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Information Technology Agreement expansion negotiations approach the finish line. International negotiators in Geneva one step away from concluding a new Information Technology Agreement

DIGITAL EUROPE

BRUSSELS, Monday 24 June 2013. The expansion of the Information Technology Agreement has entered its final stage, as the negotiators gather in Geneva today for the penultimate round of talks. The list of products considered for expansion was consolidated last week and expectations are high that this agreement will be concluded soon.

AEGEE-Europe denounces the attack to Youth Rights as the the Spanish Youth Council will be suppressed today

AEGEE Europe

AEGEE-Europe, a European student organization present in 19 Spanish cities, claims that the closure of the Spanish Youth Council aggravates the vulnerability of young people in Spain and is a violation of the Constitutional right of youth to be allowed to participate in the political, social, economic and cultural decisions. The Spanish Cabinet of Ministers will approve this closure today in a pack of austerity measures in public administration, without consulting the views of young people.

European electricity & gas sector welcomes adoption of anti-VAT-fraud package by ECOFIN Council

EFET - European Federation of Energy Traders

As a group of ten European electricity & gas associations, comprising regulators, exchanges, brokers, clearing houses, transmission system operators, energy trading firms, utilities and guarantee of origin issuing bodies, we highly welcome today’s adoption of the anti-VAT-fraud package by the ECOFIN Council at its last meeting under the current Irish Council Presidency. This constitutes a major step towards the eradication of VAT fraud in the electricity and gas markets in Europe.

Posting of workers: MEPs to start negotiations with Member States. Danuta Jazłowiecka MEP and Csaba Őry MEP

EPP Group in the European Parliament

Yesterday, after long and difficult negotiations between political groups in the European Parliament, the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs voted on the Enforcement Directive concerning the posting of workers. MEPs backed provisions that will help labour inspectorates in assessing the legality of posting without changing the definition of a posted worker.

“The North Seas as the future energy pool of Europe”

EUFORES - European Forum for Renewable Energy Sources

Members of Parliament
from all over Europe meet in Dublin.

Request strong political support
for offshore wind in the North Seas.

Dublin, 21 June 2013 - Members of Parliament from all over Europe meet on 21 and 22 June 2013 in Dublin Castle for the 13th Inter-Parliamentary Meeting on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency to demand leadership and more European cooperation on offshore wind and launch a Parliamentary Platform as a political support to the governmental North Seas Countries Offshore Grid Initiative (NSCOGI).

Securing the rights of workers in transnational companies

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

GUE/NGL MEP Thomas Händel's own initiative report on cross-border collective bargaining and transnational social dialogue was adopted by the European Parliament's Employment committee today.

Posted workers vote: Employment committee endorses modern form of slavery

GUE/NGL Group in the EP
A majority of MEPs in the European Parliament's Employment Committee have shown their distain for workers' rights by giving the green light to a flawed report on posted workers.

With 30 MEPs voting in favour and 17 against, the Committee has granted a mandate for negotiations to begin.

Greens refuse to bow to coercive pressures from the Council

THE GREENS/EUROPEAN FREE ALLIANCE

The negotiations on the EU's Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) have come to a head, with the Council yesterday submitting a final proposal to the European Parliament. However, there are deep divisions between the European Parliament negotiators. At the beginning of next week, the European Parliament's political groups will have to decide on whether to approve or reject the Council's proposal. Helga Trüpel, budgetary spokesperson for the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, said:

GUE/NGL MEPs condemn Irish Presidency and Commission's deliberate manipulation of media

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

Following widespread false media reports on a supposed deal on the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020 (MFF) negotiations, GUE/NGL MEPs set the record straight:

 

Emissions Trading System backloading

THE GREENS/EUROPEAN FREE ALLIANCE

The European Parliament's environment committee today adopted a new position on the European Commission's Emissions Trading System (ETS) backloading proposal. This is the second time that the environment committee has voted in favour of postponing the auctioning of emissions permits and comes after the plenary as a whole voted in April to reject the proposals. The amendments adopted today reflect a compromise struck between conservatives, liberals and social democrats, but were not backed by the Green MEPs.

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