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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12164

21 December 2018
Contents Publication in full By article 14 / 32
EXTERNAL ACTION / Palestine
EU announces more than €93 million in additional funding to help Palestinians
Brussels, 20/12/2018 (Agence Europe)

The European Commission announced on Thursday 20 December an additional €20 million to support the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and €73.3 million to improve the living conditions for the people of East Jerusalem and to foster economic development in the occupied Palestinian territory. 

Of this €73.3 million, €31.4 million will go to the ‘access to self-sufficient water and energy services programme’,...

Contents

CHRISTMAS: We wish our subscribers and loyal readers a merry Christmas and a very happy 2019! We are closed from December 21 to January 3 inclusive. EUROPE 12165 will be dated 5 January 2019
SECTORAL POLICIES
ENVIRONMENT: CO2 from heavy-duty vehicles, political agreement in Council on a binding emissions reduction of 15% in 2025 and 30% in 2030
ENVIRONMENT: Draft of EU's future climate strategy for 2050 is a good basis for discussion, according to European ministers
ENVIRONMENT: European Parliament and Council reach provisional agreement on alignment of reporting obligations in EU environmental legislation
TRANSPORT: European Parliament rapporteurs on the ‘mobility’ package I present new draft compromise amendments
TRANSPORT: incoming Romanian Presidency of Council proposes a minimum level revised draft compromise on public procurement of clean road transport vehicles
SPACE: post-2020 space programme, Member States reach a partial agreement
JUSTICE: stakeholders welcome with relief second positive evaluation of Privacy Shield scheme
JUSTICE: Commission is meeting its target of training 800,000 justice professionals on EU law
REGIONS: Regions are meeting with Mr Barnier to take stock in event of a no deal Brexit
FISHERIES: Europeans love seafood, even if it’s expensive
EXTERNAL ACTION
WTO: EU in search of new legal avenues to solve Chinese challenge
EGYPT: EU will organise an investors' conference by mid-2019
PALESTINE: EU announces more than €93 million in additional funding to help Palestinians
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
FINANCE: Council gives go-ahead to two proposals for action plan on 'sustainable finance
COMPETITION: interested parties invited to comment on commitments offered by NBC Universal, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros and Sky on pay-TV
COMPETITION: Commission sends a statement of objections to members of an agreement on negotiation of obligations
CULTURE
CULTURE: Creative Europe post-2020, Council deletes special status of EU Youth Orchestra and European Film Academy
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
DIGITAL: Advocate General specifies rules applicable to protection of personal data transmitted by a website to a third party
UKRAINE: former Prime Minister Azarov removed from list of persons subject to asset freeze for 2015 and 2016
The B-word: Agence Europe’s newsletter on Brexit
THE B-WORD: No deal, no Brexit, no idea
NEWS BRIEFS
STATE AIDS: green light for an Italian measure to support modal shift for the transport of iron slabs
STATE AIDS: green light for extension of a French maritime transport scheme
LAUNDERING: Council gives go-ahead to new competences of EBA in fight against money laundering
COMPANIES: Council validates interinstitutional agreement on minimum harmonisation of business insolvency frameworks
ENVIRONMENT/CLIMATE: Council reaches political agreement on priorities of LIFE programme post-2020
HUNGARY: Greens/EFA in European Parliament want a new debate on Hungary
JAPAN: finalisation of ratification procedure for EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement
MIGRATION: new emergency aid of 305 million euros for Greece, Italy, Cyprus and Croatia
DIGITAL: Council validates interinstitutional agreement on reform of EU’s internet domain name .eu
DIGITAL: Member States' representatives to EU approve Cybersecurity Act
SWITZERLAND: Member States validate Commission's decision to extend equivalence for Swiss stock exchange by six months