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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12293

11 July 2019
Contents Publication in full By article 10 / 24
SECURITY - DEFENCE / Security
Member States agree to creation of a working party on hybrid threats
Brussels, 10/07/2019 (Agence Europe)

On Wednesday 10 July, the ambassadors of the Twenty-Eight Member States to the EU approved the creation of a 'Horizontal Working Party on Enhancing Resilience and Countering Hybrid Threats'.

According to a EU Council document obtained by EUROPE, this Working Party, proposed by the trio of Presidencies of the Romania-Finland-Croatia EU Council, will work on combating hybrid threats, strengthening the resilience of the State and society, improving strategic communication and combating...

Contents

BEACONS
BEACONS: How to become the President of the European Commission (2/3)
INSTITUTIONAL
EUROPEAN COMMISSION: Mrs von der Leyen is trying to secure a political majority in European Parliament to her person
PARLIAMENT: uncertainties following MEPs’ rejection of Beata Szydło's candidacy to head European Parliament's Employment and Social Affairs Committee
PARLIAMENT: MEPs apply cordon sanitaire against Identity and Democracy political group
PARLIAMENT: elections to offices of parliamentary committees prefigure future political balance of power
BUDGET: EU Member States expect payment appropriations to increase by 3.3% in 2020
EEAS: High Representative appoints 46 new EU Heads of Delegations
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECONOMY: Commission slightly lowers its growth forecasts for 2020 in euro area due to external and internal uncertainties
BANKS: European Court of Auditors points out shortcomings in latest EBA stress test
SECURITY - DEFENCE
SECURITY: Member States agree to creation of a working party on hybrid threats
EXTERNAL ACTION
TURKEY: Europeans are considering retaliatory measures that could be taken in response to illegal drilling
ARMENIA: Tusk and Pashinhyan stress importance of rule of law
SAHEL: EU and G5 Sahel will identify priority areas for focusing their security and development efforts
TRADE: Sabine Weyand shares her ideas on European trade policy
TRADE: Finnish Presidency of the EU Council to work towards 'An ambitious, open and rules-based trade policy'
SECTORAL POLICIES
FISHERIES: NGOs call on Commission to prosecute countries that do not protect dolphins sufficiently
JUSTICE: Marriott International faces a fine of over £99 million for violating GDPR regulation
NEWS BRIEFS
COUNCIL OF EUROPE: European Union as stakeholder in Group of States against Corruption
UNITED STATES: green light from Member States to amend EU-US Beef Memorandum of Understanding
TAXATION: France to tax airline tickets from 2020
JUSTICE: pimping and money laundering network dismantled with support of Eurojust
WTO: Member States validate mandate with a view to identifying interim solution to Appellate Body
FISHERIES: a Fishyleaks site to report fraudulent fisheries practices
UNITED KINGDOM: EU and London reaffirm their respective positions on 'Brexit'