What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It allows the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) for a certain period of time, so you don't have to enter them again when you return to the site or browse from one page to another.

How do we use cookies?

Many of our pages use cookies to remember:

● your display preferences, such as contrast color settings or font size

● if you have already responded to a poll pop-up asking if the content was useful or not (so you won't be asked again)

● if you have agreed (or not) to use cookies on this site

In addition, some videos embedded in our pages use a cookie to collect anonymous statistics about how you got there and what videos you visited.

Cookies are also stored by Europa Analytics, the corporate service that measures the effectiveness and efficiency of the European Commission's EUROPA websites.

Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work, but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do, some features of this site may not work as intended.

The information related to cookies is not used to identify you personally and the template data is completely under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than that described here.

Do we use other cookies?

Some of our pages or subsites may use additional or different cookies from those described above. If so, details about them will be provided on their special cookie notification page. You may be asked for your consent to store these cookies.

How to control cookies

You can control and / or delete cookies as you wish - see aboutcookies.org for details. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer, and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. However, if you do this, you may need to manually adjust some preferences each time you visit a site, and some services and features may not work.