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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12392

18 December 2019
Contents Publication in full By article 2 / 31
INSTITUTIONAL / Future of eu
Confusion in European Parliament on identity of future president of Conference on Future of Europe
Brussels, 17/12/2019 (Agence Europe)

The Renew Europe group expressed its great surprise on Tuesday 17 December at the announcement made in the morning by S&D group President Iratxe García that the Conference on the Future of Europe would be chaired by the current President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli (S&D, Italy).

A position that the Liberal group covets for the Belgian Guy Verhofstadt, who had declared himself available very early on for this mission. The leader of the Liberal group, Dacian Cioloș, had spoken...

Contents

INSTITUTIONAL
UNITED KINGDOM: struck by Boris Johnson's 'triumph', European Parliament political groups are preparing to sit without their British colleagues
FUTURE OF EU: confusion in European Parliament on identity of future president of Conference on Future of Europe
PARLIAMENT: Karima Delli and Ismail Ertug ask Angel Dzhambazki to apologise for his xenophobic remarks
POLAND: Didier Reynders is not opposed to requesting new transitional measures to preserve independence of judicial system
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
CLIMATE: after COP 25, MEPs believe that Green Deal will help EU to convince international community
MALTA: MEPs denounce lack of involvement of European institutions in rule of law
TAXATION: commissioner Paolo Gentiloni reaffirms his commitment to international tax reform
TAXATION: European Parliament supports new rules to reduce VAT fraud in e-commerce
DISABILITY: post-2020 European strategy, all options on the table
EUROPEAN OMBUDSMAN: no one obtained necessary majority at end of first round of voting of five candidates for post
JORDAN: European Parliament approves third macro-financial assistance package for Amman
SOLOMON ISLANDS: MEPs support Solomon Islands' accession to Partnership Agreement with Pacific States
ECONOMY - FINANCE
ECONOMY: von der Leyen Commission greens budgetary process of European Semester
FINANCE: European Parliament and EU Council reach agreement on taxonomy on sustainable finance
MONEY LAUNDERING: European financial supervisory authorities strengthen cross-border cooperation
COMPETITION: Commission opens in-depth investigation into proposed acquisition of DSME by HHIH
SECTORAL POLICIES
ENVIRONMENT: Green Deal, European Ministers will be asked about their priorities on 19 December
AGRICULTURE: EU Agriculture Ministers fear new US sanctions on agricultural products
FISHERIES: ministers from six EU Member States call for flexibility in 2014-2020 fisheries fund
FISHERIES: EU Fisheries Ministers have negotiated hard for 2020 fishing quotas
HEALTH: 14 MEPs in favour of a European ban on titanium dioxide
FOOD SAFETY: EU Council advocates cooperation with tax and law enforcement authorities to better combat food fraud
DIGITAL: electronic communications code, Commission shall specify contractual summary
REGIONS: regions and cities call for reform of European decision-making process to meet climate challenges
EXTERNAL ACTION
CHINA: Jewher Ilham calls on international community to support her father
NEWS BRIEFS
STATE AID: green light for an increase in aid for transfer of freight traffic from road to rail in Austria
STATE AID: green light for Polish aid scheme to reduce noise in rail transport
ENERGY: fifth session of negotiations on Russian gas transiting through Ukraine will be held on 19 December
INSTITUTIONAL: European Court of Auditors is joined by two new members
CSDP: Paulo Soares, first Head of Mission of new EU Mission in Central African Republic
HEALTH: European doctors are hardening tone on electronic cigarettes