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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12010
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Transport

Transport actors call for more funds to be allocated to Connecting Europe Facility

On Tuesday 24 April, as part of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) Day event in Ljubljana on 25-27 April, around 40 organisations representing civil society published the Ljubljana declaration calling on political decision-makers to invest more in the transport sector. 

The signatories of the text emphasise, firstly, that transport is essential for the single European market, the daily lives of citizens and economic growth. They then highlight the need to make sustainable mobility...

Contents

INSTITUTIONAL
BUDGET: Commission considers 'basket' of new own resources to cover 22% of EU budget in 2027
HUNGARY: Tense exchanges in Parliament with Hungarian Foreign Minister
SECTORAL POLICIES
DIGITAL: EU co-legislators agree audiovisual rules
DIGITAL: Commission seeking to re-establish balance between platforms and their professional users
DEMOCRACY: In context of disinformation, Commission is giving platforms 'a chance'
JUSTICE: Jourová wants to work with member states to tackle digital threats affecting election process
HEALTH: Commission presents non-binding vaccination proposal
ENVIRONMENT: PEST special committee calls for harmonisation of national authority methods for approving pesticides
CLIMATE: Paris Agreement - seven member states call on EU to raise targets through long-term strategy
TRANSPORT: European Parliament's employment committee on first mobility package contains genuine social tone
TRANSPORT: Transport actors call for more funds to be allocated to Connecting Europe Facility
AGRICULTURE: French and German farmers call on their governments to oppose cut in post-2020 CAP
FISHERIES: Commission proposes negotiation of new fisheries agreement with Madagascar
FISHERIES: Not all stocks will be managed according to MSY by 2020, fisheries scientific committee says
ENERGY: Sefcovic urges Slovenia to become catalyst in sustainable energy at regional level
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
GREECE: Jean-Claude Juncker praises resilience of Greek people in address to Vouli
ECB: Institute opts for monetary status quo
FINANCE: Obstacles to enlightened information for consumers persist, says Commission
EXTERNAL ACTION
TURKEY: Recep Akdağ says more pledges of donations and fewer speeches are needed to help Syrians
MIDDLE EAST: John Dugard calls for end to EU-Israel cooperation
SERBIA: Tusk says it is for Belgrade alone to choose its future
KOSOVO: Tusk reiterates importance of political consensus
BURMA/MYANMAR: EU extends and strengthens its arms embargo
TRADE: EU establishes prior surveillance system for imports of certain aluminium products
USA: German scepticism over permanent exemption for EU from US steel and aluminium duties
MERCOSUR: Hogan intractable on inclusion of SPS standards in EU-Mercosur trade agreement
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
UKRAINE: General Court upholds freezing of Azarov's assets for period 2016-2017
TAXATION: Spanish regional taxes on large retail establishments are compatible with EU law, says Court
TRANSPORT: Advocate General holds that a member state can subject carriage of goods crossing its territory from Turkey to authorisation under certain conditions
EMPLOYMENT: Advocate General holds that there can be a perception of discrimination by an employer when a breastfeeding employee has to carry out night shift work
NEWS BRIEFS
EGYPT: EU and Egypt update their energy cooperation to direct it, apart from gas, towards clean energies
SPACE: Successful launch of Sentinel-3B satellite in Copernicus programme
JUSTICE: Mark Zuckerberg may appear before Parliament hearing in Cambridge Analytica affair this May
DIGITAL: No inter-institutional breakthrough on electronic communications code
DIGITAL: Digital policy at forefront of European Parliament
CORRIGENDUM
TRANSPORT: Translation clarification in article dated 25 April on aircraft