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Proposed ad bans are the highway to GULAG of nannying

Consumer Choice Center (CCC)

London, UK - Downing Street is planning to impose a total ban of all online advertising of foods high in fat, sugar and/or salt (HFSS) which would include everything from promotional emails to Google adverts. HFSS products would be classed in scope of the sugar and calorie reduction programmes.

European Health Union – first step to greater EU solidarity in health crisis situations

Medicines for Europe

The outbreak of COVID-19 in Europe has been dramatic with tremendous loss of life. The EU’s critical role in healthcare was underlined during the crisis – but we can and must do better in future.

Frieden für Bergkarabach

DIE LINKE. im Europaparlament

„Ich freue mich, dass die kriegerischen Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Armenien und Aserbaidschan beendet wurden. Zu viele Menschen sind in dem Konflikt um Bergkarabach schon auf beiden Seiten gestorben,“ kommentiert Özlem Alev Demirel, außenpolitische Sprecherin der LINKEN im Europaparlament und stellvertretende Vorsitzende im Ausschuss für Sicherheit und Verteidigung (SEDE), das auf Vermittlung von Russland zustande gekommene Abkommen.

Green economic recovery – Reshaping business for nature and people

ACCA

Join the European Business & Nature Summit on 8-9 December 2020 for two days of stimulating discussion and knowledge exchange on “Green economic recovery – Reshaping business for nature and people”  

S&Ds vote to enhance cooperation between public employment services to get more people into jobs

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

Today, the European Parliament is set to prolong the successful cooperation programme Network of European public Employment Services (PES) for another seven years. The Socialists and Democrats support the platform, which enables the exchange of best practices, setting benchmarks and mutual learning with the goal of becoming more effective and efficient.

Manuel Pizarro, S&D MEP and author of the parliament report, said:

S&Ds: EU Commission’s new package goes in the direction we called for towards a European Health Union

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

The S&D Group today expresses its strong support for the European Commission’s new proposals to strengthen the EU’s health security framework, and to reinforce the crisis preparedness and response role of key EU agencies.  Nevertheless, they also acknowledge that further action is still needed.

Mutual recognition of geographical indications is encouraging sign for EU-China cooperation

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

Today, the European Parliament approved the EU-China agreement on the cooperation and protection of geographical indications* (GIs). This will protect 100 European and Chinese geographical indicators and another 175 from both sides after four years.

Inma Rodríguez-Piñero, S&D MEP and responsible for EU-China trade issues, stated:

Any law to curb online terrorism must strike the right balance between security and fundamental right to freedom of expression, says Iratxe García

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

Today, during the plenary debate on terrorism, the right to freedom of expression and education, the leader of the Socialists and Democrats, Iratxe García Pérez said:

“The recent terrorist attacks in France and in Austria fill us with sadness and our thoughts and solidarity are with all the victims and their families. But terrorists will never win in their fight to undermine our democracies founded on freedom and openness. On the contrary: we will fight them with our principles.

A negotiated solution must be found quickly

VDMA - Mechanical Engineering Industry

On the imposition of EU punitive tariffs on US products because of illegal US subsidies for Boeing aircrafts, Ulrich Ackermann, Head of the Foreign Trade Department of VDMA, says:

S&Ds back new securitisation rules to ensure banks have breathing space to finance recovery without deregulating financial markets

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

Today, the economic committee in the European Parliament votes on targeted amendments to the EU’s securitisation framework adopted in 2017, which comprises the Securitisation Regulation and the Capital Requirements Regulation. The Commission’s proposals aim at enhancing banks’ lending capacity by making it easier to transfer credit risk to markets and to free their balance sheets from the burden of non-performing loans, which are expected to grow due to the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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