Croatian legislative elections, Heinz Bierbaum "Green-Left Coalition the only real and progressive answer to the current crisis and against the extreme right"
Croatian voters will go to the polls on the 5th of July to elect 151 members of the new parliament. The Party of the European Left (EL) expresses its support to the Green–Left Coalition, who is running in this important election seeking a progressive answer to the current crisis in the interest of the peoples.
Today [1st July 2020], the European Commission has adopted its renewed European Skills Agenda, a proposal for a Council Recommendation on vocational education and training (VET) and a Youth Employment Support package including a proposal for a reinforced youth guarantee. The proposed initiatives aim at stepping up the skills dimension by preparing young people for an increasingly digital and green world of work and to unlock public and private investment in educational and vocational training.
Zur Übernahme der EU-Ratspräsidentschaft durch die Bundesregierung, erklärt Martin Schirdewan, Ko-Vorsitzender der Linksfraktion GUE/NGL im Europäischen Parlament:
Thousands of lives lost to bladder cancers each year could be saved thanks to a new scanner that uses photonics to illuminate parts of the tissue that are currently impossible to visualise.
A European photonics research team is developing a new endoscope to scan for the early signs of bladder cancer.
The revision of Directive 2014/94/EU on the Deployment of Alternative Fuels Infrastructure (AFID) comes at a critical time in Europe’s shift to a green and sustainable economy. To enable the development and deployment of clean, electric mobility, a wide revision of this legislation is needed. This is necessary to ensure that charging infrastructure can handle the scale of electric vehicles expected to come onto market in the coming years and help the EU achieve its goal of climate neutrality by 2050.
Today marks the launch of the first and only EU Parliamentary Intergroup dealing exclusively with cancer: the Challenge Cancer Intergroup. This informal group of cross-party Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) is chaired by MEP Cristian Bușoi (EPP) and co-chaired by MEPs Alessandra Moretti (S&D), Aldo Patriciello (EPP), Frédérique Ries (Renew), with the European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC) providing the Secretariat.
London, UK - Yesterday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted that more was needed to be done to crack down on obesity, and claimed doing so would help the UK fight diseases like coronavirus.
30 June 2020, Brussels. As Europe prepares to reopen on 1 July, the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) today urged governments in the EU and the EFTA Member States, and the United Kingdom, to lift travel restrictions in a carefully coordinated manner.
Brussels, 30 June 2020 – IndustriAll European Trade Union and the European Steel Association (EUROFER) have reiterated their deep disappointment at the EU’s decision to not adjust the tariff-free import quota for steel in the light of the collapse in EU steel demand. The steel sector had called for significant, short-term changes to the EU steel safeguards to preserve the industry during this pandemic-induced economic downturn.