« Un nombre croissant d’Etats membres de l’UE reconnaissent aux couples de même sexe le droit de se marier », note l’Agence européenne des droits fondamentaux. Les droits des homosexuels sont plutôt respectés dans l’Union européenne, mais des progrès restent à accomplir pour une égalité totale des droits, quelle que soit l’orientation sexuelle des individus, selon l’Agence [...]

The European Medicines Agency announced today (30th November) a new transparency policy that would widen access to documents held by the agency. This is good news (apart from the fact that I had to scrap a post I had just finished, attacking the old policy…) I believe that the agency will be more transparent under [...]

The President of the Spanish Association of Developers and Producers of Renewable Energies (Renewables Aprea), Mariano Barroso, praised the House of Representatives for deciding on 20.8 percent of renewables by 2020 “the fact that they have decided on a higher rate is much better” he also made clear the need for “the elimination of [...]

The European Commission has decided to ‘declare war’ to airborne particles, PM10, which pollute the air, bringing Italy in the dock to the EU Court of Justice, as the limits have been exceeded in many areas of the country. Caused by industrial emissions from traffic and domestic heating, the PM10 can cause asthma, cardiovascular problems [...]

Expresia “gestionati asteptarile” ar putea fi mantra perfecta pentru mana­gementul de proiect structural si oricine lucreaza intr-un asemenea cerc profesional o aude pomenita tot timpul. Dar ce inseamna ea, de fapt? Unul dintre factorii critici ai succesului pentru managerii de proiect este priceperea in a gestiona asteptarile clientului lor pe toata durata de viata [...]

In this interview on Huffington Post, there seems to be real trouble ahead for the financial services sector. Wikileaks is set to release a huge amount of documents in 2011 about a large American bank. Reading between the lines, we can probably presume that he means an investment bank. Probably a global one. That narrows [...]

Vor einigen Tagen hat der Gerichtshof entschieden, dass die 25 000 EU-Beamten Anspruch auf 3, 7 Prozent Gehaltserhöhung hätten … Dies bedeutet, dass alle EU-Länder sparen sollen, die Brüsseler Beamten aber davon ausgenommen sind. Und das selbst während der seit 80 Jahren größten Wirtschaftskrise. Die Frage der Gehaltserhöhungen hätte zu keinem schlechteren Zeitpunkt aufkommen können: [...]

Das Ereignis genügt sich vollkommen selbst: Die pure Masse der frei gegebenen Daten ist bis heute der einzig nennenswerte Gehalt des Skandals, Qualität von Information wird durch Quantität ersetzt. Deshalb können auch die Zeitungen und Zeitschriften, die sich mit Wikileaks zusammengetan haben, heute nicht mehr demonstrieren, als dass sie erst einmal im Meer von Informationen [...]

Something pretty amazing has happened on Blogactiv today. This post (currently the Editor’s Choice) about the Swiss referendum by EU-Logos is the 800th he has published on the platform. This must be the Eurosphere’s most prolific writer… If you are not familiar with the blog, EU-Logos writes about a wide range of topics including human [...]

En anglais mais utile October 2010 – Behind every digital object, there is usually metadata with descriptive information about the object. But the library world is all too aware that metadata for access and discovery is no longer enough. Now,…

This story about the relationship between food ads and child obesity was published by EurActiv on 30th November 2010. While the food industry has taken a series of initiatives to restrict advertising of unhealthy products to children, consumer groups are not convinced and call for the development of stricter criteria. EurActiv hears arguments from both [...]

In 1956 the Hungarians rose in revolt against the excesses of Soviet communism. During the 1980’s, the Hungarian society was already making the transition to what we now call the post-Soviet era and its communist politicians opened the country’s borders to East German refugees fleeing to the West . These days, Viktor Orban and his [...]

The European Ombudsman COMPLAINT ABOUT MALADMINISTRATION Against the European Commission What is the decision or matter about which you complain? When did you become aware of it? Add annexes if necessary. The complaint is about the continuing failure of European Institutions in particular the European Commission to publish the full text of the Schuman Declaration [...]

Je länger die Krise einzelner Eurostaaten andauert und je häufiger die Politspitzen der Eurozone zusammenkommen, um die Probleme zu lösen, desto mehr breitet sich die Krise noch aus. Diesen etwas absurden Eindruck kann gewinnen, wer die Kette all der Sonder-, Extra- und Geheimtreffen zum Euro seit Frühjahr betrachtet. Das jüngste ist keine Ausnahme. Da wurde [...]

Dans un long discours prononcé le 23 novembre, la Secrétaire d’Etat à l’intérieur, Theresa May, s’est engagée à limiter l’immigration des travailleurs d’ici la fin de la législature et ainsi, se justifie-t-elle, restaurer la confiance des britanniques dans le système anglais d’immigration. Parmi les mesures annoncées figurent l’encouragement à l’immigration d’entrepreneurs et chercheurs au Royaume-Uni, [...]