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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12116

13 October 2018
Contents Publication in full By article 21 / 22
CALENDAR / Main activities of european institutions
15/10 - 21/10/2018

Monday 15 October

  • Luxembourg. Council of the EU. ‘Agriculture and Fisheries’ Council. *Fisheries: - TAC and quotas for the waters of the Baltic Sea (herring in the Western Baltics and cod). – EU/Norway: discussion on the annual consultations with Norway on quotas and the management of common stocks in 2019 ahead of the negotiations in November and December. – Tuna: debate on the EU’s position ahead of the annual meeting of ICCAT in November. *Agriculture: - Future of the CAP...

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