The European Union and Mercosur reached a political agreement for an ambitious, balanced and comprehensive trade agreement. The new trade framework – part of a wider Association Agreement between the two regions – will consolidate a strategic political and economic partnership and create significant opportunities for sustainable growth on both sides, while respecting the environment […]
Illegal fishing: EU lifts Taiwan’s yellow card following reforms
The EU recognises Taiwan’s reforms put in place during the last three and a half years to tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU).Today the European Commission decided to lift the yellow card acknowledging the progress made by Taiwan and the major upgrade of its fisheries legal and administrative systems to fight against IUU fishing. […]
H2020: Secure, clean and efficient energy: Innovative financing for energy efficiency investments
This project aims to achieve innovative financing for energy efficiency investments (LC-SC3-EE-9-2018-2019) within the secure, clean and efficient energy sub-programme of the Horizon 2020 Programme. There is a need to set up innovative financing schemes at regional or national level in order to create the conditions for adequate supply of private finance for energy efficiency […]
Tourism trips – Three quarters of all trips by EU residents are within their own country – Majority of the trips are made by car
Summer is coming and we want to go on a trip … but do you know how Europeans travel? The last statistic of Eurostat tells us everything in detail. In 2017, EU residents made 1.3 billion trips with overnight stays that amounted to almost 6.4 billion nights. The average trip length was 5.1 nights. Compared with 2016, the […]
The Consumer Programme 2014-2020: CONS-CPC-2019: Financial contributions for cooperation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection laws
This project providing financial contributions for cooperation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection laws is part of The Consumer Programme 2014-2020. Objectives The objective of this call for proposals is to support CPC authorities and other relevant bodies under Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 and Regulation (EU) 2017/2394 by co-financing one or […]
EU mobilises €21 million to support Palestine refugees via the UN Relief and Works Agency
The European Commission will mobilise additional €21 million for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) on top of €82 million already paid into the programme budget this year to support vulnerable Palestine Refugees in the Middle East. The announcement was made at the UNRWA annual pledging conference which took place in New York on […]
How the digital revolution is transforming EU-funded brain research
Digital technologies embed themselves firmly into all aspects of our lives, including into the mainstream of neurosciences research to help unravel the complexity of brain disorders. Innovative projects from across the full spectrum of EU-funded research programmes are helping science make sense of arguably the most complex and mysterious machine in existence: the human brain. […]
H2020: BBI-RIA: Model the composition of bio-based residual streams and its evolution to optimise its management and processing
This project to model the composition of bio-based residual streams and its evolution to optimise its management and processing is part of the Bio-based Industries Research and Innovation sub-programme (BBI-2019-SO2-R7) of the Horizon 2020 Programme. Variations in composition of bio-based residual streams are a major drawback for their effective management and processing. Better insight into […]
Chemical safety: EU rules ensure high levels of protection for citizens and the environment and contribute to efficient functioning of the Single Market
The European Commission has published a review of the EU chemicals legislative framework, which addresses some 40 pieces of sectoral chemicals legislation, including specific rules on chemicals found in pesticides or cosmetics, or rules on the labelling, classification and packaging of chemicals. The report, which complements the 2018 review of the EU’s REACH Regulation, confirms that the rules […]