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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12800

29 September 2021
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EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19 / Economy
Austrian, Croatian, and Czech recovery plans receive pre-financing
Brussels, 28/09/2021 (Agence Europe)

The European Commission announced on Tuesday, 28 September, that it has disbursed pre-financing payments for the Austrian, Croatian, and Czech recovery plans (see EUROPE B12765A16) under the NextGenerationEU recovery plan.

The payments—€450 million for Austria, €818 million for Croatia, and €915 million for the Czech Republic—are equivalent to 13% of the total allocation for each national plan.

“At this stage, the European Commission has disbursed €51.5 billion in...

Contents

BEACONS
Beacons: The Franco-German partnership, all change in Berlin, continuity in Paris?
SECTORAL POLICIES
ENERGY: MEPs ready to start negotiations with EU Council on revision of TEN-E regulation
CLIMATE: MEPs give green light to María Spyráki’s draft report on methane emissions
RESEARCH: EU ministers adopt conclusions on EU’s global role in research and innovation and reach on deal on metrology partnership
INDUSTRY: rare earths, MEPs back EU and third country mining to support European Green Deal
PATENTS: ratification process of Unified Patent Court is on track
DIGITAL: DSA-DMA, European Parliament’s political groups still far apart
DIGITAL: DGA, EU Council clarifies position on data re-use ahead of negotiations with Parliament
ENVIRONMENT: Member States agree on EU position for seventh session of Aarhus Convention
AGRICULTURE: EU policies are not preventing farmers from using too much water, says EU Court of Auditors
FISHERIES: MEPs concerned about Channel Islands fishing licences
MIGRATION: no breakthrough between Member States to rapidly adopt ‘screening’ regulation for migrants at external borders
HEALTH: European Commission launches public consultation on revision of legislation on medicines
CONSUMERS: European Commission and national authorities ask Volkswagen to compensate all victims of Dieselgate
ECONOMY - FINANCE
TAXATION: EU ‘blacklist’ of tax havens, status quo recommended on Turkey’s fate
STATE AID: green light for 2022-2027 regional aid map for Poland
EXTERNAL ACTION
WESTERN BALKANS: Mrs von der Leyen calls for first intergovernmental conferences with Albania and North Macedonia to be held by end of 2021
DEVELOPMENT: MEPs prepare recommendations to strengthen future EU humanitarian action
UNITED STATES: EU-US Trade and Technology Council, EU and US companies want concrete answers
UNITED STATES: MEPs ask how to cooperate with Washington to regulate foreign subsidies
INSTITUTIONAL
BUDGET: MEPs boost 2022 funding for post-pandemic recovery programmes
EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
ECONOMY: Austrian, Croatian, and Czech recovery plans receive pre-financing
HEALTH: EMA considering request for use of third dose of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
RUSSIA: Kremlin opponent calls on Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe not to recognise Russian delegation from last parliamentary elections
NEWS BRIEFS
HOME AFFAIRS: Croatian nationals soon to be exempted from short-stay visas for travel to USA
SAUDI ARABIA: first Human Rights Dialogue with EU
EMPLOYMENT: 17 EU Member States recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease
ENERGY: CAN Europe calls on EU to withdraw from Energy Charter Treaty
MEDIA: EU funds creation of database centralising information on media ownership in each Member State
MIGRATION: Ylva Johansson to visit Turkey in a fortnight to continue dialogue on migration
MIGRATION: Ylva Johansson in Poland on 30 September
MOLDOVA: EU disburses €36.4 million in aid
SOCIAL/CLIMATE: negotiations in EU Council on Social Climate Fund should start in earnest on 12 October