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How the data wave in healthcare will help improve patient outcomes [Promoted content]

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 12:00
Healthcare has never been more accessible, intelligent or dynamic. The increased use of advanced data analytics, connected devices, genomics and AI is ushering in a new era with the potential for real breakthroughs in patient outcomes and operational efficiencies across...
Categories: European Union

Commission to present revamped ePrivacy proposal

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 11:46
The European Commission will present a revised ePrivacy proposal as part of the forthcoming Croatian Presidency of the EU, Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton announced on Tuesday (3 December), after previous talks failed to produce an agreement among member states.
Categories: European Union

Truckmaker Iveco hitches wagon to electric and hydrogen power

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 11:27
Italian truckmaker Iveco on Monday (2 December) joined the alternative propulsion party as it unveiled its first electric vehicle, which it will build in partnership with US startup Nikola Motor Co.
Categories: European Union

Euronauts in space, rail rights result & a big boar bang

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 10:50
Welcome to EURACTIV’s weekly Transport Brief – your one port of call for all the news moving the world and much more!
Categories: European Union

Austria on course to become first EU country to ban glyphosate

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 10:39
Austria is set to be the first EU country to ban glyphosate, having completed the EU’s single market notification procedure on Friday.
Categories: European Union

Multi-vector diplomacy

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 10:25
Lodged between China and Russia, Kazakhstan, a country with huge territory and a modest population, pursues a 'multi-vector' foreign policy, positively engaging with its big neighbours, but also with the US and the EU and the global community.
Categories: European Union

Africa relations are ‘not equal’, leaders warn EU

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 10:07
As the field of competitors for investing in Africa becomes more crowded, the EU will have to quickly improve its offer. The challenge for Ursula von der Leyen's new European Commission will be to turn the so-called ‘partnership of equals’ promised by her predecessor into something concrete.
Categories: European Union

Ex-finance minister: Gentiloni’s SDG-oversight will be ‘key’

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 09:47
Italy's former finance minister Domenico Siniscalco insists that sustainable finance is going from strength to strength and that it will hold the key to effectively combating climate change. He also believes that compatriot Paolo Gentiloni will play a crucial role.
Categories: European Union

US vows 100% tariffs on French Champagne, cheese, handbags over digital tax

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 09:32
The US government on Monday (2 November) said it may slap punitive duties of up to 100% on $2.4 billion in imports from France of Champagne, handbags, cheese and other products, after concluding that France's new digital services tax would harm US tech companies.
Categories: European Union

Sustainable finance: Going green’s crucial ingredient

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 09:00
The scale of the energy transition required in Europe and the wider world is huge, as is the financial bill attached to the shift. Companies are already starting to align their business models around green policies but is there appetite...
Categories: European Union

Italy’s Conte rebukes opposition as debate over ESM reform heats up

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 08:58
Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte called upon the right-wing opposition to act responsibly in talks over the reform of the eurozone bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM).
Categories: European Union

ECB to review its mandate with ‘open mind’, Lagarde says

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 08:57
The European Central Bank (ECB) will embark on a strategic review of its mandate and instruments to achieve its inflation target of 2% with an “open mind”, its president Christine Lagarde said on Monday (2 December).
Categories: European Union

Greek PM says Turkey undermines EU climate change efforts

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 08:54
MADRID. With its illegal activities in the Eastern Mediterranean, Ankara is undermining EU efforts to tackle climate change, Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at a meeting with other EU leaders on the sidelines of the COP25 climate summit in Madrid.
Categories: European Union

Facebook renews calls for EU regulation in ‘fight for the soul of the internet’

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 08:49
An ideological 'fight' is tacking place worldwide between those who want to restrict open access to the internet and those who want to maintain a free and open web within necessary regulatory frameworks, Facebook's VP for Global Affairs, Nick Clegg, has said.
Categories: European Union

EU turns to methane emissions in fight against global warming

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 08:42
The European Commission is working on a first-ever methane strategy that could play a “very significant role” in enabling the EU increase its climate ambitions for 2030, EU officials have said.
Categories: European Union

Zelenskiy offers curtain-raiser ahead of ‘Normandy summit’

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 08:35
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met with representatives of foreign media ahead of the 9 December summit in Paris, which will return to the effort of finding a solution to the crisis in Eastern Ukraine after a long break.
Categories: European Union

What should the EU do about South Caucasus? Here are some proposals

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 08:00
It appears the South Caucasus is not a foreign policy priority of the new European Commission. But it should be, write Dennis Sammut and Amanda Paul.
Categories: European Union

Unsurprisingly, Russia refuses Dutch request to hand over MH17 suspect

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 07:53
Russia has refused a Dutch request to hand over a suspect in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, in violation of European law, prosecutors said on Monday (2 December). Until recently the suspect was in Ukrainian custody, but was sent to Russia in a prisoner swap.
Categories: European Union

Goulard’s indictment confirms EU Parliament doubts

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 07:52
France's first pick for the EU Commissioner post, Sylvie Goulard, has been indicted by the Court of Paris for embezzlement of funds in the employment of EU parliamentary assistants, raising questions about French President Emmanuel Macron defending her candidacy after MEPs rejected her on ethical grounds. EURACTIV France reports.
Categories: European Union

Caruana Galizia’s family wants Malta police to probe PM

Tue, 12/03/2019 - 07:37
The family of murdered investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia called Monday (2 December) for police to investigate Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, as a European Parliament delegation was set to arrive in Malta on a fact-finding mission.
Categories: European Union

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