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Tourism is the EU’s third largest socio-economic activity, representing around 10% of the EU’s GDP. The sector plays a crucial role in generating growth and jobs, but still holds untapped potential – especially in the area of smart tourism. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the tourism
To address these gaps, the Interreg Med Plastic Busters MPAs project has elaborated and applied in pelagic and coastal Mediterranean MPAs a harmonized monitoring approach for detecting the presence of macrolitter and microlitter in all marine compartments and for detecting the impact of marine litter on marine ecosystems and species.
Since the beginning of March, PANORAMED has implemented a short thematic campaign aiming at increasing awareness and understanding of mainstreaming processes in the Mediterranean region, while at the same time contributing to its streamlining in the new 2021-2027 programming period. As main results, PANORAMED has created a new Factsheet on
Today, the European Commission proposes to support 1,200 former workers of KLM in the Netherlands and 500 former workers of Finnair in Finland, who lost their jobs due to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on passenger air transport. Powered by WPeMatico
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on Individual learning accounts, open until 16 July 2021. Powered by WPeMatico
On the occasion of the launch of the Conference on the Future of Europe on 9 May in Strasbourg, the European Committee of the Regions is organising, together with the French government and the main French territorial associations, a local dialogue which will give the floor to local and regional
European Parliament’s Vice-President for Information policy, Press and Citizens Relations, Othmar Karas, and Vice-President for Relations with the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), Klára Dobrev, joined the members of the Bureau of the CoR to debate how to better communicate the EU action and achievements to people in regions,
Elected leaders from the European Parliament and European Committee of the Regions are natural political allies to shape a more democratic Europe Local and regional authorities ask the President of the European Parliament David Sassoli to fully take part in the implementation and governance of national recovery plans Powered by
The Social Summit in Porto must affirm a strong commitment to the European Pillar of Social Rights and its headline targets, involving all levels of government Powered by WPeMatico
For Europe Day (9 May) this year, the EU institutions are throwing open their ‘virtual’ doors so that citizens across Member States can find out more about the European Union and what it does despite the pandemic. The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) will publish animated video about its