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This sixteen-year fight between the United States and Europe over subsidies to their respective domestic aerospace industries is jeopardizing thousands of jobs on both sides of the Atlantic at a time when the pandemic is wreaking havoc on the airline industry.

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

“The EU’s possibility to adopt rules that, for example, mandate external audits of AI systems will be confined to the policy space that is allowed under trade law.”

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)

“The EU has been a global leader on green finance with the taxonomy. And now all of a sudden we’re backtracking because there is some very clear criticism from lobbyists, from big business who do not want to see a strong taxonomy.”

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

In their legislative initiative that passed with 472 votes in favour, 126 against and 83 abstentions, MEPs call on the Commission to propose a law that enables those who work digitally to disconnect outside their working hours.

‘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

“As we begin to prepare for the implementation of European ‘NextGenerationEU’ funds, we are also considering how best to prepare our societies and our economies for the challenges of tomorrow.”

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

The EU’s independent corruption watchdog confirmed this month that it was investigating Frontex over the allegations.

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

Member states can choose to increase the resources provided in the FEAD regulation for food aid and other basic assistance for those most in need.

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

"Through the EU wide introduction of an agreed and standardised digital vaccine certificate template we can quickly open up again, reviving tourism and recreation, and allowing our citizens to move freely and without restrictions from country to country."

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

“Open RAN is about network innovation, flexibility and faster rollout. Deutsche Telekom is committed to its promotion, development and adoption to ensure the best network experience for our customers...”

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

"Opinion multiplier groups, youth groups and organisations will be able to participate in debates and events offered by the European Parliament like the European Youth Event."

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

"Typically, the “blame game” is underway but the fact is that Europe’s 450 million population desperately need to know that these vaccines are going to become available to them quickly."

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

“Setting the Standard” published by ACT Alliance EU, compares how EU Member States and institutions have sought to meet their climate finance commitments in recent years.

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

"While the Baltic States and Poland consider it a threat, Russia sees the sanctions as a ‘smokescreen’ for American attempts to sell its own gas. However, quick policy changes are not expected from the Biden administration."

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

“We must stand up immediately to every violation of the independence of democratic institutions, . . . to every inflammatory and hateful speech by demagogues, to every disinformation campaign and fake news.”

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

“It is no longer acceptable in our view that platforms take some key decisions by themselves alone without any supervision, without any accountability, and without any sort of dialogue or transparency for the kind of decisions that they’re taking.”

‘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

"Establishing a common US-EU agenda on other issues than climate change will be tough."

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

“Turkey has been trying to push forward its claims for 30 years. Unfortunately, with the Mitsotakis government, it did it within a few months.”

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

“Several member states have identified that certain non-EU countries represent a particular cyber threat to their national interests based on previous modus operandi of attacks by certain entities or on the existence of an offensive cyber programme of a given third state against them.”

EU nations divided on 5G security, auditors say

By: EBR | Friday, January 8, 2021

EU nations are ‘progressing at difference paces’ in terms of security protocols introduced by the European Commission in order to ensure the safety of next-generation telecommunications networks

“I think that the countries of Southeast Europe, and above all the journalists there, but of course also politicians, have a big problem because they misjudge themselves – they have a very centrist view of the world. Even intellectuals, well-educated people think that the whole world revolves around Serbia or Croatia.”

EU enlargement in 2021: Moribund or revenant?

By: EBR | Thursday, January 7, 2021

In the Western Balkans, where all EU hopefuls (bar Turkey) are located, the year ahead will be dominated by Europe’s quest for a vaccine and efforts to restart the economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic

"When I took over as Governor of National Bank of Ukraine in July of this year, support of the banking sector was my top priority, not just to regain confidence in our country’s central bank, but to also help Ukraine through the Coronavirus storm."

Full steam ahead at National Bank of Ukraine

By: EBR | Thursday, January 7, 2021

Coronavirus has posed an unprecedented crisis for Ukraine’s economy and the global economy as a whole

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