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Obama’s present to Papandreou: Greeks won’t need visas anymoreWhile Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou’s mission to the White House last week was to meet United States President Barack Obama and brief him on Greece’s struggling economic woes, the Greek leader walked out with Few women rule in politics, even at the top of the top – except for the EU  Hello, Ida Lupino, wherever you are. Maybe this is all you need to know about how women are still viewed in society, even when they reach the highest levels of achievement in business, politics, the We need e-skills for Europe’s economic recovery  Europe is in the midst of the worst financial crisis in decades but investment in the digital world could be the key to get us out of it. Businesses need to be able to compete From the i-conomy to the i-society  The Lisbon Council, an active think tank in Brussels, organized recently The 2010 Innovation Summit, in order to discuss with some experts the new challenges that Europe is facing for the future. It was the EU should not take all the blame for climate change  STRASBOURG – The European Commission will present a road map pointing out how the 30% reductions of carbon emissions it promised could be put into practice, EU Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said in Strasbourg Earthquakes and other catastrophes It would not be an understatement to say that some major events have transpired in worlds political and actual since our last meeting. Aside from the Chilean earthquake, the aftershocks, the damage ravaged and the A GMO hot potato  It took 14 years, but German chemical giant BASF has finally won approval to start growing its Genetically Modified Potato (GMO) called Amflora, for industrial purposes to make starch, but the decision drew immediate scorn EPP likes the GMO hot potato, but Greenpeace doesn’t The approval of the genetically modified Amflora potato for use in making starch got harsh criticism from Greenpeace, but was supported by the European People’s Party, which has the ruling majority in the European Parliament. Ten years after 10-year plan failed, EU needs another 10 year plan In 2000, the European Union set an ambitious plan to make the bloc one of the most competitive economies in the world, but it didn’t work. So now the EU says it will try again, Ukraine energy sector reform will wait As Ukraine’s newly-elected president, Viktor Yanukovich, was meeting top European Union officials during a one-day quite unexpected trip to Brussels, a few blocks away in Rond-Point Schuman, I was moderating a panel discussion of the Ukraine’s democratic path: The Jury is out Speaking ahead of today’s first official visit to Brussels of Viktor Yanukovich the newly elected President of Ukraine, British MEP Charles Tannock promised that The European Parliament will maintain a careful watch on Ukraine to What goes around comes around Brussels is a small city, it’s famously small, and intimate, most Eurocrats are often to be found musing just how lovely and intimate the politics can be as well. The etiquette of Diplomacy and the The EU says it’s developing yet another economic plan The European Commission will present detailed proposals for the European Union’s new economic strategy on March 3, the Commission’s President Jose Manuel Barroso said at a press conference in Madrid, where all the 27 European Conservatives hold a Tea Party as Ken Clarke arrives  The Tories sent Ken Clarke, their pro-Europe Shadow Business Minister over to Brussels for two days of meetings with Barroso and five Commissioners. Publicly, the meetings were about the City of London, but some were Georgieva cabinet serving Germany, Bulgaria, or Europe?  Former Commissioner Maglena Kuneva, failed to get a re-nomination as Commissioner or find another job in Brussels, and has returned to Sofia in a noble attempt to “save Bulgaria”. In this context Kuneva stated that Help for Haiti from UNESCO and EU courtesy of Bulgaria International aid for Haiti, which was ravaged by an earthquake, lays in the hands of two Bulgarian womenthe European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva and the Director General of UNESCO Irina Bokova. They discussed in Brussels how Olympic-Aegean merger; Commission "Not Notified"  Olympic Airways, the national state-owned airliner of Greece, which in the past decades has changed various names to Olympic Airlines and Pantheon, ended-up in private hands last year and was renamed to Olympic Air. The EU Development Ministers under pressure in Spain  EU Development Ministers will meet today and tomorrow in La Granja, Spain to discuss the EU’s position on the UN Millennium Development Goals summit in September.
The two-day meeting comes at a time when many European Deadly train crash outside of Brussels  Over 20 people are dead, and many others seriously injured, after two packed commuter trains collided head-on Monday morning near Halle, a city just nine miles southwest of Brussels in the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders.
One Enlargement – full steam ahead?  On 1 December 2009 the new Lisbon Treaty came into force after almost a decade of preparation, negotiation and many setbacks on its way. Perhaps one of the most important excuses (others remain) for slowing Accidentally in Love A Valentine’s tribute to Presidents Jose Manuel Barroso and Herman Achille Van Rompuy… My parents got engaged on February 9 in 1972, on Valentine’s Day of that year (5 days later) they had an official little United We Stand  A much-ballyhooed European Union Summit to decide whether to give Greece’s rapidly failing economy a financial boost produced only general offers that some kind of unspecified action would be taken if it looked like a Commission Commissioned!  In the first of two main votes in Strasbourg, the Framework Initiative was approved by a large majority. In the second, The Commission was adopted with 488 votes in favour, 137 against and 72 abstentions
European Will There Be Blue Skies Over Berlaymont?  The atmosphere is more poisonous than usual in Brussels at the moment. The city is under a smog alert and metro passengers are warned by announcements that "It is every citizens responsibility to ensure they Obama’s not coming to summit,but the EU hopes he’ll come back  US President Barack Obama’s decision not to attend a scheduled May 24 EU-US Summit in Madrid, described by some critics as a slap at European leaders trying to sort out who their real leader is, Obama disses the EU: you just don’t count It’s too bad they don’t speak jive, ebonics or hip-hop at the European Union headquarters in Brussels, home of the European Commission - famous for doling out secret contracts and suing it own members for Why Greece? Why Now?  For the winds to set sail for the troops of the Greek coalition and battle against Troy in the world of Ancient Empires, the Gods wanted the leader of the expedition Agamemnon, to sacrifice his Obama skips out of EU-US Summit  Critics said it was bound to happen and it did. The European Union, already sliding off the radar screen of political importance in the world despite having three Presidencies, has been ignored by US President Completely Shameless  Whilst many in Europe and the world are counting the cost of the financial crisis, one person who has come out of it with pockets stuffed with banking gold, is the former British Premier, and Parvanova - Loyal Servant or Loose Cannon? Following our revelations last week into Ms Antonyia Parvanova MEP and Vice-President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), and her campaign against Commissioner Designate Jeleva, it has become suspected that Ms |
A few years ago, the European Commission selected the company Hudson/DeWitte & Morel to organize an Assessment Centre for Senior The former leader of the European Tories Conservative party was ejected from after defeating the As Bart Staes, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Belgium and the Group EADS learns the US fix was in for Boeing Greek Lessons for Europe About interest rates and public interest The Truth About Turkish Cypriot Isolation EU’s Arctic Policy skating on thin ice Morocco needs tougher talk, sweeter carrots Reluctant EU tailors tough bail-out deal for near-bankrupt Greece Without homeland, Blair says no hope for Palestinians, peace Yes to the European Monetary Fund Spain dismantles a big hacker network Banks can create and destroy -... Banks can create money. This time-cherished truth opened the way to the last credit crisis, which still threatens the world Down with the bankers, loan sharks... Europeans have rightfully blamed greedy American bankers whose blood lust for money caused the worldwide recession that put scores of EU says ok to Greek deficit... After the European Union once again delayed any decision on whether to bail out Greece as the country struggles to Farage To Belgium: "I'm Sorry"... Speaking to New Europe ahead of his meeting with Parliament President, Jerzy Buzek, the unrepentant EFD Leader spoke about being Spanish Presidency plan for electric... Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, whose country holds the rotating European Union presidency, has pledged to present a World unites in Haiti aid effort:... With the whole world watching, as Haiti tries to recover from the 7-richter earthquake that has reportedly killed 50,000, a Although the European Parliament dealt a surprise defeat to an EU-US deal that would have allowed American investigators to look US President Barack Obama on 16 February announced $8 billion worth of loan guarantees to In what is gearing up to be the event of the Defense calendar 2010, UK Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit The Baltic states of Latvia and Lithuania said on 24 February that they remained to be convinced that the sale Military forces from Russia and Ukraine will resume a naval exercise last held seven years On a visit to New Delhi to visit political and business leaders, Russian Prime Minister Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky on 10 March won libel damages of GBP 150,000 ($223,000) after Will China redefine great power politics?
China is presenting its ascent not as a power shift, but as a paradigm shift. The worldwide economic recession has had European Union businesses keenly eyeing China for continuing markets, Showing there is still some major differences between the European Union and China in areas |
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