Amman – During the opening ceremony of the 7th IRU Euro-Asian Road Transport Conference, Ministerial Meeting and Co-ordination Meeting of International Organisations and Financial Institutions, IRU President, Janusz Lacny, today awarded IRU’s Japanese Member Association  JTA the IRU Grand Prix d’Honneur*, as an international recognition for the outstanding work when spearheading relief efforts for the 2011 Tsunami that struck Japan following a massive earthquake.

The European Parliament today approved a new rapid procedure for listing countries not cooperating in the fight against illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing (IUU). This clears the way for the Commission to add additional countries to the current list (1) and to publish the list of vessels involved. Commenting after the vote, Green fisheries spokesperson and EP draftsperson/rapporteur for the file Räul Romeva stated:

Brussels (03/06/2013) – The Erasmus Student Network, AEGEE-Europe, and Campus Europae have today ushered in the last phase in their campaign for more EU exchange programmes like Erasmus or the European Voluntary Service (EVS) in the future. In supporting the initiative Fraternité 2020, which aims to raise the share of the EU budget used for EU exchange programmes to 3%, they call on everybody in Europe not to miss this historic opportunity.

Fraternité 2020 has already achieved many notable successes:

Further amplifying the January forecast of the FEP (European Federation of the Parquet Industry) issued at the start of the DOMOTEX fair in Hannover, the consolidated data provided by member companies and affiliated national associations indicates that the market still does not show the signs of the recovery announced and expected by the European authorities. The general picture is, as expected, not uniform with considerable variations from country to country.