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Member states can choose to increase the resources provided in the FEAD regulation for food aid and other basic assistance for those most in need.

Additional and more flexible funding to help those most in need

By: EBR | Thursday, January 21, 2021

Parliament voted today to continue making additional resources available in 2021 and 2022 in order to provide food and basic assistance to the most deprived

"Through the EU wide introduction of an agreed and standardised digital vaccine certificate template we can quickly open up again, reviving tourism and recreation, and allowing our citizens to move freely and without restrictions from country to country."

Mitsotakis: To get Europe moving again we must act now on vaccination certificates

By: EBR | Thursday, January 21, 2021

The curtailment of our freedom and prosperity during this dreadful pandemic has been historically unprecedented and painful

“Open RAN is about network innovation, flexibility and faster rollout. Deutsche Telekom is committed to its promotion, development and adoption to ensure the best network experience for our customers...”

Major European operators commit to Open RAN deployments

By: EBR | Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange S.A., Telefonica S.A., and Vodafone Group Plc are joining forces to support the rollout of Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) as the technology of choice for future mobile networks to the benefit of consumer and enterprise customers across Europe

"Opinion multiplier groups, youth groups and organisations will be able to participate in debates and events offered by the European Parliament like the European Youth Event."

UK and EU27 citizens in the UK to remain part of EP Communication programmes

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 19, 2021

The European Parliament reaffirms its will to continue to engage with young generations of UK citizens and EU27 citizens resident in the UK

"Typically, the “blame game” is underway but the fact is that Europe’s 450 million population desperately need to know that these vaccines are going to become available to them quickly."

EU commission lambasted over slow roll out of vaccines

By: EBR | Monday, January 18, 2021

Consider this: on the day the UK announced it had given the coronavirus jab to 1.5m of its citizens, there were some EU member states yet to vaccinate a single one of their citizens

“Setting the Standard” published by ACT Alliance EU, compares how EU Member States and institutions have sought to meet their climate finance commitments in recent years.

EU should set a joint and ambitious standard for climate finance

By: EBR | Monday, January 18, 2021

As COP 26 approaches, the EU needs to adopt a joint and ambitious approach to climate finance to ensure that EU countries stand by their financial commitments under the Paris Agreement

"While the Baltic States and Poland consider it a threat, Russia sees the sanctions as a ‘smokescreen’ for American attempts to sell its own gas. However, quick policy changes are not expected from the Biden administration."

European companies withdraw from Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline

By: EBR | Monday, January 18, 2021

The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline – which has received the green light from German authorities to restart construction work – is seeing a few companies withdraw from the project, including three this month alone

“We must stand up immediately to every violation of the independence of democratic institutions, . . . to every inflammatory and hateful speech by demagogues, to every disinformation campaign and fake news.”

Europe’s Weak Defense of Its Democracy

By: EBR | Wednesday, January 13, 2021

The storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump should be enough of a warning. EU leaders must speak up about the fragility of their own democracy and democratic institutions in Europe

“It is no longer acceptable in our view that platforms take some key decisions by themselves alone without any supervision, without any accountability, and without any sort of dialogue or transparency for the kind of decisions that they’re taking.”

‘No longer acceptable’ for platforms to take key decisions alone, EU Commission says

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 12, 2021

It is “no longer acceptable” for social media giants to take key decisions on online content removals alone, following the high profile takedowns of US President Trump’s accounts on Facebook and Twitter, the European Commission has said

"Establishing a common US-EU agenda on other issues than climate change will be tough."

The EU needs to update its ABC of external relations

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 12, 2021

The European Union’s New Year Resolution must be to brush up on its ABC of foreign policies

“Turkey has been trying to push forward its claims for 30 years. Unfortunately, with the Mitsotakis government, it did it within a few months.”

Former Greek FM: Without Western renewal, we’re heading for Chinese hegemony

By: EBR | Monday, January 11, 2021

The West has underestimated China’s rise, and the centre of gravity has switched from the Atlantic to the Pacific, where Europe has no role, Greece’s former Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Kotzias, one of Europe’s most experienced China analysts

“Several member states have identified that certain non-EU countries represent a particular cyber threat to their national interests based on previous modus operandi of attacks by certain entities or on the existence of an offensive cyber programme of a given third state against them.”

EU nations divided on 5G security, auditors say

By: EBR | Friday, January 8, 2021

EU nations are ‘progressing at difference paces’ in terms of security protocols introduced by the European Commission in order to ensure the safety of next-generation telecommunications networks

“I think that the countries of Southeast Europe, and above all the journalists there, but of course also politicians, have a big problem because they misjudge themselves – they have a very centrist view of the world. Even intellectuals, well-educated people think that the whole world revolves around Serbia or Croatia.”

EU enlargement in 2021: Moribund or revenant?

By: EBR | Thursday, January 7, 2021

In the Western Balkans, where all EU hopefuls (bar Turkey) are located, the year ahead will be dominated by Europe’s quest for a vaccine and efforts to restart the economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic

"When I took over as Governor of National Bank of Ukraine in July of this year, support of the banking sector was my top priority, not just to regain confidence in our country’s central bank, but to also help Ukraine through the Coronavirus storm."

Full steam ahead at National Bank of Ukraine

By: EBR | Thursday, January 7, 2021

Coronavirus has posed an unprecedented crisis for Ukraine’s economy and the global economy as a whole

“Command and control of the drones in the area of operation, usage exclusively to protect troops against armed attacks—it would be that simple.”

Why Germany’s Soldiers Are Denied Armed Drones

By: EBR | Thursday, January 7, 2021

The German Social Democrats are undermining both the safety of Germany’s armed forces abroad and Berlin’s reputation among allies by picking a fight over armed drones

"From the moment Johnson decided to give full support to the Leave campaign, he has at least been fairly consistent in his Brexit line."

‘The UK no longer has to circle the EU like a moon’

By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, December 28, 2020

The fact that Boris Johnson has maintained a consistent line in the Brexit saga earns him compliments in his own country

"To be eligible under the climate adaptation criteria of the taxonomy, an investment must address a physical climate risk. This could e.g. be an investment into new turbines for a fossil gas power plant facing water stress as a result of climate change."

Adaptation: a backdoor to the sustainable finance taxonomy for fossil gas?

By: EBR | Tuesday, December 22, 2020

While all eyes have been fixed on the EU sustainable finance taxonomy’s climate change mitigation threshold, the parallel process for climate adaptation has received less attention – to potential detrimental effects

“For this platform to be efficient and a partnership, which is not an aid program, we have to have an alignment of visions and work together. But key to this is going to be both continents need to be on board and all stakeholders on board.”

EU-Africa partnership needed for transformation of food systems, says experts

By: EBR | Tuesday, December 22, 2020

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the need for EU-African collaboration is more important than ever in the drive to strengthen and transform food systems, but care must be taken to make it an equitable partnership, experts have stressed

According to the deal, the plans should have a lasting impact on EU countries in both social and economic terms and provide for comprehensive reform and a robust investment package.

COVID-19: deal to give go-ahead to the new Recovery and Resilience Facility

By: EBR | Friday, December 18, 2020

On Friday, Parliament’s negotiators agreed with Council on the instrument designed to help EU countries tackle the effects and consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic

The European Commission wants to transform the way we produce and consume products. And when an initial strategy to do so wasn’t delivering as much as hoped, the EU executive gave it another shot earlier this year.

Product design policy will be key to circular economy, EU says

By: EBR | Friday, December 18, 2020

As the European Union seeks to transition to a ‘circular economy’, the policy focus in 2021 will turn to products: how they are designed, and why so many seem to be made to throw away