In the occasion of the Fifth United Nations Global Safety Week, held from the 6th to the 12th of May, the UN launched the campaign #SpeakUp focusing on leadership for road safety. By using this hashtag, organisations and civil society could send straight demands to...
The European Commission launched today a call for experts to join ‘Mission Boards’, which will advise the Commission for the identification and implementation of missions in Horizon Europe, the next EU research and innovation programme. These missions will be high-ambition, high profile initiatives, to find solutions...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]A few weeks ahead of their EU Presidency, the Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment released a Publication which is “intended as a basis for the new strategic priorities of the European Union and for the work programme...
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the FEMM Committee, examines the evidence on the role of women in the energy transition in the European Union and the extent of gender equality in...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Eurostat estimates that in 2018 carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel combustion significantly decreased by 2.5% in the European Union (EU), compared with the previous year. CO2 emissions are a major contributor to global warming and account for...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]ENSEMBLE has disseminated new materials explaining the purposes and the next steps of the EU co-funded project. You can find below the new video, which clarifies in one minute, what is truck platooning and what is the EU...
The EU has today made public its text proposal on future rules and obligations on e-commerce as part of WTO negotiations on e-commerce endorsed by Ministers in the margins of the Davos World Economic Forum in January 2019. The release of the text proposal is...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, met today Takuya Hirai, the Japanese Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy. They agreed that the latest developments in respective research and innovation policies present new opportunities to...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] The European Commission has given the green light for trade talks with the United States to begin, but the real difficulties are yet to come. The European Commission’s consultation on the EU-US Trade talks called for proposals for...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The 2nd EU-Japan EPA Forum will be held on May 16-17, 2019 Hotel Principe Di Savoia in Milan. Sigrid de Vries, Secretary General of CLEPA, will brief the audience with insights on the EU-Japan ‘superhighway’ for trade and investment...