During an online ceremony in the presence of European Commission Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis, MEPs Brando Benifei, Anna Cavazzini and Eva Maydell, SGI Europe revealed its new name and identity. The European Centre of Employers and Enterprises providing Public services and SGIs (CEEP) is now named SGI Europe.

Founded in 1961 as the ‘Centre Européen des Entreprises Publiques’, SGI Europe is the sole cross-sectoral association representing providers of Services of General Interest at EU level.

Zur Veröffentlichung der Studie 'Plattformversagen' von Murray Cox (inside Airbnb) und Kenneth Haar (Corporate Europe Observatory), im Auftrag der LINKEN im Europaparlament, erklärt Martin Schirdewan, Schattenberichterstatter zum Digital Services Act und Ko-Vorsitzender der EP-Linksfraktion THE LEFT:

As of 12 January 2021, the 22nd edition of the European Energy Transition Conference – the annual appointment of the local players committed to energy transition – will open. As they do every year, representatives of the public authorities, the economic and academic worlds and the civil society will meet up to debate and share their experience of local energy transition around a programme made up of over a hundred events – plenary sessions and workshops.

European Parliament negotiators, under the lead of the S&D Group, today put the finishing touches on the ERDF-CF (European Regional Development Fund and Cohesion Fund), a tool worth 242,9 billion €, aimed to strengthen economic, social and territorial cohesion in the European Union by correcting imbalances between its regions.

Brussels, 8 December 2020 - Yesterday, the LIBE Committee of the European Parliament voted in favour of a dangerous derogation from the ePrivacy directive. The Parliament accepted a total and unparalleled scanning of all electronic communications. A catastrophe for digital rights and the protection of data and privacy in the European Union (EU) under the pretext of child protection. The European Pirates Delegation (PPEU) in the Greens/EFA Group strongly condemn the derogation.