Meeting of the 🇪🇺 Competitiveness Council (industry and single market) today #COMPET.
Deputy Prime minister @DavidClarinval and Flemish Minister-President @MDiependaele represent #Belgium 🇧🇪.
🏭 Clean industrial deal
🛃 Modernised single market
🛜 E-commerce
📝 Simplification
Minister President of the Brussels Capital Region together with @EU_Growth Director Amarylis Verhoeven kicking off today's EU Dialogue - Driving Positive Change in the Meetings Industry @EU2024BE @brusselsint@visitbrussels
⛓️ In the EU, it matters how products are made!
Ambassadors just confirmed the Corporate sustainability due diligence directive (#CSDDD)!
💚 It fosters sustainable & responsible corporate behaviour, anchors human rights & environmental considerations for companies' operations.
🍃 Deal!
@EUCouncil & @europarl just reached a provisional agreement on the Net-Zero Industry Act (#NZIA).
🌍 The regulation aims at boosting the deployment of net-zero technologies in industry, needed to reach the 🇪🇺 EU’s climate goals.
Protect. Strengthen. Prepare. #EU2024BE.
Prime Minister @alexanderdecroo at the unveiling of the programme and the priorities of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Click below to access the full video ⤵️
Some words of welcome from @vonderleyen: More than half of the world's population lives in cities, therefore we need urban solutions to global challenges. She also uses the opportunity to extend a heartfelt thank you to EU cities who welcomed refugees from Ukraine.
2600 politicians, academics and civil society representatives, including more than 160 mayors, are coming together in Brussels to discuss major societal challenges and formulate urban solutions!
#BUS2023@BUS_2023#CitiesForPeople
https://t.co/HGgYlGsswj
📢📢 #smallprojectsNWE📢📢
Call 3 for small-scale projects is now open👍
The main objective of this call is to allow projects with a reduced scope, partnership size, and duration to apply with the #NWE Programme.
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➡️https://t.co/IQNsulPTOl
Faciliter la vie des PME bxloises et contribuer à un climat + favorable à l'entrepreneuriat, c'est l'objectif de ce "Test PME" qui analysera, en amont, l'éventuel impact des différentes politiques régionales sur les petites entreprises #shiftingeconomy
https://t.co/dDJZDubM8V
During today's #COMPET Council 🇪🇺 ministers discuss
✅ Single Market Emergency Instrument
✅ Ecodesign for sustainable products
✅ Single Market resilience in context of war in Ukraine
📺Watch it live: https://t.co/sxgv0KUqhJ
🎙️Press conference at 15:15: https://t.co/pFiNBDJbWt
⚙ #COMPET | An informal meeting of EU member states' economy ministers will take place on July 19-20 in Prague. The topic will be increasing the added value, innovation and competitiveness of regions across the EU. 🇨🇿🇪🇺
https://t.co/b9vBO60zPN
Le premier appel à projets dans le cadre du programme @INTERREG_NWE 2021-2027 a attiré 76 propositions de projets. Ook enkele Brusselse partners waagden hun kans. La selection finale aura lieu en septembre 2022. Veel succes!
@brusselsint#Bruxelles
👉🏽https://t.co/2HEBfU7Wvg
🇪🇺 #COMPET Council (internal market & industry) will discuss:
✅️ Chips Act
✅️ Strategic industrial ecosystems
✅️ Consumer credit direct
🇧🇪 represented by State Secretary @barbaratrachte#BruGov
➡️ Watch some sessions live: https://t.co/rlZKaEuaJ1
@SPRB_GOB@brusselsint
🆕 1st part of the EU #CircularEconomy package
We are proposing new rules to make physical goods on the 🇪🇺 market more friendly to the environment, circular, & energy efficient throughout their whole lifecycle
Press release
https://t.co/pSCCWW9IYK
#EUGreenDeal#ForNature