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“There is absolutely no trace of any involvement of private operators in this project,” Olivier Onidi, Deputy Director-General of the Commission’s DG HOME told MEPs in the Civil Liberties Committee.

Commission seeks to calm fears over Europol’s decryption platform

By: EBR | Wednesday, March 24, 2021

The European Commission has issued assurances to MEPs that Europol’s new decryption platform will not be used to abuse data protection standards and will maintain closely guarded access rights over the data retrieved

“Yes. There’s a big problem. We’re dealing with it. And what about your human rights issues?”.

Why Europe Need Not Fail Over Human Rights

By: EBR | Wednesday, March 24, 2021

The Biden administration is making the defense of human rights one of its foreign policy priorities. Other democracies, particularly in Europe, should actively support this shift

“The world still has a “fighting chance” to limit global warming by ending dependence on coal,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said earlier this month.

Why Europe’s role must be to lead the world out of coal for good

By: EBR | Wednesday, March 24, 2021

As European energy and environment ministers join their peers at the International Energy Agency’s COP26 Net-Zero summit, they must set the pace for the global phase-out of coal

The EU’s updated proposal for gas plants is part of its Sustainable Finance Taxonomy, which defines what economic activities can be marketed in Europe as sustainable investments from next year.

EU to offer gas plants a green finance label, under certain conditions

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 23, 2021

The European Union plans to label some gas power plants as sustainable investments, after an initial proposal to deny them a green label faced a backlash from a group of 10 EU member states

“For the first time since the Second World War, there is a real risk that the generation of today’s young adults ends up less well-off than their parents. Europe cannot afford to lose the most educated age group it has ever had and let generational inequality condemn its future.”

European recovery sidelines the young generation

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Despite being the most affected group by the coronavirus-induced crisis, young Europeans feel increasingly left out from the plans for post-pandemic recovery

"The EU needs a different catch-up strategy."

The EU’s ’digital compass’ is no road map to success

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 23, 2021

This decade, according to the European Commission, is going to be ‘the digital Twenties’, with the EU recovering ground it has lost both as user and producer of the new technologies that are key to future wealth and prosperity. But how can it be achieved?

SURE is a crucial element of the EU’s comprehensive strategy to protect citizens and mitigate the severely negative socio-economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Report confirms SURE’s success in protecting jobs and incomes

By: EBR | Monday, March 22, 2021

Τhe Commission has published its first preliminary assessment of the impact of SURE, the €100 billion instrument designed to protect jobs and incomes affected by the COVID-19 pandemic

"We say ‘yes’ to a Social Europe with support for member states to improve social and economic conditions – but ‘no’ to a Social Union with harmonised social policies which would endanger well-functioning systems in the member states."

‘Yes’ to a Social Europe – ‘no’ to a Social Union

By: EBR | Friday, March 19, 2021

The European Commission’s plan to implement the legally non-binding principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights leads us towards a Social Union rather than a Social Europe. This must be avoided, write a group of EU industry and employer groups

“Nearly half of European founders found it harder to raise funding in 2020, which was compounded for many by the challenge of declining sales due to the COVID crisis.”

EU states to commit to ‘digital declarations’ to foster green, startup-friendly future

By: EBR | Thursday, March 18, 2021

EU nations will on Friday (19 March) sign off on a series of declarations designed to ensure the bloc can build a sustainable, sovereign, and competitive future in its digital transition

“For some people, artificial intelligence is a real excitement, it offers plenty of new opportunities […] on the other hand, for other people, artificial intelligence is a nightmare, it threatens freedom”.

More funding and research: how can the EU advance in AI?

By: EBR | Thursday, March 18, 2021

As AI technologies develop and their uses in everyday life become more and more relevant, EU countries need a framework to regulate this transition. To talk about AI advances in Europe

The Greek capital has started creating “pocket parks”, transforming small plots once ridden with garbage and weeds, in a bid to tackle its chronic pollution.

’Pocket parks’ are helping Athens tackle pollution

By: EBR | Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Tucked between rows of apartment blocks on an Athens street, a strip of green with a few trees, some plants and a bench offers a breathing space in the surrounding crush of concrete

AI technology must be trained using unbiased data sets to prevent discrimination.

AI technologies must prevent discrimination and protect diversity

By: EBR | Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Reducing gender, social or cultural bias in AI technologies is key, said the Culture and Education Committee in a resolution adopted on Tuesday

"Angela Merkel could do no wrong. As other leaders on both sides of the Atlantic fumbled a year ago in their responses to the coronavirus, the German chancellor epitomized leadership and steady nerves."

How the Coronavirus Unveiled Merkel’s Germany

By: EBR | Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Germany is struggling to contain a pandemic that has laid bare intrinsic weaknesses of Europe’s largest economy and its once indomitable leader. The next German chancellor won’t have much time to repair the damage