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EU must act on Syrian refugees

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European Risk Summit to examine role of science in policy-making

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Landmark banking supervision rules approved; final go-ahead pending agreement...

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Public procurement package to be adopted against the needs of utilities

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Rules for banking resolution to stabilise financial markets. Gunnar Hökmark MEP

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Primary care: strengthening the health system's first port of call

Nickel Institute European Risk Summit to examine role of science in policy-making

NEWS
EU groups say new sanctions threaten aid work in North Korea
European aid groups said their banks in Europe had stopped sending money to North Korea in the wake of American sanctions on the isolated country’s main foreign exchange bank, leaving them scrambling for a solution short of hand-carrying cash into the impoverished country.

News | Lamy urges EU to forge closer trade ties with Africa
News | MEPs give a conditional go-ahead to EU-US trade talks
News | Leaders hesitate between common EU response and ‘silver bullets’ on energy
News | Iceland's new leaders to halt EU accession talks pending referendum
News | Berlin takes youth unemployment fight to Southern Europe
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Fighting alcohol harm: The EU's strategy under review
Europeans have the highest per-capita consumption of alcohol, and drinking causes nearly 1-in-10 cases of ill health and premature death. The European Commission’s informal alcohol strategy, launched in 2006, is set for a detailed evaluation in 2013, with the policy objective of reducing the health and social harm caused by excessive alcohol consumption.

LinksDossier | Agenda for Change: EU’s helping hand gets an overhaul
LinksDossier | Italian elections 2013: A nation at a crossroads [Archived]
LinksDossier | Euroscepticism: More than a British phenomenon
LinksDossier | Cloud computing: Leveraging the digital economy
LinksDossier | Cybersecurity: Protecting the digital economy
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Friedbert Pflüger: Climate change is no longer the EU’s only priority
The EU’s climate policy has not vanished but the approach today is probably more balanced towards other aims like energy supply security and competitiveness, Friedbert Pflüger said in an interview with EurActiv Slovakia.

Interview | Intel exec: Europe must invest to remain competitive
Interview | Tajani: Europe can reach 20% industry target
Interview | Gas industry chief: We cannot wait for a more ambitious energy policy
Interview | UNESCO envoy: Cultural action is key for Mali’s reconstruction
Interview | James Hansen: We are on the verge of creating climate chaos
OPINIONS

Wishful thinking will not make European energy affordable
As long as the European Union is unilaterally pursuing climate goals while other global actors are not following suit, it will suffer consequences in terms of competitiveness, writes Jacek Saryusz-Wolski.

Opinion | Domestic violence begins at home, combating it begins in Europe
Opinion | Time to shake off the gloom: Europe matters
Opinion | Germany's unfair practice in the field of energy intensive industries
Opinion | Soaring energy costs make Europeans poor
Opinion | The European energy community is now
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End of tax fraud
The Plenary Session in Strasbourg is being characterized by taxes, more precisely by the collection of taxes. It is estimated that the EU countries ar..

Blog | No Need for an Euro-zone Government à la Hollande
Blog | Inflation in Germany is not an automatic remedy for the periphery’s economic woes
Blog | China, the United States, and Greece: The race of mirrors
Blog | The Arab World should give priority to phasing out Subsidies on fossil Fuels
Blog | Under the Open Access Policy UNESCO Opens up its Publications Free of Charge
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EU lawmakers warm up to online media: Survey - 10 November 2009 - News

Online resources and social media play a key role in helping politicians shape policies in Europe and the US alike, according to a new survey which found members of the European Parliament lagging behind when it comes to engaging with EU citizens.

G20 London summit: After the dust has settled - 05 May 2009 - Opinion

"The US-China relationship is becoming the most important bilateral relationship in the world," writes Stanley Crossick, the founder of the European Policy Centre, in a March blog post reflecting on the outcome of the recent G20 summit in London.

NATO shadow summit: Moral, muscular, multilateral - 06 April 2009 - Opinion

"Amidst the hoopla over 60th birthday parties, there is a crying need to involve citizens in determining what NATO should stand for," wrote Gerald Loftus, a former diplomat, on his blog after a two-day 'NATO shadow summit'.

EU blogging competition launched ahead of June elections - 27 January 2009 - News

Europe's first continent-wide blogging competition was launched by the European Journalism Centre in Brussels yesterday (26 January) in a bid to boost debate on EU issues ahead of the next elections to the European Parliament in June.

Expert: Brussels needs 'mind-shift away from traditional communications' - 15 January 2009 - Interview

A "mind-shift away from traditional communications" is required if Brussels-based public affairs professionals are to embrace the potential of blogs and other online tools to help "break the cycle of one-way communication," Helen Dunnett, eCommunications manager at the European Crop Protection Association, told EurActiv in an interview.

Interview: Brussels lobbyists 'unsure about the web' - 15 January 2009 - News

"Communications in Brussels still tends to be one-directional, with a stoic resistance to using online tools to enrich press conferences, releases and events," according to Helen Dunnett, eCommunications manager at the European Crop Protection Association (ECPA).

Blogs: Filling the EU's 'communication gap'? - 26 March 2008 - LinksDossier

Recent years have seen the emergence of a wide variety of blogs on EU affairs, and even European commissioners have begun to post daily messages on their websites under José Manuel Barroso's tenure. But will blogs really lead to more intelligent European debate?

Stakeholders 'key' to bringing EU policy debates to national level - 09 November 2007 - News

A EurActiv conference on 8 November explored ways of reaching out to EU citizens via national stakeholders such as businesses, trade unions and NGOs. Commissioners Kuneva (consumers) and Orban (multilingualism), as well as a number of MEPs, spoke out in favour of more decentralised communication to regain citizens' trust in the EU.

Public affairs gets 'reinvented' - 19 March 2007 - News

The European Centre for Public Affairs (ECPA) sixth annual conference, 'Reinventing Public Affairs', took place in Brussels on 8 March 2007, bringing together top-level thinkers from the field.

Parents: Beware the internet and mobile phones! - 06 February 2007 - Opinion

On the occasion of Safer Internet Day 2007 (6 February), Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding writes on the risks and opportunities from recent trends in internet technology with regard to children.

Media experts critical of EU communication practices - 07 December 2006 - News

A new pan-European TV channel is not viable and EU communication policy should decentralise radically using new 'citizen journalism' technologies. These were the two main recommendations from a media experts' conference organised in Helsinki on 4-5 December.

EU Communication and the media: allies or enemies? - 01 December 2006 - News

News editors and experts from European, national and regional media will have their say about Vice-President Wallström's new Communication Strategy in a stakeholder conference in Helsinki next week.

Brussels journalists give tips on media relations - 17 November 2006 - News

EurActiv manual receives input from Brussels journalists, NGOs and civil servants on how to draw up good media relations strategy.

'Media of the masses taking over' - 16 November 2006 - Interview

Joël de Rosnay advises the EU to look to the new 'media of the masses' in order better to 'communicate Europe' to citizens.

Survey: business and civil society could help cure EU communication ills - 12 May 2006 - News

EU institutions could leverage existing industry and civil society networks to improve their ailing communications strategy, EurActiv's 2006 survey of European federations has found.

EP embraces the blogosphere - 13 September 2005 - News

The Parliament has launched its new web portal with a series of round table talks on the information society, the first of which was about ethical questions arising from the emergence of millions of weblogs.

Blogs: The new magic formula for corporate communications? - 29 August 2005 - Opinion

Opinion is divided over the validity of blogs as a new communication channel for business. In this Deutsche Bank Research paper, Norbert Walter investigates the appeal of blogs for initiators and users, and examines the reasons why they have succeeded to reach such a broad readership.

Study: 'Non' made better use of internet - 25 August 2005 - News

Websites advocating a 'No' vote in the 29 May 2005 French referendum on the EU Constitution were more numerous and formed a more tightly-knit network than those in favour of the Constitution, according to a study.

PR firms show growing interest in weblogs - 26 April 2005 - News

Public trust in 'real people' is raising public relations firms' interest in online personal journals to promote brand names and run political campaigns. A new study looks at the new era of "mass personalisation" and professional word-of-mouth marketing.

Margot Wallstrom gets trendy with blog - 17 January 2005 - News

The Communications Commissioner has launched a 'my blog' section on her website giving her personal thoughts on recent developments.

Social media: An unmissable opportunity for public affairs? - 12 February 1999 - Opinion

Social media allow policymakers to respond to citizens’ tendency to "increasingly question the undemocratic and unresponsive nature of the European institutions," argues Amber Price, general secretary of 'ECPA II', a daughter organisation of the European Centre for Public Affairs (ECPA).