Go to the Content Tuesday, 14 October 2008
European Commission praises UK plan, forces Ireland to include non-Irish banks.
Advocate-general accepts the view of most EU states that the directive is primarily a market issue.
Belarusian leader free to travel to the EU; some of his officials remain barred.
Uzbek officials are now free to travel, but arms embargo remains in place.
As many as 10 million people in the EU are listening to music at factory-level volumes each day.
Deal with European Parliament could limit the disruption caused by the handover of the trade portfolio to the UK's new commissioner.
Preliminary list finds that 15 chemicals used in the EU are "of very high concern".
Morocco gains 'advanced status', while Moldova wins a promise of deeper, closer ties.
Eurozone states join the UK in outlining huge rescue plans for their banking systems.
First round of Lithuania's parliamentary elections suggests coalition talks will be tough; Ignalina referendum fails.
EU ministers tie up ‘unbundling' issue and the question of ownership by non-EU companies.
EU confirms that Russia has dismantled checkpoints in the buffer zones in Georgia and withdrawn its troops.
EU commissioner places enlargement prospects against a backdrop of Europe's ‘most serious challenges' since the Cold War.
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A GRIM OUTLOOK. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet announced a cut of half a percentage point in the eurozone lending rate on 8 October, in a move co-ordinated with the US Federal Reserve and the central banks in the UK, Switzerland, Canada and Switzerland. The move to restore confidence to global financial markets caused a brief rally in European stocks, but they fell back in the face of continuing fears over bank failures and the seizing up of money markets and interbank lending. REUTERS
EU presidency wants a substantial show of solidarity if any EU country's energy supplies are disrupted.
First-reading agreement in Parliament unlikely; economic crisis ‘has changed public priorities'.
European Parliament to consider fast-tracking the process of approving the new UK commissioner.
Bilateral November summit remains uncertain; Geneva talks to include breakaway regions.
Industry says opt-outs would add much-needed flexibility.
Latest meeting on possible reunification will focus on veto powers.
New re-packaging rules will ‘destroy business'; Commission says it wants to tackle counterfeiting.
Free trade removed from the table as Canada calls snap general election.
France rejects European Parliament attempts to put courts in charge of cutting off internet services.
Politics
European Parliament to meet in Strasbourg in October, two months after repairs began.
European Parliament will increase its own use of the EU's flag, anthem and motto.
Foreign minister blames “lack of information” for Ireland's rejection of the EU's reform treaty.
Proposals aimed at boosting turnout at European Parliament elections include an end to closed voting and a change in scheduling.
Finnish president garlanded for his role in trouble-spots ranging from Kosovo and Northern Ireland to Aceh.
Macedonia and Montenegro support Kosovo's statehood, prompting Serbia to expel Montenegro's ambassador.
EU's mission to Kosovo still needs to fill four in five posts.
Collapse of Ukraine's governing coalition is latest episode in the strained relationship between Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko.
Early results from Bosnia's in local elections suggest a clear-cut victory for nationalists.
Kai Vittrup, the EU's top police officer in Sudan, to take up Afghanistan mandate.
Russian envoy believes talks should resume this month, expects EU monitors not to be allowed to enter South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Morocco to be first country to be accorded the legally insignificant honorific of 'advanced status' neighbour.
European Commission president will set up a group of experts and a mini-college of commissioners and proposes fresh regulation of hedge funds and private equity.
Rate cut is part of an unprecedented, co-ordinated move by six central banks.
Fall-off in economic activity in the second quarter adds to concerns about the European economy.
An overwhelming majority of Europeans share the concerns of ethicists and the European Parliament.
EU executive pushes for longer cooling-off periods, tougher delivery standards and for an end to hidden charges.
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What a visit to Job Days reveals about Europe's (im)mobile labour market.
11-13 October: Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly plenary session, Jordan. On the agenda: developments in the Barcelona Process and declaration on Middle East peace process.
13-14 October: Meeting of EU foreign ministers, Luxembourg. On the agenda: preparation for the European Council, Georgia, Zimbabwe, Belarus, Moldova and Uzbekistan.
13-16 October: Committee and political group week in Parliament. On the agenda: NATO and the European Security and Defence Policy, Solidar Silver Rose awards, dialogue with religions and cultures, business incentives in EU regions, the role of the arms industry in Africa's underdevelopment.
15 October: Weekly Commission meeting, Brussels. On the agenda: green paper on the quality of agricultural products, draft legislation on illegal logging.
15-16 October: Meeting of EU leaders, Brussels. On the agenda: economic and financial situation, energy/climate change proposals, Ireland's report on the Lisbon treaty.
Australia's former foreign minister, Gareth Evans, explains the genesis of his effort to define the international's responsibility to protect.
The Georgia crisis suggests the EU and NATO should ease the conditions of accession for Georgia, writes a former Bulgarian prime minister.
The Lisbon treaty should be buried and new approaches, based on a popular consensus, should be explored.
Bosnia's first attempt at a Gay Pride festival brought the lurking intolerance in Sarajevo out violently onto its streets.
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Solidarity, co-ordination and co-operation – not words to apply to Europe's response to the financial crisis.
Deregulation was the root cause of the financial crisis; more regulation is needed to uproot the causes.
Analysis
A referendum on a nuclear power plan could affect the outcome of Sunday's general election.
Jacques Barrot weighs option of untried mechanism; harmonisation of laws to avoid ‘litigation shopping'.
Though troubles in the banking sector have now arrived in mainland Europe, national governments and the European Commission seem resistant to a new EU single regulator and disagreements remain over Solvency II.
Asylum and immigration is watered down; member states still at odds on migrant workers.
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Letters
The pipeline bypassed EU states en route to Germany for technical, financial and environmental reasons.
Targets can be met without hurting food supplies or changing land use.
Left to the car lobby, progress would be snail-like; with the same application as computer-makers, they could make exponential progress.
People
Is Slovenia getting its first truly post-Yugoslav prime minister in Borut Pahor?
Singing and joking on the (wrong) road to the auditors.
Who wasn't present and correct in our Commission forecasts.
Leaving Paris and heading for Brussels?
A climate-change committee fails to evolve.
Could the European Parliament bring together the Parmesan-loving wife of Carl Bildt and a homestead unionist?
Just the ticket for weary presidents and premiers.
The Mediterranean region continues to provide the EU with threats and opportunities.
The father of the European Central Bank's monetary policy pulls back the curtains, a little.
A study of political families in Europe finds national parties reluctant to surrender power.
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