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12/01/2018

In a long awaited judgement, the European Court of Justice rules that the US ride hailing company Uber provides transport services that can be regulated by the Member States. Uber by itself is not a digital service that can be seperated from the underlying transport service.

12/01/2018

The European Commission unveiled today its plans to invest jointly with the Member States in building a world-class European supercomputers infrastructure, in an effort to catch up with China, the US and Japan.

21/11/2017

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17/11/2017

Today, the European Commission and the EU Environment Agency launched a new Air Quality Index, coinciding with the publication of the Air Quality Atlas, a tool developed by the Commission's Joint Research Centre. At the Clean Air Forum taking place today in Paris the Commission and the EU Environmen...

17/11/2017

17/11/2017

Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, Chairman He Lifeng and Vice Chairman Hu Zucai, both of China's National Development and Reform Commission, held today in Beijing the first cooperation meeting on State aid control and Fair Competition Review as part of a new dialogue between the EU and China.

17/11/2017

To improve the functioning of the EU internal energy market and enhance solidarity between Member States, the Commission today proposed to amend the EU Gas Directive. An integrated gas market is the cornerstone of the EU's Energy Union and a key priority of the European Commission. In the context of...

17/11/2017

EU-wide rules to better protect consumers against scams and detect and stop rogue traders more swiftly were approved by MEPs on Tuesday. National enforcement authorities will have more powers to detect and halt online breaches of consumer protection laws and be able to coordinate their actions bette...

17/11/2017

The European Commission today announced how it will spend €30 billion of the EU research and innovation funding programme Horizon 2020 during 2018-2020, including €2.7 billion to kick-start a European Innovation Council. Horizon 2020, the EU's €77 billion research and innovation funding programme, s...

09/11/2017

The European Parliament and Council have today reached a provisional agreement to revise the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) for the period after 2020. This revision will contribute to put the EU on track to achieving a significant part of its commitment under the Paris Agreement to reduce gree...

08/11/2017

The Commission is launching a European Defence Fund to help Member States spend taxpayer money more efficiently, reduce duplications in spending, and get better value for money. Announced by President Juncker in September 2016, and backed by the European Council in December 2016, the Fund will coord...

08/11/2017

Following on from the announcements made in President Juncker's 2017 State of the Union Address, the European Commission presented its plans for completing the work on President Juncker's ten political priorities before the end of its mandate, as well as a series of forward-looking initiatives for t...

08/11/2017

The 2017 edition of the Consumer Conditions Scoreboard shows that more and more EU consumers are shopping online and that their trust in e-commerce has increased, in particular in buying online from other EU countries.

08/11/2017

The European Parliament calls for guidelines for the sharing economy and stressed the need to address regulatory grey areas that cause significant differences in the Member States’ national and local regulations and case law.

07/11/2017

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