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Merchants applaud further Commission action on card fees

EuroCommerce

EuroCommerce and the European Retail Round Table (ERRT) are delighted to give their unequivocal support to the further antitrust action taken today by the European Commission against MasterCard’s inter-bank fees

Christian Verschueren, Director-General of EuroCommerce said, “This is excellent news for consumers and retailers across Europe who have suffered long enough from the unjustifiably high fees and the anticompetitive practices of the card schemes. Despite a Commission decision and a European Court judgment, card fees in many Member States remain far too high.”

EuroCommerce supports a voluntary approach to measure the environmental footprint of products and organisations

EuroCommerce

EuroCommerce welcomes the European Commission’s new sustainable consumption and production initiative and supports the proposed methodologies to evaluate the environmental footprint of products and organisations. However, it must be ensured that their use remain voluntary, easier to implement and more efficient than the already existing ones. This is particularly important for SMEs.

European Citizens' Initiative marks one year anniversary

Comité économique et social européen

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) today convened key stakeholders to mark one year since the establishment of the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) – the world's first direct, digital and transnational tool of participatory democracy.

Comité économique et social européen

A new management for EFET Deutschland to face the Energiewende (“Energy Turnaround”)

EFET - European Federation of Energy Traders

The management of EFET Deutschland1 is changing, the daughter federation of EFET Europe, covering the German wholesale trading market for electricity and gas. At the EFET Deutschland Board meeting of 27 March 2013, the former Chair of the German Task Force for Electricity (GTFE) Alexander Kox (Trianel) was elected Chair of the Board and Barbara Lempp was appointed Managing Director of EFET Deutschland, taking over from Jan Haizmann. Annette Seefeld (GDF SUEZ Energie Deutschland) will be chairing GTFE.

Caritas draws attention to worsening situation of Roma people in Europe on International Roma Day

Caritas Europa

According to the most recent Caritas Europa ‘Europe 2020 Shadow Report’, the Roma population constitutes one of the largest ethnic minorities in Europe – between 10 and 12 million citizens. This minority is spread through the European continent and is highly concentrated in Central and Eastern Europe.

Jorge Nuño-Mayer, Secretary General of Caritas Europa says:

Commemorating International Roma Day: Roma inclusion must be top priority this decade. Joseph Daul, Chairman of the EPP Group and Lívia Járóka MEP.

EPP Group in the European Parliament

Joseph Daul, Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, and Lívia Járóka MEP, the only Roma Member of the European Parliament, commenting on International Roma Day on 8 April, said:

Michel Bénézit is appointed President of CONCAWE, the oil companies’ European organisation for refining and distribution.

Concawe

Michel Bénézit, former Executive Vice President and member of Total’s Group Executive Committee, was elected President of CONCAWE on March 14th 2013 for a two year term. He succeeds the outgoing President, Dr. Josef Waltl.

Weekly preview of the Greens/EFA group - 8-12 April 2013

THE GREENS/EUROPEAN FREE ALLIANCE

EP priorities (full text below):

- Transparency for the extractive industry (trialogue agreement, Tues.)

 

Greens/EFA events:

- Youth in crisis (conference, Weds.)

- Arctic melt: a wake-up call, not a business opportunity (conference, Thurs.)

- Common Fisheries Policy - where should all the money go (conference, Thurs.)

Transparency for the extractive industry

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