Recently added articles from European Report:
BEIJING SHELVES FILTERING SOFTWARE.
Jul 02, 2009 ... Urged to do so, China postponed - on 1 July - the launch of its controversial filtering software for computers sold on its territory, which has almost 300 million internet users. This software, nicknamed Green Dam', blocks information considered to be unsound' in order to protect children ...
VOCATIONAL TRAINING : CEDEFOP: LISBON TARGETS FOR 2010 WILL NOT BE REACHED.
Jul 02, 2009 ... The recently published annual report of Cedefop, the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, gives account of the organisation's recent successes in analysing key areas of labour market policy pertinent to vocational training and professional qualifications. Among other ...
INTERVIEW WITH JORDI LESAFFER, ANALYST AT VIGEO BELGIUM : CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY VITAL TO ENERGY SECTOR.
Jul 02, 2009 ... The oil and gas sectors face considerable corporate social responsibility (CSR) challenges. The sector includes some of the world's biggest polluters. Social issues abound as companies in the sector operate in some of the world's most sensitive regions. These CSR-related risks should grow ...
EU/CROATIA/MACEDONIA : CROAT PRIME MINISTER IVO SANADER RESIGNS.
Jul 02, 2009 ... In a surprise move, Croatia's Conservative Prime Minister Ivo Sanader has announced that he is resigning from office and leaving political life, more than two years before the end of his term. He has been prime minister since 2003. Sanader, who did not really give any reasons for his ...
ECONOMIC CRISIS : EC REPORT SAYS POTENTIAL GROWTH TO HALVE DURING CRISIS.
Jul 02, 2009 ... A European Commission staff report, published on 30 June, has found that the crisis will cut the eurozone's potential growth rate in half in 2009 and 2010, causing output to tumble by 3% by 2013 compared to pre-crisis levels. It means the 16 countries using the euro will go from a ...
EDUCATION : ERASMUS MUNDUS TO FUND 10,000 SCHOLARSHIPS THIS SEMESTER.
Jul 02, 2009 ... A total of 8,385 people from outside Europe will come to study or teach in Europe, while 1,561 Europeans are about to take off and do the same at partner institutions in countries outside Europe. They have all received grants from the European Commission in the framework of the Erasmus ...
PHARMACEUTICALS/COMPETITION : GSK PRACTICES CONDEMNED BY ADVOCATE-GENERAL.
Jul 02, 2009 ... The GlaxoSmithKline case against the European Commission (Case C-501/06 P and others) has seen a new development. EU Court of Justice Advocate-General Verica Trstenjak said, on 30 June, that the Commission should re-examine the general sales conditions put in place by the pharmaceutical ...
JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS/SWEDISH EU PRESIDENCY : ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM WEIGH HEAVY ON STOCKHOLM.
Jul 02, 2009 ... Illegal immigration and asylum, both burning issues, particularly for southern EU countries will be at the heart of the Swedish presidency. Although Stockholm's agenda does not end there, it also intends to put the citizen first in determining its justice and home affairs priorities. ...
FINANCIAL CRISIS : INDUSTRY URGES ECB TO EASE COMPANY DEBT.
Jul 02, 2009 ... Industry grouping BusinessEurope has written to the European Central Bank to highlight the plight of ailing companies, saying that ECB statistics on falling loan flows may be overoptimistic. The group says that aggregate statistics, which show an overall reduction of 5 billion in lending ...
INTERVIEW WITHaANDERS BORG, SWEDEN'S FINANCE MINISTER : MONEY, MONEY, MONEY.(Interview)
Jul 02, 2009 ... Fiscal discipline, financial supervision and impaired assets are major challenges facing the Swedish EU Presidency. Anders Borg, Sweden's finance minister, spoke to Europolitics and offered a little advice from Stockholm on how to deal with the banking crisis. What is the ...
ENVIRONMENT : NGOS DISAPPOINTED BY PRAGUE, HOPE FOR A LOT FROM STOCKHOLM.
Jul 02, 2009 ... With a new EU Presidency getting under way, the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) has addressed its traditional ten-point list of environmental priorities for the six months ahead to the incoming Presidency. Given the Czech leadership's lukewarm performance, the list the EEB has ...
SWEDEN/SWEDISH EU PRESIDENCY : PRESIDENCY PRELUDE TO NATIONAL ELECTIONS.
Jul 02, 2009 ... This European Presidency could not have come at a better time for the Swedish Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, and his government. Nine months after the presidency, he will face national elections and, by then, is counting on having built up a strong personal image of himself as an ...
PARLIAMENT/COMMISSION : REAPPOINTMENT OF BARROSO: LIBERALS SET FIVE CONDITIONS.
Jul 02, 2009 ... The day after being elected chairman of the Liberal group (ALDE), former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt set conditions for the nomination of the future European Commission president. The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe met, on 1 July in Brussels, to adopt a ...
COUNCIL/COMMISSION : REINFELDT AND BARROSO CALL FOR FAST NOMINATION OF COMMISSION PRESIDENT.
Jul 02, 2009 ... Fredrik Reinfeldt and Jose Manuel Barroso jointly pleaded for a formal nomination, as of mid-July, of the next president of the European Commission in order to ensure greater clarity and stability for Europe. The two men were speaking in Stockholm, on 1 July, at the close of the ...
AGRICULTURE/SWEDISH EU PRESIDENCY : ANIMAL WELL BEING AND CLIMATE AMONG THE TOP PRIORITIES.
Jul 02, 2009 ... A traditional defender of the proper treatment of animals in captivity, Sweden intends to make animal wellbeing a priority of its six month presidency. It is not only for the sake of the animals, says Stockholm, but is also in the interests of breeders to maintain a high level of ...
BANKING : BAILOUT OF BELGIUM'S KBC GROUP TEMPORARILY APPROVED.
Jul 02, 2009 ... R]trad: IP/09/ The decision taken on 30 June regarding the measures that the Belgian authorities intend to grant to KBC Group N.V. is highly similar to that taken the same day regarding the German bank LLBW (see Europolitics 3784): the European Commission authorised a ...
BUDGET/SWEDISH EU PRESIDENCY : BUDGET REVIEW TO CREEP UP AGAIN NEXT AUTUMN.
Jul 02, 2009 ... The general review of the EU budget is not listed as a priority of the Swedish EU Presidency in its six-month programme. The European Commission is nevertheless expected to present a strategic proposal "in autumn" as the first step towards the overhaul of EU finances. The ...
HEALTH/SWEDISH EU PRESIDENCY : CROSS-BORDER HEALTH CARE AND PHARMA PACKAGE IN LIMELIGHT.
Jul 02, 2009 ... Several directives, such as the cross-border health care draft and the "pharmaceutical package" are now on the Swedish agenda. But the new EU Presidency will also have to deal with the Influenza H1N1, also known as swine flu, since the pandemic might claim more victims during the autumn, ...
TRANSPORT/SWEDISH EU PRESIDENCY : EUROVIGNETTE AND THE RAILWAYS, TWO LEADING FILES.
Jul 02, 2009 ... Among the files that the transport sector will closely follow during the next six months is the Eurovignette directive, which will allow member states which so wish to introduce tolls reflecting the external costs generated from transporting goods by road. The transport council of 11 June ...
TRADE POLICY/SWEDISH EU PRESIDENCY : KOREA DEAL TOPS SWEDISH EU PRESIDENCY AGENDA.
Jul 02, 2009 ... Concluding an ambitious liberalisation deal with South Korea will top the trade agenda of the Swedish EU Presidency. Stockholm, which is one of the most free trade oriented capitals in Europe, hopes to clinch the most ambitious free trade agreement (FTA) ever negotiated by the EU. ...