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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12215

16 March 2019
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EXTERNAL ACTION / Trade
Commission report confirms increase in foreign capital in strategic European sectors
Brussels, 15/03/2019 (Agence Europe)

A Foreign Direct Investment Report, published on Wednesday 13 March by the European Commission, confirms the increase in foreign ownership in several European companies active in key sectors. 

In 106 pages, the document provides a detailed mapping of EU foreign direct investment (FDI) by country and sector. 

Foreign investors control about 3% of the companies in the sample and 35% of the assets, employing about 16 million workers in the EU. 

Apart from traditional investors, in recent...

Contents

SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: partial political agreement in Council of the EU on European Globalisation Adjustment Fund after 2020
SOCIAL: member States are divided on continuation of negotiations on coordination of social security systems
EXTERNAL ACTION
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: China to be honoured at ministerial meeting on Monday 18 March
TURKEY: EU and Turkish representatives on Association Council stand by their positions
UKRAINE: EU sanctions eight senior officials and military personnel responsible for escalation of tensions in Azov Sea
MERCOSUR: a 'pessimistic and hermetic' round of negotiations confirms deadlock in talks with EU
ACP: challenges of rule of law, environmental crimes, future partnership on agenda of ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
SEAS: European Commission draws up positive assessment of actions on ocean governance
UNITED STATES: agreement on EU import quota for American beef not treated with hormones
TRADE: Commission report confirms increase in foreign capital in strategic European sectors
SECTORAL POLICIES
INTERNAL MARKET: Twenty-eight expected to advocate for a more extensive single market capable of protecting itself from unfair competition from outside
CLIMATE: EU climate action, NGOs call on European Council to listen to European Parliament and citizens
JUSTICE: European Public Prosecutor's Office not in best position to fight terrorism, according to legal experts
JUSTICE: list of legal issues raised by electronic evidence regulation is growing in the European Parliament
JUSTICE: Member States support Interinstitutional Agreement on Whistleblowers Directive
AGRICULTURE: seven EU countries call for increase in maximum amount of coupled aid
AGRICULTURE: European Parliament committee invited to speed up work on post-2020 CAP
ANIMAL HEALTH: Commission does not wish to propose standards to improve animal welfare in aquaculture
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECONOMY: Romanian Presidency of EU Council finally has a full negotiating mandate with European Parliament on InvestEU programme
ECONOMY: annual inflation rate was 1.5% in euro area and 1.6% in EU in February
FINANCE: European Commission this time takes a positive view of work to establish Capital Markets Union
INSTITUTIONAL
BREXIT: given the current “serious situation”, Michel Barnier calls on EU regions and cities to prepare for a no-deal Brexit
FUTURE OF EU: a draft permanent system of citizen consultations is being studied at European level
DEMOCRACY: implementation of EU rapid alert system on disinformation
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
HUNGARY: Council of Europe denounces absence of balances in Hungarian laws on administrative courts
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
BANKS: 2014 Hungarian legislation on bank loans denominated in foreign currency infringes EU law, says EU Court
NEWS BRIEFS
HUNGARY: Viktor Orbán smoothes his language at Hungarian National Day
NEW ZEALAND: Jean-Claude Juncker sends his condolences to relatives of the victims of Christchurch attack
SOCIAL: Slovakia triggers hostilities over hosting of European Labour Authority
UKRAINE: agreement in principle on imports of Ukrainian poultry
The B-word: Agence Europe’s newsletter on Brexit
THE B-WORD: Third time lucky?
CALENDAR
Main activities of European Institutions: from 18/03 to 24/03/2019
Other events: until 31 March 2019