Saturday 9 March 2024

🔴 🔴 🔴 We’re living on a boiling planet. This summer, we saw the chaos and carnage of extreme weather – in Spain, Greece, Slovenia, Bulgaria - across our Union and beyond. ✔️ The European Green Deal was born out of this necessity to protect our planet. It provides the necessary frame, incentives, and investment. The EU wants to support European industry in building its model for decarbonisation. Starting this month, the Commission will be discussing with the industry the best way to do this, via a series of Clean Transition Dialogues. Furthermore, the Commission will present a European Wind Power package to: 🍃 fast-track permitting even more, 🍃 improve the auction systems, and 🍃 focus on skills, access to finance and stable supply chains. Our wind industry is already a European success story. But this is broader than one sector – from wind to steel, from batteries to electric vehicles, our ambition is clear. As President @ursulavonderleyen said while sharing her vision during her State of the Union speech: “A continent reconciled with nature and leading the way on new technologies.” #EuropeanUnion
There is no health without #MentalHealthOn 10 October, mark #WorldMentalHealthDay with a high-level conference dedicated to the new EU approach to mental health focussing on: 🔸Mental health across all policies🔸Promotion & prevention🔸Equal access for allMore: https://europa.eu/!x3Wmt3#HealthUnion
We only have 7 years left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals ⚠️This week, an 🇪🇺 delegation will attend the 78th United Nations General Assembly. This is our chance to shift gears to prevent irreversible environmental damage and to support social progress. In Europe, our tool is the #EUGreenDeal:✅ Carbon Neutrality by 2050 ✅ #EUBiodiversity Strategy for 2030 ✅ #EUFarm2Fork Strategy ✅ Deforestation-free supply chains ✅ Renovation Wave for Energy Efficiency ✅ #CircularEconomy Action Plan ✅ Just Transition Fund #EUforSDGs #SDGs #SDGSummit #ActNow

Friday 8 March 2024

When a woman is empowered, the world is empowered. Gender equality is a core principle of the EU, but it is not yet a reality. In business, politics and society, we can only reach our full potential if we use all our talent and diversity. The EU is working to make sure that change happens. Throughout its mandate, the #vdLCommission has: 🟣 set rules on pay transparency, to make real the basic principle that equal work deserves equal pay; 🟣 adopted the “Women on boards” directive, bringing more women in Europe’s corporate boardrooms and contributing to break the glass ceiling; 🟣 adopted the first ever EU legislation on combating violence against women to criminalise physical violence, as well as psychological, economic and sexual violence against women across the EU.Our democracies are always stronger when we are all involved equally. #IWD2024 #InternationalWomensDay #EUDelivers #WomensDay
Exploring North Macedonia soon? 🇲🇰 It is known for its beautiful mountain landscape!Prepare for your trip by packing your hiking shoes 🥾 & learning Macedonian with #OnlineLanguageSupport. Master introductions & questions for a richer experience.

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✋ No tracking and unfair practices 👉 More and better online services, with clear and predictable rules. This is the EU's Digital Markets Act, a solution to ensure the freedom to choose more, choose better, and be part of more competitive digital markets.Last year, the Commission designated six large, systemic online platforms as gatekeepers – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft. Now, they must respect the DMA do’s and don'ts. They will no longer be able to use unfair practices towards those who depend on them to gain an undue advantage, with fines of up to 20% of their global turnover if they fail to do so. It is time for citizens to benefit from fairer and open digital markets. #DigitalEU #DMA #EUDelivers