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- Europe need not be afraid of data
- "Europe should not be afraid of data" said EU Commissioner Andrus Ansip at the Digital Assembly 2016 in Bratislava, Slovakia this week. — last modified 29 September 2016, 17:15 CET — filed under: Data protection, Internet — Relevance: 1%
- EU gender equality has some way to go
- The eve of International Women's Day (8 March) is a good moment to assess the challenges that remain in tackling gender inequalities across the EU. — last modified 05 March 2015, 22:33 CET — filed under: Social, Employment, Living & Working in EU — Relevance: 1%
- Trade secrets directive: protecting companies from theft - and whistleblowers?
- The new 'trade secrets' directive, passed by the European Parliament on Thursday, ensures protection for the work of journalists and whistle-blowers, says ... — last modified 14 April 2016, 18:31 CET — filed under: SMEs, Research & Technology, Data protection — Relevance: 1%
- Tax grilling for multinationals
- The issue of tax avoidance and tax havens has caused much public concern for a while now, but actually dealing with it is taking some time. There was some ... — last modified 17 March 2016, 22:34 CET — filed under: Tax, Trade — Relevance: 1%
- Go-ahead for new public procurement rules
- Better quality and value for money when public authorities buy or lease works, goods or services are promised in new EU rules on public procurement and ... — last modified 16 January 2014, 16:51 CET — filed under: Single Market, SMEs, Finance — Relevance: 1%
- EU trademark deal welcome step forward for SMEs
- It has taken two years of inter-institutional discussions, but on Tuesday the EU's Latvian Presidency reached provisional political agreement with European ... — last modified 23 April 2015, 18:19 CET — filed under: SMEs, Research & Technology, Single Market — Relevance: 1%
- Europe first
- In a week in which U.S. president Donald Trump starts work on "making American great again", Europe debated its own future in the European Parliament this ... — last modified 19 January 2017, 18:07 CET — Relevance: 1%
- Single market gaps exposed by geo-blocking plan
- Geo-blocking, refusing to sell to people living in other EU countries, is to be outlawed under plans to boost e-commerce in Europe. But what this proposal does ... — last modified 26 May 2016, 23:28 CET — filed under: SMEs, Consumer — Relevance: 1%
- French elections threat to Europe's future
- A new museum of European history opens to the public on 6 May, a day before Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron play their final duel in the second round of the ... — last modified 05 May 2017, 00:03 CET — filed under: Culture, France — Relevance: 1%
- Turkish repression under EU scrutiny
- Strong condemnation of the Turkish regime this week from the European Parliament as MEPs denounced the arrests by the Turkish government as it attempts to ... — last modified 08 February 2018, 22:59 CET — filed under: Turkey — Relevance: 1%
- 2015 employment review exposes wide disparities in jobs situation in the Member States
- Interesting facts emerge from what is generally a positive outlook on jobs in the EU's 2015 review of employment and social developments. — last modified 21 January 2016, 22:49 CET — filed under: Employment — Relevance: 1%
- Generation Euro Students' Award
- Secondary school students studying economics and wanting to know more monetary policy issues, here is a competition just for you. There are prizes to be won, ... — last modified 03 October 2013, 16:52 CET — filed under: Euro — Relevance: 1%
- VW scandal exposes need for reform
- The European Commission this week urged Member States to look into whether vehicles comply with European pollution rules, following the shock revelations that ... — last modified 24 September 2015, 22:33 CET — filed under: Environment, Cars — Relevance: 1%
- Juncker's new-look Commission - a winning team?
- Last week we learned the names of the new top team for the EU over the next five years. This week Commission President-elect Jean Claude Juncker announced his ... — last modified 11 September 2014, 22:16 CET — filed under: Commission — Relevance: 1%
- Focusing on the rights of disabled people
- The European Day of Disabilities started this week off, to focus on the rights and needs of of people with disabilities, and how the EU can help improve their ... — last modified 07 December 2017, 23:19 CET — filed under: Social, disability, Living & Working in EU — Relevance: 1%
- Are EU charges of unfair practices against Google fair?
- Internet giant Google again came under EU fire this week when the European Commission formally charged it with abusing the dominance of its search engine, ... — last modified 16 April 2015, 18:33 CET — filed under: antitrust, Consumer, Internet — Relevance: 1%
- Getting young people into work
- Youth employment was the theme of the week in the European Union. This was despite the postponement of a special EU summit on jobs next month which had been ... — last modified 17 September 2014, 23:36 CET — filed under: Employment — Relevance: 1%
- EU looks to reduce VAT burden for online trade
- A new system for VAT for digital products - the EU's response to distortions of the market and loss of revenue through the online economy - has attracted much ... — last modified 01 October 2015, 16:54 CET — filed under: SMEs, VAT — Relevance: 1%
- E-skills the key to unlocking Europe's potential for growth and job creation
- Last week governments, industry, NGOs and educational bodies from 22 European countries joined forces with the European Commission to push for further action ... — last modified 18 August 2015, 22:48 CET — filed under: Employment, Internet — Relevance: 1%
- Italy off to green start
- As Italy took over at the helm of the EU on 1 July, Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi picked out growth as the main objective of his country's six-month ... — last modified 03 July 2014, 22:09 CET — filed under: Environment — Relevance: 1%
- MEPs defend EU industry against China's unfair trade practices
- It was perhaps not too surprising that the European Parliament in plenary this week voted against granting Market Economy Status to China. — last modified 12 May 2016, 22:25 CET — filed under: China, Trade — Relevance: 1%
- Brazil summit boosts hopes for Mercosur deal
- As football fans look forward to this summer's World Cup in Brazil, the country's president Dilma Rousseff met this week with the EU in Brussels in a meeting ... — last modified 27 February 2014, 17:01 CET — filed under: Brazil, Trade — Relevance: 1%
- EU budgets a touchy topic
- This week marks the last in the Barroso II Commission, and last week's summit was supposed to be a calm transition summit to a new regime at the EU's helm. ... — last modified 30 October 2014, 23:47 CET — filed under: Finance — Relevance: 1%
- Time to speed up climate action
- At this week's climate change summit in New York, the EU Council president Donald Tusk said Europe had already done much on the road to becoming climate ... — last modified 26 September 2019, 22:03 CET — filed under: Environment — Relevance: 1%
- The cost of study in Europe
- Students wanting to study in Europe face a wide divergence in the levels of student fees and support, according to the latest report from Eurydice, the network ... — last modified 23 October 2014, 17:28 CET — filed under: Education, Living & Working in EU — Relevance: 1%
- Brexit II horror movie opens in the U.S.
- Brexit II, sequel to the first Brexit horror movie shot in the United Kingdom, opened in the United States this week to shock and derision from most critics, ... — last modified 10 November 2016, 21:43 CET — filed under: Brexit, Britain, USA — Relevance: 1%
- High marks for investment plan creating jobs & growth in Europe
- The European Commission this week announced it would build on the successful first year of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), extending it ... — last modified 03 June 2016, 11:38 CET — filed under: Finance — Relevance: 1%
- Update for Payment Services Directive opens way for safer and more innovative European payments
- The final hurdle to an upgraded EU payment services law was cleared on Thursday, when MEPs voted in the revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2). This aims ... — last modified 08 October 2015, 17:06 CET — filed under: SMEs, Consumer, Finance — Relevance: 1%
- The importance of the EU's cohesion policy
- The direction of the EU's cohesion - or regional - policy was debated by EU ministers this week, as the Commission prepares plans for a new policy post-2020. — last modified 12 April 2018, 23:46 CET — filed under: Regions, EU Funding — Relevance: 1%
- Making big data work
- This week the European Commission launched a partnership with Europe's data industry, planning to invest EUR 2.5 bn in a public-private partnership in a bid to ... — last modified 16 October 2014, 16:43 CET — Relevance: 1%