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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12035
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / Taxation

Bulgarian Presidency of Council declines further invitation from Parliament's 'TAX 3' committee

The Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU has declined a further invitation to present its priorities to the special 'TAX 3' committee of the European Parliament on financial crimes, fraud and evasion, at a hearing scheduled for 25 June.

The reasons given are broadly the same as when it declined a first invitation in early May (see EUROPE 12019). In a letter dated 31 May - of which EUROPE has had sight - the Bulgarian finance minister, Vladislav Goranov, explains that he presented...

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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECONOMY: Commission hopes to raise more than €650 billion in private investment after 2020 with InvestEU fund
TAXATION: Bulgarian Presidency of Council declines further invitation from Parliament's 'TAX 3' committee
SECTORAL POLICIES
SPACE: Commission renames European agency responsible for Galileo and Egnos and strengthens its role
TRANSPORT: Commission outlines its proposal on Connecting Europe Facility architecture after 2020
TRANSPORT: Mobility packages, aviation competition and port facilities on ministerial meeting agenda
DIGITAL: Intra-EU calls and message prices will be capped as from 15 May 2019
DIGITAL: Commission proposes funding of almost €10 billion for 2021-2027 period
ANIMAL HEALTH: Parliament-Council agreement will reduce antibiotic use on farms
FISHERIES: Inter-institutional talks on technical measures to resume on 19 June
MIGRATION: EU-Turkey statement violates asylum seekers' rights, says Greens/EFA group
MIGRATION: Parliament concerned at how talks on overhaul of European asylum system are going
JHA: Member states prefer negative measures on visas to convince third countries to take back more of their nationals
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: 2017 saw encouraging progress despite considerable challenges, says Commission
CLIMATE: CO2 from cars and vans after 2020 - Netherlands, Luxembourg and France busy ahead of first Council debate on 25 June
EXTERNAL ACTION
USA: EU working to apply rebalancing measures from July in response to US taxes on steel and aluminium
IRAN: Commission unveiled two measures to counter American extraterritorial sanctions
G7: Charlevoix summit to focus on Iran and Korea, trade, inclusive growth and ocean preservation
VENEZUELA: European Parliament considers sending delegation to assess humanitarian crisis at borders with Colombia and Brazil
MONTENEGRO: Milo Đukanović and Donald Tusk reaffirm European perspective of both Podgorica and Western Balkans countries
INSTITUTIONAL
AUSTRIA: Vienna plans to play facilitator on migration and budgetary matters
OLAF: European anti-fraud office opened 215 new investigations in 2017 and closed 197
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
UKRAINE: General Court overturns freezing of Sergej Arbuzov's funds for period March 2017 to March 2018
CONSUMERS: Advocate General clarifies conditions for law on compensation for airline passengers to be applied
COPYRIGHT: Right to family life must not automatically deprive rights-holders of protection, says Advocate General
NEWS BRIEFS
AGRICULTURE: Maize producers confederation fears renationalisation of CAP
DEVELOPMENT: Journalists Verena Töpper and Maria Feck grand winners of Lorenzo Natali Prize
EDUCATION/CULTURE: Kosovo to take part in Erasmus + and Creative Europe programmes
ENERGY: Ukrainian gas group Naftogaz obtains attachment of Russian company Gazprom assets in Netherlands
GULF: EU works with Kuwait to find solutions to crisis between Gulf countries
JUSTICE: Facebook users' data in hands of Chinese telecom groups
JUSTICE: Parliament sets up new monitoring group on rule of law
JUSTICE: EU and South Korea step up efforts to reach data protection agreement in 2018
MADAGASCAR: EU hopes for credible, transparent and inclusive elections
EASTERN PARTNERSHIP: OECD says aid for fossil fuels down in most countries of region
ANIMAL HEALTH: Eurogroup for Animals gives lukewarm welcome to post-2020 CAP proposals