arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

Daarnet het nieuws van 22u50 gezien en daar zei men dat de Europese wijk volgende week twee dagen gesloten is omdat de 15 staatsleiders en eerste ministers samenkomen voor...
Men toonde beelden van een waterkanon, beelden van 20 oproeragenten die achter manifestanten lopen, beelden van D-15(al de ruiten die gebroken waren). Men wist ook te vertellen dat er nog geen betogingen waren aangevraagd.

Is er iemand die weet wanneer deze mensen tesamen komen?

Ik was gisteren in Brussel voor de protestwake aan de hoofdzetel van Tractebel en wat opviel was de grote politieaanwezigheid in de nabijheid van het koninklijk paleis. Meerdere overvalwagens, een waterkanon en combi's.
Ook een tiental zwaantjes die een bus begeleiden. En ik zag een caravaan passeren van Mercedessen onder politiebegeleiding.

Ik heb vernomen dat Berlusconi op bezoek geweest is bij de onze keuning. Leuk dat de politie zich voorbereid voor protesten met een waterkanon maar als niemand dit weet, is het ook maar zielig voor hen.

Spijtig dat onze koning die oproept voor meer verdraagzaamheid en minder racisme een premier ontvangt die aan zijn burgers verbied om illegalen te helpen die verdrinken voor de Italiaanse kust zonder dat daarbij protest is.

De,denk ik, informele top, is ook nergens aangekondigd op de indymediasites. En bij mijn zoeken naar meer info heb ik nog niets gevonden.

De informele top in Gent was wel aangekondigd.

Het zou een mooie gelegenheid zijn om duidelijk te maken aan de Europese regeringsleiders dat de burgers geen oorlog met Irak willen en ook dat de Europese regeringsleiders meer kritiek en sancties mogen nemen tegen Israël.

Iemand meer info?

Blijkt dat de dienaars van de industrie tesamen komen om de uitbreiding van Europa te bespreken.

Vorig jaar schreef onze premier nog een brief aan de "democratisch globalisten", nu staat het niet eens op de website van onze "democratische" regering.

En in december komen ze nog eens tesamen in Brussel.
Twee dagen, 13 en 14 december.

"October promises to be a busier month in European terms. Considering that September is always a bit of a slow month - we were almost reduced to having to report on an exhibition of Danish bicycles last week - this can only be a welcome development. The outstanding feature will no doubt be the Special European Council meeting which will take place in Brussels on 24 and 25 October, and the Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, will start a tour of EU capitals next week in order to prepare for the meeting."
http://www.ibeurope.com/Database/Newslink/334n.htm

(European Council meetings (also known as summits) bring together the political leaders of the EU Member States. There is at least one (and normally two) European Council meetings during each Council presidential term and they take place in a location chosen by the current Council Presidency.)
http://www.ibeurope.com/Factfile/laekenpre.htm

"24-25 October, Brussels: European Council decides on which candidate countries can join the EU in the first wave of enlargement"
http://eunewsdigest.blogspot.com/

"December 12 EPP Summit, Brussels
December 12-13 European Council Summit, Brussels "
http://www.idu.org/events.doc

Ziehier de agenda, in het Engels:

The Presidency intends to limit the agenda to the following items:

I. Enlargement

II. Kaliningrad

The European Council will also hear a progress report on work in the European Convention from its President, Mr. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.

The meeting will be preceded by an exposé by the President of the European Parliament, Mr. Pat Cox, followed by an exchange of views.

1. In the light of the Commission's regular reports and strategy paper and based on a
recommendation from the Commission the European Council is expected:

- to decide on the candidate countries which fulfil the Copenhagen criteria and with
which the negotiations can be concluded by the Copenhagen European Council on 12-13 December, so that the Accession Treaty can be finalised and signed by Spring 2003;

- to have an exchange of views on the situation of the other candidate countries and on that basis mandate the General Affairs and External Relations Council to prepare the decisions to be taken at the Copenhagen European Council on:

= an updated pre-accession strategy and roadmap for Bulgaria and Romania;

= the elements of the next stage of Turkey's candidature.

2. On the basis of the financial framework agreed at the Berlin European Council, the European
Council is expected to decide on the open financial and budgetary issues in order to be able to
present the relevant Common Positions to the candidate countries in early November. In that
context, it will decide on the following specific issues:

(a) Agriculture:

- Overall allocation, including the question of granting direct payments to new Member States, including any transitional measures,

- Possible guidelines for solving other major outstanding issues;

(b) Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund:

- Overall allocations, including allocations for each candidate country;

(c) Internal policies

- Overall allocation, including the financial package for the decommissioning of Ignalina and Bohunice NPPs and the institution building facility;

(d) Decision in principle on a possible programme for Northern part of Cyprus;

(e) The question of possible transitional budgetary compensation measures for the candidate countries, as well as the form they should take and the criteria on which they
should be based.

3. The European Council is expected to agree on the framework for continued effective
monitoring of progress achieved by candidate countries in transposing and implementing the and the commitments taken in the negotiations, with emphasis on strengthening
judicial and administrative capacity.

4. The European Council is expected to take a position on:

(a) the QMV threshold to apply after 1 January 2005;

(b) the principles for allocating EP seats for 2004 - 2009;

(c) the necessary transitional arrangements concerning:

= the weighting to be given to each new Member State in 2004,

= the QMV threshold in 2004,

= the allocation of EP seats up to June 2004;
(d) the order of the rotation of Presidencies in the enlarged Union.

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5. The European Council is expected to determine:

(a) the modalities of the participation of new Member States in the European Development Fund;

(b) arrangements for the participation of the new Member States in the ECSC Fund.

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6. The European Council is expected to take stock of issues relating to transit between
Kaliningrad and other parts of the Russian Federation and to take any decisions necessary in
view of the EU-Russia Summit on 11 November in Copenhagen.Work on many of the questions listed above has already started and will continue in the
Enlargement Working Party (assisted by relevant experts when appropriate) and in COREPER. A
report on institutional issues and a report on budgetary and financial issues are being submitted to
this session of the Council. The Presidency will draw on that work in preparing papers setting out
the state of play on the topics on which political guidelines should be given or a decision will have
to be made to facilitate final negotiation of a balanced, overall package in the European Council,
prepared by the General Affairs and External Relations Council immediately preceding it.

http://ue.eu.int/Newsroom/makeFrame.asp?MAX=1&BID=115&DID=72646&LANG=1&File=/pressData/en/ec/72646.pdf&Picture=0

het was niet berlusconi die op bezoek was in het koninklijk paleis; wel de Italiaanse president, kben echter zijn naam vergeten.

groetjes
joeri

de naam is Ciampi