Today the ALDE group held a seminar on "EU citizenship, homelessness and EU freedom of movement" to address the dramatic problem of homelessness and to draw up measures to facilitate the integration of homeless people into society as well as ensure accessibility to emergency housing. 

Controls and their role as the link between people and the appliances are essential to achieving behaviour change in homes, offices and buildings. This was the key message from Dr. Michelle Shipworth from University College London, an advisor to UK Government on energy matters, who presented research data on energy efficiency and behavioural change.

This is of vital importance as Europe considers the best way to reduce the 60% of energy demand that comes from the way building occupants consume energy.

Globally, it is clear that since the first commercial planting in 1996, biotech crops have become an integral part of farming’s present and future, and developing countries are now leading the way.  In 2011, developing countries adopted biotech crops at twice the rate of developed countries. Moreover, approximately 50 per cent of biotech crops are now grown in developing countries, the latest annual report from the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) revealed today.

At a press conference in Athens today ahead of an expected announcement by Greek party leaders backing a new austerity plan in return for EU support for the latest bailout, Guy Verhofstadt, ALDE group leader, heading a delegation of senior Liberal MEPs, called for a major roll back of the Greek State, an end to party political clientilism and sweeping structural reforms to liberalise the economic sector

Du député européen  Younus OMARJEE , Front de Gauche 
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