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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13565
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NEWS BRIEFS / Environment

European Environmental Bureau assures that NGOs are not acting on instructions from European Commission or on its behalf

24/01/2025 (Agence Europe) – According to the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), the scandal surrounding European Commission subsidy contracts encouraging NGOs to lobby European institutions is not a scandal at all. The NGO’s Secretary General Patrick ten Brink believes that it is an “attack on civil society”. Offering assurance, he explained that NGOs are not acting “upon [the] instructions” of the European Commission or “on its behalf” but “with full independence from...

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SECTORAL POLICIES
COMPETITIVENESS: “Competitiveness Compass” sets out Commission’s plans for 2025
AGRICULTURE: CAP simplification, farmers’ income and trade on agenda for meeting of European ministers on Monday 27 January
AGRICULTURE: EU agri-food trade hit new records last October
HEALTH: Covid-19 - European Commission signs four-year contract with Moderna
ENERGY: responding to Viktor Orbán, Commission reiterates that it had “not seen anything particularly worrying” following end of transit agreement
JUSTICE: “a threat to the efficiency of investigations” - European Public Prosecutor’s Office concerned about recent amendments to Austrian law on criminal procedure
EXTERNAL ACTION
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Ukraine, Middle East and relations with United States on Foreign Affairs Council agenda
TRADE: Raphaël Glucksmann wants to strengthen proposed review of foreign direct investments screening
SECURITY - DEFENCE
CSDP: EUBAM Rafah mission could be redeployed at beginning of February
INSTITUTIONAL
GENERAL AFFAIRS: dialogue on respect for Rule of law and priorities of Polish Presidency of EU Council on Member States’ agenda
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
COMPETITION: European green light, subject to conditions, for acquisition of DS Smith by International Paper
FINANCE: Member States consulted on extension, until June 2028, of equivalence of EU and UK rules governing clearing houses
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL/EMPLOYMENT: coordination of social security rules, Dutch government reiterates its calls to review and modernise proposals on table
SOCIAL/EMPLOYMENT: quality traineeships, work resumes on 31 January in EU Council working party
EDUCATION - YOUTH
EDUCATION: International Day of Education - European Commission reports on achievements of European Universities Initiative
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS - SOCIETAL ISSUES
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: according to European Disability Forum, inclusion is still too much on margins of EU’s official development assistance projects
NEWS BRIEFS
BANKS: Single Resolution Board updates its guidelines on continuity of critical activities in event of banking resolution
COMPETITIVENESS: European Commission launches second consultation on implementation of net zero industry act (NZIA)
COMPETITION: Estonia fined for failing to transpose EU directive strengthening national competition authorities
ENERGY: European Commission, ACER and RGI launch survey on stakeholder engagement in electricity infrastructure projects
ENERGY: European Commission could consider extending objectives for filling gas stocks beyond December 2025
ENERGY/HOUSING: in 2023, 10.6% of EU population were unable to keep themselves adequately warm
ENVIRONMENT: European Environmental Bureau assures that NGOs are not acting on instructions from European Commission or on its behalf
ENVIRONMENT: approximately one hundred NGOs call on Ursula von der Leyen to end lobbies’ interference in PFAS issue
ENVIRONMENT: WWF report criticises Sweden and Finland for logging out of step with ‘EU Biodiversity Strategy’
DIGITAL: European Commission and major platforms prepare for German parliamentary election period
PACIFIC: green light from EU Council for accession of Tonga, Tuvalu and Niue to EU/Pacific States Economic Partnership Agreement