Amid urgent calls by the public who want global leaders to take action and save our planet, a delegation of the Socialists and Democrats is in New York to actively participate in the 2019 Climate Action Summit, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit and the High-Level Dialogue Financing for Development.

 

 

Hannover, 17 September 2019 – In the next months, few important issues should be finalized by the European Commission: product liability, intellectual property rights, and US-EU trade deal. CECIMO is actively monitoring these dossiers in order to cushion the impact on additive manufacturing. Despite these sensitive issues, the AM sector is moving faster towards the development of harmonized standards and we see many actions to fill in the skills gap in Europe.

 

“Decision-makers need to look at the impact of laws and policies on people’s lives and develop an economic model inclusive of all”, concluded participants at Social Platform’s ‘Building Social Europe’ Flagship Conference in Helsinki.

 

S&D Euro MPs today in the Strasbourg Plenary session warned national governments that they will not accept the cuts in the draft 2020 budget proposed by the EU Council. Given the new majorities in the house, following this year’s election, they expect the Parliament to make proper use of all available means to tackle the major challenges the EU is facing, such as sustainability, action to fight climate change, the Youth Employment Initiative and the development of a constructive European Neighbourhood Policy, just to name a few.