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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11968

24 February 2018
Contents Publication in full By article 12 / 27
SECTORAL POLICIES / Digital
Council now only considering licences of at least 10 years
Brussels, 23/02/2018 (Agence Europe)

On Friday 23 February, the member states’ ambassadors agreed on a new negotiating mandate for the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU on the electronic communications code ahead of the trialogue talks on 28 February.  The mandate repeats most of the document drawn up by Sofia (see EUROPE 11966) but amends measures on the duration of licences. 

The co-legislators started their talks in trialogue on 25 October on the code that aims to introduce greater predictability and legal...

Contents

EUROPEAN COUNCIL
BUDGET: Most member states in favour of increasing EU budget post-2020
EP2019: EU27 refuses to consider automatic accession of lead candidate as Commission president
UNITED KINGDOM: Donald Tusk calls London's vision of future relations a 'pure illusion'
SYRIA: Europeans call for immediate ceasefire in Eastern Ghouta
TURKEY: Donald Tusk calls into question leaders' summit on 26 March
POLAND: Donald Tusk urges PiS to repair country's damaged image
EXTERNAL ACTION
SAHEL: Another €86 million pledged by EU and its member states to G5 Sahel force
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Situation in Syria could be on the Council agenda
TRADE: EESC supports planned multilateral investment court and is preparing an opinion for May
INDONESIA: Friends of the Earth wants moratorium on palm oil in EU-Indonesia trade negotiations
SECTORAL POLICIES
AGRICULTURE: Herbert Dorfmann wary of subsidiarity proposed by Commission for future CAP
DIGITAL: Council now only considering licences of at least 10 years
ENERGY: Austria goes to CJEU against Hungarian-Russian nuclear project Paks-2
TRANSPORT: Cargonexx, Cocolis, Klaxit and MaaS Global win first European Startup Prize for Mobility
COHESION: Karl-Heinz Lambertz calls on European Council to safeguard cohesion budget after 2020
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECONOMY: Annual inflation rate down to 1.3% in Eurozone in January
FINANCES: Reform of European supervisory authorities – EESC warns against general increase in costs of supervision
INSTITUTIONAL
BREXIT: MEPs call for assurances over EMA relocation process
ROMANIA: Romanian government seeks to remove head of anti-corruption office
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
CONSUMERS: ECJ judge opposes further energy labelling for vacuum-cleaners
AGRICULTURE: Advocate general explains EU law on geographical indications
AGRICULTURE: Member states must foresee ways to access farmland for inspection purposes
NEWS BRIEFS
BELARUS: EU prolongs sanctions for a year
TRANSPORT: Car manufacturers support Commission's action plan on alternative fuel infrastructure
The B-word: Agence Europe’s newsletter on Brexit
THE B-WORD: The Brexit basket case
CALENDAR
Main activities of the European institutions: 26/02 - 04/03
Other events: 26/02 - 11/03