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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13594
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NEWS BRIEFS / Space

Successful first commercial flight of Ariane 6

06/03/2025 (Agence Europe) – The first commercial flight of Ariane 6 took place without a hitch on Thursday 6 March, placing the CSO-3 military satellite into sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of around 800 km (see EUROPE B13450A4). The CSO-3 (Optical Space Component) satellite completes the mini-constellation for observing Earth on behalf of the French Ministry of Defence. The CSO-1 and CSO-2 satellites were successfully launched in 2018 and 2020 respectively. The flight was...

Contents

EUROPEAN COUNCIL
DEFENCE: European Council pledges to accelerate defence financing
UKRAINE: EU shows unity among “twenty-six” - without Hungary - in its support for Kyiv
SECURITY - DEFENCE - SPACE
DEFENCE: according to Andrius Kubilius, ‘ReArm Europe’ is major step forward
SECTORAL POLICIES
ENERGY: Baltic States call for remaining aspects of synchronisation project to be implemented “for completion of our Energy Union”
ENERGY: WMO, IRENA and Copernicus stress importance of understanding climate factors to strengthen energy resilience
HOUSING: European Commission and EIB lay foundations for future pan-European investment platform for affordable housing
RESEARCH: MEPs want to change legislative framework to stimulate development of biotechnology and biomanufacturing
ANIMAL HEALTH: draft report to European Parliament on animal transport paves way for numerous amendments
INSTITUTIONAL
BUDGET: MEPs review European Parliament’s expenditure and revenue priorities for 2026
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
JUSTICE: EU Court of Justice rules withdrawal of cases from a judge must be “justified” and based on “objective and precise criteria”
DEMOCRACY: CJEU imposes financial penalties on five Member States for failing to transpose “Whistleblower Directive”
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
ROMANIA: European Court of Human Rights definitively rejects Călin Georgescu’s appeal
MIGRATION: European Court of Human Rights condemns Belgium for failing to supervise bone tests carried out on a migrant woman claiming to be a minor
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS - SOCIETAL ISSUES
WOMEN’S RIGHTS: in European Parliament Committee, an interparliamentary meeting to strengthen role of women in peace, security and defence processes
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
EMPLOYMENT: Union of Skills—new European strategy well received by European Parliament and organisations
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECB: European Central Bank cuts its key interest rates
NEWS BRIEFS
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: EU expresses its concern at recent attacks on territorial and legal integrity of Bosnia
BUDGET: Emmanuel Macron relaunches the idea of a digital services tax in the form of a European own resource
CLIMATE: according to Copernicus, February 2025 is 19th month out of last 20 in which global temperatures have exceeded 1.5°C threshold
ENERGY: share of renewable energies in heating and cooling reaches 26.2% in EU
ENERGY: ACER consults on peak-shaving products to reduce electricity consumption
SPACE: successful first commercial flight of Ariane 6
JUSTICE: MEPs support closer cooperation between Eurojust and Bosnia-Herzegovina
MOLDOVA: MEPs approve European Parliament/EU Council agreement on new macro-financial assistance to Chișinău
UKRAINE: European Commission and EIB sign €2 billion reconstruction guarantee
CORRIGENDUM
SOCIAL: compromise put forward by Polish Presidency of EU Council - false traineeships in education sector remain excluded from new scope