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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11619
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EXTERNAL ACTION / Australia

Canberra wants EU-Australia free-trade talks to start in first half of 2017

Visiting Brussels on Thursday 8 September, Australian trade minister Steven Ciobo said Australia wanted to enter free trade talks with the EU in the first half of 2017, based on a scoping exercise due to be completed later this year.

At a press conference on Thursday, Ciobo said: "We need to find innovative ways to improve opportunities for growth. In that respect,  Australia is a fierce advocate when it comes to the benefits of free trade and the deal that can be done between the EU and...

Contents

BEACONS
BEACONS: Has time of rebellion become time of contrition?
INSTITUTIONAL
BUDGET: Prospect of Brexit opens up debate on EU budget revenue, says Georgieva
UNITED KINGDOM: In London, Donald Tusk says ball is now in UK's court
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECB: ECB ready to take back initiative if necessary
ECONOMY: Moscovici says no way will Stability and Growth Pact be dismantled
ECONOMY/REGIONS: European Parliament wants to create ad hoc group in framework of structured dialogue on freezing ESI funds for Spain and Portugal
TAXATION: Packed tax agenda for Commission in coming months
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
JHA: EU-Canada PNR deal said to infringe Charter of Fundamental Rights
TAXATION: Exclusion of digital publications from reduced-rate VAT seems to be lawful
DIGITAL SOCIETY: Individuals can be held responsible for hyperlinks to copyright-violating material
SECTORAL POLICIES
DIGITAL: High tension around next week's copyright/telecoms proposals
DIGITAL SOCIETY: Greens look at digitisation of European industry
INTERNAL MARKET: Green light for own-initiative report on whistleblower directive
CLIMATE: MEPs press EU to ratify Paris Agreement swiftly
AGRICULTURE: Eck argues for minimum protection standards for farmed rabbits
COHESION: MEPs express concern at details of structural reform support programme
ENERGY: Budapest ministerial to focus on regional gas cooperation in Central and South East Europe 
EXTERNAL ACTION
HUMANITARIAN AID: Commission announces €348 million aid programme for refugees in Turkey
ALBANIA: EU calls for implementation of judicial system reforms
UKRAINE: Political prisoners' fate must be considered when deciding on sanctions
AUSTRALIA: Canberra wants EU-Australia free-trade talks to start in first half of 2017
AUSTRALIA: New EU-Australia discussion platform for closer bilateral relations
TRADE: European and American steel industry cautiously optimistic after G20 in Hangzhou
MOROCCO: European Parliament conference calls for greater EU-Morocco cooperation
NEWS BRIEFS
COMPETITION: General Court upholds fines in Citalopram case
COMPETITION: Fine in North Sea shrimp price-fixing case justified
ENERGY: EIB loan of £82 million for electrical connection in United Kingdom
SPACE: Arianespace and ESA sign contract for launch of Earth Explorer satellite
MEDITERRANEAN: Civil society slams restrictions on freedom
REGIONS: Corina Cretu encourages public-private partnerships in Danube Strategy
SOCIAL: Commission task force after Caterpillar closure at Gosselies