Over 20,900 participants from across the EU and beyond joined the #EUvsVirus Hackathon led by the European Innovation Council this weekend to offer their time, talent and business ideas to help support Europe’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Over 2,150 solutions were submitted in areas including health and life (898), business continuity (381), remote working and education (270), […]
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Energy security in the EU
How does the EU contribute to assure energy security to its nearly 500 million citizens? And what happens if the security of that energy supply is threatened? A key role is to encourage cross-border cooperation and inter-connections to make energy flow more smoothly across the whole of the EU. When there is no sun or […]
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Coming up: economic impact Covid-19, agriculture, tyre labelling
Committees have a busy week ahead of them: from discussing Covid-19’s economic impact to voting on plans for tyre labelling and support for the agriculture sector. Coronavirus The economic affairs committee will discuss the economic impact and response to the Covid-19 outbreak with Valdis Dombrovskis, Executive Vice-President for An Economy that Works for People, and […]
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Viral Marketing: Counterfeits in the Time of Pandemic
New Europol report on who are the counterfeiters and how they are trying to profit from COVID-19 From websites selling fake COVID-19 blood screening tests taken down by several EU Member States’ law enforcement authorities to the seizure of substandard facemasks originating from Brazil and the sale of chloroquine via instant messaging apps: counterfeiters have […]
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El impacto del coronavirus en África podría ser devastador
Dada la vulnerabilidad de los sistemas de salud en muchos países en vías de desarrollo, el coronavirus podría tener efectos devastadores, advierten los miembros de la comisión de Desarrollo del Parlamento Europeo. La UE está trabajando para apoyar a sus Estados miembros y amortiguar el impacto económico en Europa, pero el coronavirus es una pandemia y no conoce […]
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Delivering animal vaccines and antibodies to protect humans from diseases like COVID-19
How can scientists respond to infectious diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans? A European initiative has the answers. Zoonoses – diseases that can spread between animals and humans, like avian influenza, rabies and severe acute respiratory syndrome – comprise a large percentage of all newly identified infectious diseases. As they represent a persistent […]
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Impact of Coronavirus in higher education
In a few months’ time, many students around Europe will start a new higher education course. Hopefully the worst of the pandemic will be behind us. However, everything indicates that higher education institutions will not be operating normally until the start of the next academic year at the earliest in many countries. Many education systems […]
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Results of the conference of foreign affairs ministers, 22 April 2020
We discussed how to better support Ukraine and other countries in the Eastern partnership in times of Covid-19 pandemic. Our message to them is clear, we will keep helping them in these challenging times. Josep Borrell, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Gradually returning to core foreign policy issues, ministers first held […]
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Conclusions of the President of the European Council following the video conference of the members of the European Council, 23 April 2020
Members of the European Council yesterday held their fourth video conference to deal with the COVID-19 and its consequences. They have expressed a strong will to move forward together. “We discussed progress on the various dimensions of the European response to the pandemic and welcomed the Joint European Roadmap towards lifting of COVID-19 containment measures. […]
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