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Potočnik bags UN 'Champions of the Earth' prize
The United Nations will honour Janez Potočnik, the EU's top environment official, with its Champions of the Earth prize for his efforts to promote a greener EU economy.

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News | Greenland report paves way for sovereign uranium mining
News | France clears road for non-nationals to run in EU polls
News | UN ‘failing' women with poverty eradication targets
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LINKSDOSSIERS

European elections 2014: Different this time?
After the financial and sovereign debt crisis, state bailouts and budget cuts, the May 2014 European elections are expected to take the pulse of public confidence towards the European Union. For the first time, voters will also indirectly choose the next president of the European Commission, giving citizens a fresh chance to shape the future of Europe.

LinksDossier | EU spending: Added value through cooperation
LinksDossier | German elections 2013: Don't mention Europe
LinksDossier | CAP 2014-2020: A long road to reform
LinksDossier | The Lithuanian EU Presidency - ‘A fresh Baltic breeze’
LinksDossier | Payment Services Directive: The new payments landscape
INTERVIEWS

Temp chief: Workers face 'a la carte' employment
The European labour market is being overhauled in a thorough 'individualist' revolution that is moving workers away from fixed-term contracts and towards collaboration and subordination, argues Denis Pennel.

Interview | Vassiliou: 'Europeans should get out of their chairs more often'
Interview | Campaigner: ‘For the first time, the EU has power over national health budgets’
Interview | José Bové: US demands on transatlantic trade talks are 'indecent'
Interview | Think tanks: EU elections could get 'pretty ugly'
Interview | Danish retail giant: 'Why use endocrine-disrupting substances if we can use alternatives?'
OPINIONS

New technologies are key to foster EU transparency and participation
The EU should make better use of new technologies to improve its democratic decision making, transparency and participation. This is key in an election year, at a time when the sense of trust among citizens in its institutions is at an all-time low, writes Marietje Schaake.

Opinion | Re-setting the way to a decarbonised Europe
Opinion | A truly multilingual capital for the European Union
Opinion | Why Somaliland does not attend ‘New Deal for Somalia’ conference
Opinion | New Deal for Somalia is an important deal
Opinion | How to escape the intergenerational injustice trap in Europe's aging societies
BLOGS

Europe shows strong demand for aviation personnel among worldwide boom
According to Boeing’s 2013 Pilot and Technician Outlook, commercial aviation will require more than a million new pilots and aircraft maintenanc..

Blog | Millions of Ukrainian citizens are first to need EU Association Agreement
Blog | Time to act
Blog | General Court Orders Partial Disclosure in Access to ECHR Accession Negotiation Documents Case
Blog | Fund What Counts – Help people live a good life in a changing climate
Blog | Égypte : violences et regrets
VIDEOS

Plans for empowering EU citizens with automatic cross-border rights to switch bank accounts within the bloc will be costly and too bureaucratic to implement, Europe’s largest banking lobby group has warned.

Britain has won backing to curb the power of the European Union market watchdog to ban short-selling in a boost to a campaign against the concentration of financial regulation in Brussels at the expense of the City of London.

Europe took a significant step forward in its ambitions to create a single banking framework for the eurozone on Thursday (12 September) after EU lawmakers granted new powers to the European Central Bank to oversee banks in the currency bloc.

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