septembrie 2020 Month:

On 22 September, EU Member States reaffirmed their commitment to maintaining a functioning Schengen zone and Internal Market. The previous week, Single Market Commissioner Thierry Breton had warned that “unilateral restrictions on the free movement of goods and services would not be acceptable and would seriously hamper our collective recovery.” Freight traffic should keep flowing […]

The Commission has begun testing a new interoperability service for national coronavirus tracking apps. Test runs were launched between the backend servers of the official apps from the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Latvia, and the newly established gateway server that is to facilitate the data exchanges. The European Parliament has requested to […]

Three-quarters of consumers (71%) are confident about returning to stores. That is what comes out of a study conducted by the Censuswide Institute that surveyed more than 8.000 consumers in four major markets – the UK, US, China and France. The study also reveals that although nearly half (49%) of global consumers believe they could […]

On 19 August EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan participated in a golf event at a hotel in Galway, together with 80 people, including many politicians. This was in breach with the COVID measures imposed by the Irish Government. This resulted in a media storm, the so-called “Golfgate”, that lead Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Dara Calleary, to […]