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The Common Agriculture Policy is not a only about Europeans

Caritas Europa

Caritas Europa urges the European policy-makers to ensure that the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) will have no more negative impact on the food security and livelihood of farmers and poor people in developing countries.

Caritas Europa regrets that the European Commission’s Communication on the future of the CAP post-2013, published yesterday, pays no attention to the particular aspect of coherence between the reformed CAP and the EU’s objectives of international development and poverty eradication.

Commission report another step on road to CAP reform

ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

George Lyon (Liberal Democrat, UK), ALDE Spokesman on Agriculture, has welcomed the European Commission’s report on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as another step on the long road to reform.

ABRAHAM SERFATY, DEATH OF A MAN OF COURAGE

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

Abraham Serfaty died in Marrakesh yesterday. A political  prisoner for 17 years from 1977 to 1991, because he supported the cause of self-determination of the Saharawi people, and subsequently sent into exile by King Hassan II for 8 years, he returned to Morocco in September 1999 as a free citizen.

Europe’s commercial vehicle manufacturers are driving force in transition to sustainable transport

ACEA - European Automobile Manufacturers' Association

Brussels, 18 November 2010 – The European commercial vehicle manufacturers are confident that the worst of the economic crisis is over and are once more focussing
Brussels, 18 November 2010 – The European commercial vehicle manufacturers are confident that the worst of the economic crisis is over and are once more focussing their innovative capacity on developing further the safety, fuel-efficiency and environmental performance of their vehicles.

Public Transport Financing: towards a new paradigm

UITP - International Association of Public Transport

The 3rd International Conference on Public Transport Financing ended today with the conclusion that public transport needs a new paradigm in order to sustain the growth of public transport without overburdening public budgets. The event was held together with the 6th Asia-Pacific Congress of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) and hosted by MTR Corporation, Hong Kong.

The growth of public transport can only be sustained if public transport stakeholders implement innovative and ambitious funding and financing strategies, such as:

Another GE First in Brazil

GE

Bertin Energia Acquires First GE LMS100TM Aeroderivative Gas Turbines in Brazil to Provide High Efficiency to Meet Growing Power Demand; Adds Four TM2500 Mobile Power Gas Turbines

Economic democracy - a political break from a failed economic model

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

Opening the GUE/NGL conference on Economic Democracy today in the European Parliament, Lothar Bisky said recent moves to regulate financial markets were insufficient and democratisation was crucial in building alternatives to the current failed economic policy paradigm

7th International Conference on EU, Turkey and the Kurds - The road to peace, facing the challenge

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

Speaking at the opening session of the 7th international conference on "The EU, Turkey and the Kurds - The road to peace, facing the challenge," German GUE/NGL MEP Jürgen Klute welcomed participants on behalf of GUE/NGL but also on behalf of the European Parliament's Kurdish Friendship Group set up earlier this year, which includes members from all the Parliament's political groups. "Freedom and justice for the Kurdish people is close to our hearts right across the political spectrum in this Parliament," MEP Klute told the conference.

Agency work contributes to work mobility by securing upwards transitions Agency work helps young people to enter and progress through the labour market

World Employment Confederation–Europe

Brussels, 17 November 2010; In response to the EU’s celebration of Job Mobility Day, and its focus on the plight of young people entering the workplace, Eurociett emphasises the role that agency work plays in facilitating job mobility though upwards transitions in the labour market.

“59%* of workers in the agency sector are aged below thirty, and for many of them, our industry is their first experience of the workplace” explained Denis Pennel, managing director of Eurociett, the voice of private employment agencies in Europe.

The Irish crisis shows that Conservatives have lost the plot Angela Merkel is a bad influence

PES - Party of European Socialists

“It is not always easy to put the blame on someone in such a crisis, but this one is crystal clear: Angela Merkel needs to learn that political leaders are sometimes better off with their mouths shut” declared PES President Poul Rasmussen in reaction to the economic situation developing in Ireland and across Europe.

As the Irish crisis enters its third week, the responsibility of the German Chancellor in the emergence of a speculative bubble has been pointed out by many analysts. Ms Merkel has been calling for a “bail-in” mechanism for the eurozone since October 29th.

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