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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02ROME6062 |
FINI AND FRATTINI ON THE EU CONVENTION [...] SUMMARY: ITALIAN DEPUTY PM AND GOI REPRESENTATIVE TO THE EU CONVENTION GIANFRANCO FINI AND FM FRANCO FRATTINI TOLD PARLIAMENT THAT POSITIONS WITHIN THE EU CONVENTION ARE STILL DISTANT AND THE CONVENTION WILL PROBABLY TRANSMIT "DIVERGENT" PROPOSALS TO THE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL CONFERENCE (IGC). [...] |
2002-12-19 13:05:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IT EUR EUN |
| 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 |
| 04MADRID2201 |
SPANISH RESPONSE TO JUNE 14-15 EU FMS MEETING [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on June 10 to Enrique Mora, Director of the MFA's Office of EU Foreign Policy and Common Security. On general questions regarding the EU Constitution, Mora said he thought the EU Constitution would be approved by June 25. He said the double majority populatio [...] |
2004-06-10 15:49:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SP EUR |
| 05ANKARA4561 |
BANNER BOMB - MERSIN PROVINCE [...] (U) On Tuesday, August 2, 2005 at approximately 22:30 the Turkish National Police (TNP) conducted a controlled detonation of a "Banner Bomb" in the southern Ircel Province city of Mersin. There were no reports of injuries. 2. (U) Members of the PKK affiliated Halkin Kurtulus Ordusu-HPG (Pe [...] |
2005-08-04 14:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ITA IP EUR CT DEPT FOR DS COMMAND CENTER |
| 05ROME3838 |
CRISIS MANAGEMENT EXERCISE MISSION ITALY - DECEMBER 14 and 16, 2005. [...] (SBU) Mission Italy will host an unclassified Crisis Management Exercise (CME) on December 14 at Turin, Italy and December 16, at American Embassy Rome. The exercise will be facilitated by Douglas Kinney, Crisis Management Training Division, Leadership and Management School, Foreign Service In [...] |
2005-11-21 16:51:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DEPT OF STATE FOR DS AS DSS EX IP ITA CT EUR WE FSI LMS CMT CA OCS ACS POSTS RSO PSO |
| 06SOFIA7 |
REINVIGORATIONG PUBLIC DIPLOMACY CULTURAL AND [...] Post has not worked with sports programs. Our answers concern only cultural programming. A. Which of your mission objectives benefits from cultural programs or could be better supported by cultural programs, including sports programs? Please be specific in describing how these programs s [...] |
2006-01-03 12:23:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | EOXC SCUL EUR KPAO |
| 07MADRID2197 |
A/S FRIED MEETING WITH POLISH U/S WASZCZYKOWSKI [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary Fried met with Polish Under Secretary Witold Waszczykowski on 11/30/07 on the margins of the 11/29-30/2007 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Ministerial in Madrid. Waszczykowski said that while Poland does plan troop level reductions in [...] |
2007-12-05 09:52:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO OSCE EUR |
| 07TALLINN112 |
ESTONIA: VOLUNTARY INPUT FOR 2007 SPECIAL 301 [...] Summary: In 2006, the GOE continued to improve the country's intellectual property rights (IPR) regime through legislative changes and cooperation with rights holders. The long-awaited new Civil Procedure Act that provides for ex parte searches came into force January 1, 2006. On June 14, 200 [...] |
2007-02-21 13:10:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON EUR EN |
| 08BERLIN991 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTRY ON [...] (C) On 22 July 2008, POLOFF delivered reftel demarche to Verana Frick, desk officer responsible for Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia at the German Foreign Office. Frick said that the German Government will continue to support dialogue and a peaceful solution between the Government of Col [...] |
2008-07-22 15:22:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | COL VE HR EUR PTER AF SNAR PGOV PREL |
| 08NICOSIA126 |
CYPRUS: 2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Further to Ref A request, post submits our input for USTR's 2008 Special 301 review of country IPR practices. (Note: This report covers mainly the government-controlled area of Cyprus. A separate section is devoted to the area administered by Turkish Cypriots, whe [...] |
2008-02-22 08:18:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD AF NEA EUR EAP WHA SA CY |
| 08NICOSIA216 |
CYPRUS: POLICE STEP UP IPR ENFORCEMENT [...] (SBU) As reported Reftel, police enforcement action against IPR piracy seems to be on the rise. During 2007, the police launched 188 raids on suspected pirates, seizing 188,516 pirated items (mostly of DVDs and CDs), compared to 114 raids and 77,763 seized items in 2006. Thus far, this trend [...] |
2008-04-02 11:28:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD AF NEA EUR EAP WHA SA CY |
| 08PARIS386 |
FRENCH RECEPTIVE TO A/S SULLIVAN'S PITCH ON TEC [...] (U) Embassy Action Request Para 14. 2. (SBU) Summary: In February 13-14 meetings French Trade Minister Novelli, MFA Economic Director Masset and PM Diplomatic Advisor Lapouge told A/S Dan Sullivan they would be supportive of the Trans-Atlantic Economic Council (TEC) as an important part of [...] |
2008-03-04 17:56:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ENRG PREL EAGR EUR FR |
| 08PRAGUE82 |
CZECHS AGREE TO TEXT OF DHS SECURITY MOU [...] No summary [...] |
2008-02-08 14:44:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PREL CMGT EZ EUR |
| 08SARAJEVO1899 |
BOSNIA - DODIK, TIHIC, COVIC WORK TO KEEP PRUD [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an effort to sustain momentum on the November 8 Prud Agreement (ref A), the three signatories to the agreement -- Party of Democratic Action (SDA) chairman Sulejman Tihic, Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ-BiH) chairman Dragan Covic, and Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (S [...] |
2008-12-23 17:14:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | EUR SCE HYLAND FOOKS NSC FOR HELGERSON |
| 08STATE114173 |
NORDIC AND BALTIC POLITICAL DIRECTORS, OCTOBER 2 [...] (C) Summary. On October 2, political directors and other senior officials from the nine members of the Expanded Partnership in Northern Europe (E-PINE), including EUR Assistant Secretary Dan Fried, met in Vilnius for semi-annual consultations. The principal issues discussed were Georgia, U [...] |
2008-10-27 16:10:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | KNEI PREL EUR BO GG RS UP XG SW NO LG LH IC EN FI |
| 08STATE132221 |
MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY TO LITHUANIAN [...] Please deliver the following message from the Secretary to Foreign Minister Vygaudas Usackas. The Department of State does not plan to release the text of the message but has no objection if the Government of Lithuania wishes to do so. There will be no signed original. 2. Begin Text: [...] |
2008-12-17 20:30:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP OPDC PREL EUR LH |
| 08STATE56861 |
E-PINE POLITICAL DIRECTORS, APRIL 30TH MEETING IN [...] (C) Summary. Senior U.S., Nordic, and Baltic officials met in Washington D.C. on April 30th for the eleventh Enhanced Partnership in Northern Europe (e-PINE) Political Directors' meeting. They agreed: that MAP for Georgia and Ukraine in December is desirable, but may be problematic; that the cu [...] |
2008-05-28 15:08:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | KNEI PREL EUR BO GG PL RS UP XZ ZB SW NO LG LH IC |
| 08TALLINN113 |
ESTONIAN CUSTOMS CONFERENCE: ENFORCING IPR AT THE [...] (SBU) Summary: A seminar sponsored by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Embassy Tallinn brought together Estonian, Finnish and U.S. customs inspectors in the city of Narva, on the Russian border, for two days of discussion on intellectual property rights (IPR) and border enforce [...] |
2008-03-20 12:01:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON EUR EN |
| 08TALLINN121 |
NORDSTREAM ROAD SHOW COMES TO TALLINN [...] (SBU) Summary: In a 3-hour presentation hosted by the German embassy in Tallinn, presenters from WinGas, BASF and the UN Economic Commission for Europe both promoted and defended the NordStream gas pipeline project. They used a variety of arguments to claim that NordStream will be a cheaper, [...] |
2008-03-28 15:25:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV PREL ECON EUR EN |
| 08TALLINN90 |
ESTONIA - VOLUNTARY INPUT FOR 2008 SPECIAL 301 [...] (U) Summary: In 2007, the Government of Estonia (GOE) continued to improve the country's IPR regime through legislative changes and cooperation with rights holders. Major changes to IPR legislation were introduced in March, when the Law Amending the Penal Code and Copyright Act came into forc [...] |
2008-03-04 13:34:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR ECON EUR EN |
| 08ZAGREB749 |
SECOND HIGH-PROFILE MURDER IN THREE WEEKS ROCKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ivo Pukanic, a prominent and controversial magazine publisher, was killed in the evening of October 23, 2008, in what is widely believed to be a murder apparently linked to organized crime. The president convened the national security council, and in a rare move, included members [...] |
2008-10-24 13:12:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM ASEC HR DS IP EUR |
| 08ZAGREB750 |
SECOND HIGH-PROFILE MURDER IN THREE WEEKS ROCKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ivo Pukanic, a prominent and controversial magazine publisher, was killed in the evening of October 23, 2008, in what is widely believed to be a murder apparently linked to organized crime. The president convened the national security council, and in a rare move, included members [...] |
2008-10-24 13:13:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM ASEC HR DS IP EUR |
| 09BRUSSELS1567 |
SNAPSHOTS FROM STOCKHOLM: EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT DAYS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Governance, aid effectiveness, and the impacts of the global financial crisis and climate change on developing countries were the major themes of European Development Days (EDD) in Stockholm October 22-24. USAID Acting Administrator (AA) Alonzo Fulgham led the American delegatio [...] |
2009-11-23 11:10:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND ETRD SENV EUR ECON EDEV TPHY TSPL EUN |
| 09BRUSSELS1671 |
EU MAKES PROGRESS TOWARDS, AN EU-WIDE PATENT SYSTEM [...] No summary [...] |
2009-12-14 14:14:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR EIND ETRD SENV ECON TPHY TSPL EUR EUN |
| 09BRUSSELS1673 |
EU MAKES PROGRESS TOWARDS, AN EU-WIDE PATENT SYSTEM [...] SUMMARY: At a Competitiveness Council meeting in Brussels December 4, EU industry ministers reached a political agreement on a process to move toward setting up a single EU patent to replace the multitude of national patents in force across 27 member states. The ministers also reached a deal [...] |
2009-12-14 15:22:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR EIND ETRD SENV ECON TPHY TSPL EUR EUN |
| 09BRUSSELS1720 |
NO SMALL PROGRESS: UPDATE ON NANOTECH REGULATION IN THE EU [...] (U) SUMMARY: While the European Commission continues to maintain that it's Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) regulation provides a sufficient framework for the regulation of nanomaterials in the EU market, a number of directives and legislation single out nanomate [...] |
2009-12-23 16:27:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | EIND ETRD SENV EUR ECON TPHY TSPL EUN |
| 09BRUSSELS916 |
Commission Hosts Discussions on U.S. - EU Development [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 15-16, the European Commission hosted a Technical Meeting on Development in Brussels. The meeting was a continuation of a series of discussions between the U.S. and EU aimed at promoting a renewed trans-Atlantic dialogue on development. Sessions were held on food securit [...] |
2009-07-06 05:01:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EIND ETRD SENV EUR ECON EAGR TPHY TSPL |
| 09HELSINKI484 |
FINLAND: PRIME MINISTER HOLDS FIRST RUSSIA FORUM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Following up on the government's "Russia Action Policy" issued earlier this year, on November 26 Prime Minister Vanhanen held the first "Russia Forum." According to the Action Plan, the PM should hold a Forum to connect Finns from government, business and academia in order to i [...] |
2009-12-22 09:26:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | FI PGOV PREL EUR RS |
| 09NICOSIA154 |
CYPRUS: 2009 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Further to Ref A request, post submits our input for USTR's 2009 Special 301 review of country IPR practices. (Note: This report covers mainly the government-controlled area of Cyprus. A separate section is devoted to the area administered by Turkish Cypriots, whe [...] |
2009-02-27 14:18:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD AF NEA EUR EAP WHA SA CY |
| 09OSLO128 |
NORWAY: BLADERUNNER DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] |
2009-02-26 06:09:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ISN AF EUR NEA NO |
| 09STATE52512 |
GOI'S RELEASE OF IRANIAN-ORIGIN TACTICAL VEHICLES [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The USG received information on 18 May that the GOI had released a cargo of Iranian-origin tactical vehicles, destined for Syria, that Italian customs officials had seized in 2006. The vehicles were suspected of being part of a ground-based electronic warfare system. When ap [...] |
2009-05-21 21:29:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | EUR ISN NEA |
| 09STOCKHOLM446 |
BALTIC SEA STRATEGY: A PRIORITY FOR SWEDISH EU [...] (SBU) Summary: The Baltic Sea Strategy, a Swedish initiative that is one of its EU Presidency priorities, is a regional approach to deeper integration of environmental, economic, energy/transport, and security regulations and practices among the eight EU member states that surround the Baltic [...] |
2009-07-21 16:42:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | NEI PREL ECON SENV ENRG EUR RU SW |