Rolle, Switzerland and Brussels, Belgium, 6-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Solvay and INEOS take note of the European Commission’s decision to continue its evaluation of their proposed 50/ 50 Joint Venture in European chlorvinyls activities. This follows the original notification of the planned … Read the full press release
Brussels, Belgium, 5-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess whether the planned combination of the European chlorvinyls businesses of INEOS of Switzerland and Solvay of Belgium into a newly created joint venture was in line … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Business, Chemicals, European Union, Government, Investment, Law, Management, Switzerland
Tagged bleach, EU Merger Regulation, European Commission, INEOS, Joaquin Almunia, joint venture, Mergers, PVC business, S-PVC, sodium hypochlorite, Solvay
Brussels, Belgium, 5-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Radisson Blu, one of the world’s leading upper upscale hotel brands announce a special recognition of its exceptional meetings and events program called Experience Meetings by the Green Meetings Industry Council (GMIC – www.gmicglobal.org). As an industry … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Business, Environment, Management, Travel
Tagged Christiane Reiter, events program, exceptional meetings, Experience Meetings, GMIC, Green Meetings Industry Council, hospitality industry, industry leadership, Inge Huijbrechts, Paul Salinger, Radisson Blu, Renu Snehi, sustainability, sustainable meeting
Brussels, Belgium, 4-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The EU and the US today announced they will hold a second round of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks in Brussels from Monday 11th – Friday 15th November 2013. Theweek-long round of negotiations replaces the talks … Read the full press release
Brussels, Belgium, 30-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Commissioner Štefan Füle met leaders of coalition parties of Republic of Moldova in Brussels today and made the following statement: ‘I met with political leaders from the Republic of Moldova, Mr Marian Lupu, Vladimir Plahotniuc, Vlad … Read the full press release
London, UK, 25-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Banning the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) – super greenhouse gases used in refrigeration – in supermarkets would be one of the cheapest and most effective ways of reducing greenhouse gases in Europe. Speaking at the shecco ATMOsphere … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Environment, European Union, Retail, United Kingdom
Tagged Air Conditioning, ATMOsphere, ATMOsphere conference, Brussels, carbon dioxide, Climate, CO2, emissions, environmental crimes, Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), EU, Europe, European Union, F-gas, F-Gas Regulation, f-gases, fluorinated gases, greenhouse gases, HFCs, hydrocarbons, hydrofluorocarbons, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), natural refrigerants, reducing greenhouse gases, refrigeration, shecco, super greenhouse gases, supermarkets
Brussels, Belgium, 24-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The Vienna 2 Initiative Full Forum met in Brussels on 21-22 October. It assessed recent trends in deleveraging, credit provision, and non-performing loans (NPLs) in the banking sectors of Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe (CESEE). … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Belgium, Economy, Financial, Politics
Tagged Anthony Williams, banking sectors, Brussels, CESEE, Christof Roche, credit provision, EBRD, EIB, Erste, Eurobank, European banking union, European Commission, IMF, Intesa Sanpaolo, KBC, Kristyn Schrader-King, National Bank of Greece, non-performing loans, NPLs, OTP, Piraeus, Raiffeisen, Sberbank International, Simon O’Connor, Single Resolution Mechanism, SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE, South Eastern Europe, The Vienna 2 Initiative Full Forum, trends in deleveraging, UNICREDIT, weak credit growth, World Bank Group
Less Fuel Consumption, Lower Operating Costs Kortrijk, Belgium, 21-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — At Busworld in Kortrijk, Belgium, bus and coach manufacturers are presenting their new Euro 6-vehicles from 18 October 2013. Two major Belgian bus operators have already decided in favor of … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Belgium, Electronics & Machinery, Germany, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged Belgian Bus Operators, Belgium, bus manufacturers, bus operators, Busworld, coach manufacturers, DIWA.6 automatic transmission, DIWA.6 Transmissions, Euro 6-vehicles, IvecoBus, Kortrijk, new vehicle generation. VVM-De Lijn, Société Régionale Wallonne du Transport, SRWT, Van Hool, Vlaamse Vervoersmaatschappij, Voith, Voith Turbo, Wallonian
For over four years the Voith telemetric system DIWA SmartNet has been proving itself in more than 1,500 vehicles worldwide. At Busworld 2013 in Kortrijk Voith is now presenting the second generation of this automatic monitoring system for the DIWA … Read the full press release
Kortrijk, Belgium, 18-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Voith convinced the jury with its innovative Secondary Water Retarder (SWR) at Busworld in Kortrijk, Belgium, and won the ECW Innovation Label Award 2013. The award-winning product brakes with the cooling agent of the engine and … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Belgium, Germany, Industrial
Tagged Award, Belgium, Busworld, cooling agent of the engine, eco-friendly, ECW Award, ECW Innovation Label Award 2013, European Coach and Bus Week, heavy commercial vehicles, hydrodynamic continuous braking system, INNOVATION, Kortrijk, outstanding innovations, Secondary Water Retarder, SWR, Voith, wear-free braking
Brussels, Belgium, 18-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Commission has found a 12-months phasing-out of excise duty reductions granted by Belgium to seven biofuel producers to be in line with EU state aid rules. The seven producers, who were selected in 2006 … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Energy, Gas & Oil, European Union, Government, Law
Tagged 12-months excise duty reductions phasing-out scheme, Antoine Colombani, Belgian support scheme, biofuel, biofuel producers, EC, EU state aid rules, excise duty reductions, Maria Madrid Pina, new biofuel support scheme, sustainable biofuels, The European Commission
Brussels, Belgium, 18-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Over half of EU citizens feel that banks should be regulated by the EU, rather than national governments. Half also believe that they would be better protected against the economic crisis if their countries coordinated … Read the full press release
Brussels, Belgium, 18-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The 43 winners of the European Citizen’s Prize 2013 attended an official event in Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday at the European Parliament, where they met its President Martin Schulz. They had already received medals … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Belgium, European Union, Government, Politics
Tagged Alexander ALVARO, Annemarie Jorritsma, Anni PODIMATA, Brussels, cross-border cooperation, Enrique BARÒN CRESPO, EU citizens, EU integration, EU project, European Citizen's Prize 2013, European citizenship, European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, Isabelle DURANT, László SURJÁN, Maja OREL SCHWARZ, medals of honour, official event, Othmar KARAS, Peter Matjašič, President Martin Schulz, Sanne DE RYCK
Brussels, Belgium, 18-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Commission has launched an in-depth enquiry to determine whether the funding granted to steel group Duferco by the Walloon region of Belgium complies with the European Union’s state aid rules. The launch of the … Read the full press release
Brussels, Belgium, 18-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Following a judgment by the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) (case C-73/11 P) on its previous decision (case C25/2005), the European Commission has adopted a new decision confirming that a Slovak SKK 416.5 million (€11 million) write-off of … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, European Union, Food & Beverage, Government, Law, Slovakia
Tagged case C-73/11 P, case C25/2005, competitors, debt, debt write-off, distortion of competition, ECJ, EU Court of Justice, EU rules, EU state aid rules, European Commission, Frucona Košice, Judgment, non-payment of taxes, Slovak alcohol producer, Slovak SKK 416.5 million, state aid, undue economic advantage, write-off of tax debt
New clearing agreement introduces increased cooperation that supports product innovation while maintaining market stability Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Lisbon, 17-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — LCH.Clearnet SA, the Paris-based clearing house of LCH.Clearnet Group Ltd, and NYSE Euronext today announced they have signed a new … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Business, Financial, France, Investment, Netherlands, Portugal
Tagged Amsterdam, Brussels, Caroline Tourrier, Christophe Hémon, clearing, clearing house, clearing services, continental listed derivatives, derivatives, equities, equities trading, Equity derivatives, European derivatives, European Equities, exchange, Kamyar Naficy, LCH.Clearnet Group Ltd, LCH.Clearnet SA, Lisbon, London Stock Exchange Group, multi-asset class clearing house, multi-national clearing house, NYSE Euronext, Paris, Roland Bellegarde, trading
Brussels, Belgium, 16-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Commission has found a 1 950 million PLN (approx. €465 million) support measure for the construction of a series of gas pipelines and modernisation works in different parts of Poland to be in line … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Energy, Gas & Oil, European Union, Government, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Law, Poland
Tagged distorting competition, EC, EU energy goals, EU state aid rules, gas, gas pipelines, gas pipelines construction, gas transmission, internal market, Polish gas network, Polish gas transmission network, Polish state aid, The European Commission, €465 million Polish state aid
The Eurogroup reviewed the reforms and fiscal adjustments in some member states receiving financial assistance. The road ahead for banking union completion was discussed. Eurogroup reviews progress in Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Greece Brussels, Belgium, 16-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Ireland and … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Belgium, Economy, European Union, Financial, Government, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain
Tagged banking union, ESM, Eurogroup, European Financial Stability Facility, financial sector reform, fiscal adjustments
Brussels, Belgium, 15-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — EURid was presented the CENTR award for Marketing and Communication for our Co-funded Marketing Programme last night (2 October 2013) at the CENTR 50 General Assembly dinner gala which took place at the Atomium in Brussels, Belgium. … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Belgium, Internet & Online, Marketing, Technology
Tagged Award, CENTR 50 General Assembly, CENTR award for Marketing and Communication, co-funded marketing programme, EURid, Giovanni Seppia, Katrina Sataki, marketing campaigns, registrar, registrar marketing campaigns, YADIFA project
Brussels, Belgium, 11-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the creation of a joint venture between the Belgian telecommunications operator Belgacom and the bank BNP Paribas Fortis. The joint venture will allow consumers in Belgium … Read the full press release
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