Sarah Ludford (UK, Liberal Democrats) ALDE spokeswoman on Bosnia & Herzegovina, has strongly welcomed the European Commission's approval today for visa-free travel for Bosnians and Albanians to the EU Schengen zone. The proposal will now go to the Council of Ministers for its support.

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As Telecoms Minister from across the EU27 meet in Brussels on Monday they should consider how some of the key policies in the recently released European Digital Agenda can be realised.

Of particular interest to music publishers is the European Commission’s initiative to put forward measures on IP enforcement, and in particular against IPR infringements online. ICMP calls on the Commission to rapidly implement and speed up that process.

Brussels, 27 May 2010; Collaboration between public and private employment services can deliver significant opportunities in moving people into the workplace, transitioning them between jobs and sectors and implementing flexicurity polices, asserts Eurociett, the Confederation of Private Employment agencies.

“Societas Europeae (SE) must be a stepping stone towards a European Private Company Statute”, says global accountancy body

Brussels, 26 May 2010 - BirdLife International [1] has today announced, in the 2010 IUCN Red List update for birds [2], the extinction of Alaotra Grebe Tachybaptus rufolavatus. Restricted to a tiny area of east Madagascar, this species declined rapidly after carnivorous fish were introduced to the lakes in which it lived. This, along with the use of nylon gill-nets by fisherman which caught and drowned birds, has driven this species into the abyss.