login
login

Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13024

20 September 2022
Contents Publication in full By article 4 / 26
SECTORAL POLICIES / Climate
EU Member States seek to agree on conclusions for COP27
Brussels, 19/09/2022 (Agence Europe)

With just over a month to go before the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union submitted a new version of the draft conclusions setting out the EU Council’s position to the Member States on Friday 16 September.

The document reaffirms the commitment of the EU and its Member States to the ‘Glasgow Climate Pact’, the text adopted at the end of COP26 in Glasgow (see EUROPE B12832A14), which calls on signatory...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
INTERNAL MARKET: Single Market Emergency Instrument, European Commission presents graduated approach according to intensity of crisis
ENERGY: Czech Presidency of EU Council’s first draft compromise on ‘REPowerEU’ plan
ENERGY: Paris challenges Commission on future European rules on hydrogen
CLIMATE: EU Member States seek to agree on conclusions for COP27
CLIMATE/FINANCE: Greenpeace takes legal action against European Commission over inclusion of gas and nuclear in EU taxonomy
CIRCULAR ECONOMY: EU Sustainable Products Regulation - EU ministers to focus on industry’s competitiveness on 29 September
DIGITAL: Czech Presidency of EU Council wants well-being of pupils to be taken into account in design of digital education policies
HEALTH: European Medicines Agency and HMA express a common position on interchangeability of biosimilars approved in European Union
INSTITUTIONAL
BUDGET/RULE OF LAW: EU Council has three months to decide on proposal to deprive Hungary of €7.5 billion
GENERAL AFFAIRS: rule of law and follow-up to Conference on Future of Europe on agenda of EU Ministers for European Affairs
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECB: monetary institute clarifies its strategy to ‘green’ its asset purchases
BANKS: Elke König insists on need to test bank resolution plans
INSURANCE: Solvency II review will have limited impact on equity investments, say researchers
MONEY LAUNDERING: Mairead McGuinness assures that financial endowment of future European authority AMLA will be sufficient
Russian invasion of Ukraine
JUSTICE: Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs calls for special tribunal for crime of aggression by Russia
EXTERNAL ACTION
DEVELOPMENT/UNIVERSITY: in New York, Jutta Urpilainen reiterates EU’s commitment to making adequate funding for education a political priority
NEWS BRIEFS
CENTRAL ASIA: Josep Borrell calls on Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to de-escalate
COHESION: Germany, Slovakia and Bulgaria receive additional €111.5 million in support from REACT-EU
HUMAN RIGHTS: Irishwoman Siofra O’Leary becomes first woman to be elected President of European Court of Human Rights
ECONOMY: EU average bread price up 18% in August over one year
MIGRATION: Commission consults on whether to revise rules of European Border and Coast Guard Agency in 2023
DIGITAL: European Commission consults on its recently proposed legislation on cyber resilience
RESEARCH: two European competitions reward work of young scientists
UNITED KINGDOM: Spain’s Pedro Antonio Serrano de Haro Soriano to be new EU ambassador to UK
TRANSPORT: Commission consults for review of EU list of ship recycling facilities
Kiosk
Kiosk: No. 067