Approved, under EU State aid rules, an aid package to support the construction and operation of the first nuclear power plant in Poland. The nuclear plant, with an electricity generation capacity of up to 3 750 MW, is scheduled to start operating in the second half of the of the 2030s.
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The European Commission has approved €47 million German State aid for Vetter Pharma, a German pharmaceutical service provider. The aid will support the establishment of a new plant for the aseptic filling of injectable medicine into vials and syringes in Saarlouis.
The European Commission has approved a €1.5 billion Italian State aid scheme to support strategic investments that add clean technologies (cleantech) manufacturing capacity, in line with the objectives of the Clean Industrial Deal.
The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Google has breached EU competition rules by using the content of web publishers, as well as content uploaded on the online video-sharing platform YouTube, for artificial intelligence (‘AI’) purposes.
The European Commission has approved unconditionally, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed acquisition of Kellanova by Mars, Incorporated (‘Mars’). The Commission has concluded that the proposed transaction would not raise competition concerns in the European Economic Area (‘EEA’).
The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Meta’s new policy on artificial intelligence (‘AI’) providers’ access to WhatsApp may breach EU competition rules.
The European Commission has announced the opening of three new funding opportunities under the Innovation Fund with a total budget of €5.2 billion in EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) revenues.
The technical assessment conducted by the Commission concluded that Russia meets the criteria to be designated as a high‑risk third country.
Today, the European Commission and the High Representative presented a Joint Communication on strengthening Economic Security.
The European Union will effectively and permanently stop the import of Russian gas and move towards the phaseout of Russian oil under the provisional political agreement reached by the European Parliament and the Council today.
