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The Egyptian Election and the Arab Spring
Westerners have underestimated the extent of the support for the military regime in Egypt and the degree to which anti-Mubarak demonstrators were committed to Western-style democracy rather than a democracy that represented Islamic values, writes George Friedman.

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Promoting the EU via the works of Dan Brown?
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Tag: Benchmarking

EU floats method for handing out free CO2 permits - 10 September 2010 - News

The European Commission's climate department yesterday (9 September) announced it had identified some 50 product benchmarks for allocating free CO2 emission permits to industry amounting to around €100 billion until 2020.

The European Union benchmarking experience. From euphoria to fatigue? - 12 June 2004 - Analysis

This paper analyses the benchmarking system of EU-15 in relation to the Lisbon objectives. It argues that it is sufficiently effective to make the imminent under-achievements visible.

eGovernment study shows good progress, need to focus on services for citizens - 11 February 2003 - News

EU Member States have made a lot of progress in providing online public services, but more for businesses than for citizens. This is the conclusion of a benchmarking study undertaken by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young on behalf of the European Commission.

Commission, Member States benchmark national research policies - 17 January 2003 - News

The findings of the first comprehensive benchmarking analysis of the Union's R and D policies are to be presented by the Commission and the Greek Presidency at a conference on 17 January in Athens.

eGovernment conference deems linguistic diversity and close contact with citizens as vital - 08 October 2002 - News

The eGovernment conference held on 19-20 September concluded that e-government services must "cater for the EU's linguistic diversity" and be delivered "as close as possible to the customer".

EU administrations urged to share open source software resources - 09 July 2002 - News

According to a new report for the Commission, published in June 2002, EU administrations should share software on an open source licensing basis to cut soaring eGovernment information technology costs.

New study shows the EU is making progress on eGovernment - 25 June 2002 - News

A study, carried out for the Commission by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in April 2002, shows the availability and interactivity of public services on the Internet have risen by 10% points to 55% since October 2001.

The Entrepreneurial Manifesto of EBS - 12 June 2000 - News

After two days of discussions, the European Business Summit has called for a more innovative and a more creative Europe in a less regulated Internal Market

UNICE releases major benchmarking report on the state of innovation in Europe - 27 May 2000 - News

UNICE presented to the press the latest Federation's report on "Stimulating Creativity and Innovation in Europe"

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