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Fewer Winners Drive out in Latest Results

FIA EUROPEAN BUREAU

BRUSSELS, 3rd MARCH 2010

Today, Euro NCAP releases the crash test results for five new cars the Citroen Nemo, the Kia Venga, the Nissan Cube, the Seat Exeo and the Toyota Verso. In this latest set of results only one car, the Toyota Verso, receives Euro NCAP’s maximum five star rating. New Euro NCAP rules and further demands in European legislation in 2010, means this year carmakers face even tougher challenges. 

EuropaBio Welcomes Commission Decision to Approve Five GMOs

EuropaBio

Brussels, 2 March, 2010

Today, EuropaBio welcomes the Commission’s important decision regarding the approval of a number of agricultural biotechnology files. 

“We feel encouraged by this decisive regulatory approach” commented Willy De Greef, EuropaBio’s Secretary General. “It offers the necessary predictability to industry and also to the general public regarding the development of a technology that has much to offer to Europeans as a whole”.   

The journalist and author facing execution after unfair trial in the US

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

GUE/NGL to maintain political pressure for Mumia Abu-Jamal

In support of journalist and author Mumia Abu-Jamal who has been on death row for almost thirty years, the GUE/NGL group today welcomed Abu-Jamal's lawyer Robert Bryan to the European Parliament to discuss awareness-raising and anti death penalty activities.

LEADING SCIENTISTS PROPOSE SMARTER LOW CARBON FUTURE

COGEN Europe

2 March 2010

A report launched today highlights critical challenges in the current ‘all-electric’ approach to decarbonisation of the UK energy system as this would increase our dependence on the electricity system to unprecedented levels

Lack of binding sustainability criteria for biomass for electricity to harm biofuels industry

eBIO - European Bioethanol Fuel Association

Brussels, 2 March 2010 ‐ A new report by the European Commission on sustainability requirements for the use of solid biomass and biogas in electricity, heaAng and cooling does not recommends the adopAon of binding sustainability criteria. This creates unacceptable economic barriers for other biomass users, such as the biofuels industry, for whom European regulaAon imposes binding sustainability criteria.

Deep concerns about the Commission's rapid concluding of free trade agreement with Peru and Colombia

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

Brussels, 1/03/10

Calling the Commission's conclusion of free trade talks with Peru and Colombia "a step in a questionable direction", GUE/NGL Trade Committee coordinator Helmut Scholz today said that "the original approach of the EU to conclude trade agreements on the basis of strengthening regional cooperation is deeply damaged by such isolated free trade agreements with just two countries."

European aerospace industry ready to play its full role for a timely implementation of the single european sky

ASD - Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe

Brussels, 1 March 2010 – ASD, the Aerospace and Defence Industries association of Europe, has endorsed the “Declaration of Madrid” on the implementation of the Single European Sky. Industry particularly welcomes the emphasis put on the need to build and deploy in Europe the most advanced air traffic management technology through the SESAR programme.

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EFAMA - European Fund and Asset Management Association

EFAMA is the representative association for the European investment management industry.

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