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Spain tries to soothe millennium egos
A DISPUTE over which city will ring in the new century as the culture capital of Europe may be settled if ministers agree to a Spanish plan to share out the glory. Faced with a bevy of countries each clamouring to host the prestigious event, the Spanish presidency is expected to suggest at a meeting beginning today (19...
Fiona McHugh
A DISPUTE over which city will ring in the new century as the culture capital of Europe may be settled if ministers agree to a Spanish plan to share out the glory.
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[ "France", "Germany", "Luxembourg", "Spain", "United States" ]
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https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-tries-to-soothe-millennium-egos/
Trade fear over biotech delay
FEARS are growing that attempts within the European Commission to delay the authorisation of genetically-modified rapeseed will set a precedent for future cases involving biotechnology. Blocking tactics employed by the Cabinet of Swedish Commissioner Anita Gradin have raised the spectre of future trade disputes with th...
Michael Mann
FEARS are growing that attempts within the European Commission to delay the authorisation of genetically-modified rapeseed will set a precedent for future cases involving biotechnology.
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[ "Austria", "Denmark", "Finland", "Luxembourg", "Sweden", "United Kingdom", "United States" ]
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https://www.politico.eu/article/trade-fear-over-biotech-delay/
Budget split could upset EMU chances
AUSTRIA’S chances of being in the first wave of countries to qualify for economic and monetary union could be jeopardised by the collapse of Chancellor Franz Vranitzky’s coalition government. The Austrian electorate will go to the polls on 17 December following the fall of the Vranitzky government last week as the coal...
Thomas Karabaczek
AUSTRIA’S chances of being in the first wave of countries to qualify for economic and monetary union could be jeopardised by the collapse of Chancellor Franz Vranitzky’s coalition government.
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https://www.politico.eu/article/budget-split-could-upset-emu-chances/
Excise tax hopes face opposition
THE European Commission’s goal of harmonising the various excise duties imposed on products such as cigarettes, alcoholic beverages and mineral oils by each EU government faces stiff opposition from member states unwilling to surrender their fiscal sovereignty. Ahead of a major Commission conference on the subject plan...
Fiona McHugh
THE European Commission’s goal of harmonising the various excise duties imposed on products such as cigarettes, alcoholic beverages and mineral oils by each EU government faces stiff opposition from member states unwilling to surrender their fiscal sovereignty.
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Invisible man manages to stay out of the picture
Sir Nigel Wicks, president of the monetary committee, is giving transparency and openness a bad name. Not by withholding sensitive information about exchange rates or by ducking difficult questions after one of his committee’s secretive gatherings, both of which are understandable and par for the course. No, it is Wick...
European Voice Staff
Sir Nigel Wicks, president of the monetary committee, is giving transparency and openness a bad name.
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Merger creates largest rail systems firm
DAIMLER-BENZ AG, Germany’s largest industrial group, is managing to edge out of its loss-making railway systems business thanks in part to a decision made by the European Commission this week. Having sold the low-voltage switch business of its AEG industrial unit to the US’s General Electric last week, the Commission’s...
Tim Jones
DAIMLER-BENZ AG, Germany’s largest industrial group, is managing to edge out of its loss-making railway systems business thanks in part to a decision made by the European Commission this week.
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https://www.politico.eu/article/merger-creates-largest-rail-systems-firm/
Commission and MEPs join forces on openness
INFORMATION policy in the European Union is being given a higher political priority as the European Commission and Parliament aim to sharpen their public message and pool their separate resources under one roof in each of the 15 member states. The change in strategy will become clear next year. The Commission agreed la...
Rory Watson
INFORMATION policy in the European Union is being given a higher political priority as the European Commission and Parliament aim to sharpen their public message and pool their separate resources under one roof in each of the 15 member states.
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New move to secure future of Europol
THE Spanish presidency has come forward with a new proposal for compromise aimed at settling the long-running dispute over the future of Europol, the European intelligence gathering agency. Spain is suggesting that member states should be allowed to choose whether to give the European Court of Justice jurisdiction over...
Michael Mann
THE Spanish presidency has come forward with a new proposal for compromise aimed at settling the long-running dispute over the future of Europol, the European intelligence gathering agency.
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[ "Luxembourg", "Spain", "United States" ]
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https://www.politico.eu/article/new-move-to-secure-future-of-europol/
Moroccan fisheries deal on the horizon
THE European Union and Morocco are on the brink of tying up a new four-year fisheries accord after months of fraught negotiations. Experts have started putting together a detailed final text to build on a political agreement announced last week by Fisheries Commissioner Emma Bonino. A final deal is expected within the ...
Michael Mann
THE European Union and Morocco are on the brink of tying up a new four-year fisheries accord after months of fraught negotiations.
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[ "Morocco", "Spain" ]
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Campaign to set record straight
INFORMATION policy has traditionally been the poor cousin of European Union activity. Ambitious Commission officials prefer to make policy rather than communicate it and the institution’s media machine does not have the resources that national governments enjoy. To some extent the EU’s institutions have been fighting w...
Rory Watson
INFORMATION policy has traditionally been the poor cousin of European Union activity. Ambitious Commission officials prefer to make policy rather than communicate it and the institution’s media machine does not have the resources that national governments enjoy.
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[ "Denmark", "Ireland", "Spain", "Sweden", "United Kingdom" ]
1995-10-18T16:00:00Z
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https://www.politico.eu/article/campaign-to-set-record-straight/
Fight looms over cross-border payments
Fiona McHughTHE maximum refund for customers whose money is lost by banks in cross-border transfers could be increased if Euro MPs get their way. Next week’s meeting of the European Parliament’s influential economic and monetary committee is to discuss the proposed directive, which sets a six-day deadline and insists o...
Tim Jones and
Fiona McHughTHE maximum refund for customers whose money is lost by banks in cross-border transfers could be increased if Euro MPs get their way.
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Obituaries at the ready
Fog has often clouded the issue in Europe. It once ensured that the then Energy Commissioner, patrician, pipe-smoking Belgian viscount Etienne Davignon, failed to make a rendezvous with the then US Secretary of State Al Haig. Weather had delayed Haig in London and when he finally made it to Brussels, he apologised to t...
European Voice Staff
Fog has often clouded the issue in Europe.
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Chaos ensues when nature interrupts political process
Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock may be urged to put his concerns about airline deregulation and cutting fares on the backburner while he finds out what stops aircraft flying between Brussels and Strasbourg just because of a bit of fog. There was chaos last week when about 30 top Commission officials, including Trad...
European Voice Staff
Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock may be urged to put his concerns about airline deregulation and cutting fares on the backburner while he finds out what stops aircraft flying between Brussels and Strasbourg just because of a bit of fog.
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Trawlermen lose battle over ‘days at sea’ scheme
As widely anticipated, the European Court of Justice this week found in favour of the UK government in a case brought by the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO). The Court rejected the NFFO’s case against a 1993 scheme to limit the number of days fishing vessels could remain at sea each year, the so...
Michael Mann
trawlermen lose battle over ‘days at sea’ scheme as widely anticipated, the european court of justice this week found in favour of the uk government in a case brought by the national federation of fishermen’s organisations (nffo).
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CDU endorses integration plan
THE unanimous endorsement by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s ruling Christlich Demokratische Union (CDU) party of ever closer integration within the European Union has set down one of the parameters for next year’s renegotiation of the Maastricht Treaty. Approval of the ambitious programme, at its conference in the sou...
Thomas Klau
THE unanimous endorsement by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s ruling Christlich Demokratische Union (CDU) party of ever closer integration within the European Union has set down one of the parameters for next year’s renegotiation of the Maastricht Treaty.
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Whistle while you work
The campaign for the promotion of lesser-used languages should be informed. EU justice ministers who spent last weekend at an informal gathering on the Canary island of La Gomera were picnicking in a beautiful glade in a national park when they heard the sound of whistling overhead. As the ministers tucked into their f...
European Voice Staff
The campaign for the promotion of lesser-used languages should be informed.
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Fleet cuts ahead of schedule
Planned reductions in EU fishing capacity are running ahead of schedule, according to a new report prepared by the Commission. But despite considerable progress over the first three years of the Commission’s Multi-Annual Guidance Programme, some countries are failing to meet their targets and over-capacity remains a pr...
European Voice Staff
Planned reductions in EU fishing capacity are running ahead of schedule, according to a new report prepared by the Commission.
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7 October G7 Finance Meeting
THE French, German, Italian and UK finance ministers and central bankers backed a communiqué from the world’s seven leading industrialised states last weekend calling for a “continuation” of the recovery of the US dollar on the currency markets. THE Group of Seven, which also includes Japan, the US and Canada, “welcome...
European Voice Staff
THE French, German, Italian and UK finance ministers and central bankers backed a communiqué from the world’s seven leading industrialised states last weekend calling for a “continuation” of the recovery of the US dollar on the currency markets.
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[ "Canada", "Japan", "Russia", "United Kingdom" ]
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Talks about turbulence
MONETARY officials will gather in Brussels next week to consider how to cope with the return of turbulence to Europe’s foreign exchange markets and continue work on the transition to a single currency. The EU’s monetary committee will open its meeting on Monday (16 October) with an assessment of the “convergence” plans...
Tim Jones
MONETARY officials will gather in Brussels next week to consider how to cope with the return of turbulence to Europe’s foreign exchange markets and continue work on the transition to a single currency.
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[ "Austria" ]
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https://www.politico.eu/article/talks-about-turbulence/
UNICE seeks reform of regulations which strangle competion
EUROPEAN employers are calling for wide-ranging reform of administrative, employment and environmental regulations – overseen by a Commissioner and supplemented by the adoption of an EU regulatory policy. The Union of Industrial and Employers’ Confederations (UNICE) says “many regulations are unnecessary, costly and co...
Tim Jones
EUROPEAN employers are calling for wide-ranging reform of administrative, employment and environmental regulations – overseen by a Commissioner and supplemented by the adoption of an EU regulatory policy.
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Spain looks to break impasse
IT may take court action to break the impasse over the European Commission’s long-stalled proposal on protecting foreign workers posted to another member state, according to industry lobbyists. There has been little sign of movement on the question since the French presidency abandoned efforts to get agreement at a mee...
Michael Mann
IT may take court action to break the impasse over the European Commission’s long-stalled proposal on protecting foreign workers posted to another member state, according to industry lobbyists.
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[ "Belgium", "Denmark", "France", "Germany", "Ireland", "Italy", "Luxembourg", "Portugal", "Spain", "United States" ]
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https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-looks-to-break-impasse/
Schengen: time to stand up and be counted
Seven months after the Schengen agreement finally came into force, the project continues to be dogged by problems which some have tried to dismiss as teething troubles, but which, in reality, are far more serious. Suspicions about the degree of French support for the project surfaced long before President Jacques Chira...
European Voice Staff
Seven months after the Schengen agreement finally came into force, the project continues to be dogged by problems which some have tried to dismiss as teething troubles, but which, in reality, are far more serious.
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https://www.politico.eu/article/schengen-time-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/
Fresh accusations of incompetence and fraud
BOTH national authorities and the European Commission come in for trenchant criticism over their handling of EU finances last year in the latest annual investigation by the EU’s Court of Auditors. The allegations range from maladministration to examples of direct fraud. The attacks are contained in the auditors’ draft ...
BOTH national authorities and the European Commission come in for trenchant criticism over their handling of EU finances last year in the latest annual investigation by the EU’s Court of Auditors. The allegations range from maladministration to examples of direct fraud.
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[ "Bulgaria", "Greece", "Ireland", "Luxembourg", "Mauritius", "Morocco", "Portugal", "Spain" ]
1995-10-11T16:00:00Z
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Great flapping overhead
Perhaps the single currency overlord, Economics Commissioner Yves-Thibault de Silguy, will take pity on the Greeks over the name of the single currency and propose something a little less embarrassing. Certainly the Frenchman has already proved that behind the square jaw and steely gaze he is really just a big softy. H...
European Voice Staff
Perhaps the single currency overlord, Economics Commissioner Yves-Thibault de Silguy, will take pity on the Greeks over the name of the single currency and propose something a little less embarrassing. Certainly the Frenchman has already proved that behind the square jaw and steely gaze he is really just a big softy.
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A Brussels’ welcome for ‘European Voice’
AS European Voice arrived on desks, through letter-boxes and in newsagents across the EU last week for the first time, hundreds of people attended parties in both Brussels and London to celebrate its launch. Guest of honour at the Brussels party, which began just hours after the first copies of European Voice rolled of...
European Voice Staff
a brussels’ welcome for ‘european voice’ as european voice arrived on desks, through letter-boxes and in newsagents across the eu last week for the first time, hundreds of people attended parties in both brussels and london to celebrate its launch.
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Choice: the cultural disease is upon us
A COLUMN? Why certainly I can write you a column, that’s no problem at all. My pleasure. Something particular in mind? A long, rambling column or a short sharp one? Something succinct, pithy and to the point, or something meandering and soporific? Well, why don’t you just look around a bit, there’s no rush, take your t...
Geoff Meade
A COLUMN? Why certainly I can write you a column, that’s no problem at all. My pleasure.
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Greek economy picks up
THE European Union’s top monetary officials are set to give qualified approval to the Greek government’s conduct of economic policy over the past year. Sir Nigel Wicks, president of the EU’s monetary committee, will soon send a letter to the Greek Ministry of National Economy’s economic council, formally praising the e...
Tim Jones
THE European Union’s top monetary officials are set to give qualified approval to the Greek government’s conduct of economic policy over the past year.
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VIEWPOINT
To say that Europe has changed radically over the last five years would seem to be stating the obvious. However, this is the fundamental fact we must bear in mind when considering the future of our continent. It could be said that for Europe the twentieth century came to an end in 1990 with the fall of the Berlin Wall....
Carlos Westendorp
To say that Europe has changed radically over the last five years would seem to be stating the obvious. However, this is the fundamental fact we must bear in mind when considering the future of our continent. It could be said that for Europe the twentieth century came to an end in 1990 with the fall of the Berlin Wall....
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[ "Cyprus", "Germany", "Malta", "Spain" ]
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NATO’s credibility in jeopardy as committee deliberates over Claes
NATO’s long-term credibility could be dealt another blow in the coming weeks if a special committee of the Belgian parliament decides to revoke Secretary- General Willy Claes’ immunity from prosecution so that he can be indicted on charges of corruption and fraud. Claes will appear before the committee tomorrow (13 Oct...
Jean-Paul Marthoz
NATO’s long-term credibility could be dealt another blow in the coming weeks if a special committee of the Belgian parliament decides to revoke Secretary- General Willy Claes’ immunity from prosecution so that he can be indicted on charges of corruption and fraud.
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https://www.politico.eu/article/natos-credibility-in-jeopardy-as-committee-deliberates-over-claes/
Déjà vu for beleaguered parents
Are you ready for a replay? As in 1990 when French-speaking teachers locked out students and staged demonstrations in major Walloon cities, October 1995 might be a difficult time for anyone linked to the education system in Brussels. Teachers are angry and frustrated, but this time – even though the strike on 9 October...
Jean-Paul Marthoz
Are you ready for a replay? As in 1990 when French-speaking teachers locked out students and staged demonstrations in major Walloon cities, October 1995 might be a difficult time for anyone linked to the education system in Brussels.
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The Greeks have got a word for it
Forget what you’ve been told: the new single currency may never be called the Euro, whatever the Germans say. “We have a slight problem with that name,” said a top Greek monetary official. You bet they do – if the Madrid summit were to confirm the choice, the result would be devastating in Greece. The name of the curre...
European Voice Staff
Forget what you’ve been told: the new single currency may never be called the Euro, whatever the Germans say.
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‘Guardian’ expected to prevail
WHAT is there actually left to win? That is the question being asked as The Guardian newspaper awaits the final judgement by the Court of First Instance next week on its case against the Council of Ministers over public access to documents. The British newspaper’s hopes of claiming a clear victory were undermined earli...
‘guardian’ expected to prevail what is there actually left to win? that is the question being asked as the guardian newspaper awaits the final judgement by the court of first instance next week on its case against the council of ministers over public acces
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German revolution in ballpoint pen design
German Euro MP Klaus Rehder has been handing out ballpoint pens to his political colleagues and warning them not to nibble the ends while pondering what to write. They are made entirely of potato starch. Just the thing for a peckish secretary, but what is Rehder doing recycling Europe’s potato crop? Apparently he does ...
European Voice Staff
German Euro MP Klaus Rehder has been handing out ballpoint pens to his political colleagues and warning them not to nibble the ends while pondering what to write. They are made entirely of potato starch. Just the thing for a peckish secretary, but what is Rehder doing recycling Europe’s potato crop? Apparently he...
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Timely boost for Israel
THE European Union is set to lay another building block this month in its plans for Middle East peace with the signature of an extensive association accord with Israel. At first glance, the accord appears to be merely a package of trade concessions. But those concessions, together with similar ones planned for Israel’...
Elizabeth Wise
THE European Union is set to lay another building block this month in its plans for Middle East peace with the signature of an extensive association accord with Israel.
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[ "Iceland", "Israel", "Jordan", "Liechtenstein", "Morocco", "Norway", "Tunisia" ]
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Belgium bids to clear Schengen hurdle
THE Belgian government is about to discover later this month the degree of support emerging for its campaign to consolidate the Schengen Convention by the end of the year. As current president of the frontier-free agreement, Belgium is aiming to rebut critics by ironing out almost a dozen technical problems and advanci...
Rory Watson
THE Belgian government is about to discover later this month the degree of support emerging for its campaign to consolidate the Schengen Convention by the end of the year.
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ISSUES THAT SPLIT THE COUNCIL
AgricultureNo votes: UK 8, Denmark 8, Netherlands 5, Germany 4, Luxembourg 3, Greece 3, Italy 3, Portugal 3, Sweden 3, Belgium 2, Spain 2, Austria 2, Ireland 1, Finland 1. Abstentions: UK 8, Germany 5, France 2, Netherlands 1, Portugal 1, Spain 1. FisheriesNo votes: UK 4, Ireland 2, Greece 1, Spain 1, Netherlands 1. Ab...
European Voice Staff
AgricultureNo votes: UK 8, Denmark 8, Netherlands 5, Germany 4, Luxembourg 3, Greece 3, Italy 3, Portugal 3, Sweden 3, Belgium 2, Spain 2, Austria 2, Ireland 1, Finland 1.
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Delors outlines agenda for Maastricht reforms
JACQUES Delors, who frequently clashed with finance ministers during a decade as Commission president, is pressing for a political counterweight to the single-mindedness of the future European Central Bank. In a rare public appearance in Brussels since leaving in January, Delors expressed optimism about the future of ...
Elizabeth Wise
JACQUES Delors, who frequently clashed with finance ministers during a decade as Commission president, is pressing for a political counterweight to the single-mindedness of the future European Central Bank.
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Report optimistic about fall in unemployment
UNEMPLOYMENT in the European Union could be halved between now and the year 2000, according to the European Commission. In a report prepared jointly by Economics Commissioner Yves-Thibault de Silguy and Social Affairs Commissioner Pádraig Flynn, they present an upbeat message on job prospects. The report forecasts that...
Michael Mann
UNEMPLOYMENT in the European Union could be halved between now and the year 2000, according to the European Commission.
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Money well spent
John Hume, the Northern Irish Euro MP whose contribution to the peace process is well-known, is carrying on the struggle quietly away from the spotlight. His latest contribution to attempts to bring the two communities of Northern Ireland closer together is to use his parliamentary allowance to take some of the region...
European Voice Staff
John Hume, the Northern Irish Euro MP whose contribution to the peace process is well-known, is carrying on the struggle quietly away from the spotlight.
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Franc fort policy besieged
SPECULATION is mounting that the French government may abandon its decade-old franc fort policy. With the political imperative to reduce unemployment outweighing the wish to impress its peers across the Rhine, France’s ability to join a single currency bloc is being called into question. But critics of the policy, who ...
Tim Jones
SPECULATION is mounting that the French government may abandon its decade-old franc fort policy. With the political imperative to reduce unemployment outweighing the wish to impress its peers across the Rhine, France’s ability to join a single currency bloc is being called into question.
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Telephony row defused
A DISPUTE between the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament which threatened to destroy plans to open up the EU’s voice telephony market to competition has been defused. Having weighed its options, the Parliament has decided to drop demands for a greater say in implementation procedures for the voice telepho...
Fiona McHugh
A DISPUTE between the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament which threatened to destroy plans to open up the EU’s voice telephony market to competition has been defused.
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Fishermen hold out little hope
THE UK’s National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations is preparing itself for probable defeat next week in the European Court of Justice in its action against the UK government for its so-called “days at sea” scheme. Although not necessarily an indication of the final outcome, the advocate-general’s opinion deliver...
Michael Mann
THE UK’s National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations is preparing itself for probable defeat next week in the European Court of Justice in its action against the UK government for its so-called “days at sea” scheme.
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Germany tries to build new bridges
Germany’s governing Christian Democratic party is trying to put the Franco-German alliance on a more even keel after the bilateral upheavals of recent months. The initiative comes as both governments are preparing to step up ministerial and official contacts and stake out common ground in the run up to the Intergovernm...
Rory Watson
Germany’s governing Christian Democratic party is trying to put the Franco-German alliance on a more even keel after the bilateral upheavals of recent months.
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Nuclear critics on the retreat
THE European Commission will hold a special meeting later this month to decide once and for all whether to risk a political storm by taking France to court over nuclear testing, amid signs that the battle may already be lost. Opponents of the tests within the Commission fear they may have manoeuvred themselves out of a...
Michael Mann
THE European Commission will hold a special meeting later this month to decide once and for all whether to risk a political storm by taking France to court over nuclear testing, amid signs that the battle may already be lost.
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Above and beyond the call of parliamentary duty…
Who says everything is a junket? Euro MPs in a delegation to visit Laos and Cambodia soon are said to be quaking in their boots because they may have to get to the Laotian capital, Vientiane, across country. All flights to the city are fully booked and MEPs face the prospect of getting there by wagon from Bangkok, trav...
European Voice Staff
Who says everything is a junket? Euro MPs in a delegation to visit Laos and Cambodia soon are said to be quaking in their boots because they may have to get to the Laotian capital, Vientiane, across country.
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Learning life’s taxing lessons
Liikanen’s tactics are based on grim experience. A few years ago, when he was Finland’s finance minister, he received 3,000 Finnish marks for giving a speech. A man of high principle, Liikanen has always refused to accept payments arising from his political position. He gave the cash to his favourite sports association...
European Voice Staff
Liikanen’s tactics are based on grim experience.
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Compensation threat to CAP
EUROPEAN Union farm ministers will meet later this month to discuss a proposal which some observers believe signals the first step towards unravelling the Common Agricultural Policy. Debate will centre on a particularly vague proposal from the European Commission which would allow EU governments to pay compensation to ...
Michael Mann
EUROPEAN Union farm ministers will meet later this month to discuss a proposal which some observers believe signals the first step towards unravelling the Common Agricultural Policy.
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‘Nul point’ for Berglind with France
Stig Berglind, the European Parliament’s new press chief, raised some questions at an internal meeting last week which are likely to make him as welcome in the French-dominated department as Jacques Chirac is in Australia. It seems he was wondering why English had been relegated to the second division in the unit when ...
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‘nul point’ for berglind with france stig berglind, the european parliament's new press chief, raised some questions at an internal meeting last week which are likely to make him as welcome in the french-dominated department as jacques chirac is in austral
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Parliament opens up IGC debate
ORGANISATIONS representing European Union citizens will air their views on the future of Europe next week, opening up a debate which until now has been monopolised by EU leaders. In a move to revive flagging public interest in Union affairs, the European Parliament will play host to some 100 groups at a conference to b...
Fiona McHugh
ORGANISATIONS representing European Union citizens will air their views on the future of Europe next week, opening up a debate which until now has been monopolised by EU leaders.
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FEATURES
AUTUMN and the run-up to Christmas is the time of year when the European Parliament traditionally wields some of its greatest influence. This is when Commissioners, their senior staff and diplomats beat a path to the modest premises occupied by the handful of MEPs whose job it is to draw up the Parliament’s strategy fo...
Rory Watson
AUTUMN and the run-up to Christmas is the time of year when the European Parliament traditionally wields some of its greatest influence.
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‘UNICE accepted the role of social partner because we believe we can provide an alternative. Instead of social Europe by decree, we can have it by consensus’
The EU employers’ federation UNICE is happy with the new emphasis being placed on its social partnership with the trades unions. As he prepares for the social summit and the opening of the European Centre for Industrial Relations in Florence on 20 October, UNICE Secretary General Zygmunt Tyszkiewicz firmly rejects crit...
Michael Mann
‘unice accepted the role of social partner because we believe we can provide an alternative. instead of social europe by decree, we can have it by consensus’ the eu employers’ federation unice is happy with the new emphasis being placed on its social partn
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Fears surround the
HAVING had less than two years to recover from the harrowing negotiations of the Uruguay Round, European and American politicians seem nervous when considering the much-talked about notion of an eventual Transatlantic Free Trade Area, or TAFTA. “There’s nothing to be afraid of,” pleaded Trade Commissioner Sir Leon Brit...
Elizabeth Wise
HAVING had less than two years to recover from the harrowing negotiations of the Uruguay Round, European and American politicians seem nervous when considering the much-talked about notion of an eventual Transatlantic Free Trade Area, or TAFTA.
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Positive action on trial
ELEVEN male judges will decide next week whether discrimination in favour of women is against EU law and should be banned. In an anxiously-awaited judgement due next Tuesday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) will try to put to rest an equal opportunities dispute which has been rumbling for years between a German hor...
Fiona McHugh
ELEVEN male judges will decide next week whether discrimination in favour of women is against EU law and should be banned.
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Local competition for Hans Christian Andersen
The world awaits the diaries of Ritt Bjerregaard, a simple tale of Brussels folk. Environment Commissioner Ritt is rushing out an account of her first six months in Brussels in time for the Christmas market. Surely it will include the definitive account of just what went on behind closed doors when she took on her coll...
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The world awaits the diaries of Ritt Bjerregaard, a simple tale of Brussels folk.
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More setbacks for Schengen
IT HAS taken barely six months for the optimism which greeted the abolition of border controls and passport checks between seven European Union countries in the Schengen Agreement to turn to concern about the long-term viability of the agreement itself. Uncertainty is not an unusual feeling within Schengen. It was only...
Rory Watson
IT HAS taken barely six months for the optimism which greeted the abolition of border controls and passport checks between seven European Union countries in the Schengen Agreement to turn to concern about the long-term viability of the agreement itself.
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Breakthrough for cable TV
EUROPE’S phone monopolies should soon be exposed to an element of competition in the wake of a decision by the European Commission to use special decree powers to order member states to allow cable television companies carry certain telecoms services from 1 January 1996. DGIV, the Directorate-General for competition, i...
Fiona McHugh
EUROPE’S phone monopolies should soon be exposed to an element of competition in the wake of a decision by the European Commission to use special decree powers to order member states to allow cable television companies carry certain telecoms services from 1 January 1996.
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5 October Social Affairs Council
SOCIAL affairs ministers adopted a non-binding resolution calling on publishers, advertisers and broadcasters to stop portraying men and women in a stereotypical way. Spanish Minister Cristina Alberdi Alonso stressed that the resolution included a specific reference to freedom of expression. Social Affairs Commissioner...
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SOCIAL affairs ministers adopted a non-binding resolution calling on publishers, advertisers and broadcasters to stop portraying men and women in a stereotypical way. Spanish Minister Cristina Alberdi Alonso stressed that the resolution included a specific reference to freedom of expression. Social Affairs Commissioner...
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South Africa courts EU businesses
MOMENTUM is gathering for European involvement in South Africa. In the coming months, the Commission will announce new incentives for European businesses looking at the emerging market, the European Investment Bank (EIB) will extend loans to the country, and EU states will formalise their pledge to include South Africa...
European Voice Staff
MOMENTUM is gathering for European involvement in South Africa. In the coming months, the Commission will announce new incentives for European businesses looking at the emerging market, the European Investment Bank (EIB) will extend loans to the country, and EU states will formalise their pledge to include South Africa...
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Tighter lid on staff numbers
STAFF numbers in the various European institutions have climbed steadily over the past 30 years, particularly in the last decade, as the Union and its responsibilities have grown. But the days of uncritical expansion are now over. EU governments, struggling with the need to curb budget deficits and streamline their own...
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STAFF numbers in the various European institutions have climbed steadily over the past 30 years, particularly in the last decade, as the Union and its responsibilities have grown.
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European Commission
THE Commission has approved an initiative for the modernisation of the Portuguese textile industry, providing 406 million ecu towards total expenditure of 936 million ecu. The scheme is aimed at modernising the sector, which makes up about one-third of Portuguese exports, provides 28% of Portuguese employment and 20% o...
European Voice Staff
THE Commission has approved an initiative for the modernisation of the Portuguese textile industry, providing 406 million ecu towards total expenditure of 936 million ecu. The scheme is aimed at modernising the sector, which makes up about one-third of Portuguese exports, provides 28% of Portuguese employment and 20% o...
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…but some people have all the luck
OK, so everything’s a junket. The Italians have decided to upstage Spain’s exotic range of presidency venues for summits and informal meetings – the Canary Islands, Valencia and Majorca to name just a few – by hosting a gathering of EU foreign ministers on the holiday island of Capri. The Italians, who take over the pr...
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OK, so everything’s a junket.
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Swedes may split Left
ANTI-EU Swedish MEPs took up their seats in Strasbourg this week amid predictions that their success at the polls could backfire on far-left groups in the assembly. Almost half of the 22 Euro MPs sent to the European Parliament by the Swedish electorate last month campaigned on a strongly negative platform, successfull...
Fiona McHugh
ANTI-EU Swedish MEPs took up their seats in Strasbourg this week amid predictions that their success at the polls could backfire on far-left groups in the assembly.
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Proliferation of new tighter controls over
A NEW phenomenon has emerged in the European Union in the past two years: the arrival of almost a dozen specialised agencies handling EU policy. Scattered throughout the Union, they enjoy increasing autonomy but remain heavily dependent on the EU for their funding. Their existence reflects a move to decentralise policy...
Rory Watson
A NEW phenomenon has emerged in the European Union in the past two years: the arrival of almost a dozen specialised agencies handling EU policy.
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Reinvigorating transatlantic trade and political relations
TALK of a free-trade zone between the United States and the European Union is growing, as is criticism of the idea. However, the focus on trade between the two giant markets may just be a front for patching up cracks which have developed in the joint security wall since the fall of the Soviet Union five years ago. Ther...
Elizabeth Wise
TALK of a free-trade zone between the United States and the European Union is growing, as is criticism of the idea. However, the focus on trade between the two giant markets may just be a front for patching up cracks which have developed in the joint security wall since the fall of the Soviet Union five years ago.
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Bosnia plan could spark budget fight
Elizabeth WiseBUDGETARY disagreements are threatening to take the gloss off the European Union’s wish to lead the effort to rebuild Bosnia just as two peace conferences fuel fresh hopes of an end to four years of war. The European Commission’s services are this week putting the finishing touches to a new programme for ...
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Elizabeth WiseBUDGETARY disagreements are threatening to take the gloss off the European Union’s wish to lead the effort to rebuild Bosnia just as two peace conferences fuel fresh hopes of an end to four years of war.
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EU import regime under fire
THE EU faces legal action in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over its cereals import regime. The WTO’s dispute settlement body decided to act at a meeting in Geneva yesterday (11 October) in response to a second request from the Canadian government to call a panel to look into the legality of the new system, introdu...
Michael Mann
THE EU faces legal action in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over its cereals import regime.
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Juppé reprieve gives Chirac a breathing space
SOME of the pressure was taken off the embattled government of French President Jacques Chirac this week when the Paris public prosecutor announced that Prime Minister Alain Juppé should not face prosecution over alleged housing irregularities. This came just a day after a national strike in protest at a proposed wage ...
Michael Mann
SOME of the pressure was taken off the embattled government of French President Jacques Chirac this week when the Paris public prosecutor announced that Prime Minister Alain Juppé should not face prosecution over alleged housing irregularities.
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Brittan asks for reassurances from China
A NEW gold rush has begun, if Trade Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan and Chinese Trade Minister Wu Yi are to be believed. Both are pushing European business into the vast territory of China. After 350 European businessmen met 150 representatives of 21 Chinese cities and provinces last week, the two leaders kept up the mom...
Elizabeth Wise
A NEW gold rush has begun, if Trade Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan and Chinese Trade Minister Wu Yi are to be believed.
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Island states’ aid approved
EFFORTS to prepare Malta and Cyprus for European Union membership are to receive a boost following the European Parliament’s approval this week of two financial packages worth a total of 119 million ecu over a four-year period. “This money adds weight to the accession process. It will help Cyprus in its efforts to take...
Fiona McHugh
EFFORTS to prepare Malta and Cyprus for European Union membership are to receive a boost following the European Parliament’s approval this week of two financial packages worth a total of 119 million ecu over a four-year period.
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Make or break at Madrid
THE coming eight weeks could determine whether December’s Madrid summit will be remembered as the defining moment in the creation of a single currency or the scene of its burial. With as much as 10 billion ecu of investment required in new computing systems, retraining and marketing, Europe’s banks need to know one way...
Tim Jones
THE coming eight weeks could determine whether December’s Madrid summit will be remembered as the defining moment in the creation of a single currency or the scene of its burial.
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EU producers retaliate in banana dispute
A NEW report commissioned by European Union banana producers totally rejects US claims that the EU’s controversial banana import regime has undermined fair competition and damaged American companies. The report comes in the wake of confirmation from Washington that it has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organisa...
Michael Mann
A NEW report commissioned by European Union banana producers totally rejects US claims that the EU’s controversial banana import regime has undermined fair competition and damaged American companies.
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Commission torn over tests
THE European Commission is to write to France yet again to demand the information it still lacks on the French nuclear tests in the South Pacific – but has stepped back from censuring the authorities in Paris, threatening to take legal action or even requesting that France postpone further tests until the Commission co...
Michael Mann
THE European Commission is to write to France yet again to demand the information it still lacks on the French nuclear tests in the South Pacific – but has stepped back from censuring the authorities in Paris, threatening to take legal action or even requesting that France postpone further tests until the Commission co...
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Realities behind votes in Council
Rory WatsonGERMANY and Britain – two of the European Union’s largest members – lose more votes than any other EU country when the Council of Ministers ballots to adopt legislation. Evidence that size is no sure guarantor of success in the complex 15-sided negotiations which climax in the approval of draft legislation e...
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Rory WatsonGERMANY and Britain – two of the European Union’s largest members – lose more votes than any other EU country when the Council of Ministers ballots to adopt legislation.
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1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:40:32Z
160
https://www.politico.eu/article/realities-behind-votes-in-council/
European policy at top of Danish PM’s agenda
EUROPEAN policy will feature high on the Danish Parliament’s agenda this autumn. In his opening speech to the Folketinget, Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen invited all eight parliamentary parties to participate in the preparation of Denmark’s approach to next year’s Intergovernmental Conference. Rasmussen’s objectiv...
EUROPEAN policy will feature high on the Danish Parliament’s agenda this autumn. In his opening speech to the Folketinget, Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen invited all eight parliamentary parties to participate in the preparation of Denmark’s approach to next year’s Intergovernmental Conference.
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[ "Denmark" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:40:50Z
176
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-policy-at-top-of-danish-pms-agenda/
Hard decisions ahead for TENs funding committee
THREE and a half years after the Maastricht Treaty committed the EU to promoting the creation of a web of trans-European transport, energy and telecommunications networks (TENs), a brand new committee of the Council of Ministers will meet this month to begin handing out the cash. At their last meeting, finance minister...
Tim Jones
THREE and a half years after the Maastricht Treaty committed the EU to promoting the creation of a web of trans-European transport, energy and telecommunications networks (TENs), a brand new committee of the Council of Ministers will meet this month to begin handing out the cash.
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[ "Denmark", "Sweden" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:41:37Z
211
https://www.politico.eu/article/hard-decisions-ahead-for-tens-funding-committee/
EU to run Palestinian elections
THE European Union has taken a significant step towards fulfilling its ambition of becoming a world political power following a decision to give it – and not the United Nations – responsibility for overseeing long-awaited Palestinian elections. The moves comes in the wake of the accord struck by PLO leader Yasser Arafa...
Elizabeth Wise
THE European Union has taken a significant step towards fulfilling its ambition of becoming a world political power following a decision to give it – and not the United Nations – responsibility for overseeing long-awaited Palestinian elections.
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[ "Angola", "Canada", "Israel", "Japan", "Mozambique", "South Africa", "Sweden", "United Kingdom", "United States" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:40:40Z
169
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-to-run-palestinian-elections/
Liikanen adopts tough approach
THE European Commission is strengthening its internal disciplinary proceedings as part of a wider campaign to improve internal management and increase public confidence in the institution. The initiative is being led by Personnel Commissioner Erkki Liikanen. “When this Commission came to office there was a strong feeli...
Rory Watson
THE European Commission is strengthening its internal disciplinary proceedings as part of a wider campaign to improve internal management and increase public confidence in the institution. The initiative is being led by Personnel Commissioner Erkki Liikanen.
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1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:40:42Z
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https://www.politico.eu/article/liikanen-adopts-tough-approach/
State aid to Iberia faces cut
THE Spanish government expects a settlement with the European Commission by the end of this month on how much state aid can be injected into the country’s loss-making national airline Iberia. After a meeting with Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock yesterday (4 October), Spanish Industry Minister Juan Manuel Eguiagaray...
European Voice Staff
THE Spanish government expects a settlement with the European Commission by the end of this month on how much state aid can be injected into the country’s loss-making national airline Iberia.
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1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
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https://www.politico.eu/article/state-aid-to-iberia-faces-cut/
Malaise grows in Brussels’ inner city
IS there a link between an under-reported riot in Brussels’ smallest municipality and France’s anti-terrorist campaign? There may be more there than first meets the eye. French President Jacques Chirac sparked an outcry in Belgian official circles when he announced France’s decision to toughen its border controls early...
Jean-Paul Marthoz
IS there a link between an under-reported riot in Brussels’ smallest municipality and France’s anti-terrorist campaign? There may be more there than first meets the eye.
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[ "Algeria", "Belgium", "France" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:41:23Z
200
https://www.politico.eu/article/malaise-grows-in-brussels-inner-city/
Egypt looks forward to 12-year competition respite
EGYPT and the European Union will resume talks later this month aimed at an eventual free-trade accord and closer political cooperation. Egypt and the EU member states have been cooperating on trade since a 1977 agreement and Egypt has most favoured nation status when exporting its products on to the European market. T...
European Voice Staff
EGYPT and the European Union will resume talks later this month aimed at an eventual free-trade accord and closer political cooperation.
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[ "Egypt", "Israel", "Jordan", "Morocco", "Tunisia", "Uruguay" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:41:01Z
184
https://www.politico.eu/article/egypt-looks-forward-to-12-year-competition-respite/
Europe’s troubleshooter
Carl Bildt would have good reason to be disappointed that the peace accord agreed by warring parties in Bosnia is being called the “Holbrooke plan” after US negotiator Richard Holbrooke, and is not named after him. But in typical style, the EU mediator insists he is not, stressing that the only thing that matters is th...
European Voice Staff
Carl Bildt would have good reason to be disappointed that the peace accord agreed by warring parties in Bosnia is being called the “Holbrooke plan” after US negotiator Richard Holbrooke, and is not named after him.
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[ "Denmark", "Iraq", "Russia", "Serbia", "Sweden" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:41:02Z
185
https://www.politico.eu/article/europes-troubleshooter/
The luck of the Irish holds good
The Irish representation is moving its offices to be closer to the Justus Lipsius building, but it will be even closer than it realised. One Irish official has worked out that from the new address just across the road, Ireland’s Permanent Representative can reach his delegation office inside Justus quicker than some Co...
European Voice Staff
The Irish representation is moving its offices to be closer to the Justus Lipsius building, but it will be even closer than it realised.
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[ "Ireland" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:41:46Z
219
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-luck-of-the-irish-holds-good/
28 September Transport Council
EU transport ministers reached a common position on rules for the carriage of dangerous goods by rail. Agreement was reached once Denmark had been reassured that the tighter rules agreed for the Channel Tunnel rail link could be applied to similar tunnel projects in the future. MINISTERS failed to approve a proposal to...
European Voice Staff
EU transport ministers reached a common position on rules for the carriage of dangerous goods by rail. Agreement was reached once Denmark had been reassured that the tighter rules agreed for the Channel Tunnel rail link could be applied to similar tunnel projects in the future.
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[ "Austria", "Estonia", "Finland", "Germany", "Italy", "Spain", "Sweden", "United States" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:41:17Z
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https://www.politico.eu/article/28-september-transport-council/
Move to change presidency rota
THE European summit in Madrid in December is likely to be presented with moves to end the six-month rotating European Union presidency. Pressure is growing to replace the 40-year-old system, already under strain, before the Union expands to include as many as 20 members. There is strong support in the Reflection Group,...
Rory Watson
THE European summit in Madrid in December is likely to be presented with moves to end the six-month rotating European Union presidency.
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1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
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162
https://www.politico.eu/article/move-to-change-presidency-rota/
From bonnets to banknotes
FOR some, it’s a high-brow academic discussion. For others, it will be the final expression of the unity of Europe, binding France and Germany together and forever ending the threat of war. For De La Rue plc, the single currency is a great business opportunity. Founded in 1813 by Guernsey-born Huguenot Thomas De La Rue...
European Voice Staff
FOR some, it’s a high-brow academic discussion. For others, it will be the final expression of the unity of Europe, binding France and Germany together and forever ending the threat of war.
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[ "Guernsey" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:41:30Z
206
https://www.politico.eu/article/from-bonnets-to-banknotes/
Learning to live with life’s little luxuries
The Union’s new Ombudsman Finn Jacob Söderman is having to get used to the trappings of EU life. In his previous incarnation as governor of Finland’s largest province, he pedalled about quite happily onhis bicycle. But in his new job as champion of the people, Söderman, who will travel regularly between Brussels and St...
European Voice Staff
The Union’s new Ombudsman Finn Jacob Söderman is having to get used to the trappings of EU life.
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[ "Finland" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:41:48Z
221
https://www.politico.eu/article/learning-to-live-with-lifes-little-luxuries/
Commissioner skid-ooed in the frozen north
Commissioners certainly lead colourful lives. Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler nipped up to the frozen north of Sweden recently and found himself on the back of a skidoo, a type of snow bike, being piloted by the Swedish Agriculture Minister Margareta Winberg. This was a brave move considering that Winberg is no...
European Voice Staff
Commissioners certainly lead colourful lives.
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[ "Sweden" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:41:41Z
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https://www.politico.eu/article/commissioner-skid-ooed-in-the-frozen-north/
SURVEY: IGC
THE European Union is coming to terms with the accelerating tempo of political developments. Its founding constitution, the Treaty of Rome, stood unchanged for almost 30 years. Its latest offspring, the Treaty on the European Union, more commonly dubbed Maastricht, is less than three years old and already preparing for...
Rory Watson
THE European Union is coming to terms with the accelerating tempo of political developments. Its founding constitution, the Treaty of Rome, stood unchanged for almost 30 years. Its latest offspring, the Treaty on the European Union, more commonly dubbed Maastricht, is less than three years old and already preparing for...
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[ "Germany", "Italy", "Spain", "United Kingdom" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:41:09Z
190
https://www.politico.eu/article/survey-igc-2/
New drama over film quota directive
EUROPEAN Commission plans to tighten a controversial broadcasting quota regime aimed at restricting the number of Hollywood blockbusters on European television screens have run into a new obstacle. Proposals for the revision of the Television Without Frontiers Directive have already split the Commission and the Counci...
Fiona McHugh
EUROPEAN Commission plans to tighten a controversial broadcasting quota regime aimed at restricting the number of Hollywood blockbusters on European television screens have run into a new obstacle.
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[ "France", "Germany", "Spain" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:40:45Z
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https://www.politico.eu/article/new-drama-over-film-quota-directive/
Edith gets hot under the collar
A meeting of Industry Commissioner Martin Bangemann’s information society group turned into a shouting match between two of his colleagues. Competition Commissioner Karel Van Miert came to the meeting last week armed with a paper from DGIV which stressed that the EU’s tough competition rules should be applied as strong...
European Voice Staff
A meeting of Industry Commissioner Martin Bangemann’s information society group turned into a shouting match between two of his colleagues.
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https://www.politico.eu/article/edith-gets-hot-under-the-collar/
Decision imminent on register for lobbyists
THE European Parliament will decide next month whether or not to peel away some of the veils of secrecy surrounding MEPs’ outside interests by introducing a register of lobbyists open to public scrutiny. Under a new regime which has been approved by the rules committee but must now go before the full Parliament at its ...
Fiona McHugh
THE European Parliament will decide next month whether or not to peel away some of the veils of secrecy surrounding MEPs’ outside interests by introducing a register of lobbyists open to public scrutiny.
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https://www.politico.eu/article/decision-imminent-on-register-for-lobbyists/
Fertile ground for the first IGC controversy
Entre Nous can reveal that the IGC is already underway. Its members are in almost constant session, agonising over the siting of the European Institute for PlantVariety Rights. The Intergovernmental Conference began its work last year on the sidelines of meetings of agriculture ministers, but has yet to reach agreement...
European Voice Staff
Entre Nous can reveal that the IGC is already underway.
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[ "Austria" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:41:43Z
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https://www.politico.eu/article/fertile-ground-for-the-first-igc-controversy/
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Welcome to European Voice, the weekly newspaper devoted entirely to the European Union. This first issue is the culmination of 18 months of research into the kind of newspaper that you as our readers will find useful and entertaining. We hope we have interpreted your requirements correctly. Our first objective is to br...
European Voice Staff
Welcome to European Voice, the weekly newspaper devoted entirely to the European Union. This first issue is the culmination of 18 months of research into the kind of newspaper that you as our readers will find useful and entertaining. We hope we have interpreted your requirements correctly.
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[ "Luxembourg" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:41:07Z
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https://www.politico.eu/article/letter-from-the-editor-2/
ECJ workload to rise
THE number of cases lodged with the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg in 1994 fell by almost a third from the 490 introduced the previous year. But already the trend looks set to be reversed in 1995. Between January and the end of June, 233 cases were registered with the ECJ. The greatest fall was in the nu...
Rory Watson
THE number of cases lodged with the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg in 1994 fell by almost a third from the 490 introduced the previous year. But already the trend looks set to be reversed in 1995.
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[ "Germany", "Luxembourg" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:41:13Z
193
https://www.politico.eu/article/ecj-workload-to-rise/
Don’t be alarmed, it’s a standard Belgian model
Looking for a sound investment in Belgian industry? Car alarms, my friends, put your francs into car alarms, a gilt-edged growth area if ever there was one. To make steady money, you need to be selling what everybody wants or at least needs. Food, for instance, toilet rolls, disposable nappies, the must-haves of life. ...
Geoff Meade
Looking for a sound investment in Belgian industry? Car alarms, my friends, put your francs into car alarms, a gilt-edged growth area if ever there was one.
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[ "Belgium", "Italy" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:41:24Z
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https://www.politico.eu/article/dont-be-alarmed-its-a-standard-belgian-model/
A couturier-in-waiting
What does a chef de Cabinet do when his Commissioner discovers she has absolutely nothing suitable to wear and no time to pop out and buysomething? Michele Pasca-Raymondo, Emma Bonino’s right-hand man, coped magnificently when the boss decided she needed something a little more glamorous in which to meet Morocco’s King...
European Voice Staff
What does a chef de Cabinet do when his Commissioner discovers she has absolutely nothing suitable to wear and no time to pop out and buysomething?
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[ "Morocco" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:41:44Z
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https://www.politico.eu/article/a-couturier-in-waiting/
Customs union on trial
EUROPEANS are closely watching the fortunes of Turkey’sacting Prime Minister, Tansu Çiller. With them, many feel, hangs the future of a customs union between Turkey and the European Union. Çiller cancelled a trip to Brussels planned for earlier this week to concentrate on forming a new government. She had been expected...
Elizabeth Wise
EUROPEANS are closely watching the fortunes of Turkey’sacting Prime Minister, Tansu Çiller. With them, many feel, hangs the future of a customs union between Turkey and the European Union.
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[ "Cyprus", "Turkey" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:41:08Z
189
https://www.politico.eu/article/customs-union-on-trial-2/
Single currency: the moment of truth
The storm clouds which gathered over economic and monetary union in the wake of Theo Waigel’s remarks about the likely membership of the single currency club may have dispersed in the wake of last weekend’s gathering of EU finance ministers in Valencia. But they could soon reappear if the one question which the public ...
European Voice Staff
The storm clouds which gathered over economic and monetary union in the wake of Theo Waigel’s remarks about the likely membership of the single currency club may have dispersed in the wake of last weekend’s gathering of EU finance ministers in Valencia. But they could soon reappear if the one question which the public ...
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[ "Germany" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:41:04Z
186
https://www.politico.eu/article/single-currency-the-moment-of-truth-2/
Exposing the myths of decision-making
It is time to revise the commonly-held belief that the EU’s biggest member states always get their way. They may capture the headlines but, as a European Voice investigation this week reveals, their arguments do not always win the day when Union legislation is approved. Germany is undoubtedly the most powerful player i...
European Voice Staff
It is time to revise the commonly-held belief that the EU’s biggest member states always get their way. They may capture the headlines but, as a European Voice investigation this week reveals, their arguments do not always win the day when Union legislation is approved.
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[ "Germany" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
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2014-04-11T22:41:05Z
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https://www.politico.eu/article/exposing-the-myths-of-decision-making/
Socialists prepare to govern
PORTUGUESE Socialists are preparing to form a government whose main priority will be a firm commitment to monetary union and a single currency after their best-ever general election result ended ten years in opposition. The Socialist Party’s leader Antonio Guterres will be asked to put together his governing team by Pr...
Rory Watson
PORTUGUESE Socialists are preparing to form a government whose main priority will be a firm commitment to monetary union and a single currency after their best-ever general election result ended ten years in opposition.
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[ "Denmark", "Finland", "Greece", "Ireland", "Luxembourg", "Portugal", "Spain", "Sweden", "The Netherlands" ]
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
1995-10-04T16:00:00Z
2014-04-11T22:40:51Z
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https://www.politico.eu/article/socialists-prepare-to-govern/