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Baton passes from Christoph Stoller to Rebecca Guntern as President of Medicines for Europe

Rebecca Guntern (Sandoz) today begins an interim term as President of Medicines for Europe for a period of 3 months, as Christoph Stoller (Teva) steps down following his two-year mandate.

Christoph Stoller led the industry through the most challenging health care crisis in generations. Our industry coordinated with the EU to prevent shortages of emergency hospital medicines and to maintain the supply of essential medicines across Europe, at a time of unprecedented demand in the early phase of the pandemic.

Covid-19 impacts 2020 tractor registrations, first 2021 semester confirms recovery despite supply chain challenges

Demand for tractors remains stable overall, as industry barometer indicates peak has been reached

S&D fact-finding mission to European asylum office

Ahead of next week’s plenary debate in the European Parliament on the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), MEPs from the S&D Group today visited the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) in Malta as part of a fact-finding mission. MEPs met with the Executive Director Nina Gregori to find out more about the current challenges facing EASO and discussed its transition to a European agency.

New sensor uses photonics to spot killer fruit & veg

A recent study shows pesticides in fruit and vegetables kill 11,000 people every year and unintentionally poison 385 million worldwide. Monitoring these foods for microscopic chemicals and harmful bacteria can take days of sending small batches off to laboratories for testing and analysis. But now, a new detector is being developed to spot minute traces of these poisonous elements with photonics to give a result in minutes.

Create, protect and sustain value – the role of accountants as trusted professionals at the heart of sustainable organisations

Analysis from ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) uncovers the drivers of change shaping sustainable business and the must-have capabilities needed from accountants as sustainable business and finance professionals of the next decade.

It’s high time we tackle methane emissions from waste

With the new report on methane emissions, the European Parliament supports bold actions to minimise the damages methane causes to the environment. The waste sector cannot be left out of the process.

Brussels, 28 September 2021 - ESWET – the European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy technology welcomes the European Parliament ENVI Committee’s report underlining the need for bold action against methane emissions in the waste sector.

CEN, CENELEC and ETSI held a workshop on standards in support of the industrial data value chain

Industrial data is of ever-increasing importance for companies in Europe and the world, and particularly so in the context of the digitization of industry. On this topic, on Tuesday 28 September, CEN, CENELEC and ETSI co-organised an online stakeholders’ workshop dedicated to exploring how standards can support the industrial data value chain.  

Spotlight on local and regional governments’ access to EU innovative development financing

The latest United Cities and Local Governments-PLATFORMA study outlines the main funding mechanisms available to cities and regions, particularly in EU partner countries, to support their local development and decentralised cooperation activities.

It provides hands-on information and tools on financing opportunities under the European Commission’s new Multi-Annual Financial Framework (MFF).

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