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Barroso: GUE/NGL group said No!

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

By Lothar Bisky, President of GUE/NGL group

Barroso: GUE/NGL group said No!

"Our group cannot agree with Barroso's political vision", declared Lothar Bisky, President of GUE/NGL in his speech after the presentation of the Commissioner designate in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. In today's plenary vote*, GUE/NGL opposed the re-election of Mr Barroso as President of the European Commission.

G20 Summit: GUE/NGL calls for a root and branch overhaul of global financing

GUE/NGL Group in the EP

At the debate on the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, GUE/NGL Portuguese MEP Miguel Portas criticised in plenary this morning in the European Parliament, the huge social gap that got deeper with the financial crisis: "In the last year the profits of the banks in Portugal have risen by 18%, the only thing that has exceeded this rise has been the percentage of those unemployed". He asked to "avoid empty promises and to work out measures that will see an end to bonuses, to obscure financial transactions, and to bank secrecy so that there is real transparency and people will regain trust again".

Industrial Biotech : a major toolbox to help fight climate change

EuropaBio

Brussels 18 September 2009:

Eastern Europe raises the bar for further growth in cogeneration: Warsaw Workshop on national potentials for cogeneration.

COGEN Europe

18 September 2009

DAIRY SECTOR: COPA AND COGECA WELCOME NEW INITIATIVES, BUT CALL MORE ACTION TO BE TAKEN TO IMPROVE DRASTIC SITUATION

Copa-Cogeca

17/09/2009

Copa and Cogeca welcomed the new initiatives announced by Euro-MPs and the EU Commission today to help improve the catastrophic situation in the EU dairy sector, but insisted that much more action is required in order to bring the sector out of crisis.

High speed broadband networks:European Commission confirms that investments should be primarily driven by private sector

ETNO - European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association

BRUSSELS – The Guidelines on State Aid for broadband unveiled today by Commissioner Kroes should create more certainty for private investment in next generation networks by ensuring that public intervention focuses on bridging the digital divide and does not create distortions of competition.

Economic Crisis Threatens Access to Health Services

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

• Economic programmes for cushioning the problems in healthcare largely unsuitable

• Shrinking GDP, rising unemployment and declining private insurance payments threaten the financing of healthcare systems

• Differences in the quality of healthcare for various social classes becoming considerably bigger

Broadband state aid guidelines: Cable Europe statement

Cable Europe - European Cable Communications Association

“New guidelines were needed. Local politicians cannot be allowed to distort competition by funding fibre with taxpayers’ money. Competition and cable's fibre investments resulted in +100mbps products -- five times the speed of adsl -- in over 12 member states and growing," commented Manuel Kohnstamm, President of Cable Europe.

For more information, please contact:

Gregg Svingen

Director of Communications

T: +32 2 556 21 02

M: +32 476 490 603

E: gregg.svingen@cable-europe.eu

Working Paper: Current financial and fiscal incentive programmes for sustainable energy in buildings from across Europe

EuroACE -The European Alliance of Companies for Energy Efficiency in Buildings

Brussels, September 2009

The latest survey from EuroACE provides an overview of the existing financial and fiscal incentive programmes to promote energy efficiency in buildings currently in place in the following EEA Member States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

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