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01.07.2008 @ 08:36 CET
EUOBSERVER / FOCUS - For years, the EU has talked about creating a "knowledge economy" and aimed at improving higher education. But very few European universities make it to the global top-lists and the number of Europeans receiving Nobel prizes is steadily declining. In this special FOCUS on education, EUobserver turns the spotlight on the latest developments in the sector.
14.11.2008 @ 09:31 CET
A European programme worth 23 million euro has managed to send only one third of the number of students possible under the scheme to study in China.
01.07.2008 @ 09:09 CET
European universities need to step out from their traditional isolation from the outside world in order to avoid producing jobless graduates, EU education commissioner Jan Figel has said.
11.07.2008 @ 09:32 CET
A growing proportion of teenagers in the EU have poor literacy skills, a fresh European Commission report has found.
15.12.2008 @ 17:54 CET
Opposition to the Bologna Process, an EU-inspired series of university and college reforms, has expanded substantially across Spain in recent weeks, as students protest, occupy school buildings and even block rail lines.
01.07.2008 @ 08:39 CET
As more and more young Europeans study in member states other than their own, this has serious implications for how governments manage their social assistance for students. A keenly-awaited preliminary ruling next month is set to shed some light on the hot issue.
01.07.2008 @ 10:47 CET
With international politicians and academics set to descend en masse on the Danish capital next autumn to debate the way forward on climate change, the vice-chancellor of the University of Copenhagen urges the political and scientific spheres to work together for once.
01.07.2008 @ 09:59 CET
European universities are getting better at raising money, linking-up with industry and breaking down national barriers in a race against US and Asian schools. But tension between some aspects of academic culture and government policy threatens to hold back Europe's leap forward.
01.07.2008 @ 08:41 CET
Foreign students must get easier access to the European Union if the bloc is to catch up with US standards of education and its own goals of making itself the foremost competitive and dynamic region in the world, MEPs have said. Critics of the new proposals suggest they risk being elitist.
01.07.2008 @ 09:46 CET
At a time when studying in a country other than one's own is getting increasingly popular in the EU, a post-graduate university with campuses in two member states claims to be 'the most genuinely European' university institute of European studies.
01.07.2008 @ 09:45 CET
National education systems of higher education are labyrinthine enough for students when they arrive at college, university or training institute. Taking those credits or qualifications abroad and having other schools or employers understand them has always been a Herculean task, and not just for those studying Ancient Rome.
This week looks set to be dominated by a Group of Eight industrialised nations meeting (8-10 July) in L'Aquila, Italy, w...
Even if they lost the election, there is still a role for the Socialists in the European Parliament - that is the role o...
This week, Sweden takes over the rotating EU presidency from the Czech Republic for six months. Meanwhile, the German Co...
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.
03.07.2009 @ 08:29 CET
The European Central Bank piled further pressure on eurozone banks to increase lending on Thursday, indicating it may hold interest rates at the current record low of 1 percent for some time. ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet urged the banks to live “up to their responsibilities”.
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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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