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Save water with wind power

The power sector is the one of the world's biggest consumers of water, but one source - wind power - uses very little water to produce electricity.  All fossil fuels and nuclear need significant quantities of water to pump crude oil out of the ground, remove pollutants from power plant exhausts, flush residues after fossil fuels are burned and cool power plants.

Wervel reminds European Parliament of protein deficit

The proposal of the European Commission to reform the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) unfortunately left the problem of the European protein deficit totally unaddressed. Wervel therefore took the initiative to remind the European Parliament (EP) of their resolution of February 2011 in which they raised the problem. Together with a symbolic bag of local peas, a letter was handed over to the members and chairman of the agriculture committee in the EP.

EuroCommerce elects Lucy Neville-Rolfe as its new President

EuroCommerce is delighted to announce the appointment of Lucy Neville-Rolfe as its new President, following her election at the EuroCommerce General Assembly today. Lucy will take up her three-year mandate on 1 July.

CEEP at EP Hearing on the award of concession contracts: “We need to re-think the architecture of the proposal”

“The members of CEEP are still looking for a good reason why such a detailed and complex legislative initiative on concessions was published”, said today Rainer Plassmann, chair of CEEP SGI committee intervening at the EP Hearing on the award of concessions contracts. “However, they decided to work very closely with Members of the European Parliament to ensure that legislation will finally best respond to the needs of public services providers, which means at the end the needs of citizens”.

FoodDrinkEurope welcomes European Parliament’s ENVI Committee vote on health claims

(Brussels, 21 March 2012) European food manufacturers welcome the European Parliament ENVI Committee’s rejection of the objection tabled against the list of permitted Article 13 health claims today. Following a lengthy and complex process, this is an important step towards the adoption of 222 scientifically substantiated and permitted Article 13.1 generic health claims on foods as laid down by Regulation 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims.

Mega-trucks - Commission's planned u-turn on gigaliners incompatible with EU law

 

Signature of cooperation framework between the European Defence Agency (EDA) and Switzerland

Brussels – Switzerland and the European Defence Agency (EDA) want to coop-erate in the armaments sector. A corresponding cooperation framework was signed in Brussels today. The framework without legal commitment enables Switzerland to recognise armaments policy developments at an early stage, and to access multilateral armaments cooperation in Europe. Switzerland is free to decide what information it wants to exchange with the EDA and in what projects and programs it wishes to participate.

I EU - Eastern Partnership Forum 22-24 March 2012, Tbilisi, Georgia, Under the Honorary Patronage of the Prime Minister of Georgia Mr. Nika Gilauri

Three years after its inauguration -Eastern Partnership, the initiative of Poland and Sweden,  seems to have arrived to a breaking point. On the one hand, the attention of the European Union is focused on the debt crisis in the euro-zone and the foreign policy is concentrated on the revolutionary transformations in North Africa. On the other hand, the experiences from Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, where civil societies and democratic forces are still forming after the collapse of dictatorships, showed that the EU must support democratic values.

Annual EU Conference on Privacy and Data Protection: ETNO calls for a consistent data protection framework on both sides of the Atlantic

Annual EU Conference on Privacy and Data Protection – Washington DC / Brussels
ETNO calls for a consistent data protection framework on both sides of the Atlantic
Brussels - Commissioner Reding has been instrumental in placing a sound legislative proposal on the table to help strengthen the privacy rights of European citizens while lessening the administrative burden for businesses, says ETNO on the occasion of the annual EU conference on privacy and data protection held today in Washington DC.

European e-Skills Week 2012 Takes Flight

Brussels, Monday 19 March 2012:  European e-Skills Week 2012– backed by the European Commission launches today in Brussels. 

Vice President of the European Commission, responsible for Enterprise and Industry, Antonio Tajani, is officially marking the start of the European e-Skills Week 2012, by welcoming,  together with conference host, Anna Maria Darmanin, Vice-President of the European Economic and Social Committee,  more than 200 delegates from thirty member states.

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