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.
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published new data, collected annually from companies, on the production, import, export, destruction, and use of ozone-depleting substances as raw materials in the EU. The data show how the EU has met its obligations under the Montreal Protocol and tracks progress on the more ambitious EU Ozone Regulation.
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.
A new report by EFSA’s partners in the NAMs4NANO project proposes a system for promoting New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) to assess the potential food safety risks of nanoparticles.
The provisional agenda for the 17-18 October European Council meeting has three main topics. Read the analysis by the EU Parliament’s Think Tank EPRS on the major issues to be discussed at the EU Summit.
By the end of 2023, EU Member States had drawn down less than a third of the planned EU COVID-19 recovery funds. Only around half of the money transferred from Brussels to national capitals reportedly reached final recipients. Auditors even flag risks of funding absorption slowing further and projects not being completed as planned.
The EU Commission has approved the reintroduction of a Polish credit union liquidation scheme, including a budget increase by €770 million (PLN 3.3 billion). The purpose of the scheme is to facilitate the orderly liquidation of credit unions operating in Poland. The scheme will run until September 2025.
On September 1, the EU-Angola Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement (SIFA) has entered into force. This is the first-ever EU agreement on investment facilitation.
The Committee MEPs will vote on safety of toys (interinstitutional negotiations) and the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 (adoption of draft opinion in letter form).
This paper is part of EIOPA’s broader sustainability agenda to integrate environmental, social and governance risk assessment in the regulatory and supervisory framework. In particular, this report is a follow-up on the sensitivity analysis of climate-change related transition risks in the investment portfolio of European insurers published in 2020.
On 27 and 28 August 2024, delegations from the EFTA States and Ukraine met in Geneva for the second round of negotiations with the objective of modernising and expanding their free trade agreement (FTA).
As a response to the COVID pandemic, the EU launched the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), a nearly €700 billion euro fund made available to EU countries to address the economic and social impact of the pandemic, promoting green transition and climate targets. ECA auditors have examined whether these RRF goals have been met.
Migration flows from Africa to the EU have fluctuated over the years, peaking in 2014-2016. In October 2015, the European Commission created the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF) to address the root causes of irregular migration, instability, and internal displacements in Africa, and to coordinate the response of EU member states.
Delegations will find in the Annex a letter from Mr Fredrik L ÖFSTEDT, Antici Counsellor at the Permanent Representation of Sweden to the European Union, forwarding the letter from the Office of Mr Ulf KRISTERSSON, Prime Minister of Sweden, and its translation to English, suggesting Ms Jessika ROSWALL as Member of the Commission.
Letter from Poland to President-elect of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen suggesting Mr Piotr Serafin as Member of the EU Commission.
Letter from Czechia to President-elect of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, suggesting Mr Jozef Síkela as Member of the EU Commission.
The EU is coming to the middle of its multi-year budget cycle covering 2021 to 2027. Unprecedented challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, have called for significant policy and funding responses. The European Court of Auditors’ (ECA) prepares its annual audit on the EU budget, due to be published on 10 October 2024.
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 report was launched during a webinar on 20 June, where the European Blockchain Sandbox team shared an overview of best practices and answered audience questions.
Today, the Commission took part in an exercise called “Cyber Europe”, designed to test the preparedness in case of a large-scale cyber-attack on Europe’s energy sector.
The EU Commission is planning to gather input from financial services stakeholders to get an overview of how and for which purposes AI applications are used in the financial sector.
Although still awaiting its formal entry into force of the A.I. Act, expected for early August, the meeting was gathered to set the groundwork for its forthcoming implementation.
The European Commission decided to register two European Citizens’ Initiatives, entitled ‘Air-Quotas’ and ‘Stop Destroying Videogames’. What do they want to achieve?
The revised directive mainly aims to facilitate and accelerate the harmonised deployment of River Information Systems (RIS) on all the EU’s inland waterways in the context of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).
The Global Initiative on Virtual Worlds – Discovering the CitiVerse will define norms and principles to guide the governance of metaverse solutions in cities for areas such as urban planning, education, and municipal services.
The EU Commission has today launched a targeted consultation and a workshop series to seek input from stakeholders on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in finance. The initiatives cover use cases, benefits, barriers, risks and stakeholder needs.
The EU Council has approved conclusions on a European Court of Auditors’ (ECA) report aiming to strengthen EU’s efforts to achieve its road safety objectives.
The EU Commission is today launching the new EU Knowledge Center on preventing radicalization. This knowledge hub builds on the success of the Radicalization Awareness Network (RAN), which has contributed to raising awareness and sharing information between practitioners (since 2011) and policy makers (since 2021).
The provisional agenda for the 17-18 October European Council meeting has three main topics. Read the analysis by the EU Parliament’s Think Tank EPRS on the major issues to be discussed at the EU Summit.
Arrest warrants issued by the United Kingdom: The EU Court clarifies the conditions under which they may be executed in the European Union.
The Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs (COSAC) brings together the EU affairs committees of national Parliaments, as well as Members of the European Parliament. COSAC plenary meetings take place twice a year. EU Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi is Hungary’s member of the EU Commission, responsible for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy.
A Member State may reject an abusive application for authorisation, even if it has not correctly transposed the directive that provides for that option. The prohibition of abusive practices is a general principle of EU law, the application of which is not subject to a requirement of transposition.
The nuclear safety and security situation at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) remains highly challenging during the military conflict, including efforts to ensure adequate maintenance of key safety systems and other vital equipment, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said today.
The Regional Court of Bamberg, Germany, has sentenced fifteen members of a Dutch led organised crime group (OCG) that robbed a series of Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) in Germany, causing massive damage. Eurojust coordinated the investigations and judicial cooperation between the German and Dutch authorities.
The EU Council imposed restrictive measures on nine individuals and one entity responsible for acts that constitute serious human rights violations and abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and for sustaining the armed conflict, instability and insecurity in the Eastern DRC.
The EU Council appointed four new EU Special Representatives (EUSR) for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), the Great Lakes Region, Kosovo*, and the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia.
The Base is an organisation of right-wing extremists involved in terrorist acts, which was founded by Rinaldo Nazzaro in 2018. The sanctions are effective as of today.
EU High Representative/Vice-President (HR/VP) Josep Borrell met with Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi, in the margins of the ASEAN Regional Forum in Vientiane, Laos on 26 July.
China and Russia have agreed to further expand investment and energy cooperation to promote bilateral ties.
Ukraine receives the first payment of €1.5 billion generated from immobilised Russian assets. These extraordinary revenues generated by EU operators and held by central securities depositories from immobilised Russian sovereign assets were made available by Euroclear to the Commission as a first instalment on 23 July 2024.
The European Commission decided to open an infringement procedure by sending a letter of formal notice to Denmark, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Finland for failing to transpose into their national legislation the Directive (EU) 2024/242 amending Directive 2009/43/EC as regards the updating of the list of defence-related products.
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.
The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the acquisition of joint control of Immedica Pharma by Impilo, both of Sweden, and by KKR of the US. The transaction relates primarily to the commercialization of medicines for rare diseases and specialty care products.
The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €50 million Dutch scheme to compensate livestock farmers for voluntarily closing livestock husbandry sites in nature conservation areas in the Netherlands.
The EU Commission has authorised the mRNA vaccine ‘mResvia’, to immunise adults over 60 years of age against lower respiratory tract disease, which is caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection.
To maintain and strengthen its global leadership in clean tech, Europe must ensure that the sector continues to grow steadily throughout the rest of the decade.
The EU has reached its target of filling gas storage facilities to 90% of capacity well over 2 months ahead of the 1 November deadline, according to the latest figures released today by Gas Infrastructure Europe.
The Arctic is experiencing dangerous changes because of amplifying climate effects, warming at four times faster than the rest of the world. There is a growing inclination towards embracing sustainable solutions, notably in energy and resource extraction. But what would be the impact of such sustainable meassures on vulnerable communities?
With recent structural changes to world petroleum markets in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and shipping disruptions in the Red Sea, there is increased interest in how much refinery capacity may enter service within the next few years to meet rising demand.
The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a Danish scheme, with a budget of approximately €20 million (DKK 151 million), to support higher animal welfare standards for pigs.
Newly released nuclear power data for 2023 collected by the IAEA, paint a picture of a clean energy technology at a crossroads amid the emergence of a new global consensus to accelerate its deployment.
In 2022, hard coal for the first time was overtaken by solar energy in electricity generation in the EU. The proportion of solar energy in the EU’s total electricity production was 210,249 GWh compared with 205,693 GWh for hard coal.
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