"We have to put an end to this bureaucratic maze", said Othmar Karas MEP, Vice-President of the European Parliament, on the current EU rules for registering cars which have already been registered in another EU Member State. "Some national authorities behave as if one is trying to register a moon buggy when all one wants is to register a completely normal car which has been registered in another EU country before", said Karas.

4th ENoLL Living Lab Summer School

Manchester (UK) August 27th - 30th, 2013

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The ENoLL Living Lab Summer School is the biggest yearly Living Lab event combining a mixture of sessions, workshops, lively discussion panels between long-standing ENoLL members & newbies and other Living

The European Mortgage Federation (EMF) has today responded to the European Commission’s Financial Services User Group (FSUG) Position Paper on the London Economics Study on Means to Protect Consumers in Financial Difficulty.

Attacks on IT systems in the EU will be subject to minimum standards of penal law. The European Parliament adopted a new EU Directive today introducing mandatory prison sentences for major attacks, for example. "There are more than 800,000 attacks a day in the EU. It is indispensable to introduce joint minimum sentences as such attacks can have destructive effects on the public infrastructure and on companies likewise", said Monika Hohlmeier MEP who is the European Parliament Rapporteur.