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.
By Tanjev Schultz, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23 January 2010
Mit einer millionenschweren Werbeinitiative für technische Praktika will die Regierung junge Tüftler fördern – findet aber nur einen einzigen Bewerber.
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By Stephen Castel, International Herald Tribune, 8 January 2010
Europe will be unable to afford its extensive social programs without economic change, the European Union’s new permanent president, Herman Van Rompuy, warned Friday, supporting calls for sanctions against countries that fail to honor pledges to reform their economies.
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Do you believe there is a green hype? Is there sufficient evidence to support the various proposed solutions on the table? Have you come across examples of greenwashing? Are politicians taking climate change seriously or is it just another election platform? Are green products really green or are they just part of a green marketing trend?
Greenwashing
In terms of ecology 2009 ended on a rather sour note… Some might be claiming a victory but in the end – whether you believe climate change is a real issue or an elaborate scam – leaders in Copenhagen agreed on a compromise that will do nothing to meaningfully address climate change… It does nothing to please the skeptics either. read more…
By John Vidal and David Adam, The Guardian, 29 November 2009
The EU was accused of threatening the global climate talks last night after confidential papers showed it wants existing overseas aid funding to be used to help poor countries adapt to global warming, not new and additional funds.
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By Christopher Caldwell, Financial Times, 27 November 2009
The publication last week of excerpts from 3,000 e-mails stolen from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia comes as a blow to global-warming activists on the very eve of the Copenhagen climate summit.
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By the Monitor’s Editorial Board, Christian Science Monitor, 20 November 2009
You probably never heard of the new president and foreign policy chief of the European Union – Belgian Herman Van Rompuy and Briton Catherine Ashton. That may be their strength.
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By Tony Barber, Brussels blog of the Financial Times, 17 November 2009
My colleague Philippe Ricard wrote a fine piece in Monday’s Le Monde about the scarcity of women candidates for top positions in the European Union – not just the first full-time president and the new foreign policy high representative, but the next 27-member European Commission.
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By Notre Europe, europaforum.lu, 12 November 2009
Une partition réécrite est offerte par le traité de Lisbonne à l’Europe : il appartient à ses institutions renforcées, dirigées par des hommes et des femmes fraîchement appelés à la tâche, de l’interpréter d’une manière qui réponde aux défis du siècle.
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By Michael Meyer, Slate.com, 5 November 2009
The unanswered phone calls and misunderstood memos that helped bring down the Berlin Wall.
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BBC News, 2 November 2009
Hamid Karzai has been declared president of Afghanistan, after election officials scrapped a planned second round of voting.
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