Oil spill contingency planning is the process of developing a suitable spill response capability with guidance on the contingency planning process for potential oil spills in or on water following an accidental release of oil to a marine or aquatic environment, whether that be during the handling, transport, production or storage of oil products. Somalia […]
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Strong impetus for judicial cooperation with Latin America after signing Working Arrangement
Eurojust will be able to step up the fight against globally operating organised crime groups (OCGs) as a direct result of a Working Arrangement with the Ibero-American Association of Public Prosecutors Offices (AIAMP). The Arrangement enables Eurojust to establish new Contact Points with the AIAMP networks, which focus on combatting criminal activities such as […]
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Commission publishes 2021 Annual Burden Survey
The European Commission has published the 2021 Annual Burden Survey, which presents concrete examples of simplification of EU rules in areas such as agriculture and rural development, competition, communications, health and food safety, transport and mobility, and the single market. The 2021 Annual Burden Survey outlines the overarching efforts made by the Commission to simplify […]
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Joint Procurement contract HIPRA for Covid-19
HERA, the European Commission’s Health Preparedness and Response Authority, has signed a joint procurement Framework Contract with the company HIPRA HUMAN HEALTH for the supply of their protein COVID-19 vaccine. 14 Member States and countries are participating in this joint procurement, under which they can purchase up to 250 million doses. As the number of cases is […]
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Commission consults citizens on possible EU Soil Health Law
The European Commission has launched an online public consultation on the development of a possible EU Soil Health Law. Soils are the foundation of our food security, providing 95% of the food we eat. Healthy soils are vital for life on Earth. They deliver many essential services, and are crucial to achieve key objectives of the European Green […]
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Interview with Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the ECB
Last Thursday 28th July, the Governing Council of the ECB decided to increase the key interest rates by 0.5 percent, which differed from the initial plan to increase rates by 0.25 percent. But has it not come too late? Other major central banks reacted to inflation much earlier. We started the normalisation of our monetary […]
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Commission makes second 12 billion payment to Spain under the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism
On Friday 29 July, the Commission has paid Spain the second instalment of €12 billion of non-refundable financial assistance (excluding pre-financing) under the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism (RRM). The payments made by the Commission under the RRM are performance-based and depend on Spain’s implementation of the investments and reforms outlined in Spain‘s recovery and resilience […]
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Looking at how language became so complex
Using a combination of individual experiments and computational modelling, researchers uncover some big ideas in evolutionary linguistics. When it comes to language, one could say ‘you speak as you learn’. “The fundamental structural features of language are a consequence of how a language is learned,” explains Kenny Smith, a professor at the University of Edinburgh. […]
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Spain and its Digital Economy and Society Index 2022
The European Commission published the results of the 2022 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), which tracks the progress made in EU Member States in digital. During the Covid pandemic, Member States have been advancing in their digitalisation efforts but still struggle to close the gaps in digital skills, the digital transformation of SMEs, and the roll-out of […]
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