€1.2 billion loan to cover external financing gap caused by acute crisis First tranche to be disbursed immediately, if certain conditions are met On Wednesday, MEPs gave the green light to a €1.2 billion macro-financial loan to help Ukraine cover its external financing needs in 2022. Parliament agreed to a Commission proposal to provide Kyiv with macro-financial assistance, […]
JGDE: With this COVID crisis, we are seeing a resurgence in e-commerce. In densely populated cities, but also in the provinces, home deliveries have developed significantly. How does DPDgroup GeoPost go about being a responsible carrier and reducing the environmental impact in cities? Dominique Mamcarz (DM): I would like to highlight a few points. DPDgroup […]
After nearly 44 days of war in Karabakh which started on September 27, 2020, the tripartite agreement under Russian aegis signed on November 10, 2020 led to the definitive cessation of hostilities between Azerbaijan and Armenia. But especially at the end of the Armenian occupation of this territory taken by the pro-Armenian army and the […]
Background – The cornerstone of our human-centred digital policy What we did today was to adopt our proposal for a European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles for the Digital Decade. We first announced the creation of these Principles in March last year, as one of the two pillars of our European Digital Decade – […]
We adopt a landmark proposal of this Commission: our first ever legal framework on Artificial Intelligence. It is part of a wider package, which also includes a new coordinated plan with Member States, and a new Machinery regulation. This package presents our European approach to Artificial Intelligence. It is the result of three years of […]
Introduction: Europe is a large continent and when you look at Europe digital market, the market is the wealthiest of the world. Always looking at the perspective that the responsibility and collective effort in the world, would have solved every problem. Which is of course a way that even in this dystopian present we should […]
Questions from MEPs: Eva MAYDELL, Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats): How can more companies use AI? Regarding the regulatory sandboxes, how can they be improved by the Member States so that SMEs can use them? Cédric. O: I think you’re pointing to a key point, making sure that European companies adopt the […]
There is a parallel between France’s priorities during its Presidency in the field of digital and technological technology and the excellent report by MEP Axel VOSS on Artificial Intelligence. Europe is caught in a technology dilemma. It is on a form of crest line that it must seek to implement its particular approach regarding technology and […]
Artificial Intelligence: economic and strategic benefits The COVID-19 crisis has shown us that artificial intelligence and digital technologies were largely able to mitigate the socio-economic impact of the pandemic. And especially artificial intelligence is one of the key emerging technologies which can determine the future position of the European Union in the world economy. […]
To what extent is regulatory stability essential to attract investment in decarbonization and preserve the path of energy transition in a context of rising energy and commodity prices? Henna virkkunen, MEP of the National Coalition answers us The dependence on imported energy is a big problem for the EU, noting that Algeria’s role in triggering […]
