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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11670

18 November 2016
Contents Publication in full By article 28 / 36
NEWS BRIEFS / Cohesion
CoR welcomes Commission's proposal not to suspend ESIF for Spain and Portugal

17/11/2016 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 17 November, the president of the Committee of the Regions (CoR), Markku Markkula, welcomed the European Commission's proposal not to suspend the 2017 commitments for the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) for Spain and Portugal (see EUROPE 11669). Markkula described this decision as “fair and forward-looking”, and believes that suspending these funds would have been “harmful, unfair and politically unviable”. He also warmly...

Contents

BEACONS
BEACONS: The question that could resolve everything: “Where have we gone wrong?” (II)
INSTITUTIONAL
BUDGET: Council and Parliament reach compromise on 2017 budget
UNITED KINGDOM: EU27 discuss EU's negotiation framework ahead of Brexit
COMMISSION: Commission reiterates its confidence in Oettinger following his private jet travel
EXTERNAL ACTION
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: EU and other donors pledge $2.28 billion to help country recover
MEDITERRANEAN: Roadmap signed for import to EU of 'green' electricity from Morocco
MEDITERRANEAN: Western Mediterranean countries hold security cooperation dialogue
RUSSIA: EU regrets Russia's withdrawal from International Criminal Court
EASTERN PARTNERSHIP: EU launches EU4Innovation
SECTORAL POLICIES
JHA: Council paves way to visa waiver system for Ukrainians, but still subject to conditions
JHA: Interior ministers to discuss 'effective' rather than 'flexible' solidarity on migration
SPACE: Ariane 5 ES successfully launches Galileo satellites
MEDIA: Europe still has to make progress on media pluralism
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
TAXATION: Commission calls for fair and efficient tax system
ECONOMY: Inflation up to 0.5% in EU and eurozone in October
EDUCATION
EDUCATION: Council of EU expected to approve skills strategy
BREACHES OF EU LAW
ENVIRONMENT: Spain faces heavy fines for failing to process urban waste water properly
JHA: Bulgaria before Court of Justice for shortcomings in document security
TRANSPORT: Croatia referred to Court for failure to ratify EU protocol of accession to Eurocontrol convention
TRANSPORT: Spain referred to Court for its legislation on access to road haulier profession
TRANSPORT: Court to examine Polish system requiring licenses for certain heavy-duty vehicles
INTERNAL MARKET: Germany, Cyprus and Hungary taken to Court of Justice for infringing Services Directive
ENERGY: Romania called to order over implementation of Oil Stocks Directive
ENERGY: Slovenia under fire for failing to submit its cogeneration assessment under Energy Efficiency Directive
ENERGY: Bulgaria, Spain, Poland and UK called to order over offshore safety directive
ACCOUNTANCY: Bulgaria required to transpose Accounting Directive
AUDIT: Commission orders Greece to transpose Audit Directive
NEWS BRIEFS
COHESION: CoR welcomes Commission's proposal not to suspend ESIF for Spain and Portugal
MOROCCO: EIB joins fight to tackle increasing pressures on water resources
FISHERIES: Progress in implementing EU-Mauritania fisheries agreement
MIDDLE EAST: EU pays close attention to approval of outposts
REGIONS: CEMR demands simplification in funds for fighting climate change
TRANSPORT: INEA signs project for developing electric road mobility
TRANSPORT: T&E dissatisfied with Commission inaction on road safety
TURKEY: European Parliament to discuss  and vote on Turkey at 21-24 November plenary
CORRIGENDUM
DEVELOPMENT: Clarification on AidEx 2016 news brief