🎁 Have you already sent that parcel to your family living abroad?
Thanks to our EU transparency tool, you can cross this item off your list!
You can now find the prices of all the delivery companies for up to 15 basic parcel delivery services within the #EU. The service is available all year long.
Choosing the right shipping companies for your holiday presents has never been easier!
Across the EU, animal welfare standards for professional breeding, keeping and selling #dogs and #cats vary widely – resulting in sub-standard practices, sometimes even abuse.
We are introducing uniform rules:
✔ Setting minimum standards
✔ Tightening traceability for online sales to curb illegal trade
✔ Training for handlers and educating buyers on responsible ownership
✔ Import standards to match #EU welfare criteria
Over the last 15 years, we have supported the use of open technologies in public administration.
The Open Source Observatory has helped the European public sector leverage open technologies effectively and efficiently by providing various resources, including a knowledge centre to reveal the benefits and follow #EU open source software development.
Canada, Britain and main EU countries join Myanmar genocide case
Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Britain have teamed up to join the genocide case over Myanmar's treatment of the Muslim Rohingya minority before the UN's top court in The Hague.
Today, we requested information from Amazon on how it meets its obligations under our Digital Services Act to protect consumers online and regarding risk assessments, including:
🔸 the dissemination of illegal products and the protection of fundamental rights;
🔹 compliance of recommender systems with the relevant provisions of the #DSA.
Failure to reply by the deadline could lead to the imposition of periodic penalty payments.
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Our programmes are open to both #EU and #US students, researchers, and prospective students.
We are making a step towards our neighbouring countries and the enlargement.
We recommended that the Council:
🔹opens accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova,
🔹grants Georgia the status of a candidate country,
🔹opens #EU accession negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina once the necessary degree of compliance with the membership criteria is achieved.
Enlargement is an opportunity for the countries aspiring to join the European Union and us.
Last year, we set the target to fill up our gas storage by 90% by 1 November. We exceeded it by filling up the storage to almost full capacity.
Storage provides an additional reserve in case of strong demand or supply disruptions.
We are strengthening our energy independence with #REPowerEU by saving energy, diversifying our energy supplies, and speeding up the clean energy transition.
Any #EU#law historians around? Since when can member states not party to a direct action proceeding before the #CJEU submit observations? The oldest example I could find by a crude text search dates from 1986 [1]. That's 32 years after the first direct action was lodged that included a member state [2]. Were member states simply not allowed to submit observations before?
It happened with the mail; it may happen soon with money.
We welcome the political agreement reached by the EU Council and the European Parliament on our proposal to make instant payments in euros available to all #EU citizens and businesses at no extra cost.
The new rules will also increase trust in #euro instant payments and make sanctions screening more efficient.
The European Parliament and Member States just reached an agreement on introducing the Digital Identity, #eID.
Directly afterwards, #EU Commissioner Breton said: “Now that we have a Digital Identity Wallet, we have to put something in it…”, suggesting a connection between #CBDC and eID.
They ignored all the privacy experts and security specialists. They’re pushing it all through.
> Those who caused the #climatecrisis should help #Africa harness its wind and sun, says Vanessa Nakate, a #UN Unicef goodwill ambassador climate activist
This is the amount of value-added tax (VAT) revenues lost in the #EU in 2021 mainly to fraud, evasion, non-fraudulent bankruptcies, miscalculations and financial insolvencies.
Yet, it is an improvement from the €99 billion lost in 2020.
Lost VAT revenues can severely hamper governments' ability to finance essential public goods and services, including schools, hospitals, and transportation.
We will continue to sustain and amplify efforts towards reinforcing VAT compliance.
Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections (www.theregister.com)