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09.06.2009 @ 17:20 CET
In an effort to counter increasing worries about infringement of press freedom by governments in Europe, the editor-in-chief of Germany's weekly Stern magazine, together with EU media commissioner Viviane Reding on Tuesday celebrated the launch of the European Charter on Freedom of the Press.
03.06.2009 @ 17:44 CET
The European Commission published new proposals to tackle rising unemployment on Wednesday and urged members states to redouble their efforts to deal with the growing jobs crisis.
30.06.2009 @ 17:27 CET
The European commission on Tuesday called on member states to boost their non-smoking legislation in order to move towards a "smoke free" EU by 2012.
02.06.2009 @ 18:05 CET
Unemployment is continuing its rise in the European union, with new data released by the region's statistics office, Eurostat, showing the figure reached 8.6 percent in April, up from 8.4 percent in March.
21.05.2009 @ 09:23 CET
The EU on Wednesday warned against the negative effects of "closed borders" on jobs, following two days of protests by British oil refineries' employees against the use of foreign labour. But Hertel UK, the company that was at the centre of the strikes, eventually said it would withdraw some 40 Polish construction workers to replace them with locals.
03.06.2009 @ 10:44 CET
Europeans distrust the private sector and perceive the anti-corruption drive by government to be inefficient, while in the new member states bribery is particularly hitting the poor, a corruption survey released by Transparency International shows.
11.05.2009 @ 18:20 CET
Securing a stronger consultative role for European religions in EU policy making is another good reason to support the Lisbon Treaty say two of the EU's most senior officials.
11.05.2009 @ 09:26 CET
Faced with rising unemployment, the Swiss government is currently working on a dossier that would see limits imposed on the number of EU workers entering the landlocked alpine country.
18.05.2009 @ 09:28 CET
Hundreds of thousands of workers took to the streets of European capitals over the weekend as the economic crisis squeezes wages and jobs across the continent in a series of official actions led by European trade union leaders.
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06.05.2009 @ 17:49 CET
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has decided not to attend an employment summit being held in Prague this Thursday, delivering a further blow to the meeting, which was already downgraded from EU leader-level in March to that of a conference.
06.05.2009 @ 17:23 CET
MEPs on Wednesday decided to postpone a vote on rules that would extend the minimum length of maternity leave across the EU and could introduce a number of paternity leave provisions, passing the legislation to the next parliament to deal with.
07.05.2009 @ 16:15 CET
The European commission and ministers from the Czech, Swedish and Spanish governments agreed a loose set of proposals to boost employment on Thursday but failed to come up with concrete measures to tackle Europe's worsening jobs crisis.
05.05.2009 @ 09:17 CET
The French spend more time sleeping and eating than most people and also live longer, a fresh study by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has shown.
01.05.2009 @ 09:19 CET
The EU on Thursday urged Europeans not to panic over the swine flu outbreak and sought to reassure them, with the Czech EU presidency calling the bloc the "best prepared region in the world" to face what is an increasingly likely pandemic.
Economic recession will affect us all, but it will hit the Roma first and hardest. Unless the EU takes action quickly, w...
Real change for Europe's close to nine million Roma will only materialise once the issue of their exclusion moves from t...
A group of eight non-governmental organizations, including Amnesty International, is pushing for an EU-wide strategy on ...
Today @ 17:23 CET
Italian MEP Mario Mauro has pulled out of the race to become the next president of the EU parliament. The move leaves the way clear for Polish conservative deputy Jerzy Buzek to take up the post instead.
03.07.2009 @ 21:50 CET
Sweden is considering holding an informal summit in September to deal with the financial crisis and climate change - two of the biggest issues on its EU presidency agenda. French president Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly supports the idea, says a spokesperson for Swedish PM Fredrik Reinfeldt.
03.07.2009 @ 14:56 CET
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt Friday said that a European Parliament vote on Jose Manuel Barroso's bid to become European Commission president for a second time will not take place mid-July. Stockholm is now pushing to have it take place by 15 September.
03.07.2009 @ 13:58 CET
Turnout in Bulgaria's legislative elections on Sunday will reach 55 to 60%, according to polling agency Gallup. It says Sofia mayor Borisov's centre-right Gerb party will get up to 30% of the votes, followed by the ruling Socialists (19 - 23%) and the Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (15%).
03.07.2009 @ 13:57 CET
The resignation of Croat PM Sanader was his political "rebellion" against Slovenia's blocking of Croatia's EU talks, MP Andrija Hebrang from Mr Sanader's conservative HDZ party said, reports Hina. Meanwhile, Slovenia said it hopes the new Croat government will resume talks on their border dispute.
03.07.2009 @ 09:35 CET
Czech President Vaclav Klaus has attacked a German court decision to allow the Lisbon treaty after a tweak to German national law. "I do not believe that it is possible to annul the known defects of the Lisbon Treaty by an accompanying law," he wrote in the Mlada Fronta Dnes newspaper.
03.07.2009 @ 09:31 CET
The four EU states which had full ambassador-level representation in Honduras - France, Germany, Italy and Spain - have recalled their envoys in protest at a recent coup against President Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales, the Swedish EU presidency said. Spain has led the EU's opposition to the coup.
03.07.2009 @ 08:32 CET
France has said that draft commission plans for hedge fund regulation are a step in the right direction but will need to be tightened up before they can be accepted. "I will not let this directive be adopted in this state," said the country's economy minister Christine Lagarde, reports Reuters.
03.07.2009 @ 08:30 CET
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will tell leaders from the Group of Eight industrialised countries that measures must be stepped up to end market cyclicality, reports the Wall Street Journal. Economic growth - when it returns - must be tempered she said, to prevent further cycles of boom and bust.
Moody's credit rating agency downgraded Ireland from its top rating on Thursday, following similar moves by other agencies earlier this year. Moody's cited the government's deteriorating public finances as the main reason, as an increasing share of tax revenues is used to service the country's debt.
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The 7th European Parliament elections are due to take place in June 2009. Some 400 million Europeans will be eligible to elect 736 MEPs for the only European institution where citizens have a direct vote.
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