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The European Parliament has finally adopted the Fisheries Fund 2021-2027, to support the blue economy, protect biodiversity and promote international governance of the oceans. The new European Fund for Maritime Affairs, Fisheries and Aquaculture (Feampa) encourages EU countries to invest to make the fisheries and aquaculture sectors more competitive and to develop a sustainable blue economy, new m [...]

The European Commission today published a new technical guide on climate-proof infrastructure projects for the period 2021-2027. The guidelines will help to integrate climate considerations into future investments and the development of infrastructure projects, be they buildings, network infrastructure or a range of built systems and assets. This will enable European institutional and private inve [...]

The European Commission has published its latest report on the short-term prospects of EU agricultural markets. With significant progress in the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 across the EU, catering services have been reopened and travel restrictions have been gradually lifted. This should have a positive impact on tourism this summer and on EU food consumption in general. World commodity [...]

Within Horizon Europe, the largest European research and innovation programme (2021-2027), the Commission has selected 11 new projects worth €120 million to support and enable urgent research on coronavirus and its variants. This funding is one of the many research and innovation actions undertaken to combat coronavirus and contributes to the Commission’s overall action to prevent and mitigate the [...]

G20 Environment, reunited in Naples, has approved a "Communiqué" with the strategies to apply with regards to sustainable finance, marine litter, a net of Unesco environmental experts (a network which was wanted by Italy), an appeal for the protection and the restoration of the degraded soils, a sustainable water management, committing itself to pursuing equitable access to drinking water. The com [...]