An integrated approach to migration is essential, CoR members say
Provider: View Original Type: Link Title: An integrated approach to migration is essential, CoR members say Description: Cities and regions in the Mediterranean and the EU should try to develop a more integrated approach to the provision of basic public services for migrants, senior members of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) have said. They also urged public authorities at all levels, including the EU, to make the personal day-to-day challenges faced by migrants, particularly women and the vulnerable, central to how they design policies.
Green City Accord: 73 cities sign ambitious commitment to protect the environment
Provider: View Original Type: Link Title: Green City Accord: 73 cities sign ambitious commitment to protect the environment Description: One year after the launch of the Green City Accord, the European Commission organised a ceremony to celebrate new signatories joining this flagship initiative, which reunites cities committing to ambitious environmental protection goals by 2030. The high-level signatory ceremony took place on 22 September 2021.
Local leaders team up with Slovenian Presidency, Commission and European Parliament to speed up EU recovery plans implementation
Provider: View Original Type: Link Title: Local leaders team up with Slovenian Presidency, Commission and European Parliament to speed up EU recovery plans implementation Description: Regional and local leaders gathered in Lipica (SI) on 24 September to discuss how to timely deliver recovery investments on the ground and avoid delays and overlapping among EU policies. Commissioner for Economy, Paolo Gentiloni, and Slovenian Minister of Finance, Andrej Sircelj, as well as leading members of the European Parliament stressed that only by working with regions and cities national recovery plans can succeed.
Over 60 charged in crackdown on Balkan cartel behind cocaine pipeline to Europe
Provider: View Original Type: Link Title: Over 60 charged in crackdown on Balkan cartel behind cocaine pipeline to Europe Description: An unprecedented international law enforcement operation involving 8 countries has resulted in criminal reports being filed against 61 suspects belonging to a Balkan drug cartel flooding Europe with cocaine. A number of actions have been carried out in the past year in the framework of an Operational Taskforce between Spain, Croatia, Serbia, Germany, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United States and Colombia, with coordination efforts led by Europol’s European Serious Organised Crime Centre.
Feedback request on EU policy roadmap: "Legislation for plants produced by certain new genomic techniques"
Provider: View Original Type: Link Title: Feedback request on EU policy roadmap: "Legislation for plants produced by certain new genomic techniques" | CPVO Description: The European Commission is currently consulting stakeholders on its inception impact assessment and policy roadmap for a future legislation for plants produced by certain new genomic techniques. The feedback period is open until 22 october 2021. This initiative will propose a legal framework for plants obtained by targeted mutagenesis and cisgenesis and for their food and feed
Provider: View Original Type: Link Title: 330 arrests during EU-wide Joint Action Days Description: Spain, supported by Europol, coordinated Europe-wide joint action days targeting facilitation of illegal immigration, drug trafficking and trafficking of firearms. The operation took place between 15 and 18 September 2021. The operational activities involving 27 countries (17 EU Member States and 10 non-EU countries) were also supported by Eurojust, Frontex, INTERPOL and other international organisation.*