The European Commission has announced today €10 million more to respond to one of the worst Desert Locust outbreak in decades in East Africa. The outbreak could have devastating consequences on food security in an already vulnerable region where 27.5 million people suffer from severe food insecurity and at least 35 million more are at […]
Read MoreCOVID-19: ECDC updates case definition for EU surveillance
At this stage, it is likely that Europe will see similar developments like in Italy, varying from country to country. To address these scenarios, ECDC constantly updates its risk assessments for Europe and provides guidance for the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries and authorities to respond to the outbreak. Following the recent […]
Read MoreThe Court of Justice of the European Union ordered Greece to pay 3.5 million euros for having been slow in implementing EU law
By judgment of 23 April 2015, the Court of Justice held that, by having failed to designate as vulnerable zones a number of zones – including those of the Plain of Thessaly and of the river Evros (see paragraph 15 of the judgment in Case C-149/14) – characterised by the presence of bodies of surface […]
Read MorePrevention is the cyberdefence for hospitals
The EU Agency for Cybersecurity publishes a Cybersecurity Procurement Guide for Hospitals. Healthcare IT professionals have a new instrument in their toolbox. The hospital is a vast ecosystem comprised of an entire network of devices, equipment and systems that often require connection to external systems, making monitoring and control a very hard task to do. […]
Read MoreMichel Barnier to the students at ESCP Europe: Cooperation in the Age of Brexit
On 29 March 2017, the United Kingdom notified the European Council of its intention to leave the European Union, in accordance with Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. The European Commission’s Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom (UKTF) coordinates the work on all strategic, operational, legal and financial issues related to the United […]
Read MoreEnigma: a dwarf star produces a supereruption
A star of about eight percent the Sun’s mass has been caught emitting an enormous ‘super flare’ of X-rays – a dramatic high-energy eruption that poses a fundamental problem for astronomers, who did not think it possible on stars that small. J0331-27 The culprit, known by its catalogue number J0331-27, is a kind of star […]
Read MoreThe EU’s Response to COVID-19
What is COVID-19? COVID-19, previously named 2019-nCoV, was identified in China at the end of 2019 and is a new strain of coronavirus that has not been previously known in humans. Where do Coronaviruses come from? Coronaviruses are viruses that circulate among animals but some of them are also known to affect humans. After they […]
Read MoreEuropean Semester: The Winter Package explained
The European Commission has published the country reports of each Member State. These reports come from the European Semester that provides a framework for the coordination of economic policies throughout the European Union. The country reports, published in the so-called Winter Package on February 26, address some of the most important economic and social policy […]
Read MoreECB Listens
Euro area citizens are invited to submit ideas and comments online “ECB Listens” event for civil society to take place in Brussels on 26 March Further Eurosystem listening events to follow, organised by national central banks The European Central Bank (ECB) and the 19 euro area national central banks, which together form the Eurosystem, are […]
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