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5 hours ago Today, the Commission updates the EU Industrial Strategy to ensure that its industrial ambition takes full account of the new circumstances following the COVID-19 crisis and helps to drive the transformation to a more sustainable, digital, resilient and globally competitive economy. The updated Strategy reaffirms the priorities set out in the March 2020 Communication, published the day before the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, while responding to the lessons learned from the cr...

Europe Proved It Can Innovate During the Pandemic. Now It Has to Figure How to Benefit From It.

Date: 29/04/2021 When the dust finally starts settling from the COVID-19 crisis, von der Leyen will have to refocus on her original agenda. Will she deliver? Fast-forward five months, Commission President von der Leyen will deliver her second State of the Union address. In effect, it will be her mid-mandate speech and chance to turn the corner from her disappointing management of the pandemic. New waves of the virus might still hit, but by then, vaccinations levels will likely offer European...

  Robot Franziska cleans the floor as a replacement for the missing cleaning personnel due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic during a three-week test phase at the Neuperlach hospital in Munich, Germany, January 25, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] The European Union outlined plans in March for an ambitious Digital Decade to transform the 27-state bloc by 2030, its latest move in pursuit of what has become known as "tech sovereignty". The initiative reflected concerns that Europe is fall...

Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Agencies’ Network Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Agencies’ Network The JHA Agencies’ Network has an important role to play in Europe. It connects the EU Agencies protecting the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Together, the JHA agencies contribute to the implementation of EU’s objectives in the fields of migration, asylum and external border management, the fight against organised crime, drug trafficking and terrorism, gender equality and respect for...

Thank you for including this important issue on the plenary agenda. Media are not just an economic sector, but an important p... European Commission News Brussels, 10 Mar 2021 "We want people to take the lead on issues that matter to them and affect their everyday lives," said Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission at the signing ceremony of a Joint Declaration on the Conference on the Future of Europe. European Commission Speech Brussels, 10 Mar 2021 Thank you. The colleg...

The European Commission welcomes the agreement reached by the European Parliament and the Council on the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) proposal, worth …

Europes Digital Decade: Commission sets the course towards a digitally empowered Europe by 2030

Today we are presenting a vision and clear avenues to make this a successful Digital Decade for all Europeans.

Amid a global shortage of semiconductors, as well as tensions between China and the U.S., the bloc believes it is time to improve its digital sovereignty.