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Category:
Citizenship
Information,
Political
Action, Youth/Education,
Institutions
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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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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.
www.euronews.net
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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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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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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)
www.europa.eu.int
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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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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)
www.freedomtocare.org/page84.htm
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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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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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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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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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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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Category:
Mobility
Transports,
Services,
Research/Technology
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EasyJet
is Europe's leading low-cost
airline providing its
customers with safe, good
value, point to point
air services. It manages
to offer a consistent
and reliable product and
fares appealing to leisure
and business markets on
a range of European routes.
www.easyjet.com
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Eurolines
is the umbrella
brand for more than 30
independent coach companies
operating Europe's largest
regular coach network.
This network connects
over 500 destinations,
covering the entire continent,
including Morocco. Eurolines
allows travelling from
Sicily to Helsinki and
from Casablanca to Moscow
at extremely low cost.
www.eurolines.com
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Eurostar,
since services began in
1994, has transformed
the travel market between
London and Paris-Brussels.
It has quickly become
the rail/air market leader
and doubled the total
number of passengers traveling
between these destinations.
Eurostar carries more
passengers between London
and Paris than all airlines
put together.
www.eurostar.com
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LOGOS,
a multilingual e-translation
portal - is a world leader
in multilingual content
management and continues
to pursue its vision of
becoming the point of
reference for languages
on the Web, whilst offering
increasingly accurate
and timely professional
language solutions to
global businesses. This
approach has achieved
for Logos its high profile
- a position of pre-eminence
in the multilingual content
management sector.
www.logos.net
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Vodafone
Group Plc is
the world's leading mobile
telecommunications company,
providing a wide range
of services including
voice and data communications
with a significant presence
in Continental Europe,
the United Kingdom, the
United States and the
Far East through the Company's
subsidiary undertakings,
associated undertakings
and investments.
www.vodafone.com
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EuroBioBank
is the first operating
network of biological
banks in Europe providing
human biological material
(DNA, tissue, cell) for
research on rare diseases.
The network, composed
of 16 partners from 8
European countries (Belgium,
France, Germany, Hungary,
Italy, Malta, Slovenia,
Spain), has the aim to
help reach a critical
mass of collections and
accelerate research on
rare diseases, which affect
approximately 20 million
people in the enlarged
Europe.
www.eurobiobank.org
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The
European Association of
Centres of Medical Ethics
(EACME) is, since
its creation in 1985,
an international research
and communication network.
“European”
is used here in the broad
sense of the term, i.e.
from the Atlantic to the
Urals. It aims at promoting
public critical concern
regarding the ethical
issues involved in the
development of the biomedical
sciences in our communities.
www.eacmeweb.com
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FSF
Europe - Free
Software Foundation Europe
- is a charitable non-governmental
organisation dedicated
to supporting all aspects
of Free Software in Europe.
Creating awareness for
these issues, securing
Free Software politically
and legally, and giving
people freedom by supporting
development of Free Software
are central issues of
the FSF Europe. The FSF
Europe was founded in
2001 as the European sister
organisation of the Free
Software Foundation in
Boston, MA, USA. They
are financially, legally
and personally independent
from each other.
www.fsfeurope.org
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Category:
Congeniality
Culture,
Regions
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The
Euro-Festival Info Centre
offers all information
regarding festivals organised
within the Association
of European Festivals
(music-danse-theatre),
i.e. 93 festivals organized
in 35 countries (31 in
Europe). This organisation
aims at promoting the
actions of show festivals
of high artistic quality
all over Europe and hopes
to encourage people to
visit European festivals
by traveling throughout
Europe.
www.euro-festival.net
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Movie
"Good Bye Lenin"
- October 1989
was a bad time to fall
into a coma if you lived
in East Germany –
and this is precisely
what happens to Alex's
mother, an activist for
social progress and the
improvement of everyday
life in socialist East
Germany. … In a
wonderful, touching and
comic manner, Wolfgang
Becker tells the story
of how a loving son tries
to move mountains and
create miracles to restore
his mother to health –
and keep her in the belief
that Lenin really did
win after all!
www.good-bye-lenin.de
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Band
O-ZONE - With
their clean-cut appearances,
melodious songs, and warm
singing voices O-Zone,
Moldavian of origin, became
an overnight sensation
in Romania and Western
Europe in 2004. Their
dance hit "Dragostea
din Tei,” loosely
translated as "Love
Under the Lime Tree,"
has stormed the European
pop charts over the past
few months, going to No.
1 in Spain, France, and
the Czech Republic.
www.o-zone-fanclub.com
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IANIS
- The Innovative Actions
Network for the Information
Society - develops interregional
networking, and particularly
provides network support
to regions with approved
Innovative Actions projects.
It aims to support widespread
sharing of information,
experience and good practice
through an electronic
communications platform,
newsletters, seminars,
annual conferences and
policy fora and a study
visits exchange scheme;
and also to manage an
e-Region Hub with a projects’
database and with links
to other materials and
reports of relevance to
regional IS developers
working in the context
of the Structural Funds.
www.ianis.net
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The
Öresund Committee
- Based on two different
countries, divided by
water and linked by a
bridge, the Øresund
Region will be one of
the most important regions
in Europe within the next
few years. This is the
vision of the politicians
in the Öresund Committee.
Here you find 32 local
and regional politicians
representing 13 member
organisations - counties
and municipalities on
both sides of the Øresund.
The Swedish and Danish
governments play the role
of observers. They meet
four times a year. The
task is to further develop
a common region based
on two different countries.
www.oresundskomiteen.dk
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