Poland’s citizens cast their ballots in the second round of governmental elections on Sunday (12 July), considering that none of the prospects had an absolute-majority success in the first round.

Andrzej Duda from the conservative ruling Law and Justice party led the first round of the governmental election (with almost 44 percent of the votes) versus liberal Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski ending up second (30 percent).

On Monday (13 July), EU foreign affairs ministers will collect in Brussels to talk about the bloc’s relations with Turkey, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

On the exact same day, EU commissioner for home affairs, Ylva Johansson, and commissioner for area and augmentation, Olivér Várhelyi, will sign up with interior ministers of numerous member states and partner countries in a conference on countering migrant-smuggling.

EU budget up close-( ish) and individual

On The Other Hand, EU leaders will fulfill in Brussels on Friday (17 July) and Saturday (18 July) for a summit to talk about face to face the EU’s long-lasting budget and recovery strategy to react to the Covid-19 crisis.

Member states have actually up until now been divided over numerous concerns, consisting of the size of the EU budget and the circulation in grants and loans of the recovery fund.

Nevertheless, the German EU presidency advised leaders to reach arrangement on the bloc’s long-lasting budget this month.

EU ministers for European affairs will talk about on Wednesday (15 July) the proposition provided by EU Council president Charles Michel recently.

The India-EU leaders’ video conference will see on the exact same day Michel, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, EU diplomacy chief Josep Borell and the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi talk about the Covid-19 pandemic and its tactical collaboration.

Additionally, the associate of commissioners is anticipated to release on Wednesday an action strategy versus tax evasion and to streamline tax, plus a declaration on tax good-governance in the EU, and beyond.

On Thursday (16 July), von der Leyen, Michel and Borrell, together with European Parliament president David Sassoli, will go to an event in Madrid to honour their 27,000 victims of the Covid-19 pandemic and health employees.

G20 financing ministers and Central Bank guvs will take part in a videoconference to talk about the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic in the economy on Saturday (18 July).

EU- United States Privacy Guard at danger

In Addition, the European Court of Justice will reveal on Thursday the much-awaited ruling over the Facebook Ireland vs Schrems case to clarify whether basic legal provisions for data transfers in between the bloc and non-EU countries are lined up with EU data security law.

At stake is the credibility of the EU- United States Privacy Guard – a contract to share individual data for industrial functions embraced in 2016.

In 2018, members of the European Parliament’s committee on civil liberties (Libe) gotten in touch with the commission to suspend the EU- United States data transfer pact.

Members of the European Parliament’s committee on financial and financial affairs on Monday will hold a dispute on the most recent international advancements in the location of digital tax with agents from the OECD and the European Commission.

Likewise on Monday, EU commissioner for justice Didier Reynders will talk about with MEPs from the Libe committee the examination report on the execution of the EU data security policy.

Lastly, MEPs from the committee on legal affairs and constitutional affairs will hold a public hearing with professionals about the effects of the questionable judgement of the German Constitutional Court of 5 May.

The most senior German court mentioned that the nation’s main bank must stop purchasing federal government bonds under the European Central Bank’s (ECB) stimulus program within 3 months – unless the ECB shows it acted proportionally.

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