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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12734
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CALENDAR / Main activities of the european institutions

Until 11 June 2021

Monday 7 June

  • Luxembourg. Council of the EU. Justice and Home Affairs Council (and 08/06). *Justice: - Fight against illegal content online: debate on the modernisation of rules governing digital services. - Assignment of claims: general approach on the Assignment of Claims Regulation, which is to establish uniform rules on the law of the State which should determine the ownership of a claim assigned in a cross-border transaction. - E-Justice: Definition of a general approach on the...

Contents

EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
TRADE: European Commission proposes to use flexibilities of TRIPS agreement to facilitate access to Covid-19 vaccines for vulnerable countries
COHESION: REACT-EU and CRII+, European Commission approves amendments for France, Portugal and Poland
EXTERNAL ACTION
BELARUS: EU bans Belarusian airlines from its airspace
MONTENEGRO: co-chairs of Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee call for political dialogue
TUNISIA: EU and Tunis reaffirm their strategic partnership priorities
MALI: EU makes its continued engagement conditional on strict compliance with Transitional Charter
DRC:  EU strongly condemns massacres of civilians in East of Democratic Republic of the Congo
SECURITY - DEFENCE
NATO: EU and NATO continue to strengthen their partnership
SECTORAL POLICIES
DIGITAL: EU Member States seek further clarification on certain aspects of Data Governance Act
DIGITAL: Member States want to focus on risk and SMEs in cybersecurity
DIGITAL: member States support ‘Digital Compass’ for 2030 while noting their priorities
DIGITAL: European Commission copyright guidelines on filtering measures
TRANSPORT: EU and ASEAN reach groundbreaking agreement to strengthen air transport
HOME AFFAIRS/MIGRATION: progress on a range of issues, but no decisions expected at EU Home Affairs Ministers’ meeting on 8 June
JUSTICE: assignment of claims, e-CODEX, fundamental rights and illegal content online on EU Justice Ministers’ agenda
ENVIRONMENT: amendment of Aarhus Regulation, European Parliament/EU Council negotiations to continue at end of June
ENERGY: Member States’ interconnection capacities for cross-border electricity trade remain insufficient, according to ACER
INSTITUTIONAL
PARLIAMENTARY PLENARY: digital Covid certificate, lifting patents, Belarus, biodiversity, and rule of law on agenda upon resumption of plenary, partly in Strasbourg, 7-10 June
EU2021SI: ambitions of Slovenian EU Council Presidency summed up in three words: “Together. Resilient. Europe.”
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
COMPETITION: European Commission opens investigation into possible anticompetitive conduct of Facebook
STATE AID: European Commission approves German aid for cogenerated electricity
TAXATION: ‘G7 Finance’ meeting close to agreement on international tax reform
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: adequate minimum wage, MEPs face a task of difficult negotiations
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS - SOCIETAL ISSUES
DEMOCRACY: Commission extends monitoring of anti-disinformation measures by online platforms until end of 2021
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: European Commission study shows rise in online antisemitism amid health crisis
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
RULE OF LAW: freedom of expression and media under serious threat in Slovenia, warns Dunja Mijatović
NEWS BRIEFS
BANKS: European Parliament/EU Council agreement on an EU framework for secondary markets in non-performing loans
ENERGY: Commission reiterates its call for implementation of all experts’ recommendations concerning Ostrovets nuclear power plant
ENVIRONMENT: European Commission and European Committee of Regions launch stakeholder platform for ‘zero pollution’ ambition
JUSTICE: European Public Prosecutor’s Office and Finland reach agreement regarding European Delegated Prosecutors
MIGRATION: withdrawing from a country when risks of fundamental rights violations emerge is “not the solution” says Frontex official
UN: Antonio Guterres invited to attend European Council on 24 June
CSDP: UN Security Council renews inspection authorisation for Operation EUNAVFORMed Irini
CALENDAR
Main activities of the European institutions: until 11 June 2021
CALENDAR EXTRA
Other events: until 11 June 2021