The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has called on the European Parliament (EP), the Council of the EU and Member States to urgently amend the 1976 Electoral Act in a way that guarantees that all EU citizens with disabilities have a genuine right to vote in the EP elections in 2024.
We invite you to relive some of the key moments of a virtual press conference on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2020, organised by the Press Unit on 2 December 2020.
On 2 December, the European Economic and Social Committee hosted a debate with Irish disability advocate and writer Sinéad Burke at its plenary session dedicated to the empowerment of persons with disabilities and their inclusion in all spheres of economic, social and political life in the EU and beyond.
On 1 January 2021, Portugal took over the presidency of the Council of the EU, with the motto “Time to deliver: a fair, green and digital recovery”.
EMA has published an overview of its key recommendations in 2020 on the authorisation and safety monitoring of medicines for human use.
The General Court confirms that there is no likelihood of confusion between the collective mark HALLOUMI, reserved for the members of a Cypriot association, and the sign ‘BBQLOUMI’ which serves to designate the products of a Bulgarian company.
The General Court erred in law in so far as it held that the action was inadmissible for want of standing on the part of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides refuted the statements of Foreign Secretary Tamás Menczer, who said that 14 European countries had already applied for the Chinese vaccination, writes hvg.hu.
The victims of a Slovak military plane crash in the Zemplén Hills near Hejce, in northern Hungary, were remembered on the 15th anniversary of the disaster, on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has urged that the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe special Ukraine mission should set up a permanent presence in Transcarpathia, where ethnic Hungarians are often become physically threatened and “supporting indigenous minorities is not a priority for the European Commission”.
