Meeting in Luxembourg on 11 June, European Transport ministers missed an opportunity to boost rail freight across the EU when they placed political priorities over the business needs of the European transport sector. Discussing ideas to revise the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), as well as a proposal by the European Commission to create a competitive rail freight network, the ministers rejected ambitious ideas to prioritise rail freight and allow non-railway companies to book capacity on the network.
Call to reduce the four million deaths annually, from a condition responsible for more fatalities globally than AIDS1 ROME, June 11 2009 – The World Health Organisation (WHO) and European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases (EFA) today announced that they are bringing together over 150 international delegates to discuss the growing epidemic of Chronic Respiratory Diseases (CRD) that affects one billion people worldwide1,32, and is responsible for four million deaths annually.
Final results of the IRU’s New Eurasian Land Transport Initiative (NELTI) demonstrate the strong business potential of road transport operations along the reopened Silk Road. Top priority should thus be given by governments to removing procedural impediments, which prevent significant growth in trade on the Eurasian landmass.
On Monday, 15 June, at the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels, the first of the three studies carried out within the framework of the European project “Anticipation of Change in the Automotive Industry” will be presented by a consortium composed of automotive suppliers and trade unions.
The 5th IRU Euro-Asian Road Transport Conference opened today in Almaty, Kazakhstan, bringing together over 500 political and business leaders, including more than 20 transport Ministers to explore challenges and new business opportunities along the reopened Silk Road during this time of economic crisis.
The UITP 58th World congress and exhibition closed its doors today in Vienna:“UITP sets the ambition of doubling public transport market share worldwide by 2025”
Vienna, 11 June 2009: the biennale UITP World Congress and Exhibition closed its doors today in Vienna, concluding one week of exchange, knowledge, innovation, and business for the public transport sector.
On May 25th, 2009, the EU Council adopted the so-called “Blue-Card Directive”, aimed at facilitating entry
and residence in the EU of third country citizens for th purposes of highly-qualified employment. The new
scheme, not to be implemented until 2011 at the earliest, does not intend to replace nor prevent any Member
States’ initiatives aimed at offering more attractive conditions to labour migrants.
EUREAU is the European federation of national associations of drinking water suppliers and waste water services. EUREAU’s members represent more than 10.000 drinking water & waste water utilities across Europe that provide sustainable water services to more than 400 million European citizens.
For the first time, EUREAU will publish a comprehensive statistics overview on the water sector in its members, providing to policy makers, environmental agencies, stakeholders and journalists a unique combination of data directly issued from the drinking water and waste water industry.
