June 2010

- Regulatory reforms needs to go beyond simply cutting red -urges global accountancy body.

Europe can be a more enterprising place without sacrificing protection for the public, says ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) today.

The use of ICT in healthcare - or eHealth - has clear benefits, but there needs to be bigger campaigns to engage more clearly all stakeholders from the start, especially doctors and patients. These were the conclusions of a breakfast meeting hosted by Bulgarian MEP Antonyia Parvanova (ALDE) and organised recently by ACCA ( the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), where it was also agreed that politicians need to give more support for improvements to happen.

Guy VERHOFSTADT, leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament and one of Parliament's chief negotiators, reacting today to remarks made by Pierre Lellouche, the French Secretary of State, on the European External Action Service warned:

"The agreement reached last week in Madrid by all parties involved in the establishment of the framework for Europe's new diplomatic service was arrived at after much effort and hard negotiation."

Brussels, Today - At an event titled “Bio-energy and Bio-fuels: a carbon accounting time bomb” organized at the European Parliament, three environmental NGOs presented their own studies one on bioenergy and one on biofuels. The one on biofuels from CE Delft suggests that the EU Biofuels policies could be increasing GHG emissions compared to fossil fuels. “This study does not go beyond unproven theories and its conclusions are totally unfounded”, says Rob Vierhout, Secretary-General, eBIO.