Press releases

Today’s decision is an important milestone to lower the cost of driving – with projected fuel savings of up to thousands of euros over the next decade – and push car makers to place low-emission and fuel-efficient cars on the market.

Today, negotiators from the European Parliament and Member State governments concluded a deal to open up broadcasters’ TV programmes, series and news content for online viewers living in another EU country. The deal is limited to ‘news and current affairs’ programmes as well as fully financed own productions from the broadcaster. This constitutes a weakening of the original European Commission proposal which did not limit the type of productions affected by this law.

Today, the European Parliament voted in plenary to make risk assessment in the food chain more transparent.

Today several consumer groups are taking action against the use of ‘no-show’ clauses in airline tickets. This clause prevents passengers from using the return leg of an airline ticket, or the remainder of an itinerary, if they didn’t use the first leg, for whatever reason.