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José Manuel Durao Barroso peut souffler : sa nouvelle commission sera certes très loin de la parité, avec seulement neuf femmes sur vingt-sept commissaires, soit un tiers tout juste, mais elle tient la comparaison avec le pré (Read More)
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The European Union should resist the temptation to cut support for its common agricultural policy and instead give farmers the right tools to increase food production in Europe, EU Farm Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel told (Read More)
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More than half of EU countries are still worried about rules contained in the upcoming telecoms 'package' of legislation, which is expected to regulate the electronic communications landscape in Europe as of next year, EurAct (Read More)
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Public opinion and the European press were widely critical of the appointment of Herman Van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton to the EU's new top positions last week, with Germany in particular feeling it had been tricked into acce (Read More)
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Herman Van Rompuy, the former prime minister of Belgium who was nominated last week by European heads of state and government to become the EU's first permanent president, will be more of a "chairman" than a leader, according (Read More)
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Specialised knowledge of the European Union will no longer be the main focus of tests to recruit EU officials under new guidelines to come into force next year, EurActiv has learned, as the bloc's institutions seek to attract (Read More)
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The European Commission will propose plans for a wide-ranging strategy to lift the EU out of recession next week, inviting member states to lead Europe towards a green, knowledge-based economy by 2020, according to a draft pa (Read More)
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European leaders are meeting in Brussels for an extraordinary summit today (19 November) to appoint their first ever permanent president and an EU high representative for foreign affairs. However, citizens are showing little (Read More)
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"The crisis demonstrated the limited capacity of EU institutions to conduct Union-wide anti-crisis policies," Marek Dąbrowski, president of the Centre for Social and Economic Research (CASE), told EurActiv in an interview, pr (Read More)
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France could decide to support Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker as the EU's first permanent president during a summit in Brussels today (19 November) in exchange for the chair of the Eurogroup, EurActiv France re (Read More)
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The Lisbon Treaty provides the EU with an opportunity to push US President Barack Obama to "upgrade" the transatlantic relationship, though the US would prefer high-profile figures in the new EU 'top jobs', Transatlantic Cent (Read More)
EUnews:
The eurozone achieved a trade surplus of 3.7 billion euros (6.5 billion
dollars) with the rest of the world in September, official data showed
on Tuesday. (Read More)
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After the last round of climate talks ahead of the UN conference in Copenhagen ended with a sense of pessimism and pending defeat, the Danish Ambassador to the EU, Poul Skytte Christoffersen, warns in an interview with EurAct (Read More)
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Involving national and regional actors in communicating EU policies is essential for raising awareness and stimulating debate on European issues among ordinary citizens, heard stakeholders attending EurActiv's 10th anniversar (Read More)
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Celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall left a bitter aftertaste for some East Berliners who were expropriated by the communist regime in order to build the wall and the 'death strip' that bordered (Read More)
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Involving regional and local actors in communicating EU policies is essential for raising awareness and stimulating debate on European issues among ordinary citizens, heard stakeholders attending yesterday's (12 November) Eur (Read More)
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Twenty years after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, Bulgaria is the most disappointed EU nation when it comes to assessing the transition from totalitarism to democracy in the last 20 years, writes the Dnevnik daily, (Read More)
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The role of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has been completely overlooked in celebrations marking the fall of the Berlin Wall, said Jean-Michel de Waele, professor of political science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (U (Read More)
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Ewald Koenig, editor-in-chief of EurActiv Germany, was present in Berlin during the "craziest and luckiest night in German history" when the Wall fell. This piece is part of a series of 45 articles by Koenig covering his memo (Read More)
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When the Berlin Wall came down, the so-called 'Velvet Revolution' that led to the partition of Czechoslovakia was still underway. But while mass demonstrations in Prague captured most of the attention, Bratislava also witness (Read More)