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“Education and training have faced huge disruption due to COVID-19 and a quick shift to distance and online learning. The mass use of technology has revealed gaps and exposed weaknesses.”

Health crisis pushes EU into era of digital education

By: EBR | Thursday, October 1, 2020

The European Commission has laid out plans to boost the education of citizens in digital skills across the bloc, as part of a drive that it hopes will aid Europe’s long-term economic stability while the continent rebounds from the after-effects of the coronavirus crisis

“The contribution of projects in least developed countries and selected developing countries should be counted towards the targets of the Union and the member states”.

NGOs attack plans to include carbon offsets into EU climate goals

By: EBR | Thursday, October 1, 2020

Environmental campaigners have condemned proposals to include carbon credits from projects in developing countries when the European Parliament votes on the EU’s proposed climate law next week

"The retrenchment of the United States from Europe and even from the Middle East had already created a window for the EU to assert itself as the key actor in conflict management and settlement in and around Europe’s neighborhood."

European Foreign Policy Is Drowning in the Mediterranean

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 30, 2020

After so many years of striving to build up its foreign policy credentials, the EU faces—over the Eastern Mediterranean—a real test of its ambitions and capabilities as an effective foreign policy actor

Environmental NGOs, for their part, voiced “deep concerns” about the Commission’s push for critical raw materials, and called for “real action” to “reduce absolute EU resource consumption” instead.

New EU alliance aims for ‘strategic autonomy’ on key raw materials

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 30, 2020

The European Commission launched a new industry alliance on Tuesday (30 September) aimed at strengthening the EU’s “strategic autonomy” on raw materials like rare earths, which are considered key for the bloc’s green and digital transitions

"The EU legal framework for digital services - the e-commerce directive - was adopted 20 years ago; it therefore needs to be updated to reflect the rapid digital transformation. A “one-size-fits-all” approach should, however, be avoided."

MEPs spell out their priorities for the Digital Services Act

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 29, 2020

MEPs’ demands on how digital services, including online platforms and marketplaces, should be regulated were set out in a vote in the Internal Market Committee

"Political leaders across Europe are uncomfortably aware of the limitations of national policies in the face of Covid."

Unthinkable? A powerful EU post-Covid planning agency

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 29, 2020

As a young Financial Times Paris correspondent in the mid-1970s, I was dazzled by ‘Le Plan’

Under the 55% reduction scenarios, the Commission’s impact assessment estimates that wind and PV will account for around 48% of gross generation in 2030, i.e. 1,650TWh of the 3,500TWh.

Meeting the 2030 emissions targets: Mission possible?

By: EBR | Friday, September 25, 2020

Meeting the European Commission’s proposed climate target for 2030 will require a step change in emission reduction – nearly trebling the existing effort – and a considerable ramp-up in renewable energy production

The new calculations, using UN Food and Agriculture Organisation data and other peer-reviewed scientific research, estimate that animals on European farms emit the equivalent of 502 million tonnes of CO2 per year.

Animal farming in EU worse for climate than all cars

By: EBR | Thursday, September 24, 2020

Greenhouse gas emissions from animal farming in the EU account for 17% of the EU’s total emissions and do more damage to the climate than all cars and vans put together

"Joint action at EU level is the surest, quickest and most efficient way of achieving these objectives. No Member State on its own has the capacity to secure the investment in developing and producing a sufficient number of vaccines."

Questions and Answers: Coronavirus and the EU Vaccines Strategy

By: EBR | Thursday, September 24, 2020

On 17 June, the European Commission presented a European strategy to accelerate the development, manufacturing and deployment of vaccines against COVID-19

Eight routes already under consideration include Paris-Brussels-Cologne-Berlin-Warsaw, Amsterdam-Cologne-Basel-Milan-Rome and Berlin-Frankfurt-Lyon-Montpellier-Barcelona, as well as services linking Scandinavia to the rest of Europe.

Rail boosted by EU transport chiefs as TEE 2.0 planned

By: EBR | Thursday, September 24, 2020

EU transport ministers pledged to give more attention to international rail freight and consider plans to relaunch the Trans-Europ Express network, during a meeting of minds on Monday (21 September)

"The most important thing is that we start discussions on the Pact on a solid basis that takes everyone’s concerns into account. The wounds of 2016 are still fresh and we need to start with everyone around the table."

Speech by Vice-President Schinas on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum

By: EBR | Thursday, September 24, 2020

This is an important moment The Pact on Migration and Asylum we are presenting today has been a long time in the making

The updated risk assessment shows that notification rates have increased steadily across the EU and the UK since August, and that the measures taken have not always been sufficient to reduce or control exposure.

The EU updated risk assessment

By: EBR | Thursday, September 24, 2020

Coronavirus: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s new risk assessment shows need to step up coronavirus response in the EU

At the moment, the main aim is to develop intelligent charging stations for electric cars. “Our vision is that the charging station of the future will have this measurement technology integrated.”

Intelligent electricity through EU structural funds

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 23, 2020

A major challenge in the spread of renewable energies is their unpredictability: supply and demand do not always match in time. To compensate for this, researchers in Bielefeld are working on artificial intelligence that distributes electricity differently, depending on the weather

As an ancillary, SURE could also finance some health-related measures, in particular at the work place, used to ensure a safe return to normal economic activity.

SURE: financial support to help protect jobs and workers affected by the pandemic

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 22, 2020

The Commission welcomes the activation of the SURE instrument, which will provide up to €100 billion in financial support to help protect jobs and workers affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

"If the grand recovery plan is to work, the old way of doing things will have to be upended".

Will everyone play ball for ‘operation recovery’?

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Ursula von der Leyen pulled off a bravura performance last week; there was grit, emotion, empathy and integrity in her delivery

In France, they call mayors like Hidalgo ‘Khmers verts’, the ‘green Khmers’.

The follies of French ecological mayors

By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, September 21, 2020

Elected in June, the new ‘ecologist’ mayors in France are trying to put their stamp on the daily life of their communes

"Ever since the UK decided to leave the EU, the key interest of the EU has been to preserve the internal cohesion of the EU’s 27 remaining members."

Boris Breaks the Divorce Treaty: What Can the EU Do?

By: EBR | Friday, September 18, 2020

The ways in which the EU can put pressure on a UK that is going rogue are very limited — and potentially vast at the same time

"The Recovery and Resilience Facility is at the very heart of NextGenerationEU. It is our key tool to turn the immediate challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic into a long-term opportunity."

Commission presents next steps for Recovery and Resilience Facility

By: EBR | Thursday, September 17, 2020

NextGenerationEU: Commission presents next steps for €672.5 billion Recovery and Resilience Facility in 2021 Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy

"We are doing everything in our power to keep the promise that we made to Europeans: make Europe the first climate neutral continent in the world, by 2050..."

Commission raises climate ambition and proposes 55% cut in emissions by 2030

By: EBR | Thursday, September 17, 2020

The European Commission presented today its plan to reduce EU greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels

“What we urgently need to see next is an ambitious implementation of the recovery package focussed on achieving a green and digital transition, with the European Green Deal at its core and an elevated short-term emissions reduction target in its sights”.

Business leaders back EU’s draft 55% carbon target for 2030

By: EBR | Tuesday, September 15, 2020

More than 150 business leaders and investors have urged EU countries to set higher climate goals for 2030, backing a draft European Commission plan to aim for a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the decade

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Far-left and far-right gains throw French mainstream parties into a quandary

N. Peter KramerBy: N. Peter Kramer

In many big towns and cities, Socialists and centre-right Republicans are tempted to make electoral pacts on their outside flanks to beat the opposition in next Sunday’s run off of the French mayoral elections.

Europe

Russia’s Imperial Retreat Is Europe’s Strategic Opportunity

Russia’s Imperial Retreat Is Europe’s Strategic Opportunity

The war in Ukraine is costing Russia its leverage overseas. Across the South Caucasus and Middle East, this presents an opportunity for Europe to pick up the pieces and claim its own sphere of influence.

Business

EU risks losing US soy imports under deforestation rules, Washington warns

EU risks losing US soy imports under deforestation rules, Washington warns

The regulation would make the bloc less attractive for American exporters, a senior USDA official said

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