Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis and Commissioner Gentiloni have been invited to the second Recovery and Resilience Dialogue under the Recovery and Resilience Facility Regulation. This briefing addresses the following subjects: the Recovery and Resilience Facility and its scrutiny; the state of play of adoption and assessment of the Recovery and Resilience plans; the European Parliament resolutions on the Recovery and Resilience Facility; the financing of national Recovery and Resilience plans and some data on the current economic situation and estimates on the impact of Facility.
Using hydrogen-based fuels for cars and home heating risks locking in a dependency on fossil fuels and failing to tackle the climate crisis, according to a new analysis. EURACTIV’s media partner, The Guardian, reports.
The EU is actively exploring how AI technologies can be developed and adopted in order to improve border control and security. A number of applications for biometric identification, emotion detection, risk assessment and migration monitoring have already been deployed or tested at EU borders. AI technologies may bring important benefits for border control and security, such as increased efficiency, better fraud-detection and risk analysis. However, these powerful technologies also pose significant challenges, related in particular to their insufficient or varying accuracy and the multiple fundamental rights risks they entail (including bias and discrimination risks, data protection and privacy risks, and the risk of unlawful profiling).
This document provides an overview on the overall involvement of stakeholders in the drafting of the national recovery and resilience plans based on information gathered by the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of Regions. It also makes reference to assessments made by other institutions and bodies and compiles information available on Commissions’ assessment of national Recovery and Resilience Plans relating to stakeholders’ involvement. The paper will be updated once relevant developments are available.
Only two European countries are anywhere close to being on track to achieving the EU’s recycling targets for electronic waste – or e-waste – the European Court of Auditors warned on Thursday (20 May).
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