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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12541
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NEWS BRIEFS / Digital

TikTok takeover, USA puts pressure

03/08/2020 (Agence Europe) – The United States is putting pressure on TikTok. After threatening to ban the Chinese app, U.S. President Donald Trump said he would give himself 45 days to act. This gives Microsoft until 15 September to continue its acquisition talks, including its branches in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. With a billion users worldwide, TikTok makes it possible to create, share and view short clips, usually musical, offbeat or humorous. But Donald Trump accuses the very...

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SECTORAL POLICIES
MIGRATION: Paris and Rome set up a ‘joint brigade’ against smuggling networks
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: EU commemorates Roma Holocaust against a background of increasing hate directed towards Roma community
DIGITAL: Council of Europe and European Commission take stock of copyright issues
ENVIRONMENT: ship recycling, public consultation on proposal to update list of approved facilities
ENERGY: NGO and business coalition calls on Commission to ensure fair competition in heating sector
TOURISM: EU deprived of 95% of tourists at height of Covid-19 crisis, says Eurostat
EXTERNAL ACTION
TRADE: Member States’ export credit practices are increasingly converging
AZERBAIJAN: S&D Group in European Parliament calls for sanctions against those responsible for human rights violations
CHINA: EEAS wants to step up its fight against Chinese disinformation
NEWS BRIEFS
AFGHANISTAN: EU condemns attack on Jalalabad prison
DEATH: tributes to John Hume, one of the fathers of Good Friday Agreement, who passed away at 83 years of age
CIRCULAR ECONOMY: International E-waste Day to be held on 14 October to promote recycling
COMPANIES: SMEunited calls for the principle of partnership to be respected
RULE OF LAW: France will argue for sanctions under conditionality mechanism
DIGITAL: TikTok takeover, USA puts pressure
REGIONS: Covid-19, European Commission approves Danish and Hungarian-Slovak reprogramming
UNITED KINGDOM: two new formal rounds of talks added to agenda for UK-EU future relationship negotiations