The EU is awarding €20 million in funding to 41 cutting-edge Ukrainian start-ups and SMEs, following a European Innovation Council call to help them turn groundbreaking ideas into real-world solutions.
The European Commission has informed social media platform TikTok of its preliminary view that it is not fulfilling its obligations under the EU’s Digital Services Act to publish an advertisement repository.
The EU economy’s greenhouse gas emissions were 897 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq) in the fourth quarter of 2024, Eurostat estimates, a 2.2% increase compared with the same quarter of 2023 (878 million tonnes of CO2-eq).
The European Parliament’s committee on international trade has approved a 50 per cent increase in tariffs on certain Russian and Belarusian agricultural goods to further reduce EU dependency.
EU finance ministers have reached a significant agreement on a new approach to Value Added Tax (VAT) focusing on e-commerce imports and the taxation of distance sales of imported goods.
The EU Commission has presented a major package of measures targeting the administrative burden, controls, implementation, crisis response and investment needs of the farming sector.
The Commission is investing over €7.3 billion through its Horizon Europe programme to strengthen Europe’s research and innovation engine and enhance competitiveness.
