The EU is investing over €1.8 billion in 17 large-scale innovative clean-tech projects with a third round of awards under the Innovation Fund. Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring breakthrough technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components […]
EU launches the Support Hub for Internal Security and Border Management in Moldova
Yesterday, in the margins of the informal Home Affairs Council Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson and the Moldovan Minister of Internal Affairs, Ana Revenco launched the EU Support Hub for Internal Security and Border Management in Moldova. As an operational platform, the EU Support Hub will support cooperation on internal security and border management between […]
Airlines refund over 500,000 vouchers for cancelled flights in COVID-19 pandemic
The Commission and national consumer authorities have just received the confirmation from 16 major European airlines, that they reimbursed over 500,000 flight vouchers that they had imposed on consumers for cancelled flights during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the result of the dialogue that the Commission and the Consumer Protection Network (CPC Network) conducted in 2021 […]
Antitrust: Commission sends Statement of Objections to Alcogroup and Agroetanol over alleged ethanol benchmarks cartel
The European Commission has informed Alcogroup S.A. and its subsidiary Alcodis S.A. (together ‘Alcogroup’) as well as Lantmännen ek för and its subsidiary Lantmännen Agroetanol AB (together ‘Agroetanol’) of its preliminary view that, together with Abengoa S.A. (‘Abengoa’), which settled the case in December 2021, they have breached EU antitrust rules. The Commission considers that […]
Antitrust: Commission confirms unannounced inspections in the online food delivery sector
The European Commission carried out unannounced inspections at the premises of companies active in the online ordering and delivery of food, groceries and other consumer goods in two Member States. The Commission has concerns that the companies concerned may have violated Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which prohibits cartels and […]
European Commission and UN to discuss closer cooperation at retreat in New York
On 7 and 8 July, President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, together with eight members of the College, will participate in a working retreat with the United Nations’ Secretary-General António Guterres and other senior UN officials in New York. This first-of-its-kind meeting takes the EU-UN Partnership to the next level in the face […]
The Commission includes Acehúche Cheese of Spain in the PDO
Brussels, 4 July 2022 The Commission has approved the inclusion of Acehúche cheese from Spain in the register of protected designations of origin (PDO). ‘Queso de Acehúche’ is a cheese made exclusively from raw goat milk and produced in the centre-west of the province of Cáceres. The long tradition of goat farming in the region, combined […]
Be part of the European Digital Education Hub
What is the European Digital Education Hub? The Digital Education Hub Community of Practice takes place within the framework of the European Education Area. It focuses its work on the following pillars: Creating a collaborative community of practice Knowledge-sharing and mapping Accelerating innovation in digital education The Hub’s third pillar accelerating innovation in Digital Education […]
Commission antitrust rules
The European Commission has launched a call for evidence and a public consultation inviting feedback on the performance of the EU Regulations which lay out the procedures for the application of EU competition rules (Regulation 1/2003 and Regulation 773/2004). Interested parties can respond to the public consultation for 14 weeks, until 6 October 2022. Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, in charge […]