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EU News Flashes and Events for 96-06-14
From: News Distribution Manager <dist@hri.org>
CONTENTS
[01] New British beef plan
[02] Mad cow-CJD link seen in monkeys
[03] France attends NATO meeting
[04] Bildt warns on Bosnia elections
[05] Lamfalussy confident of 1999 EMU
[06] TENs conciliation procedure
[07] Anti-competitive complaint filed
[08] EU unemployment steady at 10.9 pct
[09] Main EU events for June 14
[01] New British beef plan
BRUSSELS - Prospects for defusing London's "beef war" with the European Union
have improved with Britain's latest eradication proposal, but could yet be
hurt by news France was sold suspected infected animal feed, EU sources said
on Thursday.
[02] Mad cow-CJD link seen in monkeys
PARIS - French government scientists told a news conference on Thursday that
they had found the first experimental evidence of a link between mad cow
disease and its human equivalent, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, in work on
monkeys.
[03] France attends NATO meeting
BRUSSELS - France attended its first formal meeting of NATO defence ministers
for 30 years on Thursday to help try and build a greater role for Europeans in
the U.S.-led alliance and review NATO's Bosnia mission. The United States told
the meeting it would not end 47 years of U.S. military command of all NATO
forces despite France's decision.
[04] Bildt warns on Bosnia elections
FLORENCE, Italy - International envoy Carl Bildt told an international
conference on Bosnia on Thursday that any delay to planned post-war Bosnian
elections in September would increase the risk of partition into separate
ethnic states.
[05] Lamfalussy confident of 1999 EMU
BONN - European Monetary Institute President Alexandre Lamfalussy said on
Thursday he was confident that the single European currency would kick off as
planned in 1999.
[06] TENs conciliation procedure
BRUSSELS - Transport networks conciliation talks between the European
Parliament and Council remained deadlocked on Thursday after overnight
negotiations broke up at five a.m., an EU diplomat told Reuters.
[07] Anti-competitive complaint filed
BRUSSELS - A group of private radio broadcasters, franchisers and advertising
brokers formally complained to the European Commission on Thursday about the
virtual monopoly held by state-owned BRTN in Flemish language radio
broadcasting.
[08] EU unemployment steady at 10.9 pct
BRUSSELS - The rate of joblessness in the European Union was unchanged at 10.9
percent in April with 18.2 million people out of work, Eurostat, the EU's
statistical office said in a statement on Thursday.
[09] Main EU events for June 14
BRUSSELS - EU Standing Veterinary Committee meeting begins at 0800 GMT to
continue discussions on Portuguese and British BSE eradication plans (Friday).
BRUSSELS - European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party news conference
following their pre-Florence summit meeting begins at 1000 GMT (Friday).
BRUSSELS - NATO Defence Planning committee and Nuclear Planning group meet in
ministerial sessions. Defence ministers meet with cooperation partners (second
of two days).
ROME - Tripartite meeting of EU social partners on employment (Friday-
Saturday); main discussions focus on social partners reaching an agreement on
part time work; Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, Commission President
Santer and Employment Commissioner Flynn attend.
ZAGREB and SARAJEVO - NATO Secretary General Javier Solana and European Allied
Forces Supreme Commander (SACEUR) General George Joulwan on official visit
(Friday-Saturday).
MADRID - Commission President Santer meets Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar
in the framework of his tour of cities on the confidence pact for employment
(Saturday).
From EUROPA, the European Commission Server at http://www.cec.lu/
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