Today the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) issued its final assessment of the EU electricity market design. It comes at a time of volatile electricity prices and unprecedented supply insecurity linked to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Its core message is the EU must maintain its electricity price setting mechanism and preserve the Internal Energy Market, a key asset in dealing with the crisis.

Date of release: 28 April 2022

Pressure has long been mounting on EU health systems. More and more patients are affected by major non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and lung illnesses while the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the sustainability of our healthcare model.  We need impactful solutions that think long term and biosimilar medicines are part of it.

Responding to the resignation of the Frontex Executive Director, the S&D spokesperson for home affairs, Birgit Sippel, said:

A new webinar of the series “Probiotic talks from Europe” took place on April 4 2022, to discuss different scenarios that could create a favourable legal environment for the use of the term probiotic in the EU on labelling and communication.