Expected since quite a long time, the European Commission has finally given its decision concerning Google’s practices with their operating system for mobile phones: the company used illegal practices and has been fined 4.34 billion euros, making this the largest fine handed by the European Commission to a company ever. […]
Torrential rain and landslides killed some 200 people in Japan about 2 weeks ago. Now, the country is facing a heatwave. […]
July 25th, Arianespace will launch 4 more Galileo satellites for the Galileo constellation. […]
At the beginning of last month, the European Commission opened the applications for the DiscoverEU program, giving free rail tickets to up to 25K 18 years old. […]
The second annual meeting of the Ministerial on Climate Action (MoCA) was held between the 20th and the 21st of June 2018, organized by the European Union, Canada and China and held in Brussels. […]
As the deadline for Brexit gets closer, more and more companies are worried about the future, seeing no deal is being reached between the European Union and the British government. […]
Last week, the European Commission issued a statement, concerning the illegal tax benefits Engie received in Luxembourg. […]
As we get closer and closer to March 2019, when the UK will stop being a full member of the European Union, a proper agreement between the British government and the European Commission seems harder and harder to obtain. […]
During Brexit negotiations, it has been decided that the UK will not be able to fully access the Galileo program anymore. […]
Monsanto, well-known for their pesticides and modified seeds, will be renamed to Bayer once the purchase is concluded. […]
Since the 12th of June, it is possible for people turning 18 years old before this summer to apply for a free rail ticket to discover the EU. […]
The European Commission proposed an ambitious plan for funding research & development in the EU. This plan, currently at the stage of proposal, forms part of the proposed 2021-2027 EU budget. […]
It’s been months since some areas of Brussels are being remodelled or under construction. Here’s a look at some of these sites. […]
Soon, Mario Draghi will be leaving his position as director of the European Central Bank. Various possible successors are already lining up. […]
The European Commission is currently discussing future EU budgets. For the 2021-2027 period, the EC proposed to double the funding of the Erasmus program, to 30 billion euros. […]
US President Donald Trump has just announced he would keep the tariffs on European steel and aluminium. […]
Back in November 2017, US President Donald Trump threatened leaving the Iran deal, as, supposedly, the country had violated the agreement. The EU heavily criticized this threat, as it took 12 years to reach an agreement between Iran, the US and the EU. […]
In various neighbourhoods of Brussels, the current 4G network regularly saturates. 5G could be the solution to this problem. Sadly enough, it seems we’ll have to wait a bit longer to not navigate in “Edge” or 3G in the city-centre or in the European neighbourhood during the lunch break. […]
Many companies are sending e-mails, telling customers about changes in their conditions and data handling, right before the implementation of GDPR. […]
The EU’s highest court recently ruled that Trump’s administration and the US treasury department had no direct relationship in the tax repayment from Apple, giving reason to the decision from the European Commission. Apple will have to repay around 13 billion euros in taxes, plus interest, to Ireland. […]
The idea to give a free rail pass on the 18th birthday of European citizens is quite old, dating all the way back to at least 2016. […]
The European Commission launched an international architecture contest to design a new building that will replace the one currently located at rue de la Loi, 130. […]
On April 16, 2016, a new privacy regulation was approved by the European Parliament. This new regulation, called GDPR for short, will be enforced in less than 2 months, the 25th May 2018. […]
It is rare to hear about Eastern Europe when one lives in Western Europe, as there are different issues and thus different news coverage. Białowieża is one of those issues that are rarely covered in media. […]
More well known as Roundup’s main ingredient and produced by Monsanto (providers of the “Agent Orange” used during the war of Vietnam), the glyphosate is currently having a rough time: the European Commission has to decide whether they allow its commercialization for the next 10 years or not. […]
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