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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12314

28 August 2019
Contents Publication in full By article 7 / 16
EXTERNAL ACTION / Foreign affairs
Situation in Middle East on agenda for Foreign Ministers' meeting in Helsinki
Brussels, 27/08/2019 (Agence Europe)

The Foreign Ministers of the EU Member States will meet on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 August in Helsinki for an informal Gymnich-type meeting.

It will start with a lunch with Defence Ministers (see other news) on the subject of hybrid threats, which is one of the priorities of the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU (see EUROPE B12292A25). The results of the scenario-based political discussions, held in July by their political and defence policy directors, will add to the lunch. The...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
AGRICULTURE: soil carbon sequestration on agenda of informal ministerial meeting on 24 September
AGRICULTURE: use of new imaging technologies for CAP examined by Court of Auditors
ENVIRONMENT: pesticides - Commission will propose a ban on chlorpyrifos ethyl and methyl after 2020
INSTITUTIONAL
EUROPEAN COMMISSION: Ursula von der Leyen has begun her consultations with nominated candidates
UNITED KINGDOM: after G7, discussions continue to find a solution for an orderly exit from EU on 31 October
EXTERNAL ACTION
RUSSIA: Moscow condemned by ECHR in 'Magnitskiy' case
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: situation in Middle East on agenda for Foreign Ministers' meeting in Helsinki
G7: a final declaration developed in an innovative way
G7: minimum declaration on international situation
AFRICA: G7/Africa partnership on entrepreneurship for women and digital transformation agreed in Biarritz
CLIMATE: Brazil declines €20 million offer from G7 to fight fires in Amazon
SECURITY - DEFENCE
DEFENCE: artificial intelligence, climate, maritime security and hybrid threats on agenda for informal ministerial meeting
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
TAXATION: threat of American retaliation for French digital tax has been ruled out, according to Bruno Le Maire
NEWS BRIEFS
EUROPEAN COMMISSION: Jens Geier advocates for gender parity in ‘von der Leyen’ College
GREECE: Commission looks forward to capital controls being definitively lifted starting in September
TRANSPORT: low air fares are mainly due to public subsidies, according to T&E