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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11191
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) transport

MEPs examine tollbooth question, especially in Germany

Brussels, 04/11/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 4 November during an EP transport committee hearing on motorway tollbooths, MEPs expressed their concerns about the German vignette project for private passenger cars (EUROPE 11189). The hearing provided a good opportunity for highlighting European level confusion regarding the question of taxing infrastructure.

MEPs were clearly hostile to the idea of a possible German vignette, mainly because of the fact that purchasing it would be...

Contents

ECONOMY - FINANCE
(AE) EUROGROUP: Initial discussions of Greek exit from bailout plan
(AE) ECOFIN: FTT, parent/subsidiary directive and 2014 budget on ministers' menu
(AE) ECONOMY: Commission puts economic and social planks on same footing
INSTITUTIONAL
(AE) COMMISSION: Juncker scraps Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA)
(AE) BUDGET: 2013 accounts verified but €7 billion in poor investments
SECTORAL POLICIES
(AE) AGRICULTURE: First compromise text on organic farming
(AE) AGRICULTURE: Russian ban - Baltic states and Finland call for support
(AE) TRANSPORT: MEPs examine tollbooth question, especially in Germany
(AE) ENERGY: ENI not ruling out leaving South Stream gas pipeline project
(AE) ENERGY: €200 million facility for sustainable energy in Poland (EBRD)
(AE) FOOD SAFETY: Bushmeat may be Ebola carrier, EFSA says
(AE) DIGITAL: Telecoms sector joins fight against Ebola
(AE) DIGITAL: Spain becomes first European country to tax Google
(AE) DIGITAL: China a promising market for European operators
(AE) MEDIA: More sports programmes on Euronews
(AE) JHA: Switzerland/ECHR - States must draw conclusions for own asylum system
(AE) JHA: EU migrants add €20 billion to UK in ten years
(AE) JHA: MEPs want to know more about Triton and Mediterranean situation
EXTERNAL ACTION
(AE) EBOLA: Stylianides and Andriukaitis in Africa on 12 November
(AE) UKRAINE: Juncker's first visit abroad to Kiev
(AE) UKRAINE/RUSSIA: Kiev pays first instalment of its gas debt
(AE) KOSOVO:
(AE) DEVELOPMENT: MEPs alarmed by Syrian humanitarian crisis
(AE) BAHRAIN: EU welcomes release of campaigner Nabeel Rajab
(AE) MIDDLE EAST: Mogherini travels to region for her first tour
(AE) CSDP: Towards increased political cooperation between the EU and NATO
(AE) LATIN AMERICA: Mogherini raises civil society's expectations
(AE) COLOMBIA: EU supports Bogota in peace negotiations with FARC
(AE) MEDITERRANEAN: Werner Hoyer (EIB) believes in region's potential
(AE) TRADE: Azevedo identifies three possibilities to get wto/Doha out of impasse
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
(AE) JHA: Third-country illegals need not be heard again before expulsion
(AE) SYRIA: Court rejects Mayaleh appeal against sanctions