Európai Tanács hírei

The Council adopted measures to strengthen administrative cooperation in order to better prevent VAT fraud.

The Council agreed a proposal allowing member states to apply reduced VAT rates to electronic publications, contributing to the digital single market plan.

The Council removed Palau from the list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions, bringing the names on the list down to six. It also found Liechtenstein and Peru compliant with commitments on tax cooperation.

Remarks by President Centeno following the Eurogroup meeting of 1 October on the ESM reform, national automatic stabilisers and Italy.

European Council President Tusk and NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg commented on the results of the consultative referendum on the name issue in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Council agrees on its negotiating position on the fight against unfair trading practices.

Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions, and press opportunities.

Weekly schedule of President Donald Tusk 1-7 October 2018

The EU Council today adopted a regulation aimed at boosting high-performance computing by setting up a new European joint undertaking. This undertaking will oversee the pooling of resources within Europe to develop supercomputers for processing big data.

At the final press conference, President Tusk presented the outcome of the discussions held during the informal summit in Salzburg.

Before the start of the informal Leaders' agenda summit in Salzburg, President Tusk addressed the main issues for the leaders, in particular migration and Brexit.

The EU issued a financial tracking report on progress against the pledges made at the Brussels II conference on "Supporting the future of Syria and the region".

The Council endorsed the priorities of the UN-EU Strategic Partnership on peace operations and crisis management for the period 2019-2021.

The Council extended until 30 September 2020 the mandate of the mission EUCAP Sahel Niger.

The Council appointed Susanna Terstal as EU Special Representative for the Middle East peace process.

President Donald Tusk sent the invitation letter to the members of the European Council for their informal meeting on 19 and 20 September 2018 at Salzburg.

Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities.

Weekly schedule of President Donald Tusk 17-23 September 2018.

The Council has prolonged restrictive measures over actions against Ukraine's territorial integrity for a further 6 months.