IEU MONITORING: Growth & Jobs Telegram 21 Feb 2018 (linked version)

Our telegram headlines today*: 

# INDUSTRY: 

• EU Industry Day – 600 participants, one credo: "modernise our industry" +++ 
• MEPs approve first EU programme dedicated to the defence industry in EP ITRE Committee +++ 
• EPP: EU kicks off defence industry investments with 500 million +++ 
• SPD-Abgeordnete stimmen gegen das Entwicklungsprogramm im EU- Verteidigungsfonds: Keine Geschenke an prosperierende Rüstungsindustrie  +++ 
• GUE/NGL: Move to boost EU Military Industrial Complex a ‘catastrophe’

# SMES: 

• Small business access to alternative finance increasing as new bank lending declines, says OECD 

# PROCUREMENT

• Workshop documentation - Public Procurement Strategy Package - 19-02-2018 - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

# SINGLE MARKET

• Workshop documentation: Free Flow of Data Regulation - a cornerstone of the Digital Single Market - 20-02-2018 - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

# STAFF CHANGES

• Joost Korte will be the new Director-General of DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
• Andriana Sukova will be the new Deputy Director-General of DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

# EU PARLIAMENT REGISTER

• Draft agenda - Monday, 26 February 2018 - Tuesday, 27 February 2018 - PE 618.136v03-00 - Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

*Note 

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