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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11929

20 December 2017
Contents Publication in full By article 16 / 29
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / Ecb
De Masi and Varoufakis bring monetary institute before Court of Justice
Brussels, 19/12/2017 (Agence Europe)

The former German MEP Fabio De Masi (GUE/NGL) and the former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, have tabled a complaint to the Court of Justice of the EU through Prof Andreas Fischer-Lescano against the ECB, to have it ordered to explain its decision of June 2015 to remove Greek banks' access to the emergency liquidity of the monetary institution.

“Blackmail is not the job of the ECB. By restricting liquidity to the Greek banking sector to force cuts in pensions, tax increases and...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
INTERNAL MARKET: Commission behind initiative to improve marketing and security of products in EU
ENERGY: Inter-institutional agreement in principle on revised directive on building performance
ENERGY: Council of EU reaches political agreement in principle on energy/climate governance mechanism
ENERGY: Informal Council political agreement on revised renewables directive
ENERGY: Fragile agreement of principle at Council of EU on modalities for electricity capacity mechanisms
SPACE: Seven member states seeking to host Galileo Security Monitoring Centre
CONSUMERS: Dieselgate - VW pledges to meet promises made to consumers but not to compensate them
CLIMATE: EU sees launch of Chinese carbon market as strong signal to Trump administration
ENVIRONMENT: Eurobarometer reveals 90% of EU citizens worried about chemicals in everyday products
JUSTICE: Busy 2018 agenda for Commission
JUSTICE: Inter-institutional negotiations on reform of Eurojust to continue at beginning of 2018
INSTITUTIONAL
POLAND:  Rule of law - European Commission could activate Article 7 procedure against Warsaw
UNITED KINGDOM: Commission sets out vision for post-Brexit transition period sought by London
TRANSPARENCY: European Ombudsman asks Mr Tusk to clarify what contacts he has had with lobbyists
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
BANKS: Banking Union – Court of Auditors lists failings in drafting of resolution plans
ECB: De Masi and Varoufakis bring monetary institute before Court of Justice
STATE AID: Green light for German scheme to phase in surcharge for renewable energies
STATE AID: Green light to Irish aid scheme to small and medium-sized enterprises
EXTERNAL ACTION
SWITZERLAND: Member states asked to take position on shorter equivalency period for Swiss stock exchanges than anticipated
WESTERN BALKANS: Mogherini urges governments to speed up reform
LEBANON: EU adopts new €44 million aid programme
KYRGYZSTAN: Official launch of talks on new cooperation agreement
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: Twelve recommendations from SMEs to improve social security system coordination
NEWS BRIEFS
STATE AID: Green light to introduction of tradable phosphate production rights for dairy farming in Netherlands
STATE AID: Conditional green light to Maltese tonnage tax scheme for vessels
ALBANIA: EU criticises throwing of smoke bombs in parliament
GEORGIA: Erik Høeg appointed to head EUMM Georgia monitoring mission
MYANMAR: EU calls for release of two journalists
TRANSPORT: Council gives green light for revising rules on use of non-motorised balloons