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November 13, 2017
Guest post by Harriet Bradley, EU Agriculture & Bioenergy Policy Officer at BirdLife If Aristotle were alive today, I’d like to imagine that he’d be right here in Brussels, giving open-air philosophy lectures at Place du Luxembourg. He would find no shortage here of topical analogies; only the other week we were given a first-hand… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
November 6, 2017
Last year, just as I was shaping a vision of how a “Manufacturing Renaissance” could allow creating 100 million jobs for less skilled westerners, I took a course on AI (Artificial Intelligence) which suggests that 100 to 200 million more low technology jobs in service such as banking and trading were going to disappear soon… » read more
Posted by TAXI: Europa
AEGEE Election Observation deployed 21 Short-Term Observers (STOs) of 12 nationalities to Germany to assess youth participation in the German Federal legislative election. The STOs arrived in Berlin on 20 September. On 21 and 22 September, the mission held meetings with national authorities and stakeholders in the field of youth participation. On election day, STOs… » read more
Posted by Key to Europe
October 18, 2017
Guest post by Dan Luca, Senior Director of EURACTIV and lecturer on communication techniques and the European Union at VUB, ULB Brussels and SNSPA Bucharest. Why do I work in Brussels? The “blue city” has gradually become the political pole with the largest multicultural community. Apart from the European Parliament or the famous European Commission,… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
October 9, 2017
Guest post by Stuart Reigeluth, vice-president of Revolve Water Energy will flow fluidly across transnational grids, tapping into decentralized hubs everywhere, that are both interconnected all along the way by the digital technology of things. While the integration of the European energy systems is of paramount importance for the overarching project called ‘Europe’, geopolitically, the… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, development, Energy, Science & Policymaking |
October 6, 2017
Guest post by Roberto Defez, molecular microbiologist at the Institute of Bioscience and BioResources, Italian National Research Council. Agriculture is at a turning point. Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis (Health) and Phil Hogan (Agriculture) are sitting on two running horses approaching a crossroad. There is no middle road. They have to decide whether to keep research on… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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Agriculture & Food, BioTech, blogactiv, Development Policy, Food & Consumers, Innovation and Growth |
September 21, 2017
In the European Commission, they like having the power but not the responsibility. They like pressure even less. As NGOs and certain journalists go after glyphosate, the Commission is muddling through and passing the buck to the Member States without any hesitation. It is worth recalling that before the Lisbon Treaty, Member States formally possessed… » read more
Posted by Daniel Gueguen
By Viviana Spaghetti, Political Consultant It is a cardinal rule of influencing the policy-making process in the EU that the earlier you’re in the game, the better your chances of achieving your objective. In Brussels, it is vital to talk to the European Commission – the EU civil service – before a legislative proposal is… » read more
Posted by The Whitehouse Consultancy
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Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, Health & Consumers, Science & Policymaking |
Guest blog post by Mandeep Dhaliwal, Director of HIV, Health and Development at UNDP In the 1980s, reports of a mysterious illness surfaced in Los Angeles, California, when five young gay men were diagnosed with a very rare strain of pneumonia. In the following months, additional reports of gay men suffering from strange and… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
July 6, 2017
A robot is an automated machine made up of electronic and mechanical parts; the electronic side is operated by software programmed to perform a specific task. The software may include a number of alternative routes which, in all circumstances, are pre-defined. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a complex software system whose purpose is that to… » read more
Posted by Wishing on Europe
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blogactiv, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, Global Europe, Regional Policy |
June 22, 2017
One year ago people all over the world were still trying to understand the political earthquake of the Brexit-Votum and a few months later Donald Trump was elected as US president. At that time, the journalists Hannes Grassegger and Mikael Krogerus published an article in the Swish magazine “Das Magazin”, which immediately went viral in… » read more
Author: Vanya Vulperhorst, Oceana Today’s agreement by EU bodies on a new regulation governing the European Union’s extensive external fishing fleet is a momentous step towards building sustainable fisheries globally and deserves wholehearted praise. After almost two years of negotiations, the European Commission, the Parliament and the Council of Fisheries Ministers have agreed on a… » read more
Posted by Oceana Europe
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Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, Fisheries, Global Europe, Health & Consumers, Science & Policymaking, Sustainable Dev. |
This month’s first-ever United Nations Oceans Conference and the upcoming Our Ocean meeting to be hosted by the EU, put robust governance of our oceans and sustainable use of marine resources to the forefront as perhaps never before. With this in mind, the world’s largest market for seafood, the EU, must ensure the most ambitious… » read more
Posted by Oceana Europe
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Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, Development Policy, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, Fisheries, Global Europe, Science & Policymaking, Sustainable Dev. |
By Robert Clarke A planned Utopian society, free from the ‘sin’ of individuality. Huxley’s Brave New World depicts a plan for a centralized communitarian world government. A sinister result where ‘everyone belongs to everyone else’. A dismal prognosis for the future. In sharp contrast to our multicultural world, personal identity is erased. In the name… » read more
Posted by The Freedom Blog
May 29, 2017
From June 5th – 9th, coinciding with World Oceans Day, the United Nations will host at its headquarters in New York a high-level conference to support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. The Ocean Conference aims to be the… » read more
Posted by Europa Media
