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SECTORAL POLICIES / Climate

At fourth EU Youth Round Table, Frans Timmermans calls for young people to be invited to decision-making table

The European Commission’s Executive Vice-President for the Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, took part, on Tuesday 18 July, in the fourth ‘Youth Climate Round Table’, organised by the European Economic and Social Committee, the European Youth Forum and the ‘Generation Climate Europe’ coalition of organisations. At the event, Mr Timmermans spoke to youth representatives about the sustainable economy and its central role in solving environmental and social challenges.

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EXTERNAL ACTION
LATIN AMERICA: Europeans and Latin Americans want to make a fresh start in their bilateral relations
VENEZUELA: Europeans and Latin Americans favour resuming dialogue between Maduro regime and Venezuelan opposition
Russian invasion of Ukraine
AGRICULTURE: Russia using food as weapon of war, criticises Spanish minister Luis Planas
SECTORAL POLICIES
FISHERIES: EU ministers present ideas for energy transition of fishing fleet
FISHERIES: European Commission ready to negotiate new fisheries agreement with Morocco
HEALTH: European Parliament committee adopts position on use of substances of human origin
GMOs: MEPs oppose authorisation of two herbicide-tolerant varieties of transgenic maize
BIODIVERSITY: pesticides and bees, MEPs not enthusiastic about EFSA’s revised risk assessment guidance document
MIGRATION: members of European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties regret that they were excluded from negotiations on EU-Tunisia agreement
MIGRATION: European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties finalising draft resolution on progress and persistent shortcomings of Frontex agency
INTERNAL MARKET: MEPs adopt their position on Single Market Emergency Instrument
CONSUMERS: European Parliament rapporteur René Repasi strengthens proposal for directive on effective right to repair defective products
CLIMATE: Ottmar Edenhofer reminds MEPs of importance of “rapid, inclusive and well-managed” transition to EU’s 2040 target
CLIMATE: at fourth EU Youth Round Table, Frans Timmermans calls for young people to be invited to decision-making table
ENERGY: EU and Japan strengthen their cooperation in field of energy through specific dialogue on global LNG architecture
ENERGY: ACER welcomes inclusion of hydrogen-related projects in ten-year network development plan
RESEARCH: Horizon Europe 2025-2027 strategic plan, European Commission proposes 10 new partnerships
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
INSURANCE: ‘Solvency II’ and IRRD, ‘Ferber’ reports adopted by European Parliament committee after long months of negotiations
COMPETITION: Margrethe Vestager addresses MEPs’ concerns about integrity and nationality of Fiona Scott Morton
TAXATION: MEPs make progress on VAT in digital age legislation
TAXATION: MEPs want to reduce administrative burden on small and medium-sized enterprises
SOCIAL AFFAIRS - EMPLOYMENT
SOCIAL: William Cockburn sets out his vision for a new mandate
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS - SOCIETAL ISSUES
MEDIA: ‘Media Freedom Act’, MEPs specify exceptions to prohibited practices such as deployment of spyware
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: MEPs consider ways to ban conversion “therapies” for LGBT+ people at European level
EDUCATION - YOUTH - CULTURE - SPORT
CULTURE: MEPs examine European book market
NEWS BRIEFS
ACP: EU unblocks post-Cotonou agreement
BUDGET: budget 2024, EU Council is acting “like a copy machine”, according to Siegfried Mureșan
CONSUMERS: start of informal transatlantic dialogue on consumer financial protection in digital age
DEFENCE: MEPs approve interinstitutional agreement on EDIRPA
FINANCE: EBA collects data from institutions on environmental, social and governance risks in order to set up a monitoring system
MEDIA: EditoRed, an alliance of European, Latin American and Caribbean journalists, is born
MIGRATION: European Commission grants a further €14 million for island of Lampedusa
TUNISIA: Council of Europe calls for guarantees on human rights aspect of agreement on migration between EU and Tunisia