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This EPRS paper analyses progress made in carrying through the policy agenda set by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and her College of Commissioners when they took office in December 2019. It looks in particular at the state of play with respect to delivery of the agenda's six key priorities, as we enter the final year running up to the 2024 European elections. The von der Leyen Commission – either on taking office or more recently – has announced a total of 597 planned ...

Public financing of enterprises, which has been on the rise globally, can have a distortive effect on competitive markets. In response to this trend, in May 2021 the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation to tackle foreign subsidies with a distortive effect on the EU single market. It would enable the Commission to investigate subsidies granted by non-EU public authorities to companies operating on the single market, and to apply countervailing measures, should these subsidies ...

Ukraine and its Western allies say Moscow is waging an unprovoked war of conquest that has destroyed Ukrainian cities, killed thousands of people and forced millions more to flee their homes. As Russian troops push forward in waves with a new offensive in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine, Russia and Ukraine are locked in the bloodiest infantry battle in Europe since World War II. Ukraine has been urging its allies in the EU and the US to increase the delivery of weapons as it is running out of ...

Outraged by Russia's illegal and unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, European Union countries swiftly adopted unprecedentedly tough sanctions, in close cooperation with partners including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Japan. The rapid succession of ten packages of EU sanctions adopted since then, in what has already been labelled a 'sanctions revolution', have resulted in an unparalleled set of measures targeting the key sectors of the Russian ...

The Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland is an integral part of the 2020 EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement and was designed to avoid the need for a hard border on the island of Ireland. Implementation of the Protocol has been marred by rising tensions and political challenges, and both parties, particularly since Rishi Sunak became UK Prime Minister, have sought to address the main problems. The new agreement, called the Windsor Framework, seeks to improve the trading rules for Northern Ireland, bring stability ...

Transatlantic ties have seen a considerable boost since Joe Biden became the 46th US President in 2021, with the US re-embracing multilateralism to varying degrees as a means to tackle multiple crises such as climate change, global food insecurity, strategic competition with China, and Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. However, challenges in the transatlantic relationship have remained, as the EU and the US have chosen different means to achieve their climate change targets, to address ...

Das Partnerschafts- und Kooperationsabkommen (PKA) zwischen der EU und Aserbeidschan, das seit 1999 in Kraft ist, bildet den Rahmen für diese bilateralen Beziehungen. Aserbaidschan, das als autoritäres Regime zu betrachten ist, ist ein wichtiger Energielieferant der EU. Seit kurzem spielt die EU eine aktivere Rolle als Vermittler zwischen Armenien und Aserbaidschan. Das Europäische Parlament wird sich voraussichtlich während seiner März-I-Plenartagung mit einem Initiativbericht über die Beziehungen ...

Die bilateralen Beziehungen zwischen der Europäischen Union und Armenien beruhen auf dem Abkommen über eine umfassende und verstärkte Partnerschaft zwischen der EU und Armenien, das seit März 2021 in Kraft ist. Die EU ist ein wichtiger Handels- und Hilfspartner für Armenien und vermittelt derzeit auch im Konflikt zwischen dem Land und Aserbaidschan. Im Februar 2023 leitete die EU eine zivile EU-Mission in Armenien (EUMA) ein und signalisierte damit eine wachsende Rolle für die EU angesichts des schwindenden ...

Ongoing global crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the cost of living crisis, climate change and war are spotlighting perennial obstacles to gender equality, as well as the importance and potential of gender-sensitive policies. As part of their commitment to human rights, sustainable development and democracy, the European Parliament and the US Congress have committed to advance women's rights and gender equality in their internal and external policy-making in an array of sectors.

Open, cooperative and inclusive – these are the adjectives used by the Group of Seven (G7) leaders to describe the climate club, a global initiative launched in December 2022 to accelerate the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Its objective is to encourage nations with bold climate goals to join forces as a way to speed up the transition towards net-zero emissions by 2050 and contribute to reaching the targets of the Paris Agreement on climate change. A climate club may help to address coordination ...