Photo by Alicia Abeloos on Unsplash On Thursday 27 and Friday 28 April, representatives of international associations will gather for the 11th edition of the European Association Summit. It will take place in Brussels, where more than 2,400 associations have their headquarters. On Thursday evening, the Brussels Meetings Ambassadors will be honoured. The European Association Summit will address…
Photo by Justin Clark on Unsplash EU Member States have adopted an agreement to improve forest governance and help combat illegal logging in Guyana. The Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), which the EU and Guyana signed in Montreal last December, aims to strengthen law enforcement in the forestry sector and ensure that timber products exported to the EU have been…
Photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash The Commission has adopted a revision of the Erasmus+ Annual Work Programme for 2023 with a focus, it says, on learners and staff from Ukraine. The overall budget of the programme for this year has been revised upwards to a new total of €4.43 billion, the highest annual financial envelope ever reached…
Photo by Ben Moreland on Unsplash Laying hens should be housed in cage-free systems, concludes a new study by the Union’s scientific body, the European Food Safety Authority, adding that meat chickens need more space and must come from slow-growing breeds only. The scientists confirm that it is not possible to provide sufficient space in cages. They also note that…
The Commission and EU High Rep have unveiled for the first time a Joint Communication on a European Space Strategy for Security and Defence. Space systems and services in the European Union are,they say, “crucial” for the functioning of society and economy, as well as for security and defence. As such, the EU has identified…
Photo by Oleg Ivanov on Unsplash The EU has announced fresh new support for war-torn Ukraine. On Wednesday, the commission said it will ship 13,000 additional laptops, smartphones and tablets to the country. These have been gathered and will be delivered to Ukraine through the Commission-supported initiative “Laptops for Ukraine” scheme. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Commission has…
Photo by Pablo Merchán Montes on Unsplash Resistance of Salmonella and Campylobacter to commonly used antimicrobials is frequently observed in humans and animals, reveals a report issued today by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). However, simultaneous resistance to critically important antimicrobials for humans was generally detected at low levels, except for…
Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash The international community received evidence that Russia violated all possible taboos at the level of international law and the rules and customs of warfare in early April 2022, when the Ukrainian army liberated the Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Sumy regions of Ukraine. Foreign journalists and human rights defenders have received many indications that…
Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash To mark International Women’s Day (8 March), SMEunited has paid tribute to women entrepreneurs and their contribution to the European economy and society. The group, representing SMEs, said women entrepreneurs across Europe “invest their valuable time to represent SMEs at local, regional, national and European level.” According to their recent survey, the…
At the beginning of the year, a number of experts in leading publications such as The Hill, Washington Times and Politico predicted that Russia was trying to create a new area of instability in the South Caucasus, using the “Crimean model” that had already been tested in Ukraine. The region, which itself has plenty of…
