At today's ECOFIN EU’s finance and economy ministers reached agreement on the Danish Presidency's compromise proposal on new EU rules on capital requirements for banks. Now the Council can begin negotiations with the European Parliament for a final agreement. The ministers also adopted Council conclusions about the economic challenges of an ageing population ("2012 Ageing Report"). Additionally, the ministers had their annual dialogue with EU accession and candidate countries.
Today EU Economic and Finance Ministers agreed to strengthen regulation of the financial sector with a new Capital Requirements Directive. Thereby the EU is taking the lead ahead of other large global economies in complying with the G20 objectives on the implementation of the Basel standards for capital and liquidity.
Greening is one of the main new elements in the Commission’s reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. It is, however, a proposal that is difficult to adapt to the differing conditions to be found in the Member States.
In celebration of the 20th Festival of Europe, the European institutions opened their doors to the public on Open Day 12 May. Among the debates, dancing, music and street art, the Danish EU Presidency’s information stand focused on the environment and offered pedal-powered smoothies – even the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, got on the bike and kept the pedals going.
Heute kommen die Fischereiminister der EU einen Schritt voran bei den Verhandlungen über nachhaltige Fischerei.
Die Finanz- und Wirtschaftsminister der EU werden morgen, am 15. Mai 2012 die Kapitalanforderungen an die Banken der EU erörtern, und wollen zur Einigkeit über den Kompromissvorschlag gelangen, den die dänische Ratspräsidentschaft bei dem außerordentlichen Treffen des ECOFIN-Rates am 2. Mai 2012 vorlegte. Die Minister werden voraussichtlich auch die Konklusionen des Rates zu dem EU-Bericht über die wirtschaftlichen Herausforderungen durch die alternden Bevölkerungen („Bericht zur Bevölkerungsalterung 2012“) verabschieden. Die Minister werden auch den jährlichen Dialog mit den Beitritts- und Kandidatenländern der EU führen und deren ökonomische Herausforderungen erörtern.
Wie lassen sich in der EU ein höchstmöglicher Dauerertrag für die Fischerei und gröere Umweltfreundlichkeit in der landwirtschaftlichen Produktion erreichen? Das sind die wichtigsten Fragen, die von den Agrar- und Fischereiministern der EU bei dem Ratstreffen am 14. und 15. Mai erörtert werden sollen.
Denmark is hosting the presidency of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly 23-30 May in Horsens. The meeting will be the biggest event on Danish soil during the EU Presidency, counting more than 400 participants, including up to 150 parliamentarians from the EU, Africa, Caribbean and Pacific.
The European Ministers for Education, led by the Danish EU Presidency, arrived on Friday 11 May 2012 at their first agreement on the contents of EU’s new education and youth programme, established to improve the educational opportunities in Europe.
In a nation, where 95 pct. of the population own a bike it is only natural, that a two-wheel ride is offered to EU delegates as well.
Am Donnerstag, dem 10. Mai 2012 treffen sich die EU-Minister für Kultur, audiovisuelle Medien und Sport in Brüssel, um zwei neue Förderprogramme auf diesen Gebieten zu erörtern. Am Tag darauf treffen sich die Unterrichts- und Jugendminister der EU. Auf der Tagesordnung steht das Bildungs- und Jugendprogramm Erasmus für alle.
Denmark boosts bicycling in the capitals of Europe, when Europe Day on 9 May is celebrated with green events throughout the EU.
The Danish Minister for the Environment, Ida Auken, is satisfied with a new international agreement that sets stricter requirements to air pollution across the borders of Europe. The agreement reaches until 2020.
On 7-8 May 2012, high-level representatives and experts from EU Member States, international institutions, businesses, civil society and academia have been invited by the Danish EU Presidency to discuss how the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights adopted by the UN last year can be put into practice. The Danish Government will be represented by the Minister for Business and Growth, Mr Ole Sohn, the Minister for Trade and Investments, Ms Pia Olsen Dyhr and Minister for Development Cooperation, Mr Christian Friis Bach.
The door is ajar for a number of countries' membership of the EU, but what are the prospects of the new countries' accession and what does it means for the countries to join and for the EU to have more members? Those are some of the questions that will be debated when Minister for European Affairs Nicolai Wammen lectures at Aarhus University together with Professor Philipp Schröder and Associate Professor Derek Beach.
The Danish Presidency is ready to begin negotiations with the European Parliament on the accounting directives