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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11745

15 March 2017
Contents Publication in full By article 21 / 24
NEWS BRIEFS / Jordan
EIB presents its financial products and initiative for country's economic resilience

14/03/2017 (Agence Europe) – At an event organised in Amman on Tuesday 14 March by the Jordanian association EDAMA, the vice president of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Dario Scannapieco and EIB experts presented Jordan's business world with the EIB's financial products and its initiative to support economic resilience in the country.  The event was attended by Jordan's Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Imad Fakhoury and EU Ambassador to Jordan Andrea Fontana....

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
CIRCULAR ECONOMY: European Parliament sets sights high for waste recycling and reducing food waste
ENVIRONMENT: European Parliament endorses new rules restricting use of mercury and use of this substance in dental amalgams
INTERNAL MARKET: Parliament adopts inter-institutional agreement on firearms directive but not without controversy
ENTERPRISE: European Parliament gives green light to inter-institutional agreement on shareholders' rights
HUMAN RIGHTS: Global gag deeply divides European Parliament
GENDER EQUALITY: Parliament says EU programmes must recognise women's rights
AGRICULTURE: Parliament calls for EU legislation to protect farmed rabbits
AGRICULTURE: Parliament wants to improve final days of horses intended for slaughter
EXTERNAL ACTION
SYRIA: Commission and High Representative already making post-war preparations
CHINA: Beijing requests WTO arbitration in its complaint on EU's anti-dumping methodology
PHILIPPINES: Violent war on drugs threatens trade arrangements with EU
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
SOCIAL: Wearing Islamic headscarf can be prohibited by a company subject to certain conditions
CFSP: Armed forces can be charged with carrying out terrorist acts during a conflict
SECTORAL POLICIES
MIGRATION: ECHR ruling against Hungary for having detained two migrants in transit zone with Serbia
INSTITUTIONAL
PARLIAMENT: Unprecedented sanctions against Korwin-Mikke over his misogynistic comments
UNITED KINGDOM: European Parliament to take position on Brexit in early April
TRANSPARENCY: European Ombudsman looks into transparency of internal Council documents
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
TURKEY: Venice Commission publishes two new critical reports
JUSTICE: Despite fall in incarceration rate, prison overcrowding continues in 15 countries
NEWS BRIEFS
ALGERIA: Civil society organisations highlight human rights breaches
JORDAN: EIB presents its financial products and initiative for country's economic resilience
MOROCCO: EU seeks to provide Morocco with assurances before Court decision on fisheries agreement
REGIONS: Cretu to finally travel to Romania to meet new government
TURKEY: Ankara says EU's statement on Turkish tension with member states 'has no value'