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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12106

29 September 2018
Contents Publication in full By article 19 / 29
NEWS BRIEFS / Human rights
Official launch of Good Human Rights Stories initiative

28/09/2018 (Agence Europe) – As announced by EUROPE (see EUROPE 12099), the EU and 13 countries (Argentina, Burkina Faso, Cap-Verde, Chile, Gambia, Indonesia, Peru, Norway, New Zealand, South Korea, Georgia, Tunisia and Uruguay) launched an appeal on Thursday 27 September in a backdrop to the UN General Assembly in favour of the inter-regional Good Human Rights Stories initiative. This initiative seeks to promote and protect universal human rights stories throughout the world. It is based...

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