Caritas Europa has released a report on the European Consensus on humanitarian aid and humanitarian principles and calls on the EU to maintain the principles in the core of humanitarian actions  

Geneva – Southport, England’s classic resort was today awarded the IRU City Trophy 2011 by an international jury* for its long term business friendly and customer oriented policies, which have led to almost doubling the number of visiting tourist coaches (from 2883 to 5252) between 2000-2010.

The members of the European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET), of Eurelectric and of Eurogas call for continued recognition that EU energy markets need appropriate treatment under the new EU financial regulatory proposals. Traded wholesale markets in electricity and gas are an essential feature of an open and liberalised European energy sector and it is crucial these markets are not undermined.

Today, EuropaBio and nine of its partners  launch a “Biorefinery Feasibility Study” at the European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology and the Biobased Economy (EFIB), in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Conducted by Dalberg Global Development Advisors, the study provides a blueprint for establishing integrated, demonstration scale biorefineries in the EU and recommends co-investments from public and private stakeholders to overcome the gap from research to market. 

Following the European Commission’s release of a proposal for an energy infrastructure regulation today, gas infrastructure operators welcomed the planned piece of legislation which focuses on the development of the appropriate infrastructure for the evolving energy world. “A low carbon economy can only happen, and indeed can be expedited, with gas playing a fundamental role. An efficient continent-wide gas infrastructure delivers energy quietly and invisibly to and across Europe”, said Jean-Claude Depail, GIE President, today.