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EU admits failing own targets on protecting nature

BirdLife International

The mid-term review of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 published today [Friday 2 October] by the European Commission shows only limited progress has been made on many of the key targets set at the start of this decade, with a complete failure to address unsustainable agriculture[1]. 

Acumen public affairs - the first consultancy to obtain the Champion label for its internship programme

Acumen public affairs has been awarded the highest certification for quality internships by InternsGoPro, and will be featured as this month’s Employer of the month.
 

A more open, pro-active Europe is needed to deal with frozen conflicts

ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
The ALDE Group in the European Parliament hosted today a public exchange of views focusing on the many frozen conflicts throughout the Eastern neighbourhood and on ways to ease tensions and to reach solutions to these conflicts.  
 
Following the debate, MEP Hans van Baalen (VVD, The Netherlands), ALDE Group' spokesman on Russia and Ukraine and Foreign Affairs Coordinator said:  
 

Save the Date! The 6th Annual Economic Ideas Forum

Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies
The Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies
would like to invite you to:
The 6th Annual Economic Ideas Forum
2nd December 2015, Brussels, Belgium
 

130 airports actively addressing their CO2 emissions

ACI Europe
Geneva: On the occasion of the Global Sustainable Aviation Summit organised by ATAG* and currently taking place in Geneva, the independent programme Airport Carbon Accreditation announced the latest progress in the airport industry’s efforts to reduce and ultimately neutralise its carbon emissions.

Capital Markets Union: the EU breaks down barriers to business growth and investment

The uphill struggle faced by businesses looking to access capital is finally set to be levelled as the European Commission launches plans to deliver better functioning capital markets, enabling entrepreneurs and companies access to a variety of asset-backed funds. 
 
Dr Kay Swinburne MEP, European Conservatives and Reformists Group economics spokesman, welcomed the plans, which were presented as the commission also announced a review of its post-crisis legislation to see whether it is working as intended. 
 

ACCA welcomes the publication of the CMU Action plan but warns against hasty design or poor implementation

ACCA
The priority actions proposed today in the Action Plan on Building a Capital Markets Union (CMU) generally go in the right direction, but we need to make sure that they are correctly translated into law, says ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants)
 

Health literacy at the center of the personalised medicine debate

The Health Literacy Coalition
Health literacy as the capacity to make sound health decisions becomes a central skill for citizens and patients in the age of health genomics and personalised medicine.

Data Protection: EPP Group calls for simplified rules for SMEs

Group of the European People’s Party

New negotiation round today: EPP Group's SME Circle warns against "unmanageable red tape" through new data protection rules

"Yes to strong data protection, but simplified rules for small and medium-sized enterprises", say Axel Voss MEP and Michał Boni MEP. Voss is the EPP Group's negotiator for the ongoing harmonisation of EU data protection rules. Boni is a member of the EPP Group's SME Circle, a working group fighting against bureaucracy, which published a paper this week with ideas on how to avoid red tape when protecting personal data.

Food speculation must be contained

Group of the European People’s Party

The current proposals by the European Securities and Market's Authority (ESMA) on the position limits under the Markets for Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) are not ambitious enough. "We are running the risk of not meeting the aims of MiFID II and of not containing speculation on foodstuffs properly", said Markus Ferber MEP who is the European Parliament Rapporteur on MiFID II.

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