Navigating the Future: The Role of the Delegation of the Canary Islands in Brussels

Navigating the Future: The Role of the Delegation of the Canary Islands in Brussels

Does your appointment open a new stage in the Delegation of Canary Islands in Brussels or will continuing work continue? It is continuous. The Delegation was an office in its day when the autonomous communities were not allowed to be in Brussels as government delegations, that is why it was the office of Sofesa (current … Read more

European Commission Launches Campaign to Increase Vaccination for Cancer Prevention

European Commission Launches Campaign to Increase Vaccination for Cancer Prevention

Europe increases vaccination to prevent cancer. EC The European Commission (EC) announces new measures with vaccines to prevent cancer. The EC alleges that cancer is diagnosed every year in around 2.7 million people in the European Union and this figure is expected to increase in the future. The commission assures that around 40% of cancer … Read more

Brussels Authorizes Pfizer’s Omicron XBB.1.5 Variant Vaccine: Latest Updates and Information

Brussels Authorizes Pfizer’s Omicron XBB.1.5 Variant Vaccine: Latest Updates and Information

Brussels authorizes the adapted vaccine against Pfizer’s Omicron XBB.1.5 variant Following the positive recommendation issued this week by the European Medicines Agency (EMA in its acronym in English), the European Comission has authorized this Friday the marketing of the new vaccine adapted against the XBB.1.5 variant of covid19 developed by the BioNTech-Pfizer laboratory. This is … Read more

Excess of accumulated doses leads EU to renegotiate covid vaccine contracts

The countries of the European Union (EU) no longer want to pay for the doses of covid-19 that they do not need. With almost 80% of European adults having at least one dose of the vaccine (March 2023), the European Commission has been forced to renegotiate with pharmaceutical companies the agreements for the advance purchase … Read more

European institutions prohibit their workers from installing TikTok for security reasons

The European Commission and the Council of the European Union have prohibited this Thursday the use of the TikTok application on the corporate devices of their employees and on affiliated personal devices such as protection measure against cybersecurity actions and threats. At first, it was the European Commission that made the decision. However, after that … Read more

Arcelor obtains the first aid for decarbonization while waiting for the bulk

ArcelorMittal has obtained the first European aid for the green transformation plan from its factory in Gijón. At the moment they are only 7.5 million euros between direct subsidies and loans to address environmental improvements at the future electric steel mill. The company is still awaiting the approval of the European Commission for aid of … Read more

Solidarity with kyiv on the eve of Europe Day

Waving flags and in solidarity with kyiv, the European Union opened the doors of its institutions to the public this Saturday on the eve of the Europe Day celebrations. Like every May 9, Brussels celebrates peace and unity in Europe, following the historic “Schuman Declaration”, which laid the foundations for a new form of political … Read more

Millán Mon MEP (PP) calls in the European Parliament for a super-reduced VAT for seafood

In a statement sent to the media, the also member of the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament points out that he demanded more support from the European Union to facilitate the adaptation of the sea-industry chain to climate change, “without a doubt” one of the ” major challenges “facing the fisheries and aquaculture sectors. … Read more

Brexit: Brexit and Competition Law: a step back

After the end of the transitional period foreseen in the agreement to withdraw the United Kingdom from the European Union of January 24, 2020 (the withdrawal agreement), the United Kingdom ceased to have a right of access to the single European market. Likewise, European companies have no right of access to the British market as … Read more

Spain receives another tranche of 1,000 million of the Brussels loan for ERTE

Related news The European Commission has paid Spain a third tranche of 1,030 million euros of soft credit granted by the EU to finance the Records of Temporary Employment Regulation (ERTE) caused by the Covid-19 crisis. Our country is the second beneficiary -behind Italy- of the new background Sure to preserve employment in the context … Read more