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Tipperary farmers are being reminded that the Making CAP 2020 Work for You IFA event is on this Friday, April 20, in Kilkenny. “CAP is worth €114m to Tipperary farmers and this is our chance to hear directly from EU Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan on one of the most critical issues for the future of ...

EU Commissioner Vella's exclusive opinion editorial is published in response to the United Nations Under-Secretary-General Erik Solheim's cutting-edge article on renewable energy investment and sustainable finance exclusively published at The Sting on 13 April 2018. The opinions expressed in this ...

While Google's appeal of the $2.9 billion (€2.4 billion) fine imposed by the European Commission in 2017 makes its way forward, EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager told colleagues that the other two antitrust cases against Google were “advancing.” That's according to a report from Reuters.

International trade issues should be dealt with globally, the European commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs said Thursday on CNBC. That includes steel and aluminum, which President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on last month. The European Union and some other ...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will meet EU digital commissioner Andrus Ansip in San Francisco on Tuesday, according to the commissioner's agenda. Zuckerberg last week testified to the US Congress but has not accepted a call to appear before the European Parliament to explain the Cambridge ...

European Commissioners Guenther Oettinger and Miguel Arias Canete met with German carmaker Daimler last year to discuss the future of EU emissions rules, without leaving any paper trail. The meeting took place in Strasbourg on 24 October 2017, 15 days before the commission presented a legislative ...

Ireland's European Union Commissioner has attacked Theresa May's vision of Global Britain and warned that the UK faces “a difficult world” after Brexit. Phil Hogan, speaking in Brussels on Monday, said Britain would be able to strike its own trade deals but would struggle to secure good agreements after ...

Vera Jourova, the European Commissioner for justice and consumer affairs is not yet satisfied with Facebook's action following the data breach of 2.7 million users in the EU, she told EUobserver via a spokesman on Friday (6 April). "I appreciate that they are trying to be more transparent," she said about the ...

MEPs grilled EU commissioner Guenther Oettinger for more than 90 minutes on Tuesday (27 March) but got no new answers about the appointment of Martin Selmayr as secretary general of the European Commission. Sticking to the answers to 134 preliminary questions sent by the EU executive on ...

Sofia. Terrorism and cyber-attacks do not know borders, Bulgaria's EU Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel said at the opening of the meeting of Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group on Europol (JPSG), FOCUS News Agency reports. “Through the adoption of the Rules of Procedure ...

An EU commissioner just clarified the legality of cryptocurrency mining in Europe. Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, has formally asserted that mining cryptocurrencies in Europe is legal and that miners only have to follow standard electricity rules. Also see: Seeking ...

Regardless of its massive electricity demands, cryptocurrency mining is captured under normal EU regulation, explained European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel on Friday. Gabriel called cryptocurrencies a “new factor driving energy demand,” which will be “kept under review” by the European Commission ...

... SHOCK warning EU financial firms risk slump after Brexit. EU COMMISSIONER Jyrki Katainen urged European financial firms to be prepared for the worst case scenario at the end of the Brexit negotiations. By Alessandra Scotto di Santolo. PUBLISHED: 14:41, Thu, Mar 8, 2018 | UPDATED: 20:04, Thu, Mar 8, 2018 ...

The European Commission is expected to announce two new updates to its Capital Markets Union (CMU) plan over the coming days, addressing sustainability and cross-border access to investment funds. Tomorrow, the commission is set to announce its plan in response to a recent report on financing a ...

Malta's petrol market is a state-run monopoly which warrants a European Commission investigation, the Partit Demokratiku has said. In a letter to European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, PD leader Anthony Buttigieg highlighted the power state-owned Enemed Ltd. had in the sector, with it ...

Sofia. The negotiating teams of the European Parliament, the Council under the Bulgarian Presidency and the European Commission reached a political agreement last night on several key parts regarding the new telecom rules and radio spectrum policy, said the press office of the EC Representation in ...

last updated: 02/03/2018. At he Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society outlined her vision for a of successful evolution. Now Reading: EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel calls for a "humans in command" approach to digital transformation ...

Ireland's EU commissioner Phil Hogan said Theresa May should agree to customs union. Photograph: Stephanie Lecocq/EPA. “Some of the hysterics we have seen in the last 24 hours in relation to what was being put on the table is a very big surprise to me, because nobody should have been surprised by ...

Sofia. Our aim is to promote culture as an engine of EU's economic and social development and the peace in Europe, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sports Tibor Navracsics told the European Parliament during the informal meeting of education, youth, culture and sport ...

A European Commissioner has offered to open his bank accounts to investigators in a bid to clear his name in connection with a major pharmaceutical pricing scandal in Greece. Dimitris Avramopoulos, who served as health minister in Greece and is the commissioner for migration, home affairs and ...

Dimitris Avramopoulos, the European commissioner for migration, will mount a legal challenge over allegations he took bribes to help secure a lucrative contract for pharmaceutical company Novartis whilst a Greek minister. The allegations, announced earlier this week by Greek prosecutors, stem from his ...

The European Commission was "shocked" at the revelation that German carmakers had financed diesel exhaust experiments on animals and humans, EU industry commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska said on Monday evening (5 February). "The commission condemns it in the strongest possible ways," she ...

The EU Commission plans to launch a proposed law Tuesday to increase security within the bloc's borders, including fingerprinting in ID cards, according to an interview with Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos in German daily Welt. The move would make ...

... Enterprise and Industry, the Institute of Financial Services Practitioners and the Super Yacht Industry Network Malta denounce the recent notice sent to Malta by the European Union (EU) commissioner in connection with the Maltese VAT rules for pleasure yachts. Within the Maltese community's response, ...

Sofia. 10% of women have experienced some form of online violence after the age of 15, Bulgaria's EU Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel said at an international conference on “Sure Future for Women – Safe Future for All” taking place under her patronage, FOCUS News ...

In light of these figures, the EU has initiated procedures for another three billion euros in funds to Ankara. The EU commissioner said that he expected a productive meeting between the EU and Turkey in Varna, on the Bulgarian coast, on March 26. He said that the bilateral summit would be an opportunity ...

EC president and EU commissioner arrive in Belgrade. EC President Jean Claude Juncker and EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn have arrived in Belgrade. Izvor: Tanjug Monday, February 26, 2018 | 17:04 ...