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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11628

21 September 2016
Contents Publication in full By article 2 / 29
INSTITUTIONAL / Commission
Council broadly happy with Commission's forthcoming priorities for 2017
Brussels, 20/09/2016 (Agence Europe)

In Brussels on Tuesday 20 September, the member states of the EU were by and large happy with the ten priorities listed by the European Commission in the speech given by President Jean-Claude Juncker on the state of the Union to be included in the forthcoming working programme for 2017: growth, jobs and investment, a connected digital single market, an Energy Union and a visionary climate change policy, a deeper and fairer single market, a deeper and fairer Economic and Monetary Union, a...

Contents

INSTITUTIONAL
BUDGET: 'Net contributor' countries struggle with proposals for increased flexibility and financial framework
COMMISSION: Council broadly happy with Commission's forthcoming priorities for 2017
EXTERNAL ACTION
CANADA: Council satisfied CETA respects criteria of transparency and balanced agreement
JAPAN: Katainen confident in possibility of concluding free-trade negotiations before end of this year
TRADE: New Greenpeace offensive against TiSA
UN: Tusk advocates EU border security in exchange for more aid for refugees
TERRORISM: Council to be able to apply autonomously sanctions against Daesh and al-Qaeda
SWITZERLAND: Berne and EU closer to free movement agreement
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Council calls on Commission to begin work on accession application
RUSSIA: EU does not recognise elections in Crimean peninsula
DRC: EU calls on all parties to show restraint following devastating violence in Kinshasa
WESTERN SAHARA: Polisario calmly awaiting Court of Justice ruling
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
FINANCE: Sizeable majority in the Council in favour of postponing entry into force of 'Priips' regulation for one year
ECONOMY: Council recommends creation of national productivity boards
ANTI-TRUST: Austrian company ARA fined €6 million
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
BANKING: Court competent to rule on EU liability in Cypriot bailout programme
SECTORAL POLICIES
INTERNAL MARKET: CJEU case law to aid of whistleblowers directive
ENERGY: Worrying financing delays and deficits in projects to dismantle nuclear power stations in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia, according to EU external auditor
TRANSPORT: Further stage in cooperation on ERTMS deployment
SOCIAL AFFAIRS - EMPLOYMENT
EMPLOYMENT: Extra funds limited for Youth Guarantee
SOCIAL: CoR expected to recommend posting of workers limit to 12 months
NEWS BRIEFS
BUDGET: Council approves new rules on secretariat of OLAF Supervisory Committee
DEVELOPMENT: EU announces additional €5 million to tackle poverty-related diseases
ENERGY: Eurostat's digital publication to shed light on energy
TAXATION: Member states endorse EU-Andorra information exchange agreement
INDIA: EU condemns terrorist attack against army camp
REGIONS: Green light to EU Solidarity Fund for Ionian Islands
HEALTH: Political agreement at EU Council on medical devices
TRANSPORT: Commission opens aviation negotiations with Qatar