On Tuesday, Sandra Gallina, the Commission’s Director-General for Health and Food Safety (SANTE), will update Members of the Budgetary Control Committee (CONT) on the eight advanced purchase agreements (APA) on coronavirus vaccines concluded by the Com… read more
Indicative programme Chair: Ms. Ana Paula Zacarias, Portuguese Secretary of State of European Affairs 10.00 Beginning of the video conference of European affairs ministers a) Videoconference of the Members of the European Council on 25-26 March 2021: … read more
The Council today adopted new rules to improve administrative cooperation in the field of taxation and address the challenges posed by the digital platform economy. A large and growing number of individuals and businesses use digital platforms to sell … read more
Regional TB mortality has gone down, declining by 9.4% between 2018 and 2019. This is notably higher than the average global decline in TB mortality (3.7%) and enough to have reached the End TB Strategy milestone of a 35% reduction by 2020 compared to … read more
Thank you to Ciarán for the kind introduction and to the Dublin Economics Workshop (DEW) for the invitation to speak today. I know I was originally pencilled in for February, so thanks for being so accommodating and it’s a great way to start the week. … read more