April 14, 2008
The EU has come a long way since the initial six members founded the Coal and Steel Community in 1951. Since then, the EU has grown, not only in terms of members, but also in terms of substance. Membership or rather the prospect of membership, coupled with the very substance of EU cooperation, e.g. Justice… » read more
Posted by Danish European Movement
April 13, 2008
Living Lab is a new concept for R&D and innovation to boost the Lisbon strategy for jobs and growth in Europe. So what are Living Labs? The answer depends on who you ask because of the big differences between running Living Labs. But one thing is common for all of us; the human-centric involvement and… » read more
Posted by EMI
April 10, 2008
European agriculture is characterised by a massive overproduction each year, hence the so called “lakes of wine/milk” which are so often referred to. For instance, billions of liters of wine are not sold each year, especially in France, Italy or Spain and yet the CAP still pays for wine makers to produce as much. Since… » read more
Posted by EMI
April 2, 2008
Though EU has a Cohesion Policy, among the horizontal policies like Sustainable Development and Equal Opportunities, that are compulsory for the project financed from its structural instruments, there isn’t mentioned Community Development. Or, what kind of cohesion can these instruments create if people will continue to migrate in waves from a region to other in… » read more
Posted by EMI
March 23, 2008
Drawing on the ideas of Kjell Kühne and Isabel Aspe-Montoya, what Europe needs is an overarching volunteering organisation in the model of America’s Peace Corps and Britain’s VSO. Under the jurisdiction of the UNDP’s volunteering branch (UNV) this pan-European organisation could be deployed to pool the resources and manpower of the different national volunteering organisations… » read more
Posted by EMI
The Common Agricultural Policy is still a necessity to ensure general food security and rural livelihoods, but its current structure is still badly outdated and it chews up far too much of the EU budget. Why not instead divert a significant proportion of the CAP’s funding structure towards growing biofuels and also biofuel research? 1.… » read more
Posted by EMI
March 11, 2008
Problèmes: Europe de l’Est est priviligiée par rapport à l’industrie, les investissements, etc… L’Afrique continent malade L’Afrique pauvre en direction L’Afrique pauvre d’administration Relations bilatérales priviligiées: France / pays Maghreb Belgique / Congo Grande Bretagne / Afrique du Sud Nationalisme africain et la fin du Colonisation : avenir politique incertain. L’Afrique sujette aux convoitises de… » read more
Posted by EMI
March 7, 2008
The results of Eurobarometer 2007 show that in principle we, the citizens, support the fight against poverty, which is oriented mainly on Africa, but we are not aware of the fact that all Member States of EU have taken over certain obligations as donors of ODA within the European development policy. As a consequence we… » read more
Posted by EMI
March 6, 2008
We are living in the era of Globalization, and democratization of the countries which still have the style of Stalinism or one political party system, which rules those countries. There are genuine efforts to open up such societies like the Arab countries, but the political reforms as well as the work of NGO are going… » read more
Posted by EMI
Technocrat insanity is often named as development. For example, Lake Balaton in Hungary was almost drained two times. Engineers made their plans, county prefects esteemed happily how much field they would gain and it was signed by the Kaiser in Vienna. If it had existed at that time, would a Future Generations’ Ombudsman have been… » read more
Posted by EMI
