A key of the success of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries has been that they have based their economic and security policies on “common sense”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in a video message to a joint V4 parliamentary committee meeting on Friday.
European Central Bank Vice-President Luis de Guindos is self-isolating after testing positive for COVID-19 on Saturday. He isolated immediately after getting the result and is informing everyone with whom he has recently been in close contact. He has not been in close contact with President Lagarde in the past week. The Vice-President is already double-vaccinated, […]
EMA has endorsed a statement [LINK] by the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA) that urges all stakeholders, including researchers, pharmaceutical industry, healthcare professionals, health research funding agencies and research institutions, to continue their focus on developing therapeutics to treat and prevent COVID-19 in patients around the world.
The annual growth rate of the outstanding amount of debt securities issued by euro area residents was 4.3% in October 2021, compared with 4.1% in September. For the outstanding amount of listed shares issued by euro area residents, the annual growth rate was 2.2% in October 2021, compared with 2.4% in September.
Most Europeans live in cities and cities are Europe’s economic, cultural, and political hubs. Cities face environmental and climate challenges but also hold keys to realise Europe’s sustainability ambitions. Two new reports on urban sustainability, published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) today, combine several environment and climate themes, calling for better integration of policies […]
Campylobacteriosis was the most reported zoonosis in the EU in 2020, with 120,946 cases compared to more than 220,000 the previous year. It was followed by salmonellosis, which affected 52,702 people compared to 88,000 in 2019. The number of reported foodborne outbreaks also fell by 47%. These findings are based on the annual EU One Health […]
A new variant of the coronavirus, named omicron, arrived in Europe at the end of November, and although within a few days all countries had closed their borders to the countries of South Africa affected until then, the virus proved to be faster.
At its meeting on 2 December 2021, the General Board of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) assessed the key systemic risks in the European Union (EU), as well as public policy priorities to address them. The General Board noted that the risk of an abrupt broad-based asset price correction had increased further owing to continued […]
Today, the European Commission together with the European Environment Agency (EEA), are publishing a data tool – MapMyTree – for all organisations to join the pledge of planting three billion additional trees by 2030, register and map their planted trees to count the EU target. As part of the European Green Deal, the EU Biodiversity […]
The Committees for Risk Assessment and Socio-Economic Analysis support Germany’s proposal to restrict the use of undecafluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA) and related substances. The potential restriction is expected to reduce further environmental and human exposure to these chemicals resulting mainly from uses in food contact materials, textiles and fire-fighting foams.
