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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 [...]

The Parliament finally adopted the climate law, which was informally agreed with the Member States in April, with 442 votes in favour, 203 against and 51 abstentions. This decision will give European citizens and businesses the legal certainty and predictability they need to plan for the transition decided on with [...]

The EU Commission has implemented new measures on the global approach towards research and innovation, which will be Europe’s strategy for international cooperation in a changing world. With it, the EU intends to take a leading role in supporting international research and innovation partnerships and provide innovative solutions to make [...]

Following the approval of the new regulation concerning all EU Member States’ resources, the Commission can now start to raise funds to finance Europe’s recovery through NextGenerationEU. To this end, the European Commission today announced that in 2021 it plans to issue long-term bonds worth approximately 80 billion euros, which [...]

The European Commission has proposed a new approach to a sustainable blue economy in the EU for industries and sectors related to the oceans, seas and coasts. A sustainable blue economy is crucial to achieving the objectives of the European Green Deal and to ensuring a green and inclusive recovery [...]

The European Commission has adopted the EU Action Plan: "Eliminating air, water and soil pollution" - one of the main objectives of the European Green Deal and the central theme of this year’s EU Green Week. The plan defines an integrated vision for 2050: a world in which pollution is [...]

The EU is moving towards a new code of conduct for the intelligent use of intellectual property. The European Commission has promised to update by 2022 the guiding principles for the valorisation of knowledge in order to achieve various objectives in the context of the development of the European Research [...]

The Council of the European Union has given the final green light to the adoption of the 330 billion euros cohesion package for the financial period 2021-2027. The package consists of a set of regulations governing the Structural and Investment Funds for the financing of regional and local projects aimed [...]

The European Commission has launched new actions in support of the cultural and creative sectors in Europe and in the rest of the world, following the adoption of the work programme for the first year of the Creative Europe 2021-2027 programme. In 2021, Creative Europe will allocate an unprecedented budget [...]

The deadline for Member States to adopt the new EU rules on copyright into national law has now expired. The new copyright directive protects creativity in the digital age, with concrete benefits for citizens, creative sectors, the press, researchers, educators and cultural heritage institutions across the EU. At the same [...]