Experts, regulators and decision-makers discussed the latest policy developments on Fintech and blockchain alongside the risks and opportunities of ICOs at joint ACCA-EY conference in Brussels
Beside impacting nearly all aspects of everyday life, new technologies are also changing and disrupting the financial industry and the way consumers and firms access financial services.
A delegation of S&D MEPs visited Israel and Palestine from 24th to 28th March in a fact-finding mission. The programme of the visit included meetings with sister parties, government and civil society representatives on both sides, as well as field visits in Hebron, Susiya and Umm al-Hiran. The delegation included: S&D Group Vice-President and chair of the delegation MEP Elena Valenciano (ES), and MEPs Maria Arena (BE), Eugen Freund (AT), Linda McAvan (UK), Norbert Neuser (DE), and Soraya Post (SE). At the end of their visit, they made the following statement:
In order to allow more companies register for the 3rd consecutive “CLEPA Innovations Awards” competition, the association has decided to extend the application deadline with two weeks, from March 31st to April 13.
The initiative, supported by management consultancy Deloitte, will mark outstanding and innovative achievements made in the automotive supply industry, celebrating its excellence in the four categories of Environment, Safety, Connectivity & Automation and Cooperation.
S&D: When Juncker goes, the Secretary General post must be reassessed according to new rules based on transparency, collegiality and equal opportunities
Following today's hearing of Commissioner Gunther Oettinger in the budgetary control committee on the Selmayr affair, the S&D Group underlines its disappointment with the method used in the appointment of the Secretary General. The Group also called for a reassessment of this post, once the Juncker Commission finishes its mandate, according to new rules - to be presented by 2018 - based on transparency, collegiality and equal opportunities.
The S&D budgetary control committee coordinator, Ines Sender Ayala, stated:
Brussels, 27.3.2018 – ETNO, the Association representing Europe’s leading telecom operators, supports the European Commission ambitions on strengthening the EU budget for digitisation.
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"Southeast Europe is headed for an energy crisis.
The region has an energy infrastructure that is unreliable, inefficient, and unsustainable, while at the same time it is faced with the need to reduce dependence on external sources and conform to EU climate and air quality regulations.
The best way out is to invest in new nuclear capacity."
Experts, regulators and decision-makers discussed the latest policy developments on Fintech and blockchain alongside the risks and opportunities of ICOs at joint ACCA-EY conference in Brussels
