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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13764
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SECURITY - DEFENCE - SPACE / Nato

PURL initiative has already raised over $4 billion in four months

On Tuesday 2 December, NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, announced that the PURL initiative, which provides Ukraine with US military equipment financed by the other Allies, had already raised $4 billion since it was launched in August.

“We are on track. We needed about 4 billion by this time of year, which started in August, 1 billion a month. And we are now at 4 billion. So, we still have some work to do in December, but I’m (...) cautiously optimistic, that we will also get...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
HEALTH: European ministers adopt their position on proposal concerning critical medicinal products
HEALTH: broad support from EU ministers for an agreement with European Parliament concerning pharmaceutical package on 10 December
HEALTH: 2026 will be “peak of our work” on tobacco control, announces Olivér Várhelyi
HEALTH: EU must fully exploit potential of biotechnology in health field, say MEPs
HOME AFFAIRS: EU co-legislators reach political agreement on European Directive to prevent and criminalise corruption
MIGRATION: Danish Presidency of EU Council to sound out, on Wednesday 3 December, chances of EU27 reaching agreement on draft ‘return’ regulation
ENERGY/TRANSPORT: Member States to adopt position on Connecting Europe Facility
ENERGY: growth in European hydrogen market “well below” European and national targets, according to ACER
ENERGY: outcome of European Parliament/EU Council negotiations on ‘REPowerEU’ could “change course of our energy future”, says Dan Jørgensen
TRANSPORT: European Parliament negotiators decide to put discussions on air passenger rights on hold
TRANSPORT: Commissioner Tzitzikóstas seriously examines idea of European strategy for aeronautics and aviation
AGRICULTURE: according to European Commission, Unfair Trading Practices Directive needs to be improved
AGRICULTURE: MEPs approve interinstitutional agreement on combating unfair commercial practices
EXTERNAL ACTION
TRADE: provisional agreement on Generalised Scheme of Preferences after three years of negotiations
UNITED STATES: Bernd Lange’s report on tariffs applicable to US products satisfies most of European Parliament’s political groups
MERCOSUR: MEPs still at loggerheads over safeguards in EU/Mercosur agreement
HUMANITARIAN AID: European Parliament Committee on Development calls for a more ambitious EU response to crises
HUMANITARIAN AID: European Commissioner Hadja Lahbib announces “new communication” from EU
ARMENIA: EU and Armenia adopt their new strategic agenda
KAZAKHSTAN: EU and Astana open negotiations on visa facilitation and readmission agreements
SECURITY - DEFENCE - SPACE
NATO: PURL initiative has already raised over $4 billion in four months
DEFENCE: European defence industry sales up by nearly 14% in 2024
INSTITUTIONAL
EU2026CY: Cyprus Presidency of EU Council reveals priorities: competitiveness, defence, housing and foreign affairs
EEAS: “strong suspicions” of fraud in award of management of EU Diplomatic Academy to College of Europe
Russian invasion of Ukraine
ECONOMY/DEFENCE: Canada, first non-EU country to secure greater share of EU countries’ military spending supported by ‘SAFE’ loan instrument
ECONOMY: rapid provision of robust public guarantees, key element in negotiations on future European financial support mechanism for Ukraine
SOCIAL AFFAIRS - EMPLOYMENT
SOCIAL: coordination of social security rules – France looks to Cyprus to finally bring about a revision of Regulation 883/2004
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
DIGITAL/JUSTICE: CJEU rules that an advertising website can be held responsible for personal data published by its users
JUSTICE: a competition dispute over App Store NL should be heard in the Netherlands, says EU Court of Justice
NEWS BRIEFS
ECB: “nature degradation and biodiversity loss threaten price stability”, notes study by monetary institute
CHINA: EU closes WTO dispute over Chinese restrictions on Lithuania
ECONOMY: euro area inflation estimated at 2.2% in November
MALI: EU extends sanctions for one year