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As member of the Italian Committee promoter of the “Campagna005”, Cittadinanzattiva also promotes the introduction of a tax on financial transactions (TTF) on each buying and selling of financial instruments. This tax was thought to discourage the opportunistic behaviors of the financial speculators who want to make money out of purchases and sales, doing thousands of operations in the same day and earning out of little prices fluctuations.
The “Campagna 005” would give the revenue generated by the tax to welfare, development for cooperation and fight against climate change activities.
As a partner of the campaign, Cittadinanzattiva promotes the activities carried out by Connect4Climate, a campaign, a coalition, and a community involved in climate change fighting.
Supported by more than 10 millions of Italian citizens , it puts together more than 70 organizations, associations, trade unions and Italian and International civic society movements.
The main objective of the Italian Coalition against poverty (in which Cittadinanzattiva participates) is to give voice to the needs and requests of the Southern countries of the world in order to take them also to the European Union, International community and to G8. The Italian Coalition against poverty (Global Call To Action Against Poverty - GCAP) is contributing to build the framework that in 2015 will substitute the
More than 400 professionals of the field participated to the survey done by Info-cooperazione.it, the Italian blog of the international cooperation professionals. The 58% of voters are against and the 42% are in favour.
Active Citizenship Network is looking for Best Practices dealing with chronic pain, with an emphasis on policy initiatives aimed at increasing patient empowerment, awareness campaign for the benefit of citizenship, attention of various stakeholders. To these may be added also good practice in the clinical management of chronic pain and dedicated tools. The most significant will be published and showed in a European event celebrated during the EU Italian Presidency next 2nd of October in Brussels titled “Chronic pain: making the invisible visible. European collection of good practices”.
The invitation to participate is addressed to both single associations of patients with chronic disease and chronic pain, and networks / umbrella Organizations. The deadline to participate is the end of August.
What does a citizen need to know about a project he/she wants to invest in? What are the most important factors to build citizens’ trust in an online platform? In order to boost citizen investment in Renewable Energy Source (RES), Active Citizenship Network has realized a online Questionnaire. Filling it, you will help us to better define the requirements of what will be a transparent platform that will promote informed decision-making investments in renewables by citizens all over the EU. Deadline to fill it: 25th August.
The European Commission has imposed fines totalling €427.7 million on the French pharmaceutical company Servier and five producers of generic medicines – namely, Niche/Unichem, Matrix (now part of Mylan), Teva, Krka and Lupin – for concluding a series of deals all aimed at protecting Servier's bestselling blood pressure medicine, perindopril, from price competition by generics in the EU. Through a technology acquisition and a series of patent settlements with generic rivals, Servier implemented a strategy to exclude competitors and delay the entry of cheaper generic medicines to the detriment of public budgets and patients in breach of EU antitrust rules.
The new platform aims to define and establish priorities in the provision of services for tuberculosis, to develop a joint plan for sustainability of services; and to ensure the integration and coordination of activities between existing and new civil society organizations. The initiative was organized by the Center for medicine, ecology and research MERC who is experienced in the field of prevention, education, advocacy and research on tuberculosis in Macedonia. MERC is a partner of the STOP TB partnership (WHO) and member of the TB Coalition Europe.
The aim of the agreement signed between the Italian Medicines Agency and the European Academy of patients on the Therapeutic Innovation is the investing on the empowerment and the education of the patient to promote the qualified participation in the experimental way, development and the monitoring of the medicines.
Last 20-21 July, in Canmore, Alberta (Canada), the Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders organized “High Level Summit to Craft Canada’s Orphan Drug Access Framework” to build on the results from the forums on a Canadian Strategy for Rare Diseases held during spring 2014. Antonio Gaudioso, Secretary General of Cittadinanzattiva, attended the meeting.
Cittadinanzattiva APS
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