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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12528

16 July 2020
Contents Publication in full By article 22 / 37
SECTORAL POLICIES / Energy
G20 governments have committed $151 billion to fossil fuel industries for recovery, according to Energy Policy Tracker
Brussels, 15/07/2020 (Agence Europe)

As part of the post-Covid-19 stimulus packages, G20 governments have already committed at least $151 billion of public money to fossil fuels, equating to 56% of all public funds mobilised for the energy sector. This was the estimation provided on Wednesday 15 July by the Energy Policy Tracker, a website launched by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) that has collated data from 14 organisations.

“National and subnational jurisdictions [...] have once again thrown...

Contents

COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
STATE AID: EU General Court annuls Commission decision ordering Ireland to recover €13 billion of tax benefits granted to Apple
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
TAXATION: European Commission proposes a new arsenal of measures against tax evasion
TAXATION: automatic exchange of tax information, Commission proposes to extend rules to digital platforms
FINANCE: ESMA to look into German financial supervision in ‘Wirecard’ case
EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
HEALTH: Commission calls for reduction in “cocktail of risks” linked to seasonal influenza
BUDGET/ECONOMY: EU ministers confirm their differences on modalities for post-Covid-19 recovery funds
WOMEN: Commission’s recovery plan “fails to address the specific challenges for women”, say economists Elisabeth Klatzer and Azzurra Rinaldi
DIGITAL: contact tracing apps, Commission will facilitate set up of interoperability gateway
EXTERNAL ACTION
INDIA: EU wants to bring New Delhi back into its zone of influence
VIETNAM: opening of quotas for imports of rice and other agri-food products
SOUTH AFRICA: an EU/South Africa political dialogue dominated by impact of Covid-19 pandemic and AU/EU Summit
AFRICA: Chrysoula Zacharopoulou calls for a post-Covid EU/Africa partnership focused on human development
INSTITUTIONAL
TRANSPARENCY: EU Council formalises its new transparency policy
RULE OF LAW: At start of European Summit, Renew Europe group in European Parliament is once again calling for ‘smart conditionality’ of EU funds
EUROPEAN COMMISSION: Commission appoints a new Head of Representation in Sweden and a new Deputy Director-General in DG Agriculture
EUROPEAN COMMISSION: European Ombudsman suggests reopening European Commission’s code of conduct in Croatian elections
SECTORAL POLICIES
HOME AFFAIRS: European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties reiterates its call to Commission to act on visa reciprocity with United States
AGRICULTURE: MEPs agree to try to vote in October on post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy
AGRICULTURE: German Minister Julia Klöckner calls for a “strong” post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy
JUSTICE: Google sanctioned by Belgian data protection authority for failure to respect right to be forgotten
COHESION: CPMR broadly welcomes Charles Michel’s budget proposals
ENERGY: G20 governments have committed $151 billion to fossil fuel industries for recovery, according to Energy Policy Tracker
CLIMATE: eighteen businesses and organisations launch European Clean Trucking Alliance
NEWS BRIEFS
AFGHANISTAN: NATO calls for peace negotiations to begin
BUDGET: President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe calls for part of European Recovery Fund to be allocated to a vaccination programme
CITIZENSHIP: formal adoption of extension of European Citizens’ Initiative
JUSTICE: Commission launches consultation on its ‘European Democracy Action Plan’
JUSTICE: only nine Member States have started work to transpose Whistleblowers Directive
DIGITAL: United Kingdom excludes Huawei from its 5G network
FISHERIES: proposal transposing measures of Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
FISHERIES: proposal on autonomous EU tariff quotas 2021-2023 for certain fishery products
POLAND: well-organised second round of voting, but aggressive campaign and partisan media coverage, says Council of Europe
HEALTH: regulation relaxing rules related to GMOs in framework of Covid-19 is adopted
SLOVENIA: Commissioner for Human Rights calls for consultation on media reform projects
SOCIAL: trade unions put pressure on Member States ahead of negotiations on next EU budget
TRANSPORT: European Parliament’s Committee on Transport supports provisional agreement on completion of TEN-T network
CORRIGENDUM
BUDGET: details of vote in Hungarian parliament