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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12025

24 May 2018
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / Eurozone
Commission considers that no non-Eurozone state is currently ready to adopt single currency
Brussels, 23/05/2018 (Agence Europe)

The 2018 convergence report concerning the state of preparedness of non-Eurozone countries to adopt the single currency, which the Commission published on Wednesday 23 May, indicates that none of the seven countries concerned meets all criteria laid down. Croatia and Bulgaria only need to meet one criterion concerning the exchange rate.

The report concerns Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania and Sweden. It is of particular relevance for Bulgaria, which plans to...

Contents

ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECONOMY: EU countries urged to use economic expansion to continue structural reforms
EUROZONE: Commission considers that no non-Eurozone state is currently ready to adopt single currency
SECTORAL POLICIES
DIGITAL: Copyright, Council presidency to try again on Friday
DIGITAL: Provisional European Parliament-Council agreement on access section of communications code
JUSTICE: European Parliament-Council agreement in extremis on processing of personal data by EU bodies
JUSTICE: Format of Mark Zuckerberg's hearing in Parliament under fire
ENVIRONMENT: Greens' recipe for effectively tackling pollution by single-use plastics
RESEARCH: Finland wants current pilot phase of the European Innovation Council to be given sharper teeth
REGIONS: Proposal by Barnier in 2001 could be inspiration for aid programme for regions affected by Brexit
AGRICULTURE: European producers of organic origin wines want use of copper to continue
AGRICULTURE: EU beef producers worried about trade concessions and EU budget
FISHERIES: Vella called on to ensure end of overfishing by 2020
ENERGY: EU at forefront in two international ministerial meetings on clean energy
INSTITUTIONAL
EP2019: Parliament takes heart from new Eurobarometer survey, with exactly one year to go until European elections
BUDGET 2019: Commission proposes budget up by 3% and exceeding three ceilings
BUDGET: Parliament accuses Commission of dressing up figures post-2020 financial framework
UNITED KINGDOM: London wants ambitious data protection agreement with EU
OLAF: Commission proposes revision of OLAF regulation in preparation for collaboration with European prosecutor
SECURITY - DEFENCE
DEFENCE: Provisional Parliament-Council agreement on EDIDP industrial development programme
DEFENCE: Four European agencies reinforce cooperation to tackle new IT challenges
EXTERNAL ACTION
AFRICA: AU Commission and European Commission sign memorandum of understanding on peace and security
VENEZUELA: EU considers new sanctions after biased elections
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: EU pushing for entry into force of Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
TRADE: Cecilia Malmström encourages USA and China to discuss reform of global trade rules
SINGAPORE: Signature and implementation of EU-Singapore investment agreement may have to wait until after 2019
MEXICO: Issue of EU access to Mexican public procurement at sub-federal level remains in limbo until early 2019
CULTURE - SPORT
EYCS: Tibor Navracsics backs idea of a 'culture Erasmus'
NEWS BRIEFS
CHILE: Third round of talks on review of EU-Chile trade agreement from 28 May to 1 June
JAPAN: Cecilia Malmström hopes for entry into force of EU-Japan free trade agreement in early 2019
MERCOSUR: Cecilia Malmström underlines South American bloc's challenge of coordination in trade talks with EU
HEALTH: Intellectual property incentives to be unveiled on 28 May
ADDENDUM
IRAN: USA not attending Joint Commission meeting on Iran deal on 25 May