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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11857

8 September 2017
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EXTERNAL ACTION / Trade
CEO speaks out against corporate lobbies discrediting movement for trade justice
Brussels, 07/09/2017 (Agence Europe)

In a report published on Thursday 7 September, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and the NGO LobbyControl highlight how big business associations and corporate think tanks have been using defamation tactics to undermine civil society groups campaigning for a democratic, socially and environmentally just EU trade policy.

The report highlights various misleading claims made against NGOs and other groups in the movement for trade justice, and shows how the arguments and tactics used by...

Contents

BEACONS
BEACONS: Can two countries be (a little) more equal than the others?
INSTITUTIONAL
UNITED KINGDOM: EU does not want London to use Irish question to start negotiations on post-Brexit relations
EP2019: Hübner and Pereira propose cutting MEP numbers to 700 from 2019
EXTERNAL ACTION
NORTH KOREA: EU to prepare new sanctions against Pyongyang
TURKEY: EU foreign ministers far from unanimous on suspending accession negotiations
BURMA: EU calls for tensions to be calmed in Rakhine State
TRADE: EU, Argentina and Mongolia to launch global campaign against trade in instruments of torture
TRADE: EU ready to lower taxes against Argentine biodiesel to comply with WTO ruling
TRADE: CEO speaks out against corporate lobbies discrediting movement for trade justice
INDONESIA: Warning of human rights threat from EU-Indonesia free trade agreement
SECTORAL POLICIES
INDUSTRY: Council and Parliament stick to their respective positions on fees and Commission role in vehicle type approval
INDUSTRY: European Parliament Greens call on Commission to take action in Dieselgate affair
CONSUMERS: National authorities and Commission urge Volkswagen to 'repair' all tampered vehicles in given deadline
TERRORISM: Commission reaffirms support to member states in fight against terror
DIGITAL: SatCab regulation, Parliament postpones legal affairs committee vote
CLIMATE: Environment committee wants higher EU energy efficiency target
AGRICULTURE: Council tweaks its position on omnibus regulation
AGRICULTURE: EEB wants end to CAP's two-pillar structure
FOOD SAFETY: MEPs veto relaxing of post-Fukushima food import checks
FOOD SAFETY: Serious deficiencies in Indonesian checks on tuna products for EU
TRANSPORT: Mobility package and rail passenger rights among Commission priorities
TRANSPORT: Sector actors argue that fleet automation requires legal and political framework
JHA: Proposed online privacy regulation a disaster, says MEP Axel Voss
REGIONS: St Martin eligible for solidarity funding after Hurricane Irma though not St Barthélemy
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
TAXATION: Austria's ideas to tax web giants
ECB: Announcements possible by end of October on exiting 'quantitative easing' operation
ECONOMY: GDP up in Eurozone and EU in second quarter of 2017
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
TRANSPORT: Airline passenger compensation depends on radial distance between cities of departure and arrival
TAXATION: French legislation on tax exemption for dividends breaches 'parent/subsidiaries' directive
EDUCATION
EDUCATION: MEPs expected to call for more post-2020 Erasmus + programme funding
NEWS BRIEFS
STATE AID: Green light to German measure to support Memmingen airport
INSTITUTIONAL: First tripartite political meeting on compulsory transparency register