Eric Mamer @MamerEric@respublicae.eu
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Joined Apr 2022
Due to temporary malfunction of our email notification system, please note today's agenda @EU_Commission press room:
🕛12h00 Midday Briefing
🕑14h00 Statement by @YlvaJohansson on updated guidelines on visa issuance & controls of Russian citizens at the EU’s external borders
On #EUMinumumIncome, we propose that Member States make their schemes more effective to fight poverty and promote active inclusion.
Factsheet: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/fs_22_5802
On #AsbestosFreeEurope our measures will further protect people & the environment➡️we will:
🔹support victims of asbestos-related diseases
🔹better protect workers by lowering the occupational exposure limit 10 times than the current value
🔹improve information on buildings
With the EU Pillar of #SocialRights, the @EU_Commission has put forward concrete actions to keep building a strong social Europe.
Today we focus on:
➖asbestos ⤵️
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_5679
➖minimum income ⤵️
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_5706
In the 🇪🇺 manufacturers are liable for defective products since 1985 via Product Liability Directive
Today, the @EU_Commission has revised existing rules to adapt them to:
🦾the digital age
🔄circular economy, and
⛓the impact of global supply
The AI Act laid down rules to prevent damage, but what if harm happens anyway?
Today, we adopted 2 proposals to modernise our EU liability framework, adapted to the challenges of the digital age:
✅Better protect consumers
✅Foster innovation and trust
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_5807
Two packages on this week’s @EU_Commission College agenda:
1⃣ Social pillar implementation
🔹Recommendation on minimum income
🔹Protection of workers from asbestos
2⃣ Adapting liability rules
🔹Product liability
🔹Artificial intelligence liability
Early cancer detection saves lives and gives more treatment options. Today, the @EU_Commission is proposing new recommendations on cancer screening after 19 years to match scientific progress.
Crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic can disrupt the normal functioning of the #SingleMarket and the 🇪🇺 economy
This is why today the @EU_Commission presents a Single Market Emergency Instrument to make sure the EU is better prepared to face possible emergencies in the future 🚨
This Sunday @EU_Commission College will meet to agree on ⤵️
🔹 the next steps regarding the protection of the EU budget in Hungary &
🔹 a new EU approach on cancer screening
Today once more we stand up for media freedom.
With the European #MediaFreedomAct, we will establish safeguards against political interference and surveillance so that journalists can do their jobs.
➡️https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_5504
End of a long day in Kyiv.
🇺🇦 stands and fights for its present and future.
The scars of war are all too present around the capital, but even more so is the calm determination of everyone we met. Impressive.
We will stand by them as long as it takes. 🇺🇦🇪🇺💪
RT @vonderleyen: 🇺🇦 In Kyiv, for my 3rd visit since the start of Russia’s war.
So much has changed.
Ukraine is now a 🇪🇺 candidate.
I’ll discuss with @ZelenskyyUa and @Denys_Shmyhal how to continue getting our economies and people closer while Ukraine progresses towards accession.
Europe 🇪🇺 is responding to rising energy prices with new measures to help consumers.
Today we are proposing new measures:
🔹Electricity demand reduction to save energy & money
🔹Using exceptional energy sector profits to help citizens and businesses pay their bills
There are 27,6 mill people victims of forced labour in the🌍
Today, the @EU_Commission has proposed to prohibit all products made with forced labour from the 🇪🇺market
The ban covers:
✔️ all products: goods made in the 🇪🇺 for our market, for export & imported
✔️ all industries
Ahead of the President’s @vonderleyen annual #SOTEU address on Wednesday 14.09➡️the @EU_Commission College meeting will take place tomorrow in Strasbourg with a very ambitious agenda
#Energy #RepowerEU #ForcedLabour #HumanRights #SMEI #SingleMarket #CyberSecEU #MediaFreedomAct
RT @vonderleyen: Preparing with commissioners our energy package to address skyrocketing prices and provide relief to Europeans.
•Welcomed Council overall support for our core approach
•Discussed the question of the cost of gas
•Reviewed work on State aid, level playing field, SME support
RT @vonderleyen: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will be deeply missed.
To the people of Great Britain, she embodied the spirit of the nation.
To all Europeans, she was an anchor of certainty throughout the tumults of history.
To me, she was an example of true leadership.
RT @EU_Commission: The passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II leaves a sense of loss in the lives of many.
Her empathy and ability to connect with every passing generation, while remaining rooted in the traditions that truly mattered to her was as an example of true leadership.
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