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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12038

12 June 2018
Contents Publication in full By article 28 / 28
NEWS BRIEFS / Transport
Rail organisations regret CEF proposal does not focus on ERTMS enough

11/06/2018 (Agence Europe) – In press releases on 6 and 7 June, the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) and the European Rail Infrastructures Managers (EIM) gave a warm welcome to the European Commission proposal of 6 June on the architecture of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for 2021-2027 (see EUROPE 12035). The two organisations were keen to highlight the importance of this to the transport sector. That said, however, that they were disappointed by...

Contents

INSTITUTIONAL
PARLIAMENT: Social movement – stand-off between interpreters and Parliament administration over minimum service level
SECTORAL POLICIES
ENERGY: Spain and Italy join coalition of EU countries calling for ambition in legislative package for clean energy
ENERGY: Council of EU adopts position on regulation to update ACER's role
DIGITAL: Commission provides proposals to unblock Parliament/Council negotiations on SatCab dossier
MIGRATION: New dispute between Italy and Malta over ports of reception rekindles European migrant solidarity controversy
FISHERIES: Commission acknowledges it will be difficult to phase out overfishing by 2020 deadline
FISHERIES: Commission expected to propose financial envelope of €6.14 billion for 2021-2027
FISHERIES: Parliament to propose ways to release aquaculture potential
FISHERIES: Parliament supports inclusion of recreational fishing in multiannual management plans
SINGLE MARKET: Council and Parliament reach deadlock over directive on notification procedure for services
REGIONS: Committee of Regions appoints its rapporteurs to cover post-2020 proposals
EDUCATION - YOUTH
YOUTH: Commission defines its vision of European Solidarity Corps post-2020
YOUTH: Mr Navracsics gives DiscoverEU programme go-ahead
EXTERNAL ACTION
MOROCCO: Commission proposes extending agricultural agreement tariff preferences to Western Sahara
G7: Trade tension widens between Europeans and Americans after G7 summit fiasco
G7: G7 to 6 for climate and to 5 for fighting plastic pollution in oceans
ACP: Post-Cotonou agreement, European Parliament to question Commission and Council on vision of ACP group after 2020
ECONOMY - FINANCE
TAXATION: New Bulgarian Presidency compromise on administrative cooperation in field of VAT
EMU: Bruno Le Maire hails 'important progress' in Franco-German work on deepening of Eurozone
NEWS BRIEFS
PATENTS: EPO's European Inventor Award 2018 highlights particular contribution by women for very first time
PATENTS: EPO President receives award from Global Anti-Counterfeiting group for his work
BURUNDI: EU takes Pierre Nkurunziza at his word and calls for political arena to be opened up
GREECE: Decision to pay out €1 billion sub-tranche postponed until 14 June
G7: Merkel would have liked Conte to consult with Europeans on Russia beforehand
MIGRATION: Last minute addition to Parliament plenary session of a debate on humanitarian emergencies in Mediterranean
UK: First Barnier-Davis meeting after new British avenues for resolving Irish issue
TRANSPORT: Transport workers' mixed response to Parliament vote on lorry drivers' rest and driving time
TRANSPORT: Rail organisations regret CEF proposal does not focus on ERTMS enough