On Monday at the Environment Council in Luxembourg, the Commission secured ambitious negotiating mandates for the upcoming COP29 Climate Conference, the COP16 Biodiversity Conference, and the COP16 Desertification Conference. EU environment ministers also exchanged views in preparation for the final fifth negotiating session for an ambitious Global Plastics Treaty. Climate change, biodiversity loss, desertification, land degradation, and pollution are […]
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EU to invest more than €380 million in 133 LIFE projects to boost Europe’s green transition
The Commission has granted more than €380 million to 133 new projects across Europe under the LIFE Programme for environment and climate action. The allocated amount represents more than half of the €574 million total investment needs for these projects – the remainder coming from national, regional and local governments, public-private partnerships, businesses, and civil society organisations. LIFE […]
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EU-funded projects contribute to a climate-neutral European future
The new CORDIS Synergy Info Pack on Delivering growth and the green transition highlights how projects coming from different countries, sectors and funding programmes are all working towards the same shared goal: delivering the European Green Deal and its commitment to a climate-neutral future that benefits everyone. The European Green Deal is the EU’s commitment […]
Read MoreA day to raise awareness about human trafficking in the EU
Trafficking in human beings is a violation of fundamental rights and a serious form of organised crime. On 18 October, EU Anti-Trafficking Day, we raise awareness about this terrible reality which affects around 7 000 victims each year in the EU, 15% of whom are children. In the spirit of raising awareness, let us take […]
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EU-backed scientist David Baker, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024
It is Nobel Prize time again, and an EU-funded researcher has once more made the cut. Laureate David Baker has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his groundbreaking work on new protein development. American biochemist and computational biologist David Baker was awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his pioneering work in […]
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Metsola calls for a joint European position on the migration crisis
The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, in her address to European leaders on 17 October 2024, stressed that the real solution to the migration crisis must be a European one. She stressed the importance of cooperation between member states to address this challenge in a comprehensive and sustainable way. Metsola defended the EU […]
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Cooperation on screening of foreign direct investments strengthens EU security
EU Member States and the Commission are strengthening their cooperation on identifying and addressing investments from third countries that threaten EU security or public order, according to a Commission report published today. The 4th Annual Report on the screening of foreign direct investments (FDI) into the Union observes that the number of notifications to the EU cooperation mechanism increased by 18% since the […]
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Which EU regions are receiving the most foreign tourists?
In 2023, the number of people travelling abroad for tourism had fully recovered from the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, with restrictions lifted for all destinations. The 3 EU regions at level 2 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2) with the highest number of nights spent by foreign tourists were the Spanish island regions of […]
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EU adopts new rules to strengthen cybersecurity
The Commission has adopted the first implementing rules on cybersecurity of critical entities and networks under the Directive on measures for high common level of cybersecurity across the Union (NIS2 Directive). This implementing act details cybersecurity risk management measures as well as the cases in which an incident should be considered significant and companies providing […]
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