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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12116

13 October 2018
Contents Publication in full By article 18 / 22
NEWS BRIEFS / Italy
Jean-Claude Juncker differentiates between French and Italian budgetary situations

12/10/2018 (Agence Europe) – In an interview with the French daily Le Monde, published on Friday 12 October, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker differentiated between the public finance situations of France and Italy.  Italy’s draft budget for 2019, which is to be forwarded to the Commission on Monday 15 October, is expected to provide for a nominal deficit of 2.4% of GDP (see EUROPE 12111).  When asked whether the Commission would give an unfavourable opinion on this...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
MIGRATION: EU interior ministers confirm interest in strengthened European Border Guard Agency, but subject to certain guarantees
MIGRATION: Member states want to break deadlock on revision of Dublin Regulation, but continue to speculate about how solidarity will work
AGRICULTURE: CAP post-2020, African swine fever, wine and sugar on Council menu
FISHERIES: Baltic cod and herring served as main dish at Council on Monday 15 October
ENVIRONMENT: One third of chemicals on EU market have bypassed REACH, warns EEB
ENVIRONMENT: Commission decides to ban diquat and two other highly toxic pesticides
INTERNAL MARKET: Nicola Danti wants to create budget line for market surveillance in future Single Market Programme
TRANSPORT: Fuel labelling becomes standardised in European Union
CONSUMERS: Services still weak link in consumer confidence, according to 2018 scoreboard
SPACE: Eurospace fears European inertia in face of US ambitions for space sector
INSTITUTIONAL
BUDGET: Oettinger calls upon European Council of December to make 2021-2027 MFF a priority
EXTERNAL ACTION
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Chemical weapons, CAR, Libya, migration and Venezuela on the table of foreign ministers
SECURITY - DEFENCE
SECURITY: Six member states push for sanctions to be imposed on perpetrators of cyber-attacks
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
STATE AID: Green light to extension of Danish tonnage tax scheme to new types of vessels
NEWS BRIEFS
SAUDI ARABIA: 47 MEPs call on EU to provide technical support to Turks in investigation into disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi
ENVIRONMENT: EIB and French and German development agencies launch Clean Oceans initiative
INDUSTRY: Automobile makers fine-tune recommendations of 'general safety' regulation
ITALY: Jean-Claude Juncker differentiates between French and Italian budgetary situations
TRANSPORT: European shipowners rather satisfied with MEPs' vote on port waste reception facilities
The B-word: Agence Europe’s newsletter on Brexit
THE B-WORD: Are we there yet?
CALENDAR
Main activities of European Institutions: 15/10 - 21/10/2018
Other events: 15/10 - 28/10/2018