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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12168
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / Finance

European Parliament soon to adopt its position on far-reaching reform of European financial supervision architecture

MEPs of the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee will vote on Thursday 10 January on the three draft reports on the reform of the three European financial supervisory authorities (ESAs): ESMA, EBA and EIOPA, which supervise the financial markets and the banking and insurance sectors respectively (see EUROPE 11864). 

Compromises between political groups were only finalised between Tuesday and Wednesday. The work is indeed enormous. The three draft reports on this...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
TRANSPORT: Uncertainties in European Parliament ahead of MEPs' vote on first mobility package
JUSTICE: whistleblowers, opinion of the EU Council's Legal Service divide Member States
MIGRATION: a solution finally found to distribute last migrants rescued by NGOs in EU
DIGITAL: Autonomous cars; European Parliament proposes initial approach to liability issues
FISHERIES: European Parliament committee votes on Thursday 10 January on Mediterranean stock management plan
ENERGY: retail electricity prices for households in EU fell in 2017
GMOs: Marc Tarabella and Éric Andrieu call on Commission on issue of Monsanto maize authorised at end of 2018
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
FINANCE: European Parliament soon to adopt its position on far-reaching reform of European financial supervision architecture
FINANCE: ESMA and EBA invite Commission to consider a European response to crypto-actives
TAXATION: Commission is working on gradual introduction of qualified majority voting in Council on tax issues
EXTERNAL ACTION
UNITED STATES: Commission wants to submit two trade negotiation mandates to Member States
UNITED STATES: Europeans dissatisfied with deterioration of diplomatic status of EU delegation in Washington
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: the Union as a strong global player, a priority for current trio of EU Council Presidencies
AFRICA: infrastructure investment and business development honoured at Conservative group in the European Parliament conference
SECURITY - DEFENCE
DEFENCE: EN translation: EU must do more to help African countries to strengthen peace and security, according to Mr Abani and Mr Kouamé Kouassi
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: European Labour Authority, European Parliament and Council address thorny issue of subject matter and scope
NEWS BRIEFS
EMPLOYMENT: Unemployment rate in European Union continues to decline
GABON: EU calls for an open and inclusive dialogue in accordance with rule of law
WTO: EU, United States and Japan will continue their joint discussion on challenges facing world trade system in 2019
RESEARCH: European Parliament and EU Council consider extending negotiations on Horizon Europe Framework Programme
UNITED KINGDOM: British Parliament wants to keep control over a possible exit without an agreement with EU