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Let’s ban sexism, no woman deserves to be a product of marketing, say S&Ds

To mark this year’s International Women’s Day, the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament are launching an EU platform of cities engaged against sexist advertisement.
 
During a special conference organised in the European Parliament later today, the S&Ds will award a label to social democratic mayors who have put legislation in place to ban sexist advertisement in public places, such as subways, bus stops and streets in their cities.
 

European Institute of Peace

Alstom & Siemens Mobility: trade unions urge to secure the future of jobs and industry

Five months after Alstom and Siemens Mobility announced their intention to merge their railway transport and mobility activities, the level of uncertainty concerning the social and industrial consequences of the intended merger remains unacceptably high. Therefore, trade unions defending both Alstom and Siemens Mobility’s workers from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom met on 14 February under the auspices of industriAll Europe in Brussels to reiterate their joint commitment to defend the future of their jobs and industry

DRIVES – Development and Research on Innovative Vocational Education Skills – for the automotive industry launched in Ostrava

Ostrava, 1 st – 2nd March 2018 – ETRMA was proud to attend the launch event of the DRIVES Project, together with all 24 project partners and at the presence of the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, Tomáš Hüner, and the Rector of the Technical University of Ostrava, Václav Snášel. European Commissioner for internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, Elżbieta Bieńkowska, also sent a video message to express her support to the project.
 

Fintech, Blockchain & Initial Coin offering (ICO) : adapting to the changing landscape

Beside impacting nearly all other aspects of everyday’s life, new technologies are also changing the financial industry and the way consumers and firms access financial services.

Ireland’s Energy Minister Denis Naughten to Launch EU-SysFlex in Brussels

Brussels, February 28th - Ireland’s energy minister Denis Naughten, Seán Kelly MEP and senior representatives from DG Energy, EDF and EirGrid will join EU-Sysflex on Monday for the Brussels launch of the EU-funded consortium.

The event takes place on Monday, March 5th at 18:00 in the European Parliament in Brussels and will include a discussion on the key challenges facing EU-Sysflex over the coming years.

Supply chain commitment to tackling problem of medicine shortages

The European associations representing manufacturers of medicinal products, parallel distributors, healthcare distributors and pharmacists welcome pan-European efforts by the Heads of Medicine Agencies(1), the European Medicines Agency, the Council(2) and the European Commission(3) to address medicine shortages. Supply chain stakeholders believe that the long-term resolution of medicines shortages is dependent upon collaborative and unified actions.

America first policy is leading the world trade into a wall, say S&D Euro MPs

The Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament today strongly condemned President Trump’s announcement to impose heavy tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium, including from the EU.
 
S&D Group spokesperson for trade, Alessia Mosca, said:
 

VDMA: Ein Handelskrieg muss vermieden werden

Frankfurt, 2. März 2018 – Zur Ankündigung von US-Präsident Trump, globale Zölle auf Stahl- und Aluminiumimporte zu erheben, sagt VDMA-Hauptgeschäftsführer Thilo Brodtmann:

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