Press release of the Public Services Employers’ Forum (PSEF)
Public Services Employers Sign Joint Declaration on the Role of Public Services
Members of the Public Services Employers’ Forum (PSEF) signed a joint declaration on 17 February 2012 highlighting some of the most important challenges for public services at a time of tightening budgets, and setting out how public services employers can work together to tackle these common issues.
“We have many problems because nine out of ten immigrants in Europe pass through Greece. The Greeks are now only employing Greeks so these people remain stuck here until they can escape to another European country – usually through Italy,” says Begoña Kalliga Castiella of Caritas Greece.
Brussels, 17 February 2012 - Caritas Greece is working harder than ever to help people who are suffering from the country’s financial disintegration.
FTTH Council Conference: Investors need a strong political signal: a reasonable increase in copper prices over time above inflation would clearly indicate a change of direction
BRUSSELS – Speaking today at the closing plenary of the FTTH Council Europe Conference that gathers more than 3000 stakeholders in Munich, Luigi Gambardella, Chair of ETNO Executive Board of ETNO, shared the vision of leading European telecoms operators on how to accelerate the deployment of high speed broadband in line with the objectives of the Digital Agenda for Europe.
Shenzhen, China, 16 February, 2012: Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced that 45,000 Huawei engineers use virtual desktops as part of the world’s largest desktop cloud collaboration.
Gambling: European Court calls into question the compliance of the new Italian regulation. EU law precludes national legislation designed to protect the market position of incumbents.
CJEU confirms fundamental ‘red line’ for regulated gambling markets and the obligation to ensure full transparency, legal certainty and equal treatment.
(Brussels, 16 February 2012) FoodDrinkEurope welcomes the European Parliament’s consent to the ‘EU-Morocco agreement on agricultural products and fishery products’ today.
The Parliament has sent a positive signal to the EU’s trade partners by breaking down trade barriers at a time when the relationship between the EU and the Southern Mediterranean region is high on the EU’s agenda.
The European Parliament environment committee today voted on new legislative proposals aimed at reducing sulphur pollution from ships (1), which are being shepherded through the EP by Green rapporteur/draftsperson Satu Hassi MEP. Speaking after the vote, Satu Hassi said:
Speaking ahead of a European Parliament vote on a convention on rules of origin for the Euro-Mediterranean region, Irish GUE/NGL MEP Paul Murphy called on MEPs to withhold their consent on the agreement "until it is sure that goods from the illegal Israeli settlements will not benefit from preferential access to EU markets".
The Liberal and Democrat group in the European Parliament last night held a thorough discussion on the proposed ACTA agreement aimed at combating counterfeiting and protecting intellectual property rights.
Concluding the debate, Guy Verhofstadt, ALDE group leader said:
Ahead of a Commission consultation process on family reunification of third-country nationals living in the EU, GUE/NGL MEP Kyriacos Triantaphyllides stressed the threats to "fundamental consecrated rights" to MEPs in Strasbourg this morning.
"It is essential for us to see the debate started by the Commission as an opportunity to consolidate this right and not the opposite as some are already doing."
