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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12031
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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Transport

Parliament calls on Commission to upwardly revise transport section goals in CEF

On Thursday 31 May, MEPs meeting at their plenary session adopted (368 votes for, 211 votes against, 51 abstentions), a resolution submitted by the EPP, S&D, ECR and ALDE groups, calling on the European Commission to upwardly revise its goals on the transport pillar in the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for 2021-2027. 

This joint resolution was drafted and adopted at a strategic date because the European Commission presented its major guidelines for the future CEF during a publication on...

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BEACONS
BEACONS: When Europe is resolutely blind to the fact that it is digging its own grave... (II)
EXTERNAL ACTION
USA: Donald Trump imposes his taxes on European steel and aluminium and chooses trade confrontation with EU
TRADE: EU, USA and Japan want to discuss stricter new rules on industrial subsidies
OECD: OECD countries and 12 emerging countries commit to more responsible conduct for companies
MERCOSUR: EESC wants balanced EU-Mercosur trade agreement with a strong social dimension
ACP: ACP-EU ministerial meeting in Lomé on current partnership and perspectives on post-Cotonou agreement
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECONOMY: Commission defines outlines of stabilisation and reform support mechanisms
SECTORAL POLICIES
MIGRATION: Member states requested to closely monitor migration route to Greece via Turkey and Western Balkans again
JUSTICE: Bulgarian Presidency of Council increases its attempts to include dual nationals in 'ECRIS-TCN' System
JUSTICE: Fight against money laundering through criminal law – co-legislators reach agreement in principle
JUSTICE: Commission proposes strengthening issue of emergency travel papers for Europeans abroad without consular protection 
JUSTICE: Commission proposes new rules to improve judicial cooperation in civil cases in digital age
JUSTICE: Clarifications in Parliament/Council on disagreement over mutual recognition of decisions to freeze criminal assets
COHESION: MEPs express concern about reduction and breakdown of financial envelopes after 2020
COHESION: Cohesion Alliance expresses concern at budgetary cuts anticipated for future cohesion policy
SPACE: 2021-2027 European Space programme budget lines begin to take shape
FISHERIES: Electric pulse trawls have less impact on environment than traditional beam trawls, says ICES
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
TRANSPORT: Parliament calls on Commission to upwardly revise transport section goals in CEF
CIVIL PROTECTION: Parliament is ready to negotiate with Council on strengthened civil protection mechanism
JHA: Parliament concerned at proliferation of 'golden visa' systems in member states
TURKEY: Hahn says there is no inappropriate use of armoured vehicles paid for from EU funds
IRAN: European Parliament calls for release of dual nationality Europeans unjustly imprisoned
SAUDI ARABIA: European Parliament warns harassment of those defending human rights and women's rights must stop
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
ENVIRONMENT: Italy to pay €25 million fine and €30 million penalty in waste water case
PARLIAMENT: EGC cancels unprecedented sanctions decided upon by Parliament bureau against Janusz Korwin-Mikke
MIGRATION: Court specifies conditions for taking charge of asylum seekers in state where request has been made
JUSTICE: Court holds that notion of 'rights of access' includes grandparents' rights of access to their grandchildren
EMPLOYMENT: Advocate General holds that Catholic chief medical officer at a Catholic hospital cannot be dismissed on grounds of his divorce and remarriage
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: Polish EPP members call for fresh vote on 'posted workers' directive
NEWS BRIEFS
HUMANITARIAN AID: EU releases €40 million for Rohingyas in Bangladesh and Burma
ECONOMY: Annual inflation rate in Eurozone up to 1.9% in May
JUSTICE: Parliament approves nomination of Prosecutor Mura to sit on European Prosecutors Office members selection committee
JUSTICE: US Trade Secretary claims GDPR could undermine transatlantic cooperation
TRANSPORT: Parliament adopts legislative initiative to tackle odometer tampering
UKRAINE: Johannes Hahn questions need to have staged journalist Arkady Babtchenko's death
CORRIGENDUM
TRADE: Clarification regarding aspect of Brexit regarding Parliament proposals for EU trade policy (Saïfi Report)