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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13544
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EXTERNAL ACTION / Belarus

EU announces new €30 million support package for independent voices

On Thursday 12 December, the Commissioner for Enlargement, Marta Kos, announced a further €30 million in support for the people of Belarus.

The funds “will help sustain independent voices, protect human rights defenders and help culture and education in exile”, she announced at a high-level conference at the European Parliament entitled ‘Standing with the people of Belarus’.

With this new fund, total EU support since 2020 amounts to €170 million. “[The funds have] helped...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
MIGRATION: Syrian refugee returns - Magnus Brunner calls on EU Member States to exercise caution and carefully assess situation on ground
MIGRATION: European Commission communication on hybrid threats at EU’s external borders worries some MEPs
HOME AFFAIRS: removal of online child sexual abuse material - as expected, EU home affairs ministers reject latest proposals
HOME AFFAIRS: EU Council unanimously agrees to full accession of Bulgaria and Romania to Schengen area
HOME AFFAIRS: EU Council definitively approves rules strengthening ‘API’ data collection
ANIMAL HEALTH: MEPs divided over merits of animal transport proposal
REGIONS: Raffaele Fitto calls for “reinforced and modernised” post-2027 Cohesion Policy
DIGITAL: European Commission paves way for development of use of AI in scientific research
DIGITAL: MEPs make their first reports on code of good practice for general-purpose AI
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECB: monetary institute cuts its main key rates again
EXTERNAL ACTION
BELARUS: EU announces new €30 million support package for independent voices
DEVELOPMENT: European Court of Auditors identifies several shortcomings in European Commission’s evaluation of EU’s External Action Guarantee
TRADE: members of ‘Minerals Security Partnership’ met in Brussels
SECURITY - DEFENCE
NATO: Allies must spend more, not because of Donald Trump, but because they have to, warns Mark Rutte
INSTITUTIONAL
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: European Parliament political groups agree on a list of 28 intergroups
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Transparency International warns of problems of conflicts of interest among MEPs
BUDGET: European Parliament Committee on Budgets examines recent inflation trends and their impact on EU budget
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS - SOCIETAL ISSUES
GENDER EQUALITY: Hadja Lahbib tells European Parliament Subcommittee on Public Health that equality in healthcare research is a matter of survival
GENDER EQUALITY: protecting women against digital violence, imperative for European Union
GENDER EQUALITY: 2024 index shows increase of 0.8 points, but inequalities persist across EU
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
BANKS: banking resolution, Court of Justice interprets EU rules on independence of national resolution authority
NEWS BRIEFS
EU COUNCIL: updating of EU Member States’ population figures for calculating qualified majority voting in EU Council
CULTURE: Creative Europe, Commission allocates €60 million to promote European cooperation in 2025
CULTURE: European Heritage Label selects ten projects to enhance its network
SOMALIA/ETHIOPIA: EU welcomes agreement in principle reached between Ethiopia and Somalia thanks to Turkish mediation
ENVIRONMENT: directive on publication of sustainability information is not synonymous with red tape, according to WWF
ENVIRONMENT: opposed to re-approval of glyphosate, PAN Europe is bringing case before European Court of Justice after Commission refused to review its position
JUSTICE: European Public Prosecutor’s Office, Council of EU appoints two prosecutors for Poland and Sweden
DIGITAL: launch of a European initiative for AI-enabled smart cities
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: EPP Group will not impose its agenda on us, warns Iratxe García Pérez
CSDP: Bettina Patricia Boughani’s mandate as Head of EUMM Georgia extended
SOCIAL: European trade unions call for moratorium on redundancies in EU
SOCIAL: interinstitutional agreement on improving collection of business labour market statistics
SYRIA: G7 ready to support an inclusive political transition process