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Potočnik calls for 'profound greening' of EU farm policies

EU Active - 17 March, 2010 - 12:56

Sustainable agricultural practices play a crucial role in ensuring both environmental and food security, as farmers manage up to 50% of EU land, participants in an agriculture forum stressed yesterday (16 March).

EU lawmakers reject colour-coded system for food labels

EU Active - 17 March, 2010 - 12:56

MEPs have rejected calls for a mandatory EU-wide 'traffic light' system for food labels similar to the one currently applied in the UK, much to the disappointment of European consumer and health groups.

MEPs back EU organ donation action plan

EU Active - 17 March, 2010 - 12:54

Europeans needing organ transplants should face shorter waiting times after MEPs voted on Tuesday (16 March) for measures to improve the supply and safety of donated organs, while curbing illegal trafficking.

The Texas Textbook Wars

Ludwig von Mises Institute - 17 March, 2010 - 09:30

It may be difficult to understand at first why the members of the Texas Board of Education consider Aquinas, Calvin, and Blackstone more worthy of study than Thomas Jefferson.

Football clubs to be compensated for losing young players

EU Active - 17 March, 2010 - 08:28

European football clubs who train young players only to see them sign their first professional contract with another EU team can now claim compensation for the loss, European judges ruled yesterday (16 March).

Russian speakers 'excluded' from EU brochures in Latvia

EU Active - 17 March, 2010 - 08:26

The European Commission should continue to provide information in non-official EU languages, MEPs urged this week (15 March), expressing disappointment that Russian-language fact-sheets produced by the EU executive's offices in Latvia were recently withdrawn.

Rating agency backs Greece's austerity plan

EU Active - 17 March, 2010 - 08:25

Pressure eased on Greek sovereign bonds yesterday (16 March) after credit rating agency Standard & Poor's lifted a threat of an immediate downgrade, sending the euro to new highs.

'Phantom' MEPs in institutional quagmire

EU Active - 17 March, 2010 - 08:25

MEPs are today (17 March) expected to get closer to agreeing a way to welcome their 18 additional colleagues, as provided for by the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty.

Regional and innovation chiefs pledge to end duplication

EU Active - 17 March, 2010 - 08:24

The EU commissioners for innovation and regional policy, meeting in Spain this week, have called for an end to duplication and misuse of EU funding between their vast policy machines and pledged to work better together.

Finance ministers want 3% R&D target ditched

EU Active - 17 March, 2010 - 08:24

EU finance ministers are fighting against the European Commission's target of spending 3% of GDP on research and development (R&D), demanding a new "outcome-oriented" measure of success.

US warns EU of financial reform clash

EU Active - 17 March, 2010 - 08:24

The US is growing increasingly worried by the EU's financial reform agenda, as US officials descend on the European institutions in Brussels to warn policymakers against divergent rules on hedge funds and derivatives.

Buzek: EU should be more pragmatic, US more romantic

EU Active - 17 March, 2010 - 07:56

The EU-US partnership should get off the ground and both sides should take steps towards one another, with the European Union becoming "more pragmatic" and the USA "more romantic," European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek said yesterday (16 March).

Nation Wrecking in Afghanistan

Ludwig von Mises Institute - 17 March, 2010 - 07:10

With the mission of eliminating Al-Qaeda having ended in failure, the United States changed its purpose in Afghanistan to nation building. This has come into conflict with their second original objective: ending Taliban rule.

The American Revolution

Ludwig von Mises Institute - 17 March, 2010 - 07:10

The motive was empire on one side and self-government on the other. It was a question between liberty and authority, between government by consent and government by force.
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