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“We have to support activists who defend freedom.”

Why Europe Must Boost Civil Society Support

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Civil society is under attack in the EU’s neighborhood. To defend democracy, academic freedom, and independent thought, Europe should step up its assistance to repressed voices

Whistleblowers are obliged to follow a three-step alert procedure, including an internal alert, an alert to the authorities if no measures are taken internally within three months, and finally, if nothing happens, a full public disclosure.

All EU countries miss deadline to implement whistleblower directive

By: EBR | Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Not a single EU country has met the 17 December deadline for transposing into national law the whistleblower directive, meant to increase the protection of those who report breaches of EU law

Two stones support the European temple: the Judeo-Christian heritage with the idea of human dignity and the Enlightenment, with the intellectual effervescence that accompanied it.

Europe must fight to defend its identity

By: EBR | Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Europe needs to rearm its identity in the face of Islamism and cancel-culture

"Macron said that France’s outrage over the failed submarine deal with Australia would not lead to France leaving NATO and joining an alliance with Russia".

Macron’s world

By: EBR | Tuesday, December 21, 2021

French President Emmanuel Macron gave an unusually long interview to French media over the weekend with an intriguing part about Russia sandwiched between the usual stuff about domestic politics

The first calls for the Connecting Europe Facility Digital will be launched in early January 2022.

Commission to invest more than €1 billion under the Connecting Europe Facility for innovative and secure connectivity

By: EBR | Friday, December 17, 2021

The Commission adopted today the first Work Programme for the digital part of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Digital)

EU country leaders met in Brussels for a summit to discuss several issues, including soaring energy prices, but some member states – notably Poland – pushed the EU to curb volatile prices in the carbon market by limiting speculative activity.

EU energy talks dissolve over carbon, green finance fights

By: EBR | Friday, December 17, 2021

Talks between European Union country leaders on energy policy ended with no agreement on Thursday (16 December), as states squabbled over how to respond to record-high carbon prices and upcoming green investment rules

uilding a shared understanding of today’s security challenges must go hand in hand with strengthening democracy in the bloc.

Europe Needs a New Reckoning on Security and Democracy

By: EBR | Friday, December 17, 2021

Differing threat perceptions in Western and Central Europe combined with democratic backsliding risk creating dangerous fractures within the EU

The European Union needs to decarbonise the energy it consumes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and become climate-neutral by 2050, and these proposals will help to deliver that goal.

Commission proposes new EU framework to decarbonise gas markets, promote hydrogen and reduce methane emissions

By: EBR | Thursday, December 16, 2021

Commission has adopted a set of legislative proposals to decarbonise the EU gas market by facilitating the uptake of renewable and low carbon gases, including hydrogen, and to ensure energy security for all citizens in Europe

The €1.85 trillion pandemic emergency bond-buying programme (PEPP) is the ECB’s main crisis-fighting tool, aimed at keeping borrowing costs low to stoke economic growth.

ECB plots stimulus exit as inflation looms

By: EBR | Thursday, December 16, 2021

European Central Bank policymakers will gather on Thursday (16 December) for a crunch meeting, as soaring inflation heaps pressure on the bank to wind down its stimulus just as a new coronavirus variant threatens to derail the recovery

“We want the International Procurement Instrument (IPI) to work as a door opener for European companies,” said German lawmaker Daniel Caspary who was the Parliament’s chief negotiator on the IPI on behalf of the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP).

EU’s international procurement law one step closer to completion

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Half a year after EU member state agreed their common position and nine years after the Commission first proposed it, the European Parliament voted its negotiating stance on an instrument aimed at ensuring access of European companies to public procurement markets outside the EU

On integrating nuclear power to the European green taxonomy, the EU vice-president said that “the taxonomy has only one objective, that of providing transparency to savers and investors who want their money to be useful for our environmental objectives.”

EU’s Timmermans: Brussels ‘will support’ member states that choose nuclear

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 15, 2021

During an exchange with French parliamentarians this week, the EU Commission vice-president in charge of the Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, said Brussels “will support, sustain and assist those member states that make this choice” of using nuclear power

Need for a minimum level of protection and reparation for victims, in line with Istanbul Convention standards.

Gender-based cyberviolence: Parliament calls for EU law to tackle the problem

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Parliament asked on Tuesday for a European directive to stamp out gender-based cyberviolence and ensure convergence at national and EU level

TEN-T is an EU-wide network of rail, inland waterways, short-sea shipping routes, and roads. It connects 424 major cities with ports, airports and railway terminals.

New transport proposals target greater efficiency and more sustainable travel

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 15, 2021

To support the transition to cleaner, greener, and smarter mobility, in line with the objectives of the European Green Deal, the Commission adopted four proposals that will modernise the EU’s transport system

"The targeted changes will bring greater EU coordination and better equip Member States to deal with emerging challenges when managing both the EU’s common external border and internal borders within the Schengen area".

Schengen: New rules to make the area without internal border controls more resilient

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Commission is proposing updated rules to reinforce the governance of the Schengen area

"Restructuring the heating sector certainly poses one of the biggest challenges in the energy transition, mainly for two reasons".

Economist: Carbon trading is ‘a right first step’ to decarbonise buildings

By: EBR | Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Moving parts of the building sector under a separate carbon trading scheme, like the European Commission has proposed, “is a right first step” to address the complexity of the heating sector

If one thing is clear from this crisis, it is time to double down on growing production capacity of renewable energy from the sun and wind, writes Dirk Vansintjan.

Gas crisis is a wakeup call to make the energy transition fairer

By: EBR | Tuesday, December 14, 2021

An effective way to avoid being exposed to gas price volatility would be for the EU to produce its own renewable energy. This is where citizens and local communities come in

The approaching summit is a chance to tailor the initiative to partners’ diverging needs.

Is the EU Politically Committed to Its Eastern Partners?

By: EBR | Monday, December 13, 2021

The EU’s Eastern Partnership has brought tangible benefits to its member countries but does not reflect today’s geopolitical realities

The aim is to deter countries from restricting or threatening to restrict trade or investment to bring about a change of policy in the EU in areas such as climate change, taxation or food safety.

EU strengthens protection against economic coercion

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 8, 2021

The European Commission has today proposed a new tool to counter the use of economic coercion by third countries

“In Europe, there are those who persist in treating the problem as a matter that does not concern them,” the Pope said, adding that “when human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders become irrelevant”.

Europe’s neocon Christians vs Pope Francis

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 8, 2021

It’s common knowledge that we’re living in an era where ideological lines are often blurred. Equally clear is that far-right populists interpret religion according to their political views

Today, the Commission is also reporting on the progress made over the last 6 months under the EU Security Union Strategy towards building a future-proof security environment.

Police Cooperation Code: Boosting police cooperation across borders for enhanced security

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Today, the Commission is proposing an EU Police Cooperation Code to enhance law enforcement cooperation across Member States and give EU police officers more modern tools for information exchange

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