It is my great pleasure to wish you, your families and friends and Jewish communities all over the world a joyful and blessed Erev Rosh Hashanah and a happy new year 5779, full of health, prosperity and success. (…)

The Portuguese Secretary of State for Trade, Paulo Alexandre Ferreira, highlighted the importance of raising "young, conscientious consumers", as Lisbon hosted this year’s seventh Citizens’ Dialogue on the New Deal For Consumers.

The European Commission in collaboration with the Czech Diversity Charter are organising this year’s Annual Forum to promote diversity management at the workplace.

The European Commission (EC) is organising on 25th May 2018 three events to mark the entry into application of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): one in Brussels, one in New Delhi and one in Santiago.

On 30 March 2017, the European Commission published the call for proposals for action grants under the 2017 annual work programme of the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme.

On 30 March 2017, the European Commission published the following calls for proposals for action grants under the 2017 annual work programme of the Justice Programme.

The Commission is evaluating the progress on the implementation of IT Companies as regards the commitments provided by the Code of Conduct on countering illegal hate speech online. The contract aims at monitoring online illegal hate speech. The contractor shall monitor IT Companies/social media platforms (namely, but not exclusively, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Snapchat, Dailymotion and Microsoft) and notify to them cases deemed as illegal hate speech according to national criminal law transposing the EU legislation combatting racism and xenophobia.

The main objective of the contract is the analysis of the application of the 2004 Compensation Directive and victims' access to compensation in Member States. The Commission is already in possession of relevant data, which will be shared with the contractor with a view to analyse it and update it. In particular the Commission will provide the contractor with a study on victims compensation effectuated in 2013 and available relevant statistical data received from Member States.