EU and the UK
date: 10/03/2017
British researcher selected to mark EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions milestone
British social scientist David Parker is one of 30 highly promising researchers selected to showcase the EU's actions dedicated to excellence and worldwide mobility in research. The researchers were chosen to mark the one hundred thousandth fellow benefiting from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA).
British-Croatian entrepreneur wins 2017 EU Prize for Women Innovators
British-Croatian entrepreneur Michela Magas has won first prize (€100.000) in the 2017 EU Women Innovators contest. Ms Magas is the founder of Stromatolite, a London-based Design Innovation Lab – with a studio in Sweden too – which builds a new generation of incubation and creative technology toolkits for innovation.
Michela Magas' speech on winning the prize
Security and defence 2017
In a speech at Chatham House on 6 March, EU Security Union Commissioner Sir Julian King said the UK and the EU face shared security threats which won't go away once the UK leaves the EU. He outlined what the EU is doing to tackle these threats such as:
- Revising the Schengen Border Code, to allow for systematic security checks on everyone entering the Schengen zone – including EU passport holders;
- Negotiating a new EU Entry/Exit System to reinforce border checks for third country nationals;
- The European wide Passenger Name Record system which will make it easier to detect the movements of foreign terrorists;
- Proposing a European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) in order to gather information on people travelling visa-free to the EU to allow for advance migration and security checks.
He concluded that it's in everyone's interest that the UK and the EU continue to cooperate closely on counter-terrorism and on countering cyberattacks. He added "we are better able to tackle these threats together."
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