Tag: industry

The Parliament's Committee for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) voted Wednesday (10 July) in favour of new rules on cigarettes packaging and a ban on slim cigarettes, raising a chorus of complaints from the tobacco industry.

The EU's use of antitrust disciplines will deter some of the legal injunctions, but not solve the underlying problems – they offer no solution to the problem of how design patents, sometimes with disputable merits, can be used to block competitors’ products, writes Hosuk Lee-Makiyama.

SPECIAL REPORT / A green light to start talks on a transatlantic free trade agreement (FTA) is likely to come early next month, EurActiv has learned, lifting European industries' hopes that increased demand from the US will help turn around its fortunes.

Since global economic ties are so closely meshed and dependent jobs are so numerous, a market intervention in the form of trade barriers would have fatal consequences for the European solar industry, writes Thorsten Preugschas.

Germany is steaming ahead of traditional leaders France in research and development, says a new study by the French economy and finance ministry. EurActiv.fr reports.

Governments representing some of Europe’s best-known industrial regions have joined together to put added muscle behind efforts to reduce pollution and to press the European Commission for more flexible air quality laws.

The European Commission's climate department yesterday (9 September) announced it had identified some 50 product benchmarks for allocating free CO2 emission permits to industry amounting to around €100 billion until 2020.

Business leaders and trade groups put forward various models for an EU industrial policy during an event organised by the Confrontations Europe think-tank in Strasbourg this month. EurActiv France reports.

A few months before a new European Commission is sworn in, the idea of an EU industrial policy is reappearing through the back door in France as a result of the EU's climate and energy agenda. EurActiv France reports.

The growing trend of allowing industry groups to influence university curricula threatens academic independence, Luca Scarpiello, a bureau member at the European Youth Forum (YFJ), told EurActiv in an interview.

New eurozone industrial orders rebounded more than expected in June against the previous month, adding to signs of economic recovery as a strengthening global economy created demand for eurozone goods.

Membership of industry associations can help business to emerge from the economic crisis, argued participants at a conference in Brussels last week (29 April).

European business risks losing competitiveness as other countries start outperforming the EU in terms of language skills, concludes a report presented by business leaders last week (11 July).

With a public consultation open until September, the Commission seeks to capture stakeholder views on market access and on regulatory issues, in order to boost the international standing of the European ICT industry.

A task force representing all sectors of the industry, academics, consumer advocates and trade unionists will draft a report on how to foster the growth of Europe's Information and Communication Technology industry.

Can there be innovation, regulation and development in the South while jobs and wealth is preserved in the North? was the question debated by representatives from the media, business, unions and politicians at a Café Crossfire conference.