The ENERGY-EFFICIENCY-WATCH (EEW) goal is to ensure ambitious national energy efficiency action plans (NEEAP) in all EU member states. The Scientific partners of EEW - Wuppertal Institute and Ecofys - published the first results of their NEEAP screening.

Tallinn, Copenhagen, 26 June 2008 Over 500 health decision-makers – including ministers of health and finance – from 53 countries have set the WHO European Region on course to tackle both longstanding and new challenges to health systems, at the WHO European Ministerial Conference on Health Systems, which is taking place in Tallinn, Estonia.

Further to the European Commission high level conference on Postal services on 24 June, 11 signatory postal operators from Belgium, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary,
Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland and Slovakia express their support for the next steps towards Full Market Opening (FMO) of the European postal market under
the balanced conditions embodied in the third postal directive.

This year the UN/ECE Agreement on the Uniform Technical Prescriptions for Vehicles is 50 years old. This very important anniversary will be celebrated on 26 June 2008 with a round table discussion in Geneva, in parallel with the 145th Session of the World Forum for the Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP29). Lars Holmqvist, CEO CLEPA, will take part in this session giving an overview of the automotive industry’s perspective.

On Thursday 19th June 2008 more than 40 European Liberal Democrat leaders, ministers, and European commissioners, including 5 liberal prime ministers, gathered in Brussels for the ELDR Leaders and Ministers meeting. The subject of the future of the Lisbon Treaty was the main topic of conversation following last week’s Irish referendum result. The liberal prime ministers outlined their commitment to the Treaty and their desire to see the ratification process continue.