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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12234

12 April 2019
Contents Publication in full By article 22 / 33
EXTERNAL ACTION / Libya
France denies blocking an EU statement attacking Haftar
Brussels, 11/04/2019 (Agence Europe)

The spokesperson for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied, on Thursday, 11 April, reports that France had blocked a statement by the 28 EU Member States on Libya the day before. 

This statement allegedly asked General Haftar to stop his military operations on Tripoli. 

“It is a false allegation”, said the Quai d'Orsay spokesperson. According to the French Foreign Ministry, Paris called for the text to be reinforced on three points: “the situation of migrants, the involvement...

Contents

INSTITUTIONAL
UNITED KINGDOM: for Commission, new extension granted in London will allow EU to mark a “pause” in Brexit
ROMANIA: controversy over Laura Codruţa Kövesi triggers new debate in European Parliament on rule of law in Romania
BUDGET: European Parliament's Committee on Budgets supports emergency measures for 2019 in case of no-deal Brexit
TRANSPARENCY: no decision yet on removal of ExxonMobil access badges to Parliament
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
CONSUMERS: a passenger may bring an action before Court of a State in which a branch of an airline is established when that branch has intervened in legal relationship between airline and passenger
EMPLOYMENT: under certain conditions, a State may provide fixed reference periods for calculation of average weekly working time
POLAND: according to Advocate General, provisions of legislation lowering retirement age of Supreme Court judges are contrary to Union law
INDUSTRY: Prague's action for annulment against Firearms Directive should be dismissed, according to Advocate General
SECTORAL POLICIES
AGRICULTURE: EU ministers to discuss post-2020 CAP, rural Africa, markets and large carnivores on Monday 15 April
COHESION: ministers meet in Bucharest to discuss priority investments under post-2020 cohesion policy
HEALTH: access to medicines back on agenda of an informal meeting of EU ministers
CULTURE: informal ministerial meeting to unleash potential of creation
JUSTICE: Member States returning to issue of telecom data retention for law enforcement purposes
JUSTICE: discussions in Council of the EU to improve use of mutual recognition instruments for judicial decisions
TRANSPORT: Violeta Bulc hopes that inter-institutional negotiations on ‘mobility’ package I will start in July
FISHERIES: many fish stocks remain overexploited, says EU Scientific Committee
FISHERIES: call for an immediate halt to cod fishing in Eastern Baltic
CONSUMERS: Marc Tarabella asks Commission to investigate Facebook spying on users after they deleted their accounts
EXTERNAL ACTION
UNITED STATES: trade negotiation mandates validated by Member States despite opposition of France
TRADE: EU to take advantage of postponement of the Brexit to solve quota problem
TRADE: Far East, Mrs Malmström defends multilateral rules
LIBYA: France denies blocking an EU statement attacking Haftar
DEVELOPMENT: EU's level of official aid decreased in 2018, but its aid to the least developed countries increased
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: outlook for revision of coordination of social security systems looking bleaker
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
COUNCIL OF EUROPE: Belgian Didier Reynders, favourite for succession of Thorbjorn Jagland, presented his vision of CoE's future
NEWS BRIEFS
AGRICULTURE: Commission approves two new protected designations of origin from Croatia and Spain
AGRICULTURE: new record in January 2019 for EU agri-food trade
COMPETITION: European citizens have a positive image of competition policy, according to a Eurobarometer survey
CYBER SECURITY: Huawei tries again to reassure Europeans
EDUCATION: new picture for vocational education and training systems in Europe
MIDDLE EAST: EU once again denounces Israel’s new settlement announcement
UNITED KINGDOM: for Committee of the Regions, extension of Brexit should not prevent an agreement on future EU budget
SUDAN: EU is closely monitoring situation and reiterates its call for a peaceful and credible political process