A EUROPEAN SURVEY OF ADULT SKILLS
The survey. A quarter of adults in the EU lack the basic skills needed to succeed in a modern knowledge economy, according to a new survey. The Survey of Adult Skills by the [...]
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3 BELGIAN INTERNS WILL WORK FOR THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
The Belgian Scientific Policy will launch its three first interns from the National trainee Programme in the European Spatial Agency (ESA). They are young engineers and have [...]
WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER ?
LUXEMBURG – The political career of Luxembourg’s premier Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU’s longest-standing prime minister (since January 1995), was on the edge of [...]
LUXEMBURG PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS: A CHANGE IS AHEAD
Sunday, the voters of Luxemburg went to the polling stations to elect their new parliament (60 seats). The house of representatives (60 seats) The CSV (christian democrats) [...]
CROSS-BORDER APPROACH FOR ENERGY MARKET DESIGN NEEDED, SAYS EURELECTRIC
EURELECTRIC President and E.ON CEO Johannes Teyssen has called on the German and French governments to set up a high-level group to explore the feasibility and benefits of an [...]
EU BEST PLACED TO REGULATE BANKS SAYS EUROBAROMETER POLL
Over half of EU citizens feel that banks should be regulated by the EU, rather than national governments. Half also believe that they would be better protected against the [...]
EXPANDING SOUTH AFRICAN-BELGIUM ECONOMIC TIES…
An opinion of H.E. Mxolisi Nkosi, Ambassador of South Africa to Belgium, Luxembourg, and Head of Mission to the European Union. At a press briefing following bilateral [...]
HOW TO REDUCE MARINE LITTER?
The seas and oceans are increasingly becoming the waste dump of the planet. Plastic waste forms 80 % of the enormous waste patches in the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, [...]
EU COMMISSIONNER TAJANI TRAVELS TO ISRAEL
European Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani will bring Monday 65 industry associations and companies’ representatives from 17 EU member states to Israel in order to [...]
INDEPENDENT RETAIL EUROPE CELEBRATES ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY
Independent Retail Europe turned 50 years this year and celebrated it yesterday. Let’s examine what their priority issues are for today? 1)Vertical and horizontal [...]
EURELECTRIC HAPPY OF GRID INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
Today, the Commission adopted the EU-wide list of energy infrastructure priority projects till 2020. These so-called “projects of common interest” (PCI) have a strong [...]
A LITHUANIAN SEMINAR ON THE MEMORY OF TOTALITARISM
On 18 October in Vilnius, Ministry of Justice together with the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania is organizing a seminar “Totalitarian regimes’ [...]
THE FUNDAMENTALS OF STEFAN FULE FOR EU-ENLARGEMENT.
Foreign affairs MEPs praised Commissioner Stefan Füle’s approach of “fundamentals first” in assessing countries’ readiness for EU membership, in a [...]
WHAT ABOUT THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM ?
What is Iran’s nuclear programme? How is it known that Iran has a nuclear weapons programme? • Contrary to Iranian claims that its nuclear programme was civilian, through [...]
HOW EU FIGHTS AGAINST FOOD WASTE
Today marks World Food Day – an occasion to remind ourselves that around a third of food is wasted globally. This amounts to 1.3 billion tons per year according to the [...]
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