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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12707

28 April 2021
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INSTITUTIONAL / Budget
European Court of Auditors points out challenges linked to financial contributions from non-EU countries to EU budget
Brussels, 27/04/2021 (Agence Europe)

In a report published on Tuesday 27 April, the European Court of Auditors highlighted several issues related to contributions made by non-EU countries to the EU budget in exchange for their participation in certain programmes such as Horizon 2020 in the field of research, and/or Erasmus regarding youth mobility.

According to the EU auditors, eighteen non-EU countries will have contributed a total value equivalent to 1% of the EU budget, or €7 billion over the period 2014-2019. The largest...

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
UNITED KINGDOM: green light for trade and cooperation agreement with EU will not absolve London of its obligations, warns European Parliament
ENVIRONMENT: European Parliament obtains assurances from Commission and EU Council on their future commitment to EU soil protection
RESEARCH: MEPs approve Horizon Europe programme and new EIT priorities negotiated with Member States
CIVIL PROTECTION: European Parliament approves interinstitutional agreement on strengthening EU’s rapid response to major emergencies
TRANSPORT: MEPs adopt draft non-legislative resolution for cleaner shipping
TRANSPORT: MEPs adopt resolution to improve road safety aspects of Roadworthiness Package
SOCIAL: European Parliament unanimously welcomes interinstitutional agreement on post-2020 European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
HEALTH: European Parliament’s turn to support delegated act on an accelerated approval of vaccines adapted to Covid-19
HONDURAS: MEPs back Voluntary Partnership Agreement on timber with Honduras
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: parliamentary immunity of Ioannis Lagos, former leader of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, has been lifted
SECTORAL POLICIES
MIGRATION: European Commission asks Frontex to encourage more ‘voluntary’ returns of irregular migrants
MIGRATION: fifty MEPs call on Commission to investigate drowning of 130 people in Mediterranean
AGRICULTURE: EU Ministers discussed trade and situation of agricultural markets
AGRICULTURE: European Parliament sets out its position on social conditionality of future CAP
AGRICULTURE/CLIMATE: European Commission wants to promote carbon farming
ENERGY: electricity and gas prices for European households fell slightly in 2020, according to Eurostat
EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
ECONOMY: Germany, Spain, France and Italy will simultaneously submit their national recovery plans
SOCIAL: European Commission mobilises EGF to help 1,500 former workers in Belgian airport sector
EXTERNAL ACTION
UKRAINE: Kiev continues talks with IMF and EU for further financial support
ALBANIA: EU calls for respect of election results
DEVELOPMENT: coordination, watchword of draft EU Council conclusions on European financial architecture for development
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
TAXATION: VAT rates, several questions still open in EU Council
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: EU Council focuses on different disabilities of children in framework of European Child Guarantee
INSTITUTIONAL
BUDGET: European Court of Auditors points out challenges linked to financial contributions from non-EU countries to EU budget
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
HEALTH: Council of Europe issues recommendations to combat counterfeit Covid-19 vaccines
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Alsatian elected representatives united in defence of European Parliament’s Strasbourg seat
NEWS BRIEFS
PATENTS: Europe continues as world leader in patents for clean energy technologies, says EPO and IEA study
CLIMATE: tackling climate change must be EU’s priority in relations with China, according to survey of European citizens
CUSTOMS: European Commission consults on effectiveness of Union Customs Code
SPACE: Eurospace launches new working group to implement EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability
JUSTICE: EPPO asks Slovenia to appoint its European Delegated Prosecutors as soon as possible
INTERNAL MARKET: European Commission launches a period of feedback on a proposal for a regulation on machinery products
SOCIAL: MEPs call for European strategy on long-term care and caring