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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 crisis to boost the recovery and enhance the EU’s open strategic autonomy. It proposes new measures ...

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 Europeans and EU institutions the long-sought reprieve to focus on recovery and the future. At its inception...

  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 falling behind in the new data-driven economy and is overdependent on the global leaders in the tech sec...

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 fundamental rights. They also facilitate the functioning of relevant EU IT systems, contribute to E...