On May 9, the former TVE correspondent in Brussels, José Ramón Patterson, Cadena Ser journalist Carmen Vela and El Mundo journalist Rafael Latorre were awarded the 27th edition of the Salvador de Madariaga European Journalism Prize in the categories of television, radio and written press, respectively. The jury decided to award the prize in the […]
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Welcome to Europe Day!!
Welcome to #EuropeDay! Europe Day celebrates the peace and unity of the European continent. The date is the anniversary of the historic Schuman Declaration. In a speech delivered in Paris in 1950, French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman set out his idea for a new form of political cooperation in Europe that would make a new […]
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Parliament launches the Daphne Caruana Galizia journalism prize
The European Parliament has launched a journalism prize in tribute to Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese investigative journalist murdered in 2017. The Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism, launched on 16 October 2020, the third anniversary of her death, will reward outstanding journalism reflecting EU values. “The Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize will recognise the essential […]
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The Green Transition in Education
The transition to a more ‘green’ and environmentally sustainable economy requires education and training systems to support the overall process. The role of vocational education in enabling the transition as part of the European Green Deal, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and country targets of net-zero carbon emissions, was the focus of this […]
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European Union Prize for Literature
The European Union Prize for Literature is an annual initiative to recognise the best emerging authors in Europe. What is it? The European Union Prize for Literature is an annual initiative to recognise the best emerging authors in Europe. Launched by the European Commission in 2009, the prize is open to countries participating in the […]
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Bilbao wins European award for sustainable mobility
The European Commission has announced the winners of the European Mobility Week 2020 Awards, the 9th Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP) Award and the EU Urban Road Safety Award. Bilbao won the EU Urban Road Safety Award. Mönchengladbach (Germany) was awarded the European Mobility Week 2020 Award for large municipalities, while Lilienthal (Germany) received the […]
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Conference on the Future of Europe: launch of the multilingual digital platform
The Executive Board of the Conference on the Future of Europe, comprising representatives from the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission, is launching the multilingual digital platform for the Conference on the Future of Europe inviting all EU citizens to contribute to shaping their own future and that of […]
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María Ángeles Benítez Salas, new Director of the European Commission Representation meets with the Spanish CDEs
On April 1, María Ángeles Benítez Salas assumed the direction of the representation of the European Commission in Madrid. Last Monday, María Ángeles, as the new Director, held her first meeting with all the European Documentation Centers in Spain. The meeting also addressed the organization of events in Spain related to the Future of Europe. […]
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Council agrees its negotiating mandate on the Digital Green Certificate
EU ambassadors today agreed a mandate for negotiations with the European Parliament on the proposal for a Digital Green Certificate. This certificate will facilitate safe and free movement during the COVID-19 pandemic by providing proof that a person has either been vaccinated against COVID-19, received a negative test result or recovered from COVID-19. The […]
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