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The European Commission has launched "Women TechEU", a support measure aimed at supporting 50 women-led start-ups through mentoring and mentoring to accompany female entrepreneurs on a path of training and business development. The first call for proposals will be launched in June 2021 with the support of the European Innovation [...]

The European Commission has launched "Horizon IP Scan", a free advice service for SMEs to help them manage and enhance intellectual property in collaborative R&I projects. The new service is designed for start-ups and SMEs involved in collaborative research projects under one of the EU’s research programmes, Horizon 2020 or [...]

The European Council approved the new Digital Europe 2021-2027 programme which, with a budget of 7,588 billion euros will stimulate digital transformation by providing funding for the introduction of state-of-the-art technologies in key areas such as artificial intelligence, supercomputing, and cyber security. Digital Europe will finance projects in five areas [...]

The European Union and the United States have concluded negotiations to adjust the agricultural quotas of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) of the European Union, following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU. This is the culmination of two years of negotiations within the WTO to divide these [...]

Clearer energy labels and spare parts of domestic appliances available longer on the market. These are the changes that have entered into force since 1 March 2021 in the EU to make life easier for consumers in the Member States and to invest in eco-compatibility. We start from the EU [...]

The European Commission adopted today the first strategic plan for Horizon Europe, the EU’s new research and innovation programme worth 95.5 billion euros in current prices. The strategic plan is new to Horizon Europe and sets out the strategic guidelines for investment guidance in the first four years of the [...]

The European Parliament has finally approved the Eu4health 2021-2027 programme, to prepare EU health systems more rigorously for future pandemics and health threats. The new Eu4health programme, with a budget of 5.1 billion euros, will make a contribution in those areas where the EU can clearly add value, thus complementing [...]

In recent days, the EU has published the first Implementing Regulations for the preparation and carrying out of the new Operational Programmes co-financed by the European Structural Funds under the Cohesion Policy 2021-2027. This is an overall legislative package that makes 330 billion euros available to Member States. The package [...]

The Customs Agency has published a handbook to guide e-commerce traders with Great Britain after Brexit. The document shall contain the necessary details for the preparation of the document intended for the final consumer, together with the charges and costs incurred by customs and the shipping costs to be borne [...]

The European Commission has updated the guidelines for the preparation of the national plans "for recovery and resilience" to be submitted by each Member State to make use of the 672.5 billion euros of the Next Generation EU programme, the European Instrument designed to guide recovery from the economic crisis [...]