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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12037

9 June 2018
Contents Publication in full By article 5 / 26
INSTITUTIONAL / Parliament
Future of Europe, composition of Parliament, rule of law in Poland and Iranian nuclear agreement on plenary session agenda
Brussels, 08/06/2018 (Agence Europe)

Following on from Xavier Bettel in May (see EUROPE 12030), the Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, will on Wednesday 13 June be the seventh European leader to debate the future of Europe with the MEPs, at the plenary session of the European Parliament be held in Strasbourg between 11 and 14 June.

The next on the list will be the Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki. However, the MEPs will not wait for the July plenary session to discuss legal reform in Poland. A round table discussion of...

Contents

EXTERNAL ACTION
MOROCCO: Ahmed Reda Chami says EU-Morocco agricultural agreement will be amended to include products from Sahara
TURKEY: EU Council close to temporary solution to finance facility for Refugees in 2018
INSTITUTIONAL
UNITED KINGDOM: Barnier's lukewarm welcome to UK proposals on Irish question borders on sceptical
POLAND: Commission seems to want to accelerate opening new stage in rule of law procedure
PARLIAMENT: Future of Europe, composition of Parliament, rule of law in Poland and Iranian nuclear agreement on plenary session agenda
EP2019: Council enshrines a minima reform of EU electoral law
SECTORAL POLICIES
DIGITAL: Confidentiality of communications, still too many disagreements at Council
DIGITAL: Council approves its position on cybersecurity without Hungary's backing
DIGITAL: Copyright vote will go ahead in Parliament
COHESION: Member states, regions and MEPs query post-2020 Cohesion Policy budget and its break-down
AGRICULTURE: France suggests way to dispose of powdered milk stocks
AGRICULTURE: Parliament's agriculture committee assigned the unfair trading practices file
ENVIRONMENT: PEST special committee wants better balance between publication of raw scientific data and business confidentiality
BIODIVERSITY: WWF sounds alarm over record levels of plastic pollution in Mediterranean
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
TAXATION/CUSTOMS: Commission announces two administrative cooperation programmes that are 'low on budget, but big on added value'
EMU: In Berlin, Bruno Le Maire reiterates hopes of dedicated Eurozone budget
ECONOMY: European businesses welcome new InvestEU fund
SECURITY - DEFENCE
NATO: Military mobility, the 'flagship' of Euro-Atlantic cooperation
DEFENCE: Member states approve inter-institutional agreement on EDIDP industrial development programme
NEWS BRIEFS
COMPETITION: Commission confirms unannounced inspections in framework of possible anti-competitive practices in procurement of styrene monomer
G7: It's six against one in Charlevoix, Tusk regrets
JUSTICE: Several Facebook representatives asked to come to European Parliament for hearings on Cambridge Analytica scandal
KOSOVO: Council approves reduced executive responsiblities for EULEX mission
TURKEY: Commission in contact with Athens and Ankara after suspension of bilateral readmission agreement between Greece and Turkey
CALENDAR
Main activities of the European Institutions: 11/06 - 17/06
Other events: 11/06 - 24/06