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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11977

9 March 2018
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BEACONS
BEACONS: No, the past is not dead to everybody
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
FINANCE: EU aims to make finance do more for sustainable development
FINANCE: 23 new initiatives to keep EU competitive in age of FinTech
ECB: Draghi warns Washington against any unilateral protectionist measure that may undermine confidence
EUROGROUP: Greece and deepening of EMU on Eurogroup's agenda
TAXATION: EU to add St Kitts and Nevis, Bahamas and US Virgin Islands to its blacklist
SECTORAL POLICIES
JHA: EU home ministers undertake to find agreement as soon as possible on interoperability of information systems
DIGITAL: Co-legislators continue discussions on digital content
TRANSPORT: Persisting disagreements at Council on cabotage and posted workers
FISHERIES: European Commission presents draft demersal stock management plan for Western Mediterranean
EXTERNAL ACTION
USA: EU in limbo before enactment of US taxes on steel and aluminium
TRADE: Council of EU gives go-ahead in principle to negotiating mandate on multilateral investment court
GEORGIA: Guiorgui Margvelashvili commits to strengthening visa discussions
UN: João Vale de Almeida says division condemns us to weakness
NIGER: Raul Mateus Paula reiterates that Niger is important EU partner on security and migration
IRAN: 24 MEPs ask Federica Mogherini to raise the Sufis' case
INSTITUTIONAL
POLAND: Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visits Brussels and defends reforms undertaken
UNITED KINGDOM: Donald Tusk warns London that there is no hope for a free trade agreement that automatically includes an ambitious deal on financial services
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: EPSU deplores Commission's refusal to transpose 2016 agreement between social partners into EU law
SOCIAL: Unions want to ensure a United Kingdom respects post-Brexit European social acquis
BREACHES OF EU LAW
ENVIRONMENT: Croatia is referred to Court for unlawful dumping of industrial waste
ENVIRONMENT: Spain taken to court for non-compliance with framework directive on water in Canary Islands
BIODIVERSITY: Illegal spring hunting of wild birds - Finland is again before the Court
TRANSPORT: Appeal against Croatia for failing to update civil aviation safety legislation
CUSTOMS/TAXATION: Chinese import fraud – London to pay back €2.7 billion to EU budget
TAXATION: European Commission steps up fight against yacht VAT fraud
CLIMATE: Quality of petrol and diesel fuels - ten countries guilty of failure to transpose EU rules
ENERGY: Final warning to Spain on transposition of energy efficiency directive
ENERGY: Poland under spotlight regarding EU regulation on gas supply security
MONEY LAUNDERING: Commission asks Ireland and Slovakia to transpose EU rules as soon as possible
Op-Ed
OP-ED: What Europe after 2020? The views of Karl-Heinz Lambertz, President of the European Committee of the Regions
NEWS BRIEFS
AGENCE EUROPE: New website goes live on Monday 12 March
ECB: Governing Council approves appointment of de Guindos to vice-presidency
BOSNIA: Political agreement at Council to remove sanctions against three police officers
PATENTS: record high in request for patents in 2017
FINANCE: Commission to announce new initiatives to move forward Capital Markets Union on Monday 12 March
SINGAPORE: Commission hopes to open approval process of EU-Singapore free trade agreement text in mid-April
SOCIAL: Commissioner Thyssen calls for financial instruments in social domain
TRANPORT: European and British airports call for aviation connectivity to be maintained after Brexit
NEIGHBOURHOOD: European Parliament will not observe presidential elections in Russia or in Azerbaijan

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