20 May 2010: We have launched a new discussion platform for the 2010 Generation Europe Youth Summit on Green Entrepreneurship. Most of our community activities and efforts will be focused on the Summit over the coming months, so we encourage you to get involved by registering on the Summit website.
Are Water Wars soon to become a reality? How can the numerous causes of water scarcity best be addressed? Do you believe that the privatisation of water will improve the situation or only make it worse? Can our planet’s water supply maintain the current levels of population growth?
“Water scarcity ‘now bigger threat than financial crisis’”, “World heading for ‘water bankruptcy’”: if these dramatic headlines are anything to go by, humankind is facing a looming disaster. Not climate change, not another financial crash, not terrorism but water scarcity will bring us to our knees. Whereas talk of water wars and impending doom may seem exaggerated, water scarcity is at the source of many of the contemporary problems we read about every day. read more…
By Jonah Goldberg, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2010
“Joe Biden”: With the exception of “broken teleprompter” these are the scariest two words in the White House communications shop.
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By Florian Paulus Meyer, Jetzt.de/Süddeutschen Zeitung, 31 May 2010
Am Sorgentelefon ‘Nightline’ helfen Studenten ihren Kommilitonen in allen Lebenslagen.
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By Chris Cameron, ReadWriteWeb, 28 May 2010
The same day on which Facebook has rolled back changes to its default privacy settings, Pew Research has released a report on privacy and reputation among young adults that has some interesting results.
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By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press via Yahoo! Finance, 23 May 2010
Six weeks of vacation a year. Retirement at 60. Thousands of euros for having a baby. A good university education for less than the cost of a laptop … Now the welfare state — cherished by many Europeans as an alternative to what they see as dog-eat-dog American capitalism — is coming under its most serious threat in decades: Europe’s sovereign debt crisis.
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By Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 21 April 2010
Éric Zemmour, slight, dark, a live wire, fell over his own words, they were tumbling out so fast.
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By Gareth Jones, Reuters, 12 April 2010
The plane crash that killed Poland’s president and leading opposition politicians has removed in one stroke key opponents of Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his ruling centrist Civic Platform.
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By Daniel McLaughlin, The Independent, 9 April 2010
Barack Obama yesterday honoured a pledge to make the world safer by shrinking the global stockpile of nuclear weapons and sealing a dramatic turnaround in America’s strained relations with Russia.
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By Steven Greenhouse, New York Times, 2 April 2010
With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent years, leading federal and state regulators to worry that more employers are illegally using such internships for free labor.
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By Leo Cendrowicz, Time.com via Yahoo! News, 3 April 2010
In the clash of cultures between the West and Muslim world, few battles have been more fiercely fought than the one raging in Europe today over the burqa.
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