In a year that marked 30 years of the United Nation’s child rights convention, 2019 saw many migrant children in the EU with their rights under threat. The latest report from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) draws attention to the plight of migrant children as they enter and stay in the EU or return to their home countries.
The Commission has adopted an update of the 2020 Work Programme of Horizon 2020, the EU’s research and innovation programme to allocate increased funding to its priorities, including urgently needed research and innovation projects into the coronavirus.
The European Commission has awarded MSCA Seal of Excellence certificates to over two thousand researchers who applied for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship in 2019.
Advances in gene sequencing have allowed scientists to trace and monitor the COVID-19 pandemic faster than any previous outbreak. However, gaps in our knowledge of how coronaviruses work has made it difficult to understand what makes the new coronavirus special.
The European Commission welcomes the Council's decision to authorise the opening of the future partnership negotiations with the UK.