EUbusiness Week 834 top stories: EU rejects Italy’s draft budget for 2019; Euro-Parliament approves ban on single-use plastics; EU approves EUR 243m environment funding; New Erasmus call outlines plans for European Universities; Auditors highlight failure of EU carbon capture projects; MEPs back plans to clean up Europe’s drinking water
Publisher’s Note
The Commission this week rolled out its Work Programme for next year, setting out a broad range of priorities including making Europe more sustainable, tackling artificial intelligence and disinformation; also looking at how to remove remaining barriers to the Single Market, completing the Energy Union, and tackling climate change. And in a first, requesting a eurozone country to revise its draft budget plan. With Italy’s debt among the highest in Europe, its deviation from plans agreed last July left no alternative: keeping sound fiscal policies and confidence is “in the interest of Italy and in the interest of the whole Euro area”, says the Commission.
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Nick Prag
Publisher, EUbusiness
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1. EU rejects Italy’s draft budget for 2019
The Commission has asked Italy to present a revised draft budgetary plan for 2019, saying the current plan is not in line with commitments presented in Italy’s Stability Programme of April 2018.
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2. Euro-Parliament approves ban on single-use plastics
Single-use plastic items such as plates, cutlery, straws, balloon sticks or cotton buds, will be banned from the EU market from 2021, under plans approved by MEPs Wednesday.
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3. EU approves EUR 243m environment funding
Brussels approved funding of EUR 243 million from the EU budget Thursday for projects under the LIFE programme supporting nature, the environment and quality of life.
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4. New Erasmus call outlines plans for European Universities
Plans for the Erasmus+ youth education programme published Wednesday and set to be funded to the tune of EUR 3 billion, include a network of European Universities.
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5. Auditors highlight failure of EU carbon capture projects
EU action to support carbon capture and storage and innovative renewables has not succeeded, according to a report published by the European Court of Auditors.
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6. MEPs back plans to clean up Europe’s drinking water
Parliament backed plans Tuesday to improve consumers� trust in drinking water from the tap, which is much cheaper and cleaner for the environment compared to bottled water.
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EUROPEAN LAW
Ballet contracts: an Italian ballerina won her case at the EU Court of Justice Thursday when it ruled that workers in the opera and orchestral sectors cannot be excluded from protection against abuse of fixed-term employment contracts.
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Latest news from the European Court of Justice
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Inside the EU Institutions
Council Watch
EU renews Burundi sanctions – Type approval of motor vehicles: transition from EU28 to EU27 – Council cannot accept EP amendments to 2019 EU budget – Protecting workers: new exposure limits for additional carcinogens and mutagens – Bilateral safeguard measures in trade agreements – Updated rules for .eu top-level domain – African Union-EU relations
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Commission Watch
Relocation of European Medicines Agency and European Banking Authority – support for digital teaching and learning in schools – LIFE Programme funding – EUR 3 bn Erasmus+ budget – Italy budget – EC proposes to strengthen subsidiarity and proportionality in EU policy-making – Work Programme 2019 – EUR 200m for renewable energy for self-suppliers of electricity in France – EU and Japan discuss economic cooperation – rule of law in Jordan
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Parliament Watch
Ending EU arms exports to Saudi Arabia – Reform of road use charges – Facebook-Cambridge Analytica and citizens’ privacy – plans to halt spread of drug resistance from animals to humans – Food supply chain: step closer to ending unfair trading – Oleg Sentsov awarded 2018 Sakharov Prize – partnership with public regional TV stations – EU Budget 2019: focus on young, migration and innovation – Strengthening security through an EU-wide information system
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EU diary
29 Oct: Eastern Partnership reflection conference
29-30 Oct: Our Ocean 2018 conference
29-31 Oct: Industrial Technologies 2018
29-31 Oct: EASA-CAAC aviation safety conference
30 Oct: The European Open Science Cloud
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Jobs
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Guides
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Events
29 Oct, Madrid: EASA-CAAC aviation safety conference
29 Oct, Vienna: INDTECH 2018
6 Nov, London: 20th Annual Global MilSatCom
8 Nov, Brussels: Translating Europe Forum
21 Nov, Amsterdam: Benelux Infrastructure Forum
22 Nov, Trier: Annual Conference on European VAT Law 2018
27 Nov, Amsterdam: High Level Conference on Drones 2018
29 Nov, London: ConTech 2018
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Publications
Labour market and wage developments in Europe – Annual review 2018
Cooperation in Europe�s Digital Economy: How do Countries Position Themselves?
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Erasmus+ student exchange programme
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