The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a €15 million financing deal with Dutch cybersecurity company EclecticIQ. The company will use the funding for further accelerate the development of its cybersecurity platform and expand internationally in a strategically important and rapidly growing market, the European Commission said in a statement.

The EU has reached on Tuesday a crucial milestone with 70% of the adult population now fully vaccinated, European Commission announced. In total, over 256 million adults in the EU have now received a full vaccine course. Seven weeks ago already, the Commission's delivery target was met, ahead of time: to provide Member States, by the end of July, with enough vaccine doses to fully vaccinate 70% of the adult EU population.

The European Commission adopted its proposal for fishing opportunities for 2022 for the Baltic Sea. EU countries will determine how much fish can be caught in the sea basin, for what concerns the most important commercial species.

The European Union will ramp up humanitarian support for Afghans in and around their country to over €200 million from over €50 million, the head of the EU's executive Commission said on Tuesday.

The EU provides €41 million to help low and middle-income countries facing an unprecedented health, humanitarian and socio-economic crisis as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to persist, combined with the imbalance in the delivery of vaccines.

North Macedonia, Turkey and Ukraine will be connected to the EU's system and Covid certificates issued by the three countries will be accepted in the EU, as of tomorrow, 20 August 2021, under the same conditions as the EU Digital Covid Certificate. At the same time, North Macedonia, Turkey and Ukraine have agreed to accept the EU Digital Covid Certificate for travel from the EU to their countries, the EC said in a statement.

The European Union allocates €3 million in humanitarian funding for Haiti following devastating earthquake on 14 August, the EC announced. In order to ensure the fastest possible intervention, EU funds will be implemented by humanitarian partners already active in the emergency response and will support and strengthen their capacity to swiftly provide humanitarian aid to the most vulnerable Haitians.

The European Commission approved new product to support companies affected by the coronavirus outbreak in the 22 participating Member States. It is in the the form of guarantees on synthetic securitisation tranches under the European Guarantee Fund managed by the European Investment Bank Group - consisting of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Investment Fund (EIF).

The European Commission decided to register 'ReturnthePlastics: A Citizen's Initiative to implement an EU-wide deposit-system to recycle plastic bottles'. The organisers call on the EC to present a proposal to implement an EU-wide deposit-system to recycle plastic bottles and make the producing companies pay plastic taxes for the recycling and deposit-system under the principle that the polluter should pay.

The European Commission on Friday disbursed €24.9bn to Italy in pre-financing, equivalent to 13% of the country's grant and loan allocation under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), EC Press service reported. The Italian plan is part of the unprecedented EU response to emerge stronger from the COVID-19 crisis, fostering the green and digital transitions and strengthening resilience and cohesion in our societies. Italy is one of the first countries receiving a pre-financing payment under the RRF.