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Brussels worried about UK advertising firm snooping on websurfers
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Source: EuObserver [ edited ] by: LEIGH PHILLIPS EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The European Commission is worried that the UK is not taking online privacy rights seriously and has warned London that it will take the government to court if it does not...
EU summit to back 95% emissions reduction goal
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Source: Euractiv Europe will attempt to reassert its global leadership on climate change … with EU leaders set to back emissions reductions “of at least 80-95%” for the developed world by 2050… The global community is curren...
From the Hitler-Stalin Pact to the fall of the Berlin Wall
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Source: EuroParliament [edited] This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between Hitler and Stalin to split parts of Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic States between them, but it is also 20 years since the fa...
The European Commission may be trying too hard to convince us
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By Geoff Martin, Leeds University 19th October 2009 One point about the Irish vote on the Lisbon Treaty was straightforward. It was about the availability of FACTS. If people have the facts they can see for themselves the value to their livelihoods o...
Europe officially launches EGNOS as open and free service
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SOURCE: GSA EGNOS is ready to use as an open and free satellite-based navigation service, the European Commission announced today. The improved accuracy of Europe’s first satellite navigation system ushers in a new era for location-based services o...
Intute survey
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Intute has just released a survey about EU sources and online use, which we very much advise you to take. You can visit it here: http://feedback.intute.ac.uk/eu2009/. If you don’t know yet, Intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk) is a free online serv...
Klaus signs, Lisbon Treaty fully ratified
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Source: EurActive Czech President Václav Klaus again surprised friends and foes alike by signing his country’s Lisbon Treaty ratification today (3 November) at 15.00 CET, just hours after the Czech Constitutional Court had given the text its g...
Future of internet has dangers for privacy, Brussels warns
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Source: EUobserver [edited] EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – There is a dark side to some of the impressive new online technologies that are appearing, from social networking to behavioural advertising to RFID ‘smart chips’, the European Commiss...
EU to invest billions in energy research
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Source: EurActiv [edited] The European Commission revealed its long-awaited blueprint for tripling Europe’s energy research funding within the next decade, in a bid to shift monies towards supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy in th...
What’s the future for EU’s online library Europeana?
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Source: EuroParliament [edited] You can now access books, journals, films, maps etc from across Europe via the EU’s online library, Europeana. It’s a great idea but it’s not all plain sailing: web copyright rules are not the same in...
Resounding Irish ‘yes’ to EU’s Lisbon Treaty
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Source: Euractiv [edited] Irish voters have approved the EU’s reform treaty by a margin of two to one, lifting the EU out of institutional limbo after years of democratic setbacks and blockage. All eyes now turn to Eurosceptic Czech President V...
Irish ‘No to Lisbon’ camp faces an ‘uphill struggle’ say experts
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Source: EurActive [edited] As Ireland’s second vote on the Lisbon Treaty nears, concesssions won by the Irish government coupled with a resurgent civil society ‘yes’ movement could see the ‘No to Lisbon’ camp face an uphill struggle in th...
EP opinion poll analyses 2009 European election turnout
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Source: EuroParliament [edited] Parliament has published a Eurobarometer survey of 26 830 people across Europe carried out in the month following the 4-7 June European elections. Citizens were asked about their reasons for choosing whether or not to...
EU elections seen as irrelevant, survey finds
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Source: EurActiv A third of voters who decided not to use their ballot in this summer’s European Parliament elections only made their decision in the final days of the election campaign, according to a European Parliament Eurobarometer survey c...
EU wants media literacy to be taught in school
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Source: EurActiv The European Commission is pushing member states to include media education in their compulsory curricula to help EU citizens become more active users of new media and increase their awareness of potential risks, such as privacy bre...
New EP President Jerzy Buzek meets the press
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Source: EuroParliament [edited] Speaking in Polish and English Jerzy Buzek had his first official press conference as President of the European Parliament on Tuesday at 1.15. For almost an hour he was grilled by Europe’s media about his views a...
European Parliament Dips Its Toe Into Social Networking
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Source: Personal Democracy Forum By: Rafael Rubio During the last European Parliament elections in June, almost all different candidates around Europe turned to the Internet to engage voters in their own countries. The European Parliament didn´t wan...
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, and the EU common identity
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Source: Festival Latin Grec [edited] This interview was done in April 2009, for our “Job’s Corner” by Olivier Coen (Anarès) and Elizabeth Antébi, writer, historian et creator of the Festival. EA: It’s almost the First Annive...
Balkan people ‘less intelligent’?
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ource: RFI [edited] By Sarah Elzas, RFI exclusive South-eastern Europeans are not as intelligent as their northern counterparts and should not be allowed to decide Europe’s future, a leading MEP has claimed. Mogens Camre, deputy leader of the E...
