SocietyEU budget 2014: growth, jobs and humanitarian aid cuts reversed2013-10-03, 19:00Budgets Committee MEPs reversed the Council's proposed cuts in investments to stimulate growth and jobs in 2014 during a long voting session on Wednesday and Thursday. They also reversed cuts in funding for international policy, such as humanitarian aid to the Middle East and refugees. Parliament's own budget was substantially reduced. Fair competition – benefits to society and business2013-10-03, 12:31President Dalia Grybauskaitė opened a European Competition Day conference. It is an event of the Lithuanian Presidency of the EU Council bringing together representatives of competition authorities, international organizations, business and academic communities. The list of participants includes the Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Competition, Joaquín Almunia, representatives from Microsoft Corporation, heads of competition authorities from Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Sweden, as well as competition law practitioners and academics. On the 3–4 October the 7th European Quality Conference will be held in Vilnius. The Conference is organised by the Ministry of the Interior of Lithuania, currently chairing EUPAN, the European Public Administration Network. About 300 participants representing the government institutions and organizations from public sector and education of the EU member states will take part at the event. Finalists of 2013 Sakharov Prize revealed2013-10-01, 16:56The finalists for this year's Sakharov Prize have been named as Belarusian political prisoners Ales Bialatski, Eduard Lobau and Mykola Statkevich, NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden and Pakistani campaigner for girls' education Malala Yousafzai. The laureate will be selected by EP president Martin Schulz and the leaders of the political groups on 10 October and the ceremony will take place in Strasbourg on 20 November. What are the most effective ways that lead to tangible results in applying the social and economic potential of culture and the creative industries? What measures could be used to integrate culture into other public policy fields and decision-making processes at the European, national, regional and local levels? These and other important questions will be discussed by the EU Ministers for Culture and Audiovisual Affairs in the informal meeting to be held in Vilnius on 1-2 October. Bring in a universal mobile phone charger for all makes, say MEPs2013-09-29, 16:14A universal charger for all mobile phones should be introduced to cut costs and waste for users, proposed the Internal Market Committee on Thursday, in an amendment to a draft law on radio equipment. The committee also cut some red tape, by deleting a rule that would have required manufacturers to register certain categories of devices before placing them on the market. Sustainable development of rural areas emerges as the main topic at the Committee of Regions Meeting2013-09-29, 10:57On 29-30 September, Bistrampolis Manor near Panevėžys will host the European Alliance Group at the Committee of Regions' external seminar on the topic "The EU rural development policy for the sustainable development of rural areas". Misleading marketing: "Criminals are very inventive, they try anything that works"2013-09-28, 12:12European businesses are losing billions of euros by paying for inclusion in business directories that are either fake or insignificant. They also get pestered by non-existing patent organisations or chambers of commerce. The internal market committee adopted on 26 September recommendations on how to fight these misleading marketing practices. We talked to report author Cornelis de Jong, a Dutch member of the GUE/NGL group, about how the EU can help stop these scams. How crime goes global2013-09-27, 12:50About 3,600 international crime organisations operate in the EU. To address the problem, the EP's special organised crime committee spoke to 271 stakeholders over 18 months. This week it produced a report with recommendations on how to best fight organised crime at the European and global level. It will be voted on during the second plenary in October. Find out the shocking facts about international crime in our infographic. Cabaret of shabby conservatives2013-09-26, 13:37Our opposition conservative party is almost like a, as you might say, misbehaviour teenager from the well-known hit song of Cabaret of the Older Men (orig. Kabaret Starszych Panów). Do you remember? "During the rain kids are bored; it is a generally known thing..." - the lyrics were just like that. |
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