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Equal Pay Day”

CESI - European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions

On the occasion of ‘Equal Pay Day’, the action day calling for fairer pay for men and women being held at the moment in many EU countries, President of CESI’s FEMM Equal Opportunities committee Kirsten Lühmann said:

JUMP - Forum for Active Women

JUMP FORUM

Women seeking a career boost or change will find what they are looking for at the Forum JUMP. JUMP is the first event focusing on women’s professional lives and career management open to the wide public. In the space of two days, we will provide our participants with a unique blend of advice, tools and networking possibilities
Guest bestseller authors will enlighten JUMP’s participants with their acute insight on women:

Fighting cancer in an enlarged European Union

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

During a debate on combating cancer in the EU in the European Parliament today, GUE/NGL MEP and oncologist Dr Adamos Adamou (Cyprus) recalled that "each year more than two million European citizens suffer from some form of cancer, and roughly one million die from cancer (mainly lung, colon or breast cancer)". However, he added, "some 30% of cancers in the EU are preventable and another 30% can be successfully treated".

EurActiv embraces Web 2.0 with revamped websites, better search and blog platform

Euractiv

EurActiv, the independent media portal specialised in EU policies, is launching an upgraded version of its websites (in English, French and German) to provide readers with more, clearer information and increased interactivity.

From today, readers have new tools to keep abreast with the latest developments in EU affairs:

· a clearer, more user-friendly layout and navigation menu;

· a press release service that allows stakeholders and the wider ‘Community of EU Actors’ to react to specific developments by uploading their press releases on the website;

Environment Committee: For ambitious recycling rates and efficient Waste-to-Energy Plants

CEWEP - Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants

With the acceptance of the ambitious energy efficiency criteria for Waste-to-Energy plants the Parliament’s Environment Committee took an important step towards climate protection in yesterday’s vote on the Waste Framework Directive.

Efficient Waste-to-Energy plants, together with high recycling rates pave the way towards sustainable waste and energy management in the future.

FIA member Automobile Club of Luxembourg ACL offers driver training to Intelligent Car Quiz winners

FIA EUROPEAN BUREAU

Among the new technologies addressed in the Intelligent Car Quiz are Electronic Stability Control (ESC), emergency Call (eCall), Gear Shift Indicator (GSI) and Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS).

“Intelligent Car technologies can make mobility safer, greener and smarter” Werner Kraus, Chairman of the FIA Eurocouncil said. “We need better public awareness,
greater availability and government incentives to encourage the use of technologies such as ESC and eCall.”

STOP "LOW-COST EUROPE"!

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

After the Laval-Vaxholm case in Sweden and the Viking Line case in Finland, we now have the Rüffert case in Germany. Once again, within the space of a couple of weeks, the European Court of Justice has just handed down a ruling legitimating "social dumping".
Each time it bases its judgement on the European treaties, the directives resulting from these and its own case law to cover the refusal of a company to respect a collective agreement.

Commercial broadcasters call for strengthened protection of conditional access services at EU-level

ACT

Brussels, 7 April 2008 – In response to the public consultation on the Conditional Access Directive (98/84/EC), the Association of Commercial Television in Europe (ACT) calls on the European Commission to further strengthen the Directive. The Conditional Access Directive was adopted in 1998 and plays a useful role in providing a high level of harmonisation of legal protection for conditional access based services. European satellite pay-TV services are a multibillion Euro sector contributing to the objectives laid

HOPE joins the EUNetPaS project as leader on medication safety

HOPE - European Hospital and Healthcare Federation

HOPE is particularly enthusiastic on the occasion of the launch of the European Union Network for Patient Safety project (EUNetPaS). HOPE believes the project, to be funded by the European Commission, will significantly contribute to the improvement of Safety for Patients all over the European Union.

The general aim of this 30 months project is to establish an umbrella network of all 27 EU Member States and EU stakeholders to encourage and enhance collaboration in the field of Patient Safety.

CIAA preliminary comment on the Proposal for a Directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources

FoodDrinkEurope

While the proposed directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources introduced a number of improvements compared to earlier draft (in particular as regards some flexibility provided to Member States to implement the biofuels target in the run-up to 2020 and the introduction of a monitoring system), these elements are far from sufficient to address core food and drink industry concerns as regards the potential impact the policy will have on the availability of raw materials for food and feed production.

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