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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12026

25 May 2018
Contents Publication in full By article 35 / 39
NEWS BRIEFS / Justice
European Parliament receives first written answers from Mark Zuckerberg after his hearing

24/05/2018 (Agence Europe) – During his hearing at the European Parliament on Tuesday 22 May, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook pledged to make a written follow-up to answer all the questions he was asked but didn’t answer due to lack of time (see EUROPE 12024).  This he did on Thursday 24 May.  In a document put online, the social network answered eighteen questions on ‘phantom profiles,’ data of non-users of Facebook, false accounts, the mixing of Facebook and WhatsApp data,...

Contents

BEACONS
BEACONS: When Europe is resolutely blind to the fact that it is digging its own grave... (I)
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
COMPETITION: Commission places several obligations on Gazprom to preserve competition on the gas market
FINANCE: Commission hopes to promote emergence of sovereign bond-backed securities market
FINANCE: Step by step, Commission completes its action plan on sustainable finance
FINANCE: Commission proposes new measures to help SME flotations
INSURANCE: Commission proposes to make it easier for road accident victims to receive compensation if insurance company becomes insolvent
ECOFIN: Political agreement hoped for at Council on 'reduction of banking risks' package
INSTITUTIONAL
FUTURE OF THE EU: Luca Jahier considers the member states to be the 'major problem' in European integration narrative
ITALY: Europeans will judge future Italian government on its acts
UNITED KINGDOM: London wants the broadest free-trade deal possible based on mutual recognition
SECTORAL POLICIES
MIGRATION: Council enters home straight in trying to reform EU asylum system by end of June
TRANSPORT: MEPs recommend moving from the vignette system to a toll system for heavy-duty vehicles and vans in 2023
TRANSPORT: MEPs back Commission proposal on interoperability of electronic toll systems
JUSTICE: European Parliament-Council agreement on stricter controls of cross-border movements of cash
INTERNAL MARKET: Political agreement between Parliament and Council on single digital gateway
REGIONS: Commission selects a number of regional and national programmes to help boost their governance and administration
AGRICULTURE: Italy still required to recover money due from milk producers
AGRICULTURE: EU needs blueprint for food and farming, according to University of Pisa study
AGRICULTURE: Direct payments should be paid only to active farmers, says EESC
CLIMATE: Citizens lodge complaint with General Court against EU 2030 target
EXTERNAL ACTION
USA: Commission ridicules Donald Trump's threat to tax car imports
RUSSIA/UKRAINE: Maroš Šefčovič urges Moscow and Kiev to resume trilateral talks on gas supply
UKRAINE: Johannes Hahn hails progress on country's decentralisation
IRAN: Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei puts pressure on Europeans
ACP: ACP group says it is determined to negotiate post-Cotonou agreement with EU as a single bloc
ACP: EU finalises draft negotiating mandate on post-Cotonou partnership
AFRICA: Africa-EU partnership grows with €400 million committed by EU to support youth
NEWS BRIEFS
AGRICULTURE: Expert group to strengthen EU-Africa agriculture partnership launched
AGRICULTURE: Most members of Parliament agriculture committee have links with industry, Greenpeace reveals
CHINA: EU calls for release of several human rights defenders
TRADE: Review of countervailing measures against imports of Indian polyethylene terephthalate
TRADE: EU anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of solar glass originating in Malaysia
YOUTH: 'DiscoverEU' website launched
JUSTICE: Postponement of LIBE committee vote on draft resolution assessing suitability of Privacy Shield
JUSTICE: European Parliament receives first written answers from Mark Zuckerberg after his hearing
DIGITAL: 'Copyright' directive, no let-up in suspense at Council
DRC: European solidarity grows to help DRC fight Ebola
TRANSPORT: Parliament ready to negotiate with Council over hire of planes and staff from non-EU companies
CORRIGENDUM
ENTERPRISE: Clarification of article on Parliament's position on European definition of SMEs