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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12071
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Agriculture

MEPs call for private storage aid for sugar to be activated

In a letter addressed to the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Phil Hogan, on Friday 20 July, 19 MEPs of mainly Italian nationality, call for the immediate triggering of private storage aid for sugar.

One of the signatories, Paolo De Castro (S&D, Italy), the Vice Chair of the Parliamentary agriculture committee explained that in this sector “countries of Southern Europe, including Italy, have been experiencing a serious market crisis with prices below 25% of the reference prices set...

Contents

INSTITUTIONAL
UNITED KINGDOM: Michel Barnier and Dominic Raab enact progress in Brexit talks and outstanding issues
EXTERNAL ACTION
USA: Juncker and Trump bury the trade hatchet and envisage a trade agreement
USA: Juncker insists on need to strengthen transatlantic relations
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECB: It is too early to cry victory regarding inflation, says Draghi
SECTORAL POLICIES
INDUSTRY: ACEA supports Commission proposals for enhancing new test procedures for cars
AGRICULTURE: MEPs call for private storage aid for sugar to be activated
CIRCULAR ECONOMY: Eurochambers warns against simple ban on certain plastic products without an impact assessment
GMOs: French government welcomes European Court of Justice's clarification of status of new GMOs
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
JHA: Advocate General holds that a European citizen will reintegrate more easily by serving his sentence in the EU than being extradited to a third country
STATE AID: Court overturns General Court judgment overturning Commission's decision concerning Spanish tax leasing scheme
ECJ: Advocate general suggests cancelling General Court ruling requiring EU to compensate overlengthy court proceedings
TAXATION: Parent/subsidiaries – Advocate General partly finds in favour of Commission versus France
SOCIAL: A municipality cannot withdraw personal assistance on grounds that interested party is temporarily residing in another member state
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: Social Platform concerned by member states' general attitude to social questions
SOCIAL: Massive investment in education and social domains needed to fight Euroscepticism, says Eurocadres
NEWS BRIEFS
STATE AID: Green light to Austrian measure to support broadband Internet network project
STATE AID: Green light to French aid for pilot hydraulic energy production plant
CRIMEA: EU hails US position on annexation of Crimea
SPACE: ESA Space mission detects lake under Mars' surface
INDUSTRY: Car manufacturers pleased with respite in trans-Atlantic trade tensions
DRC: Christos Stylianides welcomes end to Ebola epidemic as a collective success
SAHEL: EU will finance rebuilding of G5 Sahel force headquarters