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Weekly schedule of President Donald Tusk

European Council - Mon, 11/06/2018 - 10:48
Weekly schedule of President Donald Tusk 7-17 June 2018
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European Parliament elections: Council reaches agreement on a set of measures to modernise EU electoral law

European Council - Mon, 11/06/2018 - 10:48
The Council reached an agreement on new measures aimed at updating EU electoral law.
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EU is making it easier to recover unpaid road tolls – Council agrees its stance

European Council - Mon, 11/06/2018 - 10:48
The Council adopted a general approach on updated electronic road tolling rules.
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Tackling marine litter: Council agrees its stance on port reception facilities

European Council - Mon, 11/06/2018 - 10:48
Council adopted a general approach on updated rules on port reception facilities.
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EU agrees new rules to make sure money laundering criminals are punished

European Council - Mon, 11/06/2018 - 10:48
Council and Parliament agreed on new rules to better punish money laundering criminals.
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Safeguarding competition in air transport – the Council adopts its position

European Council - Mon, 11/06/2018 - 10:48
The Council adopted a general approach on the proposed rules for safeguarding competition in air transport.
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Indicative programme - Energy Council meeting of 11 June 2018

European Council - Mon, 11/06/2018 - 10:48
Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities.
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Last-minute media accreditation for the European Council on 28 and 29 June 2018

European Council - Mon, 11/06/2018 - 10:48
Information about accreditation requirements for the European Council in June
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Remarks by President Donald Tusk after his meeting with Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg

European Council - Mon, 11/06/2018 - 10:48
During their meeting in Brussels, President Tusk and Prime Minister Solberg discussed bilateral relations, co-operation in the field of security and defence, as well as further involvements in tackling environmental issues.
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Remarks by President Donald Tusk after his meeting with President of Montenegro Milo Đukanović

European Council - Mon, 11/06/2018 - 10:48
President Tusk and President Đukanović discussed domestic situation and the progress made in the accession talks with Montenegro.
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Indicative programme - Telecommunications Council meeting of 8 June 2018

European Council - Mon, 11/06/2018 - 10:48
Main agenda items, approximate timing, pubic sessions and press opportunities.
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Indicative programme - Transport Council meeting of 7 June 2018

European Council - Mon, 11/06/2018 - 10:48
Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities.
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In-Depth Analysis - EU-Japan cooperation on global and regional security - a litmus test for the EU's role as a global player? - PE 570.492 - Subcommittee on Security and Defence

Within their partnership, the EU and Japan recognise each other as being essentially civilian (or ‘soft’) powers that share the same values and act in the international arena solely with diplomatic means. However, the evolution of the threats they face and the unpredictability now shown by their strategic ally, the US, have led both the EU and Japan to reconsider the option of ‘soft power-only’ for ensuring their security. They have both begun the — albeit long —process of seeking greater strategic autonomy. The EU’s Global Strategy adopted in 2016 aims clearly to ‘develop a more politically rounded approach to Asia, seeking to make greater practical contributions to Asian security’. Like the EU, Japan has identified ‘a multipolar age’ in which the rules-based international order that has allowed it to prosper is increasingly threatened. In line with its security-related reforms, Japan has decided to ‘take greater responsibilities and roles than before in order to maintain the existing international order’ and resolve a number of global issues. The EU and Japan may increase their cooperation at the global and strategic level and in tackling these challenges at the regional or local level. The Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA) between the EU and Japan will provide opportunities for such cooperation, which should also be open to others. This is an opportunity for the EU to demonstrate that it is a consistent and reliable partner, and a true ‘global player’. The Council Conclusions of 28 May 2018 on ‘Enhanced security cooperation in and with Asia’ are a step in this direction but need to be translated into action.
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At a Glance - Policy Departments' Monthly Highlights - June 2018 - PE 618.966 - Committee on Industry, Research and Energy - Committee on Budgetary Control - Committee on Culture and Education - Special Committee on Terrorism - Subcommittee on Security...

The Monthly Highlights publication provides an overview, at a glance, of the on-going work of the policy departments, including a selection of the latest and forthcoming publications, and a list of future events.
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The man Boris Johnson would put in charge of Brexit

Ideas on Europe Blog - Sun, 10/06/2018 - 11:53

Last week Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, proposed that President Donald J. Trump should be in charge of Brexit.

“Imagine Trump doing Brexit,” Johnson said, according to a leaked audio recording obtained and published by BuzzFeed.

“I have become more and more convinced that there is method in his madness.”

“He’d go in bloody hard … There would be all sorts of breakdowns, there would be all sorts of chaos.

“Everyone would think he’d gone mad. But actually, you might get somewhere. It’s a very, very good thought,” he said.

In reality, it’s a very, very bad thought.

Trump causes discord in his wake every time he talks or Tweets.

His method of management is to abandon diplomacy and use bellicose, bully-boy tactics, causing as Johnson so gleefully admires, “all sorts of breakdowns… all sorts of chaos.”

Which is also exactly what Brexit offers us too. Breakdowns and chaos.

During the USA election campaign Donald Trump called himself ‘Mr Brexit’. The name fits. Trump’s style of populist nationalism and insular policies are isolating America just as Brexit is isolating Britain.

Brexit, Trump, populism, nationalism, bigotry…they all come from the same DNA. We should have learnt from history that this strand of politics leads to disharmony, conflict and yes, even war.

This weekend Trump huffily left the G7 summit causing rifts and ruptures. He yanked the USA out of a previously agreed summit communique, and accused the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, of being “dishonest and weak”.

All, of course, straight out of the book, ‘How to win friends and influence people.’

The G7, which is supposed to be a network of global co-operation between the world’s leading countries, has been turned into a fiasco.

All because a dangerous bully has been put in charge at the White House. A guy who uses shockingly harsh, belittling language towards fellow democratically-elected leaders of allied countries to enforce his way.

The guy Boris Johnson thinks should be in charge of Brexit.

Trump is setting America on a perilous course, alienated from its allies, isolated, abandoning co-operation and attempting to win dirty trade wars with those previously considered to be friends.

Brexit is doing exactly the same to Britain. We are cutting ourselves off from our nearest and most important allies; our friends and neighbours in Europe.

We think we can ‘go it alone’, just as Trump thinks that America will be great again, alone.

It’s not too late to extricate ourselves from this mad path to pandemonium. We don’t have to follow Trump’s method of madness, so admired by Boris Johnson.

We should be working with our allies in Europe, not leaving them at just the time when we need our friends close at hand.

It’s complete folly to believe that Brexit will bring anything good to Britain. The country needs an urgent opportunity to do a democratic U-turn on Brexit, and return to sanity.

The alternative is to follow Trump, and Boris, on a road to ruin.

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The day the Tory Brexit lost

Ideas on Europe Blog - Fri, 08/06/2018 - 18:01

Although there’s hardly anything about it in the news, one year ago Theresa May held a snap General Election in a bid to win a bigger mandate for her Tory version of Brexit.

Instead, she lost her mandate entirely.

The Tory’s majority in the House of Commons was crushed in the General Election of 8 June 2017. Any sane Prime Minister would take that as a message from the electorate that the country didn’t want the Brexit she was planning.

Instead, Mrs May is carrying on as if last year’s election hadn’t happened; unfortunately, aided and abetted by Her Majesty’s Opposition, the Labour Party, who have squandered opportunity after opportunity to effectively challenge Brexit following the Tory’s election defeat.

Leading Brexiters claim that since around 80% of the electorate voted for Brexit-supporting parties, that means the country has endorsed Brexit. That’s nonsense.

Voters didn’t vote for Labour because they wanted Brexit. They voted tactically for Labour because they didn’t want the Tories.

Most Labour voters voted for Remain, and according to current polling, most Labour members and supporters want Britain to remain in the EU or at least the Single Market.

  • The Tory Brexit lost last year’s General Election. But they are ignoring that result.
  • They will not let us, ‘the people’, have another say on Brexit.
  • They are trying their damnedest to prevent our Parliament from having a ‘meaningful say’ on Brexit.
  • They insist that Brexit is permanently irreversible, even though in a democracy, no decision is supposed to be beyond recall, or perpetual.
This is no longer just about Britain leaving Europe. This is about democracy leaving Britain.

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Below is my story of 8 June 2017, the day of the General Election, written for my Reasons2Remain campaign, as the country was going to the polls to give Mrs May a message that she has still not read.

→ A vote against Mrs May can stop her plans – please share WE SAY: VOTE TO STOP HER Today’s snap general election is as close as we may get to a second EU referendum. This is our chance to soften Brexit, if not to stop it completely.

When, on 18 April, Mrs May stood outside 10 Downing Street to announce a surprise general election, she said (yet again) that, “Britain is leaving the European Union and there can be no turning back.”

Don’t believe her on that.

Just one year ago, Mrs May campaigned for Britain to remain in the European Union, which she urged then was in Britain’s best interests. But she turned her back on that and instead volunteered to be the gung-ho Brexit Prime Minister.

And Mrs May also turned back on her pledge that there would not be another General Election until May 2020. Out of the blue, she called for a General Election three years early.

Now it’s our turn to turn our backs on Mrs May.

She cynically called an early General Election because she thought she could make a political land grab. She seeks a new mandate to bulldoze Britain out of the European Union, with a hard, harsh version of Brexit that will only benefit speculators, spivs and off-shore spongers.

Mrs May said in April:

“Every vote for the Conservatives will make it harder for opposition politicians who want to stop me from getting the job done.”

So, let’s vote to stop her.

The General Election today is our legitimate, democratic opportunity for a softer Brexit or even to stop Brexit. That would be almost impossible if Mrs May is returned to power.

Mrs May said Brexit means Brexit, but has made clear that she wants her version of Brexit, without us, the people, having any further say on the matter.

In announcing the snap General Election, May said she had a “simple challenge to the opposition parties.”

She continued, “you have criticised the government’s vision for Brexit, you have challenged our objectives, you have threatened to block the legislation we put before Parliament.

“This is your moment to show you mean it, to show you are not opposing the government for the sake of it, to show that you do not treat politics as a game.”

Agreed. Now is the opportunity for opposition parties to show they mean it. And now is our moment to vote to stop Mrs May’s true-blue right-wing Brexit plans for Britain.

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EU @ G7 Summit 2018

Council lTV - Fri, 08/06/2018 - 16:32
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On 8-9 June 2018, Canada hosts the G7 meeting in Charlevoix. European Council President Donald TUSK and European Commission President Jean-Claude JUNCKER represent the EU at the summit. The Canadian G7 presidency in 2018 focuses on 5 themes: investing in growth that works for everyone, preparing for jobs of the future, advancing gender equality and women's empowerment, working together on climate change, oceans and clean energy, and building a more peaceful and secure world.

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Agenda - The Week Ahead 11 – 17 June 2018

European Parliament - Fri, 08/06/2018 - 16:27
Plenary - Strasbourg

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Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council (Energy) - June 2018

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EU Ministers for Transport, Infrastructure, and Communications meet on 11 June 2018 in Luxembourg and are due to adopt a general approach on the regulation on ACER, the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators. The Presidency is informing Ministers about the state of play in trilogue negotiations on the governance of the Energy Union, the directive on renewable energy and the directive on energy efficiency.

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Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council - June 2018

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EU Ministers for Transport, Infrastructure, and Communications meet on 7 and 8 June 2018 in Luxembourg to discuss topics of transport and telecommunications. The agenda includes, among other topics, key proposals on drivers' driving and rest times, the posting of road hauliers and cabotage restrictions; safeguarding competition in air transport; port reception facilities for the delivery of waste from ships; electronic road tolling and exchange of information; and the use of hired vehicles. On the second day, the Council is due to agree on a general approach on a proposed Cybersecurity Act regulation. Ministers discuss a proposal to update privacy rules for electronic communications (ePrivacy), and a draft directive to promote the re-use of public sector information.

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