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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12173

17 January 2019
Contents Publication in full By article 14 / 29
SECTORAL POLICIES / Justice
Member States seem to support single instrument principle for Whistleblowers Directive
Brussels, 16/01/2019 (Agence Europe)

Delegations from EU Member States finally expressed their support for the horizontal approach proposed by the European Commission for the Whistleblowers Directive, as well as for maintaining a qualified majority decision-making process on tax matters, at the meeting of the Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper) on Wednesday, 16 January. 

The meeting was highly anticipated and should settle the question on the position of Member States on a controversial legal opinion of the Council,...

Contents

INSTITUTIONAL
UNITED KINGDOM: EU in anticipation after British Parliament's rejection of Brexit agreement with Ms May
UNITED KINGDOM: Extending negotiating deadline and holding a second British referendum on Brexit discussed in European Parliament
UNITED KINGDOM: EU companies and trade unions concerned after British rejection of agreement on orderly Brexit
BREXIT: relocation to EU of two European agencies based in London is continuing
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
FUTURE OF THE EU: Pedro Sánchez gives a resolutely European and progressive speech to European Parliament
MOROCCO: Parliament approves amendment of EU/Morocco agreement on controversial grounds
ENVIRONMENT: European Parliament endorses the recommendations of its special committee to improve the authorisation procedure for pesticides in the EU
JUSTICE: European Parliament adopts progressive report on situation of fundamental rights in EU in 2017
SOCIAL: European Parliament substantially changes functioning of European Globalisation Adjustment Fund after 2020
SOCIAL: European Parliament significantly increases envelope of future European Social Fund+
COHESION: European Parliament increases Interreg post-2020 envelope to more than €11 billion
TRADE: European Parliament validates agreement with Council on allocation of WTO tariff quotas between EU-27 and United Kingdom
WTO: broad support from European Parliament to promptly put EU in line with ruling on Chinese poultry import
SECTORAL POLICIES
JUSTICE: Member States seem to support single instrument principle for Whistleblowers Directive
JUSTICE: European Parliament/Council agreement on financial sanctions for European political parties handling personal data for political purposes
JUSTICE: Legislative dossiers in the field of civil and criminal justice on table of Romanian Presidency of Council of EU
AGRICULTURE: Customs duties on Asian rice to come into force on January 18
AGRICULTURE: Member States support proposal to avoid disruptions in direct payments
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECONOMY: EU ministers invited to express their views on governance of future InvestEU Fund
FINANCE: European Parliament rapporteurs call on Council to adopt its position on whole reform of European Supervisory Authorities as soon as possible
EXTERNAL ACTION
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Member States agree to sanction the two 'tourists' in Skripal case
HUMANITARIAN AID: Commission forecasts a record EU budget of €1.6 billion in 2019
RUSSIA: EU concerned about allegations of persecution of LGBTI persons in Chechnya
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
COMPETITION: The Court sets aside the prohibition on the acquisition of TNT Express by UPS due to a procedural error
NEWS BRIEFS
TRADE: Member States confirm definitive steel safeguards
JUSTICE: Mr Pierre-Luc Vogel, new president of notaries of Europe
KENYA: EU in solidarity with Kenyan population and authorities mourning a terrorist attack
EP2019: French socialists and republicans expected to present their respective electoral lists shortly
SOCIAL: coordination of social security systems, European Parliament and Council test themselves on aggregation and export of social benefits