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Netherlands denies blocking Sassoli from coronavirus talks

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 15:38
The Netherlands has never said that European Parliament President David Sassoli should be excluded from talks on the EU's response to the coronavirus crisis, a Dutch spokesperson told EURACTIV.com following a report in Spanish newspaper El Pais.
Categories: European Union

Aerospace giants face massive virus disruption to order books

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 15:22
The economic crisis caused by the coronavirus is also threatening the aviation industry. While Boeing's production of commercial aircraft is virtually at a standstill, Airbus intends to downsize production. EURACTIV's partner La Tribune reports.
Categories: European Union

EP’s Strasbourg seat to host virus screening centre

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 14:21
The European Parliament's Strasbourg facilities will host a screening centre and a COVID-19 consultation centre, according to France's European minister Amélie de Montchalin. EURACTIV's partner Ouest-France reports.
Categories: European Union

EU, UN join forces to help Eastern neighbours fight organised crime

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 13:57
The EU and the UN's Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) yesterday (6 April) launched a programme to help Eastern Partnership countries - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine - claw back assets linked to organised crime.
Categories: European Union

COVID could turn Moria camp into ‘ticking time bomb’, aid organisations warn

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 13:55
The Greek authorities have largely sealed off Camp Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos to prevent a coronavirus outbreak as massive restrictions apply to its approximately 18,000 inhabitants. Aid organisations are raising the alarm about the conditions in the camp. EURACTIV Germany reports.
Categories: European Union

Commission to put forward updated MFF by end of April

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 13:04
The European Commission is planning to present an updated multi-annual financial framework proposal on 29 April, as part of the recovery strategy to tackle the economic fallout of the coronavirus, according to an internal document seen by EURACTIV.com.
Categories: European Union

COVID-19 teaches us about the need for a unified approach to health

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 12:27
Could World Health Day 2020 mark a milestone in global health history? Perhaps, but not in the way that one might immediately imagine, writes David S. Evangelista.
Categories: European Union

How to finance virus response in a sustainable way? Scale up synergies with the Green Deal

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 12:20
EU member states should not have to choose between financing the COVID-19 response, undertaking crucial long-term investments to tackle the climate crisis, and debt sustainability, write Irene Monasterolo and Ulrich Volz.
Categories: European Union

Lithium tipped for EU list of critical raw materials

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 11:59
The soft, silvery-white alkali metal is expected to enter the EU list of critical raw materials later this year because of its strategic importance to the automotive industry, EURACTIV has learned.
Categories: European Union

Council ready to start negotiations on bridging CAP divide

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 11:39
Agriculture sherpas rubber-stamped a partial negotiating mandate to discuss with MEPs the transition period that will allow EU farming subsidies to flow even without an agreement on post-2020 reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
Categories: European Union

Skyfall, carmakers plot for post-virus life & Belgian UFOs

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 10:50
Welcome to EURACTIV’s weekly Transport Brief – your one port of call for all the news moving the world and much more!
Categories: European Union

EU urged to bring building ‘renovation wave’ into recovery plan

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 09:20
The European Commission should make its future pandemic recovery plan conditional on commitments to the green transition, says Bendt Bendtsen, a former MEP who is now leading a Danish interest group lobbying for energy efficiency.
Categories: European Union

Gentiloni: Virus crisis highlights importance of digital tax

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 08:58
The strain imposed on Europe's economy as a result of the coronavirus outbreak highlights the importance of agreeing on a global framework for digital taxation, the EU's Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni has said.
Categories: European Union

Coronavirus secrets of the Faroes

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 08:57
The Faroe Islands has managed to test nearly 10% of its population for coronavirus and no one has died from the disease so far. Its virus strategy was undoubtedly helped by its remote location but the main reason for the rapid response is a surprising one: the humble salmon.
Categories: European Union

Airlines urge UN aviation body to rethink climate measures

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 08:56
Airlines are putting pressure on the UN to make it easier for them to curb emissions in the 2020s, as the industry reels from the collapse of air travel because of the coronavirus. EURACTIV's partner Climate Home News reports.
Categories: European Union

EU Parliament president sidelined in coronavirus talks

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 08:35
In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about German minister Maas and Scholz calling for greater solidarity, Romania extending its state of emergency and so much more.
Categories: European Union

Serbian NGO ‘Women in Black’ commemorate the siege of Sarajevo

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 08:31
Members of Serbian NGO Women in Black (Zene u crnom) commemorated on Monday the siege of Sarajevo on its 28th anniversary, N1 reported.  “The siege of Sarajevo by Serb armed formations came after Bosnia’s recognition as an independent country, on...
Categories: European Union

Farmers association and NGOs at odds over postponement of new EU food policy

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 08:31
Farmers association COPA-COGECA has backed the further postponement and debut of the Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy, due to mounting pressures faced by farmers over the COVID-19 outbreak, but this stance has been heavily criticised.
Categories: European Union

BELGRADE – Vučić plays the Chinese card

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 08:30
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić is playing the Chinese card as part of his political tactics to extract more from Serbia’s western partners, Atlantic Council research fellow Dimitar Bechev told RFE on Monday. “Vučić is saying what the people in Serbia...
Categories: European Union

ZAGREB – Media sector undermined

Tue, 04/07/2020 - 08:29
Journalism is threatened by a 2008-like crisis, while additional job cuts, cuts in journalism rights, as well as the decline in the value of work are on their way, the Union of Journalists of Croatia (SNH) warned in a statement,...
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