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"Governments and social media platforms have proposed fragmented and mostly self-serving options to address some of the problems with online content, while digital rights activists have been calling for deeper reform that puts people’s rights at the centre and addresses the roles states and companies should play in the online ecosystem."

The fundamental rights concerns at the heart of new EU online content rules

By: EBR | Thursday, November 19, 2020

The EU’s proposed Online Terrorist Content Regulation and the Intertim Regulation on child abuse materials raise serious fundamental rights concerns

"The independence of the judiciary is being dismantled in Poland. It is already severely weakened in Hungary."

Germany Needs to End Hungary and Poland’s Blackmail

By: EBR | Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Hungary and Poland are blocking an EU recovery package designed to overcome the deep economic crisis of Europe caused by the coronavirus. Only the political will of EU leaders can stop them

“Ocean energy technologies are expected to make a significant contribution to Europe’s energy system and industry as from 2030.”

EU aims for ‘massive change of scale’ on tidal, wave energy

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 17, 2020

While focusing chiefly on wind power, the European Commission’s upcoming offshore energy strategy also seeks to boost other ocean energy sources like wave and tidal

"It’s going to create a common fiscal policy for the EU that it hasn’t ever had before."

Does Brexit free Europe to seek closer union?

By: EBR | Monday, November 16, 2020

British politicians often speak of Brexit as an opportunity to escape Brussels’ shackles but does the divorce also free Europe to go its own way?

Miapetra Kumpula-Natri currently serves as an S&D Member of the European Parliament from Finland. She is also the rapporteur for the industry committee’s report on the European strategy for data.

MEP: Connectivity is vital for an EU single market for data

By: EBR | Monday, November 16, 2020

In order for the goals in the EU’s data strategy to be realised, connectivity is a necessary prerequisite, but the bloc should also be wary of implementing policies that move towards a culture of data localisation, says Finnish MEP Miapetra Kumpula-Natri

“It is of upmost importance to strengthen the current ETS by aligning the emissions ceiling with the increased target for 2030.”

EU urged to strengthen ETS to reach 2030 climate goals

By: EBR | Friday, November 13, 2020

A strengthened emissions trading scheme (ETS) will be vital to drive further CO2 reductions in the European Union as the bloc discusses an increase of its 2030 climate target

"Despite Member State investment in digital infrastructure for education and training in recent years, large disparities persist, both between and within countries."

Education and training: basic and digital skills essential for education, work and life

By: EBR | Thursday, November 12, 2020

The European Commission published today its annual Education and Training Monitor. The Monitor analyses how education and training is evolving in the EU and its Member States

"Homelessness and housing exclusion are a social problem that should be permanently solved, stress MEPs, adding that decent housing and being part of society is crucial for allowing people to realise their full potential and to contribute to society."

EU should set goal to end homelessness by 2030, say MEPs

By: EBR | Thursday, November 12, 2020

Homeless people and people in precarious housing situations face particular risk due to COVID-19, warn members of the Committee on Petitions

Trade with the 65 preferential partners covered in the report grew by 3.4% in 2019, while the EU’s total external trade grew by 2.5% overall.

EU trade agreements: delivering for Europe’s businesses

By: EBR | Thursday, November 12, 2020

The 4th Annual Report on the Implementation of the European Union’s Trade Agreements in 2019 published today shows the benefits of our expanding global trade network

"Our aim is to protect the health of all European citizens. The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the need for more coordination in the EU, more resilient health systems, and better preparation for future crises..."

Building a European Health Union

By: EBR | Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Stronger crisis preparedness and response for Europe

"The ambition to raise the EU4Health programme was recently backed by MEPs in the Parliament’s health committee (ENVI), who adopted its report on the programme for the EU’s action in the health sector last month."

Council meets Parliament halfway on EU health budget

By: EBR | Wednesday, November 11, 2020

European lawmakers have agreed to reduce cuts to the proposed €9.4 billion EU4Health Programme, which will now amount to €5.1 billion in the forthcoming seven-year budget

“European governments… must ensure they are not providing the tools of repression to governments around the world,” the 12 European and African civil society groups wrote.

EU criticised over surveillance aid in nations where privacy at risk

By: EBR | Wednesday, November 11, 2020

European Union aid has been used to pay for surveillance equipment and training in countries with inadequate safeguards against excessive state snooping, rights groups said on Wednesday (11 November), calling for an end to the “unacceptable” practice

The interinstitutional agreement over the €8 billion recovery aid for EU farmers and food producers was struck between the European Parliament, Council and Commission.

EU farming recovery fund to be rolled out from 2021

By: EBR | Wednesday, November 11, 2020

A provisional agreement has been struck on the rollout of recovery funds in the EU agricultural sector, which will make a total of €10 billion available for farmers from 2021 up until the end of 2022

“This work with our partners all around the world – this solidarity and cooperation – is more important today than it has ever been”.

Europe is ready to engage, von der Leyen tells annual EU Ambassadors’ Conference

By: EBR | Wednesday, November 11, 2020

“This is a moment for action. It is a moment to reach out, and make clear that Europe is ready to engage”

"To reach the EU’s ambitious climate targets and make the economy sustainable we need to reduce emissions in all sectors, from energy to agriculture and transport."

EU aviation blending mandate needed to green flights, says MEP

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Futuristic flight technologies like battery-power and hydrogen are on the radar but sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) are an already-available option that should be utilised more

Parliament and Council negotiators agreed that cyber-surveillance goods that allow for the “covert surveillance of natural persons by monitoring, extracting, collecting or analyzing data, including biometrics data” should fall under new export restrictions.

EU to restrict sale of cyber-surveillance goods to repressive regimes

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Negotiators from the European Council and the Parliament have signed off on new export rules that restrict the sale of cyber-surveillance goods to worldwide regimes engaging in the repression of human rights

Half of the bank’s lending will be targeted exclusively towards climate projects by 2025 but the other 50% will need to be “Paris-proofed”, according to the EIB.

EU bank mulls ban on cash for airport expansions

By: EBR | Thursday, November 5, 2020

The European Investment Bank (EIB) could withdraw support for new airports, according to a draft climate roadmap

“Obligations of means and results will be applied to certain platforms under which they will have to manage illegal content,” the Commission official said.

EU Commission to introduce sanctions regime for illegal content in Digital Services Act

By: EBR | Wednesday, November 4, 2020

The European Commission will introduce fines and sanctions for platforms that repeatedly violate new obligations on managing illegal content online as part of the forthcoming Digital Services Act

"A multifaceted sense of identity is part of the journey and experience of migrants and refugees, and indeed of Europe. However, the primary narrative of Europe is often a portrait moored in times past, one depicting a distinct moral political philosophy that is mostly white, male and mono-religious."

Identity politics have been and will continue to be one of the major fault-lines in Europe

By: EBR | Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Europe is the product of hundreds of years of migration and colonisation – it is dynamic and fluid, and is constantly being remade

"The logic of Warsaw’s energy actions— aimed as it seems at the promotion of its’ energy champions– make it consider other regional infrastructure projects as competitors both in Poland and abroad, against which any attack is justified, even if it breaks with EU norms."

Poland fights uphill battle over Nord Stream 2

By: EBR | Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Warsaw’s objections regarding the Nord Stream 2 pipeline are not linked with the energy security imperative or energy market distortions. It is actually unclear how the launch of the Nord Stream-2 pipeline could negatively affect Poland’s energy market

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