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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12374

22 November 2019
Contents Publication in full By article 11 / 27
SECTORAL POLICIES / Transport
Finnish Presidency of Council wishes to relaunch discussions on air passenger rights
Brussels, 21/11/2019 (Agence Europe)

On Tuesday 19 November, the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the European Union sent the Member States a ‘reflection paper’, a copy of which was sent to EUROPE, with a view to relaunching discussions on the revision of the European regulations on air passenger rights (261/2004 and 2027/97).

While this issue has been at a standstill in the Council since mid-2015, Helsinki considers that “the time is getting ripe for moving air passenger rights forward”.

To this end, the...

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CLIMATE: European Parliament to vote on COP25 and environment and climate emergency in Europe on 28 November
TRANSPORT: Finnish Presidency of EU Council proposes compromises on electronic exchange of information in freight
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COHESION: common provisions regulation, Member States want to deepen European Parliament's proposals
AGRICULTURE: opening of first invitation to tender for private storage aid for olive oil
AGRICULTURE: Commission monitors imports of japonica rice from Myanmar
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JUSTICE: US Department of Justice has reservations about transatlantic agreement on access to electronic evidence
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SOCIAL: coordination of social security systems, some Member States are tense faced with turn of negotiations with European Parliament
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
FINANCE: taxonomy on sustainable finance, disagreement between European Parliament and EU Council on governance issues
TAXATION: tense situation in EU Council on country-by-country reporting
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