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- Banking rules revised to help COVID recovery — 25 June 2020, 00:24 CET
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The EU agreed to temporarily adapt its banking rules Wednesday in order to maximise the capacity of banks to lend money and support households and businesses to recover from the COVID-19 crisis.
- Brexit brings no benefits, no-deal will hit manufacturing hard: report — 30 June 2020, 00:04 CET
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An EU-UK no-trade deal would have a big negative effect on British manufacturing, says a report Wednesday, particularly on volume car production, as it tries to recover from the slump caused by Covid-19.
- Pandemic recovery the focus for EU's innovation performance — 24 June 2020, 11:08 CET
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Europe's innovation performance continues to improve, surpassing the United States, an EU report said Tuesday, with the focus of research activities being on overcoming the coronavirus pandemic.
- Importance of China to EU's COVID recovery underlined at summit — 24 June 2020, 17:53 CET
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The importance of the EU's trading relationship with China for recovery from COVID-19 was underlined at a video conference summit Tuesday but Hong Kong and human rights was high on the agenda.
- EU signs aviation agreement with Japan — 23 June 2020, 23:59 CET
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The EU and Japan signed an agreement on civil aviation safety Monday, with the aim of boosting EU cooperation with Japan and reinforcing the competitiveness of the EU's aviation industry.
- Social media platforms improve action against hate speech — 24 June 2020, 00:22 CET
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Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have improved action on countering illegal hate speech online, says a Commission report, but better transparency and user feedback is still needed.
- MEPs display unwavering support for EU position in Brexit talks — 18 June 2020, 23:44 CET
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With little time left to agree the UK's future relationship with the EU, MEPs on Thursday said a deal on a level playing field and on fisheries would be needed if the European Parliament is to give its consent.
- MEPs greenlight criteria for sustainable investments — 23 June 2020, 00:31 CET
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Financial products that claim to be sustainable will have to prove it, following the European Parliament's green light Thursday to new rules aimed at preventing 'greenwashing' and boosting green investments.
- EU seeks to bolster trade defence again foreign state-subsidised takeovers — 18 June 2020, 23:44 CET
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The EU Commission adopted Wednesday a White Paper dealing with distortive effects of foreign subsidies in the Single Market, in a bid to defend European companies from foreign state-subsidised takeovers.
- EU looks for joint breakthrough in coronavirus vaccine — 18 June 2020, 20:39 CET
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The EU Commission presented Wednesday plans for a joint European approach to the development, manufacture and deployment of vaccines against COVID-19, and a permanent solution to the pandemic.
- EU states agree interoperability solution for mobile tracing apps — 16 June 2020, 18:17 CET
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EU states, with Commission support, agreed Tuesday a set of technical specifications for safe exchange of information between national contact tracing apps based on a decentralised architecture.
- EU plans for relaunch of European tourism — 16 June 2020, 17:59 CET
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The EU cranked up plans to relaunch tourism in Europe Monday with the launch of 'Re-open EU', an online platform with information on borders and available transport and tourism services in Member States.
- Brussels opens antitrust probe into Apple Pay — 17 June 2020, 23:51 CET
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The European Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation Tuesday to assess whether Apple's conduct in connection with Apple Pay, such as its terms and conditions, violates EU competition rules.
- EU and UK agree new push for Brexit deal in July — 16 June 2020, 00:32 CET
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EU leaders and British prime minister Boris Johnson agreed in a videoconference Monday to intensify Brexit talks in July to create the best conditions for concluding and ratifying a deal by the end of 2020.
- Brussels looks to remove travel restrictions to EU on 1 July — 16 June 2020, 00:33 CET
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The EU announced Thursday that it is making concrete preparations for the lifting of travel restrictions with countries whose health situation is similar to the EU's and for resuming visa operations.
- Euro candidates still to meet EU convergence demands — 11 June 2020, 23:00 CET
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The European Commission published the 2020 convergence report Wednesday, in which it provides its assessment of the progress non-euro area Member States have made towards adopting the euro.
- EU asks online platforms to report on fake coronavirus news — 16 June 2020, 00:33 CET
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The EU stepped up its campaign against online disinformation Wednesday, asking online platforms for monthly reports on action to promote authoritative content and limit fake information on the coronavirus.
- EU reaches provisional deal on new rules for truck drivers — 10 June 2020, 23:19 CET
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The EU Parliament's transport committee endorsed Monday a provisional agreement with ministers to improve driver working conditions, posting of drivers and better enforcement against illegal practices.
- Water quality 'excellent' in 85 pct of Europe's beaches: EU survey — 09 June 2020, 19:17 CET
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85% of swimming sites across Europe monitored in 2019 met the EU's stringent 'excellent' quality standards, according to this year's European bathing water quality assessment published on Monday.
- EU grants EUR 314m to innovative companies to combat virus, support recovery — 09 June 2020, 19:16 CET
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The EU Commission announced the award Monday of nearly EUR 166 million to companies set to combat the coronavirus pandemic, and another EUR 148 million to fund Europe's economic recovery plan.
- CAP not halting biodiversity loss in farming: EU auditors — 08 June 2020, 23:26 CET
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The common agricultural policy has not been effective in reversing a decades-long decline in biodiversity and intensive farming remains a main cause of biodiversity loss, an EU auditors report said Friday.
- EU provides coronavirus aid to Yemen, as famine looms — 05 June 2020, 18:23 CET
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The EU will provide funding of EUR 70 million in Yemen, the Commission said Wednesday, as the coronavirus threatens to worsen one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, where famine already looms.
- Brussels consults on fair minimum wages — 08 June 2020, 22:12 CET
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The EU Commission launched Wednesday a second-stage consultation of European trade unions and employers' organisations on how to ensure fair minimum wages for all workers in the EU.
- Ban for Armenian airlines in EU Air Safety List update — 04 June 2020, 00:07 CET
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The EU Commission added airlines certified in Armenia to Tuesday's update of the list of airlines subject to an operating ban or restrictions within the EU because they do not meet international safety standards.
- EUR 2 billion to reinforce EU's crisis response capability — 04 June 2020, 00:09 CET
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The EU Commission proposed Tuesday to give the EU the capability to react more swiftly when a serious cross-border emergency such as the coronavirus strikes and affects EU countries at the same time.