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Maternity leave extension may be abandoned
Current EU legislation gives new mothers the right to take at least 14 weeks of maternity leave The European Parliament voted a text in 2010 to extend maternity leave in the EU from 14 to 20 weeks. But...
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2014: Bad year for road safety in Europe
Almost 70 Europeans die on the roads in the EU every day Even if the road traffic death toll in the EU decreased by 1 percent from 2013 to 2014, this result breaks the positive trend of the previous...
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Europass: Exchange programme for trainees in Europe
In France and Belgium the pâtissier is a pastry chef who has completed a lengthy training process, typically an apprenticeship, and passed a written examination Does it really smell differently in a...
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Equality between men and women is not a fact
On March 5, 2015, the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality held an inter-parliamentary committee meeting on empowering women and girls through education Women represent 52 percent of...
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Internet providers should should do more to tackle child pornography
Web providers play a key role to fight against online child sexual abuse, according to MEP Gérard Deprez The European Parliament approved in Strasbourg on March 11 a resolution to fight against online...
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Focus on women’s empowerment through education
Poster announcing International Women’s Day iniatives 2015 by the European Left Flickr / GUE/NGL / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Sunday is International Women’s Day – and the European Parliament focuses on women and...
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Difficult solutions to conflicts created by attacks of large carnivores
European lynx – causing trouble for farmers? / Flickr / Tambako The Jaguar / CC BY-ND 2.0 In Europe there are more than 17,000 bears, over 12,000 wolves and 1,000 Eurasian lynx already present in rural...
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ELI-ALPS laser project boosts Hungarian university
Laser light in Budapest in 2013 The EU supports the ELI-ALPS project, whose aim is to establish a unique European research centre based on laser. One of the most important parts of this project will be...
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Erasmus+ to strengthen mobility and eduction in EU
GOerasmus information gathering at the University of Salzburg in Austria to explain ERASMUS+ Erasmus+ is the international programme of the EU to support mobility and education. The budget of the...
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Citizens’ Corner debate on new rules for freedom of movement
You can watch the livestream right here on February 24. Follow the debate on our Facebook or Google+ event pages or check out the hashtag #CitizensCorner Euranet Plus, the leading radio network for EU...
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Hungarian MEP Hölvényi elected as co-president of Interreligious Dialogues Group
György Hölvényi (right) at the conference on ‘The Central Place of Human Work for the European Social Market Economy’ MTVA, the Hungarian partner of Euranet Plus, invited György Hölvényi, member of...
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Depression on the rise, costing EU billions
The causes of the great depression: a sculpture at the FDR Memorial Since the turn of the millennium, the number of sick leave days for depression in Germany and Europe has increased steadily and...
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Better EU coordination to prevent radicalisation in Europe
Cecilia Malmström at the inauguration of the Radicalisation Awareness Network in 2011 To put up a strategy to prevent radicalisation in Europe, local experts must coordinate and share their practices...
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France push for new EU tools to cut terrorist financing
MEP Krišjānis Kariņš, European People’s Party (EPP), Latvia, rapporteur for EU anti-money laundering directive, at Citizens’ Corner debate about digital rights in the EU organized by Euranet Plus...
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Heavy protests against Commission plans to scrap waste rules
EU Parliament urges the Commission to keep controversial proposal to improve EU waste management The European Commission faced heavy opposition from the Parliament’s Environment Committee on Thursday...
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Cloud for Europe: Germans still shy away from cloud services
2013 Esri International User Conference Germany is once again Europe’s top – but his time at the opposite end: Reservations about using cloud services are nowhere greater in Europea than in Germany....
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European Parliament commemorates 70th annniversary of Auschwitz liberation
70th anniversary of the Libaration of Auschwitz in European Parliament in Strasbourg on January 13, 2015 The European Parliament commemorated the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz...
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European leaders stand with France following Charlie Hebdo attack
#JeSuisCharlie EU leaders and members of the European community have condemned the fatal shooting at the offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in central Paris on Wednesday (January 7) in which...
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‘Better together’ seminars in Estonia to promote cooperation in EU
Europe day celebrations at the European Parliament in Brussels The international cooperation seminars “Better Together” will be taking place in Estonia in January 2014. For the first time, three...
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Safe and clean in Europe: Searching for the perfect candle
The European Association of Candle Manufacturers demands that the EU establishes safety standards specifically for candles The Germans are European champions in candle consumption. But even for this...
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