News from NetZeroCities – the platform supporting the EU Mission "100 Climate- Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030" – for immediate release on 10 July 2025:
Leading global accountancy body ACCA is calling for the simplification of European Union sustainable financial reporting rules.
ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) has told the European Commission (EC) that the nature of its sustainable finance disclosure rules is hindering the sustainability practices of some businesses.
At ‘Medical Leaflets = Patient Safety’ we welcome this week’s publication of the Council of the EU’s negotiating position on the general pharmaceutical regulation - the approach to medicine information retains patient safety at its heart.
S&D President, Iratxe García, has concluded four intense days of work in Washington DC joined by vice-presidents Kathleen Van Brempt and Yannis Maniatis, along with Brando Benifei, S&D coordinator in the INTA committee and chair of the European Parliament’s US delegation.
The Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament are not satisfied by many of the conditions in the revised EU legislation on air passengers' rights unblocked by the Council following 12 years of stalemate by EUmember states.
It is time for the EU to renew its offer to citizens - this will be the message as Socialists and Democrats gather in Lisbon next week from Tuesday 10 June to Friday 13 June.
European Aluminium, representing the entire European aluminium value chain, expresses deep concern over the
U.S. administration’s decision to double Section 232 tariff on aluminium imports from 25% to 50%. This abrupt escalation threatens to further destabilise transatlantic trade relations and disrupt long-standing supply chains between two key economic partners, while indirectly fuelling scrap outflows from Europe and adding further distortion to an already fragile trade environment.
