I see European Union as a creative and dynamic initiative.It is a fellow-feeling and support for weaker brethren - let's offer our hands
6-9 September 2010 - plenary sitting in Strasbourg
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Stimulating innovation and preventing companies from fleeing abroad are the keys to success for a new EU industrial policy, stressed French Industry Minister Christian Estrosi during a visit to Brussels 2 September
EU energy ministers will meet at the beginning of next week for informal discussions which are expected to shed light on their positions related to the EU's upcoming new energy efficiency action plan.
The European Commission is preparing a new Single Market Act designed to boost job creation and stimulate growth, according to an internal paper seen exclusively by EurActiv
The Socialists may become the first to use the new European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) introduced by the Lisbon Treaty in their bid to request new EU legislation on taxing financial speculation, according to their leader Martin Schulz
The European Water Partnership (EWP), a non-profit organisation, is in the process of testing draft standards for sustainable water management in industrial production processes. Pilots will soon be launched for the agriculture sector and urban areas.
EU negotiators reached agreement yesterday (2 September) on a package of measures to beef up supervision of the bloc's banks, giving new EU watchdogs a mandate to overrule national authorities and ban risky financial products that were widely blamed for the world's worst recession in decades.
Turkey's main opposition party CHP has detailed its hostility to the constitutional amendments proposed by the ruling AK party, which will be voted upon in a referendum on 12 September.
The financial and economic crisis has shown that reckless behaviour of banks and other financial institutions can have serious and costly consequences for Europe's economy and its people. The European Parliament has thus made more efficient supervision of European financial markets a priority. Today (2 September), MEPs successfully concluded negotiations with the European Commission and EU governments on the future shape of financial supervision in Europe.
Local services that create jobs and improve energy efficiency received a boost Thursday (2 September) when MEPs on the Industry, Research and Energy Committee approved plans for more investment. The main beneficiaries will be towns and local authorities across the European Union. The money is likely to be around €115 million and is part of the unallocated funds of the European Energy Programme for Recovery. The Parliament has pushed hard and successfully for the unspent money to be used.
A special "policy challenges" Committee has just been set up by the European Parliament. Its goal, to look at what issues the next EU long term budget after 2014 should focus investment and financing on. We put some questions to the Chair of the 50 Member Committee - German Social Democrat Jutta Haug about its priorities.
