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And the winner is.......
On the first day of January the Economic and Social Committee launched a video competition titled "Europe Past Forward". For six weeks, everyone involved did their best to spread the word in the hope that it would help generate awareness and entries.
Let's get on with it
Some of the people who know me also know I often say the world would be a better place if we had more women in leading roles. A notion I am very convinced about. I was therefore only too delighted to come across an article by Joseph S Nye, When Wom...
European Leaders Set Their Sights on Job Creation
This week's European summit was able to take the opportunity to discuss the often postponed "other side" of the euro crisis - growth and the lack thereof. While there has been an intense focus on debt and the problems it is causing - and rightly so -...
Europe Past Forward
With the start of the new year comes the start of the Committee's Video Challenge. Titled "Europe Past Forward", it is a competition to generate creative and colourful videos from Europe's young people. At a time like this - when unemployment is r...
"Walking slowly because we are going far"
One hundred young Europeans have been brought to the European Parliament in a bid to hear from them what they think about Europe and what they see as the future of Europe. I had the pleasure of being invited to this event primarily due to the proje...
Violence for the sake of violence
In the midst of reportage about the world economy one cannot not notice the terrible events afflicting UK cities. The riots and looting that have been occurring these last three nights are unacceptable, unreasonable and not condonable. It truly is...
Violence for the sake of violence
In the midst of reportage about the world economy one cannot not notice the terrible events afflicting UK cities. The riots and looting that have been occurring these last three nights are unacceptable, unreasonable and not condonable. It truly is...
Saving the Euro
What we have been waiting for these last months has finally partially been delivered by our political leaders last Thursday. The Eurozone leaders have agreed on some important initiatives to help the Eurozone out of the current crisis. Finally th...
Saving the Euro
What we have been waiting for these last months has finally partially been delivered by our political leaders last Thursday. The Eurozone leaders have agreed on some important initiatives to help the Eurozone out of the current crisis. Finally th...
A new media era for the UK
Today was the first Sunday in which, after many years, a famous tabloid in the UK was not printed. News of the World, published its last run on Sunday, with a tribute to all the scoops and glorious front pages over the 160 or so years it has been pr...
A new media era for the UK
Today was the first Sunday in which, after many years, a famous tabloid in the UK was not printed. News of the World, published its last run on Sunday, with a tribute to all the scoops and glorious front pages over the 160 or so years it has been pr...
The EU budget: putting solidarity into practice
EESC urges best use of taxpayers' money When they formulate their spending plans, European policy-makers – just like those at national level – are managing taxpayers' money. In these days of financial austerity, it is more important than ever...
The EU budget: putting solidarity into practice
EESC urges best use of taxpayers' money When they formulate their spending plans, European policy-makers – just like those at national level – are managing taxpayers' money. In these days of financial austerity, it is more important than ever...
Los Indignados
The syndrome of the #Spanishrevolution has now spread across Europe with many cities taking up their own protests and tagged #europeanrevolution, Athens being an example of this where just last night 30,000 protesters aggregated in Syntagma Square.
Los Indignados
The syndrome of the #Spanishrevolution has now spread across Europe with many cities taking up their own protests and tagged #europeanrevolution, Athens being an example of this where just last night 30,000 protesters aggregated in Syntagma Square.
Paid work: outrageous demand for creatives?
Who would have thought? That the glitz and glam world of media and cinema is not as shiny as one may be led to believe browsing through the glossy magazines while sitting at the hairdresser's? I have indeed learned a lot about the mechanisms of worki...
Paid work: outrageous demand for creatives?
Who would have thought? That the glitz and glam world of media and cinema is not as shiny as one may be led to believe browsing through the glossy magazines while sitting at the hairdresser's? I have indeed learned a lot about the mechanisms of worki...
Economic Governance - an expert's perspective
My role as Vice President has me with the responsibility of the political aspect of communication for the EESC, consequently I am always trying to find new ways to reach a wider audience with the Committee's messages. Therefore, in what is an expe...
Economic Governance - an expert's perspective
My role as Vice President has me with the responsibility of the political aspect of communication for the EESC, consequently I am always trying to find new ways to reach a wider audience with the Committee's messages. Therefore, in what is an expe...
A roadmap in the making: the EESC and the Citizen's Initative
In a year’s time the first European Citizen’s Initiative can be registered, precisely on the 1st April 2012. This new tool, contemplated by the Lisbon Treaty, is a means of having the European Citizens directly involved in making concrete propo...
