We support innovative businesses across 🇪🇺 to develop cutting-edge technologies and drive the green transition.
Today, the EU is investing over €1.8 billion in 17 innovative clean-tech projects to boost the decarbonisation of energy-intensive industries in the EU.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1546800334105989124
Replacing fossil fuels in industrial processes is crucial to end our dependence on Russian energy supplies by 2030.
It would also strengthen our industrial competitiveness and support international technology leadership.
How do we plan to achieve it? ⬇️
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1546776009743155202
When you travel in the EU you have certain #PassengerRights that must be complied with.
If you are going on holiday 🔜, download ‘Your Passenger Rights’ app.
1️⃣0️⃣ years of technology helping EU passengers: http://europa.eu/!bg39vB
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1546743659600777217
To help assess and prevent forest fires, @CopernicusEMS provides firefighting operations with detailed maps from space.
Current fire danger forecast:
🔥Very Extreme Danger in areas of:
➡️Spain🇪🇸
➡️Portugal🇵🇹
🔥Extreme Danger present in
➡️🇵🇹🇪🇸🇫🇷🇮🇹🇭🇷🇭🇺🇬🇷🇹🇷
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1546515552847421442
RT @VSinkevicius: Portugal is fighting #wildfires heroically.
Our 🇪🇺 firefighting air fleet is helping out as temperatures are expected to exceed 45ºC, worsening the risk for more 🔥
Prevention & resilience must be our No 1 priorities now to protect our ecosystems & human lives.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1546507943209848832
The unjustified military aggression against Ukraine continues. So does its impact on Ukrainians and also on our EU economy.
We are proposing to adjust the Temporary Crisis Framework to support #REPowerEU and to increase the aid that can be granted under the Framework.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1546502867657392128
Today we mark the 27th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide.
It is our shared European history and duty to honour the memory of those laid to rest and those still missing.
Statement by High Representative/Vice-President @JosepBorrellF and Commissioner @OliverVarhelyi ↓
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1546493464925323267
The objective of the EU Support Hub is to support border management and internal security in Moldova, and serve as gateway for the Moldovan authorities to access support mechanisms.
We take the cooperation with Moldova to the next level to address related security threats.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1546442780574191618
Today, the EU launched the Support Hub for Internal Security and Border Management in Moldova, operating in 6 priority areas:
⛔firearms trafficking
⛔migrant smuggling
⛔trafficking in human beings
⛔preventing and countering terrorism
⛔cybercrime
⛔drug trafficking
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1546442528819388419
This is how we protect ourselves, our loved ones and our vulnerable populations.
Today @ECDC_EU and @EMA_News recommend a second booster dose of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, in particular for vulnerable people and those over 60.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1546439781630054403
EU has mobilised its firefighting fleet to help 🇵🇹 Portugal fight destructive forest fires.
We thank 🇪🇸 for swiftly mobilising two firefighting planes via #rescEU already on Sunday morning.
We stand ready to provide further assistance.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1546425562087964673
Putin continues to use energy as a weapon.
❌ 12 EU countries are already directly affected.
✅ Filling our gas storage capacities before this winter can help us prepare for possible further gas supply disruptions and cut-offs.
Learn more about what we do 👇
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1546381271948922880
Suitable and safe private housing solutions for Ukrainian refugees.
This week, we've presented the 'Safe Homes' initiative to help thousands of Europeans housing those who fled the war.
Read more ↓
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1546147232239325184
Following Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, over 7.4 million people fled Ukraine arriving in the EU.
Latest updates on the situation of refugees coming from Ukraine to Europe⬇️
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1546101940383322114
Platforms should be transparent about their content moderation decisions and prevent dangerous disinformation from going viral.
This week we welcomed @europarl_en’s adoption of our EU rulebook for digital services.
It will help create a safe online environment.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1546071738923958276
We are welcoming the Czech Presidency of the @EUCouncil with… a new EU Spotify playlist! 🙌 🇨🇿
Enjoy the weekend with the tracks handpicked by @EU2022_CZ!
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1546041539125813250
Opting out from an online service should be as easy as opting in.
We welcome Amazon's commitment to bring its cancellation practices in line with EU consumer rules.
European consumers must be able to exercise their rights and unsubscribe freely and easily.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1546018884427419653
Almost 45 000 tonnes — that’s how much material assistance has been sent to Ukraine through our #EUCivPro Mechanism so far.
This support includes firefighting trucks, ambulances, medical supplies, generators, and water pumps.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1545799942609915904
Was your flight cancelled? ✈️ We are making sure that passengers' rights are better respected.
Thanks to our action with consumer protection authorities, airlines reimbursed over 500,000 flight vouchers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1545769754731851776
Many consumers will soon go on holidays and rent a car.
Consumers need to be provided with information in full transparency about the conditions of the rental, the full price of the rental and insurance – to avoid bad surprises when picking up the car.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1545739550508474370
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