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Without reciprocal arrangements, British citizens in the EU after Brexit won't know what they will get back from their social contributions if they have worked in more than one country.

It's European Cybersecurity Month. CCIA will be asking leading experts how European consumers, businesses and governments can step up their cybersecurity game.

Homeowners often put off fixing a leaky roof or banishing damp from the downstairs bathroom due to the costs involved. But a business case is quickly building in favour of renovations.

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.

Eurozone finance ministers and the European Commission called on the Italian government on Monday (1 October) to respect the EU’s fiscal rules, saying the “non-compliant” budgetary plan announced by the third largest eurozone economy could destabilise the region.

The planet lost a third of its wetlands between 1970 and 2015. Moreover, this decline has been accelerating since the beginning of the century due to urbanisation, agriculture and climate change. This was the Ramsar Convention’s warning in a report published on 27 September. EURACTIV France’s media partner, the Journal de l’environnement, reports.

Plenary session, Strasbourg

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In two weeks, Bavarians will go to the polls, in a closely watched election expected to show a never-before-seen downfall of the CSU and a never-before-seen rise of the Bavarian Greens. Will the unthinkable become reality: a coalition between the two?

EPP MEP and lead candidate for Jean-Claude Junker's job as the next European Commission president, Manfred Weber, threw down the gauntlet on Friday (28 September), suggesting that he may support a breakup of Facebook and Whatsapp.

The result of Sunday's referendum in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on whether to accept a name deal with Greece provided a "crucial political benefit" for its prime minister despite a low voter turnout, Nikos Xydakis, an influential parliamentary representative in the Greek house, told EURACTIV.com.

A man is seeking EU support to release his parents from Egyptian prisons, where both have been detained without charge for over 450 days, the mother in solitary confinement. The pressure comes amid EU plans to increase cooperation with Cairo.

France's finance minister Bruno Le Maire warned Italy on Monday that all eurozone countries must respect the EU's budget rules - as Rome pledged to boost spending despite warnings from Brussels. "I just want to make very clear that there are rules, and the rules are the same for every state, because our futures are linked," he told reporters ahead of a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Luxembourg.

While road fatalities have more than halved since 2001, 25,300 people still lost their lives on EU roads in 2017 and another 135,000 were seriously injured. The Commission is proposing that new models of vehicles are equipped with advanced safety features.

A diplomatic tussle has broken over the European Union's flagship defence cooperation pact, amid warnings that the bloc could cut itself off from major allies like the US and post-Brexit Britain.

In Austria, Pamela Rendi-Wagner is the new woman leading the social democrats. But what does the largely unknown doctor stand for? EURACTIV Germany reports.

The United States and Canada forged a last-gasp deal on Sunday (30 September) to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico, rescuing a three-country, $1.2 trillion open-trade zone that had been about to collapse after nearly a quarter century.

Written by Marcin Szczepański (1st edition),

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For the next long-term EU budget framework (2021-2027), the Commission is proposing a new, dedicated €4 billion programme aimed at empowering and protecting consumers, and enabling Europe’s many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to take better advantage of a well-functioning single market. The financial envelope will be supplemented with the additional allocation of €2 billion under the InvestEU Fund, in particular through its SME window.

The new programme aims to strengthen and streamline the governance of the EU’s internal market. It will support the competitiveness of business, and promote human, animal and plant health and a safe food chain, as well as financing European statistics to provide reliable data relevant to the single market. The proposal consolidates and streamlines a wide range of activities that were previously financed separately, and bundles them into one programme. The aim here is to generate benefits in terms of flexibility, simplification and synergies, and eliminate overlaps.

Versions

• October 2018: ‘Supporting the single market beyond 2020‘ (1st edition)

Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the programme for single market, competitiveness of enterprises, including small and medium-sized enterprises, and European statistics and repealing Regulations (EU) No 99/2013, (EU) No 1287/2013, (EU) No 254/2014, (EU) No 258/2014, (EU) No 652/2014 and (EU) 2017/826 Committee responsible: Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) COM(2018) 441
7.6.2018 Rapporteur: Nicola Danti (S&D, Italy) 2018/0231(COD) Shadow rapporteurs:

  Inese Vaidere (EPP, Latvia)
Jasenko Selimovic (ALDE, Sweden)
Igor Šoltes (Greens/EFA, Slovenia) Ordinary legislative procedure (COD) (Parliament and Council on equal footing – formerly ‘co-decision’) Next steps expected: Publication of draft report

 

 

 

 

 

Estimated breakdown of the single market programme elements

The power struggles in Germany's grand coalition, such as the Maaßen case, are eyed with growing concern from abroad. What does the EU think about the state of the Bundesregierung? EURACTIV Germany reports.