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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03BRUSSELS2375 |
EUROPOL - U.S. COOPERATION [...] Summary. The mission of Europol (the European Police Office) has steadily expanded from its initial focus on fighting drugs to encompass all serious crimes, including terrorism, illicit migration, trafficking in persons, child pornography, money-laundering and counterfeiting of the Euro. W [...] |
2003-05-06 15:20:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AINF KCRM KJUS EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 03BRUSSELS3186 |
EU CUBA POLICY: EMPHASIZING THE "CRITICAL" IN THE [...] (U) This is an action message. See para 10. 2. (C) Summary: On June 18, Poloff delivered reftel demarche (ref a) and discussed the EU's announced reevaluation of its common position on Cuba. Karl Buck (protect) of the EU Council Secretariat, said that the visit to Cuba of the Austrian Just [...] |
2003-06-19 14:52:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID CU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 03BRUSSELS3231 |
EU PARLIAMENT U.S. RELATIONS RESOLUTION MIXED [...] (C) Summary: On June 19 the European Parliament (EP) passed a resolution on "A Renewed Transatlantic Relationship for the Third Millenium." Foreign Relations Committee Chair Elmar Brok, a German Christian Democrat and strong advocate of close transatlantic ties, drafted the resolution and time [...] |
2003-06-23 12:43:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 03BRUSSELS3243 |
CENTRAL DUBLIN GROUP MEETING: JUNE 2003 [...] This cable contains an action request. See para. 9. 2. Summary. In a productive June 9-10 meeting in Athens, the members of the Central Dublin Group reviewed regional reports from Central Asia (Italy), Eastern Europe (Germany), Southwest Asia (UK) and Southeast Asia and China (Australia). [...] |
2003-06-23 16:13:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KCRM PREL SNAR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 03BRUSSELS4143 |
FIRST STEPS TOWARD AN EU USE-OF-FORCE DOCTRINE: [...] (C/NF) The draft European Security Strategy (ESS), which will be discussed at the September 5-6 informal "Gymnich" meeting of EU Foreign Ministers (ref. A), provides the U.S. with an early opportunity to engage on this emerging EU security doctrine. Born of the divisions over Iraq, the ESS is [...] |
2003-08-28 18:10:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PINS MARR MCAP FR IT PL UK DA GM SP NATO UNSC EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 03BRUSSELS4424 |
EC ON UN: A COMMITMENT TO "MILITANT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 10, the EC issued a policy paper on the "European Union and the United Nations: The Choice of Multilateralism." The paper is meant to "catalyze" debate within the EU, and to dovetail with the European Security Strategy (reftels) now being developed. Full of genuflect [...] |
2003-09-16 10:12:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA UN EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 03BRUSSELS4518 |
RFG: SHOULD THE EU BE INVOLVED WITH PSI? [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 10. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) At the September 16 meeting of the EU's Political and Security Committee (PSC), PSC Ambassadors broadly supported the case for EU involvement in, or association with, the Proliferation Security Initiative [...] |
2003-09-23 11:04:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 03BRUSSELS4996 |
PARIS PACT ROUNDTABLE ON IRAN [...] Summary. The second roundtable convened by the "Paris Pact" for countries affected by the Afghanistan Opium Economy was held at the headquarters of the World Customs Organization in Brussels on October 15. This meeting was a considerable improvement over the first roundtable on the Balkans h [...] |
2003-10-28 08:14:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AF KCRM SNAR IR RS XD EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 03BRUSSELS5015 |
STATUS OF BILATERAL PROTOCOLS ON EXTRADITION AND [...] The U.S.-EU Agreements on Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance were signed at the Summit in Washington on June 25, 2003. Before these agreements can be sent to Congress for ratification, protocols to existing bilateral extradition and MLATs must be negotiated. In the limited instances whe [...] |
2003-10-29 08:23:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC KCRM KJUS PREL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 03BRUSSELS5113 |
EU ON CUBA: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? [...] (C) Summary: On November 5, Poloff discussed EU Cuba policy with Karl Buck, Latin America Division Chief in the EU Council Secretariat. He said the EU Latin America Working Group (COLAT) had affirmed unanimously on November 4 the punitive measures the EU had announced in June in response to [...] |
2003-11-06 11:00:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV CU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 03BRUSSELS5469 |
USEU LABOR/SOCIAL AFFAIRS HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) This is first cable in new series designed to provide labor reporting officers and attaches with a review of recent key EU actions in the areas of labor affairs and social policy as well as a look-ahead of what to expect in coming months. This report will highlight areas of US/EU dialogue/ [...] |
2003-12-03 12:37:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 03BRUSSELS5510 |
EU TROIKA DEC 9-12 VISIT TO PYONGYANG [...] (C) Summary. Senior EU officials will visit Pyongyang December 9-12 to convey EU support for the Six Party Talks; EU interest in improving ROK-DPRK relations in order to coordinate peninsular development; the need to respect human rights; and the need to begin a process of economic reforms. [...] |
2003-12-05 14:12:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PARM KNNP EAID KS CH KN EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 03BRUSSELS5525 |
U.S.-EU COTER CONSULTATIONS ON COUNTERTERRORISM [...] The U.S. and EU COTER held their quarterly counterterrorism coordination meeting on December 3. The U.S. was represented by S/CT,s Senior Advisor for Multilateral Affairs, Chris Ensley, DOJ senior counsel Mark Richards, Econoff Kim Gagne and NAS Frank Kerber. The EU COTER delegation was cha [...] |
2003-12-08 10:25:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER TS AG MO SR BK AL MK EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 03BRUSSELS5593 |
A/S ROCCA CONSULTATIONS ON SOUTH ASIA WITH EU [...] (C) On December 8 in Brussels, SA A/S Christina Rocca met with EU counterparts at the European Commission to discuss ongoing developments in South Asia (participants listed para 11). --On Afghanistan, interlocutors said at this time they could identify only euros 20 million in available Comm [...] |
2003-12-11 14:50:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PTER AF PK IN CE NP XD EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 03BRUSSELS5619 |
EU "SOCIAL SUMMIT" STRESSES JOBS AND LABOR [...] Summary: The Prime Ministers and Employment and Social Affairs Ministers of the EU Troika (Italy, Ireland, and the Netherlands) gathered with EU-level trade union and employers organization leaders December 11 to review the employment situation in Europe. The "Social Summit," co-chaired by E [...] |
2003-12-15 10:06:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 03BRUSSELS5635 |
TRANSATLANTIC LEGISLATORS' DIALOGUE MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: The biannual Transatlantic Legislators' Dialogue (TLD) meetings were held in Williamsburg, Virginia on November 13-16 (list of participants in paras 20-21). The six members of Congress and ten members of the European Parliament (MEP's) reviewed the draft EU Constitutional Trea [...] |
2003-12-16 12:23:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1074 |
SOLANA ON BOSNIA: PARTNERSHIP REQUIRES TRUST, TOO [...] (C) This is a joint USEU/USNATO message. Policy recommendation in para 12. 2. (C) Summary: In an animated discussion with Ambassadors Schnabel and Burns March 9 on planning for a post-SFOR EU mission in Bosnia, EU HiRep Javier Solana said, "If you want the EU to be your partner in Europe, [...] |
2004-03-12 15:07:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | BK MARR PREL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1081 |
US-EU COASI CONSULTATIONS PART 1: EAST ASIA [...] (C) On March 5 in Brussels, SA A/S Rocca and EAP PDAS Keyser -- accompanied by USEU DCM Foster -- discussed US-EU cooperation in South and East Asia with the EU's COASI Troika. This cable covers the EAP portion of the consultations. The SA segment will be reported septel. -- Indonesia: EU [...] |
2004-03-15 08:02:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP CH ID BM KN ASEAN EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1090 |
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS: BACKGROUND [...] The first European Parliament (EP) elections in a newly enlarged EU will be held June 10-13. The EP has important budgetary powers, and decision-making powers on transportation, environment, data privacy and development aid, all significant issues in U.S.-EU relations. Candidates run as natio [...] |
2004-03-15 11:35:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1094 |
EUROPEAN ELECTIONS CAMPAIGN: WHAT TO EXPECT [...] No summary [...] |
2004-03-15 13:36:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINR TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1119 |
DG COOPER ON DPRK: EU READY TO HELP WHEN TIME IS [...] (C) Visiting EAP PDAS Donald Keyser met with Council DG for External Relations Robert Cooper March 5 on the margins of semestral troika consultations with the EU (reftel). Cooper expressed satisfaction with the slow but steady progress in the Six Party process and offered the EU's assistance b [...] |
2004-03-17 07:06:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP KN EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1122 |
USEU LABOR/SOCIAL AFFAIRS HIGHLIGHTS FIRST QUARTER [...] (SBU) Summary: This quarterly report provides readers with analysis, priorities, and outreach/meetings related to EU labor and social affairs January-March 2004. We examine EU efforts to recast its employment goals debate and EU concerns on the impact on enlargement on EU labor and social obj [...] |
2004-03-17 10:08:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB SOCI PHUM SMIG EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1123 |
HUMANITARIAN AID TO HAITI: EUROPEAN COMMISSION [...] No summary [...] |
2004-03-17 11:56:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL EAID HA EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1134 |
EU COUNTER-TERRORISM POLICY AFTER MADRID [...] (SBU) The EU is re-examining its role in the war against terrorism following the March 11 attack in Madrid. Many EU efforts to improve its counter-terrorism (CT) effectiveness -- for instance by revising the EU CT Action Plan and creating and streamlining the Clearinghouse -- were in the work [...] |
2004-03-17 17:01:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV PINR PREL PTER EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1151 |
COORDINATION FOR THE CHAD CONFERENCE ON DARFUR: EC [...] (C) Summary. The European Commission (EC) is in agreement with USG thoughts on Darfur mediation (reftel), and is prepared to financially support the talks in Chad with 400,000 euros channeled through the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (CHD). According to the EC, important outstanding issue [...] |
2004-03-19 04:22:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PHUM CD SU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1162 |
U.S.-EU DISCUSS RUSSIA, UKRAINE, MOLDOVA, BELARUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: At U.S.-EU COEST consultations on March 16, EUR DAS Steven Pifer and EU interlocutors agreed that Russian progress on democracy and human rights and cooperation with the U.S. and EU in the former Soviet space were central to building a better strategic relationship with Russia. E [...] |
2004-03-19 09:31:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP BO MD EUN RU USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1177 |
SPURRING SADC ENGAGEMENT ON ZIMBABWE: EC RESPONSE [...] (C) Summary. The European Commission (EC) is skeptical that pressure through SADC or any other channel can reverse the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe. The members of SADC have disparate agendas and circumstances that hinder them from coming together forcefully on Zimbabwe. Although o [...] |
2004-03-19 14:38:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF EAID ZI EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1218 |
BELGIUM: NAME OF INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBLE FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2004-03-23 11:45:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TSPL SENV TSPA EFIS BE USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1256 |
EU STAKES OUT "COMPLEMENTARY BUT DISTINCT" [...] (C) Summary. At its March 22 Foreign Ministers' meeting, the EU welcomed a report outlining a comprehensive European approach to the Middle East. Dubbed "EU Strategic Partnership with the Mediterranean and the Middle East," the paper supports the basic ideas underpinning the U.S. reform agen [...] |
2004-03-24 16:31:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID XF EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1274 |
TRANSATLANTIC CONSULTATIONS ON AFRICA HIGHLIGHT [...] (U) Summary. Major topics of discussion at the transatlantic consultations on Africa (COAFR), held March 10 in Brussels, included: support to peacekeeping and conflict prevention activities, including the EU's proposed Africa Peace Facility and U.S. support to ECOWAS through EUCOM; political [...] |
2004-03-25 10:54:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF EAID PHUM XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1295 |
SERB PM KOSTUNICA VISITS EU; SOLANA AND PATTEN'S [...] (C) Our readout of Serb PM Kostunica's March 23 meetings in Brussels with High Rep Solana, and Commissioners Prodi and Patten tracks closely with reftel account from Belgrade. In addition, Kostunica is reported to have hinted at the possibility of a "quiet dialogue" with ICTY, claimed to be o [...] |
2004-03-25 16:20:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SR ZL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1304 |
EU CONSTITUTIONAL TREATY NEGOTIATIONS TO RE-START [...] (SBU) EU leaders at their March 25 Summit dinner agreed to an Irish Presidency recommendation that the EU's Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) on a draft EU Constitutional Treaty, which collapsed in December 2003 due to disagreements about voting weights, should be re-started, with the aim of [...] |
2004-03-26 11:34:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1337 |
EU SUMMIT: FOREIGN POLICY TOPICS [...] (SBU) The EU's March 25-26 Summit ran quickly through a series of foreign policy issues during dinner on March 25, followed up by a lunch discussion on Cyprus March 26 that lasted less than one hour. The final Conclusions (available on at ue.eu.int/latest news) consisted of language largely r [...] |
2004-03-26 17:53:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ZL CY IS IZ IV EUN RU USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1338 |
EU LEADERS PLEDGE ACTION ON TERRORISM, NAME NEW CT [...] (U) In the wake of the Madrid bombings, EU leaders on March 25 issued a Declaration on Combating Terrorism (available at http://ue.eu.int/). They pledged to improve cooperation, to speed up implementation of agreed EU measures, and announced new initiatives to counter the terrorist threat. A [...] |
2004-03-26 18:25:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PINR EFIN KCRM EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS139 |
CENTRAL DUBLIN GROUP MEETING: JANUARY 2004 [...] This cable contains an action request. See para. 8. 2. Summary. During its January 9 meeting, the members of the Central Dublin Group reviewed regional reports from the Baltic states (Norway), Central Europe (Netherlands), Northern Africa (Spain), Africa - apart from North Africa (Franc [...] |
2004-01-14 06:47:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EU KCRM PREL SNAR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS14 |
EUROPEAN SECURITY STRATEGY IN CONTEXT: ANALYSIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The final draft of EU HiRep Javier Solana's European Security Strategy (ESS) -- adopted by EU heads of state at their December 12-13 Brussels Summit -- envisages a world of dangerous but preventable threats, multilateral solutions, and stabilizing partnerships. The ESS identifies [...] |
2004-01-05 14:09:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PARM KNNP MARR MCAP EAID SOCI NATO OSCE UNSC EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1401 |
P/DAS RIES DISCUSSES US-EU SUMMIT DELIVERABLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a March 30 meeting with HR Solana's WMD Rep Annalisa Giannella, EUR P/DAS Charlie Ries shared preliminary USG thoughts about possible nonproliferation deliverables for the June US-EU Dublin Summit. Stressing that these were just early ideas and not formal proposals, Ries su [...] |
2004-03-31 12:39:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1431 |
EU-15 UNEMPLOYMENT UNCHANGED AT 8.0 PERCENT [...] SUMMARY. Aggregate unemployment in the EU-15 was 8.0 percent in February 2004. The rate was unchanged compared to the seven previous months and the February 2003 rate. The ten acceding countries showed a 14.2 percent average unemployment rate for February 2004, also unchanged for the past [...] |
2004-04-02 10:30:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1448 |
MIGRATION ISSUES: EU INTERIOR MINISTERS REACH KEY [...] At the March 30 Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council meeting, EU ministers reached political agreement on the so- called "Qualification Directive" that sets out the eligibility criteria for both refugee status and subsidiary protection in the EU and the entitlements of those persons who qual [...] |
2004-04-05 06:07:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF CVIS CASC KCRM EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1450 |
COUNTER-TERRORISM/LAW ENFORCEMENT: EU [...] The EU Council of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Ministers on March 30 displayed a new momentum to meet its obligations to deal with the Declaration by EU leaders on combating terrorism as well as its own rolling agenda. The ministers agreed on a "general approach" (no formal agreement yet) [...] |
2004-04-05 06:07:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER PREF CASC KCRM EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1496 |
EUR/PDAS RIES DISCUSSIONS WITH EU ON TURKEY'S [...] (C) Summary: EUR/PDAS Charlie Ries visited Brussels on March 30 to review EU Commission concerns on specific Copenhagen Criteria issues, with the aim of working with the EU and Turkey to achieve a positive decision on a Turkish date for accession negotiations in December. Matthias Reute, DG [...] |
2004-04-06 16:10:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM TU CY EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1497 |
EU COMMISSION OUTLINES KEY COPENHAGEN CRITERIA [...] (C) Prior to EUR/PDAS Charlie Ries' visit to Brussels on March 30 covering the same issues at a higher level (septel), working level EU officials on March 29 met with us to detail EU Commission concerns on specific Copenhagen Criteria issues. The Commission laid out five specific areas where [...] |
2004-04-06 16:23:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1501 |
GETTING TO YES IN THE CYPRUS REFERENDA: ACTION [...] (C) With Cyprus guaranteed entry into the EU no matter what the outcome of the referenda, EU officials feel bereft of carrots to encourage a positive Greek Cypriot response. Promoting a "yes" vote in Cyprus will depend on our use of the Cyprus Pre-donors' Conference on April 15 to prove that [...] |
2004-04-07 08:27:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID CY EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1510 |
CHINA ARMS EMBARGO: APRIL 2 PSC DEBATE AND NEXT [...] (S/NF) The EU Political and Security Committee (PSC) discussed the EU arms embargo on China during a heated 90 minute exchange on April 2. PSC Ambassadors generally agreed that the issue -- of whether, when and how to lift the embargo -- should be sent back down to working groups for further [...] |
2004-04-07 12:11:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PHUM PREL PINR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1543 |
EU INFORMAL DEFENSE MINISTERIAL APRIL 5-6 [...] (C) The EU Informal Defense Ministerial in Brussels on April 5/6 endorsed and appeared to expand the concept of the EU rapid reaction force, with Hirep Solana identifying as its elements rapid EU institutional decision-making, a planning cell, and battle groups. Solana explained that the purp [...] |
2004-04-08 12:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS BK EUN NATO USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1577 |
EU CODE OF CONDUCT ON ARMS EXPORTS: QUESTIONS AND [...] (SBU) This message is intended as a companion to Mission reporting (refs A, B, C) about the possibility that the EU may soon lift its arms embargo on China. In place of the embargo, some EU Member States favor enhancing the EU Code of Conduct on arms exports, either in general or with specific [...] |
2004-04-14 05:24:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PHUM CH EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1586 |
DONORS EYE ISRAELI PULLOUT WITH MIXTURE OF HOPE, [...] (U) Summary: At a one-day informal meeting of the "no-name" group in Brussels, convened by Canada to discuss Palestinian refugee issues, participants were fixated on the issue of Israel,s proposed withdrawal from Gaza, which they characterized as posing both an opportunity and an enormous cha [...] |
2004-04-14 08:39:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF EAID UNRWA EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1607 |
SUBJECT: MARCH 19 U.S.-EU TROIKA CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 19, Special Representative of the President for Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and Geneva CD Ambassador Jackie W. Sanders and NP/PPC Director Christopher Murray led discussions on arms control and disarmament with the EU's Nonproliferation Troika (CONOP). Issues dis [...] |
2004-04-14 15:27:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1622 |
EU WELCOMES MOLDOVA CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) Mission raised reftel proposal for five-party expert (Ambassadorial) level talks on Moldova April 14 with Christoph Heusgen, head of the Policy Unit. His experts on Moldova were not available, but Heusgen promised to get back to us soon with a more formal reply. He said he was confident [...] |
2004-04-15 16:01:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MD OSCE USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1623 |
EU REACTION TO POTENTIAL POSITIVE STEPS FOR BELARUS [...] (C) Mission passed ref a points April 15 to Carl Hartzell, East Europe and Caucasus specialist of the Council's Policy Unit. Hartzell reviewed them briefly, and said they seemed reasonable, and in fact went further than the EU was thinking at this time. The EU was also looking at steps to inc [...] |
2004-04-15 16:47:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID BO EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1655 |
JOINT U.S.-EC MONITORING TRIP IMPROVES DONOR [...] (SBU) Summary. In order to improve donor coordination and to bring international attention to the humanitarian needs in Burundi, the U.S. and the European Commission (EC) undertook a joint monitoring mission from March 29-April 2 to assess post-conflict needs and to monitor the work of impleme [...] |
2004-04-16 13:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID PHUM PGOV BU TZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1736 |
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: IMPACT OF ACCESSION [...] (C) SUMMARY. Until now, politicians from the ten accession states have only been observers of the European Parliament (EP). We expect a culture clash when these observers become full-fledged members. They are generally younger and look at the EP as a vehicle for political advancement. They a [...] |
2004-04-22 09:15:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1749 |
SCENESETTER FOR APRIL 26 INAUGURAL SESSION OF THE [...] Summary and introduction. The inaugural meeting of the high level dialogue on transportation, border and infrastructure security (TBIS) on April 26 is an important opportunity to break through the bureaucratic logjams between various EU components that have severely complicated efforts to ad [...] |
2004-04-22 12:14:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA EAIR ECON EU PTER USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1766 |
SUBJECT: APRIL 15 U.S.-EU TROIKA CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 15, NEA/ENA Director Greg Berry led discussions on the Maghreb with the EU's Troika (COMAG). Issues discussed were: -- The Barcelona Process and European Neighborhood Policy: EU officials shared their views on the existing Barcelona Process and their new Neighborhood Po [...] |
2004-04-23 08:22:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV XI EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1783 |
COMMISSION'S POSITIVE "AVIS" ON CROATIA'S EU [...] (C) In issuing its positive recommendation April 20 for opening of accession negotiations with Croatia, the Commission has tried to stress that Croatian cooperation with ICTY "must continue" and the Croatia must "take all necessary steps to ensure the remaining indictee is located and transfe [...] |
2004-04-23 13:19:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET | PREL PGOV EAID NL KAWC HR ICTY EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1787 |
EU HAND-WRINGING ON CYPRUS REFERENDUM: NO CARROTS, [...] (C) One day away from a Cyprus Referendum, EU officials are wringing their hands in Brussels about the likely fate of the Annan Plan -- and the likely accession of a divided Cyprus into the EU on May 1. The Head of the Commission's Cyprus unit told us April 23 that he is anticipating numerous [...] |
2004-04-23 14:31:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CY TU EUN UN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1806 |
EU RELEASES ANTI-SEMITISM REPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 31, the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) released its long-awaited report on anti-Semitism in the EU. Its data indicate a growing level of anti-Semitic violence in Europe. Right-wing "skin-head" attacks continue unabated, while a growing number [...] |
2004-04-26 12:52:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM OSCE EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1868 |
DINING WITH CHRIS: RANDOM THOUGHTS FROM RELEX [...] (C) Summary: Over rubbery fish at an Adenauer Stiftung affair on April 27, External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten touched briefly on why the EU will never be a "real power," the dubious backgrounds of some of the leaders of the EU's new members, next steps on Cyprus/Turkey, the differences be [...] |
2004-04-28 14:21:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PBTS EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1870 |
EU/CYPRUS: DEVELOPING THE EU'S POST-REFERENDA [...] (C) April 28 COREPER discussion on defining the Green Line for the European Union focused on the extent to which the Green Line is a barrier and to what extent it will be a border. Roughly speaking, our contacts report that the Greek Cypriots would like a barrier without the political charac [...] |
2004-04-28 14:37:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID CY TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1871 |
EUR/PDAS RIES MEETING WITH MATTHIAS RUETE [...] (C) On April 26 EUR/PDAS Charlie Ries met in Brussels with EU Commission Enlargement Director Matthias Ruete, who is responsible in the Commission for Turkey's accession bid. Ries emphasized the US view that Turkey should not be punished for southern Cyprus' rejection of the Annan Plan. He en [...] |
2004-04-28 14:42:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU CY EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1897 |
EU ON DARFUR: CEASEFIRE MONITORING, HUMANITARIAN [...] (S) Summary. The EU will contribute personnel and financial resources to support both the Ceasefire Commission and other efforts to establish peace in Darfur, as well as to address the complex humanitarian emergency in the region. The EU feels the disagreement at the UNCHR meeting was not ove [...] |
2004-05-03 05:25:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET | PREL PREF PHUM SU CD EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1907 |
INAUGURAL SESSION OF THE U.S.-EU POLICY DIALOGUE [...] Summary. The inaugural meeting of the new Policy Dialogue on Border and Transport Security April 26 addressed biometrics, the US-VISIT and Visa Waiver Programs, the joint initiative on lost and stolen passports, "flights of concern" and air marshals. Newly appointed Counter-terrorism coordin [...] |
2004-05-03 12:36:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | CA EAIR ECON PTER EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1911 |
EU AGREES ON ASYLUM PROCEDURES DIRECTIVE [...] The EU Justice and Home Affairs Council on April 29 reached political agreement on a draft Directive imposing minimum standards on procedures in Member States for granting and withdrawing refugee status. Coupled with the formal adoption of the Asylum Qualification Directive on the same day, t [...] |
2004-05-03 13:40:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL CMGT CVIS SMIG KCRM EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1919 |
GME: GETTING THE BALANCE RIGHT BETWEEN THE G-8 AND [...] (C) Summary. According to an EU official working on the issue, the EU is becoming increasingly skeptical of the U.S.'s GME proposals for the G8 summit. Citing Commissioner Patten, the official said the G8 should stick to a political statement supporting regional reform; the U.S.-EU summit [...] |
2004-05-03 15:45:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1929 |
EU AGREES ON MUTUAL RECOGNITION OF [...] EU Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) on April 29-30 agreed on the application of the principle of mutual recognition to confiscation orders, a follow-up to the March 26 European Council Declaration on Combating Terrorism. The Commission will bring forward by June further proposals [...] |
2004-05-04 12:27:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL CASC KCRM EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1960 |
EU: CYPRUS ACCESSION AND COMMISSION RESPONSE [...] (C) Enlargement Commissioner Verheugen's Cabinet member for Cyprus, Kristin Schreiber, told us May 5 that the Commission is readying proposals for improving northern Cypriot commercial access to the EU. The Commission proposals will likely be presented to the Council in late June, for adopti [...] |
2004-05-05 13:40:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU CY EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS1997 |
EU/COUNTERTERRORISM: VITORINO AND DE VRIES: TIME [...] (SBU) For the past two years, we have struggled with the EU bureaucracy on a range of counter-terrorism measures aimed at tightening border security, enhancing control of container traffic, improving travel document security, and strengthening law enforcement cooperation. After the Madrid bom [...] |
2004-05-07 12:03:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PINR ECON ETRD EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2027 |
EU ARMS AGENCY: STATE OF PLAY [...] (C) The EU continues to develop the EU Arms Agency (EUAA), and hopes to have it up and running by the final quarter of 2004. The agency's mission is to develop a systematic EU approach to addressing ESDP capability needs. EU officials note that close coordination with NATO will be required i [...] |
2004-05-10 13:30:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS TSPL EAGR MCAP PARM ETTC MASS EUN NATO USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2068 |
EU COUNCIL ON NATO-EU RELATIONS [...] (C) EUR/RPM Director Dan Russell visited Brussels May 6-7 to meet with EU Council Secretariat officials responsible for EU European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) formulation. The primary topic of discussion was the transition in Bosnia from SFOR to a EU mission. In all of his meetings, R [...] |
2004-05-13 06:46:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR BK EUN NATO USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2086 |
EC MOVING FORWARD WITH AUDITORS FOR LIBERIA [...] Following receipt of reftel, USEU contacted DG Development Liberia Desk Officer Arend Biesenbroek for a status report on their funding of auditors to assist in the review of financial controls at six key government agencies. Biesenbroek reported that the terms of reference for this program ha [...] |
2004-05-13 15:33:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PGOV LI EUN IMF USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2091 |
U.S.-EU CONSULTATIONS ON OSCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The EU hosted a U.S. delegation headed by USOSCE Ambassador Stephan M. Minikes for the biannual U.S.-EU "COSCE" consultations on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on May 7. Key findings were: --U.S.-EU Coordination within OSCE: cooperation between t [...] |
2004-05-14 10:40:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM OSCE EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2102 |
EU FMS' MEETING: KEY AGENDA ITEMS AND DEMARCHE [...] (C) The EU FMs' General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting on May 17-18 will devote much of its time to Intergovernmental Conference (ICG) debates on the draft EU Constitutional Treaty. Ministers (with their Defense colleagues also participating) will also focus on ESDP is [...] |
2004-05-14 15:47:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2107 |
EUROPEAN ELECTIONS AND U.S.-EU RELATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although most voters in the June 10-13 European elections will focus mainly on bread-and-butter themes such as employment, health care and the like, transatlantic issues will also attract attention. Brussels observers expect Iraq to feature more prominently in EU member states w [...] |
2004-05-14 16:09:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2114 |
VISA WAIVER PROGRAM AND AN ENLARGED EU [...] (C) Summary. The enlargement of the EU on May 1 raised the number of EU countries not included in the visa waiver program (VWP) from one to ten. New Member States harbor hopes that their EU accession can become a way to wrest from the U.S. via the EU what they could not obtain bilaterally: i [...] |
2004-05-17 09:03:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | CMGT CVIS SMIG ELAB EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2180 |
EU-UKRAINE: CONDITIONING ENHANCED TIES ON [...] (C) Summary. After a delay due to internal EU friction, the EU hopes to complete negotiation on an "Action Plan" for Ukraine in time for the July EU-Ukraine summit. The plan will list political and economic reforms that Ukraine will undertake, in return for reciprocal EU steps to bring Ukra [...] |
2004-05-19 13:46:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM UP EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2181 |
EU FM TALKS RAISE DOUBTS ABOUT JUNE TARGET [...] (SBU) EU Foreign Ministers in the May 17-18 session of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) - the first since the collapse of the December 2003 Summit - made little progress on the draft EU Constitutional Treaty. Irish FM/IGC chair Cowen nevertheless remained confident the Treaty will be a [...] |
2004-05-19 14:39:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2196 |
EUROPEAN ELECTIONS: KEY RETURNING MEPS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With the campaign now in full swing, almost all of the party lists for the June 10-13 European elections have been released in the 25 EU member states. This message describes some of the influential members of the European Parliament (MEPs) who, based on their party-list rankin [...] |
2004-05-24 13:32:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2211 |
BRUSSELS VIEW OF IRELAND'S EU PRESIDENCY: A [...] No summary [...] |
2004-05-25 11:07:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL EI EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2262 |
USEU SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY VISIT JUNE [...] Sensitive but unclassified -- entire text. 2. Summary: You are coming to Brussels during a time of transition in the EU as it absorbs its new members and moves towards a new Parliament, new Commissioners and a new Constitutional Treaty. At the same time, the EU under the Irish Presidency i [...] |
2004-05-27 10:28:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2277 |
EU AGREES NEW NON-PROLIFERATION TEXT FOR SYRIA [...] (C) Summary. On May 26, the EU agreed to new non-proliferation language for inclusion in the draft EU-Syria Association Agreement. Last December, EU member states rejected an ad ref text negotiated by the European Commission for including non-proliferation language that was too watered down [...] |
2004-05-27 16:26:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP ETRD SY EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2295 |
BELGIUM COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CBP/ICE ROBERT [...] Country clearance is granted for visit of Customs and Border Protection Chief Inspector Robert Ontiveros of El Paso, TX, to replace a Container Security Initiative (CSI) team member already stationed at the port, pursuant to the U.S. Customs and Belgian Customs Agreement on Implementing CSI. [...] |
2004-05-28 15:13:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA ECON ETRD EWWT BE USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2354 |
EU-FUNDED AFRICA PEACE FACILITY TO STRENGTHEN AU, [...] (SBU) Summary. The European Union (EU) formally announced the establishment of the Africa Peace Facility (APF), and funds are now available to support peacekeeping and peace-enforcing operations in Africa. The EU aims to strengthen the role of the African Union (AU), particularly the Peace [...] |
2004-06-02 14:41:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID MOPS PGOV PREL PREF UX USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2360 |
EUROPEAN ELECTIONS: RESHUFFLING OF PARTY GROUPS? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the European Parliament (EP) "party groups" are coalitions of member-state parties, their membership is somewhat fluid; some realignment is likely to result from the June 10-13 European elections. Despite persistent rumors, the probable departure of some national parties f [...] |
2004-06-02 16:05:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2365 |
EU-25 UNEMPLOYMENT RATE AT 9.1 PERCENT [...] SUMMARY. The aggregate unemployment rate for the EU-25 published by the EU Commission's Statistical Office stood at 9.1 percent for April 2004, unchanged from the previous month. The unemployment rate for the euro zone (the twelve EU countries participating in the euro) was also stable at [...] |
2004-06-03 10:42:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2368 |
KEY TOPICS FOR EU FMS' MEETING AND SUMMIT, JUNE 14 [...] The headline issues for the June 14 EU FMs' meeting and the June 17-18 EU Summit will be the final round of Constitutional Treaty negotiations and the nomination of the next generation of key EU leaders (Commission President, CFSP High Rep). But a substantial list of other topics will also [...] |
2004-06-03 10:46:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV EAID PINR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2369 |
EU ON LATEST IRAQ DEVELOPMENTS: WHAT TO EXPECT IN [...] (C) Summary: The EU intends to release a medium term strategy on Iraq at its June 17-18 Summit. The strategy will govern political and economic relations with sovereign Iraq through the 2004-05 electoral period. Specific proposals include support for the electoral process, human rights, dem [...] |
2004-06-03 11:19:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID IZ UNSC EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2381 |
EUR/DAS BRADTKE'S SECURITY CONSULTATIONS WITH EU [...] (C) EUR/DAS Bradtke met May 26 in Brussels with EU leaders in the PSC Troika Format including representatives of the EU presidency, Council, and Commission. Bradtke and his EU interlocutors reviewed ESDP/NATO developments, including the BiH SFOR transition, the EU's planning for a civ-mil ce [...] |
2004-06-03 13:37:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS BK EUN NATO USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2389 |
DEALING WITH EU IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: [...] (C) SUMMARY: We reviewed ref A draft guidelines on dealing with the EU in international organizations, and believe the guidelines, with a few adjustments, will provide what is needed: an equitable and fair framework which allows flexibility within broad parameters and clearly spells out U.S. [...] |
2004-06-04 10:40:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2410 |
DEMARCHE RESPONSE: EU ON DARFUR HUMANITARIAN CRISIS [...] (C) Summary. The EU Council Secretariat will recommend to the Irish Presidency that they adopt a similar approach outlined in reftel A, demarching friendly Arab and African states over the deteriorating situation in Sudan. The EU announced a 10 million euro contribution to address humanitar [...] |
2004-06-04 15:48:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PHUM PREF SU PROV EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2437 |
EU CONTRIBUTION TO "SOCIAL BENEFITS OF [...] The EU Commission recently tabled a series of recommendations presented as its contribution to securing the social benefits of globalization. On the internal (EU) front, the Commission advocates full implementation of the Lisbon strategy to maintain Europe's competitiveness, calling for heav [...] |
2004-06-07 14:08:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD ELAB ILO EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2442 |
THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH EU HI-REP [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Secretary Armitage and EU Foreign Policy Hi-Rep Solana met June 2 and discussed the Mid-East Peace Process (MEPP), Iraq and the forthcoming US/EU Summit. Solana said the EU would be as supportive as possible regarding the new government in Iraq. He also emphasized the im [...] |
2004-06-07 15:13:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GZ IS IZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2456 |
(C) EU/IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE: LOW EXPECTATIONS [...] (C) Summary: A key EU official involved in the ongoing EU/Iran human rights dialogue believes that the next round of that dialogue (June 14-15 in Teheran) will accomplish little. End summary 2.(C) The EU Council official responsible for organizing the next round of EU/Iran human rights dialo [...] |
2004-06-09 05:20:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM IR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2477 |
EU FAILS TO AGREE ON NEW EUROPOL DIRECTOR [...] EU Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) on June 8 failed to reach the necessary consensus on who will be the Director of EUROPOL as from July 1, 2004. Ministers reached complete agreement on the principle of mutual recognition of confiscation orders. JHA Commissioner Vitorino repor [...] |
2004-06-10 06:09:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL CASC KCRM EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2495 |
CROATIA'S PROGRESS TOWARD THE EU HITS A PATCH OF [...] (C) As reported ref B, Croatia looks very likely to be officially declared a candidate for EU membership at the EU Summit on June 17-18. The most important possible stumbling block, full cooperation with the ICTY in The Hague, remains a non-issue for the EU as long as ICTY Prosecutor del Ponte [...] |
2004-06-10 12:51:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR SI IT EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2496 |
VERHEUGEN RESPONSE TO DEPUTY SECRETARY ON ROMANIAN [...] (U) The cabinet of Enlargement Commissioner Gunter Verheugen has faxed us a letter from the Commissioner to Deputy Secretary Armitage, replying to the Deputy Secretary's letter of May 4 on the issue of Romanian adoptions. The full text of the letter is in para 3 below, and a copy of the origi [...] |
2004-06-10 12:56:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CASC CVIS RO EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2498 |
EU HI-REP SOLANA PROPOSES EU INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS [...] (C/NF) Summary: At the EU Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) June 8 meeting, Council Hi-Rep Javier Solana said he would call on leaders at next week's European Council to extend the scope of the EU Situation Center (SitCen) from external threats to internal threats within the EU. Sola [...] |
2004-06-10 13:35:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PTER PINR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2502 |
EU ROLLS OUT STRATEGY FOR PROGRESSIVE ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary. EC Commissioner Patten, with the full support of EU HighRep Solana, has proposed an ambitious strategy for rapidly ramping up EU relations with Iraq following the transition to sovereignty. In a private letter that complements the public strategy, Patten and Solana call on the [...] |
2004-06-10 14:22:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID IZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2518 |
EUROPEAN ELECTIONS: NEGATIVE ON EUROPE, NOT ON U.S. [...] (U) SUMMARY: The provisional results of the June 10-13 European elections largely confirm the status quo: in a European Parliament (EP) that remains a complex amalgam of parties, nationalities and personalities, the Christian Democrats and Conservatives group (EPP-ED) keeps its plurality. Th [...] |
2004-06-14 13:57:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2541 |
EU PUZZLED BY MOLDOVA'S STABILITY PACT INITIATIVE; MOSCOW RESPONSE IS KEY [...] No summary [...] |
2004-06-15 12:58:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PBTS PREL EUN USEU BRUSSELS OSCE MD |
| 04BRUSSELS2586 |
U.S.-EU JOINT MISSION TO INTERPOL ON LOST/STOLEN [...] (SBU) Summary. During consultations in Brussels on 6/9 and a subsequent joint mission to Interpol headquarters in Lyon on 6/10, the U.S. and EU ironed out some of the remaining wrinkles in plans to share information on lost and stolen passports through Interpol. An EU Common Position, expect [...] |
2004-06-17 13:03:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CPAS KFRD KCRM EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2589 |
SCENESETTER FOR JUNE 25 VISIT OF DHS DEPUTY [...] Summary: You are coming to Brussels during a time of transition in the European Union as it absorbs 10 new member states and moves towards a new Parliament, new Commissioners and possibly a new Constitutional Treaty. At the same time, the EU is in the waning days of the Irish Presidency, an [...] |
2004-06-17 13:29:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EU PTER USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2593 |
MANY EU SUMMIT FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY [...] (C) During the EU Summit June 17-18 in Brussels, EU sources tell us EU leaders will approve a range of pre-cooked decisions on a broad range of foreign policy topics so that they can focus on Constitutional Treaty negotiations and top-level appointments (septel). EU leaders are expected to en [...] |
2004-06-17 15:52:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EAID XA XF TU HR RO BG EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2605 |
EC RESPONSE TO HAITI DEMARCHE FOR BUDGET SUPPORT [...] (SBU) USEU Development Counselor presented reftel demarche to European Commission (EC) Desk Officer for Haiti Lut Fabert-Goossens, in the Directorate-General for Development. Fabert-Goossens said the EC appreciates concerns expressed by the US and concurs with our assessment of needs and prio [...] |
2004-06-18 09:55:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID EFIN HA XL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2610 |
EU UPDATE ON GEORGIA, MOLDOVA, UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary. On June 17, EU High Rep Solana's advisor for the CIS, Kees Van Rij, reviewed developments in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine with visiting Coordinator for Assistance to Europe and Eurasia Pascual. Van Rij gave a readout of EU High Rep Solana's meeting the day before with Georgian [...] |
2004-06-18 12:13:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UP BO MD RS EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2683 |
CENTRAL DUBLIN GROUP MEETING: JUNE 2004 [...] This cable contains an action request. See para. 9. 2. Summary. During its June 22 meeting, the members of the Central Dublin Group (DG) reviewed regional reports from Eastern Europe (submitted by Germany), the Balkans and the Near East (Greece), Central Asia (Italy), South West Asia (U [...] |
2004-06-23 15:01:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KCRM PREL SNAR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2794 |
EU LEADERS NOMINATE PORTUGUESE PM DURAO [...] EU leaders on June 29 nominated Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso as the next Commission President effective November 1. The leaders also renewed the mandate of Javier Solana as Council SG/CFSP High Rep with a commitment to appoint him as the first EU Foreign Minister once [...] |
2004-06-30 11:05:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2828 |
OPERATION BALKAN VICE IV: EU RESPONSE [...] (C) We met on June 30 with Council and Commission representatives to discuss ref A demarche. Council Secretariat Director for the Western Balkans, Eastern Europe, SIPDIS and Central Asia Stefan Lehne and desk officer Helene Holm-Pedersen had no comment on the four entities mentioned in ou [...] |
2004-07-01 11:49:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS EFIN ETTC EUN KWAC USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2838 |
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PRESIDENT'S CALL ON AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 30 call on Ambassador Schnabel, outgoing European Parliament (EP) President Pat Cox defended his decision to ask the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to annul the U.S.-EU agreement on PNR data sharing, and denied that his press statement on that decision, released in Ire [...] |
2004-07-01 13:52:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2859 |
CUBA -- EU RESPONSE ON LIBERTAD ACT TITLE III [...] (C) We discussed reftel points with Karl Buck, Head of the Council Secretariat's Latin America Division, on July 2. Buck immediately asserted that he had not heard of any such paper but could not exclude the possibility of some member-states having prepared their own reports. The EU would d [...] |
2004-07-02 14:31:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL CU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2930 |
EU RESPONSE ON LIBERTAD TITLE III AND VENEZUELA [...] (C) The European Commission is still considering whether or not to send an election observer mission to Venezuela. The EU also remains concerned about the possible outcome of the White House decision on suspension of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act. The EU still plans to raise this issue at the [...] |
2004-07-09 09:00:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ETRD CU VE EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2931 |
COMMISSION PERSPECTIVE ON JULY 12 GAERC [...] (C) Commission officials tell us the July 12 General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting will not see many serious decisions before the EU FMs. A featured item would be a lunch discussion with Iraqi PM Allawi (which we now understand may be cancelled or postponed). The pri [...] |
2004-07-09 09:06:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID IZ AF HA BM EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2938 |
NEW COMMISSION PROPOSALS FOR NORTHERN CYPRUS [...] (SBU) On July 7, EU Enlargement Commissioner Gunter Verheugen presented the Commission's plan fulfill the EU's pledge to end the isolation of the Turkish Cypriot community following their support for the Annan Plan. The two main proposals are: 1) a new "preferential trade regime" allowing dir [...] |
2004-07-09 14:40:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ETRD PGOV CY GR TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2944 |
EU CONSTRAINED ON NEXT STEPS WITH SERBIA [...] (C) PolOff spoke on July 8 with Stefan Lehne, Solana's key advisor on the Balkans, almost immediately after Lehne's return from Belgrade, where he had attended the Contact Group session with U/S Grossman. Lehne said that in his separate meetings with Serb officials the GoS was focused on the [...] |
2004-07-09 15:56:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ETRD ZL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2971 |
EU FMS' LUNCH DISCUSSION WITH IRAQI FM ZEBARI [...] (U) Iraqi Foreign Minister Zebari had a lunch discussion with EU FMs during their July 12 General Affairs and External Council Relations meeting in Brussels. As described by Dutch FM and GAERC Chair Bernard Bot, EU support for Iraq is "demand driven" and therefore today's lunch was an opportu [...] |
2004-07-13 04:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID IZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2972 |
JULY 12 GAERC DISCUSSIONS: ISRAEL, BURMA, SUDAN, [...] (U) EU FMs at their July 12 General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting discussed several issues, but took few concrete decisions other than a non-controversial approval of a Joint Action to agree on Operation "ALTHEA" as an EU Military Operation following on NATO's SFOR in [...] |
2004-07-13 05:02:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID MARR IS BM AF USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS2983 |
A/S WAYNE MEETING WITH COMMISSION ON HAITI [...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting with EB Assistant Secretary Wayne, Commission Development Director Sipke Brouwer explained the Commission would pledge approximately 160 million Euros for Haiti over the next two years including up to 77 million Euros as non-project (more rapidly available) funds, [...] |
2004-07-13 14:26:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN HA EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3003 |
IRAQ: EC MEETING WITH A/S WAYNE [...] (C) In a July 8 meeting in Brussels, EB A/S Wayne discussed next steps on Iraq with Fenando Valenzuela, Deputy Director General for External Relations at the Commission. Valenzuela was accompanied by Patrick Laurent, Head of Gulf Countries and Barcelona process, Richard Wright, the EC's new T [...] |
2004-07-14 12:03:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL IZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3010 |
EU-IRAQ: DUTCH SUGGEST ZEBARI LETTER TO EU TO [...] (U) Action Request: See para three. 2. (C) Reftel tracks well with what Dutch MFA Political Director Hugo Siblesz told EUR A/S Jones during the July 13 US-EU Political Directors meeting in Brussels (septel). In an aside to US delegation on the margins of that meeting, Siblesz said he th [...] |
2004-07-14 15:09:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID IZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3055 |
EUROPEAN SUPPORT FOR AN AU PROTECTION FORCE FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2004-07-16 16:11:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PREF PARM MOPS EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3057 |
EC FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR DARFUR CRISIS: DEMARCHE [...] (U) Following up on reftel demarche request for further information on EU funding initiatives, PRM Assistant and USAID Advisor for Humanitarian Assistance met with Javier Perez, ECHO desk officer for Sudan. According to Perez, the EC has mobilized nearly 70.7 million Euros from different budg [...] |
2004-07-16 16:13:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3059 |
US-EU POLITICAL DIRECTORS LOOK AT UPCOMING ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. US-EU Political Director consultations in Brussels on July 13 discussed a broad agenda including summit follow-up, and compared notes on Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Central Asia. EUR A/S Jones told the EU now is not the time to lift its arms embargo on China, and urged the EU, [...] |
2004-07-19 07:11:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MOPS ETRD MASS EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3066 |
EU ON EXPANDED TRANSNISTRIA VISA BAN: NEED TO [...] (C) On July 19, USEU conveyed reftel non-paper to Council Secretariat Russia watcher Carl Hallergard, who is temporarily covering Moldova. He welcomed the non-paper, and said he would distribute it to member states at that day's COEST Working Group meeting. The Council Secretariat, he said [...] |
2004-07-19 14:39:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PBTS PHUM PGOV RS MD EUN OSCE USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3067 |
BRIEF READOUT OF EU-RUSSIA POLITICAL DIRECTORS [...] (C) Summary. According to an EU official present for the July 16 EU-Russia Political Directors' meeting in Moscow, the EU raised Yukos and Moldova. On Yukos, Deputy FM Chizhov agreed that foreign investment will suffer, but said it was a criminal case and will proceed. On Moldova, Chizhov s [...] |
2004-07-19 14:39:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MD RS EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3072 |
European Parliament: Key Leadership [...] (U) SUMMARY: At the July 20-23 European Parliament (EP) plenary session, the 732 newly elected MEPs from the 25 member states will formally take their seats. The session's most significant event will probably be the July 22 vote on Jose Manuel Durao Barroso's nomination as Commission Presid [...] |
2004-07-20 06:06:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3101 |
EU/JHA: TOWARD A NEW MULTI-ANNUAL PROGRAM; [...] The EU Council of Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) on July 19 began preparations for a new multi-annual JHA program building on EU work over the past five years to establish "a common area of freedom, security and justice." Noting the persisting deadlock on the appointment of a n [...] |
2004-07-20 15:33:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER SMIG PREF CMGT CVIS KCRM EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3116 |
DARFUR: EU HEARING DIFFERENT STORY ON AU CASH FLOW [...] (C) Mission spoke briefly to Friedrich Hamburger, Chef de Cabinet to Development Commissioner Nielsen, for a readout on where things stand on supporting deployment of the African Union (AU) protection element. We relayed in general terms information in Addis Ababa 2288 on the AU's cash flow a [...] |
2004-07-23 05:19:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EAID USEU BRUSSELS |
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THE BARROSO COMMISSION: MORE OLD FACES [...] The next EU Commission to take office on November 1, 2004, will have 25 members, including its President. A majority of them are already in place: they are from the ten new Member States, having joined on May 1 and looking for a full five- year mandate, or from the former EU-15 and also exp [...] |
2004-07-23 10:48:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3131 |
ICFTU AND ETUC LIKELY PARTNERS ON CUBA LABOR [...] (C) In response to reftel action request, Post has identified the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) as union organizations possibly willing to raise the issue of Cuban labor rights violations at regional labor meetings an [...] |
2004-07-23 14:30:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB CU ILO EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3140 |
DARFUR: EU STRESSES STRONG GOS ACTION AGAINST [...] (C) Summary and Action Request. Hirep Solana's point man on Sudan, Christian Manahl, stressed the importance of improving the security situation in Darfur to allow humanitarian assistance. He ridiculed some of the GOS actions to date, and urged the arrest of Jingaweit leaders and suspension [...] |
2004-07-23 14:36:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EAID SU ET EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3159 |
EU/CHINA: READOUT OF JUNE 30 HUMAN RIGHTS SEMINAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 29-30 the EU and China held a joint seminar on Chinese ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) (refs A, C). EU reporting, relayed to poloff by a Policy Unit staffer, described the seminar as useful overall -- with a "wonderful atmo [...] |
2004-07-26 13:51:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PARM KDEM KJUS CH EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
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EXCLUDING THE BELARUSIAN SPORTS AND TOURISM [...] No summary [...] |
2004-07-26 14:28:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KOLY PHUM PREL USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3190 |
EU ON UNGA PRIORITIES, ATTENDEES [...] (C) Summary: EU officials welcomed early consultation on UNGA priorities and highlighted shared interest in combating human trafficking and reducing the number of Middle East resolutions -- although they underscored several times that this would be best achieved by resolving the underlying r [...] |
2004-07-27 11:08:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PHUM KDEM AORC KSEP OVIP OTRA UN UNGA EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3195 |
SUBJECT: EU/SUDAN: FMS THREATEN SANCTIONS, PLEDGE [...] In a meeting of the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) on July 26, EU FMs threatened sanctions if Sudan does not soon comply with international expectations on Darfur. The GAERC Conclusions (available at http://ue.eu.int/) offer a very critical assessment of progress on [...] |
2004-07-27 14:12:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID SU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3205 |
DEMARCHE ON REPLACEMENT FOR UNRWA COMMISSIONER [...] (C) On July 27, PRM Assistant delivered reftel points to Desk Officer for UNRWA Christian Berger in the Commission's External Relations Directorate-General. Berger candidly remarked that despite a fair performance as UNRWA COMGEN, Peter Hansen's welcome has waned. Berger cautioned that rumors [...] |
2004-07-28 12:03:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3207 |
MAOIST VIOLENCE IN NEPAL: NO EU CLEARINGHOUSE [...] (C) We met on July 28 with Mario Ferrucci, deputy head of the India, Nepal, and Bhutan unit in the Commission's External Relations directorate, to discuss reftel points. He said that UK pressure for designating the Maoists as a terrorist organization was "a constant" in EU discussions, most r [...] |
2004-07-28 14:03:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KT NP EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3210 |
EU/CHINA ARMS EMBARGO: BRIEFING THE PSC ON CHINA'S [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The EU Political and Security Committee (PSC) hosted an informal gathering July 22 to receive a USG intelligence briefing on China's military modernization efforts and implications on regional stability if the EU lifts its arms embargo on China. Post-briefing readouts from EU [...] |
2004-07-28 15:22:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PARM MARR MCAP PHUM CH EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3211 |
EU HAS SOME QUESTIONS ON UPCOMING AHLC [...] (C) Summary. The European Commission, which has the lead on AHLC issues, supports US goals for having the AHLC focus on Gaza withdrawal, but is skeptical of the proposed September date. The EC questions whether Israel will have an agreed, concrete withdrawal plan (or, possibly even a gover [...] |
2004-07-28 15:54:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL IS KWBG EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3222 |
EU SUPPORTIVE ON AFGHAN STABILITY, KARZAI DECISION [...] (SBU) We reviewed ref A points during a July 28 meeting with Baltasar Benz, the Afghanistan desk officer in the Commission's External Relations directorate. Benz said that the Commission -- which had been concerned about Afghanistan's warlords -- welcomed President Karzai's decision to drop F [...] |
2004-07-29 15:44:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL AF EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3223 |
DARFUR: EU TO AUGMENT OBSERVERS, PROPOSES [...] (C) Summary. Hirep Solana has proposed to African Union (AU) an augmentation in EU representation on ceasefire observers to allow a European representative on each team. An officer has also been dispatched to backstop the AU in Addis, but operational details remain unsettled. EU also wants t [...] |
2004-07-29 15:44:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ET MARR PREL SU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3224 |
EU MAY ACT TO BAN BELARUSIAN SPORTS MINISTER FROM [...] (C) Summary. The EU is looking seriously at steps it can take to ban Belarusian Sports Minister Sivakov from the Olympic games. Greece supports a ban, but wants to approach the International Olympic Committee first, as visas are issued along with IOC credentials, and Sivakov is likely to a [...] |
2004-07-30 07:18:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KOLY PHUM PREL GR BO EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3225 |
EU EFFORTS ON AID AND TRADE FOR NORTHERN CYPRUS [...] (C) During meetings with Dutch Presidency, Commission and Council officials on July 26-27, EUR DAS Laura Kennedy was told the prospects for positive developments on Cyprus looked difficult. The Commission's proposed aid and trade measures to "end the isolation" of the north of the island (ref [...] |
2004-07-30 07:44:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV EAID ETRD ZS EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3226 |
ENCOURAGING SIGNALS FROM COMMISSION AND DUTCH [...] (C) In meetings on July 26-27 in Brussels with Dutch Presidency, Commission and Council officials, EUR DAS Laura Kennedy heard guardedly optimistic assessments from all that the EU, at its summit this December, would reach a positive decision on opening EU accession negotiations with Turkey ne [...] |
2004-07-30 07:47:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3227 |
EU CONSIDERS VISA BAN ON 21 TRANSNISTRIAN [...] (SBU) On July 29, EU Political and Security Committee (PSC) Ambassadors agreed to consider imposing a visa ban on 21 Transnistrian officials connected to the recent closing of Moldovan schools in Transnistria. EU staff are preparing the paperwork to impose the ban; the PSC will review the is [...] |
2004-07-30 07:52:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PBTS PHUM PGOV MD EUN OSCE USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3230 |
JOSEP BORRELL ELECTED EP PRESIDENT [...] (U) Summary: The European Parliament (EP) on July 20 elected as its new president Spanish Socialist Josep Borrell. Although a former Fullbright scholar and active supporter of the Fullbright program, Borrell has been one of the Spanish Socialist party's most outspoken critics of U.S. policy [...] |
2004-07-30 09:05:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3234 |
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SELECTS NEW VICE- [...] (U) Summary: The European Parliament (EP) elected 14 Vice-Presidents and 5 Quaestors (in charge of EP financial and administrative matters) on July 20 and 21 in Strasbourg. These elections -- which follow Josep Borrell's victory in the EP presidential election (septel) -- complete the elected [...] |
2004-07-30 10:56:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3310 |
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH ON EU/CHINA ARMS EMBARGO [...] (C) DRL Senior Advisor Susan O'Sullivan and poloff met July 23 with Human Rights Watch (HRW) Brussels Director Lotte Leicht to discuss the EU drive to lift its arms embargo on China. Leicht said that HRW is working with Amnesty International (AI), Human Rights in China (HRIC), and likeminded [...] |
2004-08-04 10:00:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PARM MARR CH EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3320 |
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: THE NEW FOREIGN [...] (U) Summary: The new European Parliament (EP) Foreign Affairs Committee will be the largest EP committee, with 78 members. The Committee is responsible for drafting reports and making recommendations on Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) topics, European Security and Defense Policy ( [...] |
2004-08-05 08:20:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3333 |
EU/CHINA ARMS EMBARGO: READOUT OF UK POLDIR SAWERS [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Japanese Mission offered us a readout of the July 29 meeting in Tokyo between DFM Tanaka and UK PolDir Sawers to discuss the China arms embargo. Sawers told Tanaka that the UK wanted to de-link any decision to lift the arms embargo from the EU-China summit in December because o [...] |
2004-08-05 14:01:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MARR PARM PHUM CH TW JA UK EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3339 |
EU AHEAD OF THE CURVE ON VENEZUELA DEMARCHE [...] (C) We spoke about Venezuela with Karl Buck, director of the Council Secretariat's Latin America unit, on August 5. The Dutch Presidency's August 3 declaration on the referendum -- in which the EU encouraged active participation by all voters and "expresses its support for international missio [...] |
2004-08-06 09:22:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM VE KPAO EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3358 |
EXPERT PANEL MEETING ON DEVELOPING A [...] SUMMARY: THE G-8 ACTION PLAN FOR AFRICA FAMINE INITIATIVE INCLUDES SUPPORT FOR IMPROVED WORLDWIDE EMERGENCY ASSESSMENT AND RESPONSE SYSTEMS. THE MULTI-DONOR STANDARDIZED MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT OF RELIEF AND TRANSITIONS (SMART) INITIATIVE IS THE CENTRAL FOCUS OF G-8 MEMBER SUPPORT. AN EXPE [...] |
2004-08-06 15:17:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SMIG EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS36 |
EU ADOPTS NEW NONPROLIFERATION STRATEGY [...] (U) SUMMARY: EU heads of state and government adopted an "EU Strategy Against Proliferation of WMD" at their December 12-13 Summit in Brussels. The strategy expands and integrates the various pieces of the EU's existing nonproliferation policies -- notably the nonproliferation Principles and [...] |
2004-01-06 14:15:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP PINS UNSC EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3624 |
VERHEUGEN'S TURKEY TRIP AND DUTCH NGO STUDY [...] (C) Summary: DG-Enlargement Commissioner Verheugen will use his September 4-7 trip to Turkey to review the Commission's human rights and political concerns, which he hopes will further enhance his credibility before the European Council, the European Parliament and, ultimately, "European publi [...] |
2004-08-30 14:47:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU NL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3688 |
EU-25 UNEMPLOYMENT DOWN TO 9.0 PERCENT [...] SUMMARY. The aggregate unemployment rate for the EU-25 stood at 9.0 in July 2004, down 0.1 percentage point from the previous month, according to data published by the EU Commission's Statistical Office (EUROSTAT) on September 1. The unemployment rate for the euro zone (the twelve EU countr [...] |
2004-09-02 07:55:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3729 |
EU OFFICIALS ON IAEA IRAN REPORT: NOT READY FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff discussed reftel with Council nonproliferation and nuclear policy advisors September 2 and 3. While acknowledging serious unresolved issues, they assessed DG El Baradei's new report as "overall more positive than the last one," and said that EU BOG members were unlikely t [...] |
2004-09-03 12:22:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL MNUC TRGY IR IAEA EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3741 |
NEW COMMISSION STEPS ON HOMELAND SECURITY [...] This is an action message, see paragraphs 2 and 19. Introduction, Summary and Action Request ---------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) This message provides a snapshot of the state of play of homeland security initiatives and organizations within the Commission. It is organized [...] |
2004-09-03 14:47:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ECPS EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3772 |
GYMNICH RESULTS ON BURMA, SUDAN, MIDDLE EAST AND [...] (SBU) The EU Foreign Ministers' informal "Gymnich" meeting in Maastricht on September 3-4 proceeded as expected (reftel). The EU will go ahead with the Asia-EU (ASEM) Summit in Hanoi on October 7-9, as long as Burma attends at the FM or lower level, but the FMs also announced further sanction [...] |
2004-09-08 05:02:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID IZ BM SU SR IR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3782 |
U.S.-EU CONSULTATIONS ON CAUCASUS, CENTRAL ASIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 1 EUR DAS Laura Kennedy held semi-annual consultations with the EU on Caucasus and Central Asia (COEST). Caucasus discussions concentrated on establishing a political process to resolve the South Ossetia conflict (Kennedy met separately on South Ossetia with Heikki [...] |
2004-09-08 14:36:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV EAID GG AM AJ KZ KG TI TX UZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3813 |
SUDAN: EU SUPPORTS KEY ELEMENTS OF UNSC RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary. EU agrees on all main elements of UNSC draft. EU not ready to declare situation genocide, but agree it is "ethnic cleansing." Africa experts believe Pronk Plan is fatally flawed, but believe it is important for international community to stand together. They also worry that it [...] |
2004-09-09 14:04:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL SU UNSC USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3821 |
EU AID/TRADE FOR NORTH CYPRUS STALLS [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Kennedy's Brussels consultations coincided with an important September 2 COREPER meeting in which EU member states were unable to find a way to move the Commission's proposed trade preferences for Northern Cyprus ahead -- leaving the EC's trade/aid package effectively fro [...] |
2004-09-09 15:13:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ETRD ZS TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3840 |
ANTICIPATED RESULTS OF SEPTEMBER 13 GAERC [...] (C) We have discussed reftel A points on the EU FMs' General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting on Sept. 13 with a variety of EU officials. EU Conclusions on Sudan should dovetail with the main elements of our draft UNSC Resolution. On Iran, we understand the EU will is [...] |
2004-09-10 10:42:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ IR BK SU EAID BU CY EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3843 |
ANNALISA GIANNELLA, LEADING THE EU AGAINST WMD [...] (C) Summary: Annalisa Giannella, EU High Representative Solana's Personal Representative for WMD Non-Proliferation, is the key official shaping the EU approach to nonproliferation and disarmament. Her results-oriented approach, record of close cooperation with the US, and European contacts m [...] |
2004-09-10 11:40:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PARM PINR IT FR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3881 |
EUR DAS TEFFT REVIEWS RUSSIA, UKRAINE, MOLDOVA AND [...] (C) Summary. In meetings with EU officials on September 10, EUR DAS Tefft discussed recent events in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. EU officials viewed the Beslan attack as a failure of Putin's Chechnya policy, expected him to respond by doing more of the same, and predicted cooler [...] |
2004-09-13 15:54:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER RS EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3892 |
EUROPEAN DEFENSE AGENCY: TAKING SHAPE [...] (C) Summary: The establishment of a European Defense Agency (EDA) to harmonize moves to boost European military capacity might -- with important caveats -- develop in a way that is in accord with US and NATO interests. However, we should be wary of any EU Member State effort to employ the pr [...] |
2004-09-14 11:02:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PARM ETRD EUN NATO USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3897 |
EU FMS SEND LOTS OF SIGNALS, BUT MAKE FEW [...] (SBU) The September 13 General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting of EU Foreign Ministers refined EU positions spelled out over previous months and recently discussed at the Sept. 3 Gymnich (ref B). On Sudan, the EU noted some progress, but insisted the GoS has not complie [...] |
2004-09-14 13:29:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID IZ BM SU SR IR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3926 |
EU AFGHAN ELECTION SUPPORT MISSION PLANS VISITS TO [...] (C) Summary: The EU Democratic Election Support Mission (DESM) in Afghanistan will send small teams to Pakistan and Iran to assess out-of-country registration procedures for Afghan refugees. This is not intended as a formal diplomatic monitoring mission. The preregistration visit to Islamabad [...] |
2004-09-15 15:49:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PK AF IR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3948 |
DEMARCHE RESPONSE: REVISED US VISIT POLICY AND [...] (C) Summary. The initial reaction from the European Commission on the FBI's enhanced access to US VISIT databases was low key. Major concerns focused on types of law enforcement activities for which the data would be used and about delays at ports of entry following changes on 9/30 and 12/31 [...] |
2004-09-16 15:52:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PREL KOCI EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3979 |
DEMARCHE TO EU: OSCE ANTI-SEMITISM AND TOLERANCE [...] No summary [...] |
2004-09-17 16:53:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI OSCE EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3983 |
EU MEMBER STATE CONTRIBUTIONS FOR UNPROFOR IRAQ: [...] (C) According to a Council Secretariat official (protect) working on Iraq issues, EU member states have offered to date a total of 10 million euros ($12 million) to fund the UN Protection Force in Iraq. In addition, the UK has pledged to provide an unspecified monthly sum of money to ensure [...] |
2004-09-20 04:45:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MOPS IZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS3989 |
TRANSATLANTIC CONSULTATIONS ON AFRICA: EU AND U.S. [...] (U) Summary. The September 8 transatlantic consultations on Africa (COAFR) addressed priorities in the Great Lakes (strengthening MONUC, protecting refugees, supporting internal and regional dialogues), Sudan (calibrating pressure on the government, strengthening the AU role, meeting humanita [...] |
2004-09-20 09:38:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PGOV EAID PHUM XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4009 |
EU/TURKEY: ACCESSION TALKS NOT A DONE DEAL [...] (C) Summary: The current conventional wisdom in Brussels is that Turkey will get "yes-but" recommendations to start accession talks with the EU from the European Commission on October 6 and the European Council on December 17. We expect the debate in both bodies to be contentious. It would o [...] |
2004-09-21 09:42:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4012 |
EU GRAPPLES WITH INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION: DUTCH [...] (U) Summary. Approximately 250 experts in migration policy from throughout Europe and North America gathered at a conference hosted by the Dutch Presidency in Amsterdam, September 1-3, to discuss the current state of migration affairs in the EU and to recommend policy options in managing migr [...] |
2004-09-21 11:37:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | SMIG PREF PHUM EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4013 |
EUROPEAN COMMISSION CONCERNED ABOUT ROHINGYA [...] (SBU) Summary. The European Commission (EC) is concerned about the plight of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, including the lack of adequate educational opportunities for refugee children. Those living outside official refugee camps without official status are at greater risk. The EC would [...] |
2004-09-21 12:02:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL BG BM EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4016 |
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: DARFUR "TANTAMOUNT TO [...] (U) Summary. In a resolution dated September 16, the European Parliament (EP) endorsed the U.S. view that events currently happening in Darfur are "tantamount to genocide." A multi-party fact-finding mission undertaken September 2 - 7 provided the impetus for the strong statement. The Dutch [...] |
2004-09-21 13:22:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PHUM EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4025 |
EU FUNDING FOR IRAQ: EB A/S WAYNE MEETING WITH [...] (U) Action request: See para 12 below. 2. (C) Summary. Commission Deputy DG Leigh told EB A/S Wayne on September 21 that the EC agreed that the goal for the upcoming Tokyo conference is to get more support from donors for Iraq. To do this, Leigh said, Iraqi officials must present a st [...] |
2004-09-21 15:18:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV MOPS IZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4055 |
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: THE DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Development Committee in the European Parliament (EP) is responsible for EU development assistance policy (over which the EP and the Council share legislative power). Its new chairperson is Italian Communist EP Deputy (MEP) Luisa Morgantini. We do not expect its customary [...] |
2004-09-23 12:19:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL SOCI EAID SU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4107 |
EU IN UN: IO A/S HOLMES IN BRUSSELS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with IO Assistant Secretary Kim Holmes on September 15-16, EU officials: --stressed EU commitment to "effective multilateralism with the UN at its core;" --continued their push for enhanced status for the European Commission (EC) in UN bodies (EU additionality); [...] |
2004-09-27 08:11:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4112 |
POLISH EU PERMREP AMBASSADOR GRELA MEETING WITH EB [...] (C) Summary: Poland Permanent Representative to the EU, Ambassador Marek Grela stressed that the Polish government strongly endorses giving Turkey a date for accession talks to the EU this fall, said progress was being made on Cyprus aid issues among EU ambassadors, expressed concern over the [...] |
2004-09-27 08:55:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU PL ZL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4119 |
European Parliament (EP) Plenary September [...] SUMMARY: The September 13-16 EP plenary included debate on Iraq and Darfur. External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten criticized U.S. policy on terrorism and Iraq. MEPs qualified the Darfur situation as "tantamount to genocide." Also, the EP passed a resolution criticizing human rights [...] |
2004-09-27 13:02:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PREF IZ SU CD BO CY TU EUN AID ICTY USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4129 |
EB A/S WAYNE'S MEETING WITH GERMAN EU PERM REP [...] (C) In a September 21 meeting with Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs Tony Wayne, German EU Permanent Representative Wilhelm Schoenfelder observed that Iraq continues to dominate US-EU relations. While clearly in Europe's interest to contribute to stabilization, domesticall [...] |
2004-09-28 09:15:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ TU CY EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4144 |
EUMS THOUGHTS ON REMAINING SFOR HANDOVER ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: Some issues related to the end of SFOR and the beginning of Operation Althea remain to be resolved, but planners in HR Solana's secretariat are confident that the transfer will go smoothly. The transfer date has been largely resolved among commanders on the ground, but the EU poli [...] |
2004-09-28 14:02:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MARR PREL BK NATO EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4151 |
MIGRANT CAMPS IN LIBYA/UKRAINE: EU DEBATES [...] (SBU) Summary. The EU faces a delicate balancing act between controlling the illegal follow of migrants crossing its external frontiers while maintaining the asylum channel open for those in need of international protection (reftel a). Increasingly, EU Member States are willing to consider [...] |
2004-09-28 16:00:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SMIG PREF PHUM EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS416 |
EC ON IRAQI REFUGEE RETURN AND INTEGRATION [...] (SBU) Summary. The EC agrees with reftel strategy of concentrating first on the return of Iraqi refugees from neighboring countries. It has no plans at present to promote the return of Iraqis from EU Member States. An EC attempt to return Afghans to their country in 2003 was unsuccessful b [...] |
2004-02-02 04:22:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF IZ AF EUR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4161 |
SEPTEMBER 3 U.S.-EU TROIKA CONSULTATIONS ON ARMS [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. and the Dutch EU presidency on September 3 conducted semi-annual CODUN consultations in Brussels on UN disarmament issues. Subjects covered included U.S./EU priorities, UNFC, UNDC, CD, FMCT, landmines, CWB, BWC, CCW, CTBT, Libya, Luxembourg,s upcoming EU presidency, a [...] |
2004-09-29 10:16:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM PREL UNGA CDG EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4181 |
THE STABILITY PACT: PRESSING REFORM THROUGH [...] (SBU) With South Eastern Europe facing a decisive year in 2005, the Stability Pact (SP) continues to generate pressure for further political and economic reforms in the region and to draw the region closer to European and Euro-Atlantic integration. The Pact is complementing its ongoing efforts [...] |
2004-09-30 08:50:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID ZL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4183 |
U.S.-EU OSCE CONSULTS FOCUS ON RUSSIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The September 21 U.S.-EU OSCE consultations focused largely on Russian intransigence toward outside influence in its "near abroad." Both sides agreed that the CIS Astana Declaration is an attempt to undercut the OSCE role in human rights and democratization. Similarly, the EU re [...] |
2004-09-30 09:30:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM OSCE EUN RU USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4201 |
EU WANTS G8 TALKS ON IRAN BEFORE NEXT IAEA BOARD [...] (C/NF) According to UK Mission official Karen Betts (strictly protect), the EU-3 are working to coordinate with the EU ideas for a G-8 strategy to "handle Iran between now and the November IAEA Board meeting." On September 29, EU High Rep Solana presented a draft paper to the EU-3 outlining [...] |
2004-09-30 14:31:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KNNP ETTC EAID IR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4235 |
EUR PDAS BRADTKE'S SEPTEMBER 27 DISCUSSIONS WITH [...] (C) Summary: Visiting EUR PDAS Robert Bradtke covered a wide range of topics in meetings with the EU Political and Security Committee Troika and Director General Robert Cooper on September 27. The US and the EU voiced support for UNSCR 1564 regarding Darfur, and the EU sought consultations wit [...] |
2004-10-01 15:11:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4253 |
NAC-PSC DISCUSSION OF BOSNIA AND "OTHER BUSINESS" [...] (C) Summary: In the September 27 meeting of the NAC with the EU's Political and Security Committee (NAC-PSC), nations focused on the constructive NATO-EU cooperation in planning for the EU operation in Bosnia, and were confident the few remaining issues would soon be resolved. Ambassador Burn [...] |
2004-10-04 10:50:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS EUN NATO USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4265 |
THE COMMISSION'S EXPLANATION OF EU'S "TWIN TRACK" [...] The Commission reports that its new "twin track" approach to Serbia and Montenegro (SaM) met with an enthusiastic response in both Belgrade and Podgorica. Further details still need to be hashed out, however, on when, whether and how a feasibility study on negotiations for a Stabilization an [...] |
2004-10-04 15:06:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ETRD SR MW ICTY EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4274 |
US/EU POLICY PLANNING TALKS [...] (C) Summary: US and EU policy planners met September 20 to discuss the transatlantic relationship, the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP), Iraq, Iran, and the Broader Middle East and North Africa and the EU's Barcelona Process. Discussions were frank about the challenges in the main message fro [...] |
2004-10-05 10:02:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ IR CH IS PTER EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4294 |
CYPRIOTS FLOAT A BALLOON ON NATO SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: The Cypriot military representative to the EU suggests that Nicosia is giving serious consideration to negotiating a security agreement with NATO as part of an effort to resolve the blockage in EU-NATO strategic cooperation. Nicosia is also eager to participate in the EU Battlegro [...] |
2004-10-06 08:48:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CY MT TU EUN NATO USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4299 |
EC/TURKEY: A "CLEAR RECOMMENDATION" TO START [...] (C) Summary: An upbeat Commissioner for Enlargement, Gunther Verheugen, told Ambassador Schnabel that the European Commission would make a "clear recommendation" October 6 that the EU start accession talks with Turkey. Verheugen expressed appreciation for the US's low-key support for Turkey, co [...] |
2004-10-06 10:07:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4317 |
EU ASSET FREEZE ON FUGITIVE ICTY INDICTEES [...] (C) The Dutch Presidency has told us that an EU Regulation enacting an asset freeze against the three most prominent ICTY fugitive indictees, Mladic, Karadzic and Gotovina, will be adopted at the October 11 General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting. As reported reftel, thi [...] |
2004-10-07 09:11:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ZL ICTY EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS432 |
EU HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA PREVIEW: CHR-60 AND CHINA [...] (C) Summary: Further to ref A, European Council human rights experts stressed the importance of earlier bilateral consultations on country-specific resolutions, while noting that a number of EU member state human rights experts continue to have trouble dealing with the US "thematics" paper. Re [...] |
2004-02-03 04:19:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL MASS ETRD IR CH EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4332 |
DHS U/S HUTCHINSON'S OCT 1 MEETING WITH EXTERNAL [...] (SBU) DHS Undersecretary for Border and Transportation Security Asa Hutchinson met External Relations Director General Eneko Landaburu October 1 in Brussels. Hutchinson told Landaburu that the EU and U.S. need to stand shoulder to shoulder even when we do not agree to show we are working tog [...] |
2004-10-07 15:37:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EAIR EWWT PHSA PTER EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4334 |
DHS U/S HUTCHINSON'S OCT 1 MEETING WITH TRANSPORT [...] (SBU) DHS Undersecretary for Border and Transportation Security Asa Hutchinson met with Director General for Transport and Energy Francois Lamoureux October 1. Lamoureux briefed Hutchinson on the growing Commission program of airport inspection. Hutchinson committed to Lamoureux that DHS wo [...] |
2004-10-08 08:47:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EAIR EWWT PHSA PTER EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4335 |
WISHFUL THINKING? EU HOPES G8 CAN KEEP IRAN OUT OF [...] (C) Summary. In meetings with NEA DAS Dibble and NP A/DAS Fitzpatrick on October 4-5, EU officials from the Dutch Presidency, Council Secretariat and Commission expressed concerns that IAEA referral of Iran to the UNSC in November would cross a major, negative threshold they want to avoid. [...] |
2004-10-08 10:32:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET | PREL PARM KNNP IR EUN IAEA UNSC USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4346 |
EU: PARTING THOUGHTS FROM RELEX COMMISSIONER CHRIS [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador held a reflective October 6 farewell meeting with RELEX Commissioner Patten, whose term expires at the end of the month. Patten called the Commission's decision earlier that day to recommend in favor of starting accession negotiations with Turkey "the most important de [...] |
2004-10-08 13:04:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4347 |
EU VOTE FOR CUBAN ANTI-EMBARGO RESOLUTION EXPECTED [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-08 13:11:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETRD CU UNGA EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4352 |
EU-US BALKANS TROIKA: GROWING IMPATIENCE ON ICTY [...] (C) On September 30, EUR/SCE Director Chuck English and EUR/ACE Deputy Director Pat Nelson-Douvelis met with the EU Troika (Dutch and Luxembourg Presidencies, Commission, Council Secretariat) to discuss Balkan affairs. The EU stressed the "twin track" approach for Serbia and Montenegro implie [...] |
2004-10-08 13:30:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ZL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4361 |
EU PLANNING EXPERTS MEETING ON THE SITUATION IN [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-08 15:52:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER PINS ECON BG EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4362 |
EU CLOSE TO A DECISION TO FREEZE MAOIST ASSETS [...] (C) Summary. The EU is "close" to taking a decision to freeze Maoist assets. While there is some discussion of tactics, there is an increasing awareness within the EU of the need to act. End summary. 2. (C) USEU Poloff raised reftel points on freezing Maoist assets with Bruno Hanses, Sou [...] |
2004-10-08 15:54:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KTFN NP EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4376 |
EU/CHINA ARMS: DAS SUCHAN VISIT LAUNCHES PUBLIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM DAS Greg Suchan's October 7 visit to discuss US opposition to lifting the EU arms embargo on China included meetings with select PSC Ambassadors, as well as a public briefing and press conference/backgrounder which resulted in widespread and generally positive coverage in Europ [...] |
2004-10-13 06:49:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS ETTC PHUM CH EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4410 |
EU CONTINUES TO EXERT PRESSURE ON SUDAN: SNYDER [...] (SBU) Summary. During October 11 consultations with Department's Senior Representative on Sudan Charles Snyder, the EU shared Snyder's assessment that concluding a comprehensive peace settlement between the North and the South was essential to stabilize the country. Snyder said the EU's gen [...] |
2004-10-14 13:03:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4418 |
EU VIEWS ON NORTH AFRICA AND THE GULF: NEA DAS [...] (C) Summary. In US-EU discussions on the Maghreb and Gulf on October 5-6, EU officials said that in lifting the arms embargo on Libya they would urge Tripoli to resolve the Bulgarian medics issue. Discussion of the Western Sahara focused on the hardening of Moroccan and, to a lesser extent, [...] |
2004-10-14 15:19:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV XF EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4419 |
EU'S SOLANA: 1967 BORDERS ARE STARTING POINT FOR [...] (C) Summary. In an October 13 speech before the European Parliament, EU High Rep Solana harshly criticized recent remarks by Israeli PM Sharon's cabinet chief, Dov Weisglass, that the Gaza disengagement plan was designed to freeze negotiations leading to a Palestinian state. Solana also ca [...] |
2004-10-14 15:34:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IS UNSC EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4438 |
U.S.-EU DISCUSSIONS ON CRISES, FAILING STATES [...] (C) On October 5 Ambassador Carlos Pascual, Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS), met with EU officials and laid the ground work for closer cooperation with the EU in dealing with crises and failing states. Agreeing that U.S. and EU priorities fit well in this area, EU cont [...] |
2004-10-15 10:20:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4474 |
EU/CHINA ARMS: SLOWING THE RUSH TO THE SUMMIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: US approaches to EU member states have slowed the rush to end the arms embargo before the December 8 summit with China. Nevertheless, following the October 11 GAERC discussion of China, EU Member States appear to be gearing up to signal to China at the summit that they have agreed [...] |
2004-10-18 12:01:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MASS ETTC PHUM CH EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4475 |
EU COTER TROIKA ON LIFTING LIBYA ARMS EMBARGO [...] (C) S/CT European Regional Director Brent Hartley delivered reftel points to the EU Counter-terrorism troika (COTER) during consultations in Brussels October 14. Reponding for for the EU Presidency, Dutch MFA officer Wouter Jurgens underscored that the US and EU were "on the same page" regardi [...] |
2004-10-18 12:02:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PGOV LY EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4503 |
VISA WAIVER MEETING: U.S. WELCOMED -- AND WARNED [...] (C) Summary. While privately praising USG efforts to adopt a more positive approach to EU Member States not in the visa waiver program (VWP), the European Commission (EC) struck a combative tone in public during consultations on October 18. DG JHA Head of Unit for Visas and Borders Jan de Ce [...] |
2004-10-19 15:49:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | SMIG PREL CMGT EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4516 |
EU NONCOMMITTAL ON SPEAKING OUT RE VENEZUELA [...] (U) This is an action recommendation -- see para 3. 2. (C) Poloff delivered reftel A points on October 19 to David Bruck, Venezuela Desk Officer in the External Relations Directorate-General of the European Commission. He said the Commission is monitoring developments in Venezuela very car [...] |
2004-10-20 11:47:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID VE EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4536 |
EUROPOL - FEELING ITS WAY FORWARD [...] (SBU) Summary. During their recent visits to The Hague, DHS Secretary Ridge and AG Ashcroft announced the assignment of an FBI agent to Europol's reconstituted task force on counter terrorism and a Secret Service agent for counterfeiting. This strengthened U.S. law enforcement liaison sugge [...] |
2004-10-21 08:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EU KCRM KJUS PREL SNAR USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4550 |
U.S.-EU NONPROLIFERATION TROIKA: EU LOOKS FOR U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 28, the U.S. and the EU held their semi-annual exchange on nonproliferation issues. This discussion followed the release of the second U.S.-EU Summit declaration on nonproliferation. The two sides touched on a wide range of nonproliferation issues and explored possib [...] |
2004-10-21 16:05:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP UN EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4602 |
EU INCREASES FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR AU MISSION IN [...] (C) Summary. The European Commission is set to approve 80 million euros from its Africa Peace Facility (APF) to support an expanded deployment of the African Union (AU) mission in Darfur, Sudan. EU financial support for the mission will exceed fifty percent of the total. Although the decis [...] |
2004-10-26 05:41:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SU SO XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4617 |
EU NORTH CYPRUS TRADE/AID: UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: The EU has separated its trade and financial package for North Cyprus in order to get the aid package approved on November 22. One Council source told us that this is a "split in timing -- not in substance" because member states have informally committed themselves to get a trade [...] |
2004-10-26 13:30:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ZS CY EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4619 |
NEW EU PROGRAM FOR FREEDOM, SECURITY AND [...] EU Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) on October 25 reached broad agreement on a new multi- annual program for strengthening freedom, security and justice in the EU for the next five years. The prevention and repression of terrorism will be a key element of the plan, which provides [...] |
2004-10-26 14:01:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER SMIG PREF CMGT CVIS KCRM EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4624 |
EU-SYRIA: NEA A/S BURNS MEETINGS IN BRUSSELS [...] (C) Commission officials told A/S Burns that the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) with Syria will only go into effect after signature and ratification in all 25 member states. Commission argues that initialing the agreement provides additional leverage over Syria, which must demonstrate [...] |
2004-10-27 06:43:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ETRD KNNP SY EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4625 |
NEA A/S BURNS' CONSULTATIONS WITH EU ON IRAQ, [...] (C) A/S Burns met October 22 with senior EU officials on the way back from his most recent trip to the region. Topics discused were Iraq, Iran, Forum for the Future (FFtF) preparations, and the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP). The EU outlined its plans to support elections in Iraq, and also [...] |
2004-10-27 07:32:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD KNNP IZ IR IS EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4629 |
EU-CIS RELATIONS: GROWING FRUSTRATION WITH MOSCOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: During October 22 U.S.-EU Troika meeting on Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, EU officials told EUR DAS Tefft that diminishing expectations for the EU-Russia summit and disappointment over elections in Belarus were leading the EU to reconsider its policies toward both countri [...] |
2004-10-27 09:41:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETTC RS XH EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4630 |
EU RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON DPRK FOOD AID [...] (C) Summary: Development Counselor presented reftel demarche to Xavier Guillou at DG AIDCO Food Security Unit and Maria Castillo-Fernandez, DG RELEX Desk Officer for DPRK. Both were receptive to demarche, had been in North Korea recently, largely agreed with US assessment of issues with some [...] |
2004-10-27 10:27:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KN PREL WFP USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4639 |
EU: BARROSO WITHDRAWS COMMISSION JUST BEFORE VOTE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Realizing after last-minute consultations that he would not obtain European Parliament (EP) approval, European Commission President-designate Jose Manuel Barroso on October 27 withdrew his Commission one hour before the scheduled vote. He said he would present a new list of Comm [...] |
2004-10-27 16:12:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IT EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4664 |
OCTOBER 15 US-EU COTER TROIKA REVIEWS COMMON GOALS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The October 15 U.S.-EU COTER counterterrorism (CT) Troika focused on EU plans to identify priority countries for CT assistance. Dutch CT Coordinator and COTER Chair Ambassador Mollinger reviewed recent visits to Saudia Arabia, Algeria, Morocco and Indonesia. S/CT Director for Reg [...] |
2004-10-28 16:13:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL KTFN EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4665 |
EU COMMISSION AND COUNCIL SECRETARIAT VIEWS ON [...] (C) We shared Ref A and B points with Commission and Council officials in advance of the Nov. 2 EU FMs (GAERC) meeting and the Nov. 4-5 European Council summit meeting. Given the failure of the incoming Barroso Commission to get parliamentary confirmation (REF C) before this meeting, the Commi [...] |
2004-10-28 16:41:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID YI CY UP ZR IS SU SO EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4677 |
DRUGS TROIKA DISCUSSES EU DRUGS STRATEGY, [...] (U) Summary. The annual U.S.-EU Drugs Troika was held October 25 in Brussels. INL DAS Jonathan Farrar had wide-ranging discussions on trends in cocaine, heroin and synthetics production and trafficking. The USAID Office Director of South America Affairs gave a detailed presentation on U.S. [...] |
2004-10-29 13:46:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AF BL CO EU KCRM SNAR XM EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4688 |
DSACEUR BRIEFS NAC-PSC ON TRANSFER OF SFOR TO [...] (C) Summary: DSACEUR, General Sir John Reith briefed the NAC-PSC Ambassadors on the progress of the December 2 SFOR handover to the EU's Operation Althea. Delineation of tasks has been worked out between commanders on the ground, and Headquarters staffs are more than 80 percent filled. General [...] |
2004-11-02 14:00:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BK MOPS NATO EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4702 |
EU FMS AT NOV. 2 GAERC AGREE SUPPORT [...] (SBU) EU FMs on November 2 agreed a package of measures to support Iraq ahead of a November 5 visit by PM Allawi. They confirmed EU financial support for the electoral process and decided to send an expert team by the end of November "to start planning" with the Iraqi authorities "for a possi [...] |
2004-11-03 16:36:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID IR IZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4730 |
THE EUROPEAN DEFENSE AGENCY: CAPTAIN COLLINS GOES [...] (C) USEU Pol/Mil team met mid-October with British Navy Captain Paul Collins, currently seconded to the European Defense Agency Establishment Team (AET), for a readout on his recent Voluntary Visitor Program visit to the US. Collins summarized US reaction to his trip as a "relief", and noted [...] |
2004-11-04 16:09:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4739 |
BARROSO ANNOUNCES NEW LINE-UP FOR [...] (U) EU Commission President-designate Barroso on November 4 announced a new line-up for his Commission. Speaking on the fringes of the Brussels European Council, Barroso said he hoped the European Parliament would approve his new team during its November 15-18 plenary session after conducting [...] |
2004-11-05 12:25:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4741 |
EU SOCIAL SUMMIT RENEWS COMMITMENT TO [...] SUMMARY. EU-level organizations of labor and employers at a pre-European Council meeting with EU leaders on November 4 reaffirmed their commitment to the "Lisbon strategy" for turning the EU into the most competitive economy by the year 2010. The employers and unions not surprisingly contin [...] |
2004-11-05 12:27:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ELAB ECON EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4756 |
EU/DPRK: PRE-BRIEF OF TROIKA VISIT TO PYONGYANG [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Directors-level Troika of EU officials will visit Pyongyang November 13-16 to press for North Korean cooperation in the Six Party Talks and to press for progress on human rights, economic reforms, ROK-DPRK relations and humanitarian assistance issues. The Troika will begin the [...] |
2004-11-05 16:05:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KNNP KN EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4758 |
DSACEUR'S EU POLAD CLARIFIES DELINEATION OF TASKS [...] (U) This is a retransmission of Brussels 4731. Paragraph 4 has been corrected for clarity. 2. (C) Summary: EU Council Secretariat planners are unhappy with a number of points in the Delineation of Tasks between COMEUFOR and Commander Nato Headquarters (COMNHQ), but they will not raise furt [...] |
2004-11-05 16:21:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PHUM BK NATO EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4768 |
IRAQI PM ALLAWI'S VISIT WITH THE EU: EUROPEAN [...] (C) According to a Council source who attended the November 5 luncheon between the EU Heads of State and Government (the European Council) and Iraqi PM Allawi, the lunch went quite well, despite some hiccups over comments made by Allawi to the press the previous day calling some European count [...] |
2004-11-08 06:17:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MOPS IZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4789 |
EU-JHA: LEADERS ENDORSE NEW MULTI-ANNUAL [...] EU leaders at their November 5 European Council meeting endorsed the new multi-annual program for "strengthening freedom, security and justice in the European Union" as prepared by their Justice and Home Affairs Ministers in the October 25 Council meeting (REFTEL). Dutch PM/European Council [...] |
2004-11-08 14:23:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER SMIG PREF CMGT CVIS KCRM EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4816 |
EU DEBATE ON TURKEY: SIMMERING BUT INCHOATE [...] (C) Summary: The EU's decision on Turkey is now out of the hands of Commission officials, but contacts there continue to plan for accession talks with Turkey. Still, they also express some uncertainty over how the Dutch will get a positive outcome at the December 17 European Council. EUR Dep [...] |
2004-11-09 14:35:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4817 |
EU ACCESSION NEGOTIATION TIMELINES: THE [...] (SBU) The EU is now preparing for its sixth wave of enlargement with the expected accession of Bulgaria and Romania on 1 January 2007. Croatia and Turkey, and perhaps Macedonia and other Balkan states, are waiting in the queue. The only consistent lesson that can be drawn from looking at the [...] |
2004-11-09 14:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4843 |
MALTESE SEEKING ITS WAY OUT OF NATO-EU BLOCKAGE [...] (C) Summary. Malta's Ambassador to the EU will propose to Valletta that Malta should declare its PfP agreements from 1994 remain in force, although the country has withdrawn from active participation. Under this approach, Malta would make the argument that they satisfy the requirements for par [...] |
2004-11-10 16:35:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MT CY TU EUN NATO USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4844 |
BIOMETRICS: EU ON PARALLEL TRACK WITH U.S. AND [...] (U) Summary. In parallel with U.S. efforts to incorporate the use of biometric identifiers, the EU is finalizing plans to enhance its border controls through the use of biometrics. On October 26, EU Justice and Interior Ministers agreed to incorporate two biometrics into national passports, t [...] |
2004-11-10 17:08:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | CMGT SMIG PTER PREL CPAS CVIS EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4874 |
EU COUNCIL RESPONSE ON QUINT ICTY DEMARCHE [...] (S/NF) We delivered reftel points to Stefan Lehne of High Rep Solana's office on November 15. Lehne noted that, since this was a Quint initiative and there was no agreed position from the EU at 25, the Council Secretariat could not participate in an external representation of this sort. This [...] |
2004-11-15 17:13:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM KAWC SR YI ICTY EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4881 |
EU/DPRK: SE DETRANI DISCUSSES 6PT, KEDO, [...] (C) SUMMARY: During consultations November 9 with Special Envoy Joseph DeTrani and EAP/K Director Jim Foster, EU officials underscored the EU's firm support for the Six-Party Process and willingness to play a constructive role when the time comes. They urged the US to consult early if the EU i [...] |
2004-11-16 12:38:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET | PREL KNNP PHUM EAID PINR IR KN EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4915 |
EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT: TWO-WEEK DELAY UNLIKELY TO BRIDGE DIFFERENCES [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-18 16:01:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | BRUSSELS ECON ETRD EUN PGOV PREL RS USEU |
| 04BRUSSELS4936 |
MEPP: EU IS FOCUSED ON PA ELECTIONS TO GET [...] (C) Summary. In meetings with a wide range of EU officials, NEA DAS Elizabeth Dibble discussed next steps in the Middle East Peace Process on November 16. The EU is focused on the need to support Palestinian presidential elections as a first step to getting the roadmap back on track. The EU [...] |
2004-11-19 13:05:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL EAID IS EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4937 |
EU CIV/MIL PLANNING AND THE OPS CENTER: SHAPING [...] (C) Summary. As EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana and the PSC review papers designed to create a civ/mil planning cell and a capacity to stand up an EU Operations Center, they will consider it in the context of strategic EU efforts to define its future [...] |
2004-11-19 13:30:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS EUN NATO USEU BRUSSELS |
| 04BRUSSELS4938 |
ECHO AWAITING GREEN LIGHT FOR BURMA PRESENCE [...] (SBU) Following up on reftel, PRMOff asked the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) about its plans to open an office in Burma. Head of Unit for Asia/Americas Ruth Albuquerque confirmed the report and said that there was a need for in-country presence; she noted that about half [...] |
2004-11-19 14:43:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL EAID BM EUN USEU BRUSSELS PGOV PHUM |
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COMMISSION AND COUNCIL RESPONSES ON NOV. 22 GAERC [...] (U) PolOffs have delivered Ref A points to contacts in the Council Secretariat and the personal staff of new External Relations Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner (who will be attending her first GAERC as a Commissioner on Monday). MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS ------------------------- 2. (C) XXXXXXXXXXX X [...] |
2004-11-19 15:41:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MASS MARR IR CH BO EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
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AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ENVIRONMENT COMMISSIONER [...] (C) Summary. Incoming European Commission Vice Present (and Former Environment Commissioner) Margot Wallstrom told Ambassador Schnabel November 15 that the main focus of her new vice presidential position in charge of the EU's intra-Europe and global communications strategy will be improving [...] |
2004-11-19 16:28:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SENV EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
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EU ON BELARUS PARTICIPATION AT CEI SUMMIT [...] (C) We presented reftel demarche to Commission and Council officials on 17 November, asking their support in pressing the Government of Slovenia to rescind its invitation of a senior Belarus government official to the November 24-26 Central European Initiative (CEI) Summit hosted by Slovenia. [...] |
2004-11-19 16:32:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
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THE BARROSO COMMISSION: WHAT CAN WE EXPECT? [...] (C) The new Barroso European Commission, having finally emerged from a rough confirmation process, takes office November 1. Barroso intends to project a more hands-on, activist approach focused on economic reform under the "Lisbon Agenda," but we expect a great deal of policy continuity. Gre [...] |
2004-11-22 10:41:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ETRD EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
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MALTA SEEKS US SUPPORT FOR PLAN TO RESOLVE NATO/EU [...] (C) Summary. Malta's Ambassador to the EU was disappointed by the perceived lack of U.S. support for his proposal to resolve the issue of Malta's participation in NATO-EU strategic discussions. Turkish representatives to the EU have expressed a desire to see a resolution to the issue. End [...] |
2004-11-22 10:42:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MT TU CY EUN NATO |