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    Dublin unveils EU priorities – EUbusiness Week newsletter 600

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    EUbusiness Week 600 top stories: Allies urge Britain to stay in EU; EU moves to end state rail monopolies; 2013 sees cleaner trucks and buses across EU; Eurozone contracts sharply end 2012, rebound mid-2013; Poland bans cultivation of GM maize, potatoes; EU launches public consultation on sweetener aspartame

    This Week’s Top Stories

    1. Allies urge Britain to stay in EU
    2. EU moves to end state rail monopolies
    3. 2013 sees cleaner trucks and buses across EU
    4. Eurozone contracts sharply end 2012, rebound mid-2013
    5. Poland bans cultivation of GM maize, potatoes
    6. EU launches public consultation on sweetener aspartame

    Publisher’s Note

    Welcome back to EUbusiness Week after the Christmas break, as Irish prime minister Enda Kenny unveils his country’s priorities for its stint as president of the European Union over the next six months.

    Ireland’s European agenda focuses on jobs, stability and growth, as well as a way to deal with Europe’s place in the wider world. Mr Kenny was clear about his main priority, however: dealing with the scale of the Irish banking debt. Dublin is lobbying the ECB to restructure EUR 31 bn in promissory notes used to rescue the former Anglo Irish Bank.
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    Nick Prag
    Publisher, EUbusiness

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    1. Allies urge Britain to stay in EU

    British Prime Minister David Cameron faced warnings Thursday from the United States, Germany and his own coalition partners about London’s plans to renegotiate its relationship with the EU.
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    British business leaders warn Cameron over risks of EU exit

    2. EU moves to end state rail monopolies

    In proposals likely to infuriate Germany, the Commission will this month urge an end to Europe’s last rail monopolies and so open the lucrative passenger market to competition from 2019.
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    3. 2013 sees cleaner trucks and buses across EU

    Under new Union rules to combat pollution, trucks and buses rolling off assembly lines this year will produce significantly less harmful exhaust fumes.
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    4. Eurozone contracts sharply end 2012, rebound mid-2013

    The eurozone’s recession likely sharpened at the end of last year but the single currency zone will begin to rebound in the second quarter of this year, say forecasters at German, French and Italian agencies.
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    5. Poland bans cultivation of GM maize, potatoes

    Poland has imposed new bans on the cultivation of certain genetically modified strains of maize and potatoes, a day after an EU required green light for GM crops took effect.
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    6. EU launches public consultation on sweetener aspartame

    The EU’s food safety agency on Tuesday launched a public consultation on its draft scientific opinion regarding the safety of the artificial sweetener aspartame.
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