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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12581
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NEWS BRIEFS / European parliament

Ignazio Corrao questions appropriateness of holding plenary session in Strasbourg

14/10/2020 (Agence Europe) – MEP Ignazio Corrao (M5S, Italy) questioned the need to hold the next plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg as the Covid-19 pandemic picks up steam again, in an email copied to EUROPE on Wednesday 14 October and addressed to Parliament's President David Sassoli. “Taking into account the rise of infections in the European Parliament, in European institutions, in Brussels, and considering that the situation in France is even worse; how is it that the rational decision to move the Strasbourg session to Brussels hasn't been made?” he asks. He requested that Mr Sassoli, who had been released from quarantine on Wednesday, specify the health and financial measures that would be taken if staff members fell ill while travelling and on site. The decision on the location of the plenary session is expected on Thursday 15 October. (MB)

Contents

EUROPEAN COUNCIL
CLIMATE: EU27 will hold a first debate on raising EU’s 2030 climate target, hoping for an agreement in December
HEALTH/HOME AFFAIRS: Covid-19 vaccination on agenda of European Commission and European Summit
UNITED KINGDOM: EU27 will still give themselves time to reach an agreement with London on post-Brexit relationship
AFRICA: EU27 leaders will discuss priorities for future enhanced strategic partnership with African Union
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: relations with Turkey could be brought back into discussions of EU Heads of State or Government
SECTORAL POLICIES
ENVIRONMENT: Commission’s Sustainable Chemicals Strategy is well received
ENVIRONMENT: European Commission proposes an 8th Environmental Action Programme for this decade
ENVIRONMENT: European Commission proposes to amend EU’s Aarhus Regulation to improve public access to justice
ENERGY: ‘Methane Strategy’, Commission favours voluntary initiatives to reduce emissions, without closing door to binding standards
ENERGY: European Commission ‘renovation wave’ strategy intended to reconcile reduction of emissions, fight against fuel poverty, and creation of jobs
AGRICULTURE: With one week to go before plenary vote, European Parliament remains divided on green architecture and CAP's ‘delivery model’
DIGITAL: an informal meeting of European Telecommunications Ministers devoted to major European projects to come
JUSTICE: experts call on Commission to withdraw its legislative proposals on electronic evidence
GENDER EQUALITY: uncertainty about relaunch of negotiations in EU Council on gender equality in company boards of directors
EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
BUDGET/ECONOMY: no new date yet to complete negotiation between European Parliament and EU Council on MFF and Recovery Plan
REGIONS: Younous Omarjee says Commission must move from words to actions to help outermost regions
TRANSPORT: adoption of extension of derogation from EU regulation on airport slots
INSTITUTIONAL
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: France stands “alongside” EU in support of strategy promoting equal treatment of LGBTI people
SECURITY - DEFENCE
DEFENCE: future Portuguese Presidency of EU Council will work on concept of European Security and Defence Identity, according to João Gomes Cravinho
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
TAXATION: G20 Finance Ministers agree to continue efforts to reach agreement on international tax reform by mid-2021
EURO AREA: ECB consults on whether to create a digital euro
CULTURE
CULTURE: European Bauhaus, Ursula von der Leyen’s project to bring together sustainability, art and culture
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: human rights must not be collateral victim of Covid-19, warns Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
BELARUS: Council of Europe considers violence against peaceful protestors “intolerable”
NEWS BRIEFS
MYANMAR: EU encourages country to continue implementing UN recommendations with regard to Rohingyas
COHESION: no interinstitutional agreement between European Parliament and EU Council on React-EU
ENERGY/CLIMATE: Commission publishes its assessment of National Energy and Climate Plans specific to each Member State
JUSTICE: GUE/NGL group in European Parliament rewards Chelsea Manning, Correctiv organisation, and whistleblowers in Novartis scandal in Greece
MIGRATION: pandemic continues to have impact on level of asylum claims being filed
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Greens/EFA group chooses Anna Cavazzini to head Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Ignazio Corrao questions appropriateness of holding plenary session in Strasbourg
RUSSIA: Navalny case, EU will sanction six individuals and one entity
SOCIAL: around 100 regional actors and MEPs call for sustainable and affordable housing