Caritas Europa calls on member states not to overlook goal of lifting 20 million people out of poverty by 2020 and thus proposes 4 points to better link the 2014-2020 budget for Structural Funds to the poverty targets of the Europe 2020 strategy.

"To put the EU firmly on the road to financial stability and economic recovery, cosmetic touches are not sufficient. The European Parliament wants a thorough overhaul of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in all its aspects.

EuroCommerce fears that the European Parliament’s vote to limit access to chemicals which could be used in terrorism is misdirected. The shifting of responsibility onto retailers will not achieve the desired outcome and will place an unreasonable burden on merchants.

Students between 14 and 18 years old from 44 European countries have now the chance to compete in an international educational contest on space exploration, funded by the European Commission, within the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) in the Space area.  The Odysseus contest is designed to challenge talented young people on science and at engaging and inspiring the European youth in pushing forward the limits of our knowledge by discovering the answers to fundamental questions about the history of earth, the origin of life, the solar system and the universe.

For several days, dozens of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been killed following blind Israeli bombings against the civil population.