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September 2016

After the summer holidays is time to back to work! September has arrived and with it brings a long and challenging list of tasks to EU leaders do in the months ahead. Migration crisis, Taxation in Europe, Environment, Brexit or Counterterrorism… Just name it!

The EU leaders will need to work hard on a broad range of issues to face these challenges. Brexit, human rights and security threats are leading these EU priorities. But many others subjects are on the EU’s political agenda.

In the coming months more developments from the European Commission as well as the European Council on the Brexit negotiations can be expected, as it is a top priority for EU leaders. Much attention will be given to the underway process of Britain withdrawing from the European Union, its impact on the European economy, on EU citizen's mobility and the relationship with remaining EU members. Europe HOpes will follow the development of Brexit negotiations and what will this affect the EU citizens.

Human Rights and Security threat are at the core of EU debates. Living a cautious moment after the terror attacks of the past year, and due to the struggle of many European countries to deal with the increase of refugees coming to Europe and its tension at social and political levels, the EU is looking for the creation of solutions to tackle these sensitive issues. To begin with, a permanent relocation mechanism to resettle people in need coming to Europe will be held by the European Parliament. Moreover, there is a strong will to make preparations for terror attacks, as one of the actions to combat terrorism in Europe and discussions on this will be held in the European Parliament, as well.

The European External Action Services (EEAS) is committed to provide support for refugees in Turkey through the Emergency Social Safety net. Facilitating the dialogue of the EU with other countries in order to strength security policy will continue to be its priority for 2016.

Several inquiries committees are expected to be set up in the coming time. The EU institutions are very much committed to reinforce actions on the European taxation. From September onwards an inquired committee to investigate tax evasion and money laundering practices will start to its operational work. Furthermore, the European Parliament is also engaged to improve the transparency of multinational's taxation. The parliament will also work on the inquiry committee on emission measurement in the car industry.

But many others EU affairs are on the agenda on the following months of 2016, such as the improvement of the digital single market; and EU trade agreements with foreign countries, which aims the creation of new trade deals and investment opportunities for companies and new jobs.

Ambitious goals seemed to be settled by the EU for the upcoming months. Europe HOpes will continue to follow the EU topics and bring to you the most important EU debates.