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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13101

18 January 2023
Contents Publication in full By article 23 / 31
NEWS BRIEFS / Economy
Ukraine expected to receive €4.5 billion per quarter in EU macrofinancial assistance in 2023

17/01/2023 (Agence Europe) – The European Commission’s Executive Vice-President, Valdis Dombrovskis, said on Tuesday 17 January that the EU’s macrofinancial assistance to Ukraine, which amounts to €18 billion over the whole of 2023, should be disbursed at a rate of €4.5 billion per quarter. On the same day, the EU institution disbursed a first tranche of €3 billion to Kyiv, one day after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on this assistance between the Commission...

Contents

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: corruption in European Parliament, political groups set out their expectations
EU2023SE: overall satisfied with Swedish Presidency of EU Council’s programme, MEPs call on it to go even further
FOOD SECURITY: MEPs call on European Commission to act on rising food prices
CIRCULAR ECONOMY: European Parliament in favour of tougher rules for waste shipments in EU and to developing countries
TAXATION: European Parliament adopts its position on shell entities
REGIONS: European Parliament proposes to create a ‘European Capital of Local Trade’
JUSTICE: European Parliament approves ratification of second protocol to Budapest Convention on Cybercrime
HOME AFFAIRS: terrorism and organised crime, MEPs approve new agreement between Europol and New Zealand
SECTORAL POLICIES
INDUSTRY: Ursula von der Leyen announces plans for ‘Net-Zero Industry Act’
HEALTH: a large majority of MEPs in favour of European strategic autonomy for supply of essential medicines
AGRICULTURE: EU agriculture ministers to discuss Industrial Emissions Directive on 30 January
FISHERIES: European Fisheries Control Agency has new patrol vessels
TRANSPORT: despite an increase in number of sales, electric vehicles only represented 1.5% of European car fleet in 2021
EXTERNAL ACTION
UNITED STATES: progress is slow between EU and Washington on consequences of IRA for Europeans
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS - SOCIETAL ISSUES
DEMOGRAPHICS/REGIONS: faced with demographic challenges, European Commission launches “Talent Booster Mechanism”
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
EMU: Italy and Croatia last euro area countries not to have transposed revised statute of European Stability Mechanism
SOCIAL - EMPLOYMENT - ÉDUCATION
SOCIAL/CLIMATE: Social Climate Fund, impact of ‘ETS 2' emergency brake on revenues back on table in European Parliament/Council negotiations
SOCIAL: digital platform workers, European trade unions call on European Parliament to support rapporteur’s mandate
CULTURE: towards more funding and clear evaluation criteria for ‘New European Bauhaus’
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
DIGITAL: EU Court of Justice annuls decision admitting Kosovo to BEREC body
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
JUSTICE: European Court of Human Rights strengthens LGBTI rights in ruling against Russia
NEWS BRIEFS
INSURANCE: sustainable products perform better and cost less than before, says EIOPA
ECONOMY: Ukraine expected to receive €4.5 billion per quarter in EU macrofinancial assistance in 2023
ECONOMY: EU Council gives green light to modification of Luxembourg’s recovery plan
CLIMATE: MEPs give green light to interinstitutional agreements on revision of ESR and LULUCF Regulations
SPACE: European Commission signs Copernicus arrangement with Japan to boost exchange of Earth observation data
EUROPEAN COMMISSION: European Commission appoints new Head of Representation in Sweden
ENERGY: EU electricity market reform to be maintained in March, according to Commission’s provisional timetable
ENVIRONMENT: MEPs approve Parliament/Council agreement on ‘imported deforestation’ EU regulation
TRANSPORT: recovery of air traffic in November in European Union confirmed by International Air Transport Association
CIVIL PROTECTION: EU creates reserve of equipment in Finland to respond to chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear emergencies