A Council protocol will aim to completely reverse the basic rule of European democracy defended passionately and with courage over decades by such European democrats as Robert Schuman, Paul-Henri Spaak and Joseph Luns. Many Commissioners in the past also fought an unequal battle to maintain democratic values against the return to raw, bare-knuckle, power politics. [...]

As soon as you start using the term pirate, unfortunately cute or nostalgic images of Johnny Depp and Long John Silver come to mind - “Avast, me hearties!” (”avast” means to stop or cease) and other lusty lingo. All that is best relegated to the world of children’s stories (image, Playwood Toys). Today’s [...]

The new BP chairman, who will take over 1st January 2010, has expressed his concerns about the future of the planet. Humanity cannot go on tripling global production and doubling population until 2050. The planet will have great difficulty in coping with such a challenge. The pace of growth of car ownership and air travel [...]

Sir,
Regarding ‘EU innovation needs paradigm shift, says commissioner‘:
To achieve EU Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik’s goal of turning research into market products, we should go back to the fundamental questions of what innovation means.
Innovation, unlike basic research, is an organic phenomenon. It is reactive to demand far more often than it is predictive of [...]

This was first published as part of Growth and jobs: reshaping the EU’s ‘Lisbon Strategy’ by EurActiv.com on Tuesday 23rd June.
Besides the economic recession, EU officials have already identified a number of underlying challenges and opportunities that will shape the future Lisbon Agenda after 2010:
Globalisation: The rapid emergence of new economic powers implies a fundamental [...]

Following rapid and significant expansion into new markets and sectors of governance and policy, innovative union of nation states (”European Union”, or EU) seeks an experienced:
Online Community Manager
to gain buy-in at all levels throughout our 27 Members, as well as with external stakeholders on a global level.
Principal Duties
You will be responsible for engaging EU citizens [...]

Hungary has joined the EU in 2004 after a referendum with overwhelming support. Five years on, accession would get a 74:26 majority a referendum if it was asked again

Sirs,
The European Union (EU) is said to have been established by the Treaty on European Union signed in 1992.
However, taking advantage of your neutrality, I would like to question the EU’s existence based on the following considerations:
First, the Treaty on European Union (TEU) explicitly states that the EU “shall be founded on the European Communities” [...]

Below you´ll find a written opinon of the fresh MEP Judith Merkies of the Dutch PvdA-delegation in the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (former PES) on the policial situation in the Netherlands after the recent elections for the European Parliament. As you certainly know, the social-democrats (PvdA) lost [...]

After months of tough horse trading the House of Representatives adopted an 1100 page (!) bill aiming at curbing American green house gas emissions. The vote was 219 to 212!
Unfortunately, the bill falls far short of what would be necessary to put the USA into the driver’s seat at the forthcoming climate negotiations in Copenhagen, [...]

Vince Cable makes the point (see yesterday’s post) that the centre of gravity of the economic world has moved to the east, particularly to China.
Today’s Financial Times carries an op-ed by Liu Mingkang, chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission.  He rightly asserts that, unfortunately, many people have forgotten the old-fashioned principle of setting up [...]

Reuters analysis.

Handelsblatt liefert eine tief greifende und vorausschauende Berichterstattung über Europa-Themen und kommentiert diese kompetent - bis hin zu Essays.

In my previous article “Iran-Twitter-Revolution” I had some doubts that revolution is coming soon concluding however that something historic is afoot in Iran today. I order to understand events in today’s Iran I think they should be put in wider context of Iran’s history and ruling system. In this article I [...]

Blogactiv spoke to a number of exhibitors at the Innovation Days event in Lisbon, Portugal. Eureka supports ideas on their merits which means that a very wide range of ideas and products were being represented.
Renata Gomes was representing the University of Coimbra and their Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology and the Lino Ferreira Lab. [...]

At the 2009 Eureka Innovation Days event in Lisbon, Portugal, two new associate member nations joined the Eureka club. The first was Bosnia, the second South Korea.
South Korea was represented at Innovation Days by an impressive stand and delegation, there to promote 13 small businesses. We were able to speak to Han-Joo KIM, Director of [...]

Blogactiv was pleased to be able to discuss innovation in Europe and the role of Eureka in funding developing projects at the 2009 Innovation Days event. Mr Borg is Director of the Brussels based Eureka Secretariat.

Georgescu & Vollborn: Erstausgabe (Fischer): 20.02.07; Taschenbuch: 10.02.09; € 9,95.Mit den Panikschürern und Verschwörungs-neurotikern gibt es immer etwas Neues. Und selten was Gutes. Die schlechte Nachricht ist, dass Herr Ulfkotte am 1. Jul…

Nous proposons la création d’un observatoire européen chargé des questions de déontologie journalistique et offrant un lieu de débats entre professionnels où la responsabilité sociale du journaliste serait remise au cœur de la profession.
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We call for the creation of a European observatory responsible for questions of journalistic deonotology which will provide a space for debate between professionals where the social responsibility of journalists can be put back at the heart of the profession.
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