Although the COVID-19 pandemic is by no means over, in Spain we can already start to learn some lessons that will ensure the same mistakes are not made again if we are ever unfortunate enough to face a similar situation in the future.
The European Commission is meant to be the non-partisan, executive branch of the EU that consists of experts rather than politicians. However, the appointment of Commissioners is certainly a politicised process, so many argue for the democratisation of this procedure.
The European Union’s budget for foreign aid for the 2014-2020 period is of €82 billion on. As part of a new humanitarian aid package, €18.5 million will go to Latin American and Caribbean countries.
The European Commission has fined in July telecommunications multinational Qualcomm with €242 million as it condemns them for selling chipsets “below cost."
On the 26th April 2018, the European Commission adopted a proposal for regulating the relationships between online platforms and their business consumers.
On May 2 the European Commission released a Communication that outlined the Union’s overall budgetary plan for the 2021 – 2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), which included the proposal of a 5% funding cut to the Common Agricultural Policy.