Europe-East articles from April 2003

Europe-East archives from April 2003

PARLIAMENT MAKES ITS CHECK ON CANDIDATES BEFORE HISTORIC VOTE.
April 10, 2003... While the tussle continues over whether the EU Council treated the European Parliament fairly when it put hard figures into the Accession Treaty, the Parliament itself now has a clear decision of its own to make on April 9, when it is scheduled...

GETTING ENLARGEMENT RIGHT.(passing the Accession Treaty)
April 10, 2003... As the leading pack of ten candidate countries approach what should be the finishing line in their accession steeplechase, the pressure is still on them to make the efforts needed not just to meet the conditions of EU membership but to reap its...

EU STEPS UP CAMPAIGN TO CONVINCE CANDIDATES ON AGRICULTURE.
April 10, 2003... Information. With the Accession Treaty less than two weeks from being signed, barring last minute technical hitches, Mr Fischler said that he was concerned over the quality of the information given to the EU's future citizens. He said that...

Liikanen spells out IT challenges for new Member States.(Brief Article)
April 10, 2003... Erkki Liikanen, the Member of the European Commission, responsible for Enterprise and the Information Society , spelt out the challenges for the IT sector in the new Member States when he spoke in Warsaw on 31 March "The EU legislation...

Enlargement countries join EMEA.(European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products)(Brief Article)
April 10, 2003... The ten accession candidate countries expected to join the European Union in May 2004 began work with the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products on 1 April as observers on the Agency's scientific committees and working...

European Liberal Democrats campaign for EU "yes" vote.(Brief Article)
April 10, 2003... Members of the European Parliament have started campaigning in Hungary, Poland and Lithuania in favour of a "yes" vote in each country's referendum on joining the European Union. The activities form part of the ELDR "Yes to Europe" campaign....

Water pipeline and water purification plant for Pila.(Poland)
April 10, 2003... A new works contract has been signed for construction works for a water purification plant at Pila in Poland. It involves the construction of a water pipeline from the Dobrzyca water intake, of maximum capacity of 600 m3/h. The raw water will...

EU SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE MEDIA INDEPENDENCE.(Brief Article)
April 10, 2003... A new EU-funded Tacis project is gearing up to support media activities in Ukraine, the European Commission has announced. The Euro 1.24 million project is designed to develop greater independence amongst newspapers, radio and television...

GERMAN SUPPORT FOR URKAINIAN SMALL RURAL BUSINESSES.(Brief Article)
April 10, 2003... Germany has decided to allocate a Euro 5 million credit to support privately-owned small rural businesses in Ukraine, according to information from the Ukraine Mission to the EU. Coming through the German-Ukrainian Fund, the money will be...

BUCHAREST ANTI-FRAUD COMMUNICATION SEMINAR ANNOUNCED.(Brief Article)
April 10, 2003... The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and Romania are to organise a training seminar for anti-fraud communicators in Bucharest in autumn 2003, it has been announced. Following up a recent meeting of the OLAF Anti-fraud Communicators Network...

DESPITE ATHENS HARMONY, ENLARGED EU WILL STILL BE DIVIDED.(European Union, accession of new members)
April 24, 2003... EU leaders managed to capture the right sense of history at last week's signing ceremony which will see ten new members from central and eastern European and the Mediterranean join the Union in 2004. More than fifty years after the Soviet Union...

ENLARGEMENT: ATHENS DECLARATION ISSUED AS LEADERS SIGN ACCESSION TREATY.(European Union)
April 24, 2003... Another historic moment in the process of European integration was celebrated in the Greek capital of Athens on April 16 when leaders from the fifteen Member States of the European Union and ten Central and East European countries gathered at...

WIDER EUROPE GETS AN ATHENS MAKEOVER.(European Union forum; Athens, Greece)
April 24, 2003... The gathering in Athens to sign the Accession Treaty offered an opportunity for another ceremonial event - a review of the implications of enlargement for the wider Europe. And plenty of representatives from the wider Europe were invited to...

EU-LITHUANIA JOINT PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE.(European Union)
April 24, 2003... The EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee met in Vilnius on 14-15 April, and addressed the following recommendations to the institutions of Lithuania and the European Union: The Enlargement Process and Developments within the European...

Drug use increasing in candidate countries.
April 24, 2003... Candidate countries have become a clear target for drug consumption, according to the EU drugs agency, the Lisbon-based European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. In most candidate countries, "recreational drug use and...

ESTONIA GOES TO ATHENS.(Estonia's representatives at the Athens Accession Treaty signature ceremony took advantage of the opportunity to exchange views with other countries )
April 24, 2003... Estonia's representatives at the Athens Accession Treaty signature ceremony took advantage of the opportunity to exchange views with other countries - and to express some of their own. The President of Estonia, Arnold Ruutel, and the...

EBRD SAYS GROWTH GETTING HARDER TO MANAGE.(European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
April 24, 2003... Countries across central and eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States continued to outperform the European Union, the United States and most emerging economies in 2002, with overall economic growth at 3.7 per cent compared with...

SPRING 2003 ECONOMIC FORECASTS FOR THE CANDIDATE COUNTRIES.(Brief Article)
April 24, 2003... Acceding countries and other candidate countries have, on average, sustained solid growth despite the worsened international economic climate. Economic growth has only slightly slowed down during 2002. Due to strong domestic demand, most...