France backs ban on bluefin tuna trade
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Within the next fortnight, France will announce its support for adding bluefin tuna to Appendix 1 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES),according to an article published on the website of French newspaper, Le Monde.Th...
Yam research in Africa receives support from European Union
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Research on yam improvement in six African countries has received a boost with a donation of US$1 million from the European Union—African,Caribbean and Pacific Science and Technology Programme (EU-ACP),according to a statement from the Internationa...
BTC gets a makeover
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In 1999,the Belgian government established the Belgian development agency,BTC, to implement its development policies.Ten years later, BTC is a major player in the world of development agencies and has adapted to an ever-changing international environ...
The lesson of Europe's economic crisis
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Some European leaders believe that the lesson of the recession and the crisis with the euro is that Europe should coordinate its economic policies much more closely. Speaking in Strasbourg today, when the European Parliament approved the new Commiss...
Azoulay: Media are key to building a common Mediterranean future
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Editors and journalists from over 30 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean have gathered in Morocco this week for a Regional meeting on the theme of ‘Media Freedom‘ and the contribution of media to combating discrimination with and...
China’s Challenge to American hegemony
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Chas W. Freeman Jr spoke to the Global Strategy Forum on 20 January 2010 on the mounting speculation about China’s emergence as a global hegemon to rival and, perhaps in time, surpass the United States. This is the thrust of what he said: The US
To tweet or not to tweet?
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Here is the reverse side of the coin for Twitter? Or perhaps just a better explanation? Watch a teenager speaking about the point of twitter and about the world according to Twitter in his series, specially dedicated for “tech geeks”,...
Commission welcomes the full resumption of cooperation with Mauritania
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The European Commission welcomes the Council Decision of 25 January 2010 fully re-establishing cooperation with Mauritania and confirms the resumption of enhanced political dialogue with Mauritania’s various political actors.This new decision means...
The new Bussels Metro Tram and bus card
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Change your card! Or, if you don't have one, get a card or get a bike because free-loading is no longer an option this summer....The STIB, the Brussels public transportation office, is putting up access barriers in all metro stations. As of summer 20...
Getting some glamour in our lives
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Well I never! Glamour magazine, from the Condé Nast stable and aimed at the fashion-concious young woman has a piece this month on “The EU in 60 seconds”. Quotes the European Movement, UKIP and Maurice Fraser of the LSE, which seems to...
Zionism, anti-semitism, ex-public schoolboys and the left
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Anti-semitic attacks in Britain in 2009 reached their highest level since they were first recorded in 1984. Reported and verified attacks (physical, verbal abuse, bullying of schoolchildren, desecration of graves, etc) on Jewish people, properti...
EDEK quits the governing coalition in Cyprus
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THE Central Committee of Socialist Party EDEK voted late last night by an overwhelming majority to quit the government coalition, responding to leader Yiannakis Omirou’s unequivocal call for withdrawal based on the party’s “total disagreement
Barroso II Commission is Elected
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The European Parliament elected the new European Commission by 488 votes in favour, 137 against and 72 abstentions in Strasbourg on Tuesday.
