http://www.neurope.eu Opinion - New Europe News: The European News Source. en-us Copyright The Media Company S.A. info@neurope.eu (New Europe) kgougakis@neurope.eu (Kostas Gougakis) Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:12:00 +0300 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:12:00 +0300 New Europe New Europe 5 http://www.neurope.eu/images/logo.jpg http://www.neurope.eu 100 35 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99487.php With European ndash; as well as American and worldwide ndash; attention focused on the melodrama in Greece whose 30 billion euros deficit for this year threatens to undermine the Eurozone and where the government has planned a series of austerity measures surveys show that after a slight surge in recent... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99487.php Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:02:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99331.php More than 8 frac12; years after the US and NATO-led war on terror began in Afghanistan the anguish over whether to stay and fight has continued to vex European Union countries many of whom were reluctant to participate and it brought a collapse of the government in the Netherlands with... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99331.php Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:13:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99328.php Four MEPs are spearheading a campaign to force the European Commission to release documents relating to the ACTA negotiations that have been kept from lawmakers. Led by Franccedil;oise Castex Samp;D they complain that they heard about the negotiations from reading the press and are concerned that the Commission is not... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99328.php Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:10:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99174.php Europeans have rightfully blamed greedy American bankers whose blood lust for money caused the worldwide recession that put scores of millions out of work on the streets watching their foreclosed homes seized because they couldnrsquo;t pay usurious adjustable rate mortgages and drowning in credit card debt with 23%-30% interest rates... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99174.php Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:48:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99130.php Chinarsquo;s weak yuan which is undercutting the ability of the European Union and United States to gain a foothold in that Asian countryrsquo;s market and difficult to compete with Chinese goods around the world should be devalued the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD said. But soon after... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99130.php Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:45:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99127.php Herersquo;s something to think about when yoursquo;re in the unemployment line or among the working poor of the vast middle class the new hoi-polloi of the 21st Century asking for another bowl of porridge trying to figure out how to pay your childrsquo;s college loan living from check to check:... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99127.php Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:41:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99123.php Speaking at an event organized by the European Federation of Journalists MEP Jorgo Chatzimarkakis said that the ldquo;European Parliament is no longer the friend of the Commission when it says that nothing can be done about the media. Things will changerdquo;. At a conference organized by the EFJ last week... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99123.php Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:37:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99116.php Concerns are mounting that the EU could soon face an expenses scandal that could dwarf the ongoing saga of British MPs that caused widespread public outrage leading some British lawmakers to go into hiding. It was recently discovered that undisclosed MEPs had repaid more than euro;3.4 million in ldquo;wrongly claimedrdquo;... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99116.php Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:19:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98964.php The European Cervical Cancer Association brought together policymakers and medical experts from as far away as Georgia and the United States to proclaim that cervical cancer can be prevented and eliminated. The disease which claims 30 000 lives a year in Europe alone can be prevented with the HPV vaccine... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98964.php Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:04:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98824.php On the same day last week that Israeli President Shimon Peres delivered an emotional address to the German parliament appealing to the countryrsquo;s youth not to overlook the lessons of the Holocaust ndash; and as the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazirsquo;s death camp in Auschwitz Poland was... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98824.php Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:55:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98773.php nbsp;People whom have traveled extensively in Africa have a special place for Ethiopian Airways for unlike many other African airlines they have a quality of service and a technical support that many European airlines envy. They are known for the quality of their pilots many of whom cut their teeth... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98773.php Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:50:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98661.php Just when you thought no one could beat we Americans in butchering the English language ndash; deliberately ndash; to spin defeat into success and cover up a bad situation civilians killed in war become ldquo;collateral damagerdquo; along comes the European Union previously the runner-up in trying to hide the failure... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98661.php Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:51:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98510.php With a failed banking system now nationalized Icelandrsquo;s hopes of becoming a member of the European Union have hit some thin ice over whether the government should repay $5.4 billion in compensation to Britain and the Netherlands which had to step up and bail out depositors in Icelandic banks that... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98510.php Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:51:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98509.php Even if yoursquo;re on the right track yoursquo;ll get run over if you just sit there American humorist Will Rogers Yoursquo;d think being only the third American President to win the Nobel Peace Prize ndash; and this in his first year in office ndash; would have propelled Barack Obama to... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98509.php Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:49:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98364.php The new presidency got a shock early last week to discover that their website had been hacked and a picture of Mr Bean added to the page. This was intended as a satire on President Zapatero who wags suggest is not to dissimilar in appearance. The attack is believed to... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98364.php Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:37:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98365.php The attempt to topple UK Premier Gordon Brown only lasted a few hours before being beaten off by a robust defense form Labour loyalists and timidity on behalf of the plotters. Two ex-Ministers Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon launched a letter conveniently leaked to the press to all Labour MPrsquo;s... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98365.php Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:37:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98361.php Ooh-la-lah much to the consternation of the British and the Americans France ndash;for the fifth year in a row ndash; was chosen as the worldrsquo;s best place to live by the Irish-based International Living magazine which just goes to show you what happens when you are lovers instead of fighters... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98361.php Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:35:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98198.php Ahead of her hearings with the European Parliament the EUrsquo;s new de facto Foreign Minister-designate Baroness Catherine Ashton needs to provide credible leadership in her role as High Representative but in her first test she has taken her approach of quiet diplomacy to a new level of silent diplomacy. Council... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98198.php Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:24:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98059.php A small Commonwealth island of the south west coast of Australia has created quite a stir at the United Nations talks on Climate Change held under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change also known as the COP15 bringing main talks to a standstill for the... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98059.php Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:34:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97922.php During this week as the world scurries to Copenhagen politicians jump on and off a media opportunity and activists finally get to their long awaited Mecca of Copenhagen slightly to the north not so much rain hopefully the Party of the European Socialists is set to surprise one and all... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97922.php Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:31:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97802.php The problem of illicit trade tobacco smuggling and organized crime enjoys unprecedented attention at the top European level in these days especially in Brussels where European governments say theyrsquo;re going to fight back harder than ever. Why? The illegal trade in tobacco robs EU countries of nearly 10 billion euros... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97802.php Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:00:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97799.php Ahead of the UKrsquo;s Iraq Inquiry ex-Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix spoke in Brussels at an event organised by the European Policy Centre and presented his thoughts on the Iraq war and nuclear disarmament. He said that the early 1990rsquo;s saw some reduction in weapons stockpiles but in the second... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97799.php Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:54:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97795.php The appointment of Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy a devout Catholic who goes on retreats as President of the European Union had Turkey which is anxious to join the EU worried because of his strong sentiments the country would never be admitted. The headlines of Turkeyrsquo;s major papers voiced... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97795.php Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:49:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97794.php ASTANA ndash; Fresh from Kabul Kazakhstanrsquo;s Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev vowed to strengthen the humanitarian dimension of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europersquo;s strategy for Afghanistan when his country assumes the OSCEs chairmanship in January 2010. The situation in Afghanistan now appears to be definitely worse than it was... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97794.php Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:48:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97656.php As they have failed to do on setting real goals to stop climate change so have world leaders failed to do anything except have nice dinners themselves while not coming up with any ideas on how to stop the rising pangs of hunger that now left more than a billion... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97656.php Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:32:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97652.php Every 5 years a new team of European Commissioners is chosen normally as a result of a messy behind the scenes deal between the Member States. Last time this happened in 2004 we were lucky to end up with 8 female Commissioners. This time around it looks like the gender... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97652.php Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:28:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97521.php Ahead of the critical Copenhagen Summit next month to figure out how the world can stop climate change ndash; which some analysts said has failed before it has begun and for which the European Union couldnrsquo;t agree on a common stancenbsp; - an Indian discussion paper says there is no... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97521.php Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:30:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97520.php To get the EU closer to its citizens. This was and remains one of the major objectives of the European Commission and the EP. Do you want to see what this means in practice? Have a look at the following: The Aring;land Islands form part of Finland since 1921 not... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97520.php Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:29:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97516.php If you thought the blows of the sledgehammers that helped knock down the Berlin Wall 20 years ago were powerful you should have seen the pats on the back European Union leaders gave themselves standing near the site. Yoursquo;d have thought they were the ones who brought democracy back to... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97516.php Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:25:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97514.php The Lisbon Treaty is coming into affect on 1 December with policy changes aplenty. One main aim will be to tackle poverty and make poverty a priority in development aid kicking this off with 2010 being the year on combating poverty. Anna Visser Director of the European Anti-Poverty Network in Ireland... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97514.php Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:24:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97366.php With the imminent implementation of the Lisbon Treaty the European Unionrsquo;s de facto Constitution which creates two new top posts that of President of the European Union and an EU Foreign Minister in all but name candidates have been jockeying for position or having their names floated but it now... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97366.php Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:11:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97236.php It has been a long time since the Brussels scene was so abuzz for nothing livens up the city more that a good session of gossip intrigue plotting and scheming for this is what the EU does best. The long running soap opera of choosing the President is made even... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97236.php Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:49:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97225.php The Cold War the Berlin Wall Checkpoint Charlie - the Allied crossing point between East and West Berlin - are a few of many Cold War experiences that even only I saw throughnbsp; fictional films and books during my high school and college years in the 1980s have stayed with... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97225.php Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:38:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97095.php In a time of the rising right wing in some European Union countries a poll released in Switzerland has found that 53 % of Swiss with voting rights oppose a referendum which aims to outlaw the building of minarets in the country. The poll by SSR SRG idee suisse found... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97095.php Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:49:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96862.php THE World Bank is pursuing an ambitious programme of reform to enable the institution to become more efficient and effective while also gaining more legitimacy among the developing countries that it serves World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick said. In a speech at the start of the Annual Meetings of... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96862.php Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:22:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96501.php Germany moved to reassure its European Union partners about its rescue plan for Opel insisting that it would not violate the blocs strict rules on state aid. Every step is being co-ordinated with all of the other member states. This is why we believe that we are conforming with EU... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96501.php Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:42:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96500.php The European Medicines Agency EMA on 25 September approved two vaccines for the pandemic A H1N1 virus commonly known as swine flu after testing them on more than 6 000 subjects. The vaccines are Focetria which is produced by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis and Pandemrix manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline Deutsche Presse-Agentur... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96500.php Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:40:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96329.php There are a host of academics and consultants working in the field of counter-extremism but the Quilliam Foundation is different. It was founded by Ed Hussain and Maajid Nawaz both ex members of the extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir. Nawaz was a founding member of HT in Denmark and Pakistan and... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96329.php Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:49:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96325.php The world of Web 2.0 reached a milestone this week when Facebook the social media platform announced that they had reached 300 million users. If that wasnrsquo;t staggering enough they passed the 250 million users only two months ago. In the announcement founder Mark Zuckerberg also said that the company... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96325.php Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:45:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96134.php The British Conservative Party has not only welcomed Dan Hannan MEP back into the fold after his expulsion in February 2008 by Joseph Daul but many are embracing his ideas laid out in his book The Plan: Twelve months to renew Britain. In it Hannon lays out a series of... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96134.php Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:30:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95791.php As David Cameron reads the opinion polls that give him a consistent 16 to 17 point lead over Brownrsquo;s Labour he may feel satisfied that the Conservatives are on the verge of victory and ending more than a decade in the wilderness. However there is more to this picture. Cameron... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95791.php Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:48:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95614.php The herorsquo;s welcome given to freed Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi on his return to Libya has been ldquo;deeply distressing rdquo; Britainrsquo;s Foreign Secretary David Miliband said. In the first comment by a government minister on the release of al-Megrahi by the regional administration in Scotland Miliband said that ldquo;no... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95614.php Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:55:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95615.php Lockerbie Scotland December 21 1988 - This small town became a byword for terrorism. On that cold and rainy night a Boeing 747 exploded above the town and the debris rained down carving craters in the homes and streets and killing even more innocent people. The incident shocked the world... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95615.php Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:55:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95609.php The year 2011 has been designated as The European Year of Volunteering by the European Commission which has promised six million Euro to support the call to raise the profile of volunteering and encourage the voluntary sector to learn from each other. Throughout the EU an estimated 100 million people... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95609.php Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:47:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95608.php For many years I worked for the National Trust Europersquo;s largest conservation charity in the English Lake District where I was repairing trails on our picturesque mountains. This work was very labour intensive and we used large amounts of volunteers without whom wersquo;d never get the job done. There were... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95608.php Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:46:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95545.php The European Union was founded after the Second World War where large armed forces fought each other and devastated a continent. Such wars are becoming a thing of the past and most current and future conflicts are very different. Today most conflicts are within societies and not between states argued... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95545.php Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:15:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95542.php More four-years olds enrolled in schools across Europe compulsory schooling prolonged and more responsibilities for schools teachers and parents. These are just few of the main points of the seventh edition of Key Data on Education in Europe introduced by the European Commissioner for Education Training Culture and Youth Jan... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95542.php Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:04:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95385.php Putting together the enthushy;siasm of youth and technology Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009 already knows its winners. This yearrsquo;s finals of one of the worldrsquo;s premier student technology competitions took place in Cairo Egypt.nbsp; As Joe Wilson Senior Director of Academic Initiatives at Microsoft reminded all the participants during the final... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95385.php Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:22:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95381.php Just imagine how much better more enjoyable life would be without the countless little necessities that crowd your day. The school run going shopping booking trains and flights ordering tickets for events booking a restaurant and so on. How are we supposed to relax to be happy when wersquo;ve all... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95381.php Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:16:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95379.php As of July 1 the European Commission has removed specific marketing standards governing the size and shapes of 26 types of fruit and vegetables. This is part of an initiative to reduce red tape and has been welcomed by many groups including farmers and consumers. In particular organic farmers who... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Opinion http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95379.php Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:12:00 +0300