European Commission @EU_Commission@respublicae.eu

It is time to break the glass ceiling with rules that work.

By 2026, companies will need to have 40% of the underrepresented sex among non-executive boards or 33% among all directors.

This week, @europarl_en adopted the new EU law on gender balance on corporate boards.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1596821136762966019

📡 5G on planes and WI-FI on the road.

This week we've updated the implementing decision to use 5G on-board aircraft like being on ground and for Wi-Fi in road transport.

Read more ↓ #DigitalEU

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1596790945072222210

"Women, men and children are freezing in the dark because of Putin's deliberate and barbaric targeting of Ukraine's civilian infrastructure.

The sole purpose is to terrorise Ukrainians.

These acts are war crimes."

— President @vonderleyen, 24 November 2022

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1596768284736516097

Europe is getting stronger in supercomputing.

LUMI and our recently inaugurated Leonardo are among the world's 5 most powerful supercomputers.

Coming up: Deucalion 🇵🇹, MareNostrum 5 🇪🇸

Read more ↓

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1596549341979738114

RT @vonderleyen: This is on top of the 28 million of tons of agri products shipped via the EU’s Solidarity Lanes and the Black Sea Grain Initiative.

Europe is boosting the capacities of the Solidarity Lanes to keep providing access to food to our partners worldwide.

→ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH_22_7212

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1596543850897707009

RT @vonderleyen: 90 years after the Holodomor, the Kremlin is again using food as a weapon.

We stand with Ukraine to guarantee global food security.

Under President @ZelenskyyUa's Grain from Ukraine initiative, the @EU_Commission will pay to ship 40,000 tons of Ukrainian grain via two boats.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1596520227650797569

The organisers of the 🇪🇺 citizens’ initiative ‘Save Bees and Farmers’ met Commissioners @VeraJourova and @SKyriakidesEU after collecting over 1 million signatures.

Next: we analyse the content of the initiative and will respond to its calls in April.

#EUTakeTheInitiative

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1596519150070861824

Ukraine needs to pay pensions and keep essential public services such as hospitals and schools running.

This week, we disbursed an additional €2.5 billion in Macro-Financial Assistance to 🇺🇦 to ensure it can continue to meet its short-term financing needs.

#StandWithUkraine

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1596488952751525888

Russia is bombing the schools of Ukrainian children, forcing them to make unsafe journeys to reach other schools.

We are calling on public and private entities to join us in donating school buses and bring 🇺🇦 children back to the classroom safely ↓

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1596458752751931392

🏆 And the #EUAccessCity Award 2023 goes to...

🇸🇪 Skellefteå , Sweden!

Congratulations for making your city more accessible to improve everyone’s quality of life.

Together, we will build a barrier-free Europe.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1596413447545262081

Κάν’ το πραγματικότητα! 🇬🇷

We have endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of Greece’s second request for a €3.6 billion disbursement under the Recovery and Resilience Facility.

Read more: http://europa.eu/!4hPykK

#NextGenerationEU

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1596195200900145154

RT @vonderleyen: During my phone call with @ZelenskyyUa today, I expressed EU solidarity with Ukraine in the face of Russia’s criminal attacks on civilian infrastructure.

@EU_Commission is stepping up support, including with partners, to support the restoration of power and heat in Ukraine.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1596175867784597505

In 2023, women victims of violence will be able to call the same number across the EU.

We announce the establishment of a common EU helpline number for victims of violence against women to get advice and support.

#OrangeTheWorld

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1596156269781569536

Women’s.
Rights.
Are.
Not.
Negotiable.

🟠 Today our Commissioners joined the #OrangeTheWorld initiative to say a loud and clear no to violence against women and girls.

We will continue to work tirelessly to end this scourge that affects 1 in 3 women in the EU.

#SayNoStopVAW

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1596126568845217792

Violence against women happens in every country. The facts are shocking:

1 in 3 women have experienced physical or sexual violence, and 1 in 5 girls are victims of child sexual abuse.

We are committed to ending this violence.

#SayNoStopVAW @ChristianWigand

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1596102067277287424

🛑 Enough.

Violence against women has no place in the EU, or elsewhere.

Earlier this year, we proposed new, EU-wide law to combat violence against women in all its forms.

Here are 6 ways our proposal will make a difference. ↓

#SayNoStopVAW #OrangeTheWorld

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1596068064369451008

Violence against women and girls is violence against all humanity.

Today we reaffirm our commitment to prevent, reject and condemn all acts of violence against women and girls.

#SayNoStopVAW #OrangeTheWorld

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1596063466606862336

Today is the International Day to End Violence Against Women.

We are wearing orange to recall one simple message:
violence against women has no place in the EU, or the world.

𝗡𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲.

#OrangeTheWorld #vdlCommission

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1596043511807102976

To be well-prepared for next year's winter, it is key that we start preparing now.

We have set the intermediate gas storage filling targets that EU countries should meet next year to fill their gas storage facilities at 90% by 1 November 2023.

#REPowerEU

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1595836671307685889

It is the 4th most powerful in the world.

It has a computing power of 250 PFlops —250 million billion calculations per second!

Europe's latest supercomputer, LEONARDO, was inaugurated today in Bologna 🇮🇹 placing Europe at the forefront of research & innovation infrastructures.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_Commission/status/1595814244968267777