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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11641
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NEWS BRIEFS / Commission

Tibor Navracsics may be required to explain himself

07/10/2016 (Agence Europe) – Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker may well have a few questions for Commissioner for Education Tibor Navracsics on the sidelines of the next meeting of the College, following his comments on the Hungarian referendum, deputy Commission spokesperson Alexander Winterstein has announced. The reason for this is that Navracsics, who is Hungarian and a member of Viktor Orbán's party (Fidesz), is reported to have said, following the Hungarian referendum on...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
CLIMATE: ICAO agreement welcomed by Commission but does not satisfy environmentalists
COHESION: Commission considering using new assessment indicators in addition to GDP
COHESION: EPP wants stronger links between European semester and cohesion policy
AGRICULTURE: EU institutions make progress on organic farming
AGRICULTURE: Fresh call for post-2020 CAP to be better able to deal with crises
AGRICULTURE: Commission to provide €15 million for beef promotion
TRANSPORT: Civil society and cities call for Commission to act on lorry deaths
FISHERIES: Oceana rebukes Denmark and calls for closure of Baltic cod fishery
HEALTH: Move towards more Community health technology assessment
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECOFIN: Protecting financial interests of EU, climate and finalising Basel III on ministers' agenda
TAXATION: Next stage on FTT
COMPETITION: Commission holds consultation on various aspects of controls on merger
EXTERNAL ACTION
CHINA: EU imposes anti-dumping duty of up to 73.7% on Chinese steel
UNITED STATES: Important progress in regulatory cooperation ahead of possible pause in TTIP talks
RUSSIA: Thirty-six MEPs call for sanctions against Crimean parliamentarians at the Duma
MIDDLE EAST: EU criticises settlement extension once again
MEDITERRANEAN: Joint EU-OECD programme to boost investment and competitiveness in the region
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
FOOD SAFETY: European Parliament demands harmonised assessment of all materials in contact with food
CLIMATE: European Parliament wants tangible action and greater ambitions, including from the EU, ahead of COP 22
SUDAN: European Parliament condemns indiscriminate bombing of civilians
RWANDA: European Parliament calls for review of Ingabire case
THAILAND: European Parliament deplores condemnation of human rights activist Andy Hall
INSTITUTIONAL
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Following altercation between UKIP members, Martin Schulz brings matters before consultative committee established by European Parliament Code of Conduct
UNITED KINGDOM: Juncker criticises British attempts to woo continent's industrial sector
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
TURKEY: Human Rights Commissioner regrets extension of state of emergency
NEWS BRIEFS
STATE AID: Green light to extension of sales process for four Italian bridge banks
COMMISSION: Tibor Navracsics may be required to explain himself
CULTURE: European funding to encourage integration of refugees
LEBANON: EU allocated €12 million for re-building of Nahr el-Bared camp
LIBYA: EU receives list of naval officers ready for training
JHA: Big Brother Award goes to Facebook
MEDITERRANEAN: Meeting to discuss financing of desalinisation plants in Gaza
VATICAN: First EU-Holy See foreign policy dialogue
CALENDAR
MAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS: 10-16 October
OTHER EVENTS: 10-16 October