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. […]
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Michel 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 […]
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Enigma: 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 […]
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The 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 […]
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European 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 […]
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ECB 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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PRIMA Programme Call 2020 Information day at the University of Almería
On the occasion of the opening of PRIMA 2020, the University of Almeria has offered an information day. On February 26th, the PRIMA call: sections 1 and 2, was presented at the University of Almeria in an information day. PRIMA, as explained in the 2020 call, aims to promote research and innovation capacities and to develop knowledge […]
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Council extends the mandates of six EU Special Representatives
The EU Special Representatives (EUSRs) promote the EU’s policies and interests in troubled regions and countries and play an active role in efforts to consolidate peace, stability and the rule of law. The EUSRs support the work of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR), in the regions concerned. They […]
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Future EU-UK Partnership: European Commission receives mandate to begin negotiations with the UK
The Council adopted yesterday, 25 th of March, a decision authorising the opening of negotiations for a new partnership with the UK, and formally nominating the Commission as EU negotiator. The Council also adopted negotiating directives which constitute a mandate to the Commission for the negotiations. Future partnership The EU wishes to establish an ambitious, […]
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