While media attention has focused on state-sponsored disinformation campaigns and the targeting of our democratic institutions, attacks against digital supply chains – comprised of all external suppliers, partners, and service providers to our governments and operators of critical national infrastructure – pose a less visible but very significant threat.
The EU Commission has published the 2024 Convergence Report in which it provides its assessment of the progress non-euro area Member States have made towards adopting the euro. The report covers the six non-euro area Member States that are legally committed to adopting the euro: Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Sweden.
Following the decision of the European Council of December 2023 to open accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova, the two countries are embarking on a true transformation into full EU membership.
Temporary protection provides immediate and collective protection to a large group of displaced persons who arrive in the EU and who are not in a position to return to their country of origin. The system alleviates the pressure on national asylum systems because applications do not have to be examined individually.
MEPs in the Trade Committee voted on Monday to support a loan of up to €35 billion to Ukraine as the EU’s contribution to the G7’s support initiative. The Committee voted by 31 in favour, 4 against and no abstentions.
MEPs adopted a proposal for the first stage of a European Deposit Insurance Scheme, operating as a liquidity scheme and providing loans to participating deposit insurance schemes.
Affordable and decent housing has a positive impact on social inclusion and on people’s participation in education and the labour market. However, access to social and affordable housing has become a challenge for many EU citizens.
Infringements of EU competition law: the former Czech rules on limitation are incompatible with EU law. Those rules make it practically impossible or excessively difficult to claim damages for continuous anticompetitive practices.
The EU has just set up the Ukraine Investment Framework, the financial arm and an integral component of the €50 billion Ukraine Facility to incentivise public and private investments for the recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Financial Trend Analysis today. Financial Institutions report $27bn in elder financial exploitation suspicious activity in one year. The data were linked to the illegal or improper use of an older adult’s funds, property, or assets.
Economic and monetary affairs MEPs propose new, innovation friendly rules allowing customers to keep their financial data safe and efficiently use them to get a better financial service.
On 17 and 18 April, the European Council adopted conclusions on Ukraine, the Middle East, Türkiye and a new European competitiveness dea. The European Council also underlined the Union’s and its Member States’ determination to closely monitor and contain any risks stemming from disinformation compaigns during the upcoming European elections.
“The Merger Regulation has served businesses and consumers and the European economy as a whole very well. By protecting competition in the Single Market. By keeping European markets fair and open. Effective merger control is crucial to European businesses” – EU Commission EVP Vestager.
“According to the World Bank’s Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment, released in February 2024, Ukraine’s reconstruction and recovery will cost $486 billion over the next decade. It combines both needs for public and private funds. The most pressing issues are the highest estimated needs of housing, transport, commerce and industry, agriculture, energy, social protection, and livelihoods” – EU Commissioner Várhelyi.
Consumer trust is the foundation for growth and innovation. Retailers compete fiercely for consumers’ favour every day, making them quite aware of what consumers expect and need.
Insight EU is collecting further reactions on the Letta Report update and reforms of the European Single Market.
Greece´s 4th payment request concerns one target under the loan facility component. This target requires that an aggregate of €4.5 billion of RRF loans are signed by financial institutions with companies to support private investment related to areas such as the green transition, the digital transition, increasing export capacity, and innovation.
While media attention has focused on state-sponsored disinformation campaigns and the targeting of our democratic institutions, attacks against digital supply chains – comprised of all external suppliers, partners, and service providers to our governments and operators of critical national infrastructure – pose a less visible but very significant threat.
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MEPs in the Trade Committee voted on Monday to support a loan of up to €35 billion to Ukraine as the EU’s contribution to the G7’s support initiative. The Committee voted by 31 in favour, 4 against and no abstentions.
In the Council of State today, the King has made changes in the Government.
Minister of Research and Higher Education, Ms. Sandra Borch, has been honourably discharged from her office.
Mr. Oddmund Hoel has been honourably discharged as state secretary to Minister of Research and Higher Education, Ms. Sandra Borch, and is appointed as new Minister of Research and Higher Education.
Today, we have discussed, with the different authorities, the next steps to take. There is more work to be done. We need to see progress, especially – and this means, adoption of laws – on the ‘fundamentals’ of the EU accession: That is democracy and the rule of law. It starts with the fight against money laundering, the conflict of interest, and for example the law on Courts. As you know, the Commission will report to the Council on the progress by March. And EU Leaders will then discuss on the basis of this report.
Mit heute verkündetem Urteil hat der Zweite Senat des Bundesverfassungsgerichts entschieden, dass die Partei Die Heimat (HEIMAT, vormals: Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands – NPD) für die Dauer von sechs Jahren von der staatlichen Finanzierung nach § 18 Parteiengesetz (PartG) ausgeschlossen ist.
Judicial and law enforcement authorities in Germany, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Sweden have carried out a coordinated action against an organised crime group suspected of online trading fraud. The network defrauded numerous victims for several millions of euros in Germany and other European countries.
The Foreign Affairs Council discussed the Russian aggression against Ukraine, after a video intervention by Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba, who briefed his EU counterparts on the latest developments. The Council also discussed the situation in the Middle East and held separate exchanges with the Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud (Saudi-Arabia), Ayman Safadi (Jordan), and Sameh Shoukry (Egypt), as well as with the SecGen of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and the Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Riyad al-Maliki.
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Iraqi airline Fly Baghdad and its CEO for providing assistance to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps–Qods Force (IRGC-QF) and its proxy groups in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. OFAC is also designating three leaders and supporters of one of the IRGC-QF’s main Iran-aligned militias in Iraq, Kata’ib Hizballah (KH), as well as a business that moves and launders funds for KH. Today’s action underscores the ongoing threat the IRGC-QF and its proxy network pose to U.S. personnel and the region.
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed a fifth round of sanctions on Hamas since the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel. Today’s action targets networks of Hamas-affiliated financial exchanges in Gaza, their owners, and associates, and particularly financial facilitators that have played key roles in funds transfers, including cryptocurrency transfers, from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in Gaza. Concurrent with OFAC’s designations, the United Kingdom and Australia are also placing sanctions on key Hamas officials and facilitators.
“On the instructions of the President, we have updated the long-term programme to promote young people’s employment, its implementation plan and relevant targets. The programme was approved about two years ago and is to run until the end of the decade.
Under the updated document, we will create conditions for girls and boys to decide on their future profession even before coming of age and gain the experience, skills and knowledge necessary for their future occupation.”
Sweden’s security situation has been deteriorating over time. Drottninggatan in 2017, Almedalen in 2022 and Brussels in 2023 are all tragedies that have affected Swedish citizens in recent years. Our society is characterised by openness, good values, democracy and respect for fundamental human rights and freedoms. People must be able to move freely in a safe and secure manner, participate in gatherings and express their opinions without fear of being subjected to threats or violence.
As the President emphasized, since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine, the multimillion-strong diaspora of Ukrainians around the world has stood up for the interests of our country and has been helping us despite being hundreds and thousands of kilometers away from their homeland.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Donald Tusk in Kyiv: I am grateful for Poland’s readiness to start working on a bilateral agreement on security commitments. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk, who arrived in Ukraine on a working visit.
The Head of State noted that it was the first visit of Donald Tusk as Prime Minister to a country outside the EU.
The UK and US have announced new sanctions on key figures in the financial networks of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
The UK and US have imposed coordinated sanctions on Hamas today to disrupt the terrorist group’s financial networks.
Five key figures and an entity involved in the leadership and financial networks of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) are the subject of the UK’s new sanctions, which will help to cut off the flow of funding that supports these terrorist groups, including from Iran.
The EU Council has adopted two new directives that will make it easier for persons with disabilities to travel within the EU. The directive establishing the European disability card and the European parking card for persons with disabilities will ensure equal access to special conditions or preferential treatment for persons with disabilities during short stays throughout the EU. Examples include reduced or zero entry fees, priority access, assistance, and reserved parking spaces.
“Over the past number of months, farmers have taken to the streets, and raised their voice on a number of significant issues, including: administrative burdens, market disturbances, unpredictable incomes, and a lack of fairness in the supply chain” – EU Commissioner Wojciechowski.
“Today’s declaration demonstrates your ability and ambition to connect citizens with the democratic institutions that are designed to serve them.My experience as two-time mayor of Dubrovnik is priceless to me in my work as European Commission Vice-President for Democracy and Demography” – EU Commission VP Vice-President Dubravka Šuica
The white paper on public health and living conditions in the Sámi population builds on the white paper on Public Health published in 2023. Norway’s general public health policy also applies to the Sámi population. Other important starting points for this white paper were the white paper Escalation Plan for Mental Health (in Norwegian) published last year and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report.
A new Global Consortium for Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance for Public Health (GLOWACON) has been launched today. Its primary objective is to create an international sentinel system for the early detection, prevention, and real-time monitoring of epidemic threats and outbreaks. The launch event is taking place in Brussels over 19-20 March and includes participation of more than 300 key global partners including the European Commission’s HERA, the World Health Organization, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Africa CDC, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Government of Slovenia supported the establishment of a consortium of 18 companies, organizations and municipalities for an ecosystem for hydrogen from low-carbon sources. The group said it has 6,500 experts available from various fields and decades of experience in industrial engineering.
As climate change accelerates, the urgency for countries to implement crucial plans that build resilience to impacts of climate change increases.
ENTSO-E welcomes the opening of discussions between the EU and Switzerland and in particular the work on an electricity agreement between the EU and Switzerland, which is crucial for the secure and efficient functioning of the synchronously interconnected European transmission grid.
The Arab Republic of Egypt and the European Union have mutually agreed to elevate their relationship to the level of a strategic and comprehensive partnership, based on the values of equity and on mutual respect and trust.
“We cannot afford the high cost of climate change, but policy choices are needed to decide how and who pays the costs of the fight against it. The good news is that our market economy is a great tool to tackle the challenge and deliver a prosperous and sustainable society” – EVP Vestager.
In its conclusions, the Council reiterates the gravity of the accelerating triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, which poses a global and existential threat and aggravates existing security concerns.
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