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Cyprus Mail 1 November 2020 - by Andrew Rosenbaum
The Cyprus remake, a series of EU funded programmes that will affect every aspect of life in the country, will begin in the new year. The first of these will involve the creation of new businesses, sources at the Ministry of energy, commerce, industry and tourism told the Cyprus Mail.
Meanwhile, proposals from the various ministries themselves for grants under the same fund are under review, with the entire plan for Cyprus scheduled to be completed by December.
None of this activity has been held up in any way by the delay in the European Parliament to pass both the EU budget and the European Recovery Fund itself. The parliament will be in session on November 11, where this is due to be discussed again. But sources at both the energy and finance ministries said it is expected to pass and work on implementing it is ongoing according to schedule.
A team including the Directorate-General for European Programmes, Coordination and Development, others from the finance and other ministries is currently at work putting together the island’s plan.
Flagship projects include digitalisation in both the public and private sectors, clean technologies, 5G and broadband improvements, a remodel of education, support for research and development, ‘green deal’ projects and much more.
All of these will be sent as a plan to ‘remake Cyprus’ first to the European Commission and then to the European Council for final approval.
One such project, currently in proposal form, is a fund to support SMEs in the services sector. There has for some time been support for these companies in production sectors, but service businesses, which account for more than half of the country’s GDP, would now have a chance for growth funding as well – assuming the project is approved by the Commission.
Some of the first new programmes that will change Cyprus will be funded by the European Structural Funds, however, and the team is also putting together projects under this aegis.
There are four important projects scheduled to start taking applications just after the new year, ministry sources said, and three are intended to create new businesses.
This is in line with European Commission recommendations as outlined in the Commission’s country report for Cyprus: “Access to finance for small and medium-sized enterprises is improving but still challenging. Given the still high level of non-performing loans, banks’ appetite to lend is rather low and bank credit supply is limited. Alternatives to bank loans and grant finance are evolving.”
The report calls for further action on these recommendations, and the following projects form an important part of the response.
A project to provide incentives to employees at existing businesses or to other businesspeople to start their own businesses is mature and will kick off in January or February, ministry sources said. This is a new project, targeting highly skilled workers who have everything they need to create start-up businesses except the funds required.
Another project targets existing SMEs in manufacturing. This is intended for mature enterprises, to provide further support and funding. Cyprus’ manufacturing output has declined steadily over the past months, and the companies need funds to recover and improve competitivity.
There is another quite different project regarding energy efficiency which is expected to take applications after January. The project to install photovoltaics on a much larger range of houses across Cyprus will be one of the first to start up if approved. But the energy efficiency project will target other improvements such as replacing leaky windows and installing insulation – anything needed to retain heat and cooling so that electricity demand can be reduced.
Finally, the Ministry of Energy, Commerce, Industry and Tourism, in an attempt to promote and encourage entrepreneurship among young people, plans to expand its current ‘Scheme for Youth Entrepreneurship.’
The current scheme is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, which is a structural fund. Further funding is sought for developing, supporting and encouraging entrepreneurship by young people between the ages of 20 and 40 who wish to establish an enterprise in the sectors of manufacturing, services, tourist activities and e-commerce.
This is a scheme for young people who have never established a business before or who are unemployed. The intention is to favour new technologies. The grant is offered as a percentage (50 per cent) on the approved budget with a maximum amount of €70,000 for the manufacturing sector, and €50,000 for other sectors – these grants are made to businesses of every kind.
Sources at the finance ministry have said that there has been a robust response from the ministries, with an extensive gammut of proposals, along with plans to make the necessary legislative reforms that must accompany some of them.
One such proposal provides a substantial sum for the support of local authorities. The plan for Cyprus calls for “the reduction of the number of municipalities, along with the increase in their autonomy and functions.” Personnel training for these new functions is also part of the proposal.
Urban development that attempts to achieve balance between growth and the preservation of open space in rural and suburban settings, is also a Commission priority and a recommendation for Cyprus.
But the programme depends on the passage of reform legislation in the Cyprus parliament without delay, yet these measures have been on the table for a long time. Similarly, measures involving the reform of the justice system have been under consideration by parliament, and must be passed if the significant programme to improve the Cyprus judicial system is to be funded by the European Recovery Fund.
Cyprus Mail 1 November 2020 - by Reuters News Service
A group of business leaders and public policy experts is launching a new body to grapple with thorny questions surrounding the future of transportation including self-driving and electric vehicles.
The Commission on the Future of Mobility, reported earlier by Reuters, was formally unveiled on Friday. The group plans to propose a new regulatory framework to address a global transportation sector “on the cusp of a worldwide transition driven by shared, connected, autonomous, and electric technologies.”
Alisyn Malek, the commission’s executive director, told Reuters the goal is to tackle tough problems and improve safety.
“Let’s bring everybody together to talk about how do we want the movement of people and goods to actually work,” Malek said in an interview.
Autonomous cars and delivery trucks, package-carrying drones, air taxis, connected vehicles and Hyperloop systems are among transit advances that could revolutionize travel.
Traffic crashes remain a major problem. The World Health Organization estimates 1.35 million people die and 20 to 50 million are injured annually in vehicle crashes.
“Progress can only continue if we modernize the way policy and regulation work,” Hackett said.
Governments, including the United States, have struggled to adopt regulations to allow for wide-scale adoption of next-generation transportation like self-driving cars amid safety concerns.
Regulators are hiking fuel efficiency requirements, while California and many European countries want to end new gasoline-powered passenger vehicle sales by 2035.
The commission says in an overview document that “current regulatory requirements governing fuel economy standards and vehicle safety fail to reflect the transformation occurring in powertrains, autonomy, and models of mobility.”
Goodyear Tire & Rubber GT.O CEO Richard Kramer, FedEx FDX.N CEO Fred Smith and Qualcomm CEO Steven Mollenkopf will be on the commission, as will Hyundai Motor 005380.KS Chief Operating Officer José Muñoz. It expects to add members before its February kickoff.
The commission is housed within SAFE, a nonpartisan organization focusing on energy security issues.
SAFE CEO Robbie Diamond said the goal is to rethink everything. “If you had to rewrite regulations and policy from scratch knowing what we know about technology today … what you would do differently?” he asked. “We want to think big.”
Filenews 1 November 2020
As a police representative told the CYPE, in the last 24 hours ended at 06:00 on Sunday, a total of 1,615 checks were carried out throughout free Cyprus.
The majority of complaints concerned the non-use of a protective mask.
In Nicosia 261 checks were carried out and 18 citizens and 1 premises were reported, in Limassol 323 with complaints from 16 citizens and 1 premises and in Larnaca 363 checks were carried out and 13 citizens were reported and also 1 premises.
In Paphos, the Police carried out 239 checks reporting 2 citizens and 3 premises, in Famagusta 330 checks were carried out and 4 citizen complaints were made, while in the Morfos area 68 checks were carried out without any complaints being made. Finally, the Port Police carried out 31 checks without making any complaints.
Source: eyenews/KYPE
The Guardian 1 November 2020 - by Julian Coman
As the second wave of Covid-19 filled hospital wards across Europe last week, and countries inched reluctantly towards varying degrees of partial lockdown, television schedules were cleared to allow leaders to address weary nations.
Announcing a 6pm curfew for the country’s restaurants and bars the Italian prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, called for national unity. “If we all respect these new rules during the month of November,” he said, “we will succeed in keeping the epidemiological curve under control. That way we will be able to ease the restrictions and move into the Christmas festivities with greater serenity.”
Speaking from the Elysée, a sombre Emmanuel Macron decreed a new national lockdown, lasting until at least 1 December, and warned France the new wave of infections was likely to be “deadlier than the first”. In Belgium, where Covid is spreading faster than in any other European country, the new prime minister, Alexander De Croo, hoped “a team of 11 million Belgians” would pull together to follow tighter regulations.
In tone and spirit, the messages echoed those delivered in March, when shock and fear led populations to rally round leaders and consent to restrictions unknown outside wartime. Eight months on, that kind of trust and goodwill is in short supply.
Europe, once again, is the centre of the global pandemic, accounting for almost half the world’s infections last week. But as desperately needed financial support fails to materialise, and track and trace systems fail to cope with the surge, there is public exasperation and, in some cases, open rebellion. On Friday evening, protestors threw molotov cocktails at police in Florence, in the latest outbreak of social unrest following Conte’s new rules.
Tino Esposito, a Neapolitan barber, is one of those who has lost faith in the orders coming from the top. In his home city, Esposito is leading a group of small businessmen in a campaign against the new restrictions. “We are protesting,” he says, “because all European governments, including ours, have found themselves unprepared for the second wave. Since March they were saying that, in October or November, the second wave would come and that it would be even more serious.
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“But no preparation has been put in place for our schools, the health system, jobs, or the providing of incentives. And the financial support we were promised is not there to access. But businesses must have it if they are to stay closed and staff need unemployment money immediately.”
Across the continent, there is similar evidence of people facing dire economic hardship and psychological exhaustion. Earlier this month, a study from the World Health Organization reported widespread apathy and reduced motivation to follow public health guidance. The emotional toll of Covid-19 has been compounded by a growing scepticism in the capacity of governments to truly get on top of a crisis that is destroying people’s livelihoods as well as threatening their health.
According to the president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, the continent’s partial economic recovery in the summer and early autumn was “unequal, uncertain and incomplete”. As the second wave hits, she said in a recent interview, “it now risks being extinguished.”
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From Milan to Manchester, and Marseille to Madrid, that prospect has sparked a wave of revolts. After the spring lockdown was eased, the subsequent patchwork of regulations and restrictions hit some workers, and regions far harder than others. Madrid has railed against a new 10pm curfew, leading the Spanish government to impose a state of emergency on the capital. The mayors of nine cities, including Barcelona, Lisbon, Prague and Milan, have by-passed their national governments to write directly to the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, demanding access to the €750bn (£676bn) EU recovery fund. In Germany, where a partial lockdown beginson Monday, thousands of workers and employers in the arts and hospitality industries marched in Berlin last week, demanding greater financial support. Freelancers across the continent have fallen through the cracks of state support for those unable to work.
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In Italy, a tipping point appears to be disturbingly close. Angry demonstrations erupted in Naples just over a week ago, after a local curfew was imposed. The protests were followed by civil disorder in Milan and Turin, where luxury stores were looted. “I think this is only the beginning”, says the Italian journalist and author of Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano. “In the first lockdown, Italians were united in the idea that this was a wholly novel emergency; a situation that any government would find difficult to deal with. Now they feel deceived.
“They’ve been told that things were going well, that we were winning. But their savings have been used up, they can see the problems with a testing system that isn’t working, and there is confusion and disagreement between the scientists. People have started to lose faith in the capacity of institutions to save them.”
There will be unrest across Europe. It will come because the centre isn’t holding any more
Roberto Saviano
A poll following last week’s mini-riots found that over three-quarters of Italians believe there will be more violence in the streets this winter.
“There will be unrest across Europe too,” says Saviano. “It will happen in different ways and with different catalysts, but it will come because the centre isn’t holding any more. We are a world away from the mood in March when it was a case of ‘we must follow the rules and protect ourselves or we will perish.’ Now some people think, well, I’m going under anyway if I can’t survive economically.”
The geographer Christophe Guilluy, whose books have charted the growing social divisions between provincial and metropolitan France, is similarly pessimistic about sustaining a mood of unity. Over the summer, local leaders in Marseille complained bitterly that a night-time curfew and mask regulations had been imposed from Paris without due consultation. Macron’s move to a new lockdown, believes Guilluy, is already creating new divisions, as those with sufficient means insulate themselves from the worst of what is to come. On Thursday evening, huge traffic jams built up as Parisians attempted to flee the capital and head for second homes before a 9pm curfew. “The Parisians who have fled to their second homes,” he says “are running the risk of infecting inhabitants of provincial and rural areas. They have been very badly received.
“Inequalities between classes and between regions have been exacerbated by the pandemic. The truth is, social and cultural tensions have rarely been so acute in France, but the political classes are attempting to mask them by appealing to a sense of republican unity.”
Political rivalries and ambitions that pre-date the pandemic are also complicating the response to the second wave. In Belgium – where overwhelmed hospitals in Liège have asked Covid-positive medical staff to keep working – concerted action was stymied by high-profile disputes between politicians from the Flemish-speaking north and the Francophone south. The country has now locked down until mid-December. But the minister-president of Flanders, Jan Jambon, had previously claimed tough action was necessary only in Wallonia. By the time of his U-turn last week, 600,000 Belgians were believed to be spreading the virus.
“From May through June and right up until recently, you have seen a growing polarisation of opinion in public debate,” says Dave Sinardet, a political scientist from Saint-Louis University in Brussels. “The virologists would push for tougher measures, but there was a growing lobby for keeping the economy more open. So in September, when the infection rate was rising sharply, there was still a reduced level of restrictions. There’s a lot of criticism of the people who were giving that advice.”
The obvious failure of the country’s track and trace system is contributing to a sense of disillusionment with the management of the crisis. “There is frustration and a feeling that businesses such as cafes and restaurants did a lot, and the government didn’t do enough,” says Sinardet.
It seems increasingly likely that Boris Johnson will next week add England to the list of European nations shutting down for a second time. According to Germany’s finance minister, Olaf Scholz: “November will be the month of truth”, in the battle against the second wave of Covid. But the indicators are that the struggle could go either way. The pace and intensity of the surge in infections has taken governments by surprise and left them looking unprepared. Public buy-in to a renewed lockdown, may need a step-change in the level of support and solidarity governments are prepared to offer. The financial cost will be enormous, but the price of inaction could be much higher.
In a column for La Stampa last week, the philosopher and former mayor of Venice, Massimo Cacciari, wrote: “A social crisis has been added to the public health one… [the crisis] is creating differences in income and living conditions which are completely incompatible with what we mean by a ‘democracy’. Are we aware of this? Up to now, I don’t think so. But there isn’t a moment to lose.”
The stakes were dramatically high before the first lockdown in March. They may be even higher now.
Additional reporting by Angela Giuffrida
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