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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12106
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / State aid

Green light to Hungarian investment aid measure for benefit of a chemicals company

On Friday 28 September, the European Commission approved the Hungarian investment aid measure of €45 million awarded to the chemicals company BordosChem.

BorsodChem plans to invest €142 million in a new facility for the production of aniline within one of its existing factories, in Kazincbarcika, in Hungary. Aniline is a chemical used as an input, for instance in construction, automotive production and household electronic goods.

Currently, the substance is imported by BorsodChem, a...

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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