The European Parliament and the Council have reached an agreement on the legislative proposal presented by the Commission to set up the European Fund for Strategic Investment. The (virtual) investment “offensive” As you may remember, the Juncker Commission started its mandate presenting what they called the “investment offensive“.The idea was to set up a fund […]
“Our world, our future, our dignity” is the catchphrase for the European Year for Development. 2015 is expected to be the watershed year for development with the deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the UN Special Summit on Sustainable Development Goals, and the Paris Climate Conference. Both a new beginning and a deadline, the European […]
Last week, the French President François Hollande has announced that nuclear French groups Areva and EDF (Électricité de France) need to merge their reactor businesses into a joint venture controlled by EDF Areva NP. The French Government controls more than 80% of both companies and has come to this merging decision because, after Japanese 2011 […]
In the framework of the EU Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (COSME), the call for proposals “Designer-based consumer goods” (COS-DESIGN-2015-3-03) has been opened for submissions. The call is intended to reduce the time-to-market for innovative solutions, to remove barriers to a wider application of creative solutions, and to improve […]
As mentioned in previous articles, the European Commission has stepped up the reaction to the current migration crisis. The European Agenda on Migration announced immediate and long term actions to “manage migration better”, some of them already proposed by the Commission few days later. Greatest criticism has been expressed on the proposal concerning the relocation […]
Clue: apparently its President in 2011 asked Greece to put up the Parthenon as collateral for the loan the country received from the EFSF. Yes, exactly, we are talking about Finland: the slowest growing country in the Euro area in 2015 according to the latest projections of the European Commission (excluding Cyprus which is forecasted […]
On the 6th of May the EU Commission presented its plans for the creation of a Digital Single Market (DSM). The European Commission has been banging on about the implementation of a Digital Single Market within the EU for quite a while, but now Vice-President for the Digital Single Market, Andrus Ansip, together with Commissioner […]
Good morning Mr Dell’Alba, could you give us a short presentation of your role in Confindustria? I am the Director of the Confindustria Delegation to the European Union, the eldest representative office of Italian industry in Europe. The Delegation, in fact, was established in 1958, thanks to the intuition of our predecessors who understood the […]
On the 30th of April, the European Commission published the call for proposals “Supporting Competitive and Sustainable Growth in the Tourism Sector“ (COS-TOUR-2015-3-04), which brings together in one document those who in the past have been treated as distinct calls. The specificity of each strand, however, has been preserved, since the call is divided into […]
On the 27th of May the European Commission adopted some proposals that were included in the European Agenda on Migration, the so called “first implementation package”. The Commission is indeed keen to show that it is trying to provide fast and concrete measures to address the current situation, because these first decision come only two […]
