Since the mid 1990s the average growth rates of real GDP Gross Domestic Product, labour productivity and total factor productivity in the European Union have fallen behind those in the United States. What makes this remarkable is that this is the first time since World War II that these performance...
The European Commission has strengthened its focus on environment and health issues, not only by providing large amounts of funds to its Member States but also by developing policies and action plans, such as REACH (registration, evaluation, authorization of chemicals), SCALE (Science, Children, Awareness raising, Legislation, Evaluation), the European Union...
The aim of this paper is to present the Romanian market potential for solar heating applications. The current situation of the Romanian solar market is studied. Background and historical information are followed by a description of the technologies currently used for solar water heating. An end-use analysis provides market size...
This paper focuses on the information about the energy consumption by Cyprus' for the generation of electricity. Cyprus' energy consumption is mainly oil-based and since it has no domestic production of oil, Cyprus is an oil importer. Practically, the whole amount of electricity is generated by imported oil, and the...
Kelly Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: KELYA) (NASDAQ: KELYB), a global human resources solutions provider, announced today thatit has signed an agreement to acquire all of the shares of the Portuguesesubsidiaries of Randstad Holding N.V., Randstad - Empresa de TrabalhoTemporário, Unipessoal, Lda and Randstad - Gestão de Processos, Lda. Termswere not disclosed....
EU leaders are to emphasise the need to act to increase the number of people working in science and technology in Europe, according to a draft set of conclusions for the European Council on 14 December. The conclusions note, in particular, the need to...
The European Commission approved, on 7 December, funding for ten pre-accession assistance programmes for Croatia, Turkey and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia FYROM for 2007 to 2009. The money, which amounts to 920 million, comes from the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance IPA. The largest share...
The need to ensure that there are sufficient human resources for the R&D sector in Europe is one of the main issues addressed in a set of Council conclusions, adopted by EU ministers on 23 November. The conclusions, which deal with issues relating to...
The need to ensure that there are sufficient human resources for the R&D sector in Europe is one of the main issues addressed in a set of Council conclusions, adopted by EU ministers on 23 November. The conclusions, which deal with issues relating to...
Who is responsible for publishing the list of beneficiaries of aid under the Common Agricultural Policy CAP? Is it the member states or the European Commission? That is the question over which some large member states came to disagreement with the EU executive, on 10 ...
PRETORIA AFP — More than 500 delegates are expected to attend an international conference in Rwanda in October aimed at providing Africa with greater access to information technology, the UN Information Centre UNIC said on Monday. The two-day conference, which is expected to draw participants from China, India,...
A series of European Commission proposals in the area of migration and asylum, including ones on ways to curb the rapidly growing influx of illegal migrants to the EU, have been tabled by European leaders. At their summit on 22 June, heads of state...
With the effects of climate change already perceptible, the European Commission believes that it is possible to take a certain number of adaptation measures at EU level right now to tackle the problem. The Commission's view is that this can be done on the basis of...
The European Commission approved a French policy framework governing use of 13.5 billion of structural funds for the period 2007 till 2013. A number of major policy priorities were taken up: environment-economy, support for companies with a focus on research and innovation; training, youth employment as...
The European Commission announced, on 19 June, its acceptance of Slovenia's national strategic reference framework, which sets the main priorities for investment of the EU funds to be allocated to the country - 4.101 billion - under Cohesion Policy 2007-2013. The priorities will be implemented under...
On 22 November 2006, the Commission of the European Communities issued a Green Paper entitled Modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century. (1) As its title suggests, this fairly concise document is concerned primarily with labour regulation. In broader perspective, however, it...
The European Commission, on 21 February, adopted its annual policy strategy for 2008. A communication on this strategy puts the accent on the EU's priority actions for 2008 and proposes a general framework for human and financial resources. The annual policy strategy,...
The European Commission launched, on 12 February, the recruitment procedure for the post of executive director of the new European Chemicals Agency ECHA, which will start operations in Helsinki on 1 June 2007. There is a separate launch for the recruitment of the first 200 ECHA...
INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-C1995-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A new intranet site has been developed for industrial group Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) by web content management company Hot Banana Software Inc and Connexion Corporate Communications NV, a web and communication solution provider and WCMS integrator. The 'Welcome to Ingersoll...
The European Commission launched on 12 February the recruitment procedure for the post of executive director of the new European Chemicals Agency ECHA, which will start operations in Helsinki on 1 June 2007. There is a separate launch for the recruitment of the first 200 ECHA...
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