15 September 2009

Copa and Cogeca emphasised the positive role that agriculture can play in tackling climate change at EU Farm Ministers informal meeting in Vaxjo, Sweden, today, but stressed that a strong Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), with sufficient incentives, is vital in order to achieve this.

A united European travel industry urges the EU institutions to urgently complete the decision making process and publish the 12-day driving derogation in the EU Official Journal by the end of September.

IRU warns UN governments of the severe impact of the economic crisis on the road transport industry, whose situation is a major factor in the fast or slow recovery of the economy as whole, and tables concrete proposals to offset this worrying trend.

Geneva – The economic crisis has had a catastrophic impact on the road transport sector in most countries, the International Road Transport Union (IRU) told the UNECE meeting on Transport Trends and Economics, on the basis of an IRU survey conducted amongst its Members in 74 countries.

Potential of cogeneration in overcoming rising intermittency in electricity supply highlighted by pan-European industry forum. A meeting of cogeneration trade associations from across north Europe – held in London on the 9th September – highlighted the significant role combined heat and power (CHP) has to play in helping overcome increased intermittency in energy supply, resulting from growing uptake of renewable forms electricity generation such as wind and wave power.

Brussels, 10 September

The President of the European People’s Party (EPP) and former Prime Minister of Belgium Wilfried Martens presented today his book “Europe: I Struggle, I Overcome” in a public event organized by the Centre for European Studies (CES), the official think-tank of the EPP.