Marine for President without immunity
Modestly, the European Parliament official site does not mention the news making the headlines around the world: the MEPs lifted Marine Le Pen’s immunity from [...]
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NEW RESIDENTS AT NAUSICAA
Since early September 2013, visitors to NAUSICAA (in Boulogne sur Mer on the Channel coast, 2 hours drive from Brussels) have been able to see five new sandbar sharks, [...]
EUREKA CHAIRMANSHIP HANDED OVER TO NORWAY
Turkey was holding the EUREKA Program chairmanship since July of last year. Recently, the chaimanship was handed over to Norway. “EUREKA is a critical platform which [...]
A SYMPOSIUM ON LEGAL ASPECTS OF SPACE COOPERATION
Summary Report of the Symposium : Inventory, Challenges and Opportunities Recently, a symposium took place at Leiden University on May 16th, 2013 on legal and policy [...]
EUROPE’S HEAVIEST CARGO SHIP LAUNCHED TO SPACE STATION
ESA’s fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle,Albert Einstein, was launched into orbit on june 6th 2013 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Europe’s [...]
EURELECTRIC AT THE GREEN WEEK
Power sector highlights air quality benefits of electric heating Despite progress in recent years, air pollution in the EU’s most densely populated areas still exceeds [...]
HOW EUROPE HELPS PEOPLE CONFRONTED WITH FLOODS
Kristalina Georgeiva, EU commissionner for humanitarian aid made a statement after the floodings “At this difficult time for many people struggling to cope I want to [...]
SOYOUZ 36 LAUNCH DIRECTLY FROM BRUSSELS
Prof . D.ssa Federiga BINDI, general manager of the IIC (Instituto Italiano di Cultura) organised an exclusive event this tuesday night to celebrate the first italian [...]
SOLAR IMPULSE SETS A NEW WORLD DISTANCE RECORD
Solar Impulse, the solar-powered airplane of Swiss pioneers Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, successfully landed in Dallas-Fort Worth on Thursday, May 23 completing [...]
SUSCHEM STAKEHORLDERS MEETING IN BRUSSELS
SusChem is an initiative of CEFIC (the european Chemical industry council), academics and the industrial world to conduct a reflexion about sustainable chemistry in Europe in [...]
HUAWEI PRESENTS ITS WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY TO EUROPEAN DECIDERS
Yesterday in Brussels, Huawei , a chinese global telecommunication company presented its most advanced technology to european developers in front of the European parliament [...]
CHRISTIAN DE DUVE PASSED AWAY
Christian de Duve, medical doctor, passed away after a very rich career. Christain de Duve received the Nobel prize for medicine in 1974. He decided to die by lethal [...]
AT THE FAO: A HOPE TO END HUNGER IN AFRICA
Ministers and senior delegates from five African Nations met with FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva ahead of a High-Level meeting of African and international [...]
WOMEN STILL UNDER-REPRESENTED IN EU RESEARCH
Although the proportion of female researchers in Europe is increasing, the under-representation of women in scientific disciplines and careers still persists. This is the [...]
ENVIRONMENT KEY ISSUE OF BALTIC SEA STRATEGY
SAINKT-PETERSBURG: EU-commissionner for regional policy Johannes HAHN gave today a speech in Sankt-Petersburg (Russia) about “environment as key issue of the baltic [...]
