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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13659

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SECTORAL POLICIES
MIGRATION: returns of illegal immigrants in EU – Member States set out their expectations of new draft Regulation

Over lunch on Friday 13 June in Luxembourg, the EU Member States’ Ministers for Home Affairs and Migration discussed the Regulation on returns, presented by the Commission in March, and ways of stepping up returns and readmissions.

For the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, managing migration and the EU’s external borders is precisely what will enable the Schengen area to be strengthened, he said at the final press conference, as the Ministers celebrated the 40th anniversary of the...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
MIGRATION: returns of illegal immigrants in EU – Member States set out their expectations of new draft Regulation
MIGRATION: asylum and ‘safe third countries’; UNHCR issues recommendations to EU co-legislators
HOME AFFAIRS: removing child pornography content from Internet – Commissioner Magnus Brunner is hopeful of solutions under Danish Presidency
HOME AFFAIRS: EU Member States celebrate 40 years of Schengen area against a backdrop of various threats
ENVIRONMENT: EU Council and Parliament reach provisional agreement on ‘one substance, one assessment’ package
SEA: UN Ocean Conference a success for High Seas Treaty
AGRICULTURE: future CAP reform on agenda at meeting of European ministers in Warsaw
AGRICULTURE: MEPs feel future CAP presentation should not coincide with post-2027 MFF presentation
PLANTS: EU Council approves its negotiating position on forest reproductive material
ENERGY: Polish Presidency hopes to achieve conclusions on energy security at its last ‘Energy’ Council
ENERGY: European Commission estimates around €241 billion will be needed between now and 2050 to extend nuclear reactors’ service life and build new ones
ENERGY: four countries call on European Commission to take steps to tackle biofuel fraud
CLIMATE/FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: European Environment Agency warns of inequalities in climate adaptation policies
EXTERNAL ACTION
MIDDLE EAST: EU institutions urge parties to return to diplomacy after Israeli strikes on Iranian military sites
JAPAN: EU and Japan hold their first dialogue on security and defence at Director-General level
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
COMPANIES: ‘omnibus’ – European Parliament rapporteur Jörgen Warborn wants to simplify CSRD and CSDDD Directives even further
BELGIUM: Eurogroup validates Belgium’s revised budget path
INSTITUTIONAL
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY: session to be marked by foreign affairs, but also by anniversary of Schengen area and Rule of law
DEMOCRACY: hoped-for breakthrough in European Parliament/EU Council negotiations on revision of framework for European political parties
SOCIAL AFFAIRS - EMPLOYMENT
SOCIAL: European Parliament urges Polish Presidency of EU Council not to conclude negotiations over rules on coordination of social security systems
EDUCATION - YOUTH - CULTURE - SPORT
YOUTH: European Commission commits to addressing mental health concerns at European Youth Event 2025
NEWS BRIEFS
HOME AFFAIRS: unanimous support in EU Council for extension until March 2027 of temporary protection granted to Ukrainians in EU
CHINA: EU imposes definitive anti-dumping duty on Chinese vanillin
DEMOCRACY: Commission consults on future ‘EU civil society strategy’
ECONOMY: EU disburses €1 billion to Ukraine in accordance with preferential loans granted by G7 countries in 2025
INDIA: new countervailing duty on Indian optical fibre cables
MEDIA: European Federation of Journalists believes that “no journalist should be forced to sign documents to secure their release“
MEDIA: 40 years of Schengen Agreement – Agence Europe’s podcast, Quart d’heurope, analyses central but contested achievement of European integration
SWITZERLAND: EU and Bern publish draft agreements aimed at strengthening their bilateral relations