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EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY : PARLIAMENT GIVES FINAL GREEN LIGHT TO EIT.
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology EIT, a virtual establishment supposed to foster business investment in innovation and R&D in Europe, will start operating this summer. Three years after the controversial idea was originally floated, and after, in the words of EU Education Commissioner Jan...
Tags: European Parliament, innovation, institute, Leadership, Strategy
Research articles 2008-04-07
COUNCIL : "EU SHOULD NOT BUILD A WALL AGAINST TURKEY," SWEDISH PM TELLS EP.
Sweden intends to serve as an example in the fight against climate change when it assumes the rotating Presidency of the Council in the second half of 2009. Furthermore, it will adopt a very clear position in favour of Turkey's accession to the Union. ...
Tags: EP, European Parliament, Leadership, president, Turkey
Research articles 2008-03-17
CLIMATE CHANGE : PRINCE CHARLES URGES "TRULY GLOBAL" CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY.
In a very political speech delivered at the European Parliament on 14 February in Brussels, Britain's Prince Charles compared the fight against climate change to a war for the survival of the planet. "I would like to congratulate the Commission on its recently announced...
Tags: European Parliament, FINANCE, Leadership
Research articles 2008-02-21
Serbian FM takes Kosovo issue to European lawmakers
PRISTINA AFP — Serbia's foreign minister was to press his country's claim to Kosovo with European lawmakers on Wednesday, one day after NATO peacekeepers intervened to defend two border posts from angry Serbs. Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic was to speak before the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee in Strasbourg,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, European Parliament, Leadership, NATO
Research articles 2008-02-19
LOG BOOK : DEFENSE SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRMAN KARL VON WOGAU IN KOSOVO.(overall economic development )
Europolitics has decided to hand the pen to European leaders during their missions or displacements. The first log book' comes from a delegation of the European Parliament's Defence Subcommittee, which visited Kosovo between 6 and 8 February. Made up of Angelika Beer (Greens-EFA, Germany), the...
Tags: delegation, European Parliament, Germany, leader, Leadership
Research articles 2008-02-19
MEP CRITICAL OF SARKOZY MEDIA CIRCUS.(Martin Schulz opinion on the media coverage of Nicolas Sarkozy's life)(Brief article)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's private life is dominating the European news to the detriment of fundamental political debates, declared German MEP Martin Schulz in Strasbourg on 15 January. The Socialist leader at the European Parliament considers "worrying" the fact that Sarkozy is at the centre of...
Tags: European Parliament, Government, Leadership, MARKETING, media, president, ratification, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2008-02-04
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT : POTTERING OUTLINES FIVE PRIORITIES TO EUROPEAN COUNCIL.
Now that the Charter of Fundamental Rights has been proclaimed and the Treaty of Lisbon signed, the president of the European Parliament wants to concentrate on priorities for 2008. At the European Council on 14 December in Brussels, Hans-Gert Pottering (EPP-ED, Germany) described his five priorities...
Tags: European Parliament, Leadership, NETWORKING, president
Research articles 2008-01-11
INTERVIEW WITH MEP ALAIN LAMASSOURE (EPP-ED, FRANCE) : IN KOSOVO, ALL CONDITIONS ARE IN PLACE FOR A MAJOR POLITICAL CRISIS.(Interview)
Kosovo's march to independence seems inescapable, in spite of opposition by Serbia and Russia. EU leaders, who discussed the issue at their summit meeting on 14 December in Brussels, once again remained very reserved. Alain Lamassoure UMP, former European affairs minister for France and member of...
Tags: European Parliament, leader, Leadership
Research articles 2007-12-20
British PM Brown hopes to shake off EU treaty criticism
BRUSSELS AFP — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown attended his first Brussels EU summit on Friday, seeking to shake off criticism of his absence at the signing of the bloc's key reform treaty. Brown, who received flak in the British press for his clumsy European diplomacy -- one week...
Tags: absence, Brussels, European Parliament, leader, Leadership, summit, treaty
Research articles 2007-12-13
CLIMATE CHANGE : AIRLINES AND PARLIAMENT NOT ON SAME WAVELENGTH.
Though it accepts the principle of participation by the air transport sector in the European Emission Trading System ETS as a "useful" instrument to manage airplane emissions, the Association of European Airlines AEA nonetheless refuses to follow those who, within the European Parliament, "seem to be...
Tags: Benefits, European Parliament, Leadership
Research articles 2007-11-22
CLIMATE CHANGE : AIRLINES AND PARLIAMENT NOT ON SAME WAVELENGTH.
Though it accepts the principle of participation by the air transport sector in the European Emission Trading System ETS as a "useful" instrument to manage airplane emissions, the Association of European Airlines AEA nonetheless refuses to follow those who, within the European Parliament, "seem to be...
Tags: Benefits, emission, European Parliament, Leadership
Research articles 2007-11-07
CLIMATE CHANGE : AIRLINES AND PARLIAMENT NOT ON SAME WAVELENGTH.
Though it accepts the principle of participation by the air transport sector in the European Emission Trading System ETS as a "useful" instrument to manage airplane emissions, the Association of European Airlines AEA nonetheless refuses to follow those who, within the European Parliament, "seem to be...
Tags: emission, European Parliament, Leadership
Research articles 2007-11-02
In the wake of xenophobia: the new racism in Europe
Europe was torn apart by fascism in the 1930s, and when the Second World War ended in 1945, remnants of extreme right parties re-emerged on the margins of politics. By the 1980s, when the forgetting had started, some began to pick up protest votes as immigrants became an issue, driven...
Tags: Europe, European Parliament, Government, Leadership
Research articles 2007-09-01
INTERVIEW WITH MEP REINO PAASILINNA, RAPPORTEUR ON THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY : INNOVATION SHOULD BE THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE EIT.(European Union. European Parliament)(Interview)
Reino Paasilinna (PES, Finland), is the European Parliament's lead rapporteur on the European Institute of Technology. Since being adopted on 13 November 2006, the European Commission's proposals for the EIT have been subject to a high level of public scrutiny, notably over the question of how...
Tags: commission, education, European Parliament, innovation, Leadership, Strategy
Research articles 2007-04-10
SPECIAL EP PLENARY ON 9 MAY.
Sixty Nobel Prize winners will be invited to the European Parliament's special plenary session, on 9 May in Brussels, to celebrate Europe Day. The decision, adopted by the political group leaders on 15 March in Strasbourg, was welcomed by Socialist Group head Martin Schulz Germany, who...
Tags: Brussels, European Parliament, Leadership
Research articles 2007-03-30
'Germany - Land of Ideas' Presents Ideas for Europe
Panel Discussions Link the EU's Past and Future BERLIN -- Today's "European Anniversary Summit" panel at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology BMWi built a bridge between the past and future of the European Union. The event was part of this weekend's celebrations surrounding the 50th anniversary of...
Tags: Dr., Europe, European Parliament, FINANCE, Germany, Leadership, SALES, Strategy, Taxes
Research articles 2007-03-23
EU/BIH : REHN SLAMS BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA FOR LACK OF PROGRESS.
Speaking on the lack of progress in Sarajevo's EU bid at the plenary session of the European Parliament on 14 March, EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said that Bosnia and Herzegovina need to get going. Rehn slammed the leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina BiH for breeding...
Tags: agreement, European Parliament, leader, Leadership
Research articles 2007-03-22
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY : PARLIAMENT URGES THE COMMISSION TO GET MORE INVOLVED.
The advantage of own-initiative reports is that they allow the rapporteur and MEPs to express their views more freely. That is certainly the case of the report by Richard Howitt (PES, United Kingdom) on corporate social responsibility, adopted on 13 March in Strasbourg with EPP-PES compromise...
Tags: commission, CSR, European Parliament, Leadership, SALES
Research articles 2007-03-16
EU struggles to write common birthday message
BRUSSELS AFP — Efforts to draft a 50th birthday declaration celebrating the EU's achievements and laying out its future goals ran into difficulties at a summit of the bloc's leaders in Brussels. "There are, as always, some controversial areas," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday following a dinner discussion...
Tags: Brussels, declaration, European Parliament, leader, Leadership
Research articles 2007-03-08
Controversial Belgian Nationalist Party Leaders to Speak in Arlington Tonight
To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Marcus Epstein of the Robert Taft Club, +1-757-375-0179, marcusepstein@gmail.com ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a rare American appearance, Frank Vanhecke, MEP, and Filip Dewinter, MP, of the Belgian Vlaams Belang Flemish Interest party will speak on the topic "Multiculturalism, Immigration, and Free Speech," at the...
Tags: European Parliament, Government, leader, Leadership
Research articles 2007-02-23
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