EU CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE
GENERAL
- Intervention of President Charles Michel at the plenary session of the European Parliament
- Von der Leyen outlines a path to European recovery
STATE AID
- Commission approves Austrian guarantee schemes to support SMEs affected by the coronavirus outbreak - IP/20/658
- Commission approves €1 billion Hungarian aid scheme to support companies affected by the coronavirus outbreak - IP/20/684
HEALTH
- Flash report -16th Health Security Committee on COVID-19 outbreak - 15 April 2020
- Covid-19: €3 billion emergency support for national health care systems - see the EP Statement
DATA PRIVACY
- Coronavirus: Guidance to ensure full data protection standards of apps fighting the pandemic - IP/20/669
FINANCIAL SERVICES
- ESMA issues new Q&A on alternative performance measures in the context of COVID-19
ECONOMY & BUDGET
- Statement by President Michel and President von der Leyen after the G7 Leaders' videoconference on COVID-19
- Statement of EU ministers of finance on continuing bank lending and on maintaining a well-functioning insurance sector amid the COVID-19 pandemic
- Macron warns of EU unravelling without financial solidarity - Member states have ‘no choice’ but to set up joint virus recovery fund - Financial Times
AREA OF FREEDOMS, SECURITY & JUSTICE
- Coronavirus: Commission presents guidance on implementing EU rules on asylum and return procedures and on resettlement - IP/20/666
- Guidance on the implementation of relevant EU provisions in the area of asylum and return and on resettlement procedures
- Guidance on the implementation of the temporary restriction on non-essential travel to the EU - Coronavirus: Unique EU consular operation brought home over 500,000 EU citizens from abroad - Midday Express
COMPETITION
- Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.9816 – Advent/TA/Conservice)
- Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.9784 – Triton/Renk)
- Withdrawal of notification of a concentration (Case M.9547 – Johnson & Johnson/ Tachosil)
- Romania- The competition Council - the price monitor platform was improved
- UK - CMA revokes initial enforcement order in Takeaway.com / Just Eat merger
STATE AID
- Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 107 and 108 of the TFEU - Cases where the Commission raises no objections
- State Aid Weekly e-News - No.14/20 - Covers from 3 to 16 April 2020
TRADE & CUSTOMS
- Explanatory Notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union
- 5106 10 10: Unbleached
- 7307 19 10: Of cast iron
- 8536 70 00: Connectors for optical fibres, optical-fibre bundles or cables - EU trade chief urges tougher defences against foreign takeovers - Phil Hogan warns pandemic had left bloc’s ‘strategic assets’ vulnerable to acquisition from abroad - Financial Times
FINANCIAL SERVICES
- Annual EFC Report for 2019 to the Commission and the Council on “The Movement of Capital and the Freedom of Payments”
- EBA agrees with the European Commission’s amendments to standards on risk weights to specialised lending exposures
ENVIRONMENT CLIMATE CHANGE
- Answer given by Mr Sinkevicius to a MEP written question - The circular economy: planned obsolescence, green public procurement and reuse of products
- Answer given by Mr Sinkevicius to a MEP written question - Breach by France of Directive 2008/98/EC on waste in the Stocamine case
- Answer given by Mr Sinkevicius to a MEP written question - New management measures for invasive alien species in Finland
- Answer given by Ms Simson to a MEP written question - Emissions in China
DATA PRIVACY & CYBERSECURITY
- European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) - Annual Activity Report 2019
ECB, EURO & ECONOMY
- Commission adopts Opinion on Austria's updated Draft Budgetary Plan
- Average inflation targeting and the interest rate lower bound - ECB Working paper Series No.2394
- Risk characteristics of covered bonds: monitoring beyond ratings - ECB Working paper Series No.2393
FUTURE OF EUROPE
- Agenda for: Meeting of the Coreper (Part.2) of 20 April 2020
- Rebuilding Europe after Covid-19: MEPs call for decisive action
- Macron says it is time to think the unthinkable - Financial Times
EXTERNAL RELATIONS
- The European Union remains world's leading donor of Official Development Assistance with €75.2 billion in 2019 - IP/20/674
- EUTM Mali: Brigadier General František Ridzák appointed new EU Mission Force Commander (See Council Decision (CFSP) 2020/530)
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