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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11974

6 March 2018
Contents Publication in full By article 11 / 25
EXTERNAL ACTION / Switzerland
Swiss Federal Council ready to progress on institutional agreement in exchange for new electricity agreement
Brussels, 05/03/2018 (Agence Europe)

On Monday 5 March, the Swiss Federal Council announced its intention to conclude an institutional framework agreement with the European Union (which has been pending since 2013) and unveiled its ambition to obtain new EU market access in exchange, through an agreement on electricity.

This announcement was made by Swiss Federal Councillor for International Affairs Ignazio Cassis and comes after several months of prevarication on the Swiss side and a hardening of tone on the European side...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
CIRCULAR ECONOMY: EU plastics strategy welcome but not specific enough, say member states
CLIMATE: CO2 emissions from cars and vans - EU28 torn between Paris Agreement and industry's competitiveness
AGRICULTURE: Member states again underline simplification and common nature of CAP
JUSTICE: Political agreement in sight at Council on rules to fight fraud against non-cash payment instruments
JUSTICE: Vĕra Jourová defends Commission's priorities for 2018 before European Parliament
DIGITAL: In copyright arena, intense phase of negotiations on value gap in copyright taking place at Council
TRANSPORT: Liberadzki proposes to make Commission proposals on railway passenger rights more flexible
TRANSPORT: MEPs support European framework on odometer tampering
ENERGY: Commission asserts Russian gas will be supplied to EU via Ukraine
COHESION: CPMR says net contributors expected to benefit from certain Commission proposals
EXTERNAL ACTION
SWITZERLAND: Swiss Federal Council ready to progress on institutional agreement in exchange for new electricity agreement
LIBYA: Member states called on to step up efforts to evacuate more migrants from Libya
IRAN: Mohammad Javad Zarif says Europeans have violated nuclear programme agreement
SECURITY - DEFENCE
DEFENCE: EU ministers should officially adopt permanent structured cooperation projects
INSTITUTIONAL
CITIZENSHIP: Opaqueness of national 'golden visa' procedures in NGO consortium's sights
BUDGET: Commission proposes streamlining of European programmes in post-2020 EU budget
ITALY: Commission remains optimistic after strong push from eurosceptics and europhobes
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
TAXATION: ECIPE gives industry arguments against future tax on Internet giants
NEWS BRIEFS
GERMANY: Towards third coalition government between Social and Christian Democrats of Merkel era
CATALONIA: Around 30 MEPs launch website to facilitate dialogue between EU, Catalonia and Spain
ENVIRONMENT: Commission proposes series of measures to modernise REACH regulation
SOCIAL: Several delegations surprised by joint declaration on posted workers
THAILAND: Mogherini underlines importance of respecting timetable envisaged for elections
UKRAINE: EU prolongs sanctions by a year linked to embezzlement of Ukrainian state funds
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
European Library: No. 1212