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Nanoscience under the spotlight

ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

Today's ALDE seminar on the "Opportunities and Risks of Nano Technology" has wide implications both for business and society at large. More than 150 observers from politics, science and business signed up to the two hour event at the European Parliament. It embraces presentations from both consumer (BEUC) and business perspectives (BASF, Nanotechnologies Industry Association) and finally from the European Commission which is working on a European policy on nanoscience.

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AAL Association

The AAL Association (AALA) is implementing the AAL Joint Programme (AAL JP), a European R&DI funding programme in collaboration with 23 Partner States and the European Commission.

The objective of the AAL JP is to enhance the quality of life of older people and strengthen the industrial base in Europe through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), by e.g. funding close-to-market projects. The basis for this collaborative programme is Article 185 (previously 169) of the EU Treaty.

Verhofstadt: Peer review of national budgetary planning in eurozone is insufficient

ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

Reacting to ECOFIN conclusions today on the work of the task force that aims to strengthen European Union economic governance, Guy Verhofstadt, ALDE group leader, once again underlined the weaknesses of over-reliance on peer review in bringing discipline to macroeconomic policy-making:

"Europe's finance ministers have correctly identified the problem - a lack of governance - but failed to spell out the necessary solution. Peer review is exactly the mechanism that has failed to impose budgetary discipline in the past."

EUROPEAN BROADCASTERS: GREEK TAX ON TV ADVERTISING “INAPPROPRIATE AND DISCRIMINATORY RESPONSE TO CRISIS”

ACT

Brussels, 8 June 2010 – At its Annual General Meeting held in Brussels today, CEOs of the Association of Commercial Television in Europe (ACT – www.acte.be) called on the Greek government urgently to rethink its decision to impose a 20% tax on television advertising, and on the European Commission to examine the compatibility of these measures with European law.

Experts confirm illegality of intrusive medical test for MEP assistants

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

Slamming the European Parliament's mandatory medical examination for MEP assistants as an infringement of data protection rights, the GUE/NGL political group has released an expert opinion commissioned by the group which confirms that the tests are in breach of data protection rights

Undermining Moldovan democracy - the government's intimidation of the media and political persecution campaign

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

 

2010 Energy [R]evolution launched outlining pathways towards a 100% renewable energy supply for the world

EREC - European Renewable Energy Council

Berlin, 7 June 2010 – The renewable power industry could support 8.5 million jobs by 2030 (1), if governments seize the opportunity to invest in a greener future, according to one of the most comprehensive plans for future sustainable energy provision launched today by the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) and Greenpeace.

On the road from Copenhagen to Cancun:Leaders from Regions, Federated States and Companies step off in Bonn

AER - Assembly of European Regions

Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen (D), 2 June 2010                                                                                                                 

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