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Since December 2010, in an effort to help liberalise the Turkish Electricity Market, the Energy Traders Association (ETD) has been cooperating with the European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET).

Chief Executive Officers of telecoms operators and ICT equipment manufacturers will gather on October 3rd in Brussels at the Summit hosted by ETNO and the Financial Times. The CEO Summit will build upon the CEO Roundtable hosted by Commissioner Kroes on July 13th and will facilitate further input from industry on how to achieve the Digital Agenda targets.

"Eurozone Leaders have made some momentous decisions providing a robust and comprehensive response to the sovereign debt crisis in some Eurozone countries", declared Joseph Daul MEP, EPP Group Chairman, on the outcome of the Summit of Eurozone Countries in Brussels (on 21 July 2011).

"Of course these decisions must now be implemented without delay and the Economic Governance Package , currently before the Council and the European Parliament, needs to be finalised as soon as possible, in September at the latest."