The EU ‘cyber security’ Agency ENISA, i.e. the European Network and Information Security Agency, launched a new report on barriers to and incentives for cyber security information sharing. The report shows e.g. that the economic incentives are much more important for practitioners than what academic literature indicate.

A new ProgTrans study concludes that only two Member States will benefit from extra wealth and national income from the internalisation of external costs whereas most EU Member States will end up paying much more than they will receive. Road charges, when including excessive external costs, can reach up to 436 billion Euros per year, yet without generating any effective action aimed at removing the externalities by earmarking the charges to effectively reduce road transport’s environmental impact.

Time to harmonize gambling rules across the European Union

Brussels, 9 September 2010

In a decision published today (1) , the European Court of Justice ruled that the Austrian laws regulating the provision of gaming services are disproportionate and discriminatory and therefore not compliant with EU law.

Only a day after the landmark rulings issued against the German lottery and sports betting monopoly the ECJ out rightly rejects the Austrian gaming provisions as also being in clear breach of EU law.

Brussels, 8 September 2010. Yvo de Boer, former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, will give the opening keynote address at a seminar on the Water Footprint and Water Stewardship, co-organized by the European Water Partnership (EWP) on 9 September in Brussels. The seminar, which is intended for journalists only, will outline the effects of growing water shortages and water consumption and will present a number of innovative solutions:

- The European Water Stewardship Program – EWP