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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12490

20 May 2020
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EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19 / Research
An additional €122 million mobilised from Horizon 2020 programme for Covid-19 research

19/05/2020 (Agence Europe) – The European Commission announced, on Tuesday 19 May, that an additional €122 million will be mobilised under the EU's research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020. Winning applicants will benefit from a new call for expressions of interest, dedicated to urgent research projects on the new coronavirus. The call for events should “complement earlier actions to develop diagnostics, treatments and vaccines by strengthening capacity to manufacture and...

Contents

EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
HEALTH: WHO calls for independent evaluation of international response to Covid-19
HEALTH: ECDC publishes a guide for Member States on long-term care facilities
ECONOMY: further negotiations in EU Council on Covid-19 European Post-Pandemic Recovery Fund
STATE AID: Finnish State guarantee for a €600 million loan to Finnair in context of Covid-19 given green light
CULTURE: support for impact of Covid-19 'is certainly not enough, but it's not insignificant either', says Mariya Gabriel
TOURISM: EU Ministers invited to decide on a coordinated resumption of travel and tourism activities in EU
TRANSPORT: Commission “is addressing the problem” of misleading information provided by airlines to their customers
HOME AFFAIRS: health crisis has not deterred criminal groups, says Europol director
RESEARCH: an additional €122 million mobilised from Horizon 2020 programme for Covid-19 research
SOCIAL: EU Council formally adopts SURE instrument
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
MONEY LAUNDERING: revised methodology for list of high-risk third countries welcomed by Member States
ECONOMY: Member States' compliance with country-specific policy recommendations remains low
STATE AID: approval of a €550 million Danish aid scheme for electricity production from biomass installations
SECTORAL POLICIES
ENERGY: Kadri Simson announces that she will present a communication for construction of a “hydrogen economy in Europe”
ENERGY: energy performance certificates must be harmonised at European level, according to X-tendo
INDUSTRY: European Battery Alliance making progress despite Covid-19 crisis, says Maroš Šefčovič
CLIMATE:  bill tabled in Parliament commits Spain to achieving climate neutrality by 2050 at latest
FISHERIES: EU vessels will have to obtain a licence each year to fish in UK waters, according to UK proposal
FOOD SAFETY: mislabelling tops EU food fraud list, according to Commission's 2019 report
MIGRATION: Hungary could refuse to implement Court of Justice’s decision on Röszke transit zone
DIGITAL: Thierry Breton calls on Mark Zuckerberg to respect European values
EXTERNAL ACTION
ISRAEL: EU is ready to immediately discuss peace process with new Israeli government
LIBYA: faced with Mr el-Sarraj, Mr Borrell again calls for fighting to end
UNITED KINGDOM: London finally publishes its negotiating documents for future relationship with EU
UNITED KINGDOM: from 2021, a UK tariff regime that is “simpler, easier to use and lower” than EU’s
TRADE: Marie-Pierre Vedrenne wants to strengthen deterrent effect of enforcement regulation for international trade rules
TRADE: at OECD, Phil Hogan defends his model of “Open Strategic Autonomy”
NEWS BRIEFS
BURUNDI: EU calls on all political actors to contribute to credible and peaceful elections
COHESION: European Commission postpones presentation of 3rd pillar of Just Transition Mechanism
ENLARGEMENT: Mr Várhelyi hopes progress reports will be published in September
ENERGY: Commission launches public consultation on TEN-E review
SPACE: ESA awards contracts to study future EGNOS upgrades in aeronautics
UNITED KINGDOM: British MPs bury free movement of European workers for good
SOCIAL: AGE EUROPE once again sounds alarm on treatment of elderly during Covid-19