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Power sector seeks to reap benefits and tackle risks from AI

AI applications are transforming business operations and processes in the power sector as well as the broader economy, leading to greater cost savings, increased efficiency and new services for consumers. But further developments rely on the ability to foster and support innovation, addressing outstanding matters related to investments, data access and governance, as well as ethics.

CEMA elects new President: Thierry Krier (KUHN) takes the reins

Brussels, 27th November 2020 – Thierry Krier, President and CEO of KUHN Group, was elected yesterday as new President of CEMA, the European Association representing Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers.

S&Ds host a webinar on ‘EU Health Union’ on Tuesday with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and health ministers from Spain, Italy and Sweden

The unprecedented global Covid-19 pandemic has taken the lives of many thousands of people worldwide. In the face of this formidable challenge, the EU’s 27 national healthcare systems have shown their fragility and weaknesses, but also the absolute necessity to accelerate the move towards increasing European responsibility and solidarity on health matters; including ensuring a better co-ordinated, shared, equal and adequate medical response in all member states.

Paper industry supports European Parliament call for new Industrial Strategy to be aligned with EU climate-neutrality objective

Yesterday, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the New Industrial Strategy for Europe, a report by Italian Member of the European Parliament Carlo Calenda (S&D – Envi Committee).

The report calls for the new industrial strategy - planned for publication in March next year – to be in line with the goal of climate neutrality by 2050 and to create the conditions for an innovative, inclusive, resilient, digitalised society.

Clear and practical guides to natural capital management published by ACCA

The accountant’s role in managing natural capital – resources like water, land, minerals, and oceans – is explained by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) in a new video and accompanying guides for business leaders, performance managers, corporate reporters and auditors and assurers.

Ethiopia: S&Ds call for dialogue to find lasting solution and stop bloody conflict and war crimes

The European Parliament has spoken out against the armed conflict between the Ethiopian federal government and the regional administration of Tigray, led by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). The conflict has already caused hundreds of civilian deaths and the mass displacement of people. In the resolution approved today in plenary, the European Parliament calls on both parties to commit to an immediate ceasefire and to solve political divergences by democratic means in order to find a lasting peaceful solution.

Belarus: Keine Entspannung in Sicht

Helmut Scholz, Mitglied der Delegation für die Beziehungen zwischen der EU und Belarus, kommentiert die heutige Aussprache im Europäischen Parlament zu den anhaltenden Verstößen gegen die Menschenrechte, insbesondere die Ermordung von Raman Bandarenka:

Iran: Todesstrafe gegen schwedischen Staatsbürger muss aufgehoben werden

Cornelia Ernst, Präsidentin der parlamentarischen Delegation des Europaparlaments für die Beziehungen mit dem Iran, erklärt zum Todesurteil gegen den schwedischen Staatsbürger Ahmadreza Djalali

Mini-Deal mit großen Folgen

Helmut Scholz, handelspolitischer Sprecher der EP-Linksfraktion THE LEFT, kommentiert die Abschaffung von Zöllen auf bestimmte Erzeugnisse, den sogenannten „Lobster Deal“ zwischen der EU und USA:

EPP hand in hand with extreme right to make development aid conditional to management of migration. We won’t allow this

The EPP has shown once again its double-faced tactics. With the support from the extreme right, the EPP has diverted the content of the INI Report on Efficiency and Effectiveness of Aid, approved today by the European Parliament, obviously with the intention to challenge the EP’s common position during the negotiations of the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI), by imposing an immediate conditionality on the European aid to developing countries and their capability to manage migration flows.

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