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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12490

20 May 2020
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EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19 / Economy
Further negotiations in EU Council on Covid-19 European Post-Pandemic Recovery Fund
Brussels, 19/05/2020 (Agence Europe)

Following the enlarged Eurogroup on Friday 15 May (see EUROPE B12488A1), EU Finance Ministers continued their discussions on the European emergency response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the proposal for a European Recovery Fund, which the European Commission will unveil on Wednesday 27 May together with its revised proposal for a Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-2027.

Several Member States, notably southern European countries such as Spain and Italy, have welcomed the Franco-German...

Contents

EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
HEALTH: WHO calls for independent evaluation of international response to Covid-19
HEALTH: ECDC publishes a guide for Member States on long-term care facilities
ECONOMY: further negotiations in EU Council on Covid-19 European Post-Pandemic Recovery Fund
STATE AID: Finnish State guarantee for a €600 million loan to Finnair in context of Covid-19 given green light
CULTURE: support for impact of Covid-19 'is certainly not enough, but it's not insignificant either', says Mariya Gabriel
TOURISM: EU Ministers invited to decide on a coordinated resumption of travel and tourism activities in EU
TRANSPORT: Commission “is addressing the problem” of misleading information provided by airlines to their customers
HOME AFFAIRS: health crisis has not deterred criminal groups, says Europol director
RESEARCH: an additional €122 million mobilised from Horizon 2020 programme for Covid-19 research
SOCIAL: EU Council formally adopts SURE instrument
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
MONEY LAUNDERING: revised methodology for list of high-risk third countries welcomed by Member States
ECONOMY: Member States' compliance with country-specific policy recommendations remains low
STATE AID: approval of a €550 million Danish aid scheme for electricity production from biomass installations
SECTORAL POLICIES
ENERGY: Kadri Simson announces that she will present a communication for construction of a “hydrogen economy in Europe”
ENERGY: energy performance certificates must be harmonised at European level, according to X-tendo
INDUSTRY: European Battery Alliance making progress despite Covid-19 crisis, says Maroš Šefčovič
CLIMATE:  bill tabled in Parliament commits Spain to achieving climate neutrality by 2050 at latest
FISHERIES: EU vessels will have to obtain a licence each year to fish in UK waters, according to UK proposal
FOOD SAFETY: mislabelling tops EU food fraud list, according to Commission's 2019 report
MIGRATION: Hungary could refuse to implement Court of Justice’s decision on Röszke transit zone
DIGITAL: Thierry Breton calls on Mark Zuckerberg to respect European values
EXTERNAL ACTION
ISRAEL: EU is ready to immediately discuss peace process with new Israeli government
LIBYA: faced with Mr el-Sarraj, Mr Borrell again calls for fighting to end
UNITED KINGDOM: London finally publishes its negotiating documents for future relationship with EU
UNITED KINGDOM: from 2021, a UK tariff regime that is “simpler, easier to use and lower” than EU’s
TRADE: Marie-Pierre Vedrenne wants to strengthen deterrent effect of enforcement regulation for international trade rules
TRADE: at OECD, Phil Hogan defends his model of “Open Strategic Autonomy”
NEWS BRIEFS
BURUNDI: EU calls on all political actors to contribute to credible and peaceful elections
COHESION: European Commission postpones presentation of 3rd pillar of Just Transition Mechanism
ENLARGEMENT: Mr Várhelyi hopes progress reports will be published in September
ENERGY: Commission launches public consultation on TEN-E review
SPACE: ESA awards contracts to study future EGNOS upgrades in aeronautics
UNITED KINGDOM: British MPs bury free movement of European workers for good
SOCIAL: AGE EUROPE once again sounds alarm on treatment of elderly during Covid-19