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20 September last, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis has been a speaker of the twelfth edition of the Terra Madre Salone del Gusto festival, organized by Slow Food, Municipality of Turin and the Piedmont Region in Turin.
The Commissioner spoke during the first day of the festival, which took place from 20 to 24 September, focusing on food waste and the use of antibiotics in farms; then he was the man speaker inan actual citizen dialogue in the afternoon.
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Back in 2013, Croatia became the EU’s newest member – a title it retains to this day. Several of its Balkan neighbours hope to follow the same path, with Montenegro, Albania, Serbia, and the Republic of Macedonia having earned the official candidate country status and Bosnia and Herzegovina as a potential addition to this waiting list. And then there’s the divisive matter of Kosovo, whose independence is not recognised by all EU countries, but is nevertheless viewed as a potential candidate for membership. What lies in store for these remaining states and why is the process so long?
In view of a dynamically evolving threat landscape and building on the review of the 2013 EU cybersecurity strategy, tackling the cybersecurity perils together was one of the three challenges identified in the mid-term review of the Digital Single Market.
On 13 September 2017 the Commission adopted a cybersecurity package. The package builds upon existing instruments and presents new initiatives to further improve EU cyber resilience and response.
(Source: European Commission)
The European Youth Event took place on June 1st and 2nd 2018 at European Parliament in Strasbourg, which is the organizer of the event. Now in its third edition, the European Youth Event brought to Strasbourg 8,000 young people from all over Europe to debate on current political issues.