SocietyYouth unemployment: ensure good quality traineeships, say MEPs2013-09-11, 16:00"Youth guarantee" schemes alone will not suffice to reduce youth unemployment, MEPs warn. They call for further measures to make it easier for young people to move to jobs or training, and EU support and quality standards for traineeships and apprenticeships, in two separate resolutions voted on Wednesday. Eurocrats seem not to like the effigy of the Christ on the euro coins.2013-09-11, 13:23Brussels issued a request for the Andorran government to modify the project of the euro coins with the Christ Pantocrator on the averse. The politically correct request was met with the approval of the Andorran government, which agreed to modify previous project regarding to the principle of neutrality in the matter of religious beliefs. Dynamic youth to build Europe’s future2013-09-10, 12:03President Dalia Grybauskaitė welcomed the participants of the European Union (EU) Youth Conference - one of the major events run during the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The meeting involves representatives of 250 youth organizations and institutions in charge of youth matters from 28 member states, as well as representatives of EU candidate countries and the countries of the European Economic Area. Chat about the future of Europe with EP president Martin Schulz2013-09-09, 18:40Discuss the future of Europe with Parliament President Martin Schulz this Wednesday from 14.00 CET. The chat with our Facebook fans will take place after European Commission President José Manuel Barroso holds his State of the Union speech to MEPs. So what does the future of Europe hold? What should or shouldn't the member states do? Watch, listen, think, discuss... Lithuanian Minister hopes that recommendations of EU Defence ministerial will be reflected in the European Council2013-09-08, 11:27At an informal meeting of EU Defence Ministers in Vilnius on 5-6 September Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas expressed his hope that appropriate attention would be paid to EU’s relations with partner countries at the European Council in December later this year. Lithuanian and French Ministers of Foreign Affairs on 6 September opened an exhibition “Antoine Watteau and the Art of French Engraving” at Vilnius picture gallery. This is an exceptional first-ever exhibition of the Louvre Museum in Lithuania and the Central and Northern Europe region. Vilnius airport welcomes the second Air Lituanica aircraft2013-09-06, 15:58On the 5th of September, 5:15 pm local time the second Air Lituanica aircraft Embraer 175 landed in the Vilnius International Airport. The 86-seater reached Lithuania from Brazil. Air Lituanica is leasing its second aircraft directly from the manufacturer's (Embraer) subsidiary ECC Leasing. Tobacco directive: preventing the young from picking up a deadly habit2013-09-05, 11:36Preventing young people from starting to smoke is the main aim of an update of European rules on tobacco products, according to Linda McAvan, a British member of the S&D group in charge of steering the proposal through Parliament. With 700,000 deaths a year, smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the EU. Although the number of smokers in EU is falling, one in four Europeans still smokes, while 94% of smokers are hooked before they turn 25. The EU has promoted turning plants into fuel as a way to reduce carbon emissions from transport for the last 10 years. Today however, some say that biofuels have become part of the problem and actually have generated more CO2 than they saved, as the demand for crops needed to produce them has led to the destruction of forests. The EU now wants to limit the amount of fuel produced from food crops and shift to biofuels that are produced from non–food sources, such as waste. Tile commemorating Baltic Way laid in Riga central square2013-09-03, 14:42On Friday, August 30th, a tile with symbolic footprints commemorating the Baltic Way was installed in the central square in Riga in front of the Freedom monument (28 Kalku iela). Identical tiles were installed on May 24th in Cathedral Square in Vilnius and August 20th in Tallinn. Time capsules were buried underneath the tiles with texts for future generations. Vilnius Mayor Artūras Zuokas also participated in the event. |
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