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EURATEX 2022 Spring Report: putting the EU Textiles Strategy in a global context.

EURATEX has just released its Spring report, offering a detailed insight into trade figures for the European textile and apparel industry in 2021. The numbers are encouraging: comparing with the dramatic corona-year 2020, EU exports of textile and clothing articles increased by +10.6%, while imports dipped by -7.5%. As a result, the EU trade deficit improved, even it remains significant (- €48 billion).

Pressemitteilung Europaabgeordnete Özlem Alev Demirel (DIE LINKE.) Fatales Signal: EU beschließt erneut Waffen für die Ukraine

Özlem Alev Demirel, außenpolitische Sprecherin von DIE LINKE im Europaparlament und stellvertretende Vorsitze des Ausschusses für Sicherheit und Verteidigung (SEDE), erklärt zur vierten über die Europäische Friedensfazilität finanzierten Waffentranche für die Ukraine

Pressemitteilung Europaabgeordnete Özlem Alev Demirel (DIE LINKE.) Erdoğan befiehlt - Gerichte folgen!

Özlem Alev Demirel, außenpolitische Sprecherin von DIE LINKE im Europaparlament und stellvertretende Vorsitze der EU-Türkei-Delegation, erklärt zur heutigen Verurteilung der CHP-Politikerin Canan Kaftancıoğlu:

Stop waste and scrap export to countries not meeting EU environment standards, asks EUROFER

Brussels, 11 May 2022 – The current Waste Shipment Regulation proposal lacks effective measures to tackle environmental challenges of waste exports and to enhance EU resiliency on valuable secondary raw materials, risking to undermine the EU’s Circular Economy and Green Deal objectives, warns the European Steel Association (EUROFER) on the occasion of the presentation of the draft report by the Environment Committee at the European Parliament.  

Steel from Solar Energy A Techno-Economic Assessment of Green Steel Manufacturing

Political developments in recent months have demonstrated the need for a secure and independent energy supply for Europe. The success of the energy transition is linked to the accelerated introduction of a green hydrogen economy, in addition to the increased expansion of renewable energies. 

S&Ds ensure balanced protection of the EU’s financial system against cyberattacks

The European Union has negotiated a deal to protect the European financial system against cyberattacks. During the negotiations, the S&Ds ensured the legislation is balanced and designed to create a resilient cybersecurity model and to protect the integrity of the European financial system. The legislation is very timely, in particular considering the threats of the Russian war against Ukraine, underlined the Socialists and Democrats, as the provisional agreement on the matter was reached last night*. 

S&D event in Helsinki: The EU, Nato and Finland

As Finnish socialists and democrats meet this weekend to discuss Finland’s NATO membership, the S&D Group will also be in Helsinki to host an event on Finland, NATO and the EU as part of a series of wrap-up debates for the Conference on the Future of Europe.

Commissioner Várhelyi is undermining EU efforts for peace, Iratxe García tells Palestinian PM Mohammad Shtayyeh

Today the leader of the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, Iratxe García, called on the EU institutions to increase their efforts to ease tensions between Israelis and Palestinians, and to support the Palestinian Authority as the only way forward.

Unity does not mean unanimity

Frankfurt, 9 May 2022 – The "Conference on the Future of Europe" produced 49 proposals, which will be handed over to the presidents of the EU institutions on Europe Day today. Thilo Brodtmann, Managing Director of VDMA, comments:

IRU/EUCONFERENCE - Fit for 55: the Road Ahead

The European Commission’s Fit for 55 proposals aim to reduce CO₂ emissions by 55% by 2030, accelerating the EU’s plan to fully decarbonise by 2050.

Following last year’s IRU-EU Conference on Fit for 55 and its implications for road transport, the next conference will focus on EU’s current plans for alternative fuel infrastructure and supporting road transport operators to scale up green technologies.

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