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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11998

11 April 2018
Contents Publication in full By article 7 / 28
SECTORAL POLICIES / Fisheries
Petition against overfishing gathers 172,120 signatures
Brussels, 10/04/2018 (Agence Europe)

A petition signed by 172,120 citizens calling for an end to overfishing and for the seas and oceans to be protected was submitted to Swedish Secretary of State for the Environment Per Ängquist on the sidelines of the informal meeting of European environment ministers (see other articles) which opened in Sofia on Tuesday 10 April.

The petition was launched in October 2017 on the initiative of the NGOs Our Fish, Seas at Risk and WeMove.eu. It calls on member states to honour their...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
TRANSPORT: Violeta Bulc concerned that European road safety objectives for 2020 will not be reached
DIGITAL: Commission takes advantage of Digital Day to launch European budget appeal
DIGITAL: Declaration by EU28 and Norway to boost artificial intelligence
TERRORISM: State of play in Parliament-Council talks on tighter checks on cross-border movement of cash
JUSTICE: Eurocadres publishes recommendations for new whistleblower directive
AGRICULTURE: Food waste and unfair trade practices to be discussed at Council on Monday 16 April
FISHERIES: Petition against overfishing gathers 172,120 signatures
RESEARCH: Morocco joins Euro-Mediterranean PRIMA partnership
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
FINANCE: Pan-European venture capital fund-of-funds to keep start-ups in EU in full expansion
TAXATION: Consensus emerging on whether to tax online platforms, but not on solutions
TAXATION: Paul Tang says negotiations on post-2020 EU budget must also look at national tax regimes
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
TRANSPORT: Member state may prohibit and punish UberPop activities without providing prior notification to Commission
JHA: Court says Germany can extradite a non-German EU citizen to USA if state of origin does not demand him
CITIZENSHIP: Advocate General clarifies conditions for awarding residency rights to non-EU partner in member state of origin of a European citizen
TAXATION: Profit margin regime cannot be applied to resale of goods containing precious stones or metals for extraction
EXTERNAL ACTION
RUSSIA: Several experts say funds to Russia must be cut to limit country's influence
DEVELOPMENT: Fall in EU official assistance in 2017 due to drastic decrease in assistance to refugees in Europe
CHINA: Jyrki Katainen hails Xi Jinping's new promises of increased opening of Chinese market
USA: Jyrki Katainen says atmosphere now calmer to settle transatlantic dispute on US taxes on steel and aluminium
INSTITUTIONAL
UNITED KINGDOM: Marking 20th anniversary of Good Friday Agreement, EU makes clear to UK that Ireland remains at centre of talks
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
MIGRATION: Council of Europe's anti-torture commission calls for coordinated European approach to hosting of migrants present in Italy
NEWS BRIEFS
CATALONIA: Esteban González Pons surprised a regional court can decide to release Carles Puigdemont
TRADE: EU aluminium industry believes safeguard measures will probably be needed
TRADE: Guyana ambassador to WTO is new head of agricultural talks in Geneva
INDUSTRY: T&E claims manufacturers are slowing down fleet modernisation efforts in effort to maximise profits
JUSTICE: Commission to organise meeting of national electoral commissions on Cambridge Analytica case
MIGRATION: MEPs call on member states to step up efforts to evacuate migrants trapped in Libya
SLOVENIA/CROATIA: Hearing in early May of respective arguments on territorial conflict