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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11963

17 February 2018
Contents Publication in full By article 6 / 27
EXTERNAL ACTION / Mercosur
Decisive week for an EU-MERCOSUR trade deal before election campaigning starts in Brazil
Brussels, 16/02/2018 (Agence Europe)

EU and MERCOSUR (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) negotiators will meet in Asunción from 20 February to try to lift the remaining obstacles to a political agreement before the start of general election campaigning in Brazil next month.

The negotiators will try to iron out divergences on the technical level and leave ministers to settle the trickier political issues.  EU Commissioners Cecilia Malmström (Trade) and Phil Hogan (Agriculture) will travel to the Paraguayan capital when...

Contents

SECURITY - DEFENCE
EU-NATO: NATO remains foundation for collective defence, Mogherini stresses
EXTERNAL ACTION
BALKANS: Johannes Hahn optimistic about resolving Macedonia name issue by end of June
SYRIA: EU reiterates support for political process in Syria
TURKEY: Federica Mogherini calls on Turkey to show restraint in military operation in Afrin
BURMA/MYANMAR: Several MEPs call on EU to review its policy
MERCOSUR: Decisive week for an EU-MERCOSUR trade deal before election campaigning starts in Brazil
MEXICO: Decisive stage for talks on trade section of updated EU-Mexico global agreement
EDUCATION
EDUCATION: Council of EU makes further step towards future network of European universities
INSTITUTIONAL
FUTURE OF EUROPE: Spain wants CAP to be at the heart of the post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework
SECTORAL POLICIES
INTERNAL MARKET: Joint German-French paper pours cold water on services e-card
AGRICULTURE: EU ministers to continue deliberations on future of CAP
AGRICULTURE: Further increase in land and organic farming and organic market in 2016
ENERGY: Šefčovič confident that Southern Gas Corridor will carry Caspian region gas to EU from 2020
ENVIRONMENT: Pivotal week for chair and name of Parliament special committee on pesticides
JUSTICE: How EU bodies deal with personal data, Bulgarian Presidency's ideas for resolving deadlock
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
STATE AID: Green light to Belgian certification system for electricity produced from renewable sources and high-efficiency cogeneration
COMPETITION: In-depth investigation opens into planned merger between Praxair and Linde
ECONOMY: EESC calls for austerity policies to be limited in event of future asymmetric shock
ECOFIN: Budget and sustainable finance on ministers' agenda
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
TURKEY: Thorbjørn Jagland calls for state of emergency to be lifted
NEWS BRIEFS
CHINA: EU calls again for release of Gui Minhai
ENVIRONMMENT: Green cities at forefront of European Green Week in May
SPACE: Bulgarian Presidency postpones until 29 May the Competitiveness Council on space
UNITED KINGDOM: London offers to grant post-Brexit rights for Europeans to EEA citizens
The B-word: Agence Europe’s newsletter on Brexit
THE B-WORD: Beware the Ides of March
CALENDAR
Main activities of the European institutions: 19/02-25/02
Other events: 19/02-04/03