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EU SMEs can count on a fund of 47 million euros to protect their intellectual property rights and support the recovery from Covid-19 and for green and digital transitions for the next three years. The new fund was recently launched by the European Commission and the EU Office for Intellectual [...]

Support the internationalisation processes of small and micro Italian companies that operate or want to operate in the field of international tenders and strengthen their competitive capacity. This is the intention of TenderPlus, the project launched by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation together with ICE, the Agency [...]

From the cooperation among the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Agency for the abroad promotion and internationalisation of Italian companies and the Conference of Rectors of Italian, Universities "Smart Export - Digital Academy for internationalisation" is born: a high-level training project that allows entrepreneurs and professionals to [...]

The President of the European Commission von der Leyen and the President of the United States, Joe Biden, agreed on Sunday to begin discussions on a global agreement on sustainable steel and aluminium. This marks a new milestone in the transatlantic relationship and in the EU-US efforts to achieve decarbonisation [...]

Eni and BF Group join forces to develop research projects and sustainable cultivation for the production of biofuels and choose Sardinia as a field of experimentation. The joint venture - which provides shortly for the acquisition by Eni of a minority stake in BF Bonifiche Ferraresi and its entry into [...]

A memorandum of understanding has been signed for the promotion of Made in Italy products and the reduction of waste in the production of soft drinks. The agreement, signed by the Undersecretary of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, Francesco Battistoni, and Giangiacomo Pierini, President of Assobibe, a Confindustria association representing [...]

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced today a 1 billion euros contribution by the European Union to the global financial commitment for forests at the 26th UN Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow. This five-year support package from the EU budget [...]

A package of short and medium-term measures to respond to soaring energy prices and thus reach out to businesses and households. This is the response adopted by the European Commission, which has developed a series of actions aimed at reducing the impact of price increases on the economic system and [...]

Italy will join the Vienna Convention: this will result in lower costs and export barriers for the 7,500 Italian companies in the goldsmith industry. On 16 September, the Council of Ministers approved the draft law on the accession of the Italian Republic to the Convention on the control and marking [...]

The European Commission is inviting Member States and all other interested parties to comment on several proposals to amend the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER). The objective of the proposed review is to take into account changes in several sets of State aid guidelines currently being revised and to further [...]