Two years after the launch of the renewed Global Approach to Migration and Mobility (GAMM) important achievements in strengthening dialogue and cooperation are reported, while recognizing that more should be done to make further progress.

“This has been a good week for efforts to protect taxpayers’ money throughout the EU. With public finances under pressure throughout the EU, every euro counts. The European Budget is a federal budget. If we don’t protect it from criminals, nobody else will,” said Vice-President Viviane Reding, the EU’s Justice Commissioner.

In Europe, the semiconductor ecosystem itself employs approximately 250,000 people directly; with 2.5 million employed in the full value chain.

EU agriculture ministers on 17 February 2014 discussed a draft regulation aimed at reforming the information and promotion policy of EU’s agricultural products.

“The next two years will be critical in redrawing the global map of Internet governance. Europe must contribute to a credible way forward for global internet governance. Europe must play a strong role in defining what the net of the future looks like” , said Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes.

Connected cars, able to communicate with each other and with road infrastructures, are expected to appear on European roads in 2015.

The survey commissioned by the EC shows that 28% of those who travel in the EU switch off their mobile phone when going to another country. Only 8% of travellers use the phone abroad in the same way as at home making a phone call. 3 out of 10 never phone when being on a trip in another country.

In 2013, 38% of Europeans spent their main holiday in another EU country, which is 5 percentage points more compared to 2012.

Statement by EU Commissioner for Development Piebalgs on sustainable energy in Africa at the occasion of the High Level Meeting of the Africa-EU Energy Partnership in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), 11-13 February.

The study focuses on six European cities, chosen for the multinational composition of their population : Barcelona, Dublin, Hamburg, Lille, Prague and Turin. It shows that for all six cities the inflow of younger, working age EU citizens has had a positive economic impact. The study also shows that newcomers have helped fill gaps in local labour markets, contributed to growth in new sectors and have helped balance out ageing populations. It finds that mobile citizens are often overqualified for the jobs they take up, may be paid less and at the same time do not always benefit from the same access to housing and education.