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Single-use plastics: the political calendar cannot exclusively define long-term environmental ambition

July 25, 2018

Author: Vicky Marissen A task force of ‘common sense’ On 10 July, the report of the Task Force on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and ‘Doing Less More Efficiently’ was published. Set up at the end of 2017, the taskforce’s objective was to make recommendations on how better to apply the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, identify policy… » read more

Posted by Daniel Gueguen

Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, industry, InfoSociety, lobbying, Sustainable Dev.

, Editor's Choice

1 million de signatures contre le glyphosate, …

June 22, 2017

La Commission vient d’annoncer que plus d’un million de signatures ont été réunies pour s’opposer au glyphosate dont l’autorisation avait été renouvelée jusqu’à fin 2018 dans l’attente de l’avis de l’ECHA (Agence européenne des produits chimiques). L’ECHA ayant clairement conclu que le glyphosate n’est pas cancérigène, la Commission s’orienterait (conditionnel) vers la prolongation de l’autorisation… » read more

Posted by Daniel Gueguen

Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Commission européenne, Energie, Français, Health & Consumers, industry, Parlement Européen

DG Industry, DG ENTR, DG GROW…yes, but what about SMEs?

February 20, 2017

All creatures big and small… One has a certain nostalgia for the days of DG Industry, known as ‘DG III’. Back then, in the years between 1986 and 1992, the focus was on building the Single Market with the help of many directives, and DG III was the engine. The question of whether or not… » read more

Posted by Daniel Gueguen

blogactiv, commission, industry, SMEs

Shalom from Israel! The Israeli EUREKA Chairmanship holds its first meeting in Tel Aviv

November 8, 2010

From listening to speeches by Israel’s Chief Scientist Dr. Eli Opper and the Israeli Minister of Industry, Trade, and Labor Binyamin Ben Eliezer, to test-driving electric cars produced by Israeli company Better Place, EUREKA delegates had an action-packed week this past October during the first NPC-HLG Meeting in Israel. The busy agenda certainly suited the never-stop… » read more

Better Place, Electric Car, Eli Opper, English, eureka, EUROSTARS, industry, Malta, Tel Aviv

, innovation, Israel, turkey

The Swine Flu Pandemic – A Huge Corruption Affair?

November 26, 2009

(Last updated on 02.12.2009) Is the “swine flu pandemic” just a huge corruption affair, the Russian newspaper Novye Izvestya is asking in its Nov 25th article referring to the outcomes of an investigation carried out by Danish reporters (Information.dk 2009). According to the publication, World Health Organisation (WHO) consultants who have given themselves out… » read more

A/H1N1, affair, conflict, consumer, corruption, disease, drug, English, flu, health, immunisation, immunization, industry, inform, interest, investigation, level, organisation, pandemia, pandemic, payroll, pharmaceutical, profit, proper, swine, threat, vaccination, vaccine, WHO, world