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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12866

12 January 2022
Contents Publication in full By article 4 / 29
EXTERNAL ACTION / Foreign affairs
Strategic Compass, Eastern Neighbourhood, China and Africa on Gymnich agenda
Brussels, 11/01/2022 (Agence Europe)

The EU Foreign Ministers will discuss the ‘Strategic Compass’, the Eastern Neighbourhood, China and Africa at their informal meeting (Gymnich) on 13-14 January in Brest (western France).

Strategic Compass. They will start their meeting with a joint lunch with their Defence counterparts (jumbo format) on the Strategic Compass (see other news). They will thus receive a detailed update on the Compass project along with a revised version of the project, the final version of which is to be...

Contents

INSTITUTIONAL
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: EU institutions hail David Sassoli as a passionate Europeanist and a fundamentally good man
EU2022FR: Charles Michel and Emmanuel Macron in unison on ‘European sovereignty’, Ukraine and Africa
FUTURE OF EU: some 200 European citizens adopt 51 recommendations for future of EU on climate, environment and health issues
EXTERNAL ACTION
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Strategic Compass, Eastern Neighbourhood, China and Africa on Gymnich agenda
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: EU strongly condemns rhetoric of 9 January celebrations
SECURITY - DEFENCE
DEFENCE: third-party activities in theatres of operations, contested strategic areas, and ‘Strategic Compass’ on agenda of informal meeting of EU defence ministers
SECTORAL POLICIES
INTERNAL MARKET: Thierry Breton outlines future Single Market Emergency Instrument
MIGRATION: in European Parliament’s Legal Service’s opinion, Member States may decide on special derogations in times of emergency but must justify them
MIGRATION: UNHCR hopes French Presidency of EU Council will make progress on sustainable asylum reform
HOME AFFAIRS: Europol ordered by EDPS to comply with deletion of personal data of persons not related to crime
JUSTICE: EDPS reprimands European Parliament for internal anti-Covid testing site and data transfer to USA
DIGITAL: legislation on Digital Markets Act, EU Council and European Parliament start negotiations
CLIMATE: MEP Cyrus Engerer delivers draft report on revision of ETS market stability reserve
CLIMATE/FINANCE: ‘Platform on Sustainable Finance’ welcomes extension of consultation on inclusion of fossil gas and nuclear in EU taxonomy
AGRICULTURE: European Commission puts pressure on EU countries lagging behind regarding CAP strategic plans
AGRICULTURE: European Commission seeks to reassure MEPs on future EU-India trade deal
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
STATE AID: European Commission consults on new rules for agriculture, forestry and fishery sectors
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: MEP Helmut Geuking suggests giving €50 per birth in EU
NEWS BRIEFS
MYANMAR: EEAS deplores four-year prison sentence for Aung San Suu Kyi
CHINA: Taiwan to mobilise one billion dollars in credit to support trade with Lithuania
TRADE: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala urges WTO members to agree on patents on Covid-19 vaccines
COURT OF AUDITORS: MEPs suggest refusing to reappoint Marek Opiola of Poland
ENERGY: nuclear power provided almost 25% of electricity produced in EU in 2020, according to Eurostat
SPACE: CNES Chairman calls for European human spaceflight programmes
RULE OF LAW: enforcement of financial penalty payments, Poland has responded to European Commission in a timely manner
FINANCE: European Commission and OECD-INFE publish a joint framework for improving individuals’ financial literacy
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Greens/EFA MEPs nominate Alice Kunkhe as candidate for European Parliament President
CSDP: two new EU Force Commanders for Atalanta and EUFOR Althea
REGIONS: nine fact sheets on impact of pandemic on outermost regions