Preluding 2024 EU elections, the NIS Cooperation Group with the support of the EU Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), the European Commission and the European External Action Service updated the compendium on elections cybersecurity. The first compendium on elections cybersecurity was published in 2018. Since the last EU elections in 2019, the elections threat landscape has […]
United and prepared against energy supply disruptions
Ministers held an exchange of views on the state of play of security of supply and preparations for winter 2024-2025. Among other things, they addressed ways to avoid, both individually and collectively, new price shocks and to strengthen energy security, while achieving the established targets on decarbonisation and on phasing out Russian fossil fuels. Different […]
2023 figures show stagnating progress in reducing road fatalities in too many countries
The Commission is publishing preliminary figures on road fatalities for 2023. Around 20,400 people were killed in road crashes in the EU last year, a small 1% decrease on 2022. Despite some progress since the baseline year of 2019[1], few Member States are on track to meet the EU and UN target of halving […]
Eurostat: Spain had the second lowest fertility rate in the European Union in 2022
In 2022, 3.88 million babies were born in the EU, a slight decrease from 4.09 million in 2021. The number of children born in the EU has been declining since 2008, when 4.68 million children were born. The total fertility rate in 2022 was 1.46 live births per woman in the EU, which is another decline, after the small increase […]
20th European Remembrance Day for Victims of Terrorism
Ahead of the 20th European Remembrance Day for Victims of Terrorism, the Commission issued the following statement: “On the European Remembrance Day for Victims of Terrorism we honor the memory of all those who have tragically fallen victims to terrorist acts, whether on EU soil or beyond our borders. This year holds particular significance as […]
Full Professor in Applied AI and Data Science in Denmark
To support the advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and data science at The University of Southern Denmark, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute invites candidates to apply for a Full Professor position to help them bring AI and machine learning into more diverse specialties. Research and organizational environment At the University of Southern Denmark […]
Designated gatekeepers must now comply with all obligations under the Digital Markets Act
As of last week, Apple, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and ByteDance, the six gatekeepers designated by the Commission in September 2023, have to fully comply with all obligations in the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The DMA aims to make digital markets in the EU more contestable and fairer. It establishes new rules for 10 defined […]
La Comisión Europea invita a los agricultores a participar en una encuesta en línea sobre la simplificación
As announced in its proposals to reduce the burden weighing on farmers’ shoulders, the Commission is launching today an online survey to gather directly the views of EU farmers. The survey is open from 7 March to 8 April, and will ask short questions, available in all EU languages, such as: How much time is spent each year […]
Google Scholarship for Students with disabilities
The scholarship aims to break barriers that prevent students with disabilities from entering computing and invite them to become active role models and leaders in creating technology. Eligible applicants must: have, or consider themselves to have a visible or invisible disability be currently enrolled at a university in Europe or Israel for the 2023-2024 academic year; be […]