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Economic Crisis Threatens Access to Health Services

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

• Economic programmes for cushioning the problems in healthcare largely unsuitable

• Shrinking GDP, rising unemployment and declining private insurance payments threaten the financing of healthcare systems

• Differences in the quality of healthcare for various social classes becoming considerably bigger

Broadband state aid guidelines: Cable Europe statement

Cable Europe - European Cable Communications Association

“New guidelines were needed. Local politicians cannot be allowed to distort competition by funding fibre with taxpayers’ money. Competition and cable's fibre investments resulted in +100mbps products -- five times the speed of adsl -- in over 12 member states and growing," commented Manuel Kohnstamm, President of Cable Europe.

For more information, please contact:

Gregg Svingen

Director of Communications

T: +32 2 556 21 02

M: +32 476 490 603

E: gregg.svingen@cable-europe.eu

Working Paper: Current financial and fiscal incentive programmes for sustainable energy in buildings from across Europe

EuroACE -The European Alliance of Companies for Energy Efficiency in Buildings

Brussels, September 2009

The latest survey from EuroACE provides an overview of the existing financial and fiscal incentive programmes to promote energy efficiency in buildings currently in place in the following EEA Member States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

COPA AND COGECA EMPHASISE POSITIVE ROLE AGRICULTUREG CAN PLAY IN COMBATTING CLIMATE CHANGE BUT CALL FORG SUFFICIENT FUNDS TO BE MADE AVAILABLK

Copa-Cogeca

15 September 2009

Copa and Cogeca emphasised the positive role that agriculture can play in tackling climate change at EU Farm Ministers informal meeting in Vaxjo, Sweden, today, but stressed that a strong Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), with sufficient incentives, is vital in order to achieve this.

COPA and COGECA emphasise positive role agriculture can play in combatting climate change but call for sufficient funds to me made available

Copa-Cogeca

Copa and Cogeca emphasised the positive role that agriculture can play in tackling climate change at EU Farm Ministers informal meeting in Vaxjo, Sweden, today, but stressed that a strong Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), with sufficient incentives, is vital in order to
achieve this.

Travel industry demands urgent publication of 12-day derogation

IRU - International Road Transport Union

A united European travel industry urges the EU institutions to urgently complete the decision making process and publish the 12-day driving derogation in the EU Official Journal by the end of September.

Cogeca press release on the occasion of the Presidency Business Forum for the input Supplies sector in Stockholm 11 September 2009

Copa-Cogeca

The impact of the current economic crisis and ways to improve the competitiveness of European agri-cooperatives was discussed by EU cooperative leaders, the Swedish Government and European Commission today.

EU cooperative leaders from the farm input and supplies sector warned that the financial crisis and its impact on markets is putting an enormous pressure on farmers cooperatives, reducing their ability to respond to market signals.

Impact of economic crisis on the road freight transport industry keeps worsening

IRU - International Road Transport Union

IRU warns UN governments of the severe impact of the economic crisis on the road transport industry, whose situation is a major factor in the fast or slow recovery of the economy as whole, and tables concrete proposals to offset this worrying trend.

Geneva – The economic crisis has had a catastrophic impact on the road transport sector in most countries, the International Road Transport Union (IRU) told the UNECE meeting on Transport Trends and Economics, on the basis of an IRU survey conducted amongst its Members in 74 countries.

EUROPEAN BROADCASTERS CALL ON EU COMMISSION TO HELP DEFEND INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN TURKEY

ACT

Brussels, 11 September 2009 - Europe’s commercial broadcasters today expressed their serious concern over the unprecedented fines totalling $2.5 bn levied by the Turkish tax authorities on Dogan TV Holding, a fine which would represent around 80% of the value of the company, and called on the European Commission to continue to raise this case in negotiations with Turkey.

A particular concern is that this fine is widely believed to have been politically motivated, linked to the
editorial policy of the media group.

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