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Statement by Gabi Zimmer, Chair of the GUE/NGL, on the death of President Hugo Chavez Frias

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

On the occasion of the death of President Hugo Chavez Frias, I would like to express the huge sadness felt by each member of our political group and extend our deepest condolences and solidarity to his family, his friends and his people.

EuroCommerce President Dame Lucy Neville-Rolfe addresses the Forum for Agriculture conference 2013

EuroCommerce

Today at the Forum for Agriculture conference on the future of the CAP and the food value chain, Dame Lucy Neville-Rolfe, President of EuroCommerce, stressed that a reform of the Common Agricultural Policy would only be a success if it will lead to more efficient and competitive European agriculture sector. “Commerce relies on a stable and sustainable agriculture sector to supply fresh, safe and wholesome products.

EFET encourages the ‘bundling’ of consistent capacity products at European cross-border interconnection points

EFET - European Federation of Energy Traders

The European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET)1 supports an EU-wide objective of joint sale of consistent capacity products from each gas Transmission System to the next.
Changes in the allocation of gas pipeline capacity at Europe’s main interconnection points are reaching a critical phase. It is essential that the Regulators and Gas Transporters move forward and avoid locking-in the current differences across Europe’s borders.

Chen Lifang: Huawei Committed to Open IPR Licensing System and to Enhancing Europe’s Role as a Global Innovation Leader

HUAWEI

Brussels, Belgium, March 5, 2013: “Huawei respects and protects intellectual property rights (IPR) and is committed to an open IPR licensing system,” said Chen Lifang, Huawei Board Member and Senior Vice President, today in her speech at the EU Science: Global Challenges, Global Collaboration (ES:GC2) conference in Brussels. “The IP that Huawei develops and acquires as a result of our participation in European scientific research initiatives will first be applied in Europe in order to help improve Europe’s global leadership in the science and technology industries.”

Research and innovation for Energy Efficient Buildings towards Horizon 2020

E2B - Energy Efficiency Buildings

On 28th February, at the European Parliament in Brussels, ICT4E2B Forum partners presented their project’s final results about the role of ICT for Energy efficient buildings to an audience of over 120 attendees. The project funded by DG CONNECT and developed within the framework of the Energy-efficient Buildings Public Private Partnership (EeB PPP) initiative, has performed a deep analysis of the research challenges and innovation priorities that ICT will have to address in future.

E2B - Energy Efficiency Buildings

Investments in human capital are key to counteract skills mismatch

CEEP - European Centre of Employers and Enterprises providing public services

At the MEDPOL meeting today, CEEP General Secretary, Valeria Ronzitti, highlighted the need to focus on a topic often sidelined to discussions on employment and social issues: that of skills mismatches. She contended that this issue warranted more attention, as “persistent skills mismatches are detrimental to the productivity growth potential. In other words, they have macro-economic consequences”.

Ogilvy Group Belgium Names Laure Van Hauwaert Institutional Communications Director

Ogilvy

BRUSSELS – 1 March 2013 – Ogilvy Group Belgium is proud to announce that Laure Van Hauwaert has been promoted to the newly created role of Director of Institutional Communications. This promotion recognises Van Hauwaert’s management of award-winning integrated campaigns including work for the European Commission’s DG Environment and other institutional clients.

EBF welcomes the breakthrough on CRR/CRDIV

EBF - European Banking Federation

The European Banking Federation (EBF) welcomes the compromise agreed to by the Irish Presidency and the European Parliament with a view to eliminating the final obstacles to the adoption of the Basel III agreement into European law.

German government and EU should not receive representatives of de facto government of Paraguay

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

Following the announcement by the foreign minister of the de facto government of Paraguay concerning his official visit to Germany, GUE/NGL president Gabi Zimmer declared: "The German government and the European Commission will seriously harm democracy if they receive an illegitimate representative of Paraguay. They would be the first Europeans to welcome the de facto government following the 2012 parliamentary coup against the constitutional president of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo”.

 

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