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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10987

19 December 2013
Contents Publication in full By article 5 / 39
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) banking
EU28 struggling to agree on SRM ahead of summit

Brussels, 18/12/2013 (Agence Europe) - As we went to press on Wednesday 18 December EU finance ministers were still in negotiation over the outstanding issues for the bank resolution mechanism (SRM), but hoped to reach agreement before the heads of state arrived in Brussels for the summit on Thursday.

The 18 eurozone finance ministers have agreed on the broad outline of the single resolution fund (SRF)'s backstop and, in the draft Eurogroup statement, they said they agreed to introduce a...

Contents

EUROPEAN COUNCIL
(AE) DEFENCE: EU preparing to give boost to Europe of defence
(AE) EMU: June 2014 deadline for contractual arrangements?
(AE) CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: New fund for emergency military operations?
(AE) FOREIGN RELATIONS:
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
(AE) BANKING: EU28 struggling to agree on SRM ahead of summit
(AE) BANKING: Trialogue agreement on savings guarantee scheme
(AE) EURO: EP troika investigations and ESM treaty under discussion
(AE) STATE AID: Consultation on assessment of aid to energy and environment
(AE) STATE AID: Three formal investigations into seven Spanish football clubs
SECTORAL POLICIES
(AE) ENVIRONMENT: Air-quality - Commission delivers package
(AE) SHALE GAS: Commission proposal expected for 22 January
(AE) JHA: Cecilia Malmström shocked at Lampedusa images
(AE) JHA: Compromise on criminal assets adopted in parliamentary committee
(AE) JHA: New rules for migrants to UK from 1 January
(AE) JHA: Investigation into NSA - work of special committee comes to its end
(AE) HEALTH: Trialogue - white smoke for tobacco directive
(AE) FISHERIES: Ministers agree fishing opportunities for 2014
(AE) INTERNAL MARKET: EP mandate for public procurement e-invoices
(AE) INTERNAL MARKET: MEPs want to boost use of parcel deliveries
(AE) REGIONS: France and Italy prepare for Alpine macro-region summit
(AE) TRANSPORT: Relative relief greets rail package committee vote
(AE) TRANSPORT: Watered down agreement on technical controls
(AE) TRANSPORT: Second reading agreement on tachograph possible in January
(AE) TRANSPORT: Siim Kallas says rail needs to be made more attractive
(AE) TRANSPORT: Aviation incidents - environment of trust approved
INSTITUTIONAL
(AE) FUTURE OF EU: Merkel calls for new treaties for more Europe
(AE) GREEK PRESIDENCY: Immigration, growth, EMU and maritime on menu
(AE) COMMISSION: De Gucht gains upper hand over Belgian tax service
EXTERNAL ACTION
(AE) MONTENEGRO: Five negotiating chapters opened
(AE) ALBANIA: European Council postpones decision on candidate status
(AE) SERBIA: Opening of negotiations planned for January
(AE) FYROM: Still no opening of negotations
(AE) BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA: Ministers call On Bosnia for agreement on Sejdic Finci
(AE) TURKEY: Impetus must be maintained in negotiations
(AE) KOSOVO: Council calls for reforms to continue
(AE) TUNISIA: European Parliament President sends message of hope
(AE) ICELAND:
(AE) UKRAINE: Kiev seizes Russian carrot in face of gas weapon
(AE) TRADE: Greenland comes closer to the Kimberley process