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September 6, 2010
Michel Barnier, European Commissioner for Financial Services, hopes that an agreement with the European Parliament and the Council on the regulation of hedge funds will be found in the coming weeks
September 6, 2010
Researchers in Europe continue to fight the good fight against cancer, a devastating disease that affects more than 3 million Europeans each year. Joining this effort are researchers and industry actors from the MIRACLE ('Magnetic isolation and molecular analysis of single circulating and disseminated tumour cells on chip') project, which clinched EUR 7 million under the 'Information and communication technologies' (ICT) Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Their goal is to develop a fully automated, integrated lab-on-a-chip (LOC) system for the detection and characterisation of circulating and disseminated tumour cells, CTCs and DTCs. The novel LOC will lead to faster and cost-efficient diagnosis of cancer.
September 6, 2010
The initiative "Youth in Motion," one of the flagship initiatives of the strategy's 2020 European Commission, will be launched on September 15. It aims to promote mobility and employment prospects of young people. This involves defining what must be done at EU level so that the potential of youth is released to achieve smart growth, sustainable and inclusive in the EU.
September 6, 2010
Changes in EU staff regulations needed to ensure that the European External Action Service (EEAS) is truly European, inter alia by ensuring staff loyalty and a geographical and gender balance, were debated by the Legal Affairs Committee on Thursday.
September 3, 2010
Local services that create jobs and improve energy efficiency received this thursday when MEPs on the Industry, Research and Energy Committee approved plans for more investment. The main beneficiaries will be towns and local authorities across the European Union.
September 3, 2010
EU authorities are to get tough new powers to settle disputes among national financial supervisors and to ban risky financial products and activities, in a revamp of EU financial supervision plans agreed on Thursday. The european authorities may also impose decisions directly on financial institutions, such as banks, so as to remedy breaches of EU law.
September 3, 2010
A public consultation on the post-2010 EU biodiversity strategy has been opened by the Commission's Environment department. The aim of this consultation is to gather input from a wide range of stakeholders on possible policy options for the new strategy. These views will be assessed by the Commission as part of the process of its development. The consultation is open until 22 October 2010 and is available in English, French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish
September 3, 2010
While the rate of unemployment is increasing in different member states as a result of the economic crisis, the Social Affairs Committee of the European Parliament decided to set up a task force on the European Social Fund (ESF).
September 2, 2010
The European Commission confirmed its support to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) by providing an additional EUR 47 million to the African Union.
September 2, 2010
The urgent issue of Europe's Roma population requires concrete, constructive and responsible action by the Member States and it must not become a political football: this was the conclusion of a debate at the EESC on 2 September.
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