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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12512

24 June 2020
Contents Publication in full By article 29 / 30
NEWS BRIEFS / Health
GUE-NGL group in European Parliament launches petition for universal access to future Covid-19 vaccine

23/06/2020 (Agence Europe) – The GUE-NGL is mobilising for universal access to any potential Covid-19 vaccine. The far-left political group launched a petition on Tuesday 23 June under the title Right2Cure to make the future vaccine a “public good” by removing intellectual property barriers. One of the initiators of the petition, Marc Botenga (Belgium), advocated a set of patents under the aegis of the World Health Organization (WHO) as an alternative to the current system. “To...

Contents

BEACONS
BEACONS: Biodiversity – a state of emergency! (1)
SECTORAL POLICIES
CONSUMERS: Parliament and EU Council reach political agreement on ‘European Collective Redress’ Directive
ENVIRONMENT: European Ministers convinced of potential of Green Deal initiatives for a green recovery, if they are sufficiently funded
AGRICULTURE: differences between Council of EU and European Parliament on internal convergence of aid before new CAP
MIGRATION: pending Pact on Asylum, European Parliament is preparing its message to Commission on malfunctioning of Dublin Regulation
HOME AFFAIRS: EU Council working on initial European list of non-Member States whose citizens can enter EU from 1 July
TERRORISM: 119 attacks classified as terrorist took place in EU in 2019, according to a Europol report
DIGITAL: Margrethe Vestager updates MEPs on current issues
TRANSPORT: EU Council invited to approve negotiating mandate with European Parliament on European Year of Rail
TRANSPORT: MEPs urge Commission to force Member States to respect their commitments on realisation of TEN-T
JUSTICE: electronic platforms remove 71% of flagged content for exacerbating hate online
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
TAXATION: Council of EU close to completion on excise duties on alcohol
FINANCE: European Parliament launches its own reflection on Capital Markets Union pending Commission’s new Action Plan
FINANCE: Valdis Dombrovskis details Commission’s ambitions to keep EU competitive in digital finance
FINANCE: Luis Garicano and Sven Giegold call for comprehensive reform of EU audit rules in wake of Wirecard scandal
FINANCE: EFRAG stands ready in case EU decides to develop non-financial European standards
STATE AID: in-depth investigation into compensation granted to Czech Post for its universal service obligation
EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
BUDGET/ECONOMICS: EU leaders to negotiate on European Recovery Plan and MFF 2021-2027 on 17-18 July
EXTERNAL ACTION
UNITED KINGDOM: EU Council will take note of state of play of negotiations between London and EU
SERBIA: EU notes unbalanced elections with regret
BURKINA FASO: equipment and medical staff sent to Ouagadougou by EU Humanitarian Air Bridge
SECURITY - DEFENCE
NATO: Stoltenberg calls for extension of New START treaty, pending an agreement that includes China
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: European Parliament is considering whether to draft a European right to disconnection
INSTITUTIONAL
TRANSPARENCY: future German EU Council Presidency poses a risk to EU climate action, CEO worries
NEWS BRIEFS
TRADE: second quarter fall in world trade “could have been much worse”, according to WTO
JUSTICE: work still to be done to correctly, consistently implement GDPR in EU
MALTA: call for vigilance at Council of Europe on reform of Maltese government and call for justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia
RUSSIA: Commissioner for Human Rights reacts to arrests in Russia and recalls that pandemic cannot justify undue restrictions on freedom of expression
HEALTH: GUE-NGL group in European Parliament launches petition for universal access to future Covid-19 vaccine
SERBIA/KOSOVO: dialogue expected to resume in July