Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti called for increasing the power of the European Parliament, the EU’s legislative body, as a way to give the 27-nation bloc more democratic legitimacy-especially at a time when its members are being asked to swallow unpopular austerity measures in the name of greater economic and political integration.
01/21/2012
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: democracy, EU, Italy
A low-level dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians is not at a dead end, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said Thursday, hoping that contacts to get «real negotiations under way» will continue.
01/20/2012
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: foreign policy, Israel
The European Investment Bank has agreed to provide a 1,1 million Euro grant to enhance planning and study the feasibility of exporting geothermal electricity from Dominica to Martinique and Guadeloupe.
01/19/2012
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: European Investment Bank, French Islands
Wen raises prospect after meeting German chancellor
01/18/2012
— Filed under: Finance
Tags: EU, funding possible
Greece needs about an extra 15 billion euros to get its debt down to manageable levels — and the rest of 17-country eurozone is being asked to help foot the bill.
01/17/2012
— Filed under: Finance
Tags: EU, Greece, inbestors
Information Commissioner may also be given power to increase fines
01/16/2012
— Filed under: Business
Tags: exemptions, small business
Willem Holleeder, a Dutch criminal notorious for the 1983 kidnapping of beer tycoon Freddy Heineken, has been released from jail.
01/15/2012
— Filed under: Crime
Tags: crime boss, Dutch, Willem Holleeder
University applications from UK students for the first year of higher tuition fees are down by 8,7%, according to figures from the admissions service.
Some plays are worth defying claustrophobia for. As a capacity audience crowded onto the benches that surrounded the rectangular stage of the tiny black-box space of the Royal Court Jerwood Theater Upstairs, I could feel my chest tightening and my breath growing shorter. It didn’t help that layers of white balloons covered (and lowered) the ceiling in molecular formations. I had to admonish myself, as I do in such circumstances, «Theater critics do not faint on the job — except, on rare occasion, metaphorically.»
01/13/2012
— Filed under: Society
Tags: London, Royal Court Theater
The fact that the European Union’s largest police mission to Kosovo has failed to collar any leading suspects on organised crime even after four years has prompted people to question its efficacy as well as the dependability of Kosovo’s leaders.
01/12/2012
— Filed under: Crime
Tags: Kosovo, Organised Crime
