Today, ANEC publishes a detailed critique of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a measure of environmental impacts: "Environmental assessment goes astray. A critique of environmental footprint methodology and its ingredients", and calls on the European Commission to re-think its approach to environmental assessment.

BRUSSELS – On the occasion of its Regulatory Summit held today in Brussels with Total Telecom, ETNO calls for an innovative regulatory and policy approach to stimulate new business models and spur investment. The ETNO- Total Telecom Regulatory Summit, opened by Georg Serentschy, 2012 BEREC Chair, and Anthony Whelan, Head of Vice President Kroes Cabinet, has attracted about 200 participants from the EU Institutions, national regulators, industry, academics and investors.

The Public-Private Smart Move High Level Group held its kick-off meeting and started its work with the ambition to submit recommendations and a Smart Move Action Plan on doubling the number of bus and coach users in the EU in the next 10 years, and contribute to the EU Growth Agenda 2020.

Caritas Europa and Caritas organisations in the Mediterranean call on the EU to ensure the coherence between the Union’s and Member States’ policies on migration and the respect for human rights.

Gathered at the annual Caritas Migramed Conference, 16-18 May 2012, Caritas organisations in the Mediterranean expressed their concerns about the impacts of current EU policies that strongly focus on externalisation, criminalisation, return and detention of migrants and refugees