Entrepreneurship and the EU - EUbusiness Week no 436

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EUbusiness Week - Issue 436
13 March 2009
http://www.eubusiness.com
Your way through the EU information maze
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This Week's Top Stories
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1. European Investment Bank to lend car makers EUR 3bn
2. EU reaches restaurant sales tax deal
3. Euro-Parliament tightens shipping regulations
4. Brussels seeks to ease air slot rules to help airlines
5. Employers association sees 4.5m jobs lost in 2009
6. French rose producers pink-faced over EU wine plans

Publisher's Note
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In the run-up to the European Parliament elections this
June, EUbusiness.com will be discussing how the European
Union can improve its support of high growth
entrepreneurially-led business.

EUbusiness director Michael Ter-Berg has written an article
entitled 'Imagination, Entrepreneurship and the EU'. With
the EU spending billions of euros on programmes to help
develop new technologies and encourage universities and
business to work together, he says Europe will stagnate
"without a vastly improved regime to support and deliver
entrepreneurially driven, high growth businesses".
http://www.eubusiness.com/Members/michaelterberg/etp.01

What do you think? I encourage you to add a comment to his
article, or email us at editor@eubusiness.com, and we will
publish the best responses in next week's newsletter.

Regards,

Nick Prag
Publisher, EUbusiness

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1. European Investment Bank to lend car makers EUR 3bn
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The European Investment Bank said on Thursday that its
board had approved plans to lend an additional three
billion euros to car makers and that more is on the way.
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236865621.97

2. EU reaches restaurant sales tax deal
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EU finance ministers have clinched a long-sought deal
allowing cut-rate sales taxes on certain services, with
Germany yielding to French pressure to allow less tax to
be charged in restaurants.
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236697321.42

3. Euro-Parliament tightens shipping regulations
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Members of the European Parliament tightened regulation on
the shipping sector on Wednesday in the hope of avoiding
life-threatening and environmentally dangerous shipwrecks.
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236784621.41

4. Brussels seeks to ease air slot rules to help airlines
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The Commission is proposing to ease the rules for airport
slots in order to allow ailing airlines to cut back on their
services without losing their landing and take-off rights.
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236703622.22

5. Employers association sees 4.5m jobs lost in 2009
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Some 4.5 million Europeans risk losing their jobs this year
due to the increasingly severe recession, says the
president of the BusinessEurope employers association.
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236851222.03

6. French rose producers pink-faced over EU wine plans
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Winegrowers in France's picturesque Provence region are
pink-faced with fury over EU plans to let producers make
rose wine by mixing red and white, saying this risks
destroying a local tradition.
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236774726.96

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Inside the EU Institutions
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Council Watch
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Stability pact: Germany and France reaffirmed on Thursday
their commitment to the EU's Stability and Growth pact,
which notably restricts public deficits to 3.0 per cent
of annual output.
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236863823.52
Eurozone ministers reject fast-track euro entry
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236629822.41
Eurozone resists US push for more economic stimulus
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236628922.34
http://www.eubusiness.com/European_Council

Commission Watch
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Financial crisis: EC chief Jose Manuel Barroso has defended
Europe's efforts to soften the blow of the global crisis
against US pressure to plough more taxpayer money into
their economies.
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236862921.4
EU postpones Belarus visit
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236808921.7
Europe vows to boost AIDS fight in Africa
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236870121.35
http://www.eubusiness.com/Commission

Euro-Parliament Watch
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China: Euro-MPs urged China Thursday to renew dialogue on
real autonomy for Tibet, in a resolution marking 50 years
since a failed uprising there forced the Tibetan
spiritual leader into exile.
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236863829.8

Also at this week's Strasbourg plenary, MEPs discussed the
European Council of 19-20 March, which will focus on the
financial crisis, energy security and climate change; set
out their views on the 2008 progress reports on Croatia,
Turkey, and FYROM; adopted a report on the protection of
minors using video games; called for an overall strategy on
'the greening of transport'; and said that a basic principle
of the reformed policy on access to documents should be that
no legislative documents should be kept secret.
Texts: http://www.eubusiness.com/Institutions/oeil
http://www.eubusiness.com/Europarl

EU diary
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16-17 Mar, Gen'l Affairs and Ext'l Relations Council
19-20 Mar, European Council
22-23 Mar, Informal Meeting of Ministers for Education
23-24 Mar, Agriculture and Fisheries Council
23-26 Mar, EP Plenary Session

The Week Ahead: http://www.eubusiness.com/events/EUcalendar
Long-term diary: http://www.eubusiness.com/events/eu-diary

EUbusiness Community
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Policy Forum
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First 2009 EU Gateway Business Mission to Japan renews
strength of EU-Japan business cooperation
http://www.eubusiness.com/Members/eugateway/

Eurovignette vote: mixed results - business organisations
http://www.eubusiness.com/Transport/ueapme-eurovignette

EU must not cool its commitment to efficient appliances
http://www.eubusiness.com/Energy/foe-press.09-03-09

Reach Europe's decision-makers! Publish your organisation's
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Briefing
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EU maritime safety rules
http://www.eubusiness.com/Transport/maritime-safety-guide

ICT use for a greener Europe
http://www.eubusiness.com/Environ/ict-greener-europe
More briefings: http://www.eubusiness.com/guides

Events
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31 Mar, Lisbon: Managed Services Summit
http://www.eubusiness.com/Members/iir/managedservicessummit

24 Apr, Vienna: Privatisation and public services
http://www.eubusiness.com/Employment/pique.09
More events: http://www.eubusiness.com/events

Jobs
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Business Development Officer, European Service Network
http://www.eubusiness.com/Jobs/esn-job.09-03-10

Principal Officer Defence Market, European Defence Agency
http://www.eubusiness.com/Jobs/eda-job.09-03-11
More jobs: http://www.eubusiness.com/jobs

Links
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Joint Research Centre technology portfolio
http://www.eubusiness.com/Rd/jrc-portfolio

EU Entrepreneurship Action Plan
http://www.eubusiness.com/SMEs/eu-entrepreneurship
More links: http://www.eubusiness.com/links

Other news on EUbusiness this week
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Slovenia, Croatia harden stands on border row 12-Mar
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236788223.0
Airbus military jet buyers delay cancellation date 12-Mar
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236888121.98
EU raids EDF offices in antitrust probe 11-Mar
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236769322.2
EU sees failure of anti-drug policies after 10 years 10-Mar
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236705422.79
Romania starts talks with EU, IMF on loan 10-Mar
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236695522.87
EU waves through Olympic Airlines privatisation 10-Mar
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236698221.36
Icelanders want talks on EU membership: poll 10-Mar
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236610022.96
Chinese investment mission 'will help battle crisis' 9-Mar
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1236592022.6

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