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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11985

21 March 2018
Contents Publication in full By article 9 / 29
EXTERNAL ACTION / Russia
EU criticises 'violations and shortcomings' at presidential elections
Brussels, 20/03/2018 (Agence Europe)

On Monday 19 March, the spokesperson for the European External Action Service (EEAS) criticised the "violations and shortcomings" observed at the presidential elections in Russia the previous day.  The elections were won by Vladimir Putin.

"We expect Russia to address the violations and shortcomings" reported by the OSCE/ODIHR election observation mission,"as they run against Russia's OSCE commitments and other international obligations", the EEAS spokesperson stated in a press release.

Contents

INSTITUTIONAL
UNITED KINGDOM: Guidelines on future relations post-Brexit agreed by Twenty-Seven refer to financial services
POLAND: Commission awaiting Warsaw's response to determine next steps on rule of law procedure
COMMISSION: Express appointment of Martin Selmayr – MEPs keep up pressure on Commission
EXTERNAL ACTION
TRADE: EU leaders favour dialogue with United States and want to avoid trade war
TRADE: Council of Ministers of the EU's green light for negotiating mandate on Multilateral Investment Court
USA: Signs of US flexibility with EU on exemption from steel and aluminium taxes
MERCOSUR: Still no date for new session of EU-Mercosur free trade talks
RUSSIA: Council expected to announce Europeans will respond in coordinated manner to Skripals' poisoning
RUSSIA: EU criticises 'violations and shortcomings' at presidential elections
KOSOVO: Behgjet Pacolli proposes duty-free zone with Serbia
PALESTINE: EU strengthens support for Gaza Strip
UN: Louise Arbour and MEPs discuss substance of future Global Pact for Migration
DEVELOPMENT: Goerens report says EU must help make poor countries' debt sustainable
SECTORAL POLICIES
JUSTICE: European Data Protection Supervisor says Cambridge Analytica is “just the tip of the iceberg”
TRANSPORT: MEPs highlight the differences on social aspects in 1st “mobility” package
TRANSPORT: MEPs adopt position on tackling unfair competition by third country airlines
REGIONS: CoR study reveals fewer than third of European regions are preparing for impact of Brexit
DIGITAL: Wifi4EU portal online with first call for projects on 15 May
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
BANKS: Elke König updates MEPs on failure of Latvian bank ABLV
FINANCE: Sophie in't Veld unveils plans for viable pan-European personal pension products
ECONOMY: In its Eurozone recommendation, Council argues in favour of fighting aggressive tax planning
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: Agreement reached on 'posted workers' directive, despite last-minute skirmish over lex specialis and allowances
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
FINANCE/TAXATION: Court lists several cases in which principle of double jeopardy may be limited
SOCIAL: Advocate General holds that member states are free to consider parental leave as actual working time for deciding period of annual paid leave
NEWS BRIEFS
INSURANCE: Council endorses EU/US agreement on insurance
DIGITAL: Bulgarian Presidency of Council seeking renewed audio-visual services mandate
DIGITAL: Armenia joins Creative Europe programme
EP2019: European elections to be held between 23 and 26 May 2019
SOCIAL: Commission presents EaSI project examples