European Commission

Intellectual Property On COVID-19 Must Be Shared

The governments of South Africa, India, and dozens of other developing countries are calling for the rights on intellectual property (IP), including vaccine patents, to be waived to accelerate the worldwide production of supplies to fight COVID-19. They are absolutely correct. IP for fighting COVID-19 should be waived, and indeed actively shared among scientists, companies, and nations.

2 May 2021
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ASEAN Losing Billions To Illegal Fishing

In football, the yellow card is a warning for a player to behave himself as he may get sent off the pitch if he receives a second one – and a subsequent red card. It seems this system works just as well when it comes to combatting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.The European Union (EU) is the world's largest import market for fisheries products and it has estimated the global value of IUU fishing to be around US$11- to US$22 billion per year.

13 June 2020
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EXCLUSIVE: Can The EU Recover From The Pandemic?

In this ASEAN exclusive, Francesco Alberti speaks to Vincenzo Amendola, Italian Minister for European Affairs to better understand the European Union’s response to the deadly coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping Europe and the rest of the world.The European Union (EU) is facing a pivotal moment in its history.

8 May 2020
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EU has a new chief 

After negotiating her own confirmation as president of the European Commission (EC), Ursula von der Leyen must now put together a 27-nation team to help her run the bloc.The former German defence minister will need all her political and diplomatic skill to knit together a commission from different countries and parties.And then, in October, she will have to go back to a European Parliament that only barely approved her own coronation and ask it to back her appointments.She has quite a summer

20 July 2019
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Fighting Illegal Fishing

In football, the yellow card is a warning for a player to behave himself as he may get sent off the pitch if he receives a second one – and a subsequent red card. It seems this system works just as well when it comes to combatting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.The European Union (EU) is the world's largest import market for fisheries products and it has estimated the global value of IUU fishing to be around US$11- to US$22 billion per year.

7 April 2019
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A hard tackle against illegal fishing

In soccer, the yellow card is a warning for a player to behave himself as he may get sent off the pitch if he receives a second one. It seems the yellow card works just as well when it comes to combatting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.The European Commission (EC) enacted a tough legislation against IUU fishing in 2010 which identifies marine fisheries products by their exporting state or the flag under which shipping vessels operate.

7 August 2018
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