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Medicines Patent Pool

The Medicines Patent Pool was created to improve the health of people living in low- and middle-income countries. Our goal is to increase access to quality, safe, efficacious, more appropriate and affordable medicines, focussing on HIV/AIDS.

Eurozone crisis has not been managed effectively say MEPs

- Expansion and integration likely casualties

Seventy-seven percent of MEPs say that European political leaders have not managed the Eurozone debt crisis effectively, according to the latest ComRes EuroPoll™ Survey. Only 14%, the majority being members of the EPP group, express their support for the EU’s current political leadership.

Kommunförbundet Skåne

Scania´s Association of Local Authorities (in swedish; Kommunförbundet Skåne) is the lead organisation for the 33 local authorities in Scania (Skåne). Our activities can be summarized under four main headings:

Conference: the European innovation partnership on active and healthy ageing

Fri, 04/13/2012 - 08:00
The conference "European innovation partnership on active and healthy ageing: from plan to action" will be opened by Neelie Kroes, the European Commissioner for digital agenda and John Dalli, the European Commissioner for health and consumer policy. It will bring together the steering group of the pilot innovation partnership, the European Commission and a plethora of stakeholders in the field of active ageing.
 

Euro-Mediterranean conference on research and innovation

Sat, 04/14/2012
The historical changes taking place in the Southern Mediterranean region since December 2010 call for a focused, innovative and ambitious response from the European Union.
 
Throughout 2011, the European Commission has established the neighbourhood countries of the European Union as a key priority and has developed a new strategy.
 
Research and innovation play a major role in promoting sustainable and inclusive economic growth and job creation.
 

A new political force for a new economic deal

Today in Athens, Guy Verhofstadt, President of the ALDE Group together with Dora Bakoyannis, leader of the Democratic Alliance, launched plan to help Greece exit the crisis.

Speaking in Athens, Guy Verhofstadt said, "It is imperative for Greece to have a new start and a long term perspective. The two main parties have so far only contributed to postponing the necessary reforms and have largely contributed over the years to the desperate situation Greece currently finds itself in."

The economic governance challenge in the EU: striking the right balance between discipline, accountability, growth and solidarity

Politicians, accountants and finance experts from both the public and private sectors gathered recently at a high level event organised by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) as part of its President’s Debates, hosted by ACCA’s President Dean Westcott.

Held in the Bibliotheque Solvay in Brussels, the distinguished experts discussed how to strike the right balance between discipline, accountability, growth and solidarity to meet the economic governance challenges ahead. The main outcomes of the meeting were:

ECAS - European Citizen Action Service

Empowering citizens and civil society with the European Union. An association about action as much as information, creating balance between public interest and corporate lobbying.
 

Caritas Europa urges governments to resettle more refugees

Brussels, 29 March 2012 - Caritas Europa welcomes a new EU adoption of the resettlement programme, but insists on the need for political will of member states to resettle more refugees. “Europe should definitely show more solidarity by resettling more refugees” says Caritas Europa's policy and advocacy officer in an interview with Euronews. 

Procure secure: ENISA’s new guide for monitoring cloud computing contracts

Procurement of cloud computing services is an increasingly important task for governments and businesses across the EU - and information security is a key pain-point. To help solve this problem, the EU’s cyber security agency, ENISA today launched a new, practical guide for IT procurement teams, focusing on continuous security monitoring throughout the life-cycle of a cloud contract.

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