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Poverty takes away the right to childhood: Children’s perceptions of poverty in four EU Member States

Eurochild

Brussels, 17 October 2023_ Eurochild published its first report on Child Poverty, which provides an overview of the situation on the ground in Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, and Malta bringing children’s voices into the conversation.

S&Ds: The Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform means money for high-tech industry and high-quality jobs

S&D
The Socialists and Democrats stand in support of the mobilisation of existing EU funds for high-tech industry and call for an additional €13bn to preserve European competitiveness in global markets while creating high-quality jobs for citizens. This will be possible with the establishment of the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) – a proposal the European Commission made in June this year.

S&Ds ready to start the negotiations on their flagship project: forced labour ban

S&D
Tonight, the European Parliament’s committees on international trade (INTA) and internal market and consumer protection (IMCO) will jointly vote on the European Parliament mandate to start the negotiations with the Council on the new law to ban products made with forced labour from the EU market. This is a long-awaited key demand and policy proposal for the S&Ds in this legislature. We are pushing to ensure it is concluded before the end of the EP mandate.
 

EUROFER calls for robust EU-US Global Arrangement to address steel industry’s existential challenges

EUROFER
Brussels, 13 October 2023 – The EU-US Summit planned for 20 October in Washington should pave the way for a global solution to tackle the two existential challenges facing the steel industry worldwide: non-market excess capacity and carbon intensity. Only a strong, international binding agreement can adequately respond to a new global context where government-fuelled, carbon-intensive excess capacity has reached 600 million tonnes, urges the European Steel Association. 
 

Strong Political Backing and Market Confidence at the Energy Storage Global Conference 2023

EASE
13 October 2023: The Energy Storage Global Conference (ESGC) 2023 was organised by the European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) on 10-12 October in Brussels, Belgium. The conference gathered almost 400 energy storage stakeholders and covered energy storage policy, market, and technology topics.
 

International exchange paves the way for energy access at SESA policy dialogue in Accra

ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability - EUROPE
The SESA - Smart Energy Solutions for Africa project, coordinated by ICLEI Europe and funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme, held its second regional event and policy dialogue in Accra (Ghana) from 9 - 13 October.

Directive on common rules promoting the repair of goods: EUREFAS welcomes the recognition of a “universal right to repair” by the EU Parliament’s Environment Committee

Eurefas

Brussels, October 12th, 2023 

The European Refurbishment Association (EUREFAS) welcomes the overwhelming adoption of MEP Glavak’s report on Common Rules Promoting Repair by the Environment Committee and salutes the addition of a new article referencing “consumers’ universal right to repair”. 

The launch of the "Moldova-EU" Club in Brussels

Club MD - UE

Brussels, 12 October 2023

Expert knowledge will play a key role in the accession process of the Republic of Moldova, which received the status of a candidate country for the European Union a year ago. Countries that have already gone through the EU accession process know what it means to have specialists in European affairs. In the case of the Republic of Moldova, there is such a potential.

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