The United States, in contacts with the EU countries, put forward a proposal to apply the experience gained from the implementation of the export control regime in relation to the Russian Federation against China, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing a number of anonymous sources.
“The United States, in contacts with European allies, has voiced the idea of learning from the export control regime used against Russia to fight China, according to people familiar with the matter,” the agency said.
The White House is “exploring some elements of similar information sharing and coordination in implementing measures to tighten US and EU restrictions” on exports to China, the sources said.
Such discussions come at a time when the EU and the US are discussing the agenda for the third meeting of the Trade and Technology Council scheduled for December 5, which serves as a forum for coordinating trade and technology policy between the EU and the US.
However, the sources note, the EU is not inclined to consider applying to the PRC the same approach that was used in relation to Russia. According to one source, the EU may look at the goods that Beijing is able to use to increase its military capabilities.
In turn, the US National Security Council denied plans to extend the export control regime against the Russian Federation to China, and the fact of discussions on this topic with European countries.
Bloomberg explains that export restrictions are considered potentially effective in slowing down China’s development amid global competition for technological supremacy.
On October 7, the US Department of Commerce banned the sale to China of the most advanced chips, as well as equipment, components and software for their production, with a special focus on technologies related to artificial intelligence and potential military applications. The restrictions affected the exports of other countries, which depend on similar American technologies and programs. Also, US citizens were forbidden to advise the Chinese side or provide it with other services in this area.
Subsequently, US Deputy Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Alan Estevez said that Washington expects an early agreement with the allies on their accession to these restrictions. However, authorities in the Netherlands, home of ASML Holding, a manufacturing equipment for the electronics industry, have expressed concern about the effect of new US restrictive measures.
Meanwhile, in mid-October, The Financial Times reported, citing an EU foreign policy document prepared for a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council, that, in its opinion, China is a competitor that needs to be confronted, and that policy towards China should be tightened. A number of EU leaders later also warned against economic dependence on China.
Interruptions are possible in the work of checkpoints on the border with the European Union and Moldova, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has warned.
“Due to enemy shelling and damage to critical infrastructure facilities in western Ukraine, there may be interruptions in the operation of checkpoints on the border with the EU and Moldova,” the State Border Guard Service said in the Telegram channel on Monday.
Ukraine has joined the countries of the European Union that have an approved national plan for the implementation of the principles of open science, the Ministry of Education and Science reports.
“The Government has approved the Decree “On the Approval of the National Plan for Open Science”. The document is the next step towards the integration of Ukraine into the European Research Area,” the press service of the ministry said in a statement.
It is noted that the implementation of the plan will ensure the implementation of the Agreement between Ukraine, on the one hand, and the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, on the other hand, on Ukraine’s participation in the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Framework and the European Community Research and Training Program on Atomic Energy. Energy (2021 – 2025), complementary to the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Framework.
It is expected that the subsequent implementation of the national plan for open science will create: regulatory and legal prerequisites for the formation of the state policy of open science; provide interested parties with open access to devices, tools and other means of obtaining a scientific result; will ensure the processing of scientific data, taking into account the principles of FAIR (a set of principles for the visibility, accessibility, compatibility and reuse of scientific data); will contribute to the acceleration of the circulation of scientific information, will provide access to relevant scientific information without discrimination; create conditions for more efficient use of the results of research and development carried out with the involvement of budgetary funds; will make the scientific and educational space more transparent.
The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology notes a multiple drop in the share of those wishing to leave for permanent residence in the United States or EU countries in the event of obtaining citizenship of these countries from the fall of 2020.
“In October 2020, KIIS conducted an all-Ukrainian telephone survey, which, among other things, posed the question “And if you were now granted US or EU citizenship without conditions, would you go to these countries for permanent residence?” At that time, 28% of all adults of Ukrainians were ready to go abroad.In September 2022, we asked this question again… 91% became more of those who would not want to leave,” the press release on the results of the study says.
At the same time, KIIS notes that currently about 10% of adult Ukrainians are now abroad as refugees. “However, even if half of them would answer yes to this question (recent surveys of Ukrainian refugees show that in fact the majority still want to return home, that is, the answers “yes” would most likely be less than half), then the decline in emigration sentiment would also be significant, from 28% to around 13%.
According to the results of the study, in all regions of Ukraine, the absolute majority of the population (90-92%) would not want to travel abroad.
In terms of age, younger respondents are more willing to emigrate, but in fact, among all ages, the vast majority (at least 84%) would not want to go to live in the US/EU. “In 2020, almost half (46%) of young people under 30 would like to leave, now it is 13%,” the KIIS stressed.
The survey was conducted on September 7-13 by the method of telephone interviews using a computer (CATI) among 2,000 respondents from all regions of Ukraine, controlled before February 24, and did not cover citizens who left abroad. The statistical sampling error under normal circumstances (with a probability of 0.95 and taking into account the design effect of 1.1) did not exceed 2.4% for indicators close to 50% and 1.1% for indicators close to 5%. In war conditions, a certain systematic deviation is added to the error, but the results obtained still retain high representativeness, the KIIS notes.
On Tuesday, the EU Council officially decided to provide Ukraine with an urgent additional macro-financial assistance (MFA) in the amount of 5 billion euros, the press service of the European Council reports.
“On September 9, EU finance ministers agreed on a statement in support of this additional €5 billion assistance to Ukraine at an informal meeting of the Ecofin Council in Prague. Today, this additional assistance was formally accepted after the necessary formal steps were completed in just 11 days,” he said. the message says.
It clarifies that this financial assistance is in addition to other European Union support to Ukraine already provided in the humanitarian, customs, defense and development sectors.
The WHO Regional Office for Europe and the European Commission (EC) have confirmed their joint efforts to prevent monkeypox, which threatens to become endemic in Europe, according to a communiqué published in Brussels on Tuesday.
“We are witnessing an unprecedented spread of monkeypox orthopoxvirus in our region and around the world,” said Hans Kluge, Director of the WHO European Office, and Stella Kyriakidis, EC Health Member, in a joint statement on the occasion of the 72nd session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe.
“This zoonotic virus, previously associated with only limited human-to-human spread in non-endemic countries, is now a global cross-border public health threat in Europe and an international public health emergency,” the document emphasizes.
The statement said that since the beginning of May 2022, more than 23,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported in the WHO European Region, of which more than 18,000 occur in the EU and the European Economic Area.
“The coordinated and collaborative response efforts of our European national and regional health agencies and authorities have been very important and we are now seeing a decline in cases in recent weeks. We believe the way to prevent the disease from becoming endemic in our region is to first fight against outbreaks and then working towards sustainable elimination of monkeypox in Europe, which means no sustained human-to-human transmission,” Kluge and Kyriakidis explain.
They pledged that the European Commission and WHO will continue to work together in consultation with Member States to “determine joint timelines, criteria and indicators to prevent the disease from becoming endemic in Europe.”
