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BIRD FLU Health ministers are to discuss improved responses to infectious diseases. REUTERSThursday, 4 September 2008France seeks to boost disease co-operation
Health ministers to discuss how to improve co-operation to tackle infectious diseases.
Monday, 1 September 2008New pesticide rules criticised
Critics argue that the EU used the lowest common denominator and is putting children's health at risk.
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Displaced villagers looking for a safe harbour in the Indian state of Bihar. REUTERSFriday, 29 August 2008Commission pledges aid to Indian flood victims
The European Commission has pledged €2 million in humanitarian aid to help the victims of floods in north-eastern India where around 2,000 people are estimated to have lost their lives in the worst floods to hit India in 50 years.
Friday, 29 August 2008Radioactive leak prompts vegetables, milk withdrawal
Belgian authorities today (29 August) banned the sale of fresh vegetables and milk produced within a five-kilometre radius of the Institut National de Radio-éléments in Fleurus, following a leak of [...]
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‘Industry is held hostage by some member states'
The European biotech industry has to improve its performance in influencing EU regulation, according to its trade association's new secretary-general. “We sometimes feel that we are held hostage by some member states,” said Willy De Greef, who has just taken over as the head of EuropaBio.Thursday, 28 August 2008
Thursday, 28 August 2008
Summer is no real break for Europe
Regardless of how the world around it changes, the European Union maintains its traditional summer close-down period with an almost religious determination. Even as this issue of European Voice goes to press, the EU institutions are still largely deserted – and in one case quite literally in a state of collapse.
Thursday, 28 August 2008
Working long hours won't solve Europe's demographic crisis
Regarding ‘Making babies makes sense for EU competitiveness' (24-30 July), let me provide the youth perspective on the debate over Europe's looming demographic crisis. First of all, policy-makers should enquire if young Europeans are actually having the number of children they wish. If the answer is ‘No', what is wrong?
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Champagne and oil
In response to Victor Ginsborg's comment, ‘Economic weapons in wine's war against terroir' (31 July-27 August), wine is, I suspect, very much like oil and subject to that well-known phenomenon called ‘supply and demand'.Thursday, 28 August 2008
Wednesday, 27 August 2008
International film projects get EU funding
The European Commission on 27 August announced the selection of 18 international film co-operation projects which will receive a total of €2 million of EU funding under the so-called Media International programme, as part of the Commission's drive to boost Europe's film industry.
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Pension timebomb ticks as EU population ages
By 2065, almost one-third of the EU's population will be older than 65, according to a forecast published on 26 August by Eurostat, the Union's statistical office.
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