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Putting EU innovation centre stage: Orgalim partners with CTO of the Year Europe award

Orgalim, the association representing Europe’s technology industries, has become a partner to the CTO of the Year Europe award – presented in recognition of the continent’s most prominent technology leaders.

Now in its fifth year, the CTO of the Year Europe award is designed to highlight the role of technology and innovation as drivers of European growth and prosperity, with previous winners hailing from global giants like Intel and Rolls-Royce to agile growth businesses such as Avantium and Nanolive.

Orgalim welcomes focus on Europe’s industrial strengths in Policy and Investment Recommendations from High-Level Expert Group on AI

As an active participant in the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Orgalim – Europe’s Technology Industries – welcomes the publication of the Group’s ‘Policy and Investment Recommendations for Trustworthy AI’ announced today. This marks an important contribution to the European debate on AI, outlining steps policymakers should take to boost the uptake of AI innovation in the EU.

Jori Ringman becomes Director General of CEPI

CEPI, the European association representing the forest fibre and paper industry, announces that Jori Ringman has unanimously been appointed by the CEPI Board as successor to Sylvain Lhôte at the helm of the Brussels-based organisation.
 
The secretariat of the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) has the great regret to inform you about the sudden and unexpected death of our Director General, Sylvain Lhôte, French national, aged 

CITA sponsor of the ETSC PIN report

Brussels, Belgium | May 2019. CITA, with the involvement of VdTÜV, recently signed an agreement to sponsor the ETSC PIN report.  Since June 2006, the ETSC Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) is the policy tool to help EU Member States (the program covers the 28 EU Member States, together with Israel, Norway, the Republic of Serbia and Switzerland) improving road safety.
 

European standards contribute to the EU's strategic agenda 2019-2024

At the European Council of 20 June, the 28 heads of state and government of the EU Member States approved the Strategic Agenda for the 2019-2024 period. It constitutes a key indicator of the strategic priorities that will guide the future work of the European Union throughout the coming five years and marks the transition to a new institutional cycle.

The new Strategic Agenda focuses on four main objectives:

Erdoğan should understand the message: In Istanbul, people have voted for democracy and better living conditions

Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament congratulate all Istanbullus and the opposition CHP Party candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu who won for a second time, after his March victory was nullified following pressure from the Erdoğan government. Yesterday’s victory is even more impressive and gives a clear signal to President Erdoğan, that the Turkish people want more democracy.
 

There is room to find a compromise for European Commission president among one of the leading candidates, says Iratxe Garcia

Following the European Council meeting yesterday, in which heads of state and government did not succeed in finding a compromise for the nomination of the next Commission president, the leader of the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, Iratxe García MEP, said:
 

CECIMO announces a 35% market share in the global machine tool production in 2018

Rüschlikon, 19 June 2019 – During its General Assembly in Rüschlikon, CECIMO announced a turnover for 2018 of €27.5 billion, which is 9% higher compared to 2017. This secures a 35% market share in the global machine tool production. But slowing global trade and weakening business sentiment are heavy downside risks for the European machine tool manufacturers.

Economic outlook and trends

European soft drinks industry on track to meet commitment to reduce added sugars by 10% by 2020

Mid-term review shows significant reduction in average sugars from 2015-17

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