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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11721
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Youth

Mounting discontent over Commission's decreasing ambition for 18-year olds' InterRail project

In a press release on Wednesday 8 February, the Austrian Transport Minister, Jörg Leichtfried, provided a heated response to the European Commission proposal to revise the project downwards on InterRail tickets for young Europeans that have just celebrated their 18th birthday.

The project to provide a one-month InterRail ticket to young Europeans aged 18 was proposed by the president of the EPP political group, Manfred Weber (Germany), following a state of the European Union speech from the...

Contents

ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
COMPETITION: Three recycling companies fined over cartel
COMPETITION: Commission to test commitments offered by LSE and Deutsche Börse
EMU: Negotiations at daggers drawn over fiscal capacity for Eurozone
FINANCE: ESMA calls for revision of equivalence rules of third-country legislation with that of the EU
SECTORAL POLICIES
MIGRATION: Commission will decide in March whether it should join Member States to fulfil commitments on relocation
DIGITAL: Agreement on portability of cross-border online services examined
DIGITAL: Member states approve inter-institutional agreement on wholesale roaming
YOUTH: Mounting discontent over Commission's decreasing ambition for 18-year olds' InterRail project
JHA: European Commission says Romania must not back track
JHA: Dimitris Avramopoulos to meet US counterpart, John Kelly
ENVIRONMENT: 'Stop glyphosate' ECI is public health issue
AGRICULTURE: Farm Europe suggests CAP risk management toolbox
TRANSPORT: Council green light to trialogue on review of air safety agency
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Council to adopt conclusions in June on incorporating SDGs into EU policies
EXTERNAL ACTION
TRADE: Commission proposes 18-month extension in anti-dumping duties and gradual phase-out to tackle Chinese solar panels
CENTRAL AMERICA: Costa Rica gives positive analysis of free trade agreement with EU
CHINA: Beijing promises to offer foreign companies more investment opportunities
MIGRATION: Mogherini says management of migrant flows requires cooperation
ISRAEL: EU urges Israeli leaders not to implement 'Regularisation Law'
MOROCCO: Mogherini tries to calm Western Sahara situation and implicitly disavows Cañete
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
COPYRIGHT: 'BitTorrent'-type websites should be held responsible for shared files
CONSUMERS: Difference in format or size of shops used for price-comparison advertising must be referred to clearly
INSTITUTIONAL
BUDGET: Brexit provides opportunity to make changes to EU own resources, says European Parliament
NEWS BRIEFS
AFGHANISTAN: EU criticises killing of six Red Cross employees
BANKS: Finalisation of work on bridge financing for Single Resolution Fund
TRADE: Closure of expiry review of antidumping duties against certain Chinese PET
DEVELOPMENT: Neven Mimica in The Gambia to assure new president of EU's support
ENERGY: Putin gives final green light to construction of Russian-Turkish gas pipeline TurkStream
UNITED STATES: Katainen hopes to relaunch TTIP with Trump administration
INDUSTRY: Council position expected to be clarified on 15 February for vehicle approval
COHESION: Inter-institutional agreement reached on Structural Reform Support Programme 2017-2020
HEALTH: Atlas of Contraception in Europe
HEALTH: PAFF committee to discuss endocrine disruptors end of February
TRANSPORT: Commission launches first CEF call for proposals compatible with EFSI