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As states increasingly outsource tasks to consultancies, this 'consultancy culture' contributes to the phenomenon of staff leaving the public sector for the private sector, only to return to the public sector as private consultants.

Royal Antwerp Football Club
Freedom of movement for persons
Football: according to Advocate General Szpunar the UEFA rules on home-grown players are partially incompatible with EU law

Les Mousquetaires and ITM Entreprises v Commission
Competition
The Court sets aside in part the judgments of the General Court and, consequently, annuls the decisions of the Commission ordering inspections at the premises of a number of French undertakings in the distribution sector on account of suspicions of anticompetitive practices

Improved rules for the European Digital Identity - a personal digital wallet for EU citizens - will make it easier for people to access public services and make online transactions.

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Improved rules for the European Digital Identity - a personal digital wallet for EU citizens - will make it easier for people to access public services and make online transactions.

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As the EU is heading towards a bloc-wide law strengthening rights of platform workers, Paris hopes to avoid the future directive by introducing collective bargaining between gig-workers' representatives and the platforms.

Policies have a strong impact, argues EIGE director Carlien Scheele. But gender equality is improving by a snail's pace. And more women in decision-making also mean more backlash.

EU leaders are preparing to bless joint purchases of Ukraine ammunition, amid deeper strategising on how to protect Europe from Russia.

In a letter to Italy's prime minister, concerning the shipwreck that killed some 70 people, the European Commission suggests shoring up the Libyan coast guard and launching anti-smuggling partnerships with Tunisia and Egypt.

More pay-transparency equals more tools to close the gender pay-gap. A historic step in the EU, but still with room for improvement.

DRAFT REPORT on the 2022 Commission report on North Macedonia
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Ilhan Kyuchyuk

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The European Commission proposed a temporary fix to the bloc's much-debated debt and deficit rules — which will allow member states more leeway in reducing public debt this year.

An opinion piece accuses our think-tank, MCC Brussels, of promoting "Putin's vision". Hungarian MEP Katalin Cseh states that our aim is "to destroy the EU". In typical McCarthyite fashion she relies on innuendo and false allegations to discredit our work.

Five years ago, investigative Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová, were murdered. The Slovak authorities are now close to delivering a verdict in the trial — offering an example of how to challenge impunity for journalist killings.

The next ordinary meeting of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE) is scheduled to take place on Monday, 20 March 2023 from 15.00 - 18.30hrs in Brussels (room SPAAK 3C050).

The meeting agenda and documents will be published here.

SEDE missions 2023:

• Somalia - 3-6 April 2023
  
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - 20-23 February 2023
  

SEDE missions 2022:

• SEDE mission to South Korea and Japan - 18-22 December 2022
  
• SEDE mission to Niger from 31 October - 3 November 2022
  
• SEDE mission to Mozambique from 18-22 September 2022
  
• SEDE mission to France from 19-21 July 2022
  
• SEDE mission to Iraq from 24-28 May 2022
• SEDE mission to Georgia from 10-14 April 2022

SEDE meetings' calendar 2023
EP calendar 2023
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A delegation of the Civil Liberties Committee was in Athens on 6-8 March 2023, to take stock of issues and allegations relating to the state of EU values in Greece.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

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A delegation of the Civil Liberties Committee was in Athens on 6-8 March 2023, to take stock of issues and allegations relating to the state of EU values in Greece.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

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Prigozhina v Council
External relations
The General Court annuls the restrictive measures applied to Ms Violetta Prigozhina, mother of Mr Yevgeniy Prigozhin, in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine

On International Women’s day, Chair of the Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Committee Robert Biedroń issued the following statement.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

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