Category: European Commission

The public sector loan facility under the Just Transition Mechanism

The public sector loan facility is the third pillar of the Just Transition Mechanism (JTM), along with the Just Transition Fund and just transition … The public sector loan facility under the Just Transition Mechanism

Budget, Climate, Vaccines: the EU Summit finds a compromise

On 10 and 11 December, EU leaders met in Brussels for the last European Council of the year.   This year they already met 10 times, in regular, special and videoconference meetings, essentially for urgent matters related to the pandemic. Here all the conclusions. This time, they discussed a very long and sensitive agenda. In particular:

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Pandemic and national health systems: The Commission launches the challenge

  Today the European Commission published the opinion of the Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health on the organisation of resilient health and social care following the COVID-19 pandemic. The Panel of experts were asked how to make social assistance and health care more efficient and resilient following the Coronavirus pandemic. The

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Pandemia e sistemi sanitari: La Commissione lancia la sfida e pubblica un Rapporto

L’UE ha chiesto il parere di esperti su come migliorare le sanità nazionali. Il loro Rapporto diventa anche una guida per orientare i Paesi Membri all’uso del MES, il famigerato fondo europeo agognato da taluni e temuto da molti.    Agli esperti è stato chiesto come e dove investire per la Sanità Gli esperti chiamati dalla Commissione

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Coronavirus – The EU Commission presents the Winter recommendations

Nearly 500 million Europeans are approaching Christmas and don’t know how to prepare. This time the EU sets the rules. On the eve of the much agonized vaccine, the winter months pose a greater risk for the spread of the virus, for essentially two reasons. First, it was understood that the colder months are propitiatory

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Coronavirus in Europe: EU faces second wave

Coronavirus Covid-19

The entire planet has been affected by the Coronavirus. In some continents, the population has been victim of poverty and of the backwardness of public health systems, or of leaders who have fallen into panic and populism. In other countries, the population has been victim of apparently perfect organizational systems. But unable to react quickly

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The EU at the crossroads: either it wins the virus war or loses it

Europe has launched an unprecedented bailout plan in EU history. The crisis triggered by the new Coronavirus is worse than the crisis of 2008 and the measures launched are only the beginning.

Gli ultimi 10 giorni (difficili) del Regno Unito in Europa

Ultime discussioni e voto dei due rami del Parlamento britannico per decidere se sarà un’uscita brusca oppure senza scossoni. Centinaia di “leggi” europee potranno decadere di colpo alla mezzanotte del prossimo 1º febbraio. Grandi movimenti dei mercati finanziari e grandi preoccupazioni tra gli industriali. Il governo sotto tre volte alla Camera dei Lord (dove i Conservatori non hanno la maggioranza).

Les Routes de la Soie: une succès pour toute l’Eurasie

La liaison ferroviaire transcontinentale eurasienne prend de plus en plus une dimension stratégique: les lignes multiple de liaison existant entre l’Europe et la Chine, ainsi que le projet EATL de la Commission économique pour l’Europe des Nations unies (CEE-ONU) et de la Commission économique et sociale des Nations unies pour l’Asie et le Pacifique (CESAP), concernent en effet dix-huit États de la région eurasiatique. Dix-huit États qui vont prospérer d’avantage, grâce aux investissement en infrastructures et aux échanges.

EU reduces your energy bill by €285/year and €150/year from 2030

EU decided a new eco-design measures for products such as refrigerators, washing machines, dishwashers and televisions. This could reduce your bill energy by €150/year, which will be added to the €285/year reduction already planned starting from 2020. Improving the eco-design of products contributes to implementing the “Energy efficiency first” principle of the EU’s Energy Union priority

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