What’s behind European Technical Approvals (ETAs) for anchors?
In 1997, ETAG 001 “Metal anchors for use in concrete” has been issued by the European Commission as the first valid ETAG ever. Please read more on the importance of approved anchors for end users and...
View ArticleRevision of the General Product Safety Directive (GPSD) 2001/95/EC
This directive is most improtant for all European hand tool manufacturers. We welcome the opportunity to develop further the GPSD in order to finalise the singel market for consumer products and to...
View Article‘The Smart World’ – Electra II Report Solutions proposed by Europe’s...
On the 24th April in Hannover, the follow-up to the Electra report – launched in June 2008 – will presented to Commission Vice-President Tajani. In ‘The Smart World’, the electrical engineering and...
View ArticleItaly: A New Commitment to Growth
BY ARMENUHI BUDAGHYAN (HEAD OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE OF AEGEE-YEREVAN, MBA DEPARTMENT STUDENT AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA) The Maastricht Treaty which is known as the Treaty on European...
View ArticleEuropean manufacturing offers way out of austerity – ‘Manufacturing a...
Orgalime and CEEMET have responded to the Commission’s recent Communication ‘A stronger European Industry for Growth and Economic Recovery’ with their joint manifesto ‘Manufacturing a Stronger and...
View ArticleEurope should embrace the global digital transformation and keep its sights...
By John Higgins, Director General of DIGITALEUROPE The digital single market has been identified as a key plank in Europe’s economic revival, after the worst recession in living memory. I’d go a step...
View ArticleEurope should embrace the global digital transformation and keep its sights...
By John Higgins, Director General of DIGITALEUROPE The digital single market has been identified as a key plank in Europe’s economic revival, after the worst recession in living memory. I’d go a step...
View ArticlePossible Impacts of TTIP on Turkey
“..there would also be political impacts of TTIP for Turkey because according to Kader Sevinç, Representative of the Republican People’s Party in Brussels, TTIP represents a new Western world order....
View ArticlePossible Impacts of TTIP on Turkey
“..there would also be political impacts of TTIP for Turkey because according to Kader Sevinç, Representative of the Republican People’s Party in Brussels, TTIP represents a new Western world order....
View ArticleGoogle Under Fire
So it finally happened. Yesterday the European Commission announced it had sent Google a Statement of Objections (SO), accusing it of abusing its dominant position in search to unfairly give advantages...
View ArticleGoogle Under Fire
So it finally happened. Yesterday the European Commission announced it had sent Google a Statement of Objections (SO), accusing it of abusing its dominant position in search to unfairly give advantages...
View ArticleLos salarios son la clave o de otra manera de hacer las cosas
En materia de política económica demasiadas veces nos hemos dejado llevar por el determinismo de la ortodoxia vigente. La manera en que tenemos de afrontar las crisis tiene mucho que ver con la...
View ArticleLos salarios son la clave o de otra manera de hacer las cosas
En materia de política económica demasiadas veces nos hemos dejado llevar por el determinismo de la ortodoxia vigente. La manera en que tenemos de afrontar las crisis tiene mucho que ver con la...
View ArticleLes normes européennes doivent être les normes maximales.
La période estivale a été riche en évènements qui ont mis en évidence l’intérêt et l’utilité de l’Union européenne. Grèce, producteurs de porcs ou de lait, migrants et réfugiés, terrorismes et...
View ArticleLes normes européennes doivent être les normes maximales.
La période estivale a été riche en évènements qui ont mis en évidence l’intérêt et l’utilité de l’Union européenne. Grèce, producteurs de porcs ou de lait, migrants et réfugiés, terrorismes et...
View ArticleAllegro and its commitment to fight against counterfeit goods online
Allegro has been always committed to the fight against counterfeit goods online. Every year the Allegro Intellectual Property Team organises a conference of the Rights Protection Cooperation Programme...
View ArticleIndustry strengthens its fight against counterfeiting
Counterfeiting is bad news for everyone, bar fraudsters. Consumers are exposed to inferior or dangerous products, brands lose their value and online platforms like Allegro risk their reputation as...
View Article#Media4EU Tour d’Europe: perspectives for Europe’s media sector
‘ Don’t ask what the media can do for EU, but think what Europe and media could do together’ “The EU never handled the media like a normal economic sector. Rather: regulating it, discussing press...
View Article#Media4EU Tour d’Europe: Why cross-border cooperation makes for a fitter...
. This blog post belongs to the #Media4EU Tour d’Europe series. Read the project outline, timetable and deliverables here, and the list of its steering committee here. Fondation EurActiv and the...
View ArticleSmall European businesses vs. new EU VAT bureaucracy
Guest post by Christian Borggreen, Vice President of CCIA Europe An often overlooked European success story is how hundred of thousands of European small companies have thrived thanks to the Internet....
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