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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12106
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EXTERNAL ACTION / Palestine

EU announces another €40 million to support UNRWA

On Thursday 27 September, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini announced another €40 million in support from the EU to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

During the meeting organised in New York to relaunch UNRWA's financing following the freeze on US funding, the international community promised $122 million in new financing, according to Jordan's Minister for Foreign...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
RESEARCH: Horizon Europe - member states unanimously oppose dual legal basis for specific implementation programme
CLIMATE: CO2 from cars and vans, Austrian Presidency of Council wants faster results, but no certainty
CLIMATE: IPCC report expected on 8 October will call for zero net emissions in EU 'well before 2050',  says Bas Eickhout
ANIMAL HEALTH: African swine fever, Commission examines technical measures to inspect imports
AGRICULTURE: European Parliament study says CAP reform will be finalised after May elections
AGRICULTURE: Drought, increase in national aid de minimis threshold to be announced in December
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ITALY: Pierre Moscovici warns Rome over meeting budgetary commitments
ECOFIN: Further attempt at political agreement of the Council of the EU on three VAT dossiers
STATE AID: Green light to Hungarian investment aid measure for benefit of a chemicals company
EXTERNAL ACTION
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Donald Tusk brings EU's support to UN reform
WESTERN BALKANS: Albania and FRYOM start preliminary explanatory screening of acquis communautaire
PALESTINE: EU announces another €40 million to support UNRWA
NORTH KOREA: Federica Mogherini calls on Pyongyang to sign and ratify Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
JAPAN: MEPs fairly supportive of EU-Japan free trade agreement
INSTITUTIONAL
EP2019: Michel Barnier out of running from EPP Spitzenkandidat race, while remaining available in future
PARLIAMENT PLENARY: Future of Europe, rule of law in Romania, voting rights and reducing CO2 emissions from cars on MEPs' agenda
NEWS BRIEFS
TRADE: European Parliament discusses post-Brexit redistribution of tariff rate quotas on EU's WTO list
EUROPEAN COUNCIL: Journalists finally exempt from security check fees at European summits
HUMAN RIGHTS: Official launch of Good Human Rights Stories initiative
EGYPT: Panzeri rails against mass death sentences
ENERGY: WindEurope calls for 62% electrification by 2050
ECONOMY: Annual inflation rate up to 2.1% in Eurozone in September
SPACE: Ms Bulc visits Space X, US New Space flagship company
JHA: Cyclopropylfentanyl and methoxyacetylfentanyl, two synthetic opioids, subject to control measures in EU28
DIGITAL: Baltic states sign protocol of understanding for setting up experimental 5G corridor for autonomous vehicle tests
DIGITAL: Adoption of regulation setting up EuroHPC enterprise for high-performance computing
SOCIAL: Madrid pledges to actively implement European Pillar of Social Rights
CALENDAR
Main activities of the European Institutions: 01/10 - 07/10/2018
Other events: 01/10 - 14/10/2018