The Commission adopted yesterday a report on the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) which reveals that, while the EU’s framework for marine environmental protection is one of the most comprehensive and ambitious worldwide, persistent challenges remain, such as excess nutrients, underwater noise, plastic litter, and other types of pollution as well as unsustainable fishing.
The armies of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland proved to be instrumental during the recent coronavirus epidemic, defence ministers of the group concluded, warning that it would be a mistake to reduce military spending with regard to the economic impact of the virus, at a meeting in Prague.
Yesterday, just over two years after its entry into application, the European Commission published an evaluation report on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Several international train services are resuming from July, while the number of services currently operating to Austria and Germany will increase, the national rail operator, MÁV, said.
There is significant potential to increase recycling across Europe for municipal, construction and electronic waste according to a European Environment Agency briefing released today. Compared to current recycled amounts, this potential can double recycling for municipal and electronic waste and increase it by 30 % for construction and demolition waste.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has congratulated Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić on his SNS party’s “historic victory” in Serbia’s parliamentary and local elections held at the weekend.
The novel coronavirus pandemic has been a stress test for governments, local communities and economies all over the world, State Secretary Zoltán Kovács said in a BBC programme.
Yesterday the European Commission released the results of its fifth evaluation of the 2016 Code of Conduct on countering illegal hate speech online.
British police declared on Sunday that a stabbing spree which occurred in Reading the previous night was a “terrorist incident”.
On Friday, MEPs increased the crisis support that EU states should soon be able to pay to farmers and agri-food SMEs from the EU rural development fund.
