European responses to the corona crisis - Part 9
on May 20, 2020
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May 19, 2020 update
• European Commission: Additional €122 million for research and innovation on COVID-19 - The Commission has mobilised another €122 million from its research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020, for urgently needed research into the coronavirus.
• State aid to Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Finland - The European Commission approves €500 million Belgian guarantee scheme to support internationally active companies affected by the coronavirus outbreak, €18.5 billion Czech guarantee scheme for companies affected by coronavirus outbreak, Danish guarantee scheme to stabilise trade credit insurance market in coronavirus outbreak, €903 million Belgian reinsurance scheme to support trade credit insurance market in coronavirus outbreak, Finnish State guarantee on €600 million loan to Finnair in the context of coronavirus outbreak
May 18, 2020 update
https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1262440816003493902
• EUvsDIsinfo: Secret Labs and George Soros: COVID-19 Disinformation in the EU Eastern Partnership Countries - As COVID-19 spread across the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood, conspiracy theories, misleading information and disinformation followed in its wake. For pro-Kremlin media, the pandemic offers new opportunities to build on existing disinformation narratives and spin new ones.
• European Commission Statement- Reacting to the press conference by the German Chancellor and the French President
May 15, 2020 update
• EU Council: Political agreement reached on temporary support to mitigate unemployment risks in an emergency - The instrument called SURE enables member states to request EU financial support to help workers keep their jobs during the crisis.
• University of Cambridge: New app collects the sounds of COVID-19 - A new app, which will be used to collect data to develop machine learning algorithms that could automatically detect whether a person is suffering from COVID-19 based on the sound of their voice, their breathing and coughing, has been launched by researchers at the University of Cambridge.
• Bruegel Policy Brief - Rebooting Europe: a framework for a post COVID-19 economic recovery.
Consult older ESMH articles on the European responses to the corona crisis