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On 16 July 2021, with the adoption by the European Commission of the proposal for a Council recommendation for a "Pact for Research and Innovation in Europe", the European Research Area (ERA) began to take shape. The Pact defines priority and shared areas in which EU countries will have to [...]

The ECB has launched technical tests for a Community digital currency. The Governing Council of the European Central Bank has started the analysis phase of the project for a digital euro. The 24-months analysis phase will address key issues related to the definition of technical characteristics and distribution. A digital [...]

Yesterday the Commission adopted a package of decisions to support the competitiveness and innovation capacity of the EU defence industry. The adoption of the first annual work programme of the European Defence Fund (EDF) paves the way for the immediate launch of 23 calls for proposals totalling 1.2 billion euros [...]

The European Commission recently adopted the Horizon Europe programme, which will invest 14.7 billion euros in 2021-2022 to accelerate the green and digital transition of Member States. Funding will be used on a number of objectives: to support European researchers with scholarships, training courses and exchanges; to build more connected [...]

The European Commission, in its first operation under Next Generation EU, raised 20 billion euros through a 10-year bond maturing on 4 July 2031 to finance Europe’s recovery from the coronavirus crisis and its consequences. This is the largest institutional bond issue ever made in Europe, the largest institutional transaction [...]

The Digital Skills and Jobs Platform, a single point of access for the collection of high-quality information and resources on digital skills and ICT professions across Europe, has been online for a few weeks. It is an initiative of the European Union and brings together the entire community of coalitions [...]

Italy starts the Covid-19 Green Certification that attests either the vaccination against Sars-Cov2, or the negative result of an antigenic or molecular swab carried out in the last 48 hours, or the recovery from the infection. The free document, in digital and printable format, facilitates in our country the participation [...]

Yesterday, 28 June, the Agrifish EU Council in Luxembourg gave the green light for the proposal to reform the Common Agricultural Policy after 2020, in the wake of three years of negotiations and following the agreement reached in the Trilogue between the three European institutions last Friday in Brussels. Important [...]

The European Commission has launched the EU Knowledge Valorisation Platform, a digital space providing an interactive forum to stimulate cross-border cooperation and improve the wide circulation of research results in society and the economy. 'The platform will enable the sharing of best practices, knowledge and skills, thereby improving policies and [...]

European countries can count on 33.71 billion euros to be spent from 2021 to 2027 to finance the development of sustainable and highly efficient transport, digital and energy infrastructures. It is the Connecting Europe facility 2.0 (CEF 2.0), an investment programme approved two days ago by the European Council, now [...]