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Oracle Launches Innovate Program in Romania, with President Basescu in Attendance

Oracle has launched its new Innovate Program in Bucharest, Romania. It is designed to identify and nurture young, promising technology entrepreneurs across Eastern Europe by providing them with access to business advice, venture capital funding and technical resources.

Déclaration de Francis Wurtz, Président du GUE/NGL, sur les Roms

Sur l'éventuel retrait de l'ordre du jour de la plénière de la résolution commune (condamnant les pratiques discriminatoires du gouvernement italien à l'égard des Roms.

Soaring steel prices add to inflation worries

European steel producers seem determined to squeeze the European lemon, announcing additional massive price increases that further threaten the competitiveness of the European steel processing industry and the whole supply chain including metal transformation, machine building, shipbuilding and manufacturing of marine equipment, car suppliers and household producers, inevitably leading to higher prices.

 

OIE hosted the 21st VICH Steering Committee meeting

Brussels, 10 July 2008 - OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health) hosted the 21st meeting of the VICH Steering Committee on 8 and 9 July 2008 at its headquarters in Paris, France.

Automobile Club Action Plus and Automobile Club Prévention of France join European Road Safety Charter initiative

Informing and educating motorists about road safety issues and promoting defensive and responsible behaviour by all road users are the commitments made in Paris by the Automobile Club Action Plus and Automobile Club Prévention of France when signing the European Road Safety Charter.

Better coordination needed, not a Bolkestein approach to social security

"We have an EU-wide single currency but no coordination of social security rules for workers" remarked GUE/NGL MEP Dimitrios Papadimoulis (Greece) speaking during the debate on an EP report on proposals to overhaul these regulations in the European Parliament today.

Raising the costs of motoring do not benefit the environment

“The proposals published today by the European Commission will only raise the costs of motoring while not bringing any benefits to the environment” declared Wil Botman, Director-General of the FIA European Bureau. 

Promoting the competitiveness of european agro-food SMEs

(Brussels, 2 July 2008) As the European Commission steps up its efforts to support small and medium-sized enterprises in the EU food and drink industry, CIAA (the Confederation of the food and drink industries of the EU) calls on authorities to streamline and reinforce actions to allow SMEs to grow, create jobs and make full use of their innovative capacities.

EU/Fisheries: reinforcing the identity of the fisheries section of COGECA

Brussels: On  the  occasion  of  his  election  into  the  presidency  of  the  COGECA  fisheries section,  the newly elected President, Giampaolo BUONFIGLIO  from  Italy, declared a  keen interest  in  working  as  part  of  a  team  alongside  the  two  Vice-Presidents,  José  Ramón FUERTES GAMUNDI  (ES) and Gerard VAN BALSFOORT  (NL)  in highlighting  the  sector’s specific characteristics.

Review of EU Telecoms Package: Parliament gives priority to new high speed broadband networks for consumers and businesses

Brussels – ETNO recognises that the European Parliament ITRE and IMCO committees and their respective rapporteurs, Catherine Trautmann, Pilar del Castillo and Malcolm Harbour have completed their reports on the telecoms package within a particularly short timeframe. ETNO welcomes the attention paid by the rapporteurs to find appropriate solutions and set the right conditions for investments to ensure that consumers and businesses can benefit from high speed networks, while maintaining highly competitive markets. 

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