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Financial transaction tax - banking sector must cough up and pay its fair share

Calling a financial transaction tax (FTT) an urgent and necessary tool, German GUE/NGL MEP Jürgen Klute said it is imperative that the financial sector contributes to public coffers both in Europe and globally, and called on the Commission to come up with FTT proposals.
 

IRU launches new website

The IRU has released its new website, featuring improved ergonomics, enhanced functionalities as well as new content and links to social media.

 
Geneva – The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has launched a new and highly improved website, designed according to best website practices, and developed to provide the different IRU audiences with easier access to all IRU information, messages and resources.

PES Women call for the EU to address mainstream issues like gender pension gap and not just ‘women in the boardroom’

 PES Women launch pension campaign video; “It’s different for women”

 

Press release – Party of European Socialists (PES)

Event – International Women’s Day

7 March, 2011, Bruxelles

 

Maximizing people power – the finance function under pressure

          o Securing the right talent is one of the biggest challenges faced by Chief Finance Officers
          o Finance Business Partnering is the way ahead to gain competitive advantage

      The training, development and retention of the finance function is crucial to the success of an organisation, especially in the current economic climate, asserts a new report from ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and KPMG called Maximising People Power: Effective talent management in finance.

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Estonia: EPP Group congratulates Mart Laar on the election success. Joseph Daul MEP

"I warmly congratulate Mart Laar, Chairman of Pro Patria and Res Publica Union, a former Prime Minister of Estonia, on the great success of the Estonian Parliamentary elections on 6 March 2011", said Joseph Daul MEP, Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament.

 

Res Publica and Pro Patria Union received 20.5% of the votes and 23 seats in the 101-member Estonian Parliament, gaining 4 more seats compared to the last parliamentary elections.

 

Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme is not respecting data protection safeguards

Europol’s supervisory body has just published a report on the implementation of the EU-US TFTP agreement (Terrorism Finance Tracking Programme), the so-called SWIFT agreement. The conclusions by the Joint Supervisory Board (overseeing data protection issues) of Europol raise serious concerns about compliance with EU data protection standards as Europol appears to be just rubberstamping requests for the transfer of bulk data, without any kind of scrutiny or oversight.

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Die politische Mitwirkung von Unternehmen und Verbänden ist - ebenso wie die von anderen gesellschaftlichen Gruppierungen - legitimer Bestandteil jeder politischen Entscheidungsfindung.

PES in Athens call for new EU economic direction

5 March 2011, Athens

The leaders of the Party of European Socialists (PES) this morning adopted a text; 'Europe is in the wrong hands', which sets out a clear alternative to the 'austerity only' agenda.

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