EBI Newsletter - February 2022

On 8th February 2022 the European Commission launched the European Chips Act. It aims to support Europe’s competitiveness and resilience in semiconductor technologies and applications and help achieve both the digital and green transition. It aims to do this by strengthening Europe’s technological leadership in the field. The recent chips shortage highlighted the extreme global dependency of the semiconductor value chain on a very limited number of actors in a complex geopolitical context. With the…
On 10th February 2022, the European Commission published the interim economic forecast covering annual and quarterly GDP and inflation for the current and following year for all Member States, as well as EU and euro area aggregates. According to the forecast, the EU economy entered the new year weaker than previously projected. Having regained pre-pandemic output level in summer last year, a moderate slowdown was already expected in the Autumn Forecast. Economic expansion is set…

The Marine Innovation Association (MIA), sustaining member of EBI, is inviting all members to encourage their marinas to take part in a survey, conducted under its work in the Marinas Group of ICOMIA (IMG), and get an opportunity to win free tickets for the World Marina Conference 2023 in Portugal. ICOMIA has created a Smart Marinas Working Group to evaluate how the future marinas should evolve to meet customer needs and be prepared for the new…
TransEurope Marinas, sustaining member of EBI, with over 80 marina members stretching across a network of 12 different countries, celebrates 35 years of cooperative association in 2022. The group was born in 1987 from a group of a dozen marina managers, who launched the entity then known as “TransManche” as a means to support independent family marinas, and to encourage their berth-holders to cruise further afield by offering reciprocal berthing conditions. TransEurope Marinas has kept…

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