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May 1, 2010
This comes a bit late, but I have finally time to share some of my notes from the first day of W.I.R.E. (Week of Innovative Regions in Europe) Spanish EU Presidency conference that took place on 15-17 March in Granada, Spain, with the spectacular backdrop of the shining white peaks of the Sierra Nevada. The… » read more
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At her speech to the Lisbon Council’s 2010 Innovation Summit last Friday, the EU’s highly charismatic and enthusiastic Chief Innovation Officer, Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn laid out her vision of transforming Europe into an “I-conomy”, connecting and speeding up innovation all along the whole policy chain from research to retail, building a functional single market for… » read more
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English, EU institutions, EU programmes, Knowledge , EU, ICT, innovation |
February 18, 2010
ERRIN event invitation: “Hospitals of the future: care, sustainable development and regional advantage” Date: 2 March 2010, 9.00 – 16.45 Venue: South Tyrol EU Office, Rue de Pascale 45-47, 1040 Brussels. While we are all familiar with hospitals and demand high quality healthcare, the hospital itself is in many cases an institution that remains largely… » read more
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English, EU projects, Regional cooperation, regional development , EU, innovation |
February 12, 2010
Griechenland Es gibt Zeiten, da passiert so viel in einer Woche, dass man schon fast nicht mehr mit dem Schreiben nachkommt. Mein Ausblick auf die Woche des Europaparlaments in Straßburg ließ schon viel betriebsame Hektik vermuten und die zugespitzte Lage in Griechenland machte einen Sondergipfel des Rates notwendig. In den Straßen von Athen wurden EU-Flaggen… » read more
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Außenminister, Barack Obama, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, EU-Außenminister, EU-Vertrag, German, Griechenland, Iran, José Manuel Barroso, swift, SWIFT-Abkommen , EU |
February 11, 2010
Die Gegner haben sich durchgesetzt. (Photo: European Parlament) Punkt 12 Uhr blickte die ganze europäische Politelite ins Parlament von Strasbourg. Wie einst im Film High Noon standen sich die Gegner gegenüber und es war klar: „Es kann nur einen geben“. Die Gegner sind schnell skizziert. Auf der einen Seite: Der Rat, die Kommission, die USA… » read more
January 29, 2010
This week we had a kick-off meeting in Brussels for Ecolink+, an eco-innovation project supported by DG Enterprise under the umbrella of DG Enterprise’s Eco-Innovation Platform (Europe INNOVA/CIP). In this project ERRIN is partnering, among others, with Eurada, EBN and two expert consultancies in the area of innovation management and early stage investment, Meta-Group and… » read more
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English, Regional cooperation, regional development, Research , EU, innovation |
January 23, 2010
Brussels – WWF has sent the European Commission a formal complaint against Germany for its failure to fulfil a legal obligation introduced by the 2008 EU climate and energy legislative package. The complaint concerns the apparent faulty approval procedure for a new coal-fired power plant at Mannheim (Baden-Württemberg), which was given the go-ahead on 27 July… » read more
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January 22, 2010
I apologise for my long absence. Recently I have, of course, followed the Commission hearings, at least for those of the new Commissioners that are most interesting from a regional research and innovation perspective, which is what I am focusing on in this blog. Clearly, this was a great moment for the European Parliament and… » read more
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Energy, English, EU institutions, EU programmes, Knowledge, regional development, Research, Structural Funds , EU, innovation |
January 5, 2010
Norwegian NGO Zero this week launched new web pages including a worldwide map of CCS projects. This can be found here.
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December 6, 2009
Climate Action Tracker is a new and useful website gauging UNFCCC commitments by parties in absolute scientific terms rather than just relative political ones. Set against the science, the EU27 at -20% GHG remains “inadequate”, though moving to -30% GHG by 2020 would put it in the higher end of the “medium” category. For developed countries in aggregate, commitments so far fall in the… » read more
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December 5, 2009
In this pre-CPH press release, Europe’s biggest emitter calls for more ETS loopholes to offset business-as-usual coal invesments, while failing even to mention the needed higher GHG target or even the prospects of CCS.
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November 27, 2009
Today I will list the 5 main arguments against the EU bank data transfer deal with the US.The background of the deal has already been described in my blog post yesterday. These are the 5 reasons: There is no reciprocity: The US will receive EU banking data and the EU will NOT receive any US… » read more
November 26, 2009
The EU justice and home affairs minister are about to agree on a large-scale banking data sharing plan with the United States. The agreement will have a massive impact on the privacy of banking data of European businesses and citizens. Background of the deal It’s everything about SWIFT, a company that handles the bank transactions… » read more
November 12, 2009
WWF Legislative Briefing, October 2009.
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November 4, 2009
Here FYI a link to the DG TREN documents on MEP Chris Davies’ website.
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