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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12800

29 September 2021
Contents Publication in full By article 25 / 33
NEWS BRIEFS / Home affairs
Croatian nationals soon to be exempted from short-stay visas for travel to USA

28/09/2021 (Agence Europe) – On Tuesday 28 September, the US Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro N. Mayorkas, named Croatia as a new participant in the ‘Visa Waiver Program’. According to a statement from the US administration, this implies that “by December 1, 2021, the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) will be updated to allow citizens and nationals of Croatia to apply to travel to the United States for tourism or business purposes for up to 90 days without...

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