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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12131

7 November 2018
Contents Publication in full By article 20 / 34
EXTERNAL ACTION / Singapore
First debate in European Parliament committee on bilateral trade agreements
Brussels, 06/11/2018 (Agence Europe)

In the European Parliament's international trade committee (INTA) on Monday 5 November, the debate on the free trade and investment protection agreements, signed by the European Union and Singapore on 19 October (see EUROPE 12121), reiterated the well-known political dividing lines.

The centrist fringe of the socialists (S&D), the Christian democrat (EPP) and conservative (ECR) groups and the liberal group (ALDE) support a swift implementation of the free trade agreement.

By contrast, MEPs...

Contents

ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
TAXATION: France agrees to delay application of 'taxation of digital' directive until 2020
EMU: Eurogroup calls for work to be speeded up ahead of December Eurozone summit
FINANCE: MEPs come out in favour of greater transparency for the financial sector over sustainable investments
COMPETITION: conditional green light for acquisition of several parts of Fox by Disney
SECTORAL POLICIES
DIGITAL: political agreement in sight in Council on re-use of public sector information
HEALTH: Commission gives up on endocrine disruptors
CLIMATE: European finance ministers advocate scaling up climate finance at COP24
MIGRATION: Member states asked to provide new update on asylum package and migration policies
INDUSTRY: civil society and cities propose a series of measures to meet diesel challenge
INTERNAL MARKET: European Parliament negotiations on Single Market Programme are looking promising
JUSTICE: commissioner Jourová wants to 'end online anarchy' in view of elections
CIVIL PROTECTION: strengthened EU civil protection mechanism, European Parliament-Council negotiations postponed until end of November
RESEARCH: simplification measures integrated into Horizon 2020 have been successful, according to Court of Auditors
BIODIVERSITY: PAN EUROPE deplores member states' refusal to apply EFSA guidelines for assessing risk to bees from all pesticides
FISHERIES: Electric fishing case is referred to EU Ombudsman
INSTITUTIONAL
EPP: Helsinki Congress to nominate Spitzenkandidat and reiterate Christian-Democrat values
PES: Mr Timmermans pledges to defend Europe's 'soul' in front of voters
BUDGET: European Parliament rapporteurs on 2021-2027 MFF ready to fight it out with Council
SECURITY - DEFENCE
DEFENCE: Emmanuel Macron says Europeans will not be protected if there is no European army
EXTERNAL ACTION
SINGAPORE: First debate in European Parliament committee on bilateral trade agreements
UKRAINE: EU calls on authorities to redouble efforts on investigation into attack of Kateryna Handzyuk
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
SOCIAL: an heir is entitled to financial compensation for paid annual leave not taken by a deceased worker, confirms Court
SOCIAL: a worker does not automatically lose his right to paid annual leave because he has not requested it, Court held
COMPETITION: Commission has not demonstrated that it is impossible to recover an exemption from an Italian municipal tax on immovable property, according to Court
NEWS BRIEFS
DEVELOPMENT: EU pledges 26 million euros to Global Financing Facility for health
TAXATION: Namibia removed from EU black list of non-cooperative jurisdictions
TAXATION: Council adopts two 'VAT' directives
JUSTICE: UK Data Protection Authority (ICO) hands over to Irish Data Protection Commission on Facebook practices
HUNGARY: European Parliament's ALDE group launches campaign against Viktor Orbán
ITALY: Rome should bring specific answers to avoid opening infringement procedure based on debt
FOOD SAFETY: deficiencies were found in Brazilian animal residue monitoring plan
TERRORISM: Eurojust to host new judicial counter-terrorism register
VENEZUELA: EU renews sanctions for one year
YEMEN: EU releases additional €90 million in humanitarian assistance