Agreement reached on the European Social Fund+ for 2021-2027
By: EBR | Friday, January 29, 2021
On Thursday, Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on the EU Social Fund+ that contributes to social inclusion, job opportunities and fighting poverty
EU Commission presses platforms to de-monetise disinformation
By: EBR | Friday, January 29, 2021
As part of a wider bid to clamp down on harmful content on the internet, the European Commission has urged major digital platforms to take measures to de-monetise disinformation online
How Europe Can Tackle Influence Operations and Disinformation
By: EBR | Friday, January 29, 2021
The Digital Services Act will require social media platforms to share data with researchers. But to understand influence operations, the EU must facilitate longer-term research collaboration between industry and academia
The best basis for re-setting EU-US relations
By: EBR | Friday, January 29, 2021
What’s the quickest win for the Biden Administration and Europeans looking to turn a page after years of turmoil? Daniel S. Hamilton has the answer: settle the Boeing-Airbus dispute
EU Artificial Intelligence regulation at risk in WTO e-commerce deal, study says
By: EBR | Wednesday, January 27, 2021
The EU’s attempts to regulate Artificial Intelligence could be met with future challenges resulting from an agreement on e-Commerce at the level of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
EU green finance advisors asked to clarify ‘transition’ to net-zero climate goal
By: EBR | Wednesday, January 27, 2021
The European Commission has asked advisors to rework the EU’s green finance taxonomy rules after member states rejected draft implementing guidelines, unhappy about the exclusion of gas as a “transition” activity towards net-zero emissions
‘Right to disconnect’ should be an EU-wide fundamental right, MEPs say
By: EBR | Friday, January 22, 2021
Parliament calls for an EU law that grants workers the right to digitally disconnect from work without facing negative repercussions
Breton: EU recovery fund should help tourism sector become ‘more resilient’
By: EBR | Friday, January 22, 2021
The EU budget and coronavirus recovery fund should be used to help tourism “emerge more resilient from the crises ahead,” the EU’s internal market commissioner Thierry Breton said
EU’s Frontex says ‘no evidence’ of illegal migrant pushbacks
By: EBR | Friday, January 22, 2021
The managing board of EU border agency Frontex said Thursday (21 January) it did not find evidence of rights violations in cases it reviewed where guards were accused of illegal migrant pushbacks
Additional and more flexible funding to help those most in need
By: EBR | Thursday, January 21, 2021
Parliament voted today to continue making additional resources available in 2021 and 2022 in order to provide food and basic assistance to the most deprived
Mitsotakis: To get Europe moving again we must act now on vaccination certificates
By: EBR | Thursday, January 21, 2021
The curtailment of our freedom and prosperity during this dreadful pandemic has been historically unprecedented and painful
Major European operators commit to Open RAN deployments
By: EBR | Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange S.A., Telefonica S.A., and Vodafone Group Plc are joining forces to support the rollout of Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) as the technology of choice for future mobile networks to the benefit of consumer and enterprise customers across Europe
UK and EU27 citizens in the UK to remain part of EP Communication programmes
By: EBR | Tuesday, January 19, 2021
The European Parliament reaffirms its will to continue to engage with young generations of UK citizens and EU27 citizens resident in the UK
EU commission lambasted over slow roll out of vaccines
By: EBR | Monday, January 18, 2021
Consider this: on the day the UK announced it had given the coronavirus jab to 1.5m of its citizens, there were some EU member states yet to vaccinate a single one of their citizens
EU should set a joint and ambitious standard for climate finance
By: EBR | Monday, January 18, 2021
As COP 26 approaches, the EU needs to adopt a joint and ambitious approach to climate finance to ensure that EU countries stand by their financial commitments under the Paris Agreement
European companies withdraw from Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline
By: EBR | Monday, January 18, 2021
The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline – which has received the green light from German authorities to restart construction work – is seeing a few companies withdraw from the project, including three this month alone
Europe’s Weak Defense of Its Democracy
By: EBR | Wednesday, January 13, 2021
The storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump should be enough of a warning. EU leaders must speak up about the fragility of their own democracy and democratic institutions in Europe
‘No longer acceptable’ for platforms to take key decisions alone, EU Commission says
By: EBR | Tuesday, January 12, 2021
It is “no longer acceptable” for social media giants to take key decisions on online content removals alone, following the high profile takedowns of US President Trump’s accounts on Facebook and Twitter, the European Commission has said
The EU needs to update its ABC of external relations
By: EBR | Tuesday, January 12, 2021
The European Union’s New Year Resolution must be to brush up on its ABC of foreign policies
Former Greek FM: Without Western renewal, we’re heading for Chinese hegemony
By: EBR | Monday, January 11, 2021
The West has underestimated China’s rise, and the centre of gravity has switched from the Atlantic to the Pacific, where Europe has no role, Greece’s former Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Kotzias, one of Europe’s most experienced China analysts
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