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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12025
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Regions

Proposal by Barnier in 2001 could be inspiration for aid programme for regions affected by Brexit

A programme set up in the early 2000s when Michel Barnier was the regional policy commissioner was brought up in discussions during a visit by a Committee of the Regions (CoR) delegation to Ireland and Northern Ireland on Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 May, as a possible way of supporting those regions directly affected by Brexit.

The said mechanism was raised by CoR member François Decoster (ALDE, France) in a meeting on the delegation’s first day with Ireland’s European Affairs Minister...

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