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New skills for the green economy
Blog entry | April 22, 2012 - 11:47pm

Green skills are becoming a part of almost every job, as IT skills did earlier

How can we create new jobs? How can we find more growth? The transition to a low-carbon economy presents a huge opportunity to modernise our economies, stimulate growth and create jobs by building dynamic new industries based on innovative clean technologies and clean energy. 

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Putting faith in the next generation
Blog entry | April 22, 2012 - 11:40pm
We must ensure we have the most highly skilled workforce for the whole of the 21st century

Europe is still in a crisis. We must not be lulled back into a business as usual attitude because stock markets are performing better or the EU is not holding crisis summits. Equally, the need for budgetary austerity must not be achieved without the economic growth which we so badly need. Europe must address loss of competitiveness, insufficient labour flexibility and fierce global competition by making the best use of its greatest asset: a skilled workforce.

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Solving Europe’s crisis by integrated market reforms
Blog entry | April 22, 2012 - 11:51pm

The ongoing financial crisis continues to hit Europe hard; but this does not mean that stagnation is the only possibility for the foreseeable future. There has been much controversy in many EU member states over austerity budgets, and arguments over is cutting budgets and streamlining public expenditure ultimately beneficial for Europe’s long-term economic goals. Certainly, some cutbacks seem inevitable, but more and more, citizens and analysts alike are looking for means of growth, not simply the scaling back of resources.

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The extremists who influenced Breivik
Blog entry | April 22, 2012 - 10:30pm

This week the world’s media has been focused on the trial of Anders Behring Breivik in Oslo. He admits to killing 77 people last July but is pleading not guilty because he claims that he acted in self-defence to save his country from Islam. His only regret is that he did not kill more people.

This week the world’s media has been focused on the trial of Anders Behring Breivik in Oslo. He admits to killing 77 people last July but is pleading not guilty because he claims that he acted in self-defence to save his country from Islam. His only regret is that he did not kill more people.

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Bring the Chinese and European peoples closer through people-to-people exchange
Blog entry | April 15, 2012 - 8:39pm

More than 2,000 years ago, business travelers linked Rome and the Chinese city Chang’An through the ancient Silk Road. 

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How ACTA stinks of Big Tobacco
Blog entry | April 8, 2012 - 7:39pm

Should an industry that causes five million deaths per year be given any say in drafting public policy? 

Should an industry that causes five million deaths per year be given any say in drafting public policy? 

From the outset, Big Tobacco has been one of the driving forces behind the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). To my astonishment, this crucial nugget of information has been generally overlooked in the debate on this controversial accord.

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