Today, Member States backed the EU Budget (MFF) Performance Regulation, sending a positive signal for stronger climate and environmental spending, by defining a horizontal framework for how such spending is tracked and applying environmental safeguards across the budget.
New GMOs: EU lawmakers abolish minimum rights for consumers, breeders, food sector
The European Sustainability Reporting Standards are one of the few tools that allow EU citizens to keep an eye on the real actions of large companies and their impacts on communities and the planet.
EuroCommerce on UTP cross-border enforcement regulation: common sense prevailed
EU ministers have approved a Regulation on cross-border enforcement of the Directive on unfair trading practices (UTP Directive).
Today’s long-awaited Industrial Accelerator Act presented by the European Commission shows a first step to support the EU’s industrial transformation.
Industrial Accelerator Act basis for a pragmatic approach to strengthen Europe’s industrial base
“Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are key actors in the European industrial supply chains. The proposal for an Industrial Accelerator Act should now bring positive trickle down effects from specific measures for strategic sectors to the wider economy”, underlined SMEunited Secretary General Véronique Willems in a first reaction to today’s proposal by the European Commission.
EU-Mercosur: provisional application, undemocratic precedent
As Argentina and Uruguay ratify the controversial EU-Mercosur trade deal, in an open letter, signed by over 170 civil society groups, farmers groups, environmental organisations, including Friends of the Earth…
The Single Market & European Retail Alliances: essential for lower prices and consumer choice
EuroCommerce, the European association of retailers and wholesalers, urges the Commission to act to protect the EU Single Market against the extra-territorial application of national law in the context of European retail alliances.
