Football regulations: Some FIFA rules on international transfers of professional footballers are contrary to EU law. Those rules hinder the free movement of players and competition between clubs.
In 2023, 69% of EU citizens aged 16-74 have used a website or an app of a public authority in the preceding 12 months. The share varied greatly among EU countries, with highest shares recorded in Denmark (98%), Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden (all 95%). In contrast, the lowest shares were recorded in Romania (23%), Bulgaria (30%) and Germany (58%).
The EU Commission received nearly 430 contributions in response to its multi-stakeholder consultation on the future Code of Practice for General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence (GAI), as provided for in the European Regulation on Artificial Intelligence (AI Regulation). The contributions received will inform the Commission’s work to finalise the Code of Practice by April 2025.
“We see continent-sized powers that are competing for resources, technology and spheres of influence. But in this world of great power competition, there is one voice that is calling on all humanity to unite and face the common challenge of climate change: This is the voice of the small island states” – EU Commission President von der Leyen.
The EU Commission has approved the acquisition of joint control of TBX NewCo Spain S.L.U. of Spain and TBX Upstream Seamless Pipes L.L.C. of the UAE by Tubacex S.A. of Spain and Mubadala Investment Company P.J.S.C. (‘Mubadala’) of the UAE. The transaction relates primarily to the manufacture of oil country tubes for the exploration and extraction of oil and gas.
Erste Reaktionen auf die heute vorgestellte neue EU-Kommission von Ursula von der Leyen zeigen ein gemischtes, Bild. Anbei ein Überblick von Statements deutscher EU-Abgeordneter. Die Übersicht wird Insight EU fortlaufend aktualisieren.
EU Parliament leaders had an exchange of views with the President-elect of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on the new College of Commissioners. After this meeting, Ursula von der Leyen presented the planned College structure to the media.
Innovation in the European Chemical Industry is a key success factor in ensuring Europe’s industry remains competitive, achieves the targets of the “Green Deal,” and strengthens Europe’s open strategic autonomy.
“By implementing together what Member States cannot do on their own, we are creating tangible European value added. By combining reforms and investments in a coherent and structured way, we are ensuring that our funds are spent in strategically and sustainably” – EU Commission VP Valdis Dombrovskis.
The new own resource generated over €7 billion for the EU budget in 2023, according to the latest report of the EU Court of auditors. Poor-quality estimates of plastic packaging waste lead EU countries to understate their contributions. There is a significant risk that plastic packaging waste is actually not recycled.
During a visit to Eurojust, the President of Slovenia, Ms Nataša Pirc Musar, highlighted how judicial cooperation through the Agency supports justice being done across borders and ensures Europe’s safety.
For the ECR Group, farmers are the key to food security and the backbone of rural development. They should be treated as such. On this basis, the ECR Group believes that the conclusions of the Strategic Dialogue on the future of EU agriculture misses the main point.
Today, the EU Commission has received the third payment request from Czechia for €1.9 billion (net of pre-financing), of which €1.7 billion in grants and €190 million in loans, under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). Czechia’s payment request concerns 41 milestones and 24 targets, including reforms in the energy sector.
On the 13th of September, the EU Commission has received the second payment request from Germany for €13.5 billion in grants (net of pre-financing) under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). The payment request concerns 16 milestones and 26 targets. It covers reforms in the areas of onshore and offshore wind energy, education and training.
Today, the EU Commission has endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of 37 out of the 38 milestones and targets linked to Cyprus’ second payment request including the second and third instalments, for €152 million (net of pre-financing) under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).
These are the headlines of our weekly Insight EU Finance Monitoring, published last Friday night. We publish the headlines of our Insight EU Monitoring mails delayed by several days. To receive real-time monitoring emails, subscribe to our annual target group full-text services on the Insight EU Store page.
Today, the EU Commission has endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of Slovenia’s third payment request for €257.6 million (net of pre-financing) under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU.
The EU Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the acquisition of joint control of OnTower Austria GmbH, based in Austria, by Electricité de France S.A. and Vauban Infrastructure Partners S.C.A., both based in France. The transaction mainly concerns the telecommunications sector in Austria.
The new Data Privacy Framework allows for the secure exchange of personal data between Switzerland and certified US companies. The Federal Council came to this conclusion at its meeting on 14 August and has to this extent added the USA to the list of countries with an adequate level of data protection.
Die deutsche Wirtschaft bereitet sich auf die Umsetzung des Data Act der EU vor. Durch ihn wird sich der Umgang mit Daten stark verändern. Ab September 2025 gelten neue Regeln: Wer dann eine smarte Waschmaschine kauft, kann viele der von ihr gesammelten Daten nutzen.
The lack of girls and women in digital is a missed opportunity. It both slows down societal progress towards a fairer and more inclusive digital world, and holds back economic growth in the Union.
The Recommendation on Secure and Resilient Submarine Cable Infrastructures presents a set of actions at national and EU level aimed at improving submarine cable security and resilience. This will be achieved through better coordination across the EU, both in terms of governance and funding.
In light of the recent political violence witnessed in Ireland, and the repeated calls by Elon Musk for civil war in Europe, Renew Europe has written to Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age and Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services.
This CORDIS Results Pack on supercomputing highlights 15 European projects supported by the unique European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), which aims to put Europe at the forefront of the high-performance computing and quantum computing revolution.
Both countries acknowledge requirements for wireless technologies are steadily increasing, highlighting the technical and regulatory requirements for advanced wireless deployments, and the need for continuous advancement. They intend to engage regularly and focus on cooperation in next generation communications, including 6G and beyond.
The 2024-2026 EDM report “Story on the Common European Media Data Space” delves into the media sector, focusing on implementing the European Media Data Space and its anticipated benefits and impacts.
The platform has made two commitments under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA): A commitment to withdraw the TikTok Lite Rewards programme from the EU, permanently, and a commitment not to launch any other programme which would circumvent the withdrawal.
The EU regulation aims to establish a harmonised internal market for AI solutions, encouraging the uptake of this technology and creating a supportive environment for innovation and investment. But it also introduces a forward-looking definition of AI, based on a product safety and risk-based approach in the EU, including AI technology bans.
Asylum policy: The designation of a third country as a safe country of origin must cover its entire territory. The national court examining the lawfulness of an administrative decision refusing to grant international protection must raise the failure to take account of the rules of EU law on the designation of a third country as a safe country of origin.
“Wir bauen mit der „European Sky Shield Initiative“ eine starke Luftverteidigung auf. Wie lebenswichtig eine starke Flug- und Raketenabwehr sein kann, lässt sich auf dramatische Weise an der Front und in den Städten der Ukraine beobachten. Iris-T ist dort zum Schutzwall gegen die zahllosen Raketen geworden” – Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz.
Defendants are alleged to have committed cyber attacks in advance of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and also targeted 26 NATO countries. The U.S. Department of State’s “Rewards for Justice” program is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information on any of the defendants’ locations or their malicious cyberactivity.
The U.S. Justice Department has disrupted a covert Russian government-sponsored malign influence operation targeting audiences in the United States and elsewhere. The operation relied on influencers, AI-generated content, paid social media ads, and social media accounts to drive Internet traffic to cybersquatted and other domains.
The Commissioner will meet Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Expatriates, Badr Abdelatty, to discuss the ongoing comprehensive cooperation on migration and protection amongst other topics. The Commissioner will also meet the Minister of Defence, General Ahmed Abdel-Meguid Saqr and the Minister of Justice, Adnan Al-Fangari.
With relentless attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, the Commission is boosting its humanitarian funding to vulnerable Ukrainians with an additional €40 million ahead of the approaching winter. Sweden has approved an additional SEK 500 million in support for heating and electricity supply in Ukraine.
“Promoting Regional Outreach to Educate Communities on the Threat of Fentanyl” (or PROTECT) is a series of ten U.S. FinCEN Exchange sessions held in 2024 in U.S. cities highly impacted by the opioid epidemic as part of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Counter-Fentanyl Strike Force.
A three-year investigation has led to the charging of three Belarusian nationals for deceitfully seizing a Polish aircraft in Belarus to arrest a dissident. The forced landing in Minsk of a commercial flight caused a direct threat to the life and health of the 132 passengers and unlawfully deprived the crew and passengers of their liberty. Eurojust supported this high-profile case.
Cyber is an integral part of modern warfare and cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure, government institutions, international organisations and electoral processes are becoming more frequent and sophisticated.
As the situation in Ukraine is not expected to change in the foreseeable future, the Swiss Federal Council decided at its meeting on 4 September not to lift the protection status S for Ukrainian refugees before 4 March 2026 and to extend the support measures for this group of people (Programme S) until then.
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech titled “Joining Hands to Advance Modernization and Build a Community with a Shared Future” while attending the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
A notary does not breach the sanctions against Russia when he or she authenticates the sale of a property owned by an unlisted Russian company.
By authentication, a notary does not provide legal advisory services, but acts independently and impartially in the context of a function entrusted to him or her by the State.
Kann eine Person, die internationalen Schutz beantragt hat und einer in ihrem Herkunftsland in eine Blutfehde verwickelten Familie angehört, aufgrund ihrer Zugehörigkeit zu einer „bestimmten sozialen Gruppe“ als der Verfolgung ausgesetzt angesehen werden?
The EU Commission has approved the acquisition of joint control of TBX NewCo Spain S.L.U. of Spain and TBX Upstream Seamless Pipes L.L.C. of the UAE by Tubacex S.A. of Spain and Mubadala Investment Company P.J.S.C. (‘Mubadala’) of the UAE. The transaction relates primarily to the manufacture of oil country tubes for the exploration and extraction of oil and gas.
For the ECR Group, farmers are the key to food security and the backbone of rural development. They should be treated as such. On this basis, the ECR Group believes that the conclusions of the Strategic Dialogue on the future of EU agriculture misses the main point.
Today, the EU Commission has received the third payment request from Czechia for €1.9 billion (net of pre-financing), of which €1.7 billion in grants and €190 million in loans, under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). Czechia’s payment request concerns 41 milestones and 24 targets, including reforms in the energy sector.
On the 13th of September, the EU Commission has received the second payment request from Germany for €13.5 billion in grants (net of pre-financing) under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). The payment request concerns 16 milestones and 26 targets. It covers reforms in the areas of onshore and offshore wind energy, education and training.
Today, the EU Commission adopted its proposal for fishing opportunities for 2025 for the Mediterranean and the Black Seas. The proposal promotes the sustainable management of fish stocks and delivers on the political commitments made in the MedFish4Ever and Sofia Declarations.
Investments in line with Europe’s expected 2040 climate target would create important economic opportunities across sectors, according to a new report by Agora Energiewende. Building on these findings, the think tank outlines how public funding can help unlock the necessary private investments and overcome the ‘climate funding cliff’ after the EU’s recovery fund ends in 2026.
On 31 July 2024, ACER received a proposal from Transmission System Operators (TSOs) to amend the harmonised methodology for cross-zonal capacity allocation for the exchange of balancing capacity or sharing of reserves. Today, ACER opens a public consultation on the topic and invites stakeholders to submit their views by 14 October 2024.
A Meeting of Common Agricultural Policy Directors in Budapest focused on simplifying the Common Agricultural Policy, in line with the priorities of the Hungarian Presidency.
There is a 60 percent chance of La Niña conditions emerging towards the end of this year, according to a new Update from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). La Niña has relative short-term cooling impact on global climate. It generally has opposite impacts to El Niño. But longer-term global warming continues.
This IEA energy technology innovation policy guide supports decision-makers and analysts to identify examples of policies that could be translated to new country contexts and provide a basis for international exchange and co-operation.
Discussions at Agency’s headquarters in Paris address topics including oil and gas markets, renewables, investment and financing, critical minerals, clean technologies trade, and Artificial Intelligence.
We and use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your experience on our website. We may store and/or access information on a device and process personal data, such as your IP address and browsing data, for personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development. Additionally, we may utilize precise geolocation data and identification through device scanning.
Please note that your consent will be valid across all our subdomains. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time by clicking the “Consent Preferences” button at the bottom of your screen. We respect your choices and are committed to providing you with a transparent and secure browsing experience.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __stripe_mid | This cookie is set by Stripe payment gateway. This cookie is used to enable payment on the website without storing any patment information on a server. | |
| __stripe_sid | This cookie is set by Stripe payment gateway. This cookie is used to enable payment on the website without storing any patment information on a server. | |
| _abck | This cookie is used to detect and defend when a client attempt to replay a cookie.This cookie manages the interaction with online bots and takes the appropriate actions. | |
| _wpfuuid | This cookie is used by the WPForms WordPress plugin. The cookie is used to allows the paid version of the plugin to connect entries by the same user and is used for some additional features like the Form Abandonment addon. | |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Issued by Microsoft's ASP.NET Application, this cookie stores session data during a user's website visit. | |
| AWSALBCORS | This cookie is managed by Amazon Web Services and is used for load balancing. | |
| bm_sz | This cookie is set by the provider Akamai Bot Manager. This cookie is used to manage the interaction with the online bots. It also helps in fraud preventions | |
| cookielawinfo-checbox-analytics | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". | |
| cookielawinfo-checbox-functional | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". | |
| cookielawinfo-checbox-others | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". | |
| elementor | This cookie is used by the website's WordPress theme. It allows the website owner to implement or change the website's content in real-time. | |
| JSESSIONID | Used by sites written in JSP. General purpose platform session cookies that are used to maintain users' state across page requests. | |
| viewed_cookie_policy | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | |
| _ga_4L7PKQPHHV | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. | |
| _ga_T50H0MNN9J | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. | |
| _gat_gtag_UA_12289088_5 | Set by Google to distinguish users. | |
| _gcl_au | Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | |
| _gid | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| test_cookie | The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. |
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _mcid | No description available. | |
| _swa_u | This cookie is set by the provider Sitewit.com. This cookie is used for statistical report and analysis. | |
| ak_bmsc | No description available. | |
| AWSALB | AWSALB is a cookie generated by the Application load balancer in the Amazon Web Services. It works slightly different from AWSELB. | |
| ec_store_chameleon_font | No description available. | |
| FCCDCF | No description available. | |
| issuem_lp | No description available. | |
| lp_us_his | No description | |
| m | No description available. |