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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12230
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / Competition

European Commission sends statement of objections to Valve and five video game publishers for 'geo-blocking' PC games

On Friday 5 April, the European Commission sent a statement of objections to Valve, the owner of the Steam video game distribution platform, as well as to five PC video game publishers (Bandai Namco, Capcom, Focus Home, Koch Media and ZeniMax), alleging that they have prevented consumers from buying video games in Member States other than the one in which they live. 

These objections have been sent following the opening of formal antitrust proceedings in February 2017 (see EUROPE...

Contents

INSTITUTIONAL
UNITED KINGDOM: Theresa May asks again for an extension to June 30 and admits that it will be necessary to consider participation in European elections without a breakthrough before 23 May
GENERAL AFFAIRS: European elections, EU budget, rule of law, but also Brexit will dominate meeting of European Affairs Ministers
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
GREECE: Eurogroup gives green light for release of a new tranche of aid
EMU: disagreements at Eurogroup on governance of future fiscal capacity for euro area
FINANCE: European ministers ensure that their financial markets are ready in event of a no-deal Brexit
FINANCE: Ministerial reflections on how EU can stay on course for next five years
COMPETITION: commission sends BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen objections over possible restriction of competition in emission reduction technology
COMPETITION: European Commission sends statement of objections to Valve and five video game publishers for 'geo-blocking' PC games
SECTORAL POLICIES
FISHERIES: Commission says it is ready to help EU fishermen in event of no-deal Brexit
AGRICULTURE: a study rather positively assesses CAP measures applied to wine sector
ENVIRONMENT: Commission presents 2nd EIR report to help Twenty-Eight implement EU environmental legislation
CLIMATE: average CO2 emissions from new cars increased by 0.4% in 2017, confirms EEA
EXTERNAL ACTION
CHINA: A summit with an ambitious agenda, which could again remain a dead letter
LIBYA: EU calls on parties for appeasement
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Venezuela, Afghanistan, Eastern Partnership and Libya on ministers' agenda
UKRAINE: Chicken breast fraud, EU expects provisional implementation of agreement from September
SECURITY - DEFENCE
NATO: Allies will strengthen their efforts against Russian threats
NEWS BRIEFS
COHESION: Cohesion Alliance welcomes Parliament's positions on post-2020 cohesion policy
ENERGY: nuclear heat production in EU fell by 1.3% in 2017
INDUSTRY: electric cars, ACEA calls for massive investment in charging station infrastructure
LUXEMBOURG: Eurogroup supports Commission's opinion on updated draft budgetary plan for 2019
EP2019: Marine Le Pen and Matteo Salvini announce meeting in Italy in mid-May to bring together ENF group's allies in European Parliament
EP2019: European Parliament's website to show results of European elections
SOCIAL: Council adopts a partial mandate on European Social Fund Plus
TRANSPORT: trade unions broadly satisfied with European Parliament vote on ‘mobility’ package I
The B-word: Agence Europe’s newsletter on Brexit
THE B-WORD: May turns to June
CALENDAR
Main activities of European Institutions: from 08/04 to 14/04/2019
Other events: until 14 April 2019