The European Commission has asked European Union (EU) countries to extend for a further year the voluntary 15 % reduction in gas consumption agreed two years ago at the onset of the energy crisis. According to the institution in a statement, this measure was scheduled to expire on March 31.…
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Apple and Microsoft will not be subject to strict EU regulation
The European Commission has announced that iMessage, Apple's messaging service, and Bing, Microsoft's search engine, will not be subject to stricter regulation under digital platform regulations.
In addition, two additional Microsoft…
European Commission will intensify the fight against crimes due to hate messages on the Internet
Through a statement from the European Commission this Wednesday, the organization confirmed that it will intensify the fight against crimes that are committed by hate messages disseminated over the Internet.
The immediacy of the content…
The EU changed its expectations regarding GDP growth
In its autumn report, the European Commission cuts expectations for growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the euro area for 2023, placing them at 0.6 %, marking a decrease of 0.2 percentage points compared to the summer forecasts.…
European Commission (EC) ready to present proposal on frozen Russian assets
In a statement issued this Thursday, the European spokesperson for Justice, Christian Wigand, announced that the European Commission (EC) is "prepared" to present a proposal related to the use of frozen Russian public assets in order to…
Von der Leyen proposes creating an international organization on artificial intelligence
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, proposed this Sunday from New Delhi the creation of an international body on artificial intelligence (AI) to deal with the dangers involved in this new technology and also its…
Brussels wants to digitize social security procedures between EU countries
The European Commission has proposed this Wednesday to digitize the majority of processes related to social security to improve information exchanges between national institutions and speed up cross-border recognition processes with the aim…
Brussels will review the purchase of Autotalks by Qualcomm
The European Commission will review the acquisition of the Israeli semiconductor manufacturer Autotalks by the US multinational Qualcomm following requests from Spain and 14 other Member States to re-evaluate the merger proposal,…
The European Commission will invest 45,000 million euros in Latin America and the Caribbean
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has indicated that through the Global Gateway program they will invest 45,000 million euros in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2027.
It is a project that "comes with the…
Von der Leyen defends before Lula to close the Mercosur agreement before the end of the year
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, defended against the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, closing the trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur before the end of the year and thus…
Brussels proposes a single ethical body in the region after the Qatargate scandal
The European Commission has raised this Thursday the creation of a unified ethical body for the European institutions with the aim that the European Union has common standards in the operation of its main institutions, a step that comes…
Proposal to make the digital euro a reality could be ready at the end of June
The European Commissioner for the Economy, Paolo Gentiloni, has advanced this Monday that the European Commission expects to present at the end of June its proposal to make the digital euro a reality in international payments after a year…