European leaders should seize the opportunity at the EU summit in Brussels this week and on June 28/29 to boost growth in Europe by actively supporting the Smart Move of doubling collective passenger transport by bus and coach to bring affordable and socially inclusive door-to-door mobility to all at the lowest cost to taxpayers.

Eurometaux is disappointed with the newly launched guidelines that only allow partial compensation of CO2 costs in electricity prices due to the EU emissions trading scheme. They fail in their objective of mitigating carbon leakage for industries such as aluminium, copper and zinc, thereby actively risking more industry closures in Europe.

The European Covered Bond Council (ECBC) is moving forward with the implementation of the Covered Bond Label infrastructure, and is on target to go live in Q4 2012.

The ECBC Covered Bond Label responds to a market-wide request for improved standards and increased transparency in the European covered bond market.
The Label:
- establishes a clear perimeter for the asset class;
-  highlights to investors the core standards and quality of covered bonds;

"A country that resorts to brutal force and violently clamps down on its youth, the future insurance of a country, has politically and morally surrendered", says Sir Graham Watson MEP, President of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR).

(Brussels, 22 May, 2012) European consumer electronic producers, cable and satellite reception equipment industry, the live performance, content making manufacturers and cable operators are announcing today the formation of a forum aimed at preserving the coexistence between devices and services when new radio services are introduced. The European Forum for Spectrum Coexistence (EFSC) calls for EU spectrum policy to ensure that radio and non radio deployed equipments are taken into account when the introduction of new radio services threatens balance in the electromagnetic ecosystem.