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But Japan's utility lobby group said progress was being made.
The most powerful lobby group in California are the guards.
The lobby group has not publicly supported the Paris accord.
All this is keeping the industry lobby group, PHRMA, very busy.
Gibbs was the policy lead at a medicinal cannabis lobby group.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a lobby group in Newtown, Conn.
He is also a former chairman of financial services lobby group TheCityUK.
The protest has been organised by radical lobby group Farmers For Action.
Discussions with the government are being mediated by industry lobby group Coadec.
The gun lobby group has particularly focused on the age restriction change.
This summer it ended its association with a conservative political lobby group.
Increasingly, the media portray evangelicals as a right-wing political lobby group — reactionaries.
National lobby group Australian Marriage Equality released its own ad, first shared on news.com.
Chairman of lobby group the American Conservative Union (ACU) declined the invitation from Facebook.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a major business lobby group, said it might sue.
Telecom industry lobby group, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), welcomed the changes.
But green lobby group Environment Victoria rejected claims the project would promote clean energy.
Last year Justice, a lobby group, pronounced that "our justice system is in crisis".
That, says Jennifer Rosborough of Action on Sugar, a lobby group, is too high.
For the 2020 election, the gun rights lobby group has given generously to McConnell.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The largest American business lobby group came to the defense of Amazon.
Along with this call to action, her work with climate change lobby group, 350.
"If more businesses are created, we can create a lobby group," Mr. Maliona said.
The Confederation of British Industry, a business lobby group, said the approach was risky.
And he downplayed the idea that he would confront the powerful gun lobby group.
Sanofi CEO Olivier Brandicourt currently serves as chairman of drug industry lobby group PhRMA.
The first blow has already fallen, says Fergal O'Brien of IBEC, a business lobby group.
He set up a new political lobby group for millennials, the Association of Young Americans.
Parisians, says Pierre Chasseray of "40m Motorists", a lobby group, are "living in daily hell".
Some British schools use a Trans Inclusion Toolkit written with Allsorts, a trans lobby group.
The Dairy Farmers of Canada lobby group did not respond to a request for comment.
Meat industry lobby group ABPA said it supports initiatives to strengthen quality controls, without elaborating.
Huawei is one of the key supporters of the lobby group, several industry sources said.
The Tobacco Institute of India, an industry lobby group, declined to comment for this story.
ESA has opened proceedings against DNB, Nordea , lobby group Finance Norway and payments provider BankID.
New Zealand's main farm lobby group quickly came out in support of the new laws.
The Biotechnology Industry Organisation, a pro-technology lobby group in America, called for an outright ban.
Business confidence fell, according to a survey by the Institute of Directors, a business lobby group.
A lobby group called the Ameri­can Tort Reform Foundation reckons the state is a "judicial hellhole".
Israel also opposed the Iran accord, as did AIPAC, the main U.S. pro-Israel lobby group.
The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations industry lobby group was not immediately available for comment.
"People generally see the urgency" of the problem, says Mr Li of Greenpeace, a lobby group.
Top banks Nordea and Danske Bank also oppose the added regulation, the insurance lobby group said.
According to research undertaken for London First, a lobby group, 723,2029 people work nights in London.
Gareth Stace, director general of industry lobby group UK Steel, said any agreement was an outline.
Business lobby group the Confederation of British Industry raised concerns the proposed law could be abused.
Industry lobby group the American Trucking Associations (ATA) estimates the sector is short about 50,000 drivers.
Indeed, the pharmaceutical industry is the most active lobby group when it comes to trade agreements.
The lobby group also supports a 30-day supply limit on opioids for chronic pain treatment.
That is according to Miles Celic of TheCityUK, a UK financial and professional services lobby group.
" He added: "I tell you I have never been paid from any lobby group in America.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a leading pro-Israel lobby group, strongly favors the measure.
The pro-gun lobby group also is under pressure in the wake of two mass shootings.
The location: a meeting of the small-business lobby group, the National Federation of Independent Business.
The decision is a defeat for a lobby group representing thousands of online sellers in India.
Finance Norway, a lobby group representing banks and insurers, called for a "more responsible spending plan".
Hassan Abdille of Muslims for Human Rights, another lobby group, says his staff have been spied on.
Cuts to the investment bank are overdue, Klaus Nieding, vice president of shareholder lobby group DSW, said.
"No one is against development," says Sônia Guajajara of Brazil's Indigenous People Articulation (APIB), a lobby group.
Major exporters of Russian grain already have a lobby group that represents mainly large, foreign trade houses.
Unilever is a sponsor of the research and lobby group FCLT – Focusing Capital on the Long Term.
Gareth Stace, director general of industry lobby group UK Steel, also told Reuters nothing had been finalised.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A lobby group representing Germany's glass fiber industry says a European merger between Vodafone (VOD.
The Minerals Council South Africa, an industry lobby group, said it was against the free carry stipulation.
BHP noted scope changes in the 2019 review, which would also extend to coal lobby group Coal21.
Duggal is also president of the Federation of Indian Mineral Industries, the country's biggest mining lobby group.
The ANODE lobby group, and Engie, had filed a complaint over regulated power prices with the court.
The Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association (NEVA), a lobby group, predicted a 100 percent market share was feasible.
Myron Brilliant of the US Chamber of Commerce, a lobby group, described the agreement as "not enough".
On Wednesday a prominent business lobby group called for decisive action on Eskom to support economic growth.
This summer America's Business Roundtable, a lobby group, said firms should serve stakeholders as well as shareholders.
"Kansas increased spending while taxes were cut," fumes Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, a lobby group.
Business lobby group Economiesuisse welcomed the decision which it said would solve one of Switzerland's most pressing problems.
The Satellite Industry Association lobby group estimates the satellite launch services market is worth $5.5 billion a year.
Business Botswana, a lobby group, is calling on South African supermarket chains to boost local procurement above 10%.
That puts it in the top 10 of European carbon dioxide emitters, according to lobby group Transport & Environment.
Also removed was a reference to ties by Abe and Aso to a conservative lobby group, Nippon Kaigi.
Lobby group RideShare Drivers United (RSDU) called for drivers to turn off the Uber app between 633 a.m.
The move has caused some drivers to quit Uber said Stanislav Shvagerus, head of lobby group Taxi 2018.
"This wasn't expected," said Probir Das, chair of the medical devices forum at Indian industry lobby group FICCI.
"Fantastic alternative providers have been tarred by the same brush," says Alex Proudfoot of StudyUK, a lobby group.
The American Petroleum Institute (API), a lobby group, says America is in "good shape" thanks to natural gas.
Andrew Cuomo and the state DFS were unconstitutionally trying to force companies to disassociate from the lobby group.
He has blamed lawmakers for being in the thrall of the powerful National Rifle Association gun lobby group.
A Washington gun lobby group wants to stop "gun-hating banks" from "discriminatory lending practices" toward gun manufacturers.
Finland's largest energy lobby group Energia also projects large increases in the use of biomass in coming years.
ITC, Godfrey and the industry lobby group Tobacco Institute of India did not respond to requests seeking comment.
The lobby group Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) had pushed the government to halt the spectrum payments.
A large Indian lobby group for retailers says it is rallying as many as 500,000 people to protest.
Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC), the sector's main lobby group, said the industry still speaks with one voice.
Perdue paraphrased most -- but not all -- of the themes the lobby group laid out in its talking points.
There's also the list of blue chip companies that have severed ties with the mighty gun lobby group.
The ESA's stance on piracy was as hard-line as the notorious recording industry's lobby group, the RIAA.
The real power is with those voting gun owners, not the lobby group that purports to represent them.
ALEC is a lobby group that routinely misrepresents climate science to advance the agenda of its corporate members.
It sees itself as an advocacy, support, and lobby-group campaigning for the legal access to medical cannabis.
A leading industry lobby group also cut the IT sector's growth forecast for the fiscal year ending March 2017.
That suggests a more mature approach to big infrastructure projects, says David Leam of London First, a lobby group.
Oceana, an environmental lobby group, said it was pleased that Zinke had removed Florida from areas open to drilling.
CUTS OVERDUE Cuts to the investment bank are overdue, Klaus Nieding, vice president of shareholder lobby group DSW, said.
"A tax does not stimulate companies to make unprofitable investments," said Hans Gruenfeld, head of industry lobby group VEMW.
Just 21 firms worldwide reported all of their direct emissions in 2016, says the 100% Club, a lobby group.
Organisations like the Farm Bureau, another lobby group, whipped up fears of government asserting authority over ditches and ponds.
Ruth Hunt has been with gay and transgender lobby group Stonewall for 14 years and chief executive since 2014.
The case is "painful" Leonhardt Pihl, chief executive of Danish Shareholders Association, a lobby group for private investors, said.
The ban, which will come into effect next year, follows a lawsuit brought by the DUH environmental lobby group.
The lobby group forecast output volumes to increase 0.5 percent this year, compared with the 1.0 percent seen previously.
Some 2000 proposals have been put forward, says Andrew Allen of the Campaign for Better Transport, a lobby group.
This also, according to the lobby group, is a surprise addition and was not agreed upon as a recommendation.
South Africa's banking industry lobby group also backed the central bank, urging the government to confirm the bank's independence.
The U.K. car industry risks becoming extinct after Brexit, according to the president of a prominent business lobby group.
Mr. Sanetti, who now runs the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a lobby group, declined to comment through a spokesman.
Still, the law now faces major hurdles, with a pro-gun lobby group promising to challenge it in court.
The comments set up a possible policy clash with German carmakers, whose lobby group says it opposes such quotas.
Americans invest $7 trillion in 401(k)s and $7.8 trillion in IRAs, according to the industry's lobby group, ICI.
Government spending on infrastructure as a percentage of economic output is at record low levels, says construction lobby group Seopan.
The business lobby group said Wednesday that the bill was too expensive, unwieldy for advisors and has an unrealistic timeline.
He also chairs Male Sex Workers in Zimbabwe, a lobby group with 300 members that helps economically disadvantaged gay men.
A monthly trip to London might become a once-a-quarter one, worries the Business Travel Coalition, a lobby group.
Both the lobby group and a top trade union said they were concerned by the delay in the government's decision.
That echoes calls from the Confederation of British Industry, a lobby group, and some of Britain's national academies of science.
The estimate is part of a report by telecoms lobby group GSMA, which represents the interests of 750 mobile operators.
That was one of the findings of the latest study published by Hope Not Hate, an anti-extremism lobby group.
"They should serve as a wake-up call," said Jean-Francois Fauconnier of the Climate Action Network Europe lobby group.
Simon Edwards, head of the County Councils Network (CCN), a lobby group, agrees that it "glosses over" the government's role.
This year, Britain's oil lobby group expects 16 exploration wells to be drilled, a slight uptick from 14 last year.
El Al has asked an airline industry lobby group, the International Air Transport Association, to help it access Saudi airspace.
The Alliance for Regenerative Medicine, a lobby group, opposes the act, saying that scientific trials are needed to ensure safety.
The revelation is the latest blow to the gun lobby group as it battles financial struggles and internal shake-ups.
The American Investment Council, an industry lobby group, says the bill is needed to update rules for a growing industry.
The estimate is part of a report by telecoms lobby group GSMA, which represents the interests of 153 mobile operators.
Nestle was named one of the world's worst corporate plastic polluters by lobby group Break Free From Plastic last year.
But this is the first time the powerful lobby group is making it an official part of its mission statement.
IG Kaffee, a lobby group, asks why the government wants to scrap a stockpile that has served Switzerland so well.
Even an industry lobby group, the Philippine Tobacco Institute (PTI), said it supported the regulation and acknowledged the health objectives.
That result may be more desirable for NERA, since its study was reportedly paid for by a coal lobby group.
The gun lobby group credited Cruz with putting together another multi-state coalition and filing an amicus brief in that case.
The lobby group has taken out ads in local newspapers denouncing the policy and is demanding a meeting with Kenya's president.
Netflix has joined the Motion Picture Association of America, making it the first streaming company to join the Hollywood lobby group.
The lobby group claimed responsibility for half of the roughly 4 million net neutrality comments on the FCC's website that year.
But the Campaign for Fairer Gambling (CFG), a lobby group, counters that maintaining the previous wagering limit would also cost jobs.
But the industry faces an "existential crisis", in the words of Michael Dugher, head of UK Music, an industry lobby group.
Nine in ten firms prefer an extension to crashing out, according to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), a lobby group.
IT sector lobby group NASSCOM forecast the sector's export revenues to grow at 7-8 percent for the year to March.
Paris Europlace, a lobby group, has forecast that 3,500 finance jobs will be created in the French capital because of Brexit.
But now the gun lobby group has turned its sights on its most unusual target yet: fired FBI Director James Comey.
The lobby group for the Korean conglomerates known as chaebol, the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI), held a seminar on Sept.
The Frankfurt Main Finance lobby group went on more than 50 trips to foreign banks' home bases in the past year.
Alan Miller of the Night Time Industries Association, a lobby group, argues that the police crack down on clubs too readily.
In Kigali, according to Human Rights Watch, a lobby group, unsightly street traders are often beaten up and imprisoned without trial.
Uncertainty over Brexit has halved new investment in the British car industry, the country's main car lobby group said on Tuesday.
The sector gained 3 percent for the week after industry lobby group NASSCOM forecast export revenue growth of 7-9 percent.
The ECJ ruling could now open the door to 2 million others seeking repayment from banks, consumer lobby group Adicae said.
O'Leary was speaking as chairman of lobby group A4E (Airlines for Europe), which includes the continent's largest airline groups, Lufthansa (LHAG.
Niko Davis, a spokesperson for CCF, told Business Insider in an email that CCF does not consider itself a lobby group.
The largest drug lobby group in America beat its own record for the most spent on lobbying in a single quarter.
It's a powerful little lobby group, whereas the gun lobby in Australia had its back broken by the Port Arthur massacre.
Private sector growth picked up pace in the last three months of the year, according to a leading business lobby group.
"This opportunity is unique, maybe once in a lifetime," Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute lobby group, told Reuters.
The German Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations, a business lobby group, expressed concern about a new wave of U.S. sanctions.
Denmark's harvest of wheat, barley and rye could fall by about 40 percent from previous years, the lobby group has previously forecast.
Their lobby group, the Internet Association, said the meeting was productive and that the companies talked about how they fight extremism online.
Lobby group The Investor Agenda (IA) issued a statement on Monday on behalf of 415 global investors, who collectively manage $32 trillion.
The Investment Migration Council (IMC), a lobby group, estimates that 5,210 people a year acquire a citizenship this way, investing some $216bn.
Nasscom, a lobby group for the IT industry, estimates that only three out of every ten faculty members who teach are qualified.
"We lost our vision for many years," says Carlos Salazar Lomelín, boss of the Businessmen's Co-ordinating Council (CCE), a lobby group.
The chairman of the Bundeswehrverband, a lobby group that represents members of the armed forces, criticized von der Leyen's 'weak leadership' remarks.
Cuts to the investment bank are overdue, Klaus Nieding, vice president of shareholder lobby group DSW, told Deutsche's management at the meeting.
Dennis Darby, president of the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters lobby group, said the government's plan to trim the carbon levy was prudent.
Their main lobby group, Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC), met privately with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday and left feeling comforted.
One in five small firms say it is their biggest problem, according to the National Federation of Independent Business, a lobby group.
TheCityUK, a lobby group, says 1.1m people work directly in the business, rising to 2.2m if jobs in supporting infrastructure are included.
Industry lobby group Finnish Energy in January warned of a higher risk that local firms may have to cut their power usage.
Tavares said on Tuesday he would seek backing for his demands from Europe's ACEA car industry lobby group, which he currently chairs.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Labor's wage policies would harm the economy, a view shared by the country's main business lobby group.
Indonesia's auto industries lobby group GAIKINDO has previously said increasing biodiesel blends can increase fuel consumption and may lead to engines overheating.
Innovative Medicines Canada (IMC), the main industry lobby group, said in a statement that it had not yet seen the final regulations.
Dairy Farmers of Canada, an influential lobby group that was closely involved in creating Class 7, could not be reached for comment.
Company lobby group CEOE welcome the fall in the unemployment rate in the third quarter, but called on leaders to do more.
Irrecoverable VAT paid by banks now stands at 4 billion pounds, according to a Sept 2015 study by bank lobby group BBA.
Several business interests and lobbyist groups like the American Petroleum Institute — a major oil lobby group — have held events at the property.
Even the influential BDI industry lobby group, traditionally close to Merkel's conservatives, last week called for a debt-financed fiscal stimulus package.
The lobby group filed a similar petition against Flipkart in May, alleging violation of competition rules through preferential treatment for select sellers.
The deadline for the talks is at midnight Friday (2200 GMT), but shutdowns would only start on Sunday, the lobby group said.
Walburga Hemetsberger, CEO of industry lobby group Solarpower Europe, confirmed to POLITICO that BIPVs are one of 2020's green energy trends.
Denmark's harvest of wheat, barley, oat and triticale will this year be about 40 percent below normal years, the lobby group said.
France has more than 1 million registered hunters, the most in Europe, and they comprise its second biggest lobby group after farmers.
Andreas Harsono, of Human Rights Watch, a lobby group, described the bill as "the crown jewel of the sharia campaign in Indonesia".
Environmental lobby group DUH had sued the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, home to Mainz, calling for a ban of diesel vehicles in Mainz.
Open Britain, a lobby group, drew up an "attack list" of 20 mostly Tory MPs who backed Leave but whose constituents did not.
Stefan Stern of the High Pay Centre, a lobby group, argues that it would at least embarrass CEOs into making more modest claims.
Still, notes Carlos de Freitas of the National Confederation of Commerce, a lobby group, "The real economy does not live on expectations alone".
According to the AEB lobby group, its sales of light commercial vehicles, or vans and minibuses, rose 4 percent in 2018 to 60,677.
Singapore's investor lobby group Securities Investors Association welcomed the SGX move, saying it had been in discussion with SGX RegCo on this matter.
Mark Malloch Brown, a former Labour minister who chairs Best for Britain, a pro-EU lobby group, admits it is "a long shot".
Dudley Brown, president of the lobby group National Association for Gun Rights, considers himself one of the most vocal critics of the NRA.
Indian industry lobby group NASSCOM says the average salary paid by Indian IT Service firms for H-1B visa holders is about $82,000.
However, they would still be far stricter than a standard EU recommendation for a 30-day buffer, bank lobby group Finance Denmark said.
Michael Gannon, head of the Australian Medical Association, a lobby group, says Victoria's parliament has "changed one of the fundamentals of medical ethics".
"Buying alliances have a detrimental effect on the whole food supply chain," said Mella Frewen, director general of FoodDrinkEurope, an industry lobby group.
Regulatory and banking experts working for the City of London and lobby group TheCityUK are drawing up proposals for a 'mutual recognition' system.
Susanne Dehmel, head of security and data protection at IT lobby group Bitkom, said making equipment makers liable would not stop criminal hackers.
According to figures from lobby group Insurance & Pension, Danske Bank's pension unit Danica Pension had a market share of 13.4 percent in 13.33.
About half the companies surveyed last year by the Confederation of British Industry, a lobby group, said graduates are unprepared for business jobs.
The retailers' letter was coordinated by lobby group, the British Retail Consortium (BRC), which has for years complained the current system is unfair.
"The potential for future value creation and jobs in these regions is large," lobby group Norwegian Oil and Gas said in a statement.
"This agreement ... is a positive and encouraging step," said Miles Celic, Chief Executive Officer of TheCityUK, the country's most powerful financial lobby group.
Emma Calvert, food policy officer at the European Consumer Organisation lobby group, is skeptical, however, about the health drive by major chocolate makers.
The most dramatic example of this came last year when Exxon quit a corporate lobby group known as the American Legislative Exchange Council.
A number of industry groups joined forces last year to create their own lobby group, called the Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets.
Last year it dropped 19 percent to 1.7 million tonnes, according to the Foundation for Development of the Tube Industry, a lobby group.
The lobby group wants a post-Brexit permit valid only in the capital for roles which can't easily be filled by UK workers.
DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - A German court on Wednesday dismissed a suit by an environmental lobby group seeking a ban of certain Volkswagen (VOWG_p.
Australia's main oil and gas lobby group and analysts who see gas as crucial for the transition to renewable energy welcomed the decision.
The GSMA telecoms industry lobby group estimates that by the end of 2025 operators will have spent $253 trillion building up 5G networks.
The lobby group also warned that international clients were now turning to alternative origins, including northern Europe, Baltic countries and the Black Sea.
But Russian car sales are now forecast to grow by 4 percent in 2017, according to the Association of European Businesses lobby group.
Lobby group Federated Farmers issued a statement backing tougher gun laws but acknowledged that many of its members would not support its decision.
The GSMA telecoms industry lobby group estimates that by the end of 2025 operators will have spent $1 trillion building up 13G networks.
According to a report by lobby group Nasscom, India's cloud market is estimated to be worth more than $7 billion in three years.
According to the American Hospital Association, a lobby group, operating margins in the industry rose from 4.4% in 2007 to 6.4% in 2017.
Kagoike heads the Osaka branch of Nippon Kaigi, or Japan Conference, a nationalist lobby group with close ties to Abe and his cabinet.
The GSMA telecoms industry lobby group estimates that by the end of 2025 operators will have spent $1 trillion building up 5G networks.
Gustavo de Hoyos, president of the powerful business lobby group Coparmex, said it was shameful that Mexico let the United States dictate legislation.
Tellingly, after the 45Q modification an American lobby group called the National Oil Enhanced Recovery Initiative changed its name to the Carbon Capture Coalition.
More than three quarters of victims were civilians, 38 percent of them children, the Nobel-prize-winning lobby group said in its annual report.
The California Chamber of Commerce, a business lobby group, has said it thinks giving consumers the right to sue would primarily benefit trial lawyers.
Terry Scuoler, the head of EEF, a manufacturers' lobby group, argued that business was being penalised for the behaviour of a few "bad apples".
Vehicle sales fell in December by 19% compared with the previous December, their steepest drop in 16 years, says a car-industry lobby group.
Such is the demand for deliveries that there is now a shortage of 45,000 drivers, according to the Road Haulage Association, a lobby group.
Indian tech lobby group Nasscom said such a U.S. plan would imply a "further crunch" for businesses in the United States getting skilled workers.
The president of France's main business lobby group said the current global trade war was "extremely worrying" and could reverse years of rising standards.
According to Swedish Enterprise, a lobby group, entrepreneurs such as Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, were leaving the country to avoid high taxes.
Maybe now the gun lobby group is concerned about Trump's handle on power; he's been a strong ally against recent pushes for gun control.
Establishing fully-fledged subsidiaries can be a costly move for EU-headquartered branches, said a Brexit paper from TheCityUK lobby group seen by Reuters.
The Tax Justice Network, a lobby group, calls the United States one of the world's top three "secrecy jurisdictions", behind Switzerland and Hong Kong.
America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the leading lobby group for the insurance industry, acknowledged that "significant changes" are coming to the Affordable Care Act.
FRANKFURT, Oct 15 (Reuters) - German bank lobby group BDB expects competition in Germany to become more intense following Britain's departure from the European Union.
The lobby group filed a similar petition against Walmart-owned Flipkart in May, alleging violation of competition rules through preferential treatment for select sellers.
The Confederation of British Industry, a business lobby group, also warned against placing too much emphasis on a potential deal with the United States.
Globalisation has enabled traffickers to run rings round officialdom, says Candice Li, vice-president of the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC), a lobby group.
Some 35 percent of annual U.S. rail industry revenue is directly linked to international trade, according to the Association of American Railroads lobby group.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the largest business lobby group in the country, stepped in on Tuesday to defend Amazon, which is a member.
Asok Dasgupta, president of lobby group Independent Power Producers Association of India, said it was unfair to blame power producers for action against Greenpeace.
"Those folks send us the bare minimum of information," said Sharon Pinkerton, a senior vice president at U.S. airline lobby group Airlines for America.
Skou is a member of The European Round Table for Industry (ERT), a lobby group of 55 CEO and chairs of large European companies.
A fund-raising drive set up by a Christian lobby group raised more than A$2 million in donations to help his legal challenge.
A plastics lobby group complained in August that increased inspections had held up material, resulting in a plunge in exports of recycled plastic products.
The incumbent minister, Brian Mikkelsen, said on Wednesday he would step down to become chief executive of the Danish Chamber of Commerce lobby group.
And the head of Britain's top business lobby group warned the same month that the country's car industry could be wiped out by Brexit.
" British business groups criticized the cap, with blue-chip lobby group the CBI calling it "an example of state intervention that misses the mark.
It also found that some of the "broader communications activities" of Australia-based lobby group Coal21 "have not been consistent with its core objectives".
"Digital agriculture really is the next revolution for farming," said Mark Harvey-Sutton, manager of rural affairs at Australia's National Farmers Federation, a lobby group.
CCAR funding hasn't been replaced, acknowledged Dan Weaver, a researcher at the University of Toronto and member of the science lobby group Evidence for Democracy.
The Confederation of British Industry lobby group said it was important to make sure alternative arrangements were put in place to prevent firms leaving London.
"China has created an uneven playing field for foreign brands," said Jeong, who heads the lobby group which represents Hyundai, Kia and other domestic automakers.
Doing this with as little disruption as possible would be best for business, argues Ben Digby of the Confederation of British Industry, a lobby group.
O'Leary was speaking as chairman of lobby group A4E (Airlines for Europe), which includes the continent's largest airline groups, Lufthansa and British Airways owner IAG.
The Federation of Agriculture and Livestock of Matto Grosso do Sul, a lobby group in Brazil's farming heartland, welcomed the changes as an "important advance".
"America's franchised auto dealers strongly believe that every customer deserves to be treated fairly," Peter Welch, president of the lobby group, said in a statement.
Kagoike, a member of nationalist lobby group Nippon Kaigi, which has close ties to Abe and his cabinet, is to testify in parliament on Thursday.
Sophia Kuby, EU campaigner for the Alliance Defending Freedom, an international religious lobby group, called the move a "an important step in the right direction".
The Saskatchewan Heavy Construction Association, a lobby group, grouses about the unfair advantage Albertan drivers enjoy because they pay no provincial sales tax on vehicles.
Participation in high-deductible plans in the five years through January 2016 has risen about 76 percent, according to lobby group America's Health Insurance Plans.
"We see this demonstration of active ownership as positive," said Mikael Bak, chief executive at the Danish Shareholders' Association, a lobby group for private investors.
Equally, retailers could still do more to stay in touch with their increasingly fickle customers, argues Fiona Davis of Women in Retail, a lobby group.
New Zealand buys around a quarter of global PKE, according to environmental lobby group Greenpeace which has campaigned vehemently against the use of the feed.
Industry sales rose 3.5 percent in the first half of 2017, up from a March estimate of a 1.5 percent, the VCI lobby group said.
Companies and employees will respond with "relief and determination," said Carolyn Fairbairn, the director general of the Confederation of British Industry, a business lobby group.
Hogan told a conference held by business lobby group BusinessEurope that the EU wanted to see "concrete progress" from China on opening up its markets.
The rule-book was written in the middle of the crisis "chapter by chapter", says Wayne Abernathy of the American Bankers Association, a lobby group.
The forecast is a fraction of the $62 billion cost estimate in an unpublished study of industry lobby group GSMA reported by Reuters in June.
The business lobby group has also spearheaded the USMCA Coalition along with the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Association of Manufacturers, among others.
"Big banks used to operate as the lender of second-to-last resort," says Bill Nelson of the Bank Policy Institute, an industry lobby group.
Canada's main pharmaceutical lobby group has urged the government not to wait for drug shortages before responding to the Trump administration's plans, Reuters reported on Monday.
The 80-year-old former head of business lobby group Federation of Korean Industries was not taken into custody due to health issues, the court said.
"The upstate economy is very, very different from the down-state economy," said Greg Biryla, Executive Director of Unshackle Upstate, a lobby group for upstate businesses.
Carlos Tavares, who chairs European auto industry lobby group ACEA, said that policymakers had failed to anticipate this outcome of the European Union's 2020 CO2 goals.
Pierre Lampron, president of the Dairy Farmers of Canada lobby group, planned to meet Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on Friday to ask her about NAFTA.
The sale has been in the works since last year, according to Advocates4Earth, an environmental lobby group that is suing the government over the alleged plan.
Emma Jones, head of Enterprise Nation, a lobby group, who used to help Mr Cameron's advisers on policy, has co-founded a new Small Business Taskforce.
The rest of Britain's carmakers have been watching Nissan's decision closely, says Michael Hawes, head of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, a lobby group.
The General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions, a lobby group, said such exemptions should be avoided as they could complicate cross-border sukuk offers.
It helps that the case has been taken by the American Center for Law and Justice, a lobby group which often campaigns for religious conservative causes.
According to the Automotive Council, a lobby group, 44% of parts used to make British cars come from local suppliers, up from 41% two years ago.
Innovative Medicines Canada (IMC), the main industry lobby group, has argued lower prices could result in delayed drug launches and reduce life sciences investment in Canada.
"Business could get behind" the ideas, says Helen Dickinson, head of the British Retail Consortium, a lobby-group for an industry that employs about 3m people.
Kagoike is the head of the Osaka branch of Nippon Kaigi, or Japan Conference, a nationalist lobby group with close ties to Abe and his cabinet.
According to Myron Brilliant of the US Chamber of Commerce, a lobby group, the talks starting on April 3rd focused on two of the thorniest topics.
German auto lobby group VDA, however, said that customers should buy new cars rather than spend money on installing new exhaust filtering mechanisms on older vehicles.
The NRA had the luxury of being a bipartisan lobby group for much of the 1990s, and even into the early years of the Obama era.
A local business lobby group, Business Leadership South Africa welcomed the election of Ramaphosa, saying it gave him a chance to address inequality, unemployment and poverty.
Disruption has been huge, with 850 trains cancelled, 500 factories closed and business losses estimated at as much as $5 billion by one regional lobby group.
In the food and beverage industry, 90 percent of the businesses face the shortage and about a third are "really struggling," according to its lobby group.
Technology industry lobby group ITI, which represents Apple, Amazon, Google and other tech companies, urged the United States not to resort to tariffs in the dispute.
BENGALURU/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Amazon's Indian business has denied accusations that it favors select merchants and brands, responding to a complaint lodged by an Indian lobby group.
Others, however, such as Andreas Harsono, of Human Rights Watch, a New York-based lobby group, welcomed the symposium as a "tiny" but important first step.
The British Chambers of Commerce, a business lobby group, and Unite, the country's largest trade union, both want the government to guarantee the steel industry's future.
"We've seen more tax progress in Europe in the past 18 months than in the previous decade," says Carl Dolan of Transparency International, a lobby group.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain needs to set out plans to make sure its lawyers can keep working across Europe after Brexit, a lobby group said on Thursday.
Helen Dickinson, chief executive of lobby group, the British Retail Consortium (BRC), reiterated her call for help from the government, including a freeze on business rates.
Exxon's decision not to renew its membership followed a split with the lobby group last year over the Environmental Protection Agency's regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.
Mercury buildup caused by dams "is a well-known and well-understood issue," said Jacob Irving, president of the Canadian Hydropower Association, an industry lobby group.
"He failed be convince in the end on the merger because he didn't recognise the forces at work," said Klaus Nieding of shareholder lobby group DSW.
Mikhail Maltsev told Reuters the union, a non-government lobby group of vegetable oil producers, did not know if the ministry had agreed to the proposal.
"Fisheries is complicated because unfortunately, fish don't know borders," Sean O'Donoghue, founder of the European Fishing Alliance, a lobby group for European fishermen, told CNBC Thursday.
The U.S. Lumber Coalition, an industry lobby group that petitioned the U.S. Commerce Department last year to open a dumping and subsidy investigation, lauded the decision.
The lobby group has tracked discrimination against low-caste villagers after disasters since the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, and including the December floods in Chennai.
Industry lobby group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) said it was concerned that the FDA list lacks context and conflates a number of issues.
The Investment Association, the industry's lobby group, says there has been a fall in the average fee on clean shares from 0.99% to 0.92% in recent years.
The losses could reach almost 8 billion Danish crowns ($1.23 billion) this year, according to research institute SEGES, part of the Danish Agriculture & Food Council lobby group.
Over in India, information technology industry lobby group Nasscom warned that the U.S. could impose tougher H-0.023B visa rules that unfairly targeting indian workers, Reuters reported.
Frankfurt expects up to 10,000 financial industry workers to relocate from Britain to Germany's banking capital as a consequence of Brexit, according to a Frankfurt lobby group.
LONDON — J.K. Rowling has shut down a "UK-based prayer and lobby group" on Twitter after they published a homophobic tweet aimed at Olympic diver Tom Daley.
The retail industry could shed as many as a third of its 3m or so jobs by 2025, according to the British Retail Consortium, a lobby group.
A report in 2011 by the AARP, a lobby group for the aged, found that people conned into fake investments tended to be more qualified and richer.
The Independent Petroleum Association of America, a lobby group for independent drillers, welcomed the announcement, which came a week after Zinke met with its president, Barry Russell.
"This would be the most significant weakening of Clean Water Act protections in its history," says Jon Devine of the Natural Resources Defence Council, a lobby group.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain risks driving banks overseas if current high levels of taxation on the industry are maintained after Brexit, a bank lobby group said on Wednesday.
The protests are backed by AfriForum, a lobby group which promotes the rights of South Africa&aposs white minority, especially the Afrikaner population descended from Dutch settlers.
"Brexit means cheaper food," says John Longworth, a former head of the British Chambers of Commerce who now runs Leave Means Leave, a pro-Brexit lobby group.
German engineering lobby group the VDMA, which represents major exporters, said the European Union should swiftly move to negotiate a free trade agreement with the United States.
Earlier this year, Delta and United cut ties with the National Rifle Association (NRA), a pro-gun lobby group, after a deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
"It's a very, very short sharp season where they get aggressive and fight with each other," said David Voss from Australian Deer Association, a hunters' lobby group.
The Alliance for Campaign Finance Monitoring, the local lobby group that collected the data, says the NRM has bribed voters with hoes, saucepans, seeds, sugar and salt.
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May discussed her Brexit deal with trade union bosses and the head of a business lobby group on Thursday, her spokeswoman said.
Without an effort to provide their own, protesters risk alienating influential allies that backed the extradition cause, like the business lobby group, as well as moderate voices.
After calls in 2014 from EU investor lobby group Better Finance, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) studied a sample of 2,600 funds over 2012-2014.
According to TheCityUK, a lobby group, almost 230m people work in financial and related services such as accounting and the law, two-thirds of them outside London.
Kagoike is a member of Nippon Kaigi, a nationalist lobby group that promotes a traditional ethos mixing Shinto myth, patriotism and pride in an ancient imperial line.
The oil lobby group, which represents numerous parts of the industry, has long been looking for regulatory and permitting changes to simplify and speed up pipeline decisions.
On PMPRB reforms especially, patient groups have been closely aligned with drugmakers, like the industry lobby group Innovative Medicines Canada, arguing lower prices could delay drug launches.
Boosting the administration's leverage, the biggest lobby group for the drug industry, the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), recently began publicly supporting mandatory training programs.
When the leader of the opposition gets up to do the same next week, however, Britain's most important business lobby group will hang on his every word.
Almost all the wind turbines in France have been installed by companies from other European countries, according to data from industry lobby group France Energie Eolienne (FEE).
The Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group sees Russia's sales of new cars and light commercial vehicles falling 10.3 percent to 2.63 million units in 2016.
But the lobby group, which says it represents more than 3 million businesses and professional organizations, has clashed with Trump over his positions on trade and immigration.
Emissions from Norwegian oil and gas production fell by 1.4 percent to 13.6 million in 2017 from the previous year, the industry lobby group said on Thursday.
"Let's see how they feel walking around without their guns or their bodyguards," he told the gun lobby group, speaking about Clinton and her Secret Service detail.
A business lobby group said Nersa's tariff award could exacerbate Eskom's "death spiral" whereby higher power tariffs drive more of its clients to seek alternative power sources.
The institution's president, Yasunori Kagoike, heads the Osaka branch of Nippon Kaigi, or Japan Conference, a nationalist lobby group with close ties to Abe and his cabinet.
"The idea of stockpiling and storage is a red herring," said Shane Brennan, the chief executive of the Food Storage and Distribution Federation, a trade lobby group.
He helped lead a powerful lobby group with a not-so-hidden agenda: bring back booze, and make income taxes unnecessary with renewed levies on legal alcohol.
As part of the European airline lobby group A4E, the airlines called for a relaxation of airport regulations to help them cope with the impact of coronavirus.
Mikhail Maltsev told Reuters that the union, a non-government lobby group of vegetable oil producers, did not know if the ministry had agreed to the proposal.
The statement comes days after AARP, the powerful lobby group representing older Americans, came out against Graham-Cassidy, as it has against prior Republican Obamacare repeal legislation.
While executives exude confidence for investors' and customers' benefit, their Brussels lobby group ACEA warns of an imminent threat to the region's 3.4 million automotive manufacturing jobs.
Achleitner earned almost 860,000 euros ($944,13), surpassing that paid to the chairmen of BMW and Fresenius by more than 200,000 euros, according to shareholder lobby group DSW.
Barclays investors, at the urging of lobby group ShareAction, earlier this month submitted a motion that would force the lender to phase out fossil fuel financing faster.
He said he backs raising the age someone must be to buy a rifle or shotgun to 21, a position that the gun lobby group has rejected.
The challenge is backed by the National Rifle Association, an influential gun rights lobby group closely aligned with Republicans including President Donald Trump, a fellow New Yorker.
The case in Berlin was brought by environmental lobby group DUH in the latest attempt by activists to force regional governments in Germany to improve air quality.
It's another hurdle for the drug lobby group as it looks to reshape its image and keep itself from becoming a political target on the campaign trail.
London Market Group, an insurance industry lobby group, said it was working to make the London market an easier place to do business, with a more diverse workforce.
He has junked Obama-era guidance on the treatment of transgender pupils in schools: "A major blow," says Sarah Warbelow of the Human Rights Campaign, a lobby group.
" In a speech to the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC in March, Trump declared that his "Number-One priority" would be to "dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran.
Paul Drechsler, the president of the blue-chip business lobby group the CBI, said businesses were now having to plan for the worst while hoping for the best.
Losses in the agricultural sector could reach almost 8 billion Danish crowns this year, according to research institute SEGES, part of the Danish Agriculture & Food Council lobby group.
Life Site News was founded by a Canadian lobby group called Campaign Life Coalition, which opposes abortion, euthanasia, and same-sex marriage, and advocates for traditional family values.
In America, people with disabilities spend $17.3bn a year on travel, up from $13.6bn in 2002, according to the Open Doors Organisation, a lobby group for the disabled.
On March 28th green-minded companies there transformed the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA), a non-profit organisation, into a fully fledged lobby group to further the cause.
Consequently, it is unlikely that legal French gun ownership has changed much since 2015, said Thierry Coste, secretary general of the Comité Guillaume Tell (William Tell) lobby group.
If anything, argued Carolyn Fairbairn, head of the Confederation of British Industry, a lobby group, they will persuade companies to accelerate their preparations for a no-deal exit.
But it is obvious that Japanese firms have not learned the lessons from recent scandals, says Toshiaki Oguchi of Governance for Owners Japan, a corporate-governance lobby group.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a conservative business lobby group, sent a letter to House members saying the organization had "serious concerns" about the Raise the Wage Act.
But even with that progress, biofuels are unlikely to reach 10% of fuel use within the next seven years, reckons Robert Boyd of IATA, an airline lobby group.
Chris Roberts of Tourism Industry Aotearoa, a lobby group, says that the cliché is true: a visitor comes for the scenery but goes home talking about the people.
They see parallels with when then Prime Minister Tony Blair, the country's main business lobby group and international companies based in Britain wanted to join the single currency.
To make matters worse, a few minutes later, he allowed the president of the anti-abortion Texas Alliance for Life lobby group to extend his testimony without interruption.
The government expects to win opposition support for the reform, yet some politicians and a lobby group representing credit cooperatives oppose it saying it could cause job losses.
Leading IT lobby group NASSCOM said it expected limited fallout from the decision, though some firms among India's $150-billion tech industry could lose exemptions they had before.
Major telecom companies have been notably silent on the proposal, though the the CTIA—a wireless telecom lobby group—also stated it is against a government-run network.
DUH, the environmental lobby group that brought the Stuttgart case, has said it wants moves to go beyond voluntary software updates or it will take further legal action.
The pro-Proposition 24 lobby group, Ridesharing Works for Austin, pointed to reported drops in drunk driving, among other issues, in an attempt to convince the Austin public.
Voice370, a lobby group for the victims' families, said it was still hopeful that more countries would step forward to fund an extension and expansion of the search.
It therefore obsesses about EU process and, as if it were a lobby group rather than a legislature, spends its time campaigning for more powers and bigger budgets.
The Remote Gambling Association, an industry lobby group whose members include William Hill, Paddy Power and Ladbrokes, has voluntarily agreed to stop the adverts, according to the BBC.
In a speech to a major pro-Israel U.S. lobby group in Washington, Pompeo accused Britain's opposition Labour Party of tolerating anti-Semitism, calling it a "national disgrace".
Norway's Ingvil Smines Tybring-Gjedde will meet the number two executive at CNOOC on April 6, the oil ministry and business lobby group Norwegian Energy Partners told Reuters.
Warner has made her mark on the European investment scene as the cofounder of Diversity VC, a lobby group that highlights the lack of diversity among startup investors.
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian shopkeepers and traders affiliated to a local lobby group held scattered sit-in protests across the country on Monday against Walmart Inc's (WMT.
Sarah Green, co-director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, a lobby group, said the party atmosphere of the World Cup was no excuse for such behavior.
According to Fox News, a local environmental lobby group called Salvemos Cabana is urging the government to put up signs and better inform people of the health risk.
Conacher is a co-founder of Democracy Watch, a lobby group which has gathered 50,000 signatures under a petition calling for more effective regulation of Canada's biggest banks.
"This welcome change in tone needs to be backed by clarity and action now," the Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry lobby group, Carolyn Fairbairn, said.
Disruption has been huge, with at least 850 trains cancelled, 500 factories closed and business losses estimated at as much as $5 billion by one regional lobby group.
Plant-based foods raked in $4.9 billion in the last year, a 3.4 percent growth, according to the Plant Based Foods Association, a plant-based food lobby group.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA), an industry lobby group, said in June that the length of the proposed concession reduces flexibility to adapt to charging market conditions.
Projections from the National Restaurant Association were even more dire, with the lobby group predicting the industry could lose 5-7 million jobs over the next three months.
"We want to maintain the existing arrangements in terms of access," Sean O'Donoghue, founder of the European Fishing Alliance, a lobby group for European fishermen, told CNBC Thursday.
"Preserving the status quo is no good option," said Steven Tas, Chairman of ETNO, the European telecoms lobby group representing Deutsche Telekom, Telecom Italia and Telefonica, among others.
Bernard Barrett, a retired academic and volunteer for victims lobby group Broken Rites, was accused making false allegations against Pell when an accuser contacted him via his mother.
By 2025, the GSMA telecoms industry lobby group estimates operators globally will have spent $1 trillion building up 5G networks, offering a huge jackpot for the leading suppliers.
" In a speech to the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC in March, Trump declared that his "Number-One priority" would be to "dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran.
Hubertus Väth, managing director of lobby group Frankfurt Main Finance, told Business Insider earlier in July he was confident the EBA, Europe's banking authority, would move to Frankfurt.
Engineering lobby group VDMA, which represents manufacturing companies who need better internet connections to digitize their business, said the new coalition was "making a mess" of digital infrastructure.
Mercedes last year sold 36,888 passenger vehicles, a drop of 11 percent year on year, according to the Association of European Business (AEB), a lobby group which tracks sales.
A recent survey of several hundred by Charity & Security Network (C&SN), a lobby group, found two-thirds had experienced financial problems such as delayed transfers or account closures.
It has already received endorsement from lobby group Public Health Association of South Africa, saying it was a cheaper intervention measure to fight obesity-linked diseases such as diabetes.
But farmers and their FNSEA lobby group remain concerned about issues ranging from trade talks with the South American Mercosur bloc to a land-buying spree by Chinese investors.
Lobby group U.S.-India Business Council said the bill had raised some concerns and it would seek to work with the Indian government to improve it before its passage.
India's leading IT industry lobby group last November lowered its forecast for the sector's growth in the full fiscal year to March, to account for the uncertain global environment.
Erin Ennis of the US-China Business Council, a lobby group, worries that America is pushing past the point at which China will be persuaded to change its policies.
Nareit, an industry lobby group, says that in the past three years, industrial REITs made compound annual returns of almost 20% (REITs owning regional malls lost 6% a year).
On Monday, German bank lobby group BdB urged the ECB to lower the charge that banks pay on some of their excess cash by introducing a tiered deposit rate.
Cummings also questioned whether Bolton disclosed previous contacts with accused Russian spy Maria Butina when he was an official with the National Rifle Association, the U.S. gun lobby group.
However, when Waypoint asked the Entertainment Software Association—the game industry's most prominent lobby group—whether it would oppose cuts to the NEA and NEH, representatives responded with caution.
The 2018 result was down 9.1% from a year earlier, but narrowly above a full-year prediction of 45 million tonnes the importer lobby group made a year ago.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Rifle Association endorsed Republican Donald Trump for U.S. president on Friday and he responded by promising to serve the country's top gun lobby group well.
"I have never been to a board meeting where there's an armed encampment," said Jim Carroll, a founder of Kentucky Government Retirees, a lobby group for the system's retirees.
Fears of a government crackdown on mills led sugar lobby group, the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories Ltd (NFCSF), to write to its members this week seeking compliance.
According to the Centre for Entrepreneurs, a lobby group, by 2014 Poles had founded nearly 22,000 limited companies, the third-biggest number among EU citizens after Germans and Irish.
He has hired a high-power legal team and raised a A$2 million ($1.37 million) war-chest from supporters via a Christian lobby group to fund the proceedings.
The border tax proposal likely will be "as messy as the healthcare bill," according to Brian Dodge, senior executive vice-president of public affairs for the retail lobby group.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain should seek "equivalence" based market access to the European Union for the reinsurance market after Brexit, insurance lobby group London Market Group (LMG) said on Monday.
The National Rifle Association, the nation's largest gun lobby group, is also running ads online suggesting that Citibank and Bank of America may be infringing on anti-discrimination laws.
In an unusual move, the highly influential BDI industry lobby group, traditionally close to Merkel's conservatives, also called for a fiscal U-turn and a debt-financed stimulus package.
Nevertheless, French farmers and their FNSEA lobby group remain concerned about issues ranging from trade talks with South America's Mercosur bloc to a land-buying spree by Chinese investors.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's prolonged heatwave will impact food supplies later this year and would exacerbate any disruption caused by a hard Brexit, an industry lobby group warned on Wednesday.
Lobby group FairSearch, whose members include Google rivals such as British shopping comparison site Foundem and U.S. travel site TripAdvisor, said it would keep a close eye on developments.
OSLO, March 27 (Reuters) - Equinor will leave industry lobby group the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) over a disagreement about climate policy, the energy producer said on Friday.
"Preserving the status quo is no good option," said Steven Tas, Chairman of ETNO, the European telecoms lobby group representing Deutsche Telekom, Telecom Italia , Vodafone and Telefonica, among others.
The NOG's higher forecast was primarily because of the inclusion of more projects in the survey, such as Eni unit Vaar Energi's Balder X project, the lobby group said.
In making his case, he cited the nonprofit as a "left organization" currently receiving a discount from Delta, as the gun lobby group is poised to lose its discount.
The source in the industry lobby group said companies in the sector could accept higher fines if they were applied fairly and they replaced the practice of blocking sites.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Losses for already hard-pressed Danish farmers are likely to be bigger than previously expected, an industry lobby group said on Wednesday, warning this could trigger more bankruptcies.
"The idea that companies will just come back to the US is unrealistic," Bethany Aronhalt, a spokesperson for the National Retail Federation, a retail industry lobby group, told BuzzFeed News.
Nearly two-thirds of this group surveyed in America said they had witnessed or experienced age discrimination at work, according to the AARP, a lobby group for the over-423s.
The laws were written without consultation with technical specialists, according to business lobby group the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and the Institute for the Study of the Internet.
But some 20 percent of those were potentially "borrowed" from other Mediterranean destinations that have suffered from recent violence, such as Turkey or Egypt, according to industry lobby group Exceltur.
Another urging U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May to get out the check book is Michelle Hubert, head of infrastructure at the Confederation of British Industry, a lobby group for businesses.
GULLIVER is back from the 141st Slot Conference in Madrid, a meeting of airlines and airport co-ordinators run by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), an airline lobby group.
The proposed auction price will be a "serious impediment" to the uptake of 25G in India, said Rajan Mathews, director general of lobby group Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI).
The comment came after climate lobby group Market Forces lodged a shareholder resolution for the company to report on its fossil fuel exposure at its annual general meeting in September.
"To borrow a phrase, nothing has changed, or at least, very little has," Edwin Morgan, the head of the Institute of Directors, a business lobby group, said in a statement.
At a meeting with Zuma in September, the Black Business Council (BBC), a lobby group trying to boost black ownership of the economy, urged him not to sign the bill.
The Club for Growth, an influential conservative lobby group, said it would spend at least $500,000 for ads on television and digital platforms urging Congress members to defeat the bill.
MOSCOW, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Russian auto sales fell 5 percent in January compared to the same period last year, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group said on Wednesday.
Elsewhere, the Institute of Directors, a U.K. based lobby group, suggested on Monday that the uncertainty created by the General Election had caused business confidence to fall "through the floor".
The companies are vying to develop rockets to carry satellites into orbit in what the Satellite Industry Association lobby group estimates is a roughly $5.5 billion satellite launch services market.
In a statement, Carolyn Fairbairn, the director general of the nation's main business lobby group, the Confederation of British Industry, welcomed that development but highlighted the anxieties of many companies.
It was formed after British Airways (BA) owner IAG left the main lobby group for full-service airlines, the Association of European Airlines, over what it saw as its ineffectiveness.
Sanders said his remarks Monday were largely what he would have delivered at the conference held by the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a notorious Washington, DC, lobby group.
Shortly after Trump's speech, pharmaceutical industry lobby group PhRMA said it opposed the changes, which it said would limit access to drugs for cancer and chronic conditions like rheumatoid arthritis.
OSLO (Reuters) - Five Norwegian oil and gas fields will shut down production unless a wage deal is agreed with the Lederne trade union, an industry lobby group said on Friday.
MOSCOW, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Russia's auto sales were 16.7 percent higher in August, year-on-year, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group said in a statement on Friday.
With the aid of the powerful lobby group American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), 28 of the 34 states needed to call such a convention have passed measures calling for one.
EU ETS emissions fell to 1.7 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2018 from 1.754 billion tonnes, the report by green lobby group Sandbag and German thinktank Agora Energiewende estimated.
New car sales plunged 250 percent last year and are forecast to decline for the fourth year running in 2016, according to the Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group.
"I don't think in the long run that there will be terminal damage [to London]," McFarlane said in an interview in his capacity as chair of lobby group The CityUK.
In 2009, Ms. Wilson-Raybould became the province's regional chief for the Assembly of First Nations, the largest lobby group for First Nations people in the country, representing 634 reserves.
The lobby group EDiMA, which represents internet giants like Google, Twitter and Facebook, hired cars with massive posters pasted to them in Brussels encouraging lawmakers to vote down the changes.
The National Foreign Trade Council, a business lobby group in Washington, called the Mariel restriction "counterproductive" because it would hurt a Cuban government initiative that could potentially benefit Cuban workers.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's food supply could be seriously disrupted if it leaves the EU without a deal, a lobby group representing Sainsbury's, Asda, McDonald's, KFC and other firms said on Monday.
Its comments were echoed by telecoms lobby group GSMA, which includes 300 operators worldwide, while the European Telecommunications Network Operators Association emphasized the importance of a fact-based and harmonized policy.
Separately, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported that environmental lobby group DUH has filed for an injunction against Daimler with a court in Stuttgart, claiming the carmaker provided customers with misleading information on emissions.
Butina, accused by U.S. prosecutors of acting as a Russian agent to infiltrate the powerful National Rifle Association lobby group and influence American policy toward Moscow, was expected to plea guilty.
Britain's National Secular Society, a lobby group whose declared aim is to end religious privilege, chose the Christmas season to issue a wide-ranging report on the public role of faith.
These proportions are common in the capital, and even in the regions can be as high as 13%, says Ufi Ibrahim, the head of the British Hospitality Association, a lobby group.
This week a report for Open Britain, a pro-EU lobby group, by the Centre for Economics and Business Research gave warning of the high costs of leaving the single market.
Handelsblatt auto conference takes place in Stuttgart with Daimler CEO Ola Kaellenius, Volkswagen executive board member Stefan Sommer and the head of Germany's VDA lobby group, Bernhard Mattes, among the speakers.
Prior to the communications, the chemistry industry's main lobby group, the American Chemistry Council (ACC), had been pressuring the EPA to avoid drawing links between formaldehyde and leukemia in its assessment.
A decade ago, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was the target of an elaborate hoax — a fake press conference — announcing the business lobby group was supporting climate change legislation (it wasn't).
Joachim Lang, the director general of the influential lobby group Federation of German Industries (BDI), told CNBC Wednesday that the backstop should not be the main focus of talks right now.
"The president creatively skirted around this subject," said Alexander Shokhin, a former deputy prime minister and now the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, an employers' lobby group.
On December 5th, days after the Republicans' tax bill passed in the Senate, confidence among chief executives reached its highest level for nearly six years, says Business Roundtable, a lobby group.
Jaime Castaneda, senior vice president for the U.S. Dairy Export Council, said the influential lobby group will pursue fresh challenges through the World Trade Organization unless Canada stops the proteins sale.
Those who agree with the extremely powerful gun lobby group "have been taught by the NRA tactics over the years to be empowered and to throw their weight around," he said.
The Satellite Industry Association, a lobby group, estimates the global market for satellite-based broadband and television services is worth $127.7 billion, dwarfing the roughly $5.5 billion satellite launch services market.
Its comments were echoed by telecoms lobby group GSMA, which includes 300 operators worldwide, while the European Telecommunications Network Operators Association emphasised the importance of a fact-based and harmonised policy.
The Satellite Industry Association lobby group estimates the global market for satellite-based broadband and television services is worth $127.7 billion, dwarfing the roughly $5.5 billion satellite launch services market. Amazon.
"We have accepted the fact that we are going to have financial casualties, what we don't want are actual casualties," said Andrew Hoggard, dairy industry chairman for lobby group Federated Farmers.
CEO of lobby group for insurers stepping down Marilyn Tavenner is stepping down as head of the powerful insurance lobby America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) after three years at the helm.
LONDON, July 29 (Reuters) - Britain should seek "equivalence" based market access to the European Union for the reinsurance market after Brexit, insurance lobby group London Market Group (LMG) said on Monday.
Between 2012 and 2015, 1,205 individuals and companies were prosecuted for securities offences in Canada, but fewer than 40 went to jail, according to FAIR, a lobby group for investor rights.
The Club for Growth, an influential conservative lobby group, said it would spend at least $500,000 for ads on television and digital platforms urging members of Congress to defeat the bill.
"We would have preferred a different decision because we believe that Frankfurt, all things considered, best meets the criteria stipulated," said Lutz Raettig, president of the lobby group Frankfurt Main Finance.
Little wonder the powerful venture capital lobby group — the National Venture Capital Association — has been trying to talk the SEC into changing its definition of what constitutes a venture capital firm.
"It's the combination of money laundering, Russian oligarchs and maybe even criminals, that worries the Danes," said Leonhardt Pihl, CEO of the Danish Shareholders Association, a lobby group for private investors.
About half a billion people live in informal settlements in cities in the region, as the pace of urbanization quickens, according to the lobby group Asian Coalition of Housing Rights (ACHR).
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asia's competitiveness in fintech is being undermined by the rivalry among the region's financial centers that has created regulatory complexity and uncertainty, a financial lobby group has warned.
"The Chinese have a track record of retaliation in situations like this," said Brian Kingston, the vice president of international policy at the Business Council of Canada, a corporate lobby group.
The company released the memo on the eve of Thanksgiving, days after Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, said that she had no idea it had hired the lobby group, Definers.
Although the House bill was narrowly passed by the chamber last Thursday, Silicon Valley's leading lobby group, the Consumer Technology Association, has said it that it really likes the Senate plan.
MOSCOW, July 4 (Reuters) - Sales of new cars in Russia fell 3.3% year on year in June to 151,180 units, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group said on Thursday.
Trump, who spoke with NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre multiple times on the phone earlier this week, told reporters he expects the nation's biggest pro-gun lobby group to come around.
MOSCOW, Oct 10 (Reuters) - New car sales in Russia fell 10.9 percent year-on-year to 125,568 vehicles in September, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group said on Monday.
Investor lobby group The Australian Shareholders' Association said in a statement it was "horrified" by the alleged reporting breaches and wanted to know the board's response "as a matter of urgency".
MOSCOW, April 8 (Reuters) - New car sales in Russia fell 10.0 percent year-on-year to 125,917 vehicles in March, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group said on Friday.
In Britain, where S-92 flights were also stopped, the oil and gas industry lobby group said the inspections would create some "short-term disruption to operations" in the North Sea.
A new survey by the US Chamber of Commerce, a lobby group, claims that only 12% of small businesses in America know about the law, let alone have prepared for it.
"The problem is that 'no deal' actually creates the biggest uncertainty," Lord Karan Bilimoria, vice president of the Confederation of British Industry, a lobby group, told CNN's Richard Quest last week.
"Historically, our industry has been an excellent starting point for new Americans," Barry Carpenter, the chief executive of the North American Meat Institute, an industry lobby group, said in a statement.
The total would comprise an estimated 30 million tonnes for power generation and 15 million tonnes of coking coal and coke, products used in steelmaking, data from lobby group VDKI showed.
Knight had announced in June that she would be leaving for a job at a banking lobby group but instead she will stay on and replace legislative affairs director Marc Short.
"We have heard no specific proposals and haven't offered any," said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation, the largest farm lobby group in the nation.
NEW YORK, April 11 (IFR) - A powerful commercial real estate lobby group has hired a new deputy executive director after the departure of its CEO and another senior management figure last month.
Morgan FoxSpokesperson for Marijuana Policy Project, an influential lobby group focusing on reforming federal law so states can decide legalizationMarijuana has gotten more potent over the last few decades for several reasons.
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main pharmaceutical lobby group has urged the government not to wait for drug shortages before responding to U.S. plans to import Canadian drugs, according to documents seen by Reuters.
Bermuda's parliament and Senate passed an act banning same-sex marriages last year following pressure from a religious lobby group, in a rare reversal of a Western trend toward equal marriage rights.
Near coastal Seattle, this means poor non-white neighbourhoods which are more vulnerable to flooding and, because they are nearer roads, have dirtier air, explains Ellicott Dandy of OneAmerica, a lobby group.
Mining shares fell to more than one-year lows when Minister Mosebenzi Zwane released the revised charter, and its implementation has since been suspended after a lobby group challenged it in court.
Kagoike heads the Osaka branch of Nippon Kaigi, or Japan Conference, a nationalist lobby group with close ties to Abe and his Cabinet and for which education reform is a key tenet.
The lobby group AISCAT, which includes Atlantia's motorway unit Autostrade per l'Italia (ASPI), appealed the measure, and its decision to drop its case may signal an end to the dispute is near.
Hubertus Vaeth, who heads lobby group Frankfurt Main Finance, last month said he was confident that of the five leading U.S. investment banks, three will move some operations to Germany next year.
"These are the transactions Australia needs if it is going to get out of the low growth, low productivity scenarios," said Brendan Lyon, chief executive of industry lobby group Infrastructure Partnerships Australia.
The business lobby group, which represents Samsung, Hyundai Motor Group and other conglomerates, also called for the government to create a business-friendly environment by eliminating regulations and nurturing new growth areas.
A major lobby group warned that a disorderly Brexit would disrupt almost every part of the UK economy, and French carmaker PSA said new trade barriers could doom its factory near Liverpool.
The now-defunct Project Exile that Kaine backed was so unusual it was championed by Republicans and Democrats alike and by both the top U.S. gun lobby group and gun-control advocates.
It became such a popular strategy that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a business lobby group, began to question if the majority of U.S. public companies should continue to incorporate in Delaware.
"This opportunity is unique, maybe once in a lifetime," said Jack Gerard, president of the Washington D.C.-based American Petroleum Institute lobby group, referring to prospects for increased access to federal leases.
Sales of new cars in Russia are expected to rise 3.6 percent this year, marking a slowdown from last year, according to an estimate from the Association of European Businesses lobby group.
Meanwhile Gerard Mestrallet, the head of the Paris Europlace lobby group, lost little time making the case for tax incentives to Finance Minister Michel Sapin, securing a meeting with him on Tuesday.
Revenue from India's IT sector is likely to grow 8 to 1.623 percent in constant currency terms in the fiscal year ending March 2017, a local lobby group said late last year.
Paula Avila-Guillen of the Centre for Reproductive Rights, a lobby group in New York, notes that rates of sexual violence and teenage pregnancy in Latin America are among the world's highest.
Studies by the free trade lobby group, the Consuming Industries Trade Action Coalition (CITAC), found that 200,000 workers in U.S. manufacturing lost their jobs as a result of the 2002 steel tariffs.
"More missions previously done by the police, or by public authorities, are now given to private companies," says Catherine Piana, head of COESS, a pan-European industry lobby group based in Brussels.
There are worrisome projections: Arturo Vargas of the NALEO Educational Fund, a Latino lobby group, reckons 875,000 Latino voters could be impeded by new regulations in November, 90% of them in Texas.
The lawsuit asks the court, in part, to award unspecified monetary damages to the NRA and stop the state from prohibiting the insurance companies from doing business with the gun lobby group.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's bank lobby group BdB has urged the European Central Bank to lower the charge that banks pay on some of their excess cash by introducing a tiered deposit rate.
Karen Kerrigan, president and CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, a lobby group, said the tax reform plan will drive economic growth and therefore higher revenue-growth potential for small businesses.
Rob Nichols, head of the American Bankers Association, a lobby group, praised Mr Clinger, who he has known for nearly two decades, as someone "deeply versed in all issues surrounding financial regulation".
"My vision is I want Seriti to move into that tier where it's a mining house that people will think of," said Teke, a former chairman of lobby group Chamber of Mines.
"Customers are already dealing with increased transportation costs and major service disruptions because of the ongoing CSX service failures," said Scott Jensen, a spokesman for the American Chemistry Council, a lobby group.
U.S. cruise operators and airlines could lose around $712 million in annual revenues if the Trump administration fully reinstates restrictions on travel, Washington lobby group Engage Cuba said in a recent report.
MOSCOW, March 6 (Reuters) - Sales of new cars in Russia fell 3.6 percent year on year in February to 128,406 units, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group said on Wednesday.
A top U.S. business lobby group said last month that its members face increased obstacles in China such as government inspections, slower customs clearance and slower approval for licensing and other applications.
PhRMA, the main pharmaceutical industry lobby group, disagreed, saying in a statement that the move ended the only government proposal that would have provided immediate savings at the pharmacy counter for patients.
The Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA), a lobby group of India's largest drugmakers, said it supports mandatory rules for curbing undesirable marketing practices, but they should be transparent, easy to implement and unambiguous.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Tall ships carrying climate change banners sailed into Australia's Sydney Harbour on Saturday launching a wave of protest across 95 countries organized by New York-based lobby group 350.org.
China has told American executives that it will retaliate against American companies if Mr. Trump levies tariffs against Beijing, according to a business lobby group, the American Chamber of Commerce in China.
With contracts lasting for such short periods, manufacturers see no reason to invest in new production plants, says Adrian van den Hoven of Medicines for Europe, a generic-drug-industry lobby group.
Dybvad, former head of the main Danish business lobby group and a former government official, been tasked with appointing a new permanent chief executive after Thomas Borgen resigned in September last year.
Most major British firms are seriously considering the risk of Britain leaving the EU and many are making contingency plans, according to the head of the Confederation of British Industry lobby group.
The ECB could also apply a larger haircut on polluting assets offered as collateral in its market operations, Stanislas Jourdan of lobby group Positive Money Europe said after meeting Lagarde this week.
Jake Parker of the US-China Business Council, a lobby group for American companies operating in China, notes that such tech transfer was the biggest concern for many of his group's members.
Kushner and his father, who established his family's real estate empire, donated tens of thousands of dollars to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a pro-Israel lobby group in Washington.
The largest drug lobby group in America spent record-breaking amounts on lobbying in the first quarter of 2018 as it fought a bipartisan drug pricing measure working its way through Congress.
Brazil's powerful farm lobby group CNA said in a statement following the president's signature that it had filed a new petition at the Supreme Court to challenge the constitutionality of the law.
One of the sources who told Reuters about the proposal works for a Russian technology firm, one is at a foreign tech company and the third works for an industry lobby group.
Five days later, the secretary gave a speech to the pro-Israel lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to show his support for the US ally and disdain for Iran.
These plans have to pass Congress, but the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a lobby group, estimated that they would push American debt to 105% of GDP (from 77%) in a decade.
The registration of new Tesla cars in Norway fell by 24 percent in the first 11 months of 2016 compared with 2015, according to data from lobby group Road Traffic Information Council (OFV).
"That was the cardinal sin," Klaus Nieding of the shareholder lobby group DSW said, adding that the powerful investment bank took on a life of its own and faced little supervision from Frankfurt.
El Al has asked an airline industry lobby group to help it access Saudi Arabian airspace, so it can compete with Air India's planned route between India and Israel, Reuters reported on Thursday.
"They want good returns and you get that by investing and squeezing the rest of production out of your assets," Mike Tholen, economics director of lobby group Oil and Gas UK, told Reuters.
The move to end NRATV's programming comes amid troubles for the powerful lobby group, with reports of infighting among its top ranks and scrutiny of its finances by the New York attorney general.
Trump suggested on Friday he could persuade the powerful National Rifle Association lobby group to drop its strong opposition to gun restrictions after recent mass shootings that have reignited the gun control debate.
Among those who raised their voices in defence of the Catholic school was Shaista Gohir, a woman from Birmingham who now runs the nationwide Muslim Women's Network, an independent lobby group and charity.
The breadth of EU regulation in the food industry is extraordinary, covering everything from hygiene to storage, says Helen Munday, the chief scientific officer at the Food and Drink Federation, a lobby group.
"We strongly believe that this would incentivize depositors to run from a bank at an early stage," Charlie Bannister of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), a banking lobby group, said.
It was also the subject of a last-minute legal challenge by the NUMSA labor union and Transform RSA lobby group, but a court rejected their application for an urgent interdict last week.
Drugmakers, represented in Canada by lobby group Innovative Medicines Canada, have argued that lower prices would delay drug launches, reduce investment in life sciences and drive new drug trials out of the country.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's decision to end its EU membership will affect UK banks' ability to serve customers across Europe and create years of uncertainty in markets, industry lobby group AFME said on Friday.
PARIS, Sept 27 (Reuters) - U.S. bank Citigroup Inc has appointed the former head of France's main business lobby group, Laurence Parisot, as chairwoman and managing director of its French unit, the bank said.
The Institute of Directors lobby group said 63 percent of executives who took part in its survey wanted to stay in the EU, up from 60 percent in a previous poll in February.
The International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed (IPIFF), a lobby group, has forecast that Europe's insect protein production could surge to 1.2 million tonnes by 2025 from about 13,000 tonnes currently.
OSLO, Aug 27 (Reuters) - The volume of salmon in cages at Norwegian fish farms, as measured by weight, fell by 1 percent year-on-year in July, industry lobby group Seafood Norway said.
The Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH), a lobby group which has advocated banning polluting cars from roads, said proposals to cut diesel fumes, which were agreed at a high-profile summit this month, remain inadequate.
That is because Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, has appointed to its ranks the contentious figure of Tony Perkins, the evangelical Christian president of the Family Research Council, a conservative lobby group.
In response, Robert Whelan, the head of the Insurance Council of Australia, the industry's lobby group, said the body did not penalise its members for breaches because they focused instead on remediating customers.
One high-street tracker, BDO, recorded its worst October for a decade; the British Retail Consortium, a lobby group, recorded a 1% drop in like-for-like sales compared with the previous year.
The VATM lobby group, which represents Deutsche Telekom's rivals, welcomed the Monopoly Commission's call for lighter-touch regulation while ruling out a free-for-all in laying fiber connections to buildings and homes.
"The judgment will either promote the digital single market or lead to more market fragmentation for online innovators," said Jakob Kucharczyk, vice president for competition and EU regulatory policy at the lobby group.
The chief executive of the International Air Transport Association, the airline lobby group, has estimated that extending the ban to Europe alone would cost passengers $1bn through longer travel times and lost productivity.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's capital markets would probably face the same degree of regulation even if voters opt leave the European Union in a referendum in June this year, banking lobby group ICMA said.
Arkady Zlochevsky, head of Grain Union, a non-state farmers' lobby group, said it would be good for Russia to export 55 million tonnes this season but it will only ship 45 million.
MOSCOW, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Sales of new cars in Russia rose 8.2 percent in October from a year earlier to 160,425 cars, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group said on Wednesday.
David Wiens, vice president of the Dairy Farmers of Canada lobby group, said Canadian farmers have already given up around 5 percent of a domestic market worth around C$21 billion ($17 billion).
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain must stay in a comprehensive customs union with the European Union in order to preserve trade in its biggest markets after Brexit, the business lobby group CBI said on Sunday.
The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations industry lobby group said the resolution's "single focus" on price fell short of the complexity needed to address issues about affordability and access to medicines.
"Do you think that workers who are producing high-level fashion for the global market should be living like rats?" asked Anannya Bhattacharjee of the Asia Floor Wage Alliance, a workers' lobby group.
"These types of provisions are essential for any modern trade agreement," said Keith Kupferschmid, CEO of the Copyright Alliance, a U.S.-based lobby group for software developers, photographers, the entertainment industry and others.
He was scheduled to meet 154 times during the period with officials from companies such as Exxon Mobil and trade associations such as the American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry's biggest lobby group.
MOSCOW, May 8 (Reuters) - Sales of new cars in Russia rose 17.6 percent in April compared to the same period last year, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group said on Tuesday.
Erik Milito, director of exploration and production with the American Petroleum Institute, an industry lobby group that opposed the rule, said if left in place the regulations would have discouraged new energy development.
Norine Kennedy, a vice president at the lobby group United States Council for International Business, said that corporations and the technological solutions they provide needed to be part of any realistic climate settlement.
According to the Polish Wind Energy Association (PWEA), a non-government wind farm lobby group, Poland achieved 13.9 percent of electricity consumption through renewables last year, short of a target of 14.7 percent.
"Today's decision is hugely significant and appropriate just days ahead of the global climate strike and global climate week in New York," said Amanda McKenzie, chief executive of environmental lobby group Climate Council.
"President Trump shouldn't follow the lead of San Francisco, Mike Bloomberg, and the far left anti-business extremists," the Vapor Technology Association, a lobby group for the vape industry, said in a statement.
You might gloss over a lot of it, but if there's one thing you should remember it's that the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) is the lobby group for Big Mining in Australia.
The Polish Wind Energy Association, a lobby group, wants to build a new center on the site, to train ex-miners and other local workers for jobs in the country's burgeoning wind industry.
Netanyahu, who will speak to the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC on Tuesday, awaits a decision by Israel's attorney general on whether to indict him, as police have recommended in two bribery cases.
More coal-fueled power stations are also expected to be built, with an industry lobby group predicting total coal-fired capacity to peak at 1,300 gigawatts, meaning another 290 GW could go into operation.
The German video streaming market, which also includes products that don't need a subscription, is estimated to grow almost a quarter to 717 million euros this year, according to German technology lobby group Bitkom.
A report published in May by Marsh and industry lobby group TheCityUK concluded that Britain's financial sector should create a cyber forum comprising bank board members and risk officers to promote better information sharing.
Mara Keisling of the National Centre for Transgender Equality, an American lobby group, claims that it has made "faster progress than any movement in American history", and the same holds true across the globe.
"The growing numbers of protests is a result of the military government's policies to centralize land, forest and natural resources management without consulting with local communities," said Sutharee Wannasiri at lobby group Fortify Rights.
The complaint stems from an incident on August 11 when seven cashiers were arrested for taking tips from customers, according to a statement from Workers International Vanguard Party, a leftist party and lobby group.
Another key issue is the future of the financial services in the U.K. This week, the lobby group TheCityUK, said that it had dropped its demand that the U.K. should keep its passporting rights.
Last year investors pulled an estimated $540 billion out of emerging markets, the first capital outflow from these economies since 1988, according to the Washington-based banking lobby group the Institute of International Finance.
America's main tourism lobby group is now urging Mr Trump, who presumably has some sympathy with other hoteliers, to emphasise that the country continues to welcome foreign visitors despite all the new security measures.
Italy's main motorway lobby group said on Monday it was dropping a court appeal against a government decree making it easier to cancel motorway concessions because it was confident the dispute would be resolved.
The state's exports rose 2 percent to 803 million tonnes in 2015 from the previous record of 216 million tonnes in 2014, and continue to grow, according to the Queensland Resources Council lobby group.
SHANGHAI, June 13 (Reuters) - China should not restrict access for U.S. financial firms if the trade war escalates and spills into the financial sector, said a lobby group representing global banks and asset managers.
Kay Bommer of DIRK, a lobby group that represents over 300 listed companies in Germany, says that some clever activists try to exploit differences of opinion between supervisory and management boards of German firms.
According to Steven Jaffe, co-chair of a lobby group called the Northern Ireland Friends of Israel, Ulster Unionists admire Israeli military prowess and what they regard as stoicism in the face of terrorism.
MOSCOW, July 7 (Reuters) - Sales of new cars in Russia in June rose by 15 percent compared with June 2016 and reached 141,084, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group said on Friday.
The American Bankers Association, the top Washington bank lobby group, has contributed $83,000 to Senate Democratic candidates this cycle and is leading the industry's push to regain bipartisan support, said its CEO Rob Nichols.
TORONTO, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Canada's main pharmaceutical lobby group has urged the government not to wait for drug shortages before responding to U.S. plans to import Canadian drugs, according to documents seen by Reuters.
However, the lobby group, which counts Wipro Ltd Chairman Rishad Premji and Infosys Ltd Chief Operating Officer U.B. Pravin Rao among its governing members, said it awaited clarity from official sources on the matter.
"Actually, the bill is unlikely to be even discussed in parliament," Hiroshi Ikeda, of Same-sex Partnership Net Japan lobby group, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, citing a lack of support from opposition parties.
ALMATY, March 31 (Reuters) - Magzhan Auezov, chief executive of Kazkommertsbank, Kazakhstan's biggest lender, will step down next month if he is elected head of a local industry lobby group, the bank said on Thursday.
If Britain chooses to leave the European Union (EU) this summer, its economy could suffer a "serious shock" and there would be a "real blow" for jobs, a leading business lobby group has warned.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's IT services sector will likely grow slower than expected this financial year as local and global factors weigh on the outsourcing industry, a leading local industry lobby group said on Wednesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A Swiss anti-corruption lobby group has filed a criminal complaint against Credit Suisse over alleged fraud in the arrangement of $2 billion of loans to Mozambique, the group said on Monday.
The inability of legislators to act on gun control is a regular reminder of the political power in Congress of the pro-gun National Rifle Association (NRA), perhaps the country's most influential lobby group.
PARIS (Reuters) - France's FIEV car equipment lobby group has canceled a July trip to Iran in light of current tensions between the United States and other European powers over a 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
BERLIN (Reuters) - German environmental lobby group DUH stepped up its campaign against auto industry pollution on Tuesday, accusing Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' 500X compact sport-utility vehicle of releasing excessive levels of toxic diesel emissions.
However, while companies generally comply with the minimum-wage levels set by governments in Asia, these wages "fall far below a wage a person could live on", according to lobby group Clean Clothes Campaign.
A lobby group called the Committee for Melbourne is behind a push for the Australian city to have half of its pedestrian lights feature a female silhouette, as opposed to the usual male version.
Other carmakers are expected to back such a solution at the diesel summit on Wednesday, but lobby group DUH and a Stuttgart regional court dismissed software updates as being inadequate solutions for tackling pollution.
Companies have yet to tot up the cost of a week of coughing, spluttering and watering eyes, but local industry lobby group Assocham estimates "several billions of dollars" of new investments are under threat.
Asset Managers Roundtable of India (AMRI), a lobby group of FPIs, said the higher tax could affect many large foreign mutual funds and pension funds, and hit India's reputation as a stable tax jurisdiction.
JOHANNESBURG, March 28 (Reuters) - South Africa's Chamber of Mines is "deeply concerned" about President Jacob Zuma order to recall his finance minister from an investor roadshow abroad, the industry lobby group said on Tuesday.
The Doctors Association, a lobby group, warned last week that NHS staff felt like "lambs to the slaughter" and said that a lack of safety equipment was endangering the lives of patients as well.
"The National Rifle Association is calling on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to immediately review whether these devices comply with federal law," the powerful gun lobby group said in a statement.
"As China has reduced its dependence on coal domestically it has expanded overseas, to relieve excess domestic capacity," said Katharine Lu, who researches energy investments at Friends of the Earth, an environmental lobby group.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), who just came back from a trip sponsored by the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC, is asking Israeli officials to reconsider banning the two members of Congress.
IP Europe, a lobby group which includes Nokia and other European telecoms firms such as Ericsson and Orange, said its new guidelines would support small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) as they develop technology.
He's also a former member of the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC) and the Dallas Safari Club, and currently is the director of a trophy hunting lobby group called Conservation Force.
Steve Lang, the president of the American Bridal and Prom Industry Association, a lobby group representing makers of wedding gowns and tuxedos, reported that his firm was already paying millions of dollars in tariffs.
Dimon's comments echoed arguments made by Washington lobby group the Bank Policy Institute, which earlier this month warned money markets would suffer a spike in volatility exacerbated by the Fed's liquidity coverage ratio rule.
MOSCOW, March 6 (Reuters) - Sales of new cars in Russia rose 24.7 percent in February compared to the same period a year ago, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group said on Tuesday.
OPPI, a lobby group for multinational drugmakers, criticised the move, saying codeine-based combinations under the ban have the approval of India's drug controller, and companies were never made aware that these were being reviewed.
Transgender Trend, a lobby group, claims that the desire to transition can spread by social contagion, and that many young people who identify as trans are going through a "phase" or have somehow been misled.
The Remote Gambling Association (RGA), an industry lobby group whose members include bookmaker's William Hill, Paddy Power and Ladbrokes, will agree to stop the ads during live broadcasts, which have become commonplace across English soccer.
The lobby group Taxpayers Don't Give Up and the main opposition party, the centre-right Slovenian Democratic Party, had pushed for the referendum, arguing that the line, as projected by the government, was too expensive.
Lobby group Frankfurt Main Finance (FMF) released the figure last week, which it calculated based on a confirmation that 30 financial institutions had applied to the European Central Bank to move their headquarters to Frankfurt.
Gilberto Lopez Meyer, IATA's senior vice president for safety and flight operations, told reporters the airline industry lobby group will discuss the creation of a global registry jointly sponsored with the International Civil Aviation Organization.
"A hard Brexit scenario poses a risk of approximately 220 million allowances issued by the United Kingdom to be offloaded onto the market between 1 January 2018 and 29 March 2019," the lobby group said.
How the economy performs matters: one recent poll for Open Britain, a pro-EU lobby group, found that half of Leave voters are not ready to be made worse off as a result of Brexit.
Indian IT industry lobby group, the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), estimates local IT firms would incur an extra $400 million a year in costs due to the spike in visa fees.
Canadian crude output will grow by a third to 23.8 million barrels per day (bpd) by 27.45, the country's main oil lobby group said on Tuesday, raising predictions for the first time in four years.
William Dermody of the American Beverage Association, a lobby group, was jubilant claiming the repeal of the tax showed that "beverage taxes are really a money grab that has nothing to do with public health".
"The revised regulations could limit Canadian patients access to new innovative medicines by delaying, even discouraging the launch of new medicines in Canada," said Innovative Medicines Canada, the main industry lobby group, in a statement.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's VDA car lobby group said on Wednesday it views the European Union's proposed tougher car emissions targets as hard to meet and putting European car makers at a disadvantage in global markets.
The code, which includes a whistleblowing clause, has encouraged employees to speak out, says Toshiaki Oguchi of Governance for Owners Japan, a governance lobby group (Toray disclosed its cheating only after an anonymous online post).
Britain's most powerful financial lobby group, TheCityUK, cautioned against complacency and called for clarity on its transitional arrangements for leaving the EU, which will apply beyond April 2019, when Britain is due to formally leave.
Alison Capper, who chairs the horticultural board of the National Farmers Union, a lobby group, says that some British farmers are now having to make decisions "as to what to pick and what to leave".
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said in a speech to a pro-Israel lobby group in Washington on Monday Iran still posed a threat to Israel and needed to be closely watched.
That is well below earlier targets and half what industry lobby group FEE recommended, but the government hopes that by creating a level playing field and focusing on price, it will be third time lucky.
Indian IT industry lobby group the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) estimates local IT firms would incur an extra $400 million a year in costs due to the spike in visa fees.
Will Fischer, director of government relations for the VoteVets lobby group, said his group hopes Jackson will oppose any attempt to privatize the VA or its health services, a concept that Republicans talk about occasionally.
Israel's flag carrier El Al, which must take more circuitous paths to avoid Saudi Arabia, has asked the International Air Transport Association, an airline industry lobby group, to help it gain access to Saudi airspace.
MOSCOW, June 8 (Reuters) - Sales of new cars in Russia in May rose by 14.7 percent compared with May 2016 and reached 124,990 cars, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group said on Thursday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African banking industry lobby group on Monday criticized President Jacob Zuma's order to call back home his finance minister from a roadshow abroad, saying the move risked a sovereign credit rating downgrade.
Shanaaz Gokool of Dying with Dignity, a lobby group, thinks that the age cut-off of 18 is too high, and the (rather woolly) criterion of "reasonably foreseeable" death from terminal illness is too tight.
"(Higher) costs are not regarded favourably, but ... we've got to step up," said OWA Chairman Brad Herald, who is also vice president of western operations for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers industry lobby group.
LONDON, June 24 (Reuters) - Britain's decision to end its EU membership will affect UK banks' ability to serve customers across Europe and create years of uncertainty in markets, industry lobby group AFME said on Friday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The lobby group for Wall Street's structured finance companies has partnered with the trade association for the blockchain industry to explore ways blockchain technology can streamline the $1.9 trillion U.S. securitization market.
An Ernst & Young study commissioned by pharmaceutical lobby group Innovative Medicines Canada argued that new drugs tend to be launched later in some countries with strict price controls than in the United States or Canada.
And he knocked Clinton for devoting so little time to the plight of Palestinians in her recent speech to AIPAC, the Jewish lobby group that Sanders snubbed last month by declining to speak to them.
The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), a Quaker lobby group, has flown students from across the country to the nation's capital to urge members of Congress to support bills in the House and Senate.
A local community lobby group, Marange Development Trust, supported by Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association earlier this year approached the court saying ZCDC breached the law by mining without a license from Environmental Management Agency (EMA).
LONDON (Reuters) - Some British health workers fighting the coronavirus outbreak on the ground still feel inadequately protected, the head of the National Health Service Confederation a lobby group which represents swathes of the health service.
BP said in February it would leave the main U.S. refining lobby group, the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), a leading U.S. refining lobby, and two other trade groups due to disagreements over climate policies.
A major lobby group warned last month that a disorderly Brexit would disrupt almost every part of the UK economy, and French carmaker PSA (PUGOY) said new trade barriers could doom its factory near Liverpool.
The main Italian motorway lobby group AISCAT and Atlantia's toll road unit Autostrade per l'Italia said on Friday that highway tunnels in the country were safe, denying media reports that 200 passages were at risk.
Why it matters: This is the starkest reversal from the Chamber, America's most powerful business lobby group, since it began pursuing a broader shift months ago to more readily acknowledge and engage on climate change.
FRANKFURT, Oct 11 (Reuters) - A surcharge levied on German consumers to support renewable power will likely fall by 4.2 percent in 2019, helping relieve end customers' bills, renewable energy lobby group BEE said on Thursday.
"In Deutsche Bank's current situation, what is needed is not so much visions as hard realism," said Klaus Nieding, vice president of shareholder lobby group DSW and a sceptic of a tie-up with Commerzbank.
OSLO (Reuters) - Oil and gas investments in Norway are expected to rise by 3.8% next year to 20203 billion Norwegian crowns ($21.2 billion) before declining in subsequent years, an industry lobby group said on Thursday.
Jake Parker of the US-China Business Council, a lobby group, reports that his members have realised that the threat of future levies would still lurk even if a deal were struck and tariffs lifted.
OPPI, a lobby group for multinational drugmakers, criticized the move, saying codeine-based combinations under the ban have the approval of India's drug controller, and companies were never made aware that these were being reviewed.
The Confederation of British Industry, the UK's leading business lobby group, warned the league tables should not end up as a "box-ticking exercise" and equally should not be used to "name and shame" firms.
For one, the satirical Dutch video describes America's love of guns as so bad that it is an illness: Nonsensical Rifle Addiction, or NRA — a reference to the biggest gun lobby group in the country.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian IT services exports are likely to grow at a slower pace next fiscal year than in the recent past as global clients rein in technology spending, an industry lobby group said on Thursday.
MUNICH (Reuters) - Munich prosecutors have opened a preliminary inquiry into allegations made this week by Germany's main environmental lobby group that a BMW diesel model is fitted with engine software capable of cheating on emissions tests.
"It's hard to see higher growth because we don't have the labor needed for that," said Steen Nielsen, the director of labor market policy at the Confederation of Danish Industry, the country's main business lobby group.
But government data gathered by the Environmental Working Group, a Washington, D.C.-based lobby group, from public records requests shows the United States had paid farmers $2003 million for 2200,257 corn claims as of Oct. 21983.
JOHANNESBURG, April 29 (Reuters) - A Swiss anti-corruption lobby group has filed a criminal complaint against Credit Suisse over alleged fraud in the arrangement of $2 billion of loans to Mozambique, the group said on Monday.
"It is not really a question of us allowing talented scientists and engineers to come here," Sarah Main, the director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CASE), a lobby group, told MPs during the inquiry.
OSLO (Reuters) - Oil and gas investment in Norway is expected to grow for a second year in a row in 258 but will fall back between 221 and 230, an industry lobby group said on Monday.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German banks are seeking to blunt any fresh U.S. sanctions against Russia so they can continue existing business with Russian clients, according to an internal briefing paper prepared by a financial industry lobby group.
Jennifer Westacott, the head of the Business Council of Australia, a lobby group, declared that she had been in a same-sex relationship for 30 years and had "spent my whole life feeling like an outsider".
OSLO, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The volume of salmon in cages at Norwegian fish farms, as measured by weight, rose by 4 percent year-on-year in January, industry lobby group Seafood Norway said in a statement.
The survey, released by financial lobby group Finance Norway (FNO) and the Kantar TNS institute, showed a mixed outlook for some regions however, where a recent drop in house prices weighed on prospects for consumer spending.
The change comes after Michael Mesaric, the head of Switzerland's largest refiner, Valcambi, called for a new lobby group called the International Precious Metals Refiners Council to defend refiners' interests and exert influence on the LBMA.
S) is leaving the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), a lobby group that represents hundreds of food companies in Washington, a spokesman for the group said, just months after a similar decision by Campbell Soup Co (CPB.
OSLO, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The volume of salmon in cages at Norwegian fish farms, as measured by weight, rose by 10 percent year-on-year in October, industry lobby group Seafood Norway said in a statement.
The farmers lobby group Grain South Africa believes AB InBev, the world's biggest brewer, has contravened one of the conditions set when the country's competition tribunal approved its $203 billion acquisition of rival beer maker SABMiller.
The pharmaceutical industry's main lobby group in Canada, Innovative Medicines Canada, has argued that the changes, if approved by the cabinet of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, could delay or limit Canadians' access to new patented medicines.
MOSCOW, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Sales of new cars in Russia rose 10.6 percent in July compared with the same period last year to 143,452 vehicles, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group said on Monday.
OSLO, May 28 (Reuters) - The volume of salmon in cages at Norwegian fish farms, as measured by weight, rose by 5 percent year-on-year in April, industry lobby group Seafood Norway said in a statement.
The lobby group expects oil and gas investments in 2019 at 153 billion crowns (revised from a year-ago forecast of 137 billion), 13 at 159.4 billion (127 billion), and 2021 at 136.6 billion (126 billion).
DETROIT (Reuters) - Sales of new vehicles in the United States should decline in 2018 as high prices and competition from nearly-new, off-lease vehicles will weigh on consumers, a dealer lobby group said on Friday.
Alexandra Renison, with Britain's Institute of Directors (IoD) lobby group, said that smaller European banks were starting to move toward providing trade finance to Iran, but the "risk appetite is absolutely not there" for British lenders.
U.S. cruise operators and airlines stand to lose around $712 million in annual revenues if the Trump administration fully reinstates restrictions on travel to Cuba, Washington lobby group Engage Cuba said in a report last week.
Fastman wrote that his order was designed to "safeguard the health and physical integrity" of people attending dance clubs, while the justice system reviewed appeals from city government and a lobby group for the nightlife industry.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - BHP on Tuesday urged shareholders to vote down a resolution aimed at getting the mining giant to quit Australia's top mining lobby group, but said it will separately review its membership of industry bodies.
Patricia Callan, director of Alcohol Beverage Federation of Ireland, an industry lobby group, said that it supported the objectives of the legislation but believed it was not evidence-based and would harm an important Irish industry.
"Canada is one of the few countries where climate change may create some opportunities for growing crops in northern latitudes," said Rod Bonnett, president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, a lobby group representing 200,000 farmers.
"The industry needs to break the trend of halting demolition activity as soon as the Baltic Dry Index (a basket of freight rates) improves marginally," said Peter Sand, chief shipping analyst at shipping lobby group BIMCO.
In a worst case scenario, tariffs could lead to the loss of thousands of US auto jobs and stinging price rises for American consumers, the Michigan-based lobby group Center for Automotive Research warned this month.
PARIS, June 6 (Reuters) - France's FIEV car equipment lobby group has cancelled a July trip to Iran in light of current tensions between the United States and other European powers over a 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Poland's bank lobby group, ZBP, said on Wednesday that the verdict would likely cost banks less than their previously expected estimate of at least 60 billion zloty ($15.13 billion)spread out over a number of years.
"It's hard to see higher growth because we don't have the labor needed for that," said Steen Nielsen, the director of labor market policy at the Confederation of Danish Industry, the country's main business lobby group.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the biggest U.S. industry lobby group, have both recommended keeping India on the U.S. "priority watch" list in separate submissions to the USTR.
The lobby group expects oil and gas investments in 2019 at 153 billion crowns (revised from a year-ago forecast of 137 billion), 2020 at 159.4 billion (127 billion), and 2021 at 136.6 billion (126 billion).
LONDON (Reuters) - British financial industry lobby group TheCityUk has appointed HSBC Chairman Mark Tucker as chairman of its board, it said on Monday, replacing his Barclays counterpart John McFarlane who will step down on May 31.
The head of business lobby group the Confederation of British Industry warned that the chances of Britain leaving the EU next month without a deal have increased and the country has now entered "the emergency zone".
Some of the provisions would discriminate against foreign business in the United States, the Commission said, while the Federation of German Industries (BDI) - the biggest lobby group for manufacturers in Europe's largest economy - was more blunt.
Canadians simply don't know you can 'fill the tank' of an EV for almost nothing and there's zero engine maintenance to worry about, said Chantal Guimont, president and CEO of Electric Mobility Canada, a lobby group.
Ilhan Omar's comments about the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC and Israel-US relations, which both Republican and Democrats decried as anti-Semitic dog whistles, Republicans added an amendment to the Yemen resolution condemning anti-Semitism.
GABORONE (Reuters) - Botswana's highest court on Wednesday rejected an attempt by the government to ban a gay rights lobby group, providing a rare victory for African gay rights campaigners on a continent where homosexuality remains highly contentious.
Ethiopia's Gibe III Dam, which was completed in 2016, and irrigation for the Kuraz sugar plantations have already reduced water into Turkana from the Omo River, said Rudo Sanyanga, Africa director of the lobby group International Rivers.
Last year, for example, more than a dozen companies rescinded their discount offers to National Rifle Association members after the powerful lobby group opposed gun control reform in the wake of another high school shooting last year.
On Monday, the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC), a lobby group for U.K. firms, revised its forecasts to predict gross domestic product (GDP) growth will pull back to 1.1 percent in 2017 from 2.1 percent this year.
FRANKFURT, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The head of banking lobby group ICMA said on Thursday that Europe must bring Britain into its plans to push ahead with its capital markets union project or it will be "substantially diminished".
"The last two years the automotive association in Germany lost a lot of credibility," Stefan Sommer said late on Wednesday, referring to the auto supplier and carmaker lobby group VDA's lobbying power after VW's diesel emissions cheating.
Stephen Evans of the National Secular Society, a lobby group, says the British right to robust philosophical debate survived only by the skin of its teeth in 2006, when legislation on religious and racial hatred was crafted.
While Navarro worked to put it on Trump's radar, a lobby group representing the Big Three airlines was airing ads on Fox News, including on "Fox & Friends," the morning show that Trump is known to faithfully watch.
FRANKFURT, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Germany's VDA car lobby group said on Wednesday it views the European Union's proposed tougher car emissions targets as hard to meet and putting European car makers at a disadvantage in global markets.
The British Chambers of Commerce said on Sunday its director general, John Longworth, had resigned after calling for Britain to leave the European Union despite the business lobby group taking a neutral stance on an upcoming referendum.
Four global tech giants — Facebook, Apple, Alphabet and Amazon — will oppose an Australian law that would require them to provide access to private encrypted data linked to suspected illegal activities, an industry lobby group said on Wednesday.
In September the National Secular Society (NSS), a lobby group which campaigns to oppose religious privilege, drew attention to the number of British schools which mandate Muslim garb for female pupils, including girls as young as four.
Gun Owners of America (GOA), a Washington-based lobby group, has asked lawmakers to add a provision to a draft law rewriting bank rules that it says would prevent "gun-hating banks" from "discriminating" against firearms makers.
Before the legislation was passed, lobby group Digi — which represents Facebook, Google, and Amazon — wrote to the Australian government to warn it risked undermining the nation's security alliance with the United States, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
"A child will not be protected if their parents are not seen as spouses under the law," said Reese Li, a spokeswoman from the lobby group LGBT Family Rights Advocacy, which assists same-sex families with children.
PARIS (Reuters) - French banks are prepared to cope with all Brexit scenarios to ensure services continue smoothly for clients, said the country's FBF bank lobby group after the UK parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal.
German court hearing due on a suit brought against the city of Duesseldorf by lobby group Deutsche Umwelthilfe demanding that it revoke the operating licenses of Volkswagen diesel models that it says continue to have excessive emissions.
"Parents need to have a right of withdrawal from sex education and this is one of the reasons why home education is growing," said Clive Ireson, the head of the Association of Christian Teachers, a lobby group.
On Monday, New Zealand based lobby group "Speak Up For Women", which advocates that sport must be categorized by sex rather than gender identity, called on the country's Olympic committee and sports minister to "defend women's sport".
Last week Britain's food and drink lobby group warned the country will experience shortages of some fresh foods for weeks or even months if a disorderly no-deal Brexit leaves perishable produce rotting in lorries at ports.
A leading lobby group for India's IT industry last week forecast that the sector's export revenues would grow at 7-8 percent for the year to March, as the industry faces continued headwinds from the U.S. market.
Industry lobby group, Chamber of Mines, said its members were not opposed to the proposal to list on the local bourse but warned that exchange may not be deep and liquid enough for companies to raise capital.
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Bourbon flowed, a jazz band played, and pink and violet lights bathed the vaulted stone ceilings at a party thrown by a liquor producers' lobby group on Monday for attendees of the Republican National Convention.
A United States business lobby group warned last week that Chinese officials had threatened to retaliate against American companies if the Trump administration imposed tariffs, saying that agricultural and aircraft imports may be the most at risk.
HELP REQUIRED As part of the European airline lobby group A4E, the airlines - which also include Lufthansa, Air France-KLM easyJet - called for a relaxation of airport regulations to help them cope with the impact of coronavirus.
Even the pro-Israel US lobby group AIPAC, usually in lockstep with Trump and which has criticized the two lawmakers over their rhetoric, expressed disquiet, despite making clear it disagreed with the views of Omar and Tlaib.
Environmental lobby group DUH, which has been seeking bans on diesel cars in a number of German cities in the wake the VW scandal, told Handelsblatt that Barley, of the SPD party, was not going far enough.
Lobby group Business Council of Australia said it would set up an A$25 million ($17.3 million) trust that could be used to pay for the education of children who had lost parents while volunteering in disasters.
"We appreciate today's Senate action to repeal unwarranted F.C.C. rules that deny consumers consistent privacy protection online and violate competitive neutrality," the cable industry lobby group, NCTA-The Internet & Television Association, said in a statement on Thursday.
"If we want earth's temperature rise to stay below 2 degrees, especially below 1.5 degrees ... then we need to tackle this overconsumption of animal products," said Nusa Urbancic, campaign director of Changing Markets Foundation, a lobby group.
According to The Center for Responsive Politics, the National Rifle Association — a gun lobby group that blasted Dick&aposs for exiting the gun business — donated $880,521 to Republicans and $10,500 to Democrats in the 2018 election cycle.
LONDON, March 25 (Reuters) - Some British health workers fighting the coronavirus outbreak on the ground still feel inadequately protected, the head of the National Health Service Confederation a lobby group which represents swathes of the health service.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has strongly opposed the Obama administration's deal with Iran, and Trump's speech, like an earlier one to a pro-Israel lobby group in Washington, went down well with some right-leaning Israelis.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China should focus on market reforms and avoid restricting access for U.S. financial firms if the trade war escalates and spills into the financial sector, said a lobby group representing global banks and asset managers.
Ong–Ang Ai Boon, director of the Association of Banks in Singapore, said the lobby group had told banks that amnesty programs were a useful tool for individuals to regularize their tax affairs with their local tax authorities.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Friday he could persuade the powerful National Rifle Association lobby group to drop its strong opposition to gun restrictions after recent mass shootings that have reignited the gun control debate.
" Most infamously, he called supporters of J Street, the left-leaning pro-Israel ("and pro-peace," as their tagline goes) lobby group "far worse than kapos — Jews who turned in their fellow Jews in the Nazi death camps.
MOSCOW, Aug 8 (Reuters) - New car sales in Russia fell 16.6 percent year on year to 109,410 vehicles in July, after a 12.5 percent fall in June, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group said on Monday.
An investigation commissioned by the China Trademark Association (CTA), a lobby group, into around 300 of its best-known members found that the trademarks of around a third had been squatted, each in around four countries on average.
"It gives an opportunity to shine a national policy spotlight on aged care that is fairly rare," said Ian Yates, chief executive of Council on the Aging Australia, a lobby group representing seniors, said by phone from Canberra.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Banks are expected to transfer 750-800 billion euros (664-709 billion pounds) in assets to Frankfurt due to Britain's departure from the European Union, the city's lobby group Frankfurt Main Finance (FMF) said on Thursday.
But in the event of confrontation between Turkish-backed groups and Syrian and Iranian forces supporting Mr Assad, small religious minorities could be caught in the middle, says Johannes de Jong, of Sallux, a Dutch-based lobby group.
Conor Mulvihill of Dairy Industry Ireland, a lobby group, estimates that these barriers could add as much as €0.21 to the cost of cheddar made with each litre of milk; its farm-gate price is only about €0.30.
Each day, roughly a third of global trade by value — or about $17.5 billion worth of products from smartphones and televisions to wine and vaccines — travel by air, according to the International Air Transport Association, a lobby group.
LONDON (Reuters) - A lobby group representing leading financial services firms in Britain said on Wednesday that urgent clarity on the country's exit from the European Union was needed to secure jobs rather than access to a single market.
Chief economist Steen Bocian of lobby group The Confederation of Danish Enterprise said he hoped for reforms to expand the workforce and increase the productivity; something the central bank and the liberal minority government have also called for.
Juergen Resch, head of the DUH, a lobby group which has advocated banning polluting cars from roads, told a news conference its tests showed the latest Euro-6 emissions-control technology was just as dirty as older versions.
Speaking at an event organized by the Association of Taxpayers, a lobby group which is pushing for tax cuts, Olaf Scholz rejected calls from Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) to lower the tax burden for the rich.
OSLO, July 19 (Reuters) - Close to 1,600 striking workers on Norwegian drilling rigs will end their industrial action after their union and the lobby group reprensenting their employers reached a deal, the Norwegian Shipowners' Association said on Thursday.
Randall Luthi, president of offshore energy lobby group the National Ocean Industries Association, said at the meeting that existing production offshore was "declining and at a very quick rate" and that lowering royalty rates should spur new activity.
Lobby group Britain Stronger in Europe said it had quantified the potential trade that could be lost if the country moved to World Trade Organisation rules without an alternative agreement, as it said many "Leave" campaigners had advocated.
The lobby group said some 60 percent of Britain's trade, worth 637 billion pounds, was with European Union partners, countries in the European Economic Area or the more than 50 countries with whom the EU had trade deals.
Before gay marriage became legal in America, few gay couples named each other as next of kin or drew up wills in each other's favour, despite reminders from activists, says Gordon Morris of Unmarried Equality, a lobby group.
Each day, roughly a third of global trade by value - or about $17.5 billion worth of products from smartphones and televisions to wine and vaccines - travel by air, according to the International Air Transport Association, a lobby group.
Indian engineering outsourcing services providers earned export revenue of $12.4 billion in the fiscal year ended March 2014, and that is expected to surge to as much as $45 billion by 2020, according to outsourcing lobby group NASSCOM.
The survey, by manufacturing lobby group EEF and consultancy BDO, added to signs that British factories are enjoying a growth spurt, something that Brexit supporters said would be one of the early benefits of leaving the European Union.
That, however, could be adjusted in the future based on how many orphan wells are left, said Brad Herald, OWA chairman and vice president of western Canadian operations for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers industry lobby group.
MOSCOW, Dec 8 (Reuters) - New car sales in Russia rose 15 percent in November compared to the same period last year, to 152,259 units, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group said in a statement on Friday.
Former Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel rejected an offer to become the head of Germany's VDA car lobby group after media reports that he was in line for the post caused a public outcry and prompted accusations of nepotism.
"Most countries we compete against have electricity supply industries where generation is competitive, there is a state transmission company and some competition in distribution," Roger Baxter, chief executive of South Africa's Minerals Council, an industry lobby group, said.
However, Paul Drechsler, the president of leading business lobby group the CBI, said Hunt's criticisms were the "perfect strategy" for discouraging investment and would make it harder to increase tax revenue to spend on matters such as healthcare.
LONDON (Reuters) - Any binding Brexit transition agreement is unlikely before the first quarter of next year, too late to stop some banks in London from pressing the "relocate" button, a British financial services lobby group said on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The largest U.S. business lobby group on Wednesday said it could be a mistake to quickly repeal Obamacare without developing a replacement healthcare insurance plan and urged the incoming Trump administration not to erect trade barriers.
"The government needs to do more to improve sentiment toward the UK from visitors from continental Europe, which remain its largest market," Kate Nicholls, chief executive of lobby group Hospitality UK, told a hotel investment forum in Berlin.
Obama, who said he had never owned a gun, has blamed Congress for being beholden to the National Rifle Association, a powerful lobby group that fights any action that might infringe on Americans' constitutional right to bear arms.
The call by the BDI, Germany's most influential business lobby group, and the DGB umbrella union shows how much public debate has shifted in a country long obsessed with its "black zero" policy of no net new borrowing.
Ms. Scovell, in some ways, anticipated the current reckoning, regularly taking to social media to agitate for change, shaming Hollywood over unequal treatment of women and becoming a one-woman lobby group for female writers in late night.
" The gun lobby group tweeted on Thursday that "the NRA's long-standing position that those who have been adjudicated as a danger to themselves or others should not have access to firearms and should be admitted for treatment.
The Plan Sponsor Council of America, a nonprofit lobby group for employers that offer retirement plans, recently found similar levels of participation, but noted that employers offering matching contributions on deferred money reported much higher participation (153 percent).
The Egerkinger Committee, a lobby group that succeeded through a referendum in 2009 in banning minarets, and wants to do the same for Muslim face veils, has called for immigrants shunning Swiss customs to be shown the door.
"Labour's default instinct for state control will drag our economy down, rather than lift people up," Carolyn Fairbairn, director general of the Confederation of British Industry, a lobby group, said in a statement when Labour published its manifesto.
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the industry's leading lobby group, filed the complaint late Friday seeking to block the law, which supporters say is one of the most comprehensive drug transparency measures in the country.
The messages -- she suggested support of Israel is driven specifically by donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a prominent pro-Israel lobby group -- were condemned by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle as anti-Semitic.
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the industry's leading lobby group, filed a complaint late Friday seeking to block the law, which supporters say is one of the most comprehensive drug transparency measures in the country.
The call by the BDI, Germany's most influential business lobby group, and the DGB umbrella union shows how much public debate has shifted in a country long obsessed with its "black zero" policy of no net new borrowing.
With tanker rates still a long way from being profitable, there's little prospect of a broad industry improvement until the second half of 2019 at the earliest, said Peter Sand, chief shipping analyst at industry lobby group BIMCO.
Manufacturing Northern Ireland, the main lobby group for the sector, said the report left fundamental questions unanswered and would lump costs and complexities onto a business community with neither the capacity, experience nor capital required to deliver untested solutions.
The leading bank lobby group, the American Bankers Association, applauded the CFPB and OCC, and the trade group representing independent banks, Independent Community Bankers of America, said the exemption provides flexibility to make sustainable loans to customers in need.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has banned a U.S. environmental lobby group from operating in the country after labeling it an "undesirable" organization, the 15th foreign group to fall foul of legislation brought in under President Vladimir Putin four years ago.
The private equity industry argues the current tax system encourages the kind of risk-taking needed to grow companies, and its lobby group the American Investment Council has spent millions trying to influence lawmakers to retain the status quo.
Far from acting as a parliament that controls spending and curbs the executive, the European Parliament has often behaved more as a lobby group whose main aim seems to be to spend more and to augment its own powers.
Fight for the Future points to the massive email lists used by the cable and telecom lobby group American Commitment in 2014 to send misleading emails soliciting anti-net neutrality comments on the FCC's website as a possible culprit.
Among them are Stephen Dodgson, who has been given a knighthood for his work as Business Group Director of the government's UK Export Finance body, and Simon Walker, the director-general of business lobby group the Institute of Directors.
A 2016 report from the Beckley Foundation, a British research and lobby group, suggests that the government's addition of mephedrone to the schedule of controlled substances in 2010 may have led to a brief rise in deaths from cocaine.
The call from the BDI, which is Germany's biggest industry lobby and has close ties to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), comes after Britain's CBI business lobby group earlier this year also called for a comprehensive customs union.
COPENHAGEN, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Denmark's FSA said on Monday it would lower the liquidity demands for most banks, but a lobby group said that it was not enough, and that the banks would still be stunted in international competition.
Lobby group Get Up released photos of the two men, showing them with bloodied faces and bodies, after they were allegedly attacked by Manus Island locals while returning to the Australian-funded detention center after day release on Wednesday.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Most new diesel vehicles exceed the legal limit for nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, German environmental lobby group DUH said on Friday, calling on the government to force car companies to carry out hardware retrofits of polluting cars.
BENGALURU (Reuters) - The United States' plans to cap H1-B work visas, used by Indian IT firms to send employees there, would imply a "further crunch" for businesses to access skilled workforce, industry lobby group Nasscom said on Thursday.
"These papers show that those who claim crashing out of the EU on World Trade Organisation rules is acceptable live in a world of fantasy, where facts are not allowed to challenge ideology," business lobby group the CBI said.
Airlines for Europe brings Europe's full-service and low-cost carriers together for the first time and was formed after British Airways (BA) owner IAG left the main lobby group for full-service airlines, the Association of European Airlines.
The year-on-year growth rate will likely continue to decline in both June and July as more housing units are made available for sale and weary buyers resist the ever-higher cost of homes, the lobby group added.
A source told Reuters that the agency will also deny a request by the Renewable Fuels Association, a lobby group for the biofuel industry, to expand a fuel waiver to relax limits for ethanol blends, in response to Harvey.
OSLO, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Finland's electricity consumption reached an all-time monthly high in January, industry lobby group Finnish Energy (ET) said on Wednesday, citing increased industrial needs due to the economy's upturn and a colder than usual winter.
Conceived as a facilitator of intra-entrepreneurial exchange and a lobby group advocating on behalf of forward-thinking startup policy in Brazil, the association has grown to include more than 4,000 member startups and 38,000 entrepreneurs throughout the country.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Four global tech giants - Facebook, Apple, Alphabet and Amazon - will oppose an Australian law that would require them to provide access to private encrypted data linked to suspected illegal activities, an industry lobby group said on Wednesday.
" MILES CELIC, CEO, THECITYUK, FINANCIAL SERVICES LOBBY GROUP "In calling for a time-limited transitional period under the existing rules and structures, she has echoed our industry's priorities and the calls of businesses on both sides of the Channel.
Writing in the Observer newspaper, Anthony Browne, the chief executive of lobby group the British Bankers' Association, said the public and political debate was "taking us in the wrong direction" and businesses could not wait until the last minute.
WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The largest U.S. business lobby group on Wednesday said it could be a mistake to quickly repeal Obamacare without developing a replacement healthcare insurance plan and urged the Trump administration not to erect trade barriers.
BERLIN, April 11 (Reuters) - Germany's engineering sector urgently needs clarity on how Britain will proceed with regard to Brexit, its VDMA lobby group said on Thursday after European Union leaders gave Britain six more months to leave the bloc.
Airline bosses were speaking at a briefing of lobby group A4E (Airlines for Europe), which called on the incoming European Commission to speed up the delayed Single European Sky project, intended to remove airspace borders and allow shorter routings.
The lobby group, which represents global banks and asset managers such as Goldman Sachs and BlackRock, has called on Asian regulators to coordinate better and to adopt a consistent set of best practices for fostering fintech in the region.
FUNDAMENTALS * PHILIPPINES NICKEL: Philippine nickel miners are expected to boost ore production next year when Indonesia bans exports of the raw material used in stainless steel and batteries, the head of the local nickel miners' lobby group told Reuters.
Last year, the court repealed a similar law on regulated gas prices after a lobby group of alternative retail energy suppliers took the issue to the court, arguing the regulated gas scheme gave former monopoly Engie an unfair advantage.
Responding to the decision to including gaming addiction, the Video Games Coalition - an industry lobby group - said their products were "enjoyed safely and sensibly by more than 2 billion people worldwide" across all kinds of genres, devices and platforms.
The ad also insinuated Sanders was once "bought by the NRA," or National Rifle Association, a gun rights lobby group that ran ads in 1990 against a political opponent of Sanders who was proposing a ban on assault weapons.
Every former politician or bureaucrat picked up by a mining lobby group brings years of insider knowledge and personal connections along with them, allowing them to do the mining company's bidding in a way straight mining executives never could.
U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, in San Diego, issued a preliminary injunction halting the law while he takes up the underlying complaint filed last month by five California residents backed by the California Rifle & Pistol Association, a lobby group.
"If you are signing deals with governments that have very recently been involved in forms of slavery, it is hard to get leadership and responsibility from them," said George Kegoro, head of Kenya Human Rights Commission, a lobby group.
BERLIN, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Production in Germany's engineering sector will decline by 2% both this year and in 2020, lobby group VDMA said on Monday, citing trade conflicts and uncertainties linked to Britian's planned exit from the European Union.
Given that private equity fund managers have also largely been spared a much-feared tax hike on their performance fees, known as carried interest, the American Investment Council (AIC), the industry's lobby group, has put on a brave face.
OSLO, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Norway's consumer confidence fell to 13.4 points in the fourth quarter on a seasonally adjusted basis from a revised 15.0 points in the third, a survey by lobby group Finance Norway (FNO) showed on Tuesday.
FRANKFURT, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Banks are expected to transfer 750-800 billion euros ($854-$911 bln) in assets to Frankfurt due to Britain's departure from the European Union, the city's lobby group Frankfurt Main Finance (FMF) said on Thursday.
The changes include the removal of a reference to a visit to the school by Abe's wife and to ties that Abe and Finance Minister Taro Aso had to a conservative lobby group, Nippon Kaigi - both well-known facts.
LONDON, June 9 (Reuters) - British politicians must get their act together and form a functioning government to protect the economy, business lobby group the CBI said on Friday after Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives failed to win a majority in parliament.
"We don't think Saudi Arabia should be admitted to FATF with the anti-terrorism legislation they have in place in its current form," said Kay Guinane, director of Washington-based Charity & Security Network, a lobby group for non-profit organizations.
Germany, handicapped by an outdated research infrastructure and restrictive data protection laws, has yet to produce a world-beating startup that pioneers the use of AI, although 100 companies have formed a lobby group to contribute to the policy process.
As Jake Parker of the US China Business Council, a lobby group for big American firms, points out, Chinese leaders have talked about lots of reforms but "the lack of implementation has created uncertainty about the policy direction and undermined confidence."
The lobby group met with EPA political staff, including Deputy Assistant Administrator for the EPA's Office of Research and Development Richard Yamada, on January 24 to make a presentation on the subject, ACC Formaldehyde Panel spokeswoman Sarah Scruggs told Reuters.
A small but robust minority of Irish secularists, including the lobby group Atheist Ireland, retorts that the current emphasis on devotional education infringes the rights of many non-religious people, as well as small religious groups like the Ahmadi Muslims.
The Our Voices campaign reflected another inspiration of hers: instead of pretending to be one more green lobby group, the religions of the world should try to influence the Paris summit by doing what they do best: exhorting, inspiring and praying.
At a conference on November 4th and 5th in Kilkenny, Ireland, held by the Association of European Journalists (AEJ), a lobby group, much of the talk was about things getting worse in the continent's once-violent and still troubled backyard.
Bob Young, the chief economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation, a lobby group, thinks official numbers underestimate the extent of the shortfall since they ask how many workers a farmer has, not how many he wanted but could not find.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some rabbis and Jewish students are planning protests against Donald Trump's speech on Monday at a conference of the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC over what they say are his belittling comments about Muslims and other groups.
To reverse the trend, but also to defend its industry's turf, the Repair Association, a lobby group funded by repair shops as well as by environmental organisations and other charities, wants states in America to pass "right to repair" laws.
As John Kerr, a former British diplomat closely involved in drafting Article 50, pointed out at a recent event hosted by Open Britain, a pro-European lobby group, it allows the two-year deadline to be extended by unanimous agreement.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's strongest election challenger, Benny Gantz, called on Monday for unity and moderation in a speech to a major pro-Israel U.S. lobby group that has been uneasy at Netanyahu's courting of far-rightists.
The US Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, a lobby group, estimates that more than a fifth ($8.7trn) of the funds under professional management in America is screened on SRI criteria, broadly defined, up from a ninth in 2012 (see chart).
Deutsche Telekom has already voiced its concern over a deal and a lobby group representing Germany's glass fiber industry chimed in on Thursday by saying it should be blocked because it would create a cable TV monopoly in the country.
"Smaller owners are getting squeezed, and still rely on brokers and agents, who dupe workers and keep them ignorant of their rights and conditions on the boat," said Sunai Phasuk, a researcher with lobby group Human Rights Watch in Bangkok.
Britain's main car lobby group said on Tuesday that a lack of clarity on Brexit had halved new investment in the industry and urged Prime Minister Theresa May to keep the world's fifth largest economy in the EU's customs union.
MOSCOW, Dec 8 (Reuters) - New car sales in Russia rose 0.6 percent year-on-year to 132,346 vehicles in November, after a 2.6 percent drop in the previous month, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group said on Thursday.
The legal challenge comes just days after election watchdog and lobby group Americans United for Democracy, Integrity, and Transparency in Elections (AUDIT-AZ) filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court demanding a partial recount of ballots from the Arizona primary.
" Thomas Gibson, chief executive of lobby group the American Iron and Steel Institute, said in a statement that "Buy American" provisions "are vital to the health of the domestic steel industry, and have helped create manufacturing jobs and build American infrastructure.
All third-generation technology projects have suffered repeated delays and Zhang Huazhu, chairman of industry lobby group, the China Nuclear Energy Association (CNEA), told a conference here on Thursday that China's reliance on the largely untested technology could pose challenges.
Michelle Manook, chief executive of the World Coal Association, an industry lobby group, told Reuters that coal remains a crucial element in the world's transition to cleaner energy, and the focus should be on cutting emissions rather than banning coal entirely.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German consumers, who pay the highest electricity bills in Europe, are likely to see a 21 percent drop in the surcharge they have to pay to support renewable power next year, green energy lobby group BEE forecast on Thursday.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - The head of an Indian drugs industry lobby group on Thursday said media reports linking pollution in some lakes and rivers to factories making antibiotics were not accurate and that drug factories were in compliance with local environmental rules.
Securing a solid Brexit deal will be key for the U.K. but as the country heads into a General Election, British politicians shouldn't lose sight of the domestic issues facing the economy and its businesses, a business lobby group has warned.
To coincide with the manifesto launch, the lobby group outlined a number of key priorities it wanted the next British government to address and commit to, including no new upfront taxes on businesses during the course of the next parliament.
"It is high-time to ... end the years-long and still-popular 'Deutsche Bank bashing' and get to work finally getting our bank back on its feet after six long years of restructuring," Klaus Nieding of shareholder lobby group DSW said.
" Thomas Gibson, chief executive of lobby group the American Iron and Steel Institute, said in a statement that "Buy American" provisions "are vital to the health of the domestic steel industry, and have helped create manufacturing jobs and build American infrastructure.
According to Human Right Campaign, a gay lobby group, in the first ten months of 2015 at least 21 transgender people—nearly all of them black or Hispanic women—were killed, more than in any other year recorded by activists.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Search company Yelp and lobby group Consumer Watchdog lost their joint bid to intervene in Google's challenge of a 2.4 billion euro ($2.7 billion) EU antitrust fine after a court said they had no direct interest in the case.
HAVANA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. cruise operators and airlines stand to lose around $712 million in annual revenues if the Trump administration fully reinstates restrictions on travel to Cuba, Washington lobby group Engage Cuba said in a report released on Thursday.
The IRR says it stands for classic liberalism, and is seen by some analysts as a powerful lobby group pushing for the opposition party to move closer to its roots of private property ownership, individual rights and market friendly economic policy.
Jimenez, who as chairman-elect of U.S. drugmaker industry lobby group PhRMA met President Donald Trump earlier this year, told investors he expected the administration to come forward with proposals on curbing U.S. drug prices "within the next three months".
Now, though, with tens of millions of middle-class Chinese looking for better health care, insurance and financial services—areas in which Britain excels—"This should be Britain's time," says David Martin of the China-Britain Business Council, a lobby group.
The Direct Sellers Association, a lobby group for MLM companies, fears that the sector will be swept up in reforms to workplace practices in the gig economy and is pushing for legislation to distinguish direct sellers as independent contractors in 2019.
Demand is expected to fall a further 2 percent this year, the lobby group said, as a number of major projects such as the Southern Corridor - a 153,500 km (1,500 mile) domestic link to TurkStream - were wrapped up in 2017.
Analysis by the Law Society, a lobby group, showed a soft Brexit, in which most of Britain's trading relations with the EU were kept intact, might lead to a loss of £225m off revenues for the legal sector by 2030.
The trial at the administrative court in Duesseldorf was the first in a series of suits lobby group Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) is bringing in 10 German cities to get them to take steps to ban polluting cars and improve air quality.
MUMBAI, July 2 (Reuters) - A lobby group of small Indian traders and shopkeepers has asked tens of thousands of its members to hold protests across the country on Monday against Walmart Inc's proposed $16 billion acquisition of e-commerce firm Flipkart.
There are other areas where millennials and all-American workers under 50 could really use a powerful lobby group of their own, but keeping it simple on the issues of voting participation, entitlements, and health care are logical places to start.
LONDON (Reuters) - British businesses are likely to accelerate their planning for a no-deal Brexit following the vote in parliament on Tuesday night that ordered the prime minister to renegotiate the divorce deal, the head of a major lobby group said.
The Constitutional Accountability Center, a liberal legal group, has tracked corporations' success at the Supreme Court by analyzing cases in which the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the country's largest business lobby group, has offered the justices views defending corporate positions.
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to hold a speech at the annual congress of Germany's tenants lobby group DMB after the announcement by Berlin's regional government to freeze rent levels hit real estate companies' share prices earlier this month.
Norway's post-World War Two unemployment rate previously peaked at 5.5% for the full year in 1993, while the peak for any single month stood at around 6%, according to the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO), a business lobby group.
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) lobby group said there was no appetite among members to completely replace the EU's Solvency II capital rules, which took years to adopt, and 3 billion pounds ($3.7 billion) to implement by January 2016.
"In some sectors, firms will be left wondering how they will recruit the people needed to run their businesses," Carolyn Fairbairn, the director general of the Confederation of British Industry, the country's main business lobby group, said in a statement.
Polish energy ministry said in June the electricity network would be able to handle a heatwave this summer, after a European power network lobby group ENTSO-E warned that prolonged heatwaves may cause problems for Poland's and Italy's electricity networks.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An influential lobby group for Australia's multi-billion dollar coal mining industry has launched an advertising blitz to rally public support for an overhaul of state planning laws after a commission blocked new projects citing climate change concerns.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An influential lobby group for Australia's multi-billion dollar coal mining industry has launched an advertising blitz to rally public support for an overhaul of state planning laws after a commission blocked new projects citing climate change concerns.
"Video games are plainly not the issue: entertainment is distributed and consumed globally, but the U.S. has an exponentially higher level of gun violence than any other nation," said Dan Hewitt, a spokesman for lobby group the Entertainment Software Association, earlier.
While the gun-rights group was not identified, Butina's social media accounts show she attended many National Rifle Association events and met with top officials of the influential lobby group that has close ties to Republican politicians including President Donald Trump.
Prosecutors have accused her of working with a Russian official and two U.S. citizens to try to infiltrate the powerful NRA lobby group that has close ties to Republican politicians including President Donald Trump, and influence Washington's policy toward Moscow.
Several weeks later at an event, she tried to clarify her earlier remarks, saying that she wanted to talk about the United States' relationship with Israel and the role the pro-Israeli lobby group AIPAC plays in that relationship — not Jewish people.
If Italy's government decided to strip Atlantia of its motorway concession it would simply be a vendetta and the decision would seriously damage the country, the head of the national motorway lobby group Fabrizio Palenzona told Il Messaggero in an interview on Sunday.
The bill in the Republican-led House of Representatives would increase students' cost of attending college by more than $65 billion between 2018 and 2027, according to an analysis by the American Council on Education (ACE), the lead lobby group for higher education.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Emirates' announcement on Monday that it would start flying to the United States with a stop for passengers in Greece sparked a strong reaction from a lobby group representing U.S. competitors who accused it of competing unfairly through state subsidies.
The panel includes the former and current presidents of the Family Research Council, a conservative lobby group which declares that homosexuality is "harmful to those who engage in it" and denounces same-sex nuptials as a "radical redefinition and falsification of marriage".
The more countries start to see that wildlife conservation is not the preserve of a wealthy few or some random single-issue lobby group, but rather integral to the survival of humanity, the more likely CITES is to gain real policy efficacy.
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Europe's carmakers are not looking to challenge fines if they fail to meet the European Union's 203 CO220 emissions goals, but want governments to do more to help them hit targets, the head of the main industry lobby group said.
The record demand for ARENH, which was introduced in 2011 to boost competition after the liberalization of the electricity market, would have an impact on retail prices next year and even more so in 2020, the CLEEE lobby group said in a statement.
In early estimates farmers have planted around 95 percent of the country's yellow maize, which is mainly used in animal feed and between 70 to 80 percent of the white maize, which is used in human consumption, the Grain SA lobby group said.
LONDON (Reuters) - The chances of Britain leaving the European Union next month without a deal have increased and the country has now entered "the emergency zone", the head of business lobby group the Confederation of British Industry told Sky news on Sunday.
Following a review, BHP said on Tuesday it had "reached a preliminary view to exit" the global coal lobby group, as the latter had called for Australia to abandon a clean energy target to boost prospects for high-tech coal-fired power plants.
Yet the study found that more than nine out of ten of respondents were unable to recognize a front website for a lobby group posing as a reputable news site, faring even worse than Advanced Placement high school students given the same test.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The Hong Kong and Australian securities regulators on Tuesday said they have agreed to cooperate in financial technology, or fintech, days after a financial lobby group said a lack of regulatory coordination could hold back Asia-Pacific fintech firms.
However, some have welcomed the review: the American Forest Resource Council (AFRC), a timber lobby group, has a case in court seeking to stop Obama's Cascade-Siskiyou monument expansion, because it includes land designated by a 1937 federal law for "permanent forest production".
LONDON (Reuters) - Uncertainty over Brexit has halved new investment in the British car industry and Prime Minister Theresa May should urgently change tack to keep the world's fifth largest economy in the EU's customs union, the country's main car lobby group said.
Ken Cronin, head of United Kingdom Onshore Oil and Gas, the industry lobby group, argues that just as important as this week's green light to frack in Yorkshire was the permission to drill the well in the first place, two years ago.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The Minerals Council South Africa, an industry lobby group, said on Sunday it does not support some elements in the latest draft of an industry charter, including a stipulation that one percent of core profit is paid to communities and employees.
Praveen Khandelwal, secretary of the Confederation of All India Traders, a traders lobby group, said a majority of India's traders and small manufacturers were finding it difficult to borrow from banks, who are struggling to deal with $150 billion in distressed assets.
Car sales plunged 36 percent to 1.6 million vehicles in 2015, according to the Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group, a far cry from the 2012-2013 peak when during some months Russia ranked as Europe's largest car market by sales.
So, while the country's largest lobby group, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is holding what it calls its National Fly-In to Roll Back Regulations today, I will be speaking about the importance of regulations at a different event on Capitol Hill.
In the wake of the latest mass shooting incident that took the lives of 26 people in Sutherland Springs, Texas, has everyone had enough time to angrily blame the opposing political party, opposing lobby group, or any of the other usual suspects?
German broadcaster ZDF's programme WISO and daily newspaper Tagesspiegel had earlier reported that tests by German environmental lobby group DUH showed that the BMW 320d model's NOx emissions jumped significantly when the car's speed was increased by 10 percent in road tests.
FRANKFURT, Aug 2 (Reuters) - German environmental lobby group DUH said it would keep pressing ahead with a campaign to ban diesel cars from inner cities, despite an auto industry pledge on Wednesday to update engine management software on 5.3 million polluting diesel cars.
The Commission in April last year charged Google with using its dominant Android mobile operating system to shut out rivals following a complaint by lobby group FairSearch, U.S.-based ad-blocking and privacy firm Disconnect Inc, Portuguese apps store Aptoide and Russia's Yandex.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Rifle Association on Tuesday said U.S. President Barack Obama's new gun proposals are "ripe for abuse" by the government, and the powerful gun lobby group vowed to continue to fight to protect Americans' constitutional rights to bear arms.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - New car sales in Russia jumped 17.6 percent in April from the same month a year before, as consumers anticipating that rouble weakness will push up prices hastened purchases, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) lobby group said on Tuesday.
She is accused of working with a Russian official and two U.S. citizens to try to infiltrate the National Rifle Association, a powerful lobby group that has close ties to Republican politicians including President Donald Trump, and influence American foreign policy toward Russia.
Since taxpayers have chipped in more than $200 million over the years for related research — much early work on the drug was done at the University of Pennsylvania — Novartis should have used more restraint, the Patients for Affordable Drugs lobby group said.
Addressing the J Street lobby group in Washington, Biden said despite disagreements with Israel over settlements or the Iran nuclear deal, the United States had an obligation to push Israel toward a two-state solution to end the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
TOKYO, March 19 (Reuters) - A coronavirus pandemic is having a big impact on the automotive manufacturing industry, the head of a Japanese lobby group said on Thursday, adding that its members will need to keep adjusting production, amid a projected slump in demand.
"We love the enthusiasm the Green New Deal has brought to the climate issue ... but we need to operate in political reality," said Dan Whitten, vice president of public affairs at the Solar Energy Industries Association, the solar industry's main lobby group.
The number of older people applying for welfare benefits to pad their pensions more than doubled between 2003 and 2015, according to the Sozialverband VdK, an independent social justice lobby group based in Berlin, as more pensioners struggled to meet their basic needs.
In the wake of the attack, Mr. Netanyahu had to cancel his planned speech to a conference organized by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobby group known as Aipac, but his chief rival in the election, Benny Gantz, spoke.
The total was comprised of an estimated 7.4% lower intake of coking coal for steelmakers, who purchased 11.5 million tonnes and a 15.5% fall in purchases of coke, a related product, of 1.9 million tonnes, lobby group VDKI said at its annual meeting.
LONDON (Reuters) - British consumers face higher prices and reduced availability of goods if the government fails to agree pragmatic solutions with the European Union on regulatory checks at ports in any post-Brexit deal, the retail industry's lobby group warned on Monday.
LONDON (Reuters) - British consumers face higher prices and reduced availability of goods if the government fails to agree pragmatic solutions with the European Union on regulatory checks at ports in any post-Brexit deal, the retail industry's lobby group warned on Monday.
JOHANNESBURG, Dec 6 (Reuters) - South African agricultural lobby group, Agri SA, said on Friday its president would resign at the end of the month for health-related reasons, a day after the country moved a step closer to allowing land expropriation without payment.
"The poor global economic situation, as well as the depressing outlook for most of the seaborne shipping sector... needs to be countered by a drastic increase in demolition activity," said chief shipping analyst Peter Sand at ship-owners lobby group BIMCO in Copenhagen.
Another influential lobby group, the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum, has told its members it plans to work with other industry bodies and speak to U.S. officials as it looks to address industry concerns on the privacy bill, a second source said.
OSLO, Dec 111.33 (Reuters) - Oil and gas investments in Norway are expected to fall for a fourth consecutive year in 2111.3 to 21 billion Norwegian crowns ($28.3304 billion), but will since turn higher in 2019, an industry lobby group predicted on Tuesday.
Another influential lobby group, the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum, has told its members it plans to work with other industry bodies and speak to U.S. officials as it looks to address industry concerns on the privacy bill, a second source said.
A lobby group STOP HS2 says that rather than benefiting other regions of Britain, the rail line is in fact London-centric and is being built to connect an area of northwest London that developers see as ripe for financial services companies.
"For Zakhari to be able to retire from NIAAA, then work for a lobby group whose bottom line is directly affected by results produced by NIAAA-funded research, and be that group's liaison to his former employer presents a stunning conflict of interest," Evans said.
LONDON (Reuters) - The cost of Britain's oil and gas trade with the rest of the world could nearly double if the country fails to agree new tariffs when it leaves the European Union, the country's oil lobby group has warned Prime Minister Theresa May.
"The regulations are now being finalised so they can be laid in parliament before the summer recess, with a view to the regime coming into force in the autumn of this year," Barclay said in a letter to lobby group the London Market Group (LMG).
BARCELONA (Reuters) - The telecoms industry is acutely aware of the need to ensure that ever-more complex mobile networks are safe, the head of its main lobby group told Reuters, as debate swirls over whether to bar some equipment vendors on national security grounds.
" Meanwhile intense Muslim unhappiness over the ruling was articulated by the Islamic Human Rights Commission, a London-based lobby group, where a spokeswoman said: "This gives legal cover to what is essentially an ongoing hate campaign to make Muslims second-class citizens in Europe.
Cyber crime in India, home to the world's second largest number of internet users, jumped 350 percent in the three years to 2014 as criminals exploited booming smartphone use, a study by auditing services firm PwC and industry lobby group Assocham showed last year.
Official registration as a lobby group is the next step, in the coming months the group will submit an application for 501(c)(4) status (the social welfare organization status needed to lobby) in addition to operating as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity.
Industry leaders, including John McFarlane, the outgoing Chairman of Barclays and lobby group CityUK, had hoped policymakers could negotiate an "enhanced equivalence" relationship between the UK's financial industry and the EU, as set out by the government in a white paper earlier this year.
Just last week Germany's powerful lobby group Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) issued a communiqué entitled "Banning Combustion Engines Is the Wrong Line to Take," which argued that prioritizing alternative, low-carbon mobility over conventional automobiles is unfair and harmful to German industry.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain made fewer cars last month for the first time in more than a year, driven by slower domestic demand and prompting the industry's lobby group to renew its call for the government to maintain free trade as Britain leaves the European Union.
Washington (CNN)Ted Cruz on Wednesday mocked Donald Trump for bowing out of a debate next week in Salt Lake City, and the Texas senator vowed to call out the GOP front-runner at a gathering of a major pro-Israel lobby group next week.
At the end of 503 Europe had a combined installed offshore wind power capacity of 11,000 MW, of which more than 5,000 MW is in British waters, 3,300 in Germany and 1,300 in Denmark, according to data from the EU industry's lobby group EWEA.
Price isn't alone in touting CCS and other technologies, with the World Coal Association responding to the IPCC report by saying in a statement on its website that CCS is "vital" and that the coal lobby group will push for it to be adopted.
The coal-fired Rampal plant will directly impact the livelihoods of about half a million people and make millions more vulnerable to natural disasters, according to Mowdud Rahman of Bangladesh lobby group, the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports (NCBD).
The case was brought against the city-state by environmental lobby group DUH, which wants Berlin to reduce air pollution by banning diesel vehicles up to the Euro 4 standard from the end of 2018 and for Euro 5 standard cars from September 2019.
Rolling Stone is reporting that in a new court filing, the main pro-gun lobby group in America claims it is facing catastrophic financial future as a result of the policy of New York State regulators who have limited its ability to purchase insurance.
The average price of petrol at the pump stands at 115 pence, one of the highest levels in the European Union, and steadily rising from a recent low of just over 100 pence in March, according to data from motoring lobby group the RAC.
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - The National Rifle Association on Tuesday said U.S. President Barack Obama's new gun proposals are "ripe for abuse" by the government, and the powerful gun lobby group vowed to continue to fight to protect Americans' constitutional rights to bear arms.
It would allow telecoms companies to use customer metadata, such as the duration and location of calls, as well as content to provide additional services and so make more money, although the telecoms lobby group ETNO said they remain more constrained than their tech competitors.
Colette Neuville, head of the French shareholder lobby group ADAM, told Reuters that about 1,000 complaints have been sent to the investigating authorities and that many of those private shareholders had been encouraged to buy Natixis shares before their price plunged in the financial crisis.
Wandile Sihlobo, an economist at the corn farmers' lobby group Grain SA, said current estimates are that South Africa would be forced to import more than four million tons of corn from Mexico and Brazil and other South American countries to meet the demand.
Among the most fearful of a potential Brexit is big business, whose main lobby group, the Confederation of British Industry, which represents some 190,000 businesses, has warned of a "serious economic shock" should voters choose to quit the EU in the referendum on June 23.
John McFarlane, who chairs lobby group TheCityUK as well as Barclays, favoured the same concessions as the CBI and said Britain should offer to have joint regulatory oversight of EU-related financial activity in Britain and agree to resolve any legally binding financial commitments.
"I am quite alarmed that so much emphasis is being put on this because equivalence is a very specific concept," said Alan Houmann, head of European government affairs at Citi bank, and a senior member of TheCityUK, Britain's main Brexit lobby group for financial services.
Gun sales is a sensitive topic in the United States, where a series of mass shootings has punctuated President Obama's time in office and the National Rifle Association is a powerful lobby group feared and respected in Washington for its ability to mobilise gun owners.
The Coalition for Business Development (CBD), a BDC lobby group, on Tuesday put forward its own proposal to the existing Acquired Funds Fees and Expenses (AFFE) that the SEC adopted in 2006 and has since reduced the participation of institutional investors in the market.
Around 4 gigawatts of diesel capacity had qualified to participate in the upcoming capacity auction, to be held in December, which analysts at green lobby group Sandbag estimate could be worth around 800 million pounds over the 15 year life span of the contracts.
Gun control of any kind is a hot button issue in the United States ahead of 2020 elections and could face resistance from the gun lobby, especially the powerful National Rifle Association lobby group which has strongly resisted restrictions after recent U.S. mass shootings.

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