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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11214

10 December 2014
Contents Publication in full By article 12 / 37
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) energy
Greece-Cyprus gas pipeline project EastMed attracts attention

Brussels, 09/12/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 8 December, the European Commissioner for the Energy Union, Maros Sefcovic, met the Cypriot energy minister, Yiorgos Lakkotrypis, and his Greek counterpart, Yannis Maniatis, to discuss the gas pipeline project EastMed currently being negotiated by Greece, Cyprus and Israel, to transport gas to the EU from offshore sources recently discovered off the coasts of Cyprus and Israel, in the Levantine Basin, in the eastern Mediterranean.

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Contents

ECONOMY - FINANCE
(AE) BANKING: Council reaches broad agreement on SRF contributions
(AE) ECOFIN: Ministers welcome Juncker Plan
(AE) TAXATION: Eleven countries set new FTT deadline but challenges remain
(AE) TAXATION: Austria to start sharing bank information in 2017
(AE) TAXATION: Broad agreement on anti-abuse clause of parent-subsidiary directive
(AE) TAXATION: EU to work on patent boxes in 2015
(AE) ESM: Direct bank recapitalisation now formally operational
(AE) GREECE: Moscovici says markets should have greater confidence
INSTITUTIONAL
(AE) BUDGET: Agreement on 2015 budget and 2014 amending budgets
SECTORAL POLICIES
(AE) ENERGY: South Stream - Commission listening to Southeast Europe
(AE) ENERGY: Russian-Ukraine gas agreement - Sefcovic confident
(AE) ENERGY: Greece-Cyprus gas pipeline project EastMed attracts attention
(AE) SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: WWF appeals to ministers of Twenty-Eight
(AE) ENVIRONMENT: Much still to be done to reduce impact of transport (EEA)
(AE) ENVIRONMENT: Citizen green growth - European competition launched
(AE) TRANSPORT: Investigation into near misses between passenger and military aircraft
(AE) TRANSPORT: Supporting combined transport within relevant directive
(AE) WOMEN: Presidency plans to win over hard-core opponents of quotas
(AE) JHA: World Anti-Corruption Day
(AE) COHESION: Cretu clamps down on Structural Fund fraud and errors
(AE) REGIONS: CoR sets out wishlist for Timmermans
SOCIAL - EDUCATION - CULTURE
(AE) SOCIAL: EURES and inland waterway working time agreement expected
(AE) EDUCATION: Eurydice gives overview of European education spending
(AE) CULTURE: Internet firms seek lower VAT on e-Books
(AE) AUDIOVISUAL: IRIS report on advertising in digital age
EXTERNAL ACTION
(AE) TURKEY: Hahn hopeful about opening a chapter by June
(AE) KOSOVO: EU welcomes formation of new government
(AE) SWITZERLAND: EU warnings on free movement before draft legislation
(AE) CHINA: Chinese think Hong Kong issue is just a legal one
(AE) BURMA/MYANMAR:
(AE) USA: New round of TTIP negotiations on 2 February 2015
(AE) MEDITERRANEAN: UfM launches new projects
(AE) MEDITERRANEAN: Huge potential of aquaculture
(AE) AZERBAIJAN: European criticism of journalist arrest
(AE) SYRIA: EU allocates further €5.5 million to WFP
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
(AE) FINANCE: Greece acted as a public authority when it carried out obligatory swap of its securities
(AE) INSTITUTIONAL: EP has considerable discretion to assess officials' petitions