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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12384
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Migration

Greece, first stop on Ylva Johansson and Margaritis Schinas’ tour of capitals, calls for increased support on returns of migrants

European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson and Vice-President Margaritis Schinas, in charge of Promoting the European Way of Life, launched a tour of the capitals on Thursday 5 December in Athens in support of the future European Pact on Asylum and Migration. As they announced on 2 December, at the EU Council of Interior Ministers (see EUROPE B12381A4), they will continue their trip to Ankara on 6 December.

This first trip to Greece was intended to allow the two officials to...

Contents

ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
EMU: Eurogroup is still struggling with reform of ESM and relaunch of negotiations on banking union
FINANCE: white smoke between European Parliament and EU Council for taxonomy on sustainable finance
TAXATION: Ecofin Council takes note of deadlock with country-by-country reporting
MONEY LAUNDERING: Member States open to discussion on granting certain supervisory powers to an EU body
ECONOMY: Member States shall require a feasibility study on rationalising European financial architecture
STATE AID: Commission authorises recapitalisation of German bank NordLB
INSTITUTIONAL
GREENS/EFA: Philippe Lamberts: “Believing in green growth is believing in miracles”
CZECH REPUBLIC: Johannes Hahn does not wish to publish audit report on ‘Babiš’ case
PARLIAMENT: Sassoli wants all elected representatives in European Parliament to be subject to same rules for European elections in future
BUDGET: Finland's Presidency of the Council unveils its “balanced” compromise on the 2021-2027 financial framework
SECTORAL POLICIES
CLIMATE/ENVIRONMENT: health of planet deserves hundreds of billions of euros of investment per year required by Green Deal, according to Timmermans
ENERGY: Kadri Simson fails to convince MEPs on 4th list of projects of common interest
AGRICULTURE: risk management instruments have partially met their objectives, according to European Court of Auditors
ENVIRONMENT: MEPs and experts confirm difficult coexistence between livestock farmers and wolves
ANIMAL HEALTH: new call to stop caging farm animals
MIGRATION: Greece, first stop on Ylva Johansson and Margaritis Schinas’ tour of capitals, calls for increased support on returns of migrants
INDUSTRY: Bruno Le Maire announces an imminent Commission decision on subsidies to European Battery Alliance
SPACE/DEFENCE: European Commission has finalized organisation chart of its Industry, Space and Defence services
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
JUSTICE: competent authority of enforcing State cannot refuse to enforce a fine for a traffic offence imposed on person in whose name vehicle is registered
NEWS BRIEFS
AGRICULTURE: Finnish Presidency of Council provides an update on work on post-2020 CAP
ECONOMY: avenues for reflection on evolution of European fiscal rules postponed to January
COMPANIES: Alban Maggiar elected head of SMEunited
EURO AREA: Hans Vijlbrief reappointed head of Eurogroup Working Group until end of January 2022
FINANCE: EU Council adopts its joint statement with Commission on stablecoins
FINANCE: Council of EU sets its objectives for deepening Capital Markets Union
TAXATION: EU Council supports a revision of Energy Taxation Directive
PARLIAMENT: Cristian-Silviu Buşoi to chair European Parliament's Industry, Research and Energy Committee
POLAND: new National Council of Polish Judiciary does not offer guarantees of independence from political power, according to country’s Supreme Court