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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11626
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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Philippines

Parliament condemns extrajudicial killings

In a common resolution (EFDD, ECR, EPP, ALDE, Greens, S&D and GUE) adopted by show of hands on Thursday 15 September, the European Parliament condemned the wave of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines.

Concerned at the extraordinarily high number of persons killed in police operations and by self-defence groups against a backdrop of the intensification of the fight against criminality and drugs, the MEPs urge the Filipino government to put an end to the current wave of extrajudicial...

Contents

BRATISLAVA SUMMIT
FUTURE OF EU: Member states give themselves six months to restore meaning to European project
UNITED KINGDOM: Tusk says London will begin exit process in January or February
SECTORAL POLICIES
GMO: Commission authorises herbicide-resistant maize for food and feed
COHESION: Cohesion policy slowness could determine its future, says Cretu
REGIONS: State of Union speech perplexes regions and cities
CLIMATE: Commission calls on High Ambition Coalition to broker ambitious ICAO deal
AGRICULTURE: Talks on organic farming to resume on 28 September
AGRICULTURE: Copa-Cogeca warns of poor EU wheat and rapeseed harvests
ANIMAL HEALTH: Measures to tackle lumpy skin disease
ANIMAL HEALTH: Revision of African swine fever measures
EXTERNAL ACTION
UNITED STATES: Commission and Obama administration hope for best progress on TTIP in early October
CANADA: Canadian unions call for CETA rejection
VIETNAM: Business hails benefits of free-trade agreement for European retail
WESTERN SAHARA: Morocco expresses satisfaction with developments in case before CJEU
SAKHAROV PRIZE: Can Dündar, Mustafa Dzhemilev, Nadia Murad Basee, Lamiya Aji Bashar and Ilham Tohti nominated for 2016 Prize
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
ZIMBABWE: MEPs call on EU to see whether new sanctions are needed
PHILIPPINES: Parliament condemns extrajudicial killings
SOMALIA: MEPs call for strengthening of security
BIODIVERSITY: European Parliament sets sights high in fight against international criminal trade in endangered species
EDUCATION
EDUCATION: New OECD report highlights gaps in Europe's education systems
NEWS BRIEFS
ECONOMY: Hourly labour costs are up in eurozone and EU
ECONOMY: Job vacancy rates stable at 1.7% in eurozone in second quarter of 2016
MIGRATION: Secretary general of Arab Maghreb Union writes to Europeans
TRANSPORT: Sustainable, smart transport is theme of Mobility Week
CALENDAR
Main activities of EU institutions: 19-25 September 2016
Other events : 19-25 September