09 Mar
Chapter News

Strengthening EU-US Relations with Four New Projects

The Delegation of the European Union to the United States is pleased to announce that it has granted to distinguished partners funding for projects in support of strengthening transatlantic relations. For the next two years, these four grants will promote a broad range of opportunities for Americans and Europeans to engage and deepen their understanding on a range of issues that are of common interest and concern. MEET EU: Making Encounters, Engaging Transatlanticists Coordinated by the University of North Carolina at...

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09 Mar
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IMF | How Countries Are Helping Small Businesses Survive COVID-19

The economic downturn caused by the pandemic has taken a painful toll on small businesses. Scores of retail businesses have permanently closed in cities around the world since the Great Lockdown in the spring of 2020. Small and medium enterprises have an out-sized impact on local economies. They account for half to two-thirds of private sector employment in the United States and the European Union, respectively, and contribute close to 40 percent of national income in emerging economies. But small companies face greater...

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09 Mar
Member News

MJV Technology & Innovation | What is API, and how to use it in your business?

API is an abbreviation for Application Programming Interface and tells how software elements will interact. APIs emerged in the early days of computer science as libraries for operating systems, allowing code sharing and modification. And although it was used to send messages between mainframes occasionally, its function was essentially to transmit data between local environments. The use of these interfaces as we know them today, based on open protocols, is recent and took shape almost three decades later. The fact is...

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09 Mar
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USTR | Joint Statement of the European Union and the United States on the Large Civil Aircraft WTO Disputes

Released on March 5, 2021 | “The European Union and the United States today agreed on the mutual suspension for four months of the tariffs related to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Aircraft disputes. The suspension will cover all tariffs both on aircraft as well as on non-aircraft products, and will become effective as soon as the internal procedures on both sides are completed. “This will allow the EU and the US to ease the burden on their industries and workers and...

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08 Mar
Member News

Littler | Biden Administration Unveils Immigration Reform Bill

Last week, President Biden’s comprehensive immigration reform proposal, the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, was introduced in the House and Senate. As officials in the administration initially reported, the provisions for the proposed legislation indeed include a pathway to citizenship for noncitizens physically present in the United States as of January 1, 2021 (including DACA holders), along with more protections for employment-based immigration. The Act has been regarded a moderate plan meant to attract bipartisan support and would modernize many facets of the...

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08 Mar
Member News

Portolano Cavallo | Foreign investment control regulations: extension of COVID-19–related rules and new list and definition of strategic assets with a brief focus on the health industry

This article is part of Portolano Cavallo’s “INFORM@Corporate” Newsletter. Click here to subscribe. | At the end of 2020, important regulatory measures regarding Italian foreign investment control regulations (known as the Golden Powers) were enacted: (i) a revised list and definition of critical and strategic assets in sectors relevant for the purposes of these regulations entered into force with effect from January 14, 2021, and (ii) the COVID-19 emergency rules providing for a temporary broadening of the scope of notification duties (which,...

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08 Mar
Chapter News

EU Parliament | Carbon leakage: prevent firms from avoiding emissions rules

The Parliament is discussing a carbon levy on imported goods to stop companies moving outside the EU to avoid emissions standards, a practice known as carbon leakage. As European industry struggles to recover from the Covid-19 crisis and the economic pressure due to cheap imports from trading partners, the EU is trying to honour its climate commitments, whilst keeping jobs and production chains at home. Discover how the EU’s recovery plan prioritises creating a sustainable and climate-neutral Europe An EU carbon levy...

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08 Mar
Chapter News

Christine Lagarde | Choose to challenge women’s roles at home, at work and in our society

March 8, 2021 | Blog post by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB | As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold across the world, the past year was one of sacrifice. Too many lost their lives, their loved ones. Others fought hard to survive – physically, emotionally and financially. One year into the pandemic, we can clearly see that the social and economic impact of the virus is affecting women particularly hard. Women work disproportionately in the sectors that have been worst...

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08 Mar
Chapter News

IMF | Women’s Economic Empowerment and Inclusive Global Economic Growth: COVID-19 and Beyond

March 8, 2021 | Keynote Speech by Chief Economist Gita Gopinath at the Inaugural Dr. Hansa Mehta Lecture | Hello everyone. Thank you for your generous introduction, La Neice, and also thank you to the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations and the United Nations Academic Impact for inviting me to speak at this event today. It is a tremendous honor to deliver the inaugural lecture in memory of Dr. Hansa Mehta – an Indian freedom fighter, an educator, a...

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08 Mar
Member News

Troutman Pepper | TMA Amends the U.S. Trademark Act

The Trademark Modernization Act (TMA) amends the U.S. Trademark Act, or Lanham Act, in several important ways, most notably shifting the burden of proving irreparable harm away from trademark owners. First, the TMA clarifies that a plaintiff seeking preliminary or permanent injunctive relief “shall be entitled to a rebuttable presumption of irreparable harm” upon a finding of infringement or a likelihood of success on an infringement claim. Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in eBay, Inc. v. MercExchange, 547 U.S. 388...

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