Slowing the production of cars with internal combustion engines down and at the same time drive the production of cars with electric engines forward – these are the goals set by the European Union and its member states. Despite subsidies for EVs introduced in some countries, sales of electric cars are crashing and the European car market is plunging into crisis.
Croatian and Spanish experts are working on a research project in the field of fusion energy, which has been declared a scientific infrastructure of strategic importance to the European Union.
On Thursday, ministers from the 27 EU states came together in Brussels for the EU Competition Council. Germany and Austria took the opportunity to advocate for the protection of European retail against competition from China.
The European Union’s highest court ordered Apple and Google to pay billions back in taxes and a competition fine respectively, ending long-running legal battles. The two cases were part of EU’s fight to stop tax loopholes and rein in US tech giants.
Scientists from the Slovenian research institute InnoRenew CoE are sending a special fungal biofilm to space for the self-repair of engineering materials as part of the European project ARCHI-SKIN.