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Historical economic agreement between the European Union and China: after seven years of negotiations and thirty-five mediation meetings, on 30 December 2020 Brussels and Beijing announced the "Comprehensive Agreement on Investment" (CAI), a bilateral agreement for economic investment worth 600 billion euros. The agreement, the details of which will have [...]

The second wave of the pandemic is holding back the recovery of the European economy. This is what emerges from Istat’s new EURO-ZONE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK report. "After the marked increase in the third quarter - the press release accompanying the document reads - economic activity in the euro area is [...]

The Commission has approved the Italian scheme which allocates 130 million euros to airlines to compensate for the damage suffered as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Once the green light will be given by the Commission, the Italian Government will be able to provide support in the form of [...]

The pandemic leads the island tourist industry into a deep rethinking of Sardinia as a destination and of the way of promoting it. The challenge for the end of the crisis starts from Santa Teresa di Gallura; beaches, restaurants, accommodation facilities, a strong relationship with host communities: COVID-19 redesigns the [...]

The name is “Care & Industry Together Against Corona”; it’s a platform open to the meeting between supply and demand of innovative products and solutions, to share knowledge and practices during this phase of health and socio-economic crisis caused by the spreading of the COVID-19 contagion. Enterprise Europe Network, the [...]

EU’s Transport Commission guidelines affirm it’s crucial to ensure the aerial transport of the basic goods; Member States are exhorted to support said air transport operations during COVID-19 crisis. Basically, it all revolves around recommendations in favour of operational and organisational measures ensuring the maintenance of the flows of essential [...]

The agri-food sector is under special surveillance by EU at the time of coronavirus. For the time being, one certainty: the sector “Is showing resilience, and continues to provide European citizens safe, high-quality food”. Word of European Commission, which continues to monitor all agricultural markets and trade in foodstuffs through [...]

European Commission promoted and started the selection of 18 projects aimed at developing rapid diagnosis for COVID-19. Horizon 2020, the Community’s research and innovation programme made available a total of €48million and a half towards the 18 projects. One hundred and forty research teams throughout Europe are working together to [...]

The objectives of “LIFE”, the programme designed by the European Commission, include saving the Earth from climate change, improving the quality of life, protecting the environment and the nature, and connecting the projects to solutions that can help managing pandemics like the one the world is facing these days. The [...]

ICE, the Agency for the abroad promotion and the internationalisation of the Italian enterprises, reaches out to companies and takes a series of extraordinary measures to mitigate the effects of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 emergency. ICE’s planned measures include the cancellation of the participation costs to promotional initiatives [...]