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EurActiv’s blog platform expands close to its 3rd birthday

Euractiv

 EurActiv’s blog platform, Blogactiv.eu, keeps on expanding as it closes in on its third anniversary, in October 2010. Besides the over 7,500 posts, which represent a milestone in the field, Blogactiv hosts nine of the 40 most influential EU bloggers, according to the Waggener Edstrom study released this summer. Bloggers with an interest in EU affairs are invited to join the platform.

Scapegoating and bigotry - Strategy needed to end Europe's Roma shame

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

Demanding the immediate cessation of Roma deportations from France, GUE/NGL German MEP Cornelia Ernst called for a European Roma strategy to combat the catastrophic poverty and discrimination faced by Roma in Europe.
Scapegoating and bigotry - Strategy needed to end Europe's Roma shame

EU institutions must stop ambiguity on Financial Transaction Tax and send a clear message

PES - Party of European Socialists

After today’s State of the Union address by Commission President Barroso and the ECOFIN ministers’ meeting, European Institutions failed to deliver a clear message on a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT). The Party of European Socialists (PES) had demanded a speedy decision on a FTT to help raise new revenue, as the effects of public budget cuts begin to be felt.

EHFG President Leiner: smoking should disappear from public life – Austrian solution is half-hearted

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

Program presentation of the 13th European Health Forum Gastein

EP vote on Bové report misrepresents realities of food supply chain

EuroCommerce

EuroCommerce and the commerce sector

EuroCommerce deplores misconceptions in report on food supply chain. 

EuroCommerce deeply regrets the European Parliament’s adoption in plenary of the report by MEP José Bové (Greens/EFA, France), on the food supply chain . “Although we see some improvements compared to the initial draft report, we regret that a number of misconceptions about the food supply chain – and retail in particular – remain”, said EuroCommerce Secretary General, Xavier Durieu.

Business and NGOs Unite to Urge Energy Ministers to Triple Efforts on Energy Savings and Efficiency Benefits Highlighted as Key to Success for ‘Europe2020’ Strategy

THE COALITION

Brussels, Belgium – Europe’s energy ministers must lead the charge towards a three-fold increase in the impact of Europe’s efforts to stop wasting energy. Huge benefits from energy savings and energy efficiency are still being denied to the EU’s citizens and businesses - even when they strongly support it. This is the message that a novel coalition of 19 environmental and social NGOS, business and professional associationsi today delivered at a meeting with Paul Magnette,
Belgian Minister for Climate and Energy Policy and the current President of the EU Energy Council.

FEDSA Appoints New Head for EU Lobby

FEDSA - Federation of European Direct Selling Associations

FeDSA has appointed Maurits Bruggink as its new Executive Director.  He will be responsible for spearheading the industry’s EU lobby, which is at a critical stage with the replacement of the 1985 Direct Selling Directive.  He will manage the FeDSA office in Brussels and report to FeDSA’s Chairman Philippe Jacquelinet, CEO of French company Captain Tortue.

European Health Forum Gastein nominates Finalists for top-class Health Award

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

European Health Award 2010: smoke-free classes, Parkinson’s in everyday life, alcohol prevention and cross-border hospital cooperation among the nominated projects

Six cross-border health projects in areas such as smoking, alcohol prevention, organisation of health care in border regions or chronic diseases were now nominated for the short list of the European Health Award 2010 from which a jury will choose the winning project. The top-class award will be awarded for health initiatives at the European Health Forum Gastein in October.

EU Finance Ministers must support taxes on banks and financial transactions

PES - Party of European Socialists

On Tuesday 7th September 2010, the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) will meet to attempt to agree on a common EU position on a tax on financial transactions and on bank levies.

The Europeans For Financial Reform (EFFR) call on ECOFIN to ignore a paper drafted by Algirdas Semetas, European commissioner for tax affairs, dismissing the feasibility of European Transaction tax.

Water Footprint & Water Stewardship

EWP - European Water Partnership

Brussels, 3 September 2010. Yvo de Boer, former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, will give the opening keynote address at a seminar on the Water Footprint and Water Stewardship, co-organized by the European Water Partnership (EWP) on 9 September in Brussels. The seminar, which is intended for journalists only, will outline the effects of growing water shortages and water consumption and will present a number of innovative solutions:

- The European Water Stewardship Program – EWP

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