Disinformation: How to recognise and tackle Covid-19 myths
The outbreak of the coronavirus has led to disinformation that hampers efforts to contain the pandemic. Read on to find out what you can...
Coronavirus: Commission boosts budget for repatriation flights and rescEU stockpile
European Commission has proposed to make €75 million
from the EU budget available to help Member States repatriate EU nationals and
to increase the budget of...
Commission issues guidelines to protect critical European assets and technology in current crisis
European Commission today issued guidelines to ensure a strong EU-wide approach to foreign
investment screening in a time of public health crisis and related economic
vulnerability. The...
Harmonizing and Improving Statistics in West Africa
The Board of the World Bank Group has allocated
today a total of $379 million in International Development Association (IDA)*
credits and grants to help harmonize...
UN expert raises alarm over migrant, asylum seeker ‘pushbacks’ at Turkey-Greece border
Greece must take immediate action to end the violence against migrants
and asylum seekers at the border between Turkey and Greece, an independent UN
human rights...
Africa: New project to flatten the Covid-19 curve and minimise social and economic slowdown
The Africa Centre for Disease Control (CDC), Resolve to Save Lives and
opinion and research company Ipsos have teamed up to support governments to
help flatten...
Coronavirus: Practical guidance to ensure continuous flow of goods across EU via green lanes
Commission issued new practical advice on how to implement its
Guidelines for border management, in order to keep freight moving across the EU
during the current...
COVID-19: Research package welcomed, EU needs to be better equipped in future
Crisis-response measures should be combined with a
long-term commitment to EU research programmes, says Research MEP.
"We applaud
the measures taken by Commissioner Gabriel and the pooling...
The EU’s outermost regions: Strengthened partnership bears fruit
European Commission adopted a report on progress made
under the 2017 Strategic Partnership with the EU's outermost regions, which strengthened
the cooperation between the EU outermost...
Coronavirus: EU standards for medical supplies made freely available to facilitate increase of production
In the context of the Coronavirus crisis, the Commission is working with
industry and Member States to maximise the availability of masks, gloves, gowns
and other...