Eighth of March" "

The "women’s lobby"” “

As Women’s Day on 8th March approaches, we examined EU policy on equal opportunities with Fiona McPhail , secretary general of the “European Women’s Lobby”, the largest coalition of women’s organizations in Europe, founded in 1990 and comprising over 3000 women’s groups in the fifteen member states. What’s the current situation of equality between man […]

di Gian Andrea Garancini – Brussels" "" "

Equal opportunities in the European Union” “

Treaties: 1957, Treaty of Rome, art.119, “equality of wage between men and women and equality of work”; 1997, EC Treaty (Amsterdam), art. 2, “the European Community has the mission to promote equality between men and women”; 1997, EC Treaty, art. 3: as part of its action, “the Community shall strive to eliminate inequalities and promote […]

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Widespread discrimination” “

In spite of the existence of numerous international conventions, discrimination between the sexes still persists, especially in the world of work. According to studies prepared by the International Labour Organization (ILO), it’s women who have most felt the negative effects caused by the globalization of the economy. Office staff and few executives. Over the last […]

di Inès A. Chittilappilly – Geneva" "

The Commission’s agenda can now be consulted online” “

The “Renewable Trimestral Programme” is the system adopted by the services of the European Commission to facilitate communication in terms of the programming of the measures that the Executive intends to adopt on a quarterly basis. Initially designed for the information of the other EU institutions to permit the joint drawing up of timetables and […]

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A new generation of Internet” “

The European Commission last week proposed an action plan aimed at accelerating the EU’s transition to the sixth version of the Internet protocol (IPv6): the protocol introduces a new internet technology that will in effect render the number of websites unlimited and promote the development of mobile telephony of the third generation (3G). According to […]

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” “Dailies and periodicals” “

The “Convention on the future of Europe”, which has just begun its work in Brussels, is discussed by Thomas Fuller, in the Herald Tribune (27/2), according to whom “the European political leaders have been convened to redistribute power in a new, enlarged Europe and to replace the complex and confused network of treaties that now […]

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agenda" "

European Court of Human Rights” “

“The decision taken is justified in the higher interest of the child, to which all the legislation applied to the field of adoption is subordinated”. With this motivation the European Court of Human Rights rejected the appeal made by a Frenchman, a self-declared homosexual, to whom the national courts has denied the possibility of adopting […]

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EU legislation” “

In the course of last week the following legislative acts and communications, among others, came into force: · Decision no. 9/2002 of the Council of Ministers ACP-EC, of 20/12/2001, that adopts the internal regulation of the ACP-EC Committee of cooperation for the financing of development (OGEC L 50/60, 21/2/2002); · Decision no.10/2002 of the Committee […]

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European Parliament” “

The activities of the Commission and the political Groups will be suspended in the first week of March. The work will resume with the plenary session of the EP in Strasbourg on 11 March. The meetings of the EP scheduled from 5 to 8 March are as follows: · 5/3/2002, Work Group on inter-institutional coordination; […]

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Presentation of bids” “

· ENVIRONMENT – Invitation to present proposals in the environmental field. Deadline for the presentation of proposals: 30/4/2002. For further information, consult the Internet site http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/funding/(OGEC C 45/14, 19/2/2002); · ASIA – Invitation to present proposals for the Programme Asia-Link for cooperation in the sector of higher education between the EU and the countries of […]

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