(Brussels 31 January 2012) FoodDrinkEurope strongly regrets the negative outcome of the vote today in the European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee for the revised nutrition claims list recently adopted by the Council.    

The European Parliament has today sent a strong signal that the price of carbon emissions must be raised by fixing the Emissions Trading System (ETS) - one of the EU's key laws on climate change.

The Parliament's Environment Committee voted in favour of withholding carbon allowances in the ETS - a move that would increase the carbon price if it was adopted.

The economic crisis has reduced industrial production and therefore emissions, flooding the carbon market with free emission allowances and causing the price to collapse.

Commenting on the agenda of the Informal European Council meeting of today, European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party leader Sir Graham Watson MEP said:

No easy way forward for Greece

For the European United Left / Nordic Green Left Group in the European Parliament, the fiscal deal agreed in Brussels will deepen the crisis and represents the anti-democratic institutionalization of austerity as default policy.

Brussels Friday, 27 January 2012: Huawei welcomes the announcement in Davos yesterday by Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission, of her proposal to establish a European Cloud Partnership between government and industry. Huawei welcomes in particular the focus of the partnership to set-up a common basis for cloud procurement by public authorities. Leo Sun, Huawei EU Public Affairs and Communication President said: “Cloud computing offers huge potentials for the public sector.