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Oscars 2021: Two EU-supported films won the famous awards

April 26, 2021 by Staff Reporter

Photo: Freepik The winners of this year’s edition of the Oscars were announced on 25 April during the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, with two films co-funded by the EU winning three awards. ‘The Father’ by Florian Zeller took home the award for Best Adapted Screenplay by Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton, as well as Best […]

Filed Under: Art & Culture, Business Travel & Lifestyle, EU Country, EU Institutions, Europe

Buttarelli Says: “Make data protection rights more effective”

January 27, 2015 by Staff Reporter

Giobanni Buttarelli

Speaking in a Q&A session, Giovanni Buttarelli, the new European Data Protection Supervisor said: “The EU has to make existing data protection rights more effective in practice, and to allow citizens to more easily exercise their rights at a time when we all run our entire lives with our smartphones” Over the coming five years […]

Filed Under: Constitutional Affairs, Digital Agenda, European Commission, European Parliament, Technology

TTIP’s Cross-Atlantic Endeavour Facing High Seas

January 27, 2015 by Staff Reporter

Anthony L. Gardner, U.S. Ambassador to EU, and Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament

EU-US negotiations on the TTIP free trade agreement are continuing. The deal which is expected to create new jobs and boost economies on both sides of the Atlantic touches upon sensitive issues, not least rules for the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). On 27 January the international trade and legal affairs committees held a joint public […]

Filed Under: 'Stateside' USA, Business, Embassies to EU, European Commission, European Parliament, Foreign Relations, Trade & Invesment

EU’s Globalisation Adjustment Fund, Further Aid Approved

September 15, 2014 by Staff Reporter

EU Jobs - Sept 2014

Tens of thousands of workers were helped to retrain, look for a new job or launch a new company in 207-2013 if they had been laid off as a result of globalisation or the economic crisis thanks to €400 million in EU funding. This aid came from the EU’s Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF). On 11 […]

Filed Under: Business, Employment, European Parliament

EU-China Summit, “Two Major Forces For Peace, Markets, Human Progress”

November 21, 2013 by Staff Reporter

Herman van Rompuy, Xi Jinping and José Manuel Barroso

China and the EU are two major forces in maintaining world peace, two important markets to promote common development and two civilizations to advance the cause of human progress, said Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China at the commencement of the 16th China-EU Summit, in Beijing. In a meeting with European Council President Herman […]

Filed Under: Business, China, EU Institutions, European Commission, European Council, External Action - Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations

TTIP Negotiations. Round Two. Seconds Out.

November 12, 2013 by Staff Reporter

Dan Mullaney, Chief US Negotiator for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), Ignacio Garcia Bercero, Chief EU Negotiator for TTIP - TTIP Negotiations. Round Two. Seconds Out.

Negotiators meet for the second round of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks. The EU and U.S. EU negotiators met in Brussels yesterday for the first day in a second round of talks to foster progress in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The beginning of the week will be devoted to discussions on investment […]

Filed Under: 'Stateside' USA, Business, Embassies to EU, Enterprise, European Commission, External Action - Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Trade & Invesment

We Avoided EU Budget Default Says Giovanni La Via

October 24, 2013 by Brian Maguire

Giovanni La Via MEP

“I want to strongly emphasise that today’s approval of the draft amending budget (DAB 6/2013) does not eliminate the need for fresh money to pay the bills already submitted by the Member States, not to mention those coming up in November and December, which will inevitably affect the already tight 2014 budget”, said Giovanni La […]

Filed Under: Budget, Constitutional Affairs, EPP, European Parliament

Stronger Social Protection Urged For EU Workers. Too Late?

October 24, 2013 by Staff Reporter

Jose Manuel Barroso, European Commission President

With glacial speed action will surely follow. EU leaders have met with trade unions and employers’ organisations (social partners) for talks on how to strengthen the social dimension of the EU and the euro area, including by better monitoring employment and social trends in future. The social partners joined European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, […]

Filed Under: Business, Employment, Enterprise, European Commission

U.S.-Ukraine Rule of Law Working Group Meets in Kyiv

October 22, 2013 by Staff Reporter

Thomas O'Melia, USA, States Department

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Thomas O. Melia, will lead an interagency delegation to Kyiv, Ukraine for the sixth meeting of the U.S.-Ukraine Political Dialogue/Rule of Law Working Group, October 21-25. The delegation will include Paige Alexander, Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development and Catherine Newcombe, Regional Director […]

Filed Under: 'Stateside' USA, Enlargement, External Action - Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations

Civil Liberties MEPs Prepare Stronger Data Protection For EU

October 21, 2013 by Brian Maguire

Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar, MEP, S&D

A major overhaul of current EU data protection rules, to put people in control of their personal data while at the same time making it easier for companies to move across Europe, was voted by the Civil Liberties Committee on Monday. Responding to mass surveillance cases, MEPs inserted stronger safeguards for data transfers to non-EU […]

Filed Under: Brian Maguire, Defence, European Commission, European Parliament, External Action - Foreign Affairs, Justice & Home Affairs

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