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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12165

5 January 2019
Contents Publication in full By article 27 / 28
CALENDAR / Main activities of the european institutions
07/01 - 13/01/2019

 

Monday 7 January

  • Brussels. Council of the European Union. Coreper II.

Tuesday 8 January

  • Brussels. Council of the European Union. General Affairs Council. - Priorities of the Romanian Presidency for the next six months. - Presidency plans for work on the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework. - Exchange of views on false news and online disinformation on the basis of the recommendations of the European Council for a coordinated fight at European level against this phenomenon (state...

Contents

INSTITUTIONAL
RO2019EU: For Mrs Odobescu, 'no one expects EU to waste time thinking; it must act and find solutions'
SECTORAL POLICIES
MIGRATION: coordination between Member States to take care of migrants rescued off Libya remains difficult
DIGITAL: Romania aims for a political agreement at Council in June on confidentiality of communications
AGRICULTURE: post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy is Romanian Presidency's number one priority
FISHERIES: profits in aquaculture sector doubled between 2014 and 2016
FISHERIES: EU-Norway agreement provides for a 33% reduction in cod quotas in 2019
FISHERIES: EU and Faroe Islands have signed their bilateral fisheries agreement for 2019
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
FINANCE: new measures proposed to improve investors’ consideration of sustainability preferences
BANKS: temporary takeover of Banca Carige by ECB, a new thorny issue for Italian government
ITALY: Italian Parliament gives green light to 2019 draft budget plan
EMU: Twenty years after single currency launch, economic and monetary union remains incomplete
SOCIAL AFFAIRS - EDUCATION
SOCIAL:  European Parliament and Council make initial progress on Working Conditions Directive
EDUCATION: future of Erasmus programme, only legislative dossier of Romanian Presidency of the Council
EXTERNAL ACTION
TRADE: European Commission renews safeguard measures on steel until 2021
DRC: EU calls for election results to be in line with verdict of ballot boxes
BURMA: EU sanctions seven additional members of armed forces and border police
NEWS BRIEFS
BURUNDI: 5 million euros in additional humanitarian aid
CULTURE: Bulgaria's Plovdiv and Italy's Matera, European Capitals of Culture in 2019
ECONOMY: annual inflation in euro area down to 1.6% in December 2018
ENERGY: T&E launches a petition to stop imports of palm oil for biofuels
JUSTICE: Commission will adopt its recommendation at end of January to open negotiations under US ‘CLOUD Act’
EP2019: far-right German party AfD sets ultimatum of 2024 to reform EU before pleading for a ‘Dexit’
CSDP: mandate of EUNAVFOR Med Sophia operation extended until 31 March 2019
UNITED KINGDOM: May hopes to get new assurances before British Parliament vote on an orderly Brexit
RUSSIA: EU prolongs economic sanctions by six months
CALENDAR
RO2019EU: calendar of Romanian Presidency of Council of EU for first half of 2019
Main activities of the European Institutions : 07/01 - 13/01/2019
Other events: 07/01 - 20/01/2019