There’s more in the pot, but MEPs and research lobbies decry ‘mismatch’ between European Commission’s revised research budget and the post-COVID-19 mountains to be scaled By Florin Zubașcu and Goda Naujokaitytė EU legislators and research stakeholders are not exactly thrilled by the European Commission’s revised multiannual budget proposal, in which it pencils in €94.4 billion (in 2018 prices) for Horizon Europe. While research organisations welcome a cash injection of €13.5 billion from th...
During a debate, MEP Maria da Graça CARVALHO (EPP, PT) talked about the importance of investing in the industrial sector, Jornal de Negócios reports. "This European Commission and this European Parliament have put the industrial strategy back on the political agenda, which is very important and was already so on 10 and 11 March, just before the Covid-19 confinement of almost the whole of Europe, the European Commission made a series of documents with a European strategy for industry, for d...
Maria da Graça Carvalho participated in a virtual debate organized by Cambridge Union entitled "Is Covid-19 the end of the European project?". Panellists at the debate included as well the former Leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Vince Cable, the Europe Editor for The Financial Times Ben Hall, and Director of Italy’s Istituto Affari Internazionali Nathalie Tocci. In the debate, Maria da Graça Carvalho stated that Covid-19 would not damage the EU and that, on the contrary, the pandemic...
A actual situação de crise que se vive devido ao surto de COVID-19 tem tido um forte impacto na dimensão e na natureza das necessidades que requerem apoio orçamental urgente por parte da União Europeia. A proposta da Comissão visa conceder assistência macrofinanceira (AMF) no montante total de 3 mil milhões de euros a 10 países do alargamento e da vizinhança que enfrentam uma crise da balança de pagamentos: Albânia, Bósnia e Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, República da Macedônia do ...
A pandemia de COVID-19 tem graves repercussões nas sociedades e nas sociedades cooperativas, incluindo as Sociedades Europeias e as Sociedades Cooperativas Europeias. Em particular, devido às medidas de confinamento e de distanciamento social, bem como à necessidade de concentrar esforços na gestão das restrições da atividade económica, as SE e as SCE enfrentam dificuldades consideráveis no tocante ao cumprimento do prazo de realização da sua assembleia geral referido no artigo54.º dos respeti...
Os constantes atrasos no Acordo com o Conselho Europeu evidenciam um elevado risco de que não se alcance um acordo sobre o próximo Quadro Financeiro Plurianual (QFP) a tempo de este entrar em vigor em 1 de janeiro de 2021 e de que não se consiga uma transição harmoniosa do QFP 2014-2020 para o QFP 2021-2027. A actual crise sanitária resultante do surto de Covid-19 e os impactos socioeconómicos sem precedentes na vida dos cidadãos tornam ainda mais premente a necessidade de eliminar qualque...
Parliament is working on new amendments to legal framework of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology which are to be voted in the industry committee by the end June By Florin Zubașcu New amendments by MEPs Maria da Graça Carvalho and Marisa Matias are to give a nimbler legal framework for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) to respond to the coronavirus crisis. The MEPs say the amendments call on EIT’s eight public-private partnerships, the Knowledge and...
In her quality of chair, Maria da Graça Carvalho attended today the Governing Board of the Knowledge4Innovation (K4I) Forum of the European Parliament. This was the first remote meeting of the K4I Governing Board since coronavirus lockdown began and aimed at resuming activities and planning specific actions for the upcoming months. The remote meeting gathered more than 30 participants, including Members of the European Parliament and representatives of the member organisations. At the end of ...