[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PARIS -- Autonomous driving will become Valeo's main growth driver by 2020, says Guillaume Devauchelle, who is head of innovation at the French supplier. Valeo expects to combine its expertise in sensors, radar and other technologies to play an integral role in automakers' development of...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]New-car registrations in Germany jumped 13 percent in June, helped by two extra sales days and a growing economy. The surge in June registrations mirrors strong gains in France, Italy and Spain, suggesting the region is maintaining its steady recovery despite worries about a Greek exit...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Key facts and figures about the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Union Luxembourg will hold the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the twelfth time in the second semester of 2015. The Luxembourg Presidency will hold 237 meetings between July and...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As the EU-China summit opens in Brussels today, new research points to a “delivery gap” on clean energy, which is making the EU level less relevant to Beijing than individual member states, or the US. China’s clean energy reforms “have exceeded all expectations” in recent years,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Today Transport Ministers from 12 European Member States, CEOs and over 1000 transport stakeholders joined the high-level transport conference 'TEN-T Days' in Riga, organised by the European Commission, in cooperation with the Latvian Presidency. The trans-European networks (TEN-T), which are at the core of the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In Germany, the meeting of the G7 heads of state and goverment continues. The agenda includes: discussion on climate change and energy issues, talks with the heads of state and goverment of African nations and representatives of international organizations, (provisionally scheduled) Chancellor Angela Merkel will invite...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]AFTER 30 years of intense convergence in the car industry – a period that has seen most mass-market products and brands evolve toward near-interchangeability – shifting dynamics appear to be pushing cars into an unpredictable new future. This shift has not been triggered by the abrupt,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As the EU prepares for tough negotiations on reducing CO2 emissions from cars post-2020, industry lobbyists, green campaigners and the European Commission alike seem to agree on one thing: deeper emission cuts from road transport will require a more “holistic” approach. Just what “holistic” means is...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Franco-German attempts to secure changes within the Eurozone without treaty changes threaten to undermine UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s EU reform efforts. [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px" image_repeat="no-repeat"][vc_single_image image="8575" alignment="center" border_color="grey" img_link_large="" img_link_target="_self" qode_css_animation="" img_size="full"][vc_empty_space height="20px" background_image="" image_repeat="no-repeat"][vc_column_text]French daily Le Monde reported yesterday (26 May) that Franco-German proposals to...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Why a Better Regulation Agenda? The 2014 European elections showed that many citizens are concerned with what they perceive as an undesirable level of EU involvement in their daily lives. While some of this can be put down to misunderstanding about the EU's actual work, and...