Brussels, 26 May 2011. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published the summary of its 2009 report on the results from the monitoring of veterinary medicinal product residues and other substances in live animals and animal products. The report, an EU overall assessment, includes all animal/animal product categories and is presented for each main substance group. The residue situation has been similar to the one in the two previous years for all substance groups.

Invitation to PES Press Conference 16h30 31st May, Committee of Regions (CoR)

 “Two and a half years after the start of the financial crisis, big business says growth is back, but do people agree? Has so-called ‘growth’ helped ordinary people out of this crisis?

Does the way it is calculated need to change? Using local and regional evidence, the PES will illustrate how they are the real party of growth”.

Tuesday 31st May

WHO

16h30:Press Conference with PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen                    

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In reaction to today's announcement of the Joint Communication to the European Parliament and the Council on A New Response to a Changing Neighbourhood, five EPP Group MEPs have sent a letter and a non-paper to High Representative Catherine Ashton and Commissioner Stefan Füle emphasising the importance of the Eastern dimension of the European Neighbourhood Policy and the need for a balanced EU approach towards its Eastern and Southern neighbours.

Joseph Daul MEP, Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group, and Simon Busuttil MEP, EPP Group Coordinator in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament, welcomed the proposed package of initiatives for a comprehensive European response to the challenges and opportunities of migration made by the European Commission.

Access to EU funding remains beset by inequalities and intrinsically skewed with wealthy countries still taking the lion's share of benefits from Europe-wide programmes, according to GUE/NGL MEP Marisa Matias whose report on the strategic framework for research and innovation funding is up for discussion in Parliament's Industry, Research and Energy committee this afternoon.