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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13332
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EXTERNAL ACTION / Foreign affairs

Situations in Ukraine and Middle East to be discussed once again by Foreign Ministers on Monday 22 January

The European Foreign Affairs Ministers will be meeting in Brussels on Monday 22 January and will once again be discussing support for Ukraine and the situation in the Middle East.

After a traditional exchange of views with the Ukrainian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, by videoconference, the Ministers will discuss the EU’s long-term security commitments and military support for Ukraine.

The Ministers could quickly discuss the €50 billion ‘Ukraine Facility’ and a...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
INTERNAL MARKET/TRADE: regulation prohibiting products made with forced labour, EU Council still needs time to ‘fine-tune’ text
ENVIRONMENT: revision of Ambient Air Quality Directives, European Parliament/EU Council negotiations resume on 23 January
AGRICULTURE: European ministers to debate Ukraine, future of agriculture and large carnivores on 23 January
AGRICULTURE: European Commission to launch strategic dialogue on future of EU agriculture on 25 January
FOOD SAFETY: EFSA confirms health risks of dietary exposure to inorganic arsenic
FOOD SAFETY: Belgian Presidency of EU Council attempting to break deadlock on pesticides
HEALTH: EU grants Montenegro access to funding under EU4Health programme
ENERGY: WindEurope welcomes progress in offshore wind power, but believes current trajectory insufficient to achieve European objectives
ENERGY: Kadri Simson welcomes initiatives to speed up integration of gas and electricity markets of Central and South Eastern Europe
RESEARCH: EUA, EARTO and Science Europe call on European Commission to provide successor to Horizon Europe with an ambitious budget
EXTERNAL ACTION
TERRORISM: EU sanctions six people supporting Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s violent actions
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: situations in Ukraine and Middle East to be discussed once again by Foreign Ministers on Monday 22 January
SERBIA: legislative elections, pro-European political groups in Parliament in favour of an international investigation into possible fraud
TRADE: European agri-food trade reaches its highest level for three years
SOCIAL AFFAIRS - EMPLOYMENT
SOCIAL: European trade unions call on Belgian Presidency of EU Council to reconsider agreement reached with European Parliament on digital platform workers
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS - SOCIETAL ISSUES
MEDIA: Member States approve provisional political agreement with European Parliament on Media Freedom Act
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: despite constantly high levels of discrimination, acceptance of LGBT+ people is growing in EU
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
COMPETITION: European Commission consults stakeholders on Apple’s remedies for Apple Pay access restrictions
STATE AID: European Commission approves a Polish scheme worth around €230 million to support maize producers
INSTITUTIONAL
MULTILINGUALISM: details of Spanish proposal to grant official EU language status to three regional languages
NEWS BRIEFS
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: Dutch and Croatian Prime Ministers to accompany Ursula von der Leyen to Sarajevo to discuss Bosnia-Herzegovina’s accession to EU
COMOROS: EU concerned by post-election violence
CULTURE: Yunè Pinku, Bulgarian Cartrader, Giift, freekind. and Ralphie Choo are winners of 20th Music Moves Europe Awards
CULTURE: Bad Ischl, Bodø and Tartu, a trio of European Capitals of Culture 2024 celebrating Europe’s Northern heritage
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: with launch of Eurostat’s new disability database, European Disability Forum welcomes a major step forward in access to statistics and defence of rights
RULE OF LAW: Didier Reynders welcomes efforts of new Polish government to restore rule of law
ISRAEL: MEPs call for EU support as Israeli MP Ofer Cassif faces Knesset expulsion
INTERNAL MARKET: Bulgarian law on acquisition of agricultural land infringes EU law rules Court of Justice
FISHERIES: European Commission proposes to negotiate new fisheries protocol with Guinea-Bissau