THAT ELECTIONS MUST BE FREE AND FAIR.(includes investigation of President Kuchma in death of journalist)(Brief Article)
; EU officials say the March elections are important and that they...the message that they should be fair and open , but that the EU also wanted to maintain a very strong relationship with Ukraine...the economic situation in the country, the reforms that the EU is advocating in this and other areas, election ...
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AGRICULTURE: COMMISSION REPORT PROPOSES CHANGES TO EU FOOD PROMOTION SCHEMES.
; EU food promotion campaigns range from informing EU customers about food quality, food safety and traceability...supposed to overlap or recommend commercial products. Outside the EU, the projects promote quality European food to valuable export...
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EU/RUSSIA: BUILDING THE NEW PHASE OF RELATIONS.(Government Activity)(International Pages)
; EU Ambassadors are scheduled to review on 7 June the report being...since work on the Common Strategy was one of the victims of the EU cooling towards Russia over Chechnya. The Portuguese Presidency...and largely non-committal. But it urges implementation of the EU-Russia Partnership and Co-operation ...
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EU/CROATIA: DIVIDED MEMBER STATES POSTPONE ACCESSION TALKS.
; EU sources said that several countries were in favour of starting...Minister George Iacovou, for example, said according to one EU source that he was among those in favour of opening talks...was inevitable. Those backing a postponement, according to EU sources, included the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, ...
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FINANCIAL REPORTING: EU TO MOVE OVER TO INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BY 2005?
; EU Internal Market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein had even grander...on the future of financial reporting in Europe, which urged EU Member States to allow European companies operating on an international...prepare their accounts using the IAS system. Since then, seven EU nations - Austria, Belgium, Germany, ...
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