This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Rachel Gutter, President, International WELL Building Institute The built environment has a huge role to play in building a healthier, more sustainable world. This is becoming even more apparent thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Harmonizing health, energy efficiency […]The built environment has a huge role to play in improving health and wellbeing
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Rachel Gutter, President, International WELL Building Institute The built environment has a huge role to play in building a healthier, more sustainable world. This is becoming even more apparent thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Harmonizing health, energy efficiency […]3 challenges facing global gig economy growth after COVID-19
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Yan Xiao, Project Lead, Digital Trade, World Economic Forum & Janette Chung, Product Director, Jobox.ai COVID-19 is accelerating the growth of the cross-border offline-to-online (O2O) gig economy. Cross-border payments need to catch up for the cross-border gig economy […]European Defence Fund: €205 million to boost the EU’s strategic autonomy and industrial competitiveness
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This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The Commission announced today 16 pan-European defence industrial projects and three disruptive technology projects that will benefit from €205 million financing through the two precursor programmes of a fully-fledged European Defence Fund: the Preparatory Action on Defence Research (PADR) and the European Defence Industrial […]The Central Mediterranean migration route in times of COVID-19
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This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. MEPs will assess the migration situation in the Central Mediterranean in the midst of the pandemic with representatives of EU institutions and international organisations. The Civil Liberties Committee has been closely following developments in the area, after both Malta and Italy, as well as […]EU-UK Statement following the High Level Meeting on 15 June
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This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. Statement following meeting between Presidents of European Council, Commission, Parliament and UK PM Boris Johnson Prime Minister Boris Johnson met the President of the European Council Charles Michel, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of the European […]Coronavirus global response: EU Humanitarian Air Bridge to Afghanistan and further support
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This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. As part of the EU’s global coronavirus response, an EU Humanitarian Air Bridge flight will depart on 15 June from Maastricht, Netherlands to Kabul, Afghanistan. The flight will deliver 100 tonnes of life-saving materials to supply EU-funded humanitarian partners. The flight is fully EU […]Re-open EU: Commission launches a website to safely resume travelling and tourism in the EU
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This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the Commission is launching ‘Re-open EU‘, a web platform to support a safe relaunch of travelling and tourism across Europe. It will provide real-time information on borders and available means of transport and tourism services in Member States. Re-open EU will also include […]An enlightened response to COVID-19 can avert the climate emergency
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: David Craig, CEO, Refinitiv If we get our policy responses to COVID-19 wrong, we risk exacerbating the climate crisis. But it also provides us with a massive opportunity to build back better. Here’s how policy-makers and business leaders […]Health Systems and Society: ways to reinforce the human power during the pandemic
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This article was exclusively written for The European Sting by Mr Gabriel Danielli Quintana, a 3 rd Year medical student from the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel). He is affiliated to the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA), cordial partner of The Sting. The opinions expressed in this piece belong strictly to the writer and […]
