21 Mar 2024 10:00

The workshop aims to discuss preventive measures and practices to secure drinking water quality and mitigate drinking water challenges - such as the spread of DBPs - along the whole drinking water chain.

Please note that your application for the workshop needs to be confirmed by the organiser.

The participation link will be sent prior to the meeting.

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Innovation & Enterprise  OnlineBelgiumMore information here

26 Mar 2024 08:00 to 27 Mar 2024 17:00

 

Water Market Europe is the event cycle that Water Europe (WE) has set up to create a unique innovation and business environment, where state of the art water knowledge and research results can meet with market actors within and outside the water sector to create value and new business opportunities.

 

With a new theme every year, Water Market Europe’s main edition is hosted in spring, but smaller editions of WME  called Water Market Europe Roadshow are being organized during the whole year, back to back to water-related conferences, trade fairs and conventions.

BrusselsInnovation & EnterpriseMore information here

17 Jun 2024 08:00 to 19 Jun 2024 17:00

Water Innovation Europe aims at shaping the European water-related future by offering new perspectives and insights from high-level EU decision-makers and experts of the water sector and bringing forward the latest updates and trends on new water technologies and innovations.

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BrusselsInnovation & Enterprise  BrusselsBelgiumMore information here

Relations between France and Germany have entered an ice age under President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Olaf Scholz, an unprecedented state of affairs that contrasts sharply with the iconic photo of Francois Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl holding hands at Verdun in 1984.

The European Parliament's trade committee rejected all of the amendments backed by farming groups on the proposal to suspend import duties and quotas on agricultural products from Ukraine, paving the way for a swift adoption of the decision at the EU level.

Ahead of the vote on 11 March in the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee in the European Parliament on the Soil Monitoring and Resilience Directive, experts underline the urgency to adopt an EU legislative framework addressing the rapid...

Since 2018, French banks have granted more than five billion dollars in loans to the tobacco industry, according to a report by the investigative organisation Profundo, commissioned by the French Alliance Against Tobacco (ACT) and published on Wednesday (6 March).

The EU remains heavily reliant on animal feed and fertilisers imports from outside the bloc, as highlighted in a recent study commissioned by the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee (AGRI).

28 Mar 2024 15:00

Join IREI and EPRA for a comprehensive analysis of key aspects shaping the European Listed Real Estate sector.

Discussion includes:

• An examination of the recent performance of the European Listed Real Estate indexes, offering insights into their trends and fluctuations. A detailed exploration will follow, focusing on the differences across various sectors and geographies within the European real estate market. • Current market trends and the prevailing economic environment, shedding light on factors influencing the sector's trajectory.

• Debt profile and capital structure within this domain, addressing financial dynamics and implications.

• Highlight the mismatch between listed and private real estate, exploring challenges and potential solutions.

• The role of institutional investors and their portfolio allocation strategies will be analysed in the context of European Listed Real Estate.

• Finally, the webinar will situate European Listed RE within a global framework, offering perspectives on its interconnectedness and significance in the broader market landscape.

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InfoSociety  OnlineBelgiumMore information here

Artificial intelligence, deepfakes, social media, and misinformation have become integral parts of our daily lives, and their influence on political elections, possibly including the upcoming EU elections in June, is significant.

The European Court of Justice on Thursday (7 March) found the Belgian association IAB Europe's consent system for auctioning personal data in breach of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.

Ahead of Renew Europe’s grand electoral launch on 20 March, Euractiv took a sneak peek at their lead candidates and manifesto, which focuses on competitiveness, defence, and the need to shift from creating new Green legislation to implementing the existing laws and give the industry breathing space.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) warned that there is a need for action to address the significant rise in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the EU/EEA.

The election of a new government in Poland has enabled this Central European country to revive its ambitions in terms of energy transition and to meet European targets.

Delegates at the European People’s Party’s (EPP) congress in Bucharest officially elected EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday (7 March) to become the party’s lead candidate for June’s European election.

Dick Roche’s recent commentary ‘Preaching transparency but not practicing it” prompted many reactions, but none from the institution in focus: the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA). The author comes back with 10 questions concerning its handling of the Euroins case in Romania.

Italian and French envoys are set to hold the fate of the EU corporate due diligence law (CSDDD) in their hands on Friday (8 March), when representatives from the bloc’s 27 member states vote on a new, heavily diluted version of the draft legislation.

France’s request for the EU's Ukraine war fund to include a 'buy-European'-clause when countries purchase armament together keeps complicating member states’ efforts to find an agreement on the file before the next EU summit on 21-22 March.

Centre-right MEPs could obstruct the extension of new EU rules on industrial emissions to more pig and poultry farms during a final vote at the European Parliament next Tuesday (12 March).

In Europe and around the world, opposition to China's unilateral changes to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait has become a general consensus. It is a critical element in maintaining peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific and beyond, writes Roy Lee.