Gordon Brown on Monday hosted a meeting at Number 10 Downing Street with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. The three men discussed major issues facing the EU in the second half of this year: the economic crisis, growing unemployment, the situation in Iran, climate change, climate finance and the Lisbon Treaty. Report: Raymond Frenken. Footage: EBS.
London: EU Chiefs Visit Downing Street
30 June 2009 By
Brussels Seeks to Avert New Ukraine-Russia Gas Crisis
30 June 2009 By
Brussels on Monday hosted a crucial meeting with officials from Russia, Ukraine, the EU and international financial institutions that sought to avert a repeat of the gas crisis that left millions of European citizens in the cold during the winter.
Life Long Learning programme
29 June 2009 By
An Indonesian wants to design robots to help the disabled, a Kenyan to put clean water into people’s homes. What do they have in common? They are making their dreams [Read more...]
Solana’s 2009 Paul Henri Spaak Lecture
25 June 2009 By
Javier Solana, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, on Monday delivered the 2009 Paul Henri Spaak Lecture in Brussels.
This lecture series was named after Paul-Henri Spaak, the Foreign Minister of Belgium who played a decisive role in working out the Treaty of the European Economic Community and EURATOM of 1958.
The series is organized by the Belgian section of the Association of European Journalists. In previous years, the lecture was given by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and by Hans-Gert Poettering, President of the European Parliament.
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Ebadi Urges EU to Pull Ambassadors from Iran
24 June 2009 By
Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, Human Rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize 2003 was today in the European Council at the COHOM – Human Rights Committee – meeting in presence of Riina Kionka, Personal Representative for Human Rights of the High Representative for the EU’s CFSP Javier Solana.
In her statement she called the European Union to be more active in Iran regarding the Human Rights situation in her country. She urged the European Union to ask Iran to hold the violence and the killing and arrests of people. If Iran refuses to do that and the violence continues she urged the EU to ask its governments to recall their ambassadors from Iran with immediate effect.
Obituary: Karel van Miert 1942 – 2009
23 June 2009 By
Karel van Miert, the man who built Europe’s strict competition policy passed away on Monday after a fatal accident in his garden. Van Miert was responsible for creating the right antitrust rules in the European Union that keep monopolies from being created and address abuse of monopoly power. Obituary by Raymond Frenken.
