Europe is not fully benefitting from advanced technologies to innovate and remain competitive. In 2016, the European Commission launched the Digitising European Industry (DEI) initiative to boost the digitalisation of EU businesses. Despite the Commission’s efforts to support national authorities, progress of the initiative has been uneven among the Member States, according to a new […]
High availability across all drug types, drug production within Europe and highly potent substances are among the concerns addressed today by the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) in its European Drug Report 2020: Trends and Developments (1). In its latest annual review — marking 25 years of monitoring — the agency describes the drug situation at the end of 2019, along […]
National legislation making the repeated short-term letting of accommodation to a transient clientele which does not take up residence there subject to authorisation is consistent with EU law. Combating the long-term rental housing shortage constitutes an overriding reason relating to the public interest justifying such legislation. Cali Apartments SCI and HX each own a studio […]
By decision of 8 October 2014,1 the European Commission approved aid which the United Kingdom is planning for Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, located in Somerset, on the United Kingdom coast (‘Hinkley Point C’), with the aim of creating new nuclear energy generating capacity. Hinkley Point C is scheduled to enter into service in […]
A Spanish athlete is being applauded on social media after he sacrificed a top tier win in the 2020 Santander Triathlon to give it to a competitor who took a wrong turn on the course. British athlete James Teagle was on course to win third place in the competition in Spain last weekend when he […]
Italians will head to the polls on Sunday to vote in a referendum on the size of parliament and in regional elections across the country. Voting will take place on Sunday and Monday in the first election since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country. The referendum will decide whether parliament is cut form 945 members […]
Thousands took to the streets of German cities on Sunday urging the European Union to take action on the asylum seekers left without shelter after the Moria camp blaze on the Greek island of Lesbos. Protesters in Berlin were joined by the aunt of Alan Kurdi, the 3-year-old Syrian boy who became a tragic symbol […]
The European Commission, in cooperation with OECD International Transport Forum (ITF), has been providing support to Estonia through the Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP) to help prepare a new transport and mobility development plan for the period 2021-2035. The result of the support project, an analysis of the transport sector in Estonia, was presented today during an event in […]
In line with the European Green Deal and the EU’s objective to become the first climate neutral economy by 2050, the Commission adopted today revised EU Emission Trading System State aid Guidelines in the context of the system for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading post-2021 (the “ETS Guidelines”). They will enter into force on 1 January 2021 with the […]
A rare edition of Shakespeare’s last play has been found in a Scottish Catholic college in Spain. The Two Noble Kinsmen, written by Shakespeare with John Fletcher, was found by a researcher investigating the work of the Scots economist Adam Smith. The 1634 volume could be the oldest Shakespearean work in the country. In the […]
