VG 2020 03 25 The Basque Government's Minister of Employment and Social Policies, Beatriz Artolazabal, detailed this morning the steps, measures and initiatives promoted in her Department in relation to the Covid19-Coronavirus epidemic. Artolazabal has appeared on Radio Euskadi, Onda Vasca, Radio Popular and Onda Cero. (Attached mp3 audios).

EPSCO Council in Brussels The common position of the Autonomous Communities, "A Strong Social Europe for Fair Transitions", referring to employment policies and social affairs, agreed and coordinated by Euskadi, will be discussed in future meetings Temporary Framework of the European Commission: five types of aid: 1) direct subsidies, selective tax advantages and advance payments; 2) state guarantees for loans contracted by bank companies; 3) public subsidies to companies; 4) safeguards for banks channeling state aid to the real economy, and 5) short-term credit insurance for exports Brussels 2020 03 19

“The environmental impact of electric cars is significantly lower than that of conventional vehicles, producing less than half the emissions", says Elena Moreno, Deputy Minister of the Environment of the Basque Government this morning in Bilbao at the conference "eMOVILIDAD EUSKADI 2020, sustainable cities designed for people", which was attended by a hundred sector specialists. Moreno presented the main conclusions of the "Life cycle analysis report. Environmental comparison between different alternatives of electric, hybrid and combustion vehicles", published by the Basque Ecodesign Center and the Department of the Environment, Territorial Planning and Housing of the Basque Government.

During her visit to Grifols San Francisco, which also has offices in Derio, the Minister learnt about how this multinational is working with stakeholders of the Basque country in the research of diseases generated by viruses such as AIDS or Zika. The Basque SPRI Group Invest unit is in Boston to set up a network of potential investments to help to strengthen the Basque bio-health ecosystem, with a link to the recent gene therapy project driven by Viralgen in San Sebastián. The final stretch of the business and institutional trip of the Basque Government’s Minister Arantxa Tapia was focused on the BIO and health field, with a session in Boston, which is home to be the leading ecosystem worldwide in the sector’s research and production.