Brussels 04-03-2010

Opening today's GUE/NGL group conference on the liberalisation of postal services, Irish MEP Joe Higgins said citizens were being hit hard by the Commission's ongoing drive to privatise Europe's postal services. 

“CEEP is glad that the EU 2020 strategy sets the right course of actions, starting from the
need to give a concrete response to the crisis and build on that the strategy for tomorrow”.
“CEEP has always asked to learn from the crisis, and therefore we are glad that this element
is taken into account by the Commissions’ proposal” said Ralf Resch, General Secretary of
CEEP, in a first reaction to the text published today.

The success and effective implementation of each of the three priorities is depending from

With the statement that Mr Barroso does not intend to impose GM crops and will follow the policy guidelines set by the European Commission on licensing genetically modified crops from February 10th still ringing in our ears, the Commission has approved the cultivation of the GM potato Amflora.
Having already tabled an oral question on the issue for discussion in next week's Strasbourg plenary session, GUE/NGL MEPs Nikolaos Chountis and Kartika Liotard said "it is sadly typical that despite the denials, Barroso brought the approval in through the back door". "

The International Road Transport Union (IRU) commits major funds in support of the UN Decade of Road Safety, to improve commercial road transport safety.

New York - The Presidential Executive of the International Road Transport Union (IRU) has endorsed the goals of the UN Resolution on Road Safety by committing to allocate USD 2 million to the UN road safety implementation plan named “Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020”.

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ETNO welcomes the ambitious EU 2020 Strategy goals to increase employment, further reduce CO2 emissions, boost education levels and improve social cohesion.
“The achievement of these goals will depend to a great extent on the deployment of high speed broadband infrastructure and on the capacity of the private and public sectors to fully exploit the benefits of broadband networks and services. The Digital Agenda could therefore be given greater priority and a horizontal, or cross-sector, role”, says Michael Bartholomew, ETNO Director.