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Saving Europe from corona’s nasty geopolitics

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Four months into the corona crisis and one month into the nerve-racking spectacle of social and economic shutdown, it becomes clear that the big geopolitical loser of the pandemic is likely going to be Europe

When the European External Action Service (EEAS) was putting the finishing touches to a report about how Russia and China are stepping up their disinformation campaigns throughout Europe, Beijing piled on the pressure on some of its diplomats.

The Cost of Europe Bowing to China’s Disinformation and Pressure

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Overcoming the coronavirus pandemic is also about the EU defending its own principles of transparency and truthfulness, both of which China is aggressively challenging

"The Member States have already taken a range of measures to cushion the immediate impact of the crisis. We are well aware, however, that the combined efforts made thus far by the European Union and the Member States will not be enough to address what is an unprecedented crisis."

Sassoli’ s speech to the European Council

By: EBR | Friday, April 24, 2020

"Reconstruction is in our common interest. Europe must save everyone"

As governments around Europe are putting in place at record speed new protections for the energy poor, and Spain considers a Universal Basic Income, the once unthinkable is becoming possible.

A green bailout must put Europe’s energy poor first

By: EBR | Thursday, April 23, 2020

To weather the COVID-19 crisis, Europe’s energy-poor urgently need a green bailout – providing decent, zero-carbon homes for all

The Skills & Education Guarantee Pilot (S&E Pilot) is a new debt financing initiative dedicated to stimulating investments in education, training and skills – as part of the solution to get more people into jobs and to respond to the European economy’s changing needs.

EU launches new €50 million pilot to develop skills and education across Europe

By: EBR | Thursday, April 23, 2020

The European Investment Fund (EIF) and European Commission are launching a new pilot guarantee facility to improve access to finance for individuals and organisations looking to invest in skills and education

According to a recent poll, 83% of European citizens say that scientists are their most trusted source of information.

Europe’s recovery plans must pass five sustainability tests

By: EBR | Thursday, April 23, 2020

Faced with the emergency of the COVID-19 crisis, there is a great temptation for recovery plans to prop up yesterday’s economy instead of “building back better”. Instead, recovery plans and any economic stimulus must pass five tests, argue European sustainability think tanks

The coronavirus pandemic and the public health crisis resulting from it is putting Member States, together with national authorities, health institutions and economic operators, under extreme pressure.

Medical Devices EU Regulation

By: EBR | Thursday, April 23, 2020

Commission welcomes Council support to prioritise the fight against coronavirus

Over 12,000 participants have registered to the hackathon, which is structured around several categories of problems that need short-term solutions in relation to coronavirus health and life, business continuity, remote working and education, social and political cohesion, digital finance and other challenges.

Α European hackathon to develop innovative solutions to fight the outbreak

By: EBR | Thursday, April 23, 2020

As of tomorrow and throughout the weekend, the Commission will host the pan-European #EUvsVirus Hackathon, under the patronage of Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth

“In times of a shortage of feedstock for hand sanitizer production, we started to sell our pharmaceutical glycerin directly to pharmacies and chemists”.

Green Deal could use available technologies ‘without prejudices’

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 22, 2020

The much-awaited re-visit of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) as part of the new Green Deal should get rid of “prejudices” and take advantage of technologies and products already placed on the market

What should the European Union be doing both in global and intra-European terms to confront post-coronavirus conditions?

Corona will kill or cure the EU

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Our vaunted civilisation has become unimaginably vulnerable. So far, commentators’ chief currency has been generalisation and exhortation, but now it’s high time to get down to detail

When industries destroy forests and other ecosystems to exploit more land and resources, they drive wild animals further out of their habitats and increase opportunities for infectious diseases to transmit to humans.

Fixing our relationship with food and nature is more important than ever

By: EBR | Friday, April 17, 2020

Europe’s relationship to food and nature must not be put to one side because of the COVID-19 crisis, it should be front and centre in the recovery

“Times of crisis are times of executive power,” says Benjamin Hohne, political scientist at the Institute for Parliamentary Studies in Berlin.

Will the coronavirus cause the comeback of Germany’s political centre?

By: EBR | Friday, April 17, 2020

Germans are more satisfied with their government than they have been for a long time, thanks to its coronavirus response. It is making life increasingly difficult for the opposition

“We have seen developments that we weren’t necessarily expecting, like unilateral measures taken by member states in terms of mobility of people. The ban on flights also, which started unequally, and then developed at a high level”.

EU transport chief cautions against green strings for airline bailouts

By: EBR | Thursday, April 16, 2020

European Commissioner for Transport Adina Valean told that the coronavirus outbreak means it is the wrong time to condition state aid for airlines on green measures, but warned the industry to stick to its passenger rights obligations

"Saving lives and protecting Europeans from the coronavirus is our number one priority. At the same time, it is time to look ahead and to focus on protecting livelihoods."

European roadmap shows path towards common lifting of containment measures

By: EBR | Thursday, April 16, 2020

The Commission, in cooperation with the President of the European Council, has put forward a European roadmap to phase-out the containment measures due to the coronavirus outbreak

“Member states still have one year to transpose the SUP Directive in national law,” Loonela replied when asked to comment about industry calls to postpone the implementation of the single-use plastic directive “for at least an additional year”.

EU dismisses industry calls to lift ban on single-use plastics

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Deadlines have to be respected, says the European Commission in response to calls by industry to lift an EU-wide ban on some single-use plastic items because of health and hygiene concerns raised during the COVID-19 outbreak

“The necessary investment would be financed by an increased MFF, the existing EU funds and financial instruments, and recovery bonds guaranteed by the EU budget; this package should not involve the mutualisation of existing debt and should be oriented to future investment”.

EU Parliament’s big four back ‘recovery bonds’ to tackle COVID-19 crisis

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 15, 2020

The European Parliament’s largest political groups back the issuing of ‘recovery bonds’ guaranteed by the EU budget to help tackle the economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis

"It’s too difficult to predict what Europe will look like once this pandemic has run its course. Debates have already begun about the merits of working from home, about how the pandemic has benefited the environment, about how health systems should be improved, and about how this virus has exposed a lack of resilience."

Europe’s Missing Coronavirus Exit Strategy

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 14, 2020

With the coronavirus pandemic challenging European democracies, not only with help from China and Russia but also from within, Europe must prepare an exit strategy

This is a struggle by all of humanity, for the right to life, and for the right to health of every person, writes Eamon Gilmore.

Fighting COVID-19 is a battle for human rights

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 14, 2020

The Covid-19 crisis is a human rights issue, one of the most global and urgent we have ever seen

"Even if there are still many things unknown about 2019-nCoV [coronavirus], European countries have the necessary capacities to prevent and control an outbreak as soon as cases are detected".

How the EU’s virus-alert agency failed

By: EBR | Monday, April 13, 2020

Two months before Europe was declared the epicentre of the pandemic, the EU agency meant to sound the alarm of viral infections was painting a rosy picture

The deal allows the European Investment Bank to set up a fund of €200 billion in loans for cash-strapped companies across the bloc.

€540billion aid but no ‘corona bonds’

By: N. Peter Kramer | Friday, April 10, 2020

The Eurogroup finance ministers unlocked a €540billion package of measures aiming at stopping the coronavirus from ravaging the EU economy

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