07 Apr
Member News

NautaDutilh | Belgium Employment – Are you ready for a Covid-19 inspection?

The Social Inspectorate is responsible for monitoring compliance with the rules on teleworking enacted to combat the spread of Covid-19. Criminal or administrative fines may be imposed for noncompliance with these rules. In the event of a Covid-19 inspection by the Social Inspectorate, the following information/documents should be made available. 1.    Covid-19 risk analysis Although teleworking is mandatory, measures should still be taken to protect employees who cannot telework due to the nature of their position or for business continuity reasons....

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07 Apr
Member News

Ogletree Deakins | A Review of U.S. Immigration Policies Implemented by Presidents Trump and Biden Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

Written on March 30, 2021 | With the new President, we expect a less restrictive approach toward immigration, however, the COVID-19 virus has significantly impacted global travel and immigration since March 2020.  As such, the current and past Administrations have implemented travel and immigration restrictions in the name of safety.  These measures have ranged from simple travel restrictions, to outright travel bans, medical testing requirements, and even the suspension of certain nonimmigrant work visas and immigrant visas issued by consulates...

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07 Apr
Chapter News, COVID-19 News

Coronavirus: EU Commission mobilises €123 million for research and innovation to combat the threat of variants

The EU Commission is mobilising €123 million from Horizon Europe, the new EU research and innovation programme, for urgent research into coronavirus variants. This first emergency funding under Horizon Europe adds to a range of EU-funded research and innovation actions to fight the coronavirus and contributes to the Commission's overall action to prevent, mitigate and respond to the impact of coronavirus variants, in line with the new European bio-defence preparedness plan HERA Incubator. Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth,...

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07 Apr
Chapter News

ECB | What are targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTROs)?

Targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTROs) are central to making sure that our monetary policy reaches people. Through TLTROs, the ECB offers longer-term loans to banks at favourable costs and encourages them to lend to businesses and consumers in the euro area. This keeps borrowing costs low and supports spending and investments. How does it work? TLTROs are different from our main refinancing operations in three distinctive ways: TLTROs are specifically targeted – as the name says – at maintaining or...

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07 Apr
Member News

Portolano Cavallo | Data privacy and competition protection: Overlap or conflict?

This article is part of Portolano Cavallo’s “INFORM@Digital & IP” Newsletter. Click here to subscribe. | In a recent interview, Europe’s antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager, warned Apple that its recent changes to privacy rules must not give preferential treatment to its apps over those of its competitors or it might be in violation of antitrust norms. Apple has framed those changes as being designed to protect users’ personal data, but that does not exempt its actions from competition rules. This warning came in reaction...

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07 Apr
Chapter News

IMF | Tailoring Government Support

The race to vaccinate against COVID-19 continues, but the pace of inoculation varies widely across countries, with access unavailable to many. Global cooperation must be stepped up to produce and distribute vaccines to all countries at affordable costs. The sooner vaccinations curb the pandemic, the faster economies can return to normal. 'The sooner vaccinations curb the pandemic, the faster economies can return to normal.' If the global pandemic is controlled via vaccination, the resulting stronger economic growth would yield more than $1...

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06 Apr
Member News

Jaguar Freight | How the Pandemic Has Shaped Today’s Supply Chains

If you were to describe the way the world has changed over the past year to your pre-pandemic self, it would probably sound like something straight out of a bad sci-fi movie. From the moment COVID-19 entered the scene, it has been one disruption after another — especially for those of us tasked with figuring out how to keep supply chains running smoothly in the midst of all this chaos. The global economy started to decline almost immediately at the...

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06 Apr
Member News

MJV | Discover the 7 stages of strategic planning

If you want to have a 2021 that is much better than 2020, you have no other choice but to draw up a good strategic plan. Follow our 7 steps and get your ideas ready today. Access now! | The market has never changed so much in such a short time. The expression “overnight” started to mean something that demands a lot of time. Because of this, strategic planning (or re-planning) became the ace in the sleeve for corporations that...

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06 Apr
Chapter News

IMF | An Asynchronous and Divergent Recovery May Put Financial Stability at Risk

After enduring a tumultuous 2020, the global economy is finally emerging from the worst phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, albeit with prospects diverging starkly across regions and countries—and only after a “lost year” spent in suspended animation. The economic trauma would have been much worse if the global economy had not been supported by the unprecedented policy actions taken by central banks and by the fiscal measures implemented by governments. 'Global markets are watching the current rise of US long-term...

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05 Apr
Chapter News, COVID-19 News

“COVID-19 shows why united action is needed for more robust international health architecture”

Op-ed article by President Charles Michel, WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and more than 20 world leaders | The COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest challenge to the global community since the 1940s. At that time, following the devastation of two world wars, political leaders came together to forge the multilateral system. The aims were clear: to bring countries together, to dispel the temptations of isolationism and nationalism, and to address the challenges that could only be achieved together...

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