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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12611
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INSTITUTIONAL / Budget

Hungary and Poland's demands on 'rule of law conditionality' are paralysing budgetary debates

Requests from Hungary and Poland to amend the agreement on the mechanism linking the disbursement of EU funds to the rule of law are paralysing the ongoing budgetary debates.

This emerged from the discussions held on Friday, 27 November, at the level of the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the Member States to the EU (Coreper), after the German Presidency of the Council had reported on the state of negotiations on the package consisting of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)...

Contents

ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECOFIN: EU Finance Ministers will take stock of fiscal challenges, economic situation and Banking Union
COMPETITION: conditional approval for joint acquisition of Covage by Altice, Allianz and Omers
EXTERNAL ACTION
MEDITERRANEAN: UfM ministers agree on five priority areas for action
UNITED KINGDOM: post-Brexit relationship negotiations return to face-to-face mode, but still with no guarantee of success
RUSSIA: Russian opposition calls on EU to sanction oligarchs 
BURKINA FASO: EU looks forward to transparent and consensual completion of presidential and parliamentary elections
SECTORAL POLICIES
TRANSPORT: European Commission presents a new draft regulation on post-Brexit operation of Channel Tunnel
ENVIRONMENT: draft EU Council conclusions outline a green and circular EU economic recovery
ENERGY: German Council Presidency consults Member States on revision of RED II and EED Directives
ENERGY: EU Council finalises its conclusions on offshore energy and other renewable energy sources
RESEARCH: there is still uncertainty about launch of Horizon Europe Framework Programme early next year
AGRICULTURE: negotiations between EU institutions on market side of CAP reform start with wine
AGRICULTURE: European Commission publishes feed protein and ethanol ‘balance sheets’
INSTITUTIONAL
BUDGET: Hungary and Poland's demands on 'rule of law conditionality' are paralysing budgetary debates
EESC: Committee Vice-President Cillian Lohan seeks to strengthen cooperation with European co-legislators
RELIGIONS: religious leaders call on EU not to lose its soul over migration issue
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
RULE OF LAW: according to Council of Europe report, national minority rights regressed between 2018 and 2020
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
WOMEN: right to abortion is a fundamental right that Member States “have an obligation to protect”, say MEPs
NEWS BRIEFS
CYBERSECURITY: MEPs ask for explanations on journalist intrusion into EU Defence Ministers’ videoconference
DEVELOPMENT: NGO ONE is alarmed at European Parliament vote in favour of making EU aid conditional on control of migration flows
CALENDAR
Main activities of European Institutions: from 30 November to 4 December
CALENDAR EXTRA
Other events: until 6 December