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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12574

6 October 2020
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Climate
European governments subsidise company cars to the tune of €32 billion a year, according to T&E
Brussels, 05/10/2020 (Agence Europe)

Subsidies for company cars cost European taxpayers €32 billion a year, at a time when 96% of new company car registrations are petrol or diesel vehicles, according to a report published on Monday 5 October by the NGO Transport & Environment (T&E).

The NGO arrived at this conclusion by calculating the total savings made by businesses as a result of VAT deductions and write-offs granted to them when buying a car (benefits which are not provided for in the case of the purchase of a car by a...

Contents

INSTITUTIONAL
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: Romeo Franz hopes that EU’s strategic framework against exclusion of Romani will be “a first step in the right direction”
RULE OF LAW: European Parliament expects Commission to better monitor respect of European values
EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
BUDGET/ECONOMY: progress in European Parliament/EU Council negotiations on 2021-2027 MFF and European Recovery Plan
HEALTH: Ursula von der Leyen and Mariya Gabriel place themselves in quarantine
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECB: Eurogroup recommends appointment of Frank Elderson to Executive Board
ECONOMY: freeze on Stability and Growth Pact is likely to be maintained in 2021, according to Paolo Gentiloni
ECOFIN: Recovery and Resilience Facility, digital finance and Capital Markets Union on finance ministers’ agenda
TAXATION: European Commission wants to turn VAT Committee into comitology committee
FINANCE: MEPs return to BlackRock case
COMPETITION: Statement of Objections to Conserve Italia for participation in canned vegetables cartel
EXTERNAL ACTION
UKRAINE: summit in Brussels to take stock of relations
UNITED KINGDOM: EU and London want to intensify talks ahead of expected EU27 assessment on 15 October
SUDAN: EU welcomes “historic” signing of peace agreement between government and rebels
SECURITY - DEFENCE
NATO: Stoltenberg calls for ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh
SECTORAL POLICIES
COHESION: political agreement in principle in EU Council on React-EU initiative and Just Transition Fund
CIVIL PROTECTION: EU Council ready to negotiate urgent budgetary aspects for a more rapid EU response to major disasters
ENVIRONMENT: EU’s Zero Pollution Action Plan roadmap is open for comments until end of October
CLIMATE: European Commission opens second phase of consultation on revision of ETS for aviation
CLIMATE: European governments subsidise company cars to the tune of €32 billion a year, according to T&E
HEALTH: electronic cigarette lobby criticises SCHEER’s preliminary Opinion on revision of Tobacco Products Directive
SPACE: European Parliament’s Sky & Space Intergroup makes a series of recommendations to revive aviation and space sector
ENERGY: High Level Group on Energy Connectivity in Central and South-East Europe commits to strengthening energy cooperation
NEWS BRIEFS
BELARUS: EU denounces measures against Polish and Lithuanian embassies
COHESION: EU council presents country-by-country breakdown of allocations from Just Transition Fund
COHESION: SMEs want to be better taken into account in cohesion policy partnerships
EDUCATION: teachers paid 16 times better in some European countries than in others
FINANCE: European Parliament gives final green light to regulation on crowdfunding
GEORGIA: EU regrets adoption of amendments on selection process for judges
MEDITERRANEAN: UfM member states approve a mechanism on gender equality
CIVIL PROTECTION: EU lends a hand to Italy and France following floods in Piedmont and Maritime Alps
FOOD SAFETY: public consultation on future common requirements for snails imported into EU
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