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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12267
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Cohesion

Member States finalise their position on common provisions regulation

On Wednesday 29 May, the permanent representatives of the Member States to the EU (Coreper II) gave the green light to Block 7, which is dedicated in particular to the definitions of the common provisions regulation (CPR) between the structural and investment funds.

Member States have made some changes and clarifications to the definitions (Article 2), most of them of a technical nature. They added a definition on the European Investment Bank that did not exist in the European Commission's...

Contents

INSTITUTIONAL
PARLIAMENT: negotiations on formation of European Parliament's political groups are intensifying
COMMISSION: Mr Juncker does not want Commissioners who will sit in European Parliament to be replaced
ROMANIA: Romanian government ready to abandon its most criticized reforms
CZECH REPUBLIC: Andrej Babiš may have to repay €17.4 million from EU structural funds
CATALONIA: refusal of Mr Puigdemont's accreditation is extended to all Spanish MEPs
SECTORAL POLICIES
COHESION: Member States finalise their position on common provisions regulation
AGRICULTURE: Italy enticed by portfolio of future Commissioner for agricultural policy
AGRICULTURE: European Parliament's new Agriculture Committee called to take into account work already done on CAP
FISHERIES: EU and its partners are preparing measures to prevent unregulated fisheries in Arctic
JHA: Netherlands asks Commission to work on a suspension of visa liberalization granted to Albania
JUSTICE: European Data Protection Supervisor scrutinises websites of EU bodies
EXTERNAL ACTION
ISRAEL: EU calls on authorities to return confiscated classrooms
KOREAN PENINSULA: EU ready to assume its responsibilities in negotiations
TRADE: improving EU's ability to compete on a level playing field is a trade challenge rather than a competitive one, according to French experts
WTO: Appellate Body's report for 2018 highlights multiple and increasingly complex cases
SECURITY - DEFENCE
SECURITY: Commission considers that “substantial progress” has been made on military mobility
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
TAXATION: OECD defines way forward for an agreement on international tax reform
ITALY: Pierre Moscovici advocates maintaining dialogue with Rome on meeting its budgetary objectives
NEWS BRIEFS
STATE AID: in-depth investigation into a Lithuanian measure on electricity strategic reserve
ALDE: Romanian party Alianța Liberalilor și și Democraților leaves European party
HUNGARY: Hungarian government puts a stop to a contested reform of administrative courts
KAZAKHSTAN: for Mr Tusk, Astana is an essential partner of EU
MIGRATION: complaint for crimes against humanity filed against EU and Twenty-Eight
MOZAMBIQUE: victims of cyclones Idai and Kenneth allocated €100 million in humanitarian aid
ANIMAL HEALTH: one million European citizens are calling to ban all cages for farm animals
SUDAN: EU urges Transitional Military Council to respect right to peaceful demonstration
TADJIKISTAN: Mr Tusk encourages Dushanbe to make progress on human rights