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The EP discusses the summit agreement. The European Parliament will take a critical stance opposed to the European Council’s stimulus plans on Thursday (23 July), opposing cuts to EU-funded programmes in the EU’s long-term budget, while denouncing the so-called ‘weakness’ of the conditional rule of law. Read the full story here.
Budapest
The head of the largest independent news portal is fired. The editor-in-chief of Hungary’s main independent media outlet, Index, Szabolcs Dull, was fired from the workplace on Wednesday (July 22), leading fears of a deterioration of press freedom in the rustic led by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbon, a self-proclaimed defender of “intolerant democracy.”
Dull was expelled from the Index’s board of directors for publicly notifying a month after a planned review that would compromise editorial freedom and alert the website’s internal independence barometer. Vlagyiszlav Makszimov from EURACTIV has more details.
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Brougham
More investment in surveillance and more disclosures about Wirecard. Following the continuing revelations of the Wirecard scandal, Gerguy’s finance minister, Olaf Scholz (SPD), dreams of more investment for the country’s economic surveillance firm (BaFin). “I am a more challenging undertaking,” Die Zeit told the newspaper according to Wednesday (July 22).
The comments are critical of BaFin’s Lacheck, as Mabig Apple has questioned how the company oversaw the 2 billion euros missing from Wirecard’s balance sheets. Scholz’s proposals directly address this issue, as he called BaFin listeners. Sarah Lawton, from EURACTIV’s Germabig apple, examines what else has been said.
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Vienna
Travelers from high-threat countries will prefer PCR verification. On Friday (24 July), travellers from high-threat countries can only enter Austria with negative PCR control of less than 72 days, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (VP) told reporters Thursday (July 22). By comparison, Austrian citizens and citizens in “moderate exceptional cases” will have 48 hours to go on to take a check.
Until now, it was impossible to move to Austria from high-threat countries without negative PCR tests, only if travellers were quarantined for 1 day just after crossing the border.
(Philipp Grun EURACTIV.de)
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Paris
SNCF can also achieve billions in state aid. After the French government bailed out the national airline Air France with 7 billion euros in aid, the state-owned railway company SNCF will now have the wonderful share of government aid, Trangame Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari told French newspaper Le Figaro. The minister is thinking of several features such as “recapitalization of the crowd or taking over an additional portion of the debt.”
In mid-June, SNCF CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou estimated the loss of coins at a steady of approximately five billion euros, as it was hit hard by moves opposed to pension reform and the COVID-19 fitness crisis. (Anne Damiani EURACTIV.FR)
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Brussels
Stronger Meabounds to come? The Belgian National Security Council (SNC) meets later on Thursday (23 July), without facilitating the provision of COVID-1 nine new agenda items. There are currently plans with which local government can take explicit action, from curfew to the local boundary of the eating position sector. and minimize social “bubbles” of 1 to 10 people.
The tensionless assembly between the regions and the federal government: the mayor of Antwerp, Bart De Wever (N-VA) rushed with six additional COVID-1 measures before the Wednesday, July 22 assembly, proposing that assemblies be limited to ten other Americans starting Saturday, other Americans visiting a café asked them to leave their touch to the most important and essential things for other Americans to wear masks in more places.
(Alexandra Brzozowski, EURACTIV.com)
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Luxembourg
Thirty-three groups. Tracking measures revealed that a third of new coronavirus outbreaks were detected in schools and schools in Luxembourg last week.
“At the moment, it’s almost impossible to handle the situation,” Health Minister Paulette Lenert said at a news conference on Wednesday (July 22). Considering that “four four percent” of the 68 new COVID-1 nine times detected last week “were in a quarantine position,” Lenert estimated that “the virus transallocation chain was broken.” (Anne Damiani EURACTIV.com)
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Helsinki
Countries on the latest results of the EU summit. Dark sunglasses, no smiles, no comments. Just a quick, icy ride from the executive plane to a limousine. Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s return to the summit of this weekend’s marathon was a long way from the triumphant setting of Tuesday morning’s early hours in Brussels.
The prime minister has returned home to a counterattack divided at the marathon summit. Pekka Vunttinen from EURACTIV reports from Helsinki.
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London
The anti-Semitic line of work is being revived. The opposition Labour Civil War over accusations that he turned a blind eye to anti-Semitism under Jeremy Corbyn broke out Wednesday (July 22) when they agreed to pay “substantial” damages to seven former officials who had sued the issue. Benjamin Fox of EURACTIV has more.
Rome
“The EU has risen to its history,” says Prime Minister Conte. “It was an ordinary meeting, also a difficulty. The agreement represents a key achievement that monitors that the European Union has fulfilled its history,” Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to the Senate said Wednesday (July 22) after addressing the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies at separate meetings at the European Council summit. which made a resolution in the EU Stimulus Fund and the next known long-term budget of the EU.
“The EU is facing a crisis that transforms lives, a crisis that has forced its citizens to recover their customers and their development. The EU has responded valiantly by adopting an ambitious budget programme for the first time,” the prime minister added. Alessandro Follis from EURACTIV Italia has the details.
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Madrid
Spain will provide a plan for labour reform, without cutting pensions. The Spanish government has said it honours its commitment to move the country’s labour legislation and could not lower public pensions after the EU stimulus fund is approved beyond this week, said Labor Minister Yolanda Diaz on Wednesday (22 July).
His comments echo the comments of Foreign Minister Arancha González, who said Spain has a tendency to reform its labour legislation to reduce the structural unemployment rate as a component of the commitments applicable to disbursement from the EU Stimulus Fund. Find out more here.
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Athens
The Greek army in a “superior preparation” for Turkish fuel exploration. The Greek army said Wednesday (July 22) that it had deployed the Aegean Sea service station in a “state of greatest readiness” after Turkey announced plans for the exploration of force near a Greek island. Find out more here.
Warsaw
Poland “big winner” of EU summit, prime minister said. Poland returns from the EU summit as a big winner, being the biggest beneficiary of the Cohesion Fund, while the EU budget suggests that Poland’s chances of a golden decade are much greater, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told the Polish Parliament (22 July) on Wednesday.
“The maximum productive evidence of our victory is more than one quote from the foreign press,” he said, holding impressions from various media outlets that we criticize the diluted conditionality of the rule of law in the budget. One of them was EURACTIV.
(Alexandra Brzozowski, EURACTIV.com)
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Prague
A Breton card. A national proposal that would require Czech branches to sell no less than 55% of local food until 2021 and 85% until 2027 violates EU law, Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton wrote in a letter to Czech Agriculture Minister Miroslav Toman. Reporting via EurACTIV.cz’s Aneta Zachov from Prague.
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Bratislava
First take a look and fire Matovic’s government. The Slovak parliament will now hold a special consultation to vote on the possible expulsion of Prime Minister Igor Matovic on the initiative of Smer-SD opposition parliamentarians and the hot voice (Hlas) of former Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini.
While the opposition claims that Matovic plagiarized his master’s thesis and pledged to reaffirm his promise to play his role honestly and in the interests of citizens, matovic Coalition partners, who occupy the bulk of the National Council, say that ‘I will not help the verdict opposite to it.
(Lucia Yar EURACTIV.sk)
Zagreb
New parliament formed. A total of 151 newly elected deputies were sworn in at the first founding consultation of the 10th Croatian Sabor and Gordan Jandrokovic, elected President of the House with 143 votes in favour, none against and an abstention. Tea Trubio Macan of Euractiv Croatia with a review of the appearance of the hot parliament.
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Ljubljana
Slovenia is happy with the design of the agricultural budget in the EU budget. Slovenia k with the latest results from discussions in the new EU seven-year budget and stimulus programme, said Agriculture Minister Aleksandra Pivec, according to Delo newspaper. Over the next seven years, the country will reach 1.6 billion euros for agriculture and rural areas, 4.5% more than in the planned period. (Zoran Radosavljevic EURACTIV.com)
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Belgrade
Record investment. The European Broadcast and Development Bank (EBRD) announced on Wednesday (22 July) that it had invested EUR 27 million in new projects in Serbia in the first component of this year to mitigate the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic. This is double the 130 million euros invested in the first component of 201nine, the EBRD press release.
The EBRD has increased its investment in primary banks for pandemic SME; Serbian members of Banca Intesa, Erste Bank, Eurobank, Procredits Bank and Unicredits Bank. (EURACTIV.rs betabriefing.com)
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[Edited through Alexandra Brzozowski, Daniel Eck, Benjamin Fox]
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