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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12287
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INSTITUTIONAL / European parliament

Agreement in European Council on appointments to key posts is difficult to digest

While the Heads of State and Government welcomed, on Tuesday 2 July, the agreement reached after 48 hours of negotiations on appointments to key posts (see other news), in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, enthusiasm was much more mixed.

This is a "difficult day" for Manfred Weber. The current Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament acknowledged this after a meeting with his group. The German had announced earlier in the day that he would not run for President of the...

Contents

SPECIAL MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL
FUTURE OF EU: Twenty-Eight propose Mrs von der Leyen as head of European Commission
INSTITUTIONAL
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: agreement in European Council on appointments to key posts is difficult to digest
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: political groups nominate four candidates for Presidency of Assembly
COMMISSION: Member States considering proposal to not replace two Commissioners who sit in European Parliament
SECTORAL POLICIES
AGRICULTURE: Finnish Presidency of EU Council hopes for progress by end of 2019 on post-2020 CAP
AGRICULTURE: Commission notes a stabilisation in use of fertilisers in agriculture
CLIMATE: 3rd MoCA, Ministers and civil society from 31 countries continue to mobilise for action and ambition
INTERNAL MARKET: Finland's EU Council Presidency will focus on deepening single market
RESEARCH: 11 billion euros of investment for final tranche of Horizon 2020
ENERGY: drop in gas production and consumption in EU in first quarter of 2019
ENERGY: share of coal in EU's power mix continues to decline
EXTERNAL ACTION
UNITED STATES: Airbus case—new products, specifically agri-foodstuffs, added to tariff sanctions list
ALBANIA: EU welcomes peaceful elections, but regrets political divisions
HONG KONG: EU calls for order after invasion of Legislative Council
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ITALY: Mr Conte tries to reassure Commission and its European partners about budgetary trajectory
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
CATALONIA: General Court rejects request to allow separatists Puigdemont and Comín to claim seats in European Parliament
NEWS BRIEFS
AGRICULTURE: Commission approves a new protected designation of origin for France
SAUDI ARABIA: Mr Panzeri welcomes UN report on murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
SPACE: industry stakeholders call on policy makers to strengthen Horizon Europe’s budget in space sector
MAURITANIA:  EU welcomes election of Mohamed Cheikh Mohamed Ahmed El Ghazouani as President