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World leaders arrive for G20 summit, Bush speech
1. Various of leaders seated in first Plenary Session of the Group of 20 summit
2. SOUNDBITE (English) George W Bush, US President:
"I am pleased with the progress we're making to, one, address the crisis. I am pleased we are discussing...
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Portuguese PM accepts European Union's top job
1. Wide shot of exterior presidential palace in Lisbon
2. Cameras at press conference
3. Barroso leaving meeting with Portuguese president
4. Mid shot of Portuguese and EU flags
5. Barroso walking into press conference
6. SOUNDBITE...
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Update on protests, comment by Bove,
1. Wide shot of press conference of French farmer and activist Jose Bove
2. Press
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jose Bove, French Farmer and Activist:
"We are living, this is our life we are fighting for, so that is why we decided to go the...
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Romano Prodi expected to stay as caretaker commissioner
1. Exterior of Belgian Prime Minister's office
2. European Commission President Romano Prodi leaving building and being hugged by Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt
3. Prodi exiting in car and being driven off
EbS
4. European...
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EU Commission president meets Chinese Premier
1. Wide of European Commission President Romano Prodi shaking hands with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao
2. Close up of European Commission President Romano Prodi shaking hands with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao
3. Various of Chinese Premier Wen...
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Iraqi PM starts visit to EU with plea for closer ties, arrival
1. Tilt down exterior of European Parliament
2. Various of entrance, security
3. Parked police van
4. European Parliament President Hans-Gert Pottering greeting Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
5. Cutaway of Iraqi flag
6. Mid shot...
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Belgium - Greenpeace Protest French Nuke Tests
Greenpeace activists protested outside the headquarters of the
European Commission in Brussels on Wednesday (4/10) urging the
Commission to use its powers under the EURATOM Treaty to stop
French nuclear testing in the South Pacific. ...
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WRAP Libyan opposition meets NATO ADDS Benelux ministers; Fogh Rasmussen
1. Various of Mahmoud Jibril, chief of delegation of Libya's National Transitional Council, meeting Benelux foreign ministers and standing for photographs
2. Various of meeting between Jibril and Benelux foreign ministers
3. Exterior...
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Sarkozy and Barroso arrive for finance talks with Brown
1. French President Nicolas Sarkozy walks up to entrance of Number 10 Downing Street, where British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso are waiting - the three line-up for photographers, then...
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German Chancellor on Ukraine crisis
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Moscow of further sanctions on Thursday after two columns of tanks and military vehicles rolled into southeastern Ukraine from Russia.
"We have always made it clear that if there are further...
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Belgium - EU Vets Meet
The European Union's veterinary committee is meeting on Wednesday (15/5) in Brussels to discuss the worldwide ban on British beef products in the wake of BSE or "mad cow" disease". The Committee is being asked to accept the...
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Turkish PM holds talks with French president
1. Exterior Elysee Palace
2. French flag
3. Various shots of Republican Guard
4. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
5. Erdogan greeted by French President Jacques Chirac
6. Various shots of French President Jacques Chirac and...
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Leaders confident of EU green light for Ankara
1. Wide shot of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at news conference
2. Photographer
3. Schroeder and Erdogan
4. Officials in audience
5. SOUNDBITE: (German) Gerhard Schroeder, German...
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Poroshenko and Barroso on efforts to maintain truce in Ukraine
The president of Ukraine said on Friday that the Ukrainian Parliament would vote on the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement (AA) next Tuesday.
Petro Poroshenko was addressing a news conference in Kiev following a meeting with the President...
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Reaction to EU report from Polish and Czech FMs
1. Exterior shot of Schloss Bellevue Berlin
2. Various of arrival Polish Foreign Minister
3. SOUNDBITE: (Polish then English) Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Foreign Minister of Poland:
"First of all, we're not surprised. The report was based...
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BELGIUM: BRUSSELS: TALKS ON SPAIN / MOROCCO FISHING DISPUTE
Eng/French/Nat
Moroccan Prime Minister Abdelatif Filali is meeting in Brussels with the EU's fisheries commissioner Emma Bonino in an attempt to break the deadlock between Morocco and Spain over fish stocks.
Spain, who took over the...
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Various leaders and foreign ministers react to budget discussions
1. Various exterior summit
2. Swedish prime minister Goran Persson walking towards media
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Goran Persson, Swedish Prime Minister
"There seems to be huge differences, and there are, but every one of us realises if...
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WRAP UN and EU reax to declaration of Guinea coup after dictator's death
New York, US
1. Wide of Deputy Spokeswoman for the UN Secretary-General, Marie Okabe, walking to microphone
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Marie Okabe, Deputy Spokeswoman for the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon:
"The Secretary-General has...
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Protests continue in capital as president in Lithuania for talks with EU
Around 10,000 pro-EU demonstrators gathered in the centre of Ukraine's capital on Thursday evening to demand the signing of an association agreement with the European Union, even though the Ukrainian president has shelved plans to do...
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WRAP Update on EU Russia summit
1. Wide shot exterior Kremlin
Agency POOL
2. Wide shot interior Kremlin, entrance of EU and Russian delegates at start of summit
3. Wide shot interior summit, delegates sitting
4. Cutaway press and delegates
5. SOUNDBITE: (Russian)...
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Belgium - Election of Duisenberg and Euro currency
British Prime Minister Tony Blair early on Sunday (3/5) confirmed the selection of Wim Duisenberg as the President of the European Central Bank. Jacques Santer also spoke of the creation of the European single currency.
WS EU leaders on...
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Farmers protest around Belgian capital due to rising fuel prices ADDS more
Courriere
1. Farmers standing around on road at one of protest meeting points
2. Various of farmers getting into tractors
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Benois Clement, Protesting farmer:
"The economic situation, agriculture wise, is not...
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French and Belgian Prime Ministers react to EU ruling
1. Car arriving
2. Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French Prime Minister, and Guy Verhofstadt, Belgian Prime Minister, greeting and photo opportunity
3. Raffarin and Verhofstadt seated
4. Media
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French...
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5-year bond sale launched, 2nd long term auction since Troika rescue package
Bailed-out Portugal has taken advantage of growing investor confidence in Europe's economic prospects, raising 3.25 (b) billion euros (4.4 billion US dollars) in a sale of five-year government bonds at a 4.657 percent yield.
Analyst Rui...