Today, EuropaBio and nine of its partners  launch a “Biorefinery Feasibility Study” at the European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology and the Biobased Economy (EFIB), in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Conducted by Dalberg Global Development Advisors, the study provides a blueprint for establishing integrated, demonstration scale biorefineries in the EU and recommends co-investments from public and private stakeholders to overcome the gap from research to market. 

Following the European Commission’s release of a proposal for an energy infrastructure regulation today, gas infrastructure operators welcomed the planned piece of legislation which focuses on the development of the appropriate infrastructure for the evolving energy world. “A low carbon economy can only happen, and indeed can be expedited, with gas playing a fundamental role. An efficient continent-wide gas infrastructure delivers energy quietly and invisibly to and across Europe”, said Jean-Claude Depail, GIE President, today.

Highly speculative financial market transactions in government bonds and credit-default swaps (CDS) will soon be contained throughout the EU. Negotiators of the European Parliament and the Council agreed on a new EU Regulation on short selling last night. "We have successfully fought for very strict conditions for short selling. Such restrictions are badly needed to contain destructive speculation", said Markus Ferber MEP who is in charge of the Regulation on short selling for the EPP Group.

Following the proposal made by Alain Lamassoure MEP, Chairman of the Budgets Committee of the European Parliament, the Polish EU Council Presidency, the European Parliament and the European Commission are organising a conference on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 October on the financing of European growth and competitiveness by 2020, which will gather the 27 governments of the EU Member States, representatives of the European Institutions and all national parliaments.

The EPP Group has welcomed today's proposal by the European Commission on project bonds. Commissioner Olli Rehn has proposed launching a pilot phase to attract private capital financing infrastructure in the field of transport, energy and ICT infrastructure.

According to the EPP Group, project bonds will help to secure the required investment in European infrastructure. They will create sufficient confidence to attract more private financing, thereby serving as an important mechanism for maximum leverage of public spending.