Redazione

The number of those in employment in the European Union has slightly increased in the third quarter of 2006. According to the latest data from Eurostat, 517,000 workers found new jobs between July and September, 0.4% more than in the period April/June. As regards the 25-member European Union, the increase is of the order of […]

Brussels is taking further steps to curb atmospheric pollution caused by emissions of nitrogen oxide and other harmful particles by cars. The European Parliament has adopted two Proposals – called Euro 5 and Euro 6 – with the objective of drastically reducing the maximum permitted limits of polluting emissions for new vehicles, including vans. The […]

The European Commission last week adopted three measures aimed at “supporting the revitalization of the railway sector by removing obstacles to the circulation of trains throughout the European rail network”. The three measures in question are a Communication on the simplification of certification of railway vehicles, a Proposal to recast the existing Railway Inter-operability Directives […]

Eurostat, the Statistics Office of the European Community, has published the data relating to the cost of manpower in the European Union, calculated on the basis of the wages on which workers are hired, allowances, pension contributions and bonuses net of income support. The growth begun in 1998 continues, in spite of a reduction in […]

EUROBAROMETRO

“The Eurobarometro survey shows that, just before the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaties that established the Community, “the citizens clearly associate the Union with such universal values as human rights, peace and democracy”. MARGOT WALLSTRÖM , deputy president of the Eu Commission, comments the Eurobarometro survey disclosed on 19th December. For the first time the […]

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

“Europe can never be complete without Belarus”, declared ALEXANDER Milinkevich, leader of the democratic opposition to the regime installed by President Lukashenko, on receiving the Sakharov Prize during the last session of the European Parliament. The prize is assigned each year to personalities or organizations that have distinguished themselves in the defence of human rights […]

GREAT BRITAIN

Over 20,000 children and adolescents play truants from school everyday rather than suffer the trauma of oppression by their bullying schoolmates. Disabled children and members of ethnic minorities – especially those of Islamic faith after the terror attacks of 7 July 2005 – are the preferred targets of the bullies that are ever more numerous […]

BULGARIA

On 1st January 2007 Bulgaria and Romania will become members of the European Union, which will thus grow to 27 members. As this important deadline draws near, SirEurope has interviewed in Bulgaria the Minister of Bulgarian European Policies MEGLENA KUNEVA , who will also assume the post of European Commissioner for the Rights of Consumers […]

CCEE - COMECE

CCEE events JANUARY 12/18 – Holy Land – Visit of the coordination group of the Bishops’ Conferences in support of the Catholic Church and Christians in the Holy Land FEBRUARY 15/18 – Wittenberg-Lutherstadt (Germany) – 3rd stage of the Third European Ecumenical Assembly (EEA3; www.eea3.org)18/20 – Wittenberg-Lutherstadt (Germany) – Meeting of the CCEE-CEC Joint Committee20/23 […]

“What will we do if the cradle should remain empty in future?”: that’s the title of the joint press conference of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the Sustainable Austria Forum, held in Vienna on 19 December. During the press conference the most recent data on demographic trends in Europe were described: according to […]