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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12170

12 January 2019
Contents Publication in full By article 28 / 33
NEWS BRIEFS / Ep2019
Italian 5-star Movement and its European partners will seal a cooperation agreement by mid-February

11/01/2019 (Agence Europe) – The Italian 5-star Movement, the Polish Kukiz'15 movement, the Croatian Zivi zid (human shield) party, the Finnish Liike Nyt movement and other political movements will sign a cooperation agreement in mid-February in Rome to form a political group in the European Parliament that will emerge from the elections in May, M5S leader Luigi Di Maio told Il Fatto Quotidiano on Wednesday 9 January. Aware that future partners will not agree on everything, including...

Contents

INSTITUTIONAL
ROMANIA: Juncker asks Romania not to export its internal problems to EU
PARLIAMENTARY PLENARY: Brexit, Austrian and Romanian Council presidencies, rule of law mechanism and InvestEU on Members' agenda
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
FINANCE: European supervisory authorities, EU Council set aside comprehensive reform in favour of progress on ‘anti-money laundering’ efforts
FINANCE: before end of European Parliament's mandate, EU Council will give priority to ongoing interinstitutional negotiations
FINANCE: EU rules on alternative investment funds work but can still be improved, according to KPMG
SECTORAL POLICIES
JUSTICE: Member States maintain uncertainty on legal basis of Whistleblowers Directive
ENVIRONMENT: European Parliament will make recommendations on 16 January for improving EU pesticides authorisation procedure
TRANSPORT: MEPs adopt two reports on maritime transport
TRANSPORT: Negotiators hope for inter-institutional agreement on combined transport in early February
TRANSPORT: MEPs adopt streamlining measures for advancing realisation of TEN-T network
AGRICULTURE: 95% of skimmed milk powder in public stock has been put back on market
AGRICULTURE: First meeting of High Level Group on Sugar on 29 January
AGRICULTURE: EU agri-food exports reached a new record high in October 2018
EXTERNAL ACTION
FYROM: Mr Juncker encourages Macedonian and Greek parliaments to ratify Prespa Agreement
BURMA/MYANMAR: EU calls confirmed conviction of Reuters journalists a 'missed opportunity to right a wrong'
DRC: continuation of work of CENI is important for credibility of presidential election, stresses EU
VENEZUELA: EU maintains that President Maduro's mandate has been renewed on non-democratic bases
UNITED STATES: Malmström plans a 'step-by-step' trade negotiation
WTO: for Ms Malmström, priorities in 2019 are reform of Organisation and responses to Chinese challenge
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
COUNCIL OF EUROPE: two men and two women candidates for post of Secretary General of an organisation in crisis
NEWS BRIEFS
AGRICULTURE: trigger on 16 January of safeguard clause on rice
FUTURE OF THE EU: European Parliament creates an internet application for citizens online
CLIMATE: Joint Research Centre assesses impact of climate change in Europe according to temperature scenarios
INDUSTRY: German industry wants a long-term European strategy for China
JHA: Jean-Claude Juncker continues to advocate Romania's accession to Schengen area
MIGRATION: Jean-Claude Juncker blames Member States for their inaction on reform of European asylum system
NIGERIA: EU will deploy an observation mission for parliamentary elections
EP2019: Italian 5-star Movement and its European partners will seal a cooperation agreement by mid-February
UNITED KINGDOM: Mr Juncker and Ms May in close contact to provide further assurances on agreement facilitating an orderly Brexit
CORRIGENDUM
ROMANIA: clarification on Mr. Meleşcanu's political affiliation
The B-word: Agence Europe’s newsletter on Brexit
THE B-WORD: Brexit - Extend and pretend?
CALENDAR
Main activities of the European Institutions: 14/01 - 21/01/2019
Other Events: 14/01 - 27/01/2019