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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12677

13 March 2021
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EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19 / State aid
European Commission approves €350 million Finnish aid to Finnair
Brussels, 12/03/2021 (Agence Europe)

On Friday 12 March, the European Commission authorised €351.38 million in Finnish support for Finnair, which is in difficulty due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. The aid is considered to be in line with EU state aid rules.

Finnair is a leading airline operating in Finland. It carried almost 15 million passengers in 2019.

Before the pandemic, Finnair operated a fleet of 59 aircraft. The company has suffered significant operating losses until at least 31 December 2020.

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Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
MIGRATION: Commission is ready to tighten up acquisition of visas by uncooperative third countries with regard to return of migrants staying illegally as of this summer
HOME AFFAIRS: resilience of critical infrastructure, EU Member States welcome reform 
TRANSPORT/ENERGY: Connecting Europe Facility, interinstitutional agreement gives hope for first calls for grants before summer
SPACE: EU Member States are drawing up a very liberal joint vision of European ‘New Space’
INDUSTRY: European Commission wants to speed up pace of negotiations on battery regulation
ENVIRONMENT: EU environment ministers to hold political debate on 18 March on future ‘sustainable batteries’ regulation
CLIMAT/FINANCE: commission examines possibility of including electricity generation from natural gas in EU taxonomy
AGRICULTURE: EU Member States urged to be more flexible on post-2020 market measures
FISHERIES: mandatory monitoring cameras upset Europêche but NGOs are delighted
CONSUMERS: Covid-19, impact of crisis has changed consumer behaviour in EU, according to 2020 data
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECONOMY: European budgetary rules should only be reactivated after having been revised, says Margarida Marques
FINANCE: European Parliament starts work on pilot regime on distributed ledger technology
FINANCE: European Commission assesses functioning of European financial supervisory authorities
ECOFIN: EU Finance Ministers to discuss digital taxation and economic recovery
CROATIA: Croatian draft recovery plan enters final phase of consultation with Commission, says Andrej Plenković
EXTERNAL ACTION
UNITED KINGDOM: UK National Statistics Office confirms fall in EU-UK trade in January
CHINA: publication of market access annexes of bilateral investment agreement with EU 
HONG KONG: EU denounces Chinese decision to reform Hong Kong’s electoral system
LIBYA: EU and its Member States welcome approval of Government of National Unity
ACP: ACP and EU MEPs call for massive public aid, without interference, for ACP countries after Covid-19 crisis
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: Member States’ Ministers will discuss Action Plan on European Pillar of Social Rights
EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
STATE AID: European Commission approves €350 million Finnish aid to Finnair
HEALTH: Commission does not agree to an inequitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccines amongst Member States
NEWS BRIEFS
HOME AFFAIRS: Commission proposes banning two new psychoactive substances in EU
AGRICULTURE: public consultation on rural areas highlights need for infrastructure improvements
HUMAN RIGHTS: EU working on additional sanctions
EGYPT: EU lifts sanctions over misuse of public funds
MACAO: according to EU, the ‘one country, two systems’ principle continues to apply
SEAS: European Commission publishes information on algae biomass
OECD: Australian Mathias Cormann elected Secretary General over Sweden’s Cecilia Malmström
FISHERIES: European Commission proposes transposition of Indian Ocean Tuna Commission measures into EU
UKRAINE: EU extends targeted sanctions until 15 September
CALENDAR
Main activities of European institutions: until 19 March 2021
CALENDAR EXTRA
Other events: until 20 March 2021