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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12741

16 June 2021
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EXTERNAL ACTION / United states
Europeans and Americans agree to strengthen their partnership on health and climate
Brussels, 15/06/2021 (Agence Europe)

The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen - the American President, Joe Biden, having decided to skip the press conference - emphasised the renewed partnership with Washington at the end of the EU-US summit in Brussels on Tuesday 15 June.

In addition to the agreement on the suspension of tariffs in the Boeing/Airbus dispute (see other news), the leaders decided to set up a working group on vaccines and a...

Contents

EXTERNAL ACTION
UNITED STATES: transatlantic agreement on five-year suspension of tariffs in Airbus/Boeing dispute
UNITED STATES: launch of EU-US Trade and Technology Council
UNITED STATES: Europeans and Americans agree to strengthen their partnership on health and climate
CANADA: European and Canadian leaders stress importance of their partnership
SERBIA/KOSOVO: difficult recovery for Dialogue
EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
ECONOMY: European Commission raises €20 billion in bonds to finance Next Generation EU Recovery Plan
SECTORAL POLICIES
HEALTH: EU Council agreement on draft regulation on a reinforced role for European Medicines Agency
HEALTH: Member States ready to work together more to mitigate medicine access problems in EU
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: impact of pandemic is slowing down EU progress towards SDGs, says Eurostat
ENVIRONMENT: European MEPs strengthen EU’s 8th general environmental action programme for 2030
AGRICULTURE: EU Council remains optimistic about reaching a quick agreement with MEPs on CAP
FOOD SAFETY: EFSA publishes scientific opinion on antimicrobial resistance and food-producing environments
TRANSPORT: European Parliament and EU Council struggle to strike a balance on revision of ‘Eurovignette’ directive
CLIMATE: IPCC and IPBES call for joint climate and biodiversity action
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
FINANCE: first divisions emerge in European Parliament on crypto-assets markets
TAXATION: European Commission unveils fiscal roadmap to reduce debt-equity bias
TAXATION: MEPs in favour of transforming VAT Committee into comitology committee
INSTITUTIONAL
FUTURE OF THE EU: preparations for first plenary session of Conference on Future of Europe are well underway
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: MEPs and participants of Conference on the Future of Europe will work in parallel on reform of Electoral Law
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: EU Member States unanimously support role of social partners and of social dialogue
SOCIAL: digital platform workers: European Commission launches second phase of negotiations with social partners
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
JUSTICE: GDPR regulation, EU Court of Justice clarifies competences of national authorities in case of legal proceedings
NEWS BRIEFS
DEVELOPMENT: EU Council conclusions on strengthening European financial architecture for development
ENERGY: member countries of Union for the Mediterranean commit to working together for energy transition
ENERGY: Global Witness report exposes European gas industry’s hydrogen lobbying in light of ‘RED II’ directive review
TAXATION: MEPs give green light to interinstitutional agreement on country-by-country reporting
INDUSTRY: France Industrie wants to help operationalise European Commission’s ecosystem approach
NATO: Beijing accuses Alliance of exaggerating “so-called ‘China threat’”
SOCIAL: European Labour Authority launches campaign to raise awareness of seasonal workers’ conditions
CORRIGENDUM
SOCIAL: minimum wages: correction of Finnish position expressed during Employment and Social Policy Council