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(Europe/Climate Finance) EU should set a joint and ambitious standard for climate finance (Conor O’Neill and Mattias Söderberg, Euractiv)

As COP 26 approaches, the EU needs to adopt a joint and ambitious approach to climate finance to ensure that EU countries stand by...

(Turkey/Europe/USA) Facing Biden, Erdogan extends olive branch to EU (Euractiv)

https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/facing-biden-erdogan-extends-olive-branch-to-eu/

(USA/Europe) France suggests pause on ‘poisonous’ US-EU trade standoff (Euractiv)

https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/france-suggests-pause-on-poisonous-us-eu-trade-standoff/

(USA) Trump, in wave of Tuesday pardons, so far not planning to pardon himself (Euractiv)

  https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/trump-in-wave-of-tuesday-pardons-so-far-not-planning-to-pardon-himself/

(Europe) Dombrovskis: Continued suspension of EU Stability Pact will depend on spring assessment (Jorge Sá Eusébio, Euractiv)

The suspension of the Stability and Growth Pact in 2022 will depend on economic developments, European Commission executive vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis told EURACTIV’s partner...

(Spain) Spain’s new Google and Tobin taxes to generate about €1 billion this year (Fernando Heller, Euractiv)

Spain’s new taxes on digital and financial services, approved last year, came into force on Saturday (16 January). The first collection is expected in...

(Digital ID/Laws and Regulations) German laptop retailer fined €10.4m under GDPR for video-monitoring employees (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/113560/digital-id/german-retailer-gdpr-fine.html

(Russia) Number of Russians who may file for bankruptcy in 2021 rises, experts say (TASS)

Experts from GRM consulting company forecast an increase in the number of applications for declaring individuals bankrupt to 260,000 in 2021, which is 65%...

(Russia/Open Skies Treaty/USA) Russia’s pullout of Open Skies Treaty was inevitable due to US position, says Beijing (TASS)

Russia’s withdrawal from the Treaty on Open Skies, announced by the Russian Foreign Ministry Friday, was inevitable due to the lack of desire to...

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