General Information The European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) has diversified funding schemes suiting different level of expertise and institutional needs. This free-of-charge 1-hour webinar will introduce MSCA actions with a specific focus on COFUND scheme. Any open questions that remain will then be addressed in a subsequent interactive Q&A session. This webinar is entirely for […]
COVID-19: Commission presents guidelines for border measures to protect health and keep goods and essential services available
The Commission has presented guidelines to Member States on health-related border management measures in the context of the COVID-19 emergency. The aim is to protect citizens’ health, ensure the right treatment of people who do have to travel, and make sure essential goods and services remain available. Commissioners Kyriakides and Johansson have presented the guidelines […]
The Ministry of Home Affairs establishes the criteria for the action of the Security Forces and Corps within the framework of the alarm state Royal Decree
The order issued by Grande-Marlaska makes the capabilities of all the police forces available to professionals and health workers It also provides measures for ensuring the provision or distribution of essential services and products for citizens and for the movement control. The Minister of Home Affairs, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has issued an order setting out the […]
Information on COVID-19 for specific groups and campaign #EsteVirusLoParamosUnidos to encourage social distancing
The COVID-19 pandemic is evolving fast. Community transmission is currently ongoing throughout several countries in Europe and is expected to expand quickly in other countries in the coming days. Covid-19 in risk groups According to the current evidence, a severe form of the illness is more common among specific risk groups: the elderly and those […]
Commission moves to ensure supply of personal protective equipment in the European Union
In its continuing efforts to protect citizens and to coordinate the response to COVID-19, the Commission has taken immediate steps to protect the availability of supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE), by requiring that exports of such equipment outside of the European Union are subject to an export authorisation by Member State. What is a […]
New biotechnologies to remediate harmful contaminants
Environmental pollution is a major global issue affecting natural resources and the environment in generic terms and creating important concerns for human health in particular. Pollutants resulting from human action are detrimental to ecosystems at different functional levels, representing an important economic load for society. Advanced bioremediation approaches, which use naturally occurring microorganisms, in the […]
European Youth Foundation – Grants for international youth activities
The European Youth Foundation (EYF) is a fund established by the Council of Europe to provide financial support for European youth activities. Aim It aims to encourage co-operation amongst young people in Europe by providing financial support to youth activities. It concerns activities, which serve the promotion of peace, understanding and co-operation in a spirit […]
Member States must cut emissions across all sectors to achieve EU climate targets by 2030
Emission cuts in the European Union’s (EU) Effort Sharing sectors need to accelerate considerably from 2018 onwards to achieve the current EU 2030 targets, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing. In particular, the large amount of emission reductions from planned measures in the transport sector need to materialise through concrete actions. The EEA […]
Monetary policy decisions
The Governing Council decided on a comprehensive package of monetary policy measures: Longer-term refinancing operations Additional longer-term refinancing operations (LTROs) will be conducted, temporarily, to provide immediate liquidity support to the euro area financial system. Although the Governing Council does not see material signs of strains in money markets or liquidity shortages in the banking […]