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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12065

19 July 2018
Contents Publication in full By article 28 / 29
NEWS BRIEFS / Research
Petition calling for €160 billion budget for Horizon Europe gains ground

18/07/2018 (Agence Europe) – During the informal ministerial meeting in Vienna (see EUROPE 12064) on Tuesday 17 July on the future Horizon Europe Framework Programme, the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH), EuroScience and the Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE) supported the call for a substantial increase in the budget envisaged for the future framework programme, to bring it up to €160 billion.  This announcement was made by the EASSH in a press release...

Contents

ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
COMPETITION: Google hit by new record fine of €4.34 billion for abuse of dominant position in mobile Internet
EIB: EU Bank concerned that Commission will play a banking role in management of InvestEU fund post-2020
FINANCE: Eight countries call for extra efforts to bring about Capital Markets Union by 2019
FINANCE: Financial Stability Board announces supervisory framework for virtual currencies
ECONOMY: Annual inflation rate in Eurozone up to 2% in June
EXTERNAL ACTION
USA: Jean-Claude Juncker intends to reaffirm EU's indivisibility on trade when he meets Donald Trump on 25 July
TRADE: EU institutes provisional safeguard measures on imports of steel products
TRADE: EU imposes provisional anti-dumping duties on e-bikes from China
IRAN: Werner Hoyer says EIB cannot play active role on Iranian territory
ALBANIA: Johannes Hahn in Tirana to launch official assessment of EU acquis
SERBIA/KOSOVO: Presidents and Mogherini want to continue work on normalisation of relations
MONTENEGRO: Members of European and Montenegrin parliaments call for return of opposition to Skupština
SOMALIA: EU and other partners strengthen their political and financial support for stability and development
AFRICA: European and African economic and social partners emphasise that youth is vector for economic development
THAILAND: Pier Antonio Panzeri calls for free and fair elections
SECURITY - DEFENCE
CSDP: Member states agree to relocate Atalanta operational headquarters to Rota and Brest
SECTORAL POLICIES
JHA: Kosovo fulfils final criteria to benefit from visa liberalisation regime
DIGITAL: Council shifting towards scrapping of privacy setting provisions in ePrivacy
RESEARCH: Regional Cooperation Council says Horizon Europe must also support Western Balkans
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: Social challenges of digitalisation and robotisation on agenda of informal ministerial meeting in Vienna
INSTITUTIONAL
UNITED KINGDOM: May squeezes through again in UK parliament
CITIZENS' INITIATIVE: Commission registers two new ECIs
NEWS BRIEFS
INSURANCE: EIOPA seeking to enhance consumer protection in travel insurance domain
CLIMATE: EU and Japan reaffirm commitment to ambitious action to implement Paris Agreement
CLIMATE: Public consultation until 9 October on future EU long-term strategy
COHESION: Member states give green light to increased funding for structural reform support programme
MIGRATION: Agreement on Frontex deployment in former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
RESEARCH: Petition calling for €160 billion budget for Horizon Europe gains ground
MIDDLE EAST: Mogherini urges Israel to reconsider decision to demolish Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar