"EU leaders have for too long turned a deaf ear to our proposals on how to solve the crisis but by doing so they don't listen to their own citizens" said ALDE group President Guy Verhofstadt ahead of today's informal European Council by referring to the recently published Eurobarometer survey on 'The crisis and the economic governance in Europe'.

Join us for the launch of the second year of an exceptional competition aims at improving the lives of senior and disabled users through the inclusive design of mobile applications.

AGE Platform Europe, the European Disability Forum and Vodafone Foundation will welcome you on Wednesday, 30 May, at the Hotel Sofitel Brussels Europe.

We will discuss e-Inclusion and accessibility. Interventions by:

- Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea, Director Equality, DG JUST

Member States at the forthcoming EU summit have the opportunity to reinstate TIR to enhance competitiveness among SMEs and thus stimulate growth, generate employment and increase revenues for EU Member States.

Brussels – Member States should seize the opportunity at this week’s informal summit, and the EU summit on 28-29 June, to stimulate growth, employment and EU revenues by reinstating use of the TIR transit system for goods transport under customs control within the EU.

European leaders should seize the opportunity at the EU summit in Brussels this week and on June 28/29 to boost growth in Europe by actively supporting the Smart Move of doubling collective passenger transport by bus and coach to bring affordable and socially inclusive door-to-door mobility to all at the lowest cost to taxpayers.

Eurometaux is disappointed with the newly launched guidelines that only allow partial compensation of CO2 costs in electricity prices due to the EU emissions trading scheme. They fail in their objective of mitigating carbon leakage for industries such as aluminium, copper and zinc, thereby actively risking more industry closures in Europe.