EU Smart Move High Level Group recommends doubling use of buses, coaches...
EU public-private Smart Move High Level Group provides recommendations on “doubling the use of collective road passenger transport” to save lives and cut carbon emissions, for the European Commission...
View ArticleCaritas Europa statement on International Day of Families (May 15th)
“Families are increasingly facing serious poverty risks during the current crisis. To Caritas Europa, the family is a fundamental pillar of social welfare, which should be supported in times of...
View ArticleACCA encourages EU leaders to be bold in the fight against tax fraud and evasion
ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) welcomes the progress towards better cooperation and combined action on fighting tax fraud and evasion taken by finance ministers at the ECOFIN...
View ArticleEU subsidies for bullfighting in Spain propping up unviable industry
EU funds continue to be used to subsidise the bullfighting industry in Spain, according to a new report by ERC/Catalonia Sí, which was presented in the European Parliament today by MEPs from the...
View ArticleEU Budget 2013: Council's position on additional payments for 2013 is...
Council should adopt Draft amending budget 2/2013 for the full amount avoiding that Erasmus, research and SME programmes stop in July "The position expressed yesterday by the ECOFIN Council is...
View ArticleStop toying with our health!
A significant number of notifications related to toys and to chemical risks has been revealed with today’s release of the 2012 RAPEX1 Annual Report. Despite the efforts of market surveillance...
View ArticleFear, isolation and discrimination common in Europe’s LGBT community
Vienna/The Hague, 17 May 2013
View ArticleBanks welcome progress towards Banking Union but call for a clear European...
The Board of the European Banking Federation (EBF) , meeting in Dublin today, 17 May, noted with satisfaction the steady progress towards a Single Supervisory Mechanism and reiterated its support for...
View ArticleThe Brewers of Europe meets EU Health Commissioner and discusses landmark...
Brussels, 17 May 2013: The Brewers of Europe, representing 4,000 breweries across Europe and already the lead committer to the EU’s European Alcohol and Health Forum, today demonstrated its commitment...
View ArticleRules for banking resolution to stabilise financial markets. Gunnar Hökmark MEP
“Europe will now get modern legislation on the management of a bank in crisis and of banking crises”, says Gunnar Hökmark MEP and the Parliament's rapporteur for the Bank Recovery and Resolution...
View ArticlePrimary care: strengthening the health system's first port of call
Bad Hofgastein/Vienna, May 17, 2013 – “Primary care in the driver's seat” was the title for a discussion in Vienna between experts on international trends in primary care. The symposium was organised...
View ArticleConference „European Public Health 20 years after the Maastricht Treaty“May...
„European Public Health 20 years after the Maastricht Treaty -- Turning past experiences into visions” is the motto of a conference which will be held by the Department of International Health,...
View ArticlePublic procurement package to be adopted against the needs of utilities
Representatives of European public services and the railway sector are voicing their concern over the European Commission’s proposal on procurement for organisations operating in the water, energy,...
View ArticleBanking union debate: GUE/NGL MEPs call for real banking supervision and an...
GUE/NGL MEPs have voiced their concerns about the EU's future banking union architecture in a plenary debate on the issue. GUE/NGL MEP Jürgen Klute said: "An internal market must go hand in hand with...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament political groups unite against disparaging racist and...
The five main political groups of the European Parliament met in Strasbourg yesterday to express their solidarity with Italian minister for integration, Cécile Kyenge Kashetu, after racist and sexist...
View ArticleEHFG: Conference “European Public Health 20 years after the Maastricht...
Bad Hofgastein/Maastricht, 22 May 2013 – “The Maastricht Treaty, signed in 1992 and entered into force in 1993, introduced a public health mandate for the European Union for the first time.
View ArticleEuropean Risk Summit to examine role of science in policy-making
The European Risk Summit (www.risksummit.eu) will come to Trinity College Dublin, June 11th-12th 2013, and bring focused discussions on the advantages of evidence and risk-based rulemaking.
View ArticleEU must act on Syrian refugees
Two GUE/NGL MEPs have expressed their solidarity with Syrian refugees in a debate on the issue today in plenary. GUE/NGL MEP Marisa Matias said: "We have talked a lot about Syria already in this house...
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