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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11626

17 September 2016
Contents Publication in full By article 25 / 26
CALENDAR / Main activities of eu institutions
19-25 September 2016

 

Monday 19 September

  • New York (USA). European Union. UN Summit on refugees and migrants and ministerial week (to 29/09) on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (18-22/09). To be attended by the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, the High Representative, Federica Mogherini, and the Vice-President of the Commission, Frans Timmermans
  • Brussels.  European Parliament. Activities of the committees (to 22/09). – LIBE: visit of a delegation to Lebanon to examine the refugee...

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