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Ecocem announces appointment of Pat Cox as Chair

Ecocem

14 September, Dublin – Low carbon cement company Ecocem has today announced the appointment Pat Cox – former President and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and former member of the Irish parliament – as Chair of Ecocem Group.

Platform work urgently needs EU laws to end modern-day slavery in the digital age &Ds

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

Speaking ahead of a plenary debate today and a crucial vote this Wednesday, in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the Socialists and Democrats are calling on the Commission to better protect platform workers. The goal is to improve the working conditions for all digital platform workers, including the genuinely self-employed. Currently, platform workers are not covered by an EU legal instrument, leaving them in a legally precarious situation.

Experts urge immediate action to make nutritional care mandatory in cancer care: New evidence supports need for greater emphasis on preventing weight and muscle loss following cancer diagnosis.

European Nutrition for Health Alliance

Today at a joint policy seminar, renowned European experts from ESPEN, ECPC, ECO and EFAD stressed the vital importance of nutrition for treatment and quality of life of patients with cancer. They called upon stakeholders to join forces to implement optimal nutritional care for all cancer patients and throughout their cancer journey, launching 7 actionable recommendations.

"The EU must become more active in the Indo-Pacific region"

VDMA - Mechanical Engineering Industry

Brussels/Frankfurt, 13 September 2021 – Commenting on the upcoming adoption of an EU strategy on the Indo-Pacific, Ulrich Ackermann, Head of the Foreign Trade Department at VDMA, says:

Industry survey shows an urgent, high risk to the availability of IVD medical tests once the new IVD Regulation fully applies in eight months.

MedTech Europe

09 September 2021 – MedTech Europe, the European trade association for the medical technology industry including diagnostics, medical devices and digital health, ran a survey in July 2021 to gather data from IVD manufacturers on the state of the IVD market today and how they are expected to transition to the IVD Regulation within ten months from the survey date.

S&Ds: Farm to Fork Strategy will be our pillar for healthier, more sustainable food in the EU

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

Europe is well known across the world for developing, preserving and exporting the value and the culture of good and healthy food. European food is a benchmark at a global level for its safe, nutritious and high-quality standards. It is time for Europe to become a global reference for sustainability and environment friendly products too.

Solidaritätspakt statt Sparzwang

DIE LINKE. im Europaparlament

Martin Schirdewan, Ko-Vorsitzender der Linksfraktion THE LEFT im Europäischen Parlament, erklärt zum Treffen der Eurogruppe am 10. September 2021:

Intended suspension of anti-dumping duties keeps floodgates for unfair and high-carbon Chinese imports open

European Aluminium

Brussels, 10 September 2021 – European Aluminium, the voice of the European aluminium value chain, warns against the Commission’s proposed 9-month suspension of the definitive anti-dumping duties on Chinese aluminium flat-rolled products. A key contributor to the European Green Deal, the sector is worried about the block’s contradictory trade enforcement actions and sounds the alarm about the suspension’s devastating impact on EU industries beyond aluminium.

S&Ds put forward 10 key priorities ahead of the debate on the State of the Union

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

The Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament want to influence the political agenda of the European Union to bring new impetus to crucial policies that can no longer wait.

A few days ahead of the State of the Union debate, the president of the S&D Group, Iratxe García Pérez, handed a letter to the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, outlining the demands of the Socialists and Democrats for the 2022 Working Programme and for the following years until the end of this legislative cycle.

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