Administrator @ March 28, 2006 # No Comment Yet
The German coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD was given a boost on Sunday to press ahead with reforms after regional elections resulted positively. No controversial reforms on the agenda have been pushed out yet, and the election results should cause these to be initiated in the next 15 months.
“There was a certain nervousness hanging [...]
Administrator @ March 28, 2006 # No Comment Yet
US Secretary of state Condoleezza Rice is traveling to Europe for a meeting in Berlin that is to deal with the Iran nuclear issue. She will meet the other permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany. The Berlin meeting will put the Iran issue back into the spotlight.
“At a news briefing, State Department [...]
Administrator @ March 27, 2006 # No Comment Yet
European Union transport ministers have approved a plan to start issuing EU driving licenses. The new licenses will be the size of a credit-card and will replace the more than 100 different papers that are currently being used in the EU. The new driving license is expected to reduce fraud and make security [...]
Administrator @ March 27, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Brussels is working on lowering roaming costs, the charges caused when using mobile phones while in another country, telecom companies are opposed to the plan. EU telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding will be introducing legislation to tackle the issue. She has the support of EU leaders.
“The conclusions of the meeting note the “importance for [...]
Administrator @ March 23, 2006 # No Comment Yet
A report by the European Commission, named ‘Bridging the Broadband Gap’, calls for more efforts to increase broadband usage in the European Union, especially in rural areas. The paper notes that 13% of the EU’s 450 million citizens currently have a broadband connection. It calls for a united plan to increase broadband take up [...]
Administrator @ March 23, 2006 # No Comment Yet
The European Union has banned 93 airlines from flying into European airspace due to safety concerns. Most of the airlines on the new blacklist are from Africa, with Congo having 50 entries on the list alone. The blacklist applies to all 25 EU member states plus Norway and Switzerland.
“M Barrot said that Europe now had [...]
Administrator @ March 22, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Alexander Milinkevich, the leader of the Belarussian opposition, urged his supporters to keep up demonstrations. The demonstrations erupted after widespread election fraud favoring President Alexander Lukashenko. The European Union and the United States have both condemned the poll. Neighbouring Russia has accepted the election results as accurate and fair. Belarus is seen as [...]
Administrator @ March 22, 2006 # No Comment Yet
The French government is under intense pressure to repeal a law that makes it easier for companies to fire young employees. The measure is meant to put an end to many years of high youth unemployment, which is estimated to be 22.2 percent, more than twice the French average of 9.6 percent.
“France, caught in a [...]