L’importance de la place du numérique dans l’économie n’est plus à prouver depuis bien des années. Mais parce qu’elle représente le vecteur nécessaire d’une mondialisation aujourd’hui bien plus qu’entamée, cette technologie tournée exclusivement vers le futur doit être maîtrisée par quiconque souhaite jouer un rôle majeur à l’échelle mondiale. Reste à savoir si la France… » read more
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Jean-Luc Biacabe: This is Europe in the making
March 18, 2014
“This is Europe in the making! Half of all those who are leaving the country are moving to other European countries. Should we still call this emigration? Shouldn’t we, in fact, be pleased about this development and view it as a manifestation of an emerging European citizenry?” – Jean-Luc Biacabe, economist at the Chamber of… » read more
Pour le Journée Européenne du blogging multilingue, a video of one minute (waltz) length sur the bloggingportal.eu reboot, avec une “first look” à les wireframes et pas un mot dans mon accent francais de vache espagnol.
Three languages in Brussels – a cautionary tale of rapprochement
October 23, 2013
Late September, some of Brussels’ political figures and blue-sky thinkers got together and discussed a new language approach for the capital of Belgium… and of the European Union. Participants at the Marnix Plan launch event, organised on 28 September, could feel an optimism hanging in the air: there was a general willingness for politics to… » read more
Guest post by Marcel Kuntz, director of research at CNRS in Grenoble, France, Agnès E. Ricroch, lecturer at AgroParisTech in Paris and John Davison, retired director of research at INRA Versailles. – Version française en bas – EU governments are ignoring on their own scientific risk evaluation committees and creating false pseudo-scientific documents for political… » read more
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Des élections européennes sous haute tension
July 15, 2013
A moins d’un an des élections européennes, nombreux sont ceux qui ont déjà peur des résultats. Abstention massive, montée des partis extrémistes et eurosceptiques… les motifs d’inquiétudes sont multiples et la pression ne va aller qu’augmentant à mesure que le scrutin approche. Afin de désamorcer une bombe qui pourrait éclater dans la figure des Européens,… » read more
Guess who’s coming to dinner on May 23
May 9, 2012
European Council president Herman van Rompuy has arranged a summit dinner for EU leaders on May 23. For François Hollande the Brussels feast will be a first opportunity to brief all his colleagues on France’s new approach to the eurozone crisis and how he sees a return to growth in Europe. His message will be… » read more
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Economic growth is the theme for spring
April 13, 2012
Spring is the season of growth, and economic growth in Europe has become the dominant theme of the moment. It is certainly a central theme of the French presidential elections. In a few days time the European Commission plans to launch its economic growth plan for Europe, setting out the measures it believes that member… » read more
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European Parliament resolution on online gambling in the Internal Market
November 25, 2011
On 15 November, the European Parliament adopted a Resolution on online gambling in the Internal Market. The Rapporteur for the preparation of the Resolution was Mr Jürgen Creutzmann, MEP. The report calls in particular for steps to ensure the integrity of sport with regard to gambling activities. The European Parliament takes the view that efficient… » read more
Medicines: What’s New?
October 21, 2011
I mentioned in passing in my last post that new medicines are not necessarily innovative. This can be seen in the 2010 Report of the French National Health Authority, the “Haute Autorité de santé”. The authority’s “Commission de la Transparence (évaluation des médicaments)” evaluates the efficacy of each medicine under two headings – the therapeutic… » read more