There were 9.4 million beehives on EU farms in 2023, according to Eurostat, with the number of beehives increasing by 1.3 million (+16%), from 8.1 million in 2020.
With Europe facing daily cyber attacks carried out by sophisticated state and criminal groups, the European Commission has proposed a new cybersecurity package to strengthen the EU’s cybersecurity resilience.
The second call for strategic projects under the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act, which aims to ensure secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials for European industry, has now closed.
The European Union has signed the controversial trade agreement with Mercosur, the South American trade bloc, hailing it as a historic milestone creating exports, growth and jobs.
The EU Council is to extend the objectives of its supercomputing joint undertaking to facilitate the creation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) gigafactories in Europe and include a dedicated quantum technologies pillar.
The European Union starts applying a new automatic and dynamic mechanism for price adaptation of the Oil Price Cap for Russian crude for the first time from 15 January.
The EU Commission has launched two new calls under the ‘Digital, Industry and Space’ cluster of the Horizon Europe Work Programme, allocating €307.3 million to bolster Europe’s digital innovation and competitiveness.
