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Health4Youth by AEGEE-Europe and iValueHealth.NET partner to promote healthy lifestyle among European Youth

Health4Youth by AEGEE-Europe, an initiative meant to educate and support European youth in making healthy choices and iValueHealth.NET, leading European health social network announce a strategic partnership to increase health awareness among young people, provide them with services/tools that encourage a healthy lifestyle, connect young people with each other and with health professionals.

InnoApps Challenge: empowering young people to make a difference

[Brussels, Belgium, 22 July 2013] A competition challenges youth developers to design innovative mobile applications to foster social inclusion. The contest, launched today, is a joint initiative of the global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider Huawei, the leading software maker Microsoft and the European Young Innovators Forum (EYIF).

A cap on MIFs is likely to impact negatively card payment services

The EU-level plans to regulate Multi-lateral Interchange Fees (MIFs) for card payments have been revealed today by the European Commission.

Offshore wind in deep waters opens up massive power potential

  • Floating turbine designs are cost-competitive with fixed-bottom designs in waters over 50 metres deep
  •  If challenges are successfully met, deep water wind farms could be operating in four years' time

Payment Services Directive - Innovation and security should go hand in hand

The European Banking Federation (EBF) notes with interest the long-awaited revision of the EU Payment Services Directive (PSD), disclosed today in a European Commission Proposal.

“The new proposal should bring some positive developments such as a more inclusive regulatory approach for the various types of payment services providers,” says Sébastien de Brouwer, EBF Executive Director, in charge of Retail, Legal, Economic and Social Policy.

Payments package: Commission proposal on interchange will allow retailers to pass savings on to consumers

The Commission has today published the long-awaited proposals on the ‘payments package’ of a revised Payment Services Directive (PSD), a Regulation on multilateral interchange fees (MIF) and a communication on SEPA governance. The package is broadly welcomed by merchants.

European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas publishes its Capacity Map 2013 and, in cooperation with GIE, also the System Development Map 2012

(Brussels, 23 July 2013) The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG), in cooperation with Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE), has published the third edition of the map dedicated to system development matters and covering the year 2012. At the same time, ENTSOG releases the 2013 edition of its capacity map and GIE publishes the revised 2013 edition of its storage and LNG maps.

Current levels of non-financial disclosure are not sufficient for assessing materiality

The overwhelming majority of investors want European companies to be more consistent and transparent in their non-financial reporting, according to a survey by Eurosif and ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).

InnoApps Challenge: empowering young people to make a difference

[Brussels, Belgium, 22 July 2013] A competition challenges youth developers to design innovative mobile applications to foster social inclusion. The contest, launched today, is a joint initiative of the global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider Huawei, the leading software maker Microsoft and the European Young Innovators Forum (EYIF).

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