As announced by Juncker when presenting his programme after his election as President of the European Commission, managing migration better is a high priority for the next years. In practice this has been translated into the decision to create a comprehensive European Agenda on Migration. The agenda will be launched in May and the work […]
In the framework of COSME, the EU programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, the submission period for the call “Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs” (COS-EYE-2015-4-01) is now open. The Executive Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises (EASME) will manage this notice, with the overall objective to select entities that will act […]
Dear Ms Stimolo, can you tell us exactly where do you work and what is your role? I am the Director of the Brussels Office of the Region of Sicily, that is the Office for liaison with European Institutions and it is directly linked to the President of the Region of Sicily. I am also […]
While this article is being written, polls are just outlining the probable victory of Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative party, the Likud, in Israeli legislative elections. If these anticipations will be eventually confirmed, Netanyahu would score an unexpected poker race by calling for an earlier vote, gaining the Israeli premiership for the fourth time and overcoming his […]
The Joint Operational Team (JOT) Mare was lauched on the 17th of March 2015. It is an intelligence-led, European response to the development of organized criminal groups facilitating the transport of irregular migrants across the Mediterranean, hosted at Europol headquarters in The Hague. The exploitation of migrants by criminal groups is one of the reasons […]
The first AAL Joint Programme has now ended and the new Active and Assisted Living Programme 2014-2020 started, with the publishing of the Call for proposals for 2015. The topic for this year is “LIVING ACTIVELY AND INDEPENDENTLY AT HOME – Support more older adults to live longer in their homes with the contribution of […]
The 1st of March the Financial Market Authority of Austria imposed a moratorium on the debt repayments of a “bad” Austrian bank, HETA. Despite having been largely ignored by the media, like the butterfly flapping its wings, this decision is setting off storms well beyond the Austrian mountains. Where do “bad banks” get born? HETA […]
Dear readers, welcome back to a new issue of NEU, the last before the Easter break. With this issue, we mark six months together. Six months during which, as you know, we pursued our goal to offer you useful contents and insights, and constantly improve your reading experience. We thus introduced a new column, that […]
In the framework of clean energy, electricity generation may derive from wave power, capturing the transport of energy by ocean surface waves. The first recorded patent to use energy from ocean waves dates back to 1799 (Gilard, in France). A century later, to provide electricity to his house in Royan, the Frenchman Bochaux-Praceique constructed a […]
On the 11th of March the European Parliament adopted a non-legislative resolution on the “Report on progress on equality between women and men in the European Union in 2013”, affirming its will to fight gender discrimination and inequality in Europe. Presented by the socialist MEP, Marc Tarabella, and approved with a large majority (441 votes […]
