The European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) asked today to the EU “a robust industrial plan” so as not to lose competitiveness, which includes financing, incentives and access to raw materials, as well as the creation of demand for electric vehicles and the deployment of electric charging and hydrogen refueling points. “The manufacturers of automobiles of […]
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World Bank estimates damage to vital Gaza infrastructure at US$18.5 billion
He World Bank (WB) maintains that the conflict between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas has caused some US$18.5 billion in damage to vital infrastructure in the Palestinian enclave of Loopaccording to a report released Tuesday. This is equivalent to 97% of the combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the occupied Palestinian territories of the […]
Climate change will increase inequality between Mediterranean European regions and others
He climate change will increase inequalities between the regions of the European Union and will especially affect those of the Mediterranean, the coasts and the East, according to a report from the European Comission published this Wednesday. The ninth Brussels Cohesion Report reviews the progress made to reduce gaps both between regions and between EU […]
Google makes significant changes to comply with EU antitrust law
Google said this Monday that he has already introduced “significant changes” in the operation of its services, after the European Commission today opened an investigation against its parent company (Alphabet), Apple and Meta for suspecting that they are failing to comply with the new antitrust regulations of the European Union. “To comply with the Digital […]
Baltÿa, the giant Galapagos tortoise named by the EU
Baltÿa is the name that a giant tortoise received this Thursday. Galapagos barely a year old, baptized and sponsored by the commissioner of EnvironmentOceans and Fisheries European Union (EU)the Lithuanian Virginijus Sinkevicius. As part of his tour of South America, which included visits to Paraguay, Bolivia and Ecuador, Sinkevicius arrived this Thursday at the Ecuadorian […]
Von der Leyen: “Nuclear technologies can play an important role”
The president of the European Comission, Ursula von der Leyentoday supported the contribution of nuclear energy to the decarbonization of the economy, despite the division that atomic generation generates within the European Union. “Nuclear technologies can play an important role in clean energy transitions”said Von der Leyen in her speech at the first Nuclear Energy […]
62% of world wine production comes from the European Union
62% of production winegrowing world comes from the European Union (EU), where the sector employs almost 3 million people and where it reached a contribution of 130,000 million euros to the GDP of the community club in 2022, as announced this Wednesday by the European Committee of Wine Companies (CEEV). These data, which are the […]
European Union now has a law that regulates the use of AI
The plenary session of European Parliament approved this Wednesday an ambitious regulation on the use of artificial intelligence in the EU, in the last step before its formal adoption throughout the bloc. In the plenary session this Wednesday, the law obtained broad support of 523 votes in favor, 46 against and 49 abstentions. The original […]
European Union announces that it evacuated its staff from Haiti
The European Union announced this Monday that it evacuated its staff from Haitiwhere the capital, Port-au-Prince, is going through a serious security crisis following a spiral of violence unleashed by armed gangs that confront the police. “We have removed EU staff from Haiti,” Peter Stano, spokesman for the diplomatic division of the European Commission, the […]
French government wants to take the fight over abortion to the European Union
Two days after the French Legislature voted in favor of introducing the voluntary interruption of the pregnancy in the Constitution, the spokesperson for the Executive, Prisca Thevenot, assured this Wednesday that they want to raise “the fight against abortion at the European level.” In a press conference at the end of the Council of Ministers, […]