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The President of the European Commission von der Leyen and the President of the United States, Joe Biden, agreed on Sunday to begin discussions on a global agreement on sustainable steel and aluminium. This marks a new milestone in the transatlantic relationship and in the EU-US efforts to achieve decarbonisation [...]

Eni and BF Group join forces to develop research projects and sustainable cultivation for the production of biofuels and choose Sardinia as a field of experimentation. The joint venture - which provides shortly for the acquisition by Eni of a minority stake in BF Bonifiche Ferraresi and its entry into [...]

A memorandum of understanding has been signed for the promotion of Made in Italy products and the reduction of waste in the production of soft drinks. The agreement, signed by the Undersecretary of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, Francesco Battistoni, and Giangiacomo Pierini, President of Assobibe, a Confindustria association representing [...]

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced today a 1 billion euros contribution by the European Union to the global financial commitment for forests at the 26th UN Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow. This five-year support package from the EU budget [...]

A package of short and medium-term measures to respond to soaring energy prices and thus reach out to businesses and households. This is the response adopted by the European Commission, which has developed a series of actions aimed at reducing the impact of price increases on the economic system and [...]

Italy will join the Vienna Convention: this will result in lower costs and export barriers for the 7,500 Italian companies in the goldsmith industry. On 16 September, the Council of Ministers approved the draft law on the accession of the Italian Republic to the Convention on the control and marking [...]

The European Commission is inviting Member States and all other interested parties to comment on several proposals to amend the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER). The objective of the proposed review is to take into account changes in several sets of State aid guidelines currently being revised and to further [...]

The European Commission has granted 4.7 billion euros to Italy under REACT-EU to support the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic crisis and contribute to a sustainable socio-economic recovery. The new financing is the result of the modification of two operational programmes of the European Social Fund (ESF) and the [...]

With a reshaping of the React-EU programme, the European Commission granted 1.2 billion euros to finance the national operational programme "Governance and institutional capacity". Of this sum, 761 million euros will be allocated to the purchase of 68 million doses of vaccines against coronavirus. A further 374 million euros will [...]

The bonus for bikes and scooters reduce CO2 and particulate emissions. According to an estimate by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, the more than 660.000 "mobility bonuses" granted last year by the Government to encourage the purchase of goods and services for sustainable mobility, has had a positive impact on [...]