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“Let the statistics do the talking – EMF publishes Q4 2010”

EMF - European Mortgage Federation

Brussels, 30 May 2011 – For immediate release

 

2010 in figures – the publication of the EMF’s Quarterly Review for Q4 complete and complement the preceding quarters, bringing the EMF’s statistics on EU mortgage markets to their annual conclusion, and presenting us with an outlook for 2011. With in-depth commentary on the latest trends in mortgage and housing markets and a comprehensive set of quarterly data, year-end 2010 figures reveal that the trends already observed in Q1, Q2 and Q3 2010 are sustained.

 

Q4 2010 in a nutshell:

 

CEEP: “The treaty needs to be filled with content and not with Sunday’s speeches”

CEEP - European Centre of Employers and Enterprises providing public services

CEEP at Intergroup meeting on “The new Treaty and the lack of specific regulation on Services of General Interest”

The President of the International Association of Public Transport calls on Ministers to bank on public transport

UITP - International Association of Public Transport

Alain Flausch, President of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP),
made a resolute plea to governments to take up their responsibilities yesterday 26
May. He stressed that governments must seize the opportunity to provide a better
urban life for their communities by improving public transport through stable funding
and integrated urban policies.

For AER, peripheral and outermost regions show the road on the field of renewable energy

AER - Assembly of European Regions

Report hails the role of cogeneration combined with renewables

COGEN Europe

27 May 2011

IEA report observes that cogeneration is attractive to both policy-makers and private users and investors because it delivers a range of energy, environmental and economic benefits

The President of the International Association of Public Transport calls on Ministers to bank on public transport

UITP - International Association of Public Transport

Alain Flausch, President of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP), made a resolute plea to governments to take up their responsibilities yesterday 26 May. He stressed that governments must seize the opportunity to provide a better urban life for their communities by improving public transport through stable funding and integrated urban policies.

 

TRAN Committee of European Parliament has transformed the Eurovignette into a pure new tax, penalising EU employment without greening road transport

IRU - International Road Transport Union

The non-mandatory earmarking of the revenues from the Eurovignette aimed at greening road transport at-source, as decided by the EP TRAN Committee, will turn the Directive into a pure additional tax on the already heavily taxed road transport services, which will severely penalise the EU competitiveness, economy and employment with no environmental benefits.

 

PES welcomes Serbia’s detention of war criminal Mladić

PES - Party of European Socialists

War criminal Ratko Mladić has been arrested in the province of Vojvodina, in northern Serbia today. Both Mladic and Radovan Karadžić, his political master, were indicted by UN war crimes tribunal for war crimes in 1995. Mladić was accused of genocide and other crimes against humanity - including the massacre of at least 7,500 Muslim men and boys from the town of Srebrenica in 1995. Along with Mr Karadzic, he became a symbol of the Serb campaign of ethnic cleansing of Croats and Muslims and was one of the most wanted suspects from the Bosnia conflict.

Caritas Calls on EU Governments to Guarantee Reception and Fair Treatment of Those Fleeing the Middle East and North Africa

Caritas Europa

The Regional Conference of all the Caritas organisations in Europe, gathering in Rome on the 26th of May, in the light of the crisis in the Mediterranean region, calls upon the governments to guarantee the reception and fair treatment of those fleeing from the countries of the Middle East and North Africa.

European Commission asks EFSA to see whether aspartame is safe for use

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

Results of a study on 60,000 pregnant women carried out by Danish researcher Thorhallur Halldorsson earlier this year demonstrated that there is a link between pregnant women drinking fizzy drinks using the artificial sweetener aspartame and the incidence of premature childbirth. New evidence that aspartame increases the risk of cancer was also revealed by Italian oncologist Morando Soffritti, who signalled an increased risk of liver and lung cancer in mice exposed to the chemical sweetener throughout their lives.

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