Road map for digital cooperation: implementationof the recommendations of the High-level Panel onDigital CooperationReport of the Secretary-General

This report is designed to follow up and expand on the findings of the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation. It evaluates the current state of digital collaboration, focusing on aspects related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The report highlights urgent deficiencies and challenges, and proposes measures to enhance global digital cooperation.

Statement by President VON DER LEYEN on the recent ruling of the German Constitutional Court

Brussels, 10 May 2020 The recent ruling of the German Constitutional Court put under the spotlight two issues of the European Union: the Euro system and the European legal system. We take good note of the clear statement of the European Court of Justice of 8 May. In the same vein, the European Commission upholds
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Schuman Declaration: 70 years on

Aiming to secure peace in Europe after the horrors of the Second World War, the Schuman Declaration proposed cooperation among European countries in two key economic areas central to rearmament and warfare: coal and steel. As an institutional framework for this cooperation, the Schuman Declaration proposed the creation of the first supranational organisation in Europe,
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Press release following the judgment of the German Constitutional Court of 5 May 2020

The Directorate for Communication of the Court of Justice received many enquiries concerning the judgment delivered by the German Constitutional Court on 5 May 2020 regarding the European Central Bank’s PSPP programme. The departments of the institution never comment on a judgment of a national court. In general, it is recalled that the Court of
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