The workshop ‘Water for Integration – Integration for Water’ took place in Brussels on September 28, 2009. This event provided a platform for participants from different sectors to discuss barriers and needs relating to integrated water research. The workshop was organized by

On the eve of her departure as EU Competition Commissioner, Mrs Neelie Kroes is apparently pushing to commit her successor and the entire future EU Commission into setting up a legal framework that will use litigation as the privileged mechanism of collective redress. Commented Orgalime Director General, Adrian Harris: “We are deeply concerned that the Commission is even considering introducing such a measure which is so alien to our legal traditions and not, as far as we can see, supported either by politicians or by industry. Quite the contrary.

• Economic programmes for cushioning the problems in healthcare largely unsuitable

• Shrinking GDP, rising unemployment and declining private insurance payments threaten the financing of healthcare systems

• Differences in the quality of healthcare for various social classes becoming considerably bigger

30/09/2009

In view of the catastrophic situation facing EU dairy farmers, EU farm leaders would like to invite you to a press conference on October 5 at Residence Palace at 13.00 h to discuss measures to help alleviate the drastic market situation. This will be followed by a buffet lunch.

- 50 new communicable diseases identified since 1973
- Open borders accelerate the geographical spread of diseases
- European Union is much better prepared than five years ago

The threat of communicable diseases will become even worse in the near future. At the European Health Forum Gastein, the European Union’s leading health policy congress for experts and decision-makers, experts stressed that there are a number of risk factors which contribute to a growing risk of the spread of communicable diseases into Europe, namely into the European Union.