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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11967

23 February 2018
Contents Publication in full By article 3 / 33
EUROPEAN COUNCIL / Ep2019
EU27 could support cut to 705 seats in composition of European Parliament
Brussels, 22/02/2018 (Agence Europe)

Over lunch on Friday 23 February, the European leaders will discuss several institutional questions linked to the May 2019 European electoral deadlines, such as the composition of the next European Parliament and the process of head of list candidates (‘Spitzenkandidaten’) for presiding over the future European Commission.

The leaders will be asked to give their position on the European Parliament's proposal to reduce the size of the hemicycle from 751 to 705 MEPs for the 2019-2024...

Contents

BEACONS
BEACONS: How do we resist the resistible rise of Arturo Ui this time round? (II)
EUROPEAN COUNCIL
BUDGET: Twenty-Seven to discuss political priorities and size of post-2020 EU budget
EP2019: EU27 could support cut to 705 seats in composition of European Parliament
UK: Donald Tusk to inform EU27 of way forward to prepare future relations
INSTITUTIONAL
BUDGET: MEPs call for generous EU budget post-2020 fed into by new own resources
SECTORAL POLICIES
DIGITAL: Consumer rights, relative maximum harmonisation obtains support of MEPs
DIGITAL: Axel Voss MEP supports Commission's approach on value gap
INTERNAL MARKET: MEPs extend range of single digital portal to new administrative procedures
INDUSTRY: Šefčovič encourages strong industrial base in Europe for batteries, renewables and eco-construction
AGRICULTURE: MEPs call for more support for sheep and goat sectors
ENERGY: Jerzy Buzek urges Council to take action on amendment to 'gas' directive for third country gas pipelines
ENERGY: European Parliament pleased with strengthened proposal for new rules on electricity 2.0 market
TRANSPORT: EASA advocates rules on drone safety risks that are as simple as possible
COHESION: Dombrovskis expects increase in allocation for structural reform support service after 2020
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
BANKS: MEPs begin examining 1,900 amendments tabled on banking risk reduction legislative package
TAXATION: MEPs introduce digital element to CCCTB
ECONOMY: MEPs want deepening of EMU to be accompanied by its democratisation
BANKS: Appointment of Jazbec to SRB approved by European Parliament but criticised by Slovenian association VZMD
EXTERNAL ACTION
SAUDI ARABIA: Adel Al-Jubeir makes veiled criticism of European policy on Iran
BAHRAIN: EU criticises additional sentencing of Bahraini human rights defender, Nabeel Rajab
MALI: EU reiterates support to forces of Operation Barkhane and to grieving France
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
SOCIAL: A pregnant worker can be made redundant as part of a collective redundancy
ENVIRONMENT: Air quality - Court rules against Poland for constant failure to comply with EU law
ENVIRONMENT: Greece again found guilty of breaching EU rules on waste water treatment
MIGRATION: Advocate general says return of asylum seeker cannot be ordered until their request has been rejected by judicial authority in first instance
NEWS BRIEFS
STATE AID: Go-ahead for French measure to support biomass electricity generation
STATE AID: Greenlight to two contracts between Lübeck airport and Ryanair
BANKS: Latvian bank ABLV case – ECB points out that it has no powers of investigation into suspected money laundering
ENERGY: New step forwards towards final approval of revised energy efficiency directive
ENVIRONMENT: Pesticides - Parliament's special 'PEST' committee to hold inaugural meeting on 12 March
GREECE: Greek Parliament to also investigate allegations of corruption against Dimitris Avramopoulos
INTERNAL MARKET: Legal affairs committee calls for electronic services card to be rejected
TRANSPORT: Aviation unions determined to continue their action against attempts to limit the right to strike