CEJA ADOPTS HELSINKI DECLARATION
CEJA, the European Council of Young Farmers, has adopted the Helsinki Declaration with an overwhelming majority at a Working Group following the MTK Seminar in Finland. The [...]
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SWISS STUDENTS EXCLUDED FROM THE ERASMUS PROGRAM
The Swiss students will be excluded from the EU’s Erasmus Plus Exchange programme. Brussels has taken this decision after the referendum in Switzerland which will limit the [...]
WELCOME TO A NEW “EUROPEAN INVESTIGATION ORDER”
Judicial authorities asking their colleagues in another EU country to carry out investigations there, e.g. by searching houses or interviewing witnesses, should get a faster [...]
EP VOTES NEW RULES TO AVOID AIRCRAFTS ACCIDENTS
The European Parliament adopted today new rules to help prevent aircraft accidents. With the “Regulation on the reporting, analysis and follow up [...]
ETNO CALLS FOR REDUCTION OF SECTOR-SPECIFIC REGULATION
As BEREC meets to discuss the European Commission’s draft Recommendation on Relevant Markets, ETNO asks to send a clear de-regulatory signal and avoid adding new [...]
3.5 BILLION IN AID FOR THE MOST DEPRIVED
The EU’s poorest citizens will continue to get food, basic material assistance and social welfare from the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) from 2014 [...]
NEW RULES MAKE IT EASIER TO CONFISCATE CROOKS’ASSETS ACROSS THE EU.
Rules to make it easier for national authorities to freeze and confiscate crooks’ assets across the EU were approved by Parliament on Tuesday. Today, less than 1% of [...]
EUROPE NEEDS AN ELECTRICITY NETWORK NOT A PATCHWORK
“Clear goals for interconnection and the delivery of an internal electricity market must be the priority of the next EU Institutions. We need a network not a patchwork.” [...]
GERMAN CHANCELLOR MERKEL: “WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN BOYCOTTS”
“We do not support the demands for a boycott. This is not an option for Germany. We have certain rules of labeling (of products from settlements) and we have to adhere to [...]
UKRAINE: REFORMS AFTER THE STORM
After his destitution, Yanukovich has run away from Kiev and a new pro-EU interim government has been settled. More than 88 people, mostly anti-Yanukovich’s protesters, [...]
PORT OF ROTTERDAM: A SUCCESS STORY OF EU SINGLE MARKET
The first ships have yet to arrive, but already there is plenty of activity amid the sand and the dunes. Rotterdam, Europe’s biggest port, has just reclaimed 2,000 hectares [...]
A DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN UKRAINE
An official delegation of twelve MEPs travelled to Kiev on Saturday afternoon to meet with counterparts in the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) and discuss future [...]
FRIENDS OF THE SUPERGRID WANT TO DEVELOP GRID INFRASTRUCTURE
The Friends of the Supergrid (FOSG) has called for more action to be taken by the European Commission to develop grid infrastructure. The creation of a pan-European [...]
GERMAN CABINET TO VISIT ISRAEL
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to pay a 24-hour visit to Israel Monday with her entire cabinet of 15 ministers who will participate in consultations with the Israeli [...]
IMPEACHMENT OF UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VIKTOR YANUKOVYCH
KIEV, February 22 (RIA Novosti) – Ukraine’s parliament voted Saturday to impeach the president as opposition parties rushed to consolidate their apparently growing hold [...]
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