The Foreign Affairs Council and General Affairs Council, planned for 23 and 24 March respectively, will be replaced by ministerial level videoconferences (with the videoconference of ministers for European Affairs still to be confirmed). A number of other high-level videoconferences are scheduled during the week of 23-27 March. These will address the impact of the COVID-19 virus […]
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Making sustainable urban mobility a reality
It’s possible to offer cleaner, better and innovative transport solutions in Europe. An EU initiative shows how. To realise a competitive transport sector that increases mobility and cuts emissions, several initiatives are being tested in various European cities under the EU-funded CIVITAS ECCENTRIC project. ECCENTRIC, among several CIVITAS H2020 projects tackling all modes and aspects […]
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Future EU-UK Partnership: draft legal text
The European Commission has published a draft legal agreement for the future EU-UK partnership. It translates into a legal text the negotiating directives approved by Member States in the General Affairs Council on 25 February 2020, in line with the Political Declaration agreed between the EU and the UK in October 2019. The text follows consultations with the […]
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The Ministry of Health provides the NHS with human and professional resources to combat COVID-19
Salvador Illa, Minister of Health, explained the expansion of the healthcare team by more than 50,000 professionals who are already available to join the assistance teams of the different health administrations. This initiative aims at strengthening the public health system to fight COVID-19. Initiative 1. Increase of 50,000 health professionals This is a group made […]
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Culture at home
Digital technologies allow us to enjoy very interesting cultural proposals from home. The net can become the family’s best friend and make the days of confinement decreed on the occasion of the Coronavirus more enjoyable. We offer you a small selection of virutal places full of cultural heritage that can help you cope with isolation […]
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Delivering masks across borders: EU Single Market protecting citizens’ health
The continuous supply of essential goods and vital medical and protective equipment within the Single Market is key to addressing the COVID-19 crisis. The chairs of Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, Petra De Sutter (Greens/EFA, BE), and Transport Committee, Karima Delli (Greens/EFA, FR), welcomed today’s rapid decision of EU Transport ministers to support green lane supply routes […]
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Renewable energy in Europe
Renewable energy is the collective name for energy, that is produced using the earth’s natural resources, like sunlight, wind, water resources (rivers, tides and waves), heat from the earth’s surface, or biomass. The process, by which these renewable resources are converted into energy, emits no net greenhouse gases, which is why renewable energy is also […]
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European projects: The prostheses that could alleviate amputees’ phantom limb pain
New prosthetic technologies that stimulate the nerves could pave the way for prostheses that feel like a natural part of the body and reduce the phantom limb pain commonly endured by amputees. Silvestro Micera, a professor of translational neuroengineering at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, has spent the past 20 years figuring out […]
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ECB announces €750 billion Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP)
The Governing Council decided the following: To launch a new temporary asset purchase programme To launch a new temporary asset purchase programme of private and public sector securities to counter the serious risks to the monetary policy transmission mechanism and the outlook for the euro area posed by the outbreak and escalating diffusion of the […]
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