Dans le discours de clôture Henri Guaino, lors du Forum de Paris du 28 mars dernier, se lâche big time. Extraits, au sujet de l’Union pour la Méditerranée: Nous sommes dans un moment historique, avec un projet historique, face à des choix historiques. Beaucoup ne l’ont pas compris. Ils n’ont pas compris [...]

Yesterday, I attended a debate organised by Open Europe, questioning whether EU regulation has gone out of control? Are we suffering from overregulation by the EU, or is it getting better? Is the costs-benefit balance of EU regulations in order? According to the Open Europe report “Out of Control? Measuring a decade of EU regulation” [...]

On Thursday 27th March, Christian Weinberger spoke to EurActiv.com Publisher, Christophe Leclercq at EBS 2009. Mr Weinberger had just taken part in Workshop X at EBS 2009 – titled “SMEs: red tape or red carpet?“. Mr Weinberger works for the Enterprise and Industry Directorate General of the European Commission in Brussels as an Entrepreneurship and SME [...]

La campagne du PSE sur internet est lancée…et ça arrache tout:

On one of those beautiful clear Spring mornings here in Brussels, it was a rare pleasure to head out early for breakfast with the Health Consumer Powerhouse. Housed in a beautiful high ceilinged and gilt embellished office near De Brouckere, Health Consumer Powerhouse is a champion for European consumers of healthcare (you and me) and [...]

On Thursday 26th March, Blogactiv spoke to Nobuo Tanaka. Mr Tanaka is Executive Director of the International Energy Agency. He was in Brussels to speak at Workshop VIII – titled “The last energy crisis” – at EBS 2009. If you have an opinion about this interview or session that you would like to share, please [...]

Mathieu revient en profondeur sur l’éviction de Savary par Solférino. A lire absolument.

On Thursday 26th March, Blogactiv spoke to the Director of the International Relations Department of BusinessEurope. Dr van den Hoven moderated Workshop I – titled Protectionism: an increasing concern? – at EBS 2009. The session included Pascal Lamy, Director General of the WTO and Baroness Ashton, EU Commissioner for Trade. If you have an opinion [...]

On Friday 27th March, Bart Diels – Investment Director at GIMV – spoke at EBS 2009 about Clean Technology investment and how the Venture Capital process is not suited to an area that needs to be developed quite so quickly.

Cafe Babel Sofia is pleased to invite you to its second debate: How to improve the European debate through the Bulgarian blogger community? With the participation of Margot Wallström, Vice President of the European Commission in charge of Institutional Relations and Communication In Bulgaria, according to the last report of Reporters without Borders, the « [...]

30-03-2009 Tomorrow, something new will happen in the windy Dutch government seat at the North Sea. All, I repeat: ALL, possible players in the Afghan drama will come together and talk. Will it be THE turning point, or will it only be a significant step forward? Obama delivers. A completely new US approach to the [...]

At FFA 2009, at the Biblioteque Solvay in Brussels, Blogactiv interviewed Alexander Sarris. Mr Sarris is Chief Economist of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, based in Rome. He spoke to us about food security, the theme of the conference.

On Friday 27th March, Joelle Chassard spoke to Blogactiv. Ms Chassard was taking part in Workshop X which was titled, “Venture capital and clean tech: is Europe missing out?” at EBS 2009. Joelle Chassard is Manager of the Carbon Financing Unit, Environment Department at the World Bank in Washington. She was a very interesting speaker [...]

The Turkish local elections ended on Sunday after a tense, national-like campaign designed by the AKP (ruling party) leaders to win key cities in Kurdish-dominated zones. Although AKP has won 39 percent of the vote, this is 8 percent short of the projected win envisaged by premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Moreover, this is the first [...]