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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13117
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SOCIAL AFFAIRS - EMPLOYMENT / Social

Swedish Presidency of EU Council relaunches work on revision of rules on coordination of social security schemes

The Member States resumed discussions on the revision of Regulation 883/2004 on the coordination of social security schemes in the ‘social questions’ group of the EU Council on Wednesday 8 February, after the Swedish Presidency submitted new ideas for work.

At the end of 2021, the Member States stumbled over the Slovenian EU Council Presidency’s compromise (see EUROPE B12859A10) and again rejected a surprise agreement reached in trilogue.

Some Member States, such as Poland,...

Contents

SPECIAL MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL
MIGRATION: EU27 discussions on migration once again expected to be controversial
ECONOMY: despite divisions, EU leaders to review economic response to US IRA
UKRAINE: Volodymyr Zelensky in Brussels on Thursday
SECTORAL POLICIES
CIVIL PROTECTION: Janez Lenarčič encourages EU Member States to respond to Syria’s request for assistance and will visit Turkey on Thursday
CIVIL PROTECTION: European Commission sets goals for EU and EU27 to better prevent and respond collectively to major disasters
RESEARCH: European ministers agree to move forward on digital aspects of research infrastructures and scientific publishing
RESEARCH: €79.3 million in European funding will allow the development of 34 high-tech projects
REGIONS: European Committee of Regions calls for regional digitisation strategies
AGRICULTURE: future carbon credit market must not be at expense of EU food security, warns European Committee of Regions
AGRICULTURE: Copa-Cogeca welcomes EU Court of Justice judgment on ‘in vitro’ random mutagenesis techniques
DIGITAL: S&D wants to make digital divide and protection of citizens its digital priorities
EXTERNAL ACTION
TURKEY/SYRIA: devastating earthquakes, EU plans to hold a donors’ conference in March for affected populations
NEPAL: EU and Nepalese authorities launch ‘Global Gateway’ initiative for green recovery
INSTITUTIONAL
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: NGOs and lobbying by former MEPs, political group leaders discuss future internal rules and regulations
SOCIAL AFFAIRS - EMPLOYMENT
SOCIAL: Social Climate Fund, Member States endorse political agreement reached with European Parliament
SOCIAL: Swedish Presidency of EU Council relaunches work on revision of rules on coordination of social security schemes
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
FINANCE/CLIMATE: Helena Viñes Fiestas appointed Chair of Platform on Sustainable Finance
FINANCE: professional investors hold over 90% of EU’s UCITS, according to ESMA
COMPETITION: green light for Sika to acquire MBCC, subject to conditions
NEWS BRIEFS
CLIMATE: Member State ambassadors endorse ETS reform
ECONOMY: Portugal receives second RRF payment of €1.8 billion
ECONOMY: European Commission approves positive preliminary assessments for Slovakia and Czech Republic under Recovery and Resilience Facility
EDUCATION: public consultation on improving learning mobility in Europe