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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11851
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Environment

NGOs join forces to ensure Warsaw complies with Court's Białowieża forest ruling

Brought together on the initiative of Greenpeace Poland, a coalition of environmental NGOs moved into action on Tuesday 29 August to protest against the illegal felling of trees in the Białowieża Forest by trying physically on the ground to block government logging which is continuing in breach of the ruling by the Court of Justice of the EU, Greenpeace announced that same day.

The protests sought to bring pressure to bear on the Polish authorities to comply with the Court’s ruling...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
TRANSPORT: 'Mobility' package, aviation competition and Brexit on Council and Parliament agenda when they return from summer break
DIGITAL: Discussions to come at Council on institutional chapter of communications code
FOOD SAFETY: Bulgaria joins list of countries affected by Fipronil in eggs crisis, analyses continuing for amitraz
AGRICULTURE: Farmers' confidence rises in 2017
FISHERIES: Parliament to apply simplified procedure on discard plans
ENVIRONMENT: NGOs join forces to ensure Warsaw complies with Court's Białowieża forest ruling
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
TAXATION: Ambition of European Parliament's rapporteurs on CCCTB already thwarted
TAXATION: Relatively uncomplicated work at European Parliament on two VAT proposals
BANKS: Software investment crops up in discussions on reducing financial risks
INSTITUTIONAL
UNITED KINGDOM: Brexit negotiations going too slowly to achieve significant progress by October, says Verhofstadt
FUTURE OF EU: Emmanuel Macron's initiative to promote refounding of European project
SOCIAL AFFAIRS - EMPLOYMENT
SOCIAL: Commission calls on member states to step up efforts to improve education and access to jobs for Roma
EMPLOYMENT: European trade unions argue that wage gap is widening between western and eastern European workers
EXTERNAL ACTION
CIVIL PROTECTION: EU provides USA with satellite images to help Texas with Hurricane Harvey
OCEANA: Commission still hoping to open negotiations for free trade agreements with Wellington and Canberra this year
BALKANS: Giacomelli says pressure must be maintained for Sarajevo to join transport community
NEWS BRIEFS
BANKS: General Court receives 50 complaints about resolution of Banco Popular
BUDGET: Earthquakes in Italy – €1.2 billion mobilised under EU Solidarity Fund
COMPETITION: Open Internet Project calls on Margrethe Vestager to look carefully at Google's proposals
UNITED KINGDOM: Parliament looks at possible headquarters for medicines agency
SOCIAL: MEPs endorse inter-institutional compromise strengthening controls over mutagenic and carcinogenic agents