Europe Daily News, 04 November 2025

COMPETITION

• Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.12149 - Hartree / EdF Man Chile)
• Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.12136 - Eurazeo / CME / Proteor)
• Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.12006 - Global Payments / Worldpay)
• Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.12121 - Newprinces / Carrefour Italia)
• Withdrawal of notification of a concentration (Case M.12197 – Bestinver / Tages / IP / Iplanet Holding)
• Greece - Approval of the acquisition of sole control by “Generali Hellas Insurance Company S.A.” over “General Clinic , Diagnostic Therapeutic Surgical Center – Euroclinic Athens S.A.”
• Portugal - Cimpor notifies the acquisition of exclusive control over Ibera
• Portugal - EZ Acquisition notifies the acquisition of exclusive control over EverZinc
• UK - The CMA has cleared the anticipated acquisition by S&P Global Market Intelligence Inc. of Orbcomm Ais LLC
• UK - Guidance - Understanding the CMA’s provisional decision in its vets market investigation

STATE AID

• Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 107 and 108 of the TFEU - Cases where the Commission raises no objections – SA.114496 & SA.114320

TRADE & CUSTOMS

• Agenda for: Meeting of the Working Party on Dual Use Goods - 12 November 2025
• Agenda for: Trade Policy Committee (Generalised System of Preferences (GSP)) - 12 November 2025
• Notice to economic operators – New round of requests for the suspension of the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on certain industrial and agricultural products
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2219 of 3 November 2025 imposing provisional anti-dumping duties on imports of softwood plywood originating in the Federative Republic of Brazil
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2230 of 29 October 2025 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1352/2013 as regards the types of intellectual property rights included in the application form for customs action
• Meeting on Trade and Sustainable Development - 07 October 2025
  - Implementation of TSD Chapters in EU FTAs
  - EU negotiations of TSD Chapters
• MEPs to table motion seeking EU court opinion on Mercosur deal - See the Draft Motion for a Resolution
• Answer given by Mr Hoekstra to a MEP written question - Time frame and implementation of the one-stop shop for the payment of excise duties on intra-Community distance sales of wine
• What if Trump’s tariffs are illegal? It’s everybody’s problem - Even if the Supreme Court strikes down Donald Trump’s tariffs on countries, he has other legal options to impose similar duties - Politico.eu

FINANCE

• Agenda for: Att. & Exp. Financial Services and Banking Union (Financial Services) - 10 November 2025
• Agenda for: Meeting of the Commission Expert Group on Banking, Payments and Insurance - 04 November 2025
• Agenda for: Meeting of the Commission Expert Group on Banking, Payments and Insurance - Non-Performing Loans - 18 November 2025
• ESMA - Consolidated Q&A on the SFDR (Regulation (EU) 2019/2088) and the SFDR Delegated Regulation (Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1288)

TAXATION

• Agenda for: Working Party on Tax Questions - 06 November 2025

ENERGY

• Answer given by Mr Jørgensen to a MEP written question - Contradiction of the classification of nuclear energy as transitional energy in the green taxonomy and planned investment in the nuclear illustrative programme up to 2050
• REMIT breach: Spanish energy regulator fines Enet Energy S.A. €1 million for attempting to manipulate the wholesale gas market

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE

• Agenda for: Working Party on International Environment Issues (UNECE Espoo) - 10 November 2025
• Agenda for: Working Party on International Environment Issues (UNECE and other regional issues) (Barcelona Convention) - 05 November 2025
• President Costa to travel to Latin America for COP30 and EU-CELAC summits

DATA PRIVACY & DIGITAL SOCIETY

• Commission launches ‘Resource for AI Science in Europe'
• Draft Agenda for: 111st EDPB plenary meeting - 04 November 2025
• EDPS - ETIAS Fundamental Rights Guidance Board: ensuring access to an effective judicial remedy
• Europe needs to hire a talent commissioner - Prosperity will come from attracting global AI innovators - Financial Times

AREA OF FREEDOM, SECURITY & JUSTICE

• Investigation Goliath: Five indicted for €188 million VAT fraud and Hawala money laundering
• Investigation ‘Escape Room’: EPPO cracks down on VAT carousel fraudsters across Europe
• Investigation ‘Crime Cars’: EPPO conducts over 100 searches in probe into damaged vehicles imported from Switzerland
• Decisive actions against cryptocurrency scammers earning over EUR 600 million - Eurojust
• Eurojust Single Programming Document 2025 – 2027: First Amendment

ECB, EURO & ECONOMY

• The Council adopted an implementing decision authorising the fifth regular payment under the Ukraine Plan of the Ukraine Facility
• Lecture by Commissioner Dombrovskis on "Bulgaria's accession to the euro area" at the University of National and World Economy in Sofia
• Developing distributional national accounts: first attempt to estimate a joint distribution for income and wealth for the euro area - ECB Working Paper Series - No.3142
• Reputation for Confidence - ECB Working Paper Series - No.3141
• Banking on assumptions? How banks model deposit maturities - ECB Working Paper Series - No.3140
• Speech by Christine Lagarde: Bulgaria on the euro’s doorstep: towards a shared future
• Speech by Philip R. Lane: The euro area outlook and monetary policy

ACCESSION TO THE EU

• 2025 Enlargement Package shows progress towards EU membership for key enlargement partners - See the Communication
  - Factsheet on the EU accession process
  - Factsheet on the accession negotiations state of play
• New EU members could be put ‘on probation’, says official - Enlargement commissioner Marta Kos says bloc has to prevent Russian ‘Trojan horse’ behaviour from new entrants - Financial Times