The European Commission’s Single Market Programme has launched a new call for proposals aimed at addressing the issue of food waste. The call is part of the programme’s Food Strand and was announced on June 14, 2023. This initiative demonstrates the EU’s commitment to tackling the significant problem of food waste within the single market. Budget: […]
Ursula von der Leyen aims to make her mark before her 2024 term expires and speeds up the Commission strategy on the European semiconductor value chain.Semiconductor strategy revealead by Commission during a Workshop on July 4, 2023. The European Commission, in collaboration with the KDT Joint Undertaking Office, is organizing a workshop on July 4, 2023, to discuss […]
Commission proposes to reinforce long-term EU budget to face most urgent challenges. A targeted revision of the Multiannual Finance Framework (MFF) is asked to equip the MFF with the means to ensure that the EU can meet its legal obligations and address the most urgent priorities. Among these, increased aid to Ukraine, refinancing of certain funds, coverage […]
EU Council to examine this proposal. ChatGPT could leave EU The European Parliament has approved its proposals on the EU AI Act, a comprehensive set of regulations aimed at governing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the European Union. OpenAI and Google are not sharing certain proposals and OpenAI could leave EU: the EU […]
(original in English, select your language) Increasing pressure from the US is pushing Europe to join the semiconductor war and reconsider all Chinese investments in critical sectors in Europe. The objective is to achieve technological sovereignty over China as soon as possible. It is believed that the United States’ efforts to stifle the Chinese chip […]
Over past centuries, humanity has used an increasing number of known elements, in particular metals, to foster technological innovation. Critical raw materials act
Pharmaceutical companies are on a war footing as the Commission proposes to shorten the duration of patents for some medicines so that new companies can enter the pharmaceutical market, to address the growing shortage of medicines, insufficient research on new antimicrobial and to lower selling prices of pharmaceutical products. In addition, the Commission justifies the […]
Brussels, 24 April 2023 Written by Mario Damen. That the EU imports almost 60 % of its energy shows that real EU strategic autonomy in energy is far from achieved. The current energy crisis poses a risk to all four EU energy policy objectives. Crisis in the energy market is causing public and private debt […]
Do you want to buy a drone? Do you want to produce drones? For what use? The EU has decided on common rules and the member states have added their own legislation. Now, EU is launching a special operation to improve drone safety in view of a full use of these aircraft in Europe, even […]
The Commission decided to review the Directive on the European Works Council, the standing bodies that facilitate the information and consultation of employees in European companies and European groups of companies. The European Parliament has called for a review after a 2018 assessment by the Commission on the effectiveness of the existing directive found shortcomings. […]
