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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The European Commission approves the creation of UNIgreen, the European university led by UAL
The Green European University-UNIgreen- is one of only four European universities to receive the green light from the Commission in the 2022 call. The University of Almeria is the coordinator of this campus, composed of eight international partners specialised in agronomy, biotechnology, environmental and life sciences. With an excellent score of 89 out of 100 […]
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Results of the II Copernicus Hackathon in Central America
The European Union in alliance with the Central American Integration System (SICA) and the Central American Bank for Regional Integration (CABEI) promote the use of satellite data from the European Copernicus earth observation program in Central America. For nearly 3 weeks, 150 participants in 44 projects competed to demonstrate the originality of their ideas based […]
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Erasmus+: 44 European Universities to cooperate across borders and disciplines
The Commission has announced the results of the 2022 call for the European Universities initiative: with a record budget of €272 million from Erasmus+, 16 existing European Universities will continue to receive support, and four new alliances will be able to start their cooperation. Together with the 24 alliances selected in 2020, a total of 44 […]
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HERA signs Joint Procurement contract for Pandemic Influenza Vaccine
Today, the European Commission, via its Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority, signed a framework contract for the joint procurement of Adjupanrix, a pandemic influenza vaccine, with the pharmaceutical company GSK. 12 Member States and other joint procurement countries are participating in the agreement, under which they can purchase up to 85,000,000 vaccine doses if necessary, in the […]
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Finalists announced for first annual EU organic awards
The list of finalists for the first ever annual EU organic awards has been announced, with a total of 24 entries from 11 different Member States shortlisted for awards. The finalists were chosen from a pool of over 200 submissions from 26 Member States that were submitted in recent months. The winners of the eight […]
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