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VIPA International elects Vaku Isotherm CEO Sebastian Baars as new President

On 17 September, VIPA Intl elected Sebastian Baars, CEO of Vaku Isotherm, as its new President at its annual General Assembly.

ACE – The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment

S&Ds: With binding standards on ethics, we can make AI safer and more trustworthy in Europe

S&D MEPs are calling for binding standards in Europe on ethical principles for artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure these new technologies are safer, more trustworthy and respect fundamental rights.

Today, MEPs voted on the report on a framework of ethical aspects of artificial intelligence in the legal affairs committee.

Ibán Garcia del Blanco, S&D rapporteur on the framework of ethical aspects of artificial intelligence, said:

S&Ds: mandatory EU rules for due diligence needed to halt global deforestation

In 2019, the world saw a loss of 11.9 million hectares of tree cover, including 3.8 million hectares (the size of Belgium) of primary tropical forest. That is an increase of almost 3% compared to the previous year. In the Brazilian Amazon area alone, last summer deforestation rose by 88% compared to the year before. Currently forests and other valuable eco-systems and their inhabitants are not only threatened by temporary fires but face complete destruction.

EU-Kommission: Die zwei Fragezeichen

Im Vorfeld der anstehenden Neubesetzungen der Kommissionsressorts Handel und Finanzmarktregulierung erklärt Martin Schirdewan, Ko-Vorsitzender der Linksfraktion im Europäischen Parlament (GUE/NGL):

Iratxe García calls on national leaders to show unity and ambition, and to accelerate important decisions

Ahead of the European Council that will convene this afternoon, the president of the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, Iratxe García, met with the PES president Sergei Stanishev, with the S&D heads of government as well as S&D Commissioners.

 From the PES leaders’ pre-summit meeting, Iratxe García said:

EU citizens expect a robust economic perspective

During the crisis, the EU is winning the confidence of its citizens, Member States are losing it. The European Council must now set the course to increase this trust with sound economic policies.

Brexit: Vertragsverletzungsverfahren gegen Großbritannien

Mit der Verabschiedung ihres Binnenmarktgesetzes geht die britische Regierung auf Konfrontationskurs mit der Europäischen Union. Die EU-Kommission kündigt nun rechtliche Schritte gegen London an und leitet ein Vertragsverletzungsverfahren ein.

Investing in aluminium packaging sorting and recycling pays off

Brussels, 30 September 2020 - Several speakers stressed the need to invest now into the Circular Economy, during the European Aluminium web workshop on investing in better collection and sorting of used aluminium packaging for recycling.

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