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Category: Citizenship
Information,
Political
Action, Youth/Education,
Institutions
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EuroNews
is Europe’s news
channel covering world
news from a European perspective
offering a choice of seven
languages (English, French,
German, Italian, Portuguese,
Russian and Spanish).
Launched on the 1st of
January 1993 as the first
multilingual pan-European
news channel, EuroNews
has rapidly established
itself as Europe’s
sole television news channel.
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Digital
Media Europe,
a daily dosage of European
digital media news, a
single-source online news
service to provide truly
pan-European news, analysis
and opinion, covering
the advance of digital
media across Europe from
a tech, business and policy
perspective.
www.dmeurope.com
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Tiscali
Europe, an online
European Magazine is presently
available in 13 countries
and five languages –
English, French, German,
Italian and Czech. Tiscali
Europe offers to its readers
the latest European news,
job offers, EU funding
opportunities as well
as political & cultural
events.
europe.tiscali.co.uk
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EuropePlusNet
is a weekly European society
magazine, with a large
distribution network throughout
Europe. It is written
and produced by professional
journalists from the Association
of European Journalists
in partnership with the
“Courrier International”
and the “CRNS.”
The e-magazine has recently
been applauded by GESTE,
one its peer groups.
www.europeplusnet.info
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Paul
van Buitenen,
“European Commission
auditor, blew the whistle
in 1998-99 on fraud and
mismanagement. He first
drew the attention of
a Member of European Parliament
on the irregularities
in 1998. For being a decent
human being, a dedicated
professional and a conscientious
citizen he was suspended,
had his salary halved
and ordered to face disciplinary
action. He fought on and
his exposures triggered
the collapse of Jacques
Santer's Commission”.
(Freedom-to-care)
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José
Manuel Durao Barroso,
“European Commission
President designate (July
2004) is a multilingual
lawyer, having been Portugal's
Prime Minister since April
2002. Twenty-one years
ago, Barroso published
his MA thesis on how Portuguese
politicians should handle
EU entry; today, the 48-year-old
faces the tough job of
integrating a new wave
of members and persuading
the old ones to sign up
to the constitution. The
former centre-right PM
sees himself as an arbitrator,
but he also wants the
Commission to help revitalise
ailing European economies
- a task some say is beyond
his remit”. (The
Guardian)
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Jean-Claude
Juncker in 1985
presided over both the
“Social Affaires”
and the “Budget”
Council during the Luxembourgeois
Presidency of the EC.
This period marks the
beginning of Juncker’s
resolutely pro-European
vocation in his work,
based on his belief that
peace on the continent
will only be achieved
through further European
integration and based
on his will to never again
witness the tragedies
and drama of Europe’s
past. He has just been
named Mr Euro, a 2 year-president
for EuroGroupe.
www.gouvernement.lu
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Cafe
Babel is a European
youth website, a network
of 16 regional offices
in 11 different countries.
A forum for reflection
and analysis of current
affairs in Europe, café
babel is a free opinion
platform, unbiased and
independent when it comes
to its goals, its spirit
and its functioning. Pro-European,
it contributes to the
emergence of a European
public opinion.
www.cafebabel.com
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AEGEE
Europe (Association
des Etats Généraux
des Etudiants de l'Europe)
is one of the biggest
interdisciplinary student
associations in Europe
(represented by 17.000
students, active in 260
academic cities, in 42
countries all around Europe,
amazing cultural variety).
AEGEE is an independent
non-profit organization.
All projects and activities
are based on the volunteer
work of its members aiming
to promote a unified Europe
without prejudices and
in the future, to foster
democracy, human rights,
tolerance, cross-boarder
co-operation, mobility
and European dimension
in education.
www.aegee.org
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JEF
(The Young European
Federalists) is a supranational,
political movement active
in most European countries.
It is an autonomous youth
organisation which has
no political party affiliations
or commitments. It participates
in the exchange of opinions
and experiences with other
political movements, but
will not identify with
any of them. JEF's interlocutors
are political parties,
European, national and
local institutions and
associations, as well
as the general public.
In this sense JEF is a
political movement, but
not a party.
www.jef-europe.net
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ACC
(Association for Community
Colleges) is a European
non-governmental and non-profit
organisation founded mainly
by young Europeans. Currently
it has more than 400 members.
Their vision is to establish
Community Colleges all
over Europe. They believe
that the ACC is a unique
way of promoting this
objective on a common
European level.
www.acc.eu.org
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The
Court of Justice of the
European Communities
(often referred to simply
as "the Court")
was set up in 1952 under
the Treaty of Paris (establishing
the European Coal and
Steel Community). Made
up of 25 Judges and 8
Advocate Generals, its
job is to ensure that
EU legislation is interpreted
and applied in the same
way in each member state.
In other words, that it
is always identical for
all parties and in all
circumstances. The Court
has the power to settle
legal disputes between
member states, EU institutions,
businesses and individuals.
www.curia.eu.int
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The
European Court of Auditors
(the "financial conscience"
of the EU) ensures that
all the Union's revenue
has been received and
all of its expenditures
were made in a lawful
and regular manner and
that the EU budget has
been managed soundly.
Established in 1977, the
Court has one member from
each EU country, appointed
by the Council for a renewable
term of six years. In
their countries of origin,
the members of the Court
have all worked for an
auditing institution or
are specifically qualified
for that work. They are
chosen for their competence
and independence, and
they work full-time for
the Court. The members
elect one of their number
as President for a term
of three years.
www.eca.eu.int
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The
European Court of Human
Rights was instituted
on November 1, 1998, as
a means to systematize
the hearing of Human Rights
complaints from the Council
of Europe member states.
The court's mission is
to enforce the Convention
for the Protection of
Human Rights and Fundamental
Freedoms, ratified in
1953. The court replaced
the existing enforcement
mechanisms, which included
the European Commission
of Human Rights (created
in 1954) and the previous,
limited Court of Human
Rights, which was created
in 1959. The court consists
of a number of judges
equal to the number of
member states in the Council
of Europe, which currently
stands at forty-four.
www.echr.coe.int
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