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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12784

7 September 2021
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Digital
Targeted online advertising, Margrethe Vestager seeks balance between large platforms and small companies
Brussels, 06/09/2021 (Agence Europe)

European Commission Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, responsible for Europe Fit for the Digital Age, met on Monday 6 September with members of the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO), Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE), Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (LIBE), and the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA).

Ms Vestager stressed the challenges ahead for the European Union regarding...

Contents

EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
ECONOMY: EU Council validates Czech and Irish recovery plans
HEALTH: ECDC allocates over €77 million to 24 countries to strengthen their capacity to detect and monitor SARS-CoV-2
SECTORAL POLICIES
DIGITAL: targeted online advertising, Margrethe Vestager seeks balance between large platforms and small companies
DIGITAL: DSA, MEPs focus on reporting and removal of illegal content online
FISHERIES: cooperation with UK on fisheries is “progressing well”, says European Commission
ANIMAL HEALTH: vote on animal transport in European Parliament Committee of Inquiry to take place on 2 December
BIODIVERSITY: EU aims to be driving force at IUCN World Conservation Congress
CLIMATE: ShareAction report exposes lack of action in climate and biodiversity practices of Europe’s largest banks
REGIONS: MEPs want to review and reform EU Solidarity Fund
EXTERNAL ACTION
IRAQ: Mr Borrell calls for action against attacks on civil society
AFGHANISTAN: MEPs concerned about fate of Afghan women
DEVELOPMENT: Chrysoula Zacharopoulou report sets out six priorities for promoting gender equality worldwide
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
TAXATION: EU transparency rules have not reduced banking sector presence in tax havens, says European Tax Observatory
NEWS BRIEFS
BELARUS: EU denounces conviction of Marya Kaliesnikava and Maksim Znak
CLIMATE: WWF slams territorial just transition plans submitted by some EU Member States
CLIMATE/HEALTH: over 200 medical journals call for global action against climate change and biodiversity loss
COHESION: European Commission approves €175 million investment to upgrade drinking water infrastructure in Romania
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: European Commission threatens Polish anti-LGBTI regions with financial suspension
SPACE: ESA officially communicates new exploitation conditions for Ariane 6 and Vega C
MIGRATION: International Organization for Migration denounces situation of migrants at EU-Belarus border
MONTENEGRO: Vladimír Bilčík and Tonino Picula denounce religious violence
CIVIL PROTECTION: Greece appoints former EU Commissioner Chrystos Stylianides as Minister for Civil Protection
TUNISIA: G7 calls for swift return to constitutional order
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