02.06.2008 @ 08:50 CET
As an official media partner of the 'The European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008', this special section of the EUobserver, produced in partnership with EuropocketTV, puts the spotlight on inter cultural issues and dialogue.
18.12.2008 @ 08:20 CET
While EU countries remain mired in a decade-long disagreement over a patent system covering the entire 27-country bloc, the Americans are recruiting the Old Continent's best brains and capitalising big-time on their creativity, according to education and culture commissioner Jan Figel, who has set his mind on persuading European researchers to stay at home.
05.12.2008 @ 08:49 CET
Buddhist icon and Tibetan exile the Dalai Lama told MEPs on Thursday that Tibet was better off as part of China, but urged the EU to help the region gain greater autonomy, while attracting throngs of supporters and well-wishers in the EU capital.
19.12.2008 @ 20:51 CET
In the light of the government's eagerness to fulfill EU-demands on religious freedom, one of Turkey's least known faith groups, the Alevis, are demanding official recognition of their distinctive interpretation of Islam. The followers say the governments uses the new decrees on religious freedom to impose only it's own, strictly Sunni-Islamic doctrines.