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With the up-dated Enforcement Regulation, the EU will be in a better position to defend our commercial interests

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

The European Parliament will today debate and tomorrow vote the up-dated Enforcement Regulation as agreed in the negotiations with the Commission and member states. Thanks to these new rules, the Commission will be able to impose countermeasures at the end of dispute settlement procedures, once it receives the authorisation from the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

Bernd Lange, S&D MEP and chair of the international trade committee, said:

Pass rates announced for ACCA December 2020 exam sitting

ACCA

ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) announces the pass rates of its latest exam sitting for December 2020.

Despite much disruption globally as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, ACCA was able to run almost 153,000 exams across the vast majority of our markets worldwide. For the health and safety of our students, additional measures were implemented in line with relevant governmental advice.

Major EU project will harness AI and genomics for disease prevention

ECPC - European Cancer Patient Coalition

An international collaboration project to develop and implement novel genome-based disease prediction tools has received over 10 million euros from the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program. The project aims to demonstrate the potential and benefits of powerful artificial intelligence (AI) technologies on the generation of genetic predictive scores and to test their clinical validity.

Time to deliver: European standards support the portugal presidency of the council of the EU

CEN and CENELEC

As responses to the COVID-19 crisis have shown, European standards play a fundamental role in contributing to the EU’s economic and social well-being. Now it is time for Europe to look to the future and deliver on its promises to achieve a fair, green and digital economy. European standardization is in the frontline to contribute to the ambitions of the new Portuguese Presidency of the EU.  

EU digital strategy requires investments in the digitalisation of Europe’s medicines regulatory agencies to succeed

Medicines for Europe

EU digital health and pharmaceutical strategies will miss the mark unless they address the clearly defined need to digitalise and to interconnect EU and national medicine agencies.

New study shows that paper-based single-use packaging can have a better environmental impact than reusable packaging

CEPI - Confederation of European Paper Industries

A new Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study, conducted by engineering consultancy Ramboll for the European Paper Packaging Alliance (EPPA) demonstrates the significant environmental benefits of singleuse products compared to re-use systems particularly in saving carbon emission and freshwater consumption.

„Starkes Signal gegen Armut in Zeiten der Krise!“

DIE LINKE. im Europaparlament

In seiner gestrigen Sitzung nahm der Ausschuss für Arbeit und Soziales (EMPL) den Initiativbericht „Verringerung der Ungleichheit mit besonderem Augenmerk auf die Erwerbstätigenarmut“ von Özlem Alev Demirel an.

ACCA issues policy recommendations on the role of public finance professionals in progressing the Sustainable Development Goals and calls for governments to work towards a sustainable and inclusive recovery

ACCA

Global experts formulate calls to action for governments and the public finance profession to push for progress in achieving the SDGs, and ensure the COVID-19 economic recovery is both sustainable and inclusive, with policy responses accounting for the human aspect of this crisis.

S&Ds reject MiFID Quick Fix as harmful deregulation of markets, at a time we should be supporting SMEs

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

The Socialists and Democrats are leading the drive to reject the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) Quick Fix, and today voted against it in the European Parliament’s economic and monetary affairs committee. The European Commission’s declared objective was to amend the MiFID regime to alleviate the impact of the Covid-19 crisis to encourage investment in the real economy and free up resources for both companies and investors.

Making power grids fit for the transition will create 500,000

Eurelectric

Distribution grids are the backbone of the digital and energy transition, as they ensure a continuous and reliable electricity flow, integrate the majority of renewable energy sources and enable the creation of new services for consumers. But to be fit-for-purpose in an increasingly decarbonised, decentralised and digitalised power system, there is an urgent need to ramp up investments in Europe’s distribution grids.

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