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| MEPS BACK UNSPENT MONEY FOR LOCAL ENERGY & TRANSPORT INVESTMENT |
- Unused funds to boost transport & energy projects
- Money aimed at local towns and Councils
Local services that create jobs and improve energy efficiency received a boost Thursday (2 September) when MEPs on the Industry, Research and Energy Committee approved plans for more investment. The main beneficiaries will be towns and local authorities across the European Union. The money is likely to be around €115 million and is part of the unallocated funds of the European Energy Progamme for Recovery | | Published in 02-09-2010 by europarl.europa.eu |
| QUESTIONS TO JUTTA HAUG, CHAIR OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON EU LONG-TERM FINANCIAL FRAMEWORK | [- Debate over future financing of EU beginning in earnest
- EP sets up new Committee to look at challenges ahead
A special "policy challenges" Committee has just been set up by the European Parliament. Its goal, to look at what issues the next EU long term budget after 2014 should focus investment and financing on. We put some questions to the Chair of the 50 Member Committee - German Social Democrat Jutta Haug about its priorities.
| | Published in 02-09-2010 by europarl.europa.eu |
| LIGHTS GO OUT ON 75 W LIGHT BULB | [
· 75 W follows 100 W bulb into oblivion
· Energy efficiency behind change
The humble light bulb is undergoing a quiet revolution. Last year 100 W bulbs were phased out whilst from tomorrow (1 September) will see the end of 75 W bulb. Sales will continue until stocks run out and new alternatives will be on the shelves. The motive behind the change is the energy inefficiency of the old bulbs (which generate a great deal of heat) compared to newer models. In addition newer bulbscan save money as they can last 6 to 10 times longer than the old ones | | Published in 01-09-2010 by europarl.europa.eu |
| ME UNION PRESIDENT PETER JUNGEN REJECTS PROPOSAL FOR EUROPEAN TAXES | [Peter Jungen, SME UNION President, rejected the proposal of the EU
Commission to introduce European taxes. This would only lead to a
higher level of taxation in the EU. New taxes would only lead to more
money to be spent for the wrong priority. The EU budget today is
already in conflict with EU tasks: The money spent by the EU should
only be focused on services which can not be rended by the EU members. More important would be a revision of the EU budget which is
definitely not in line wih the "EU 2020" | | Published in 12-08-2010 by sme-union.org |
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| OUTSIDE THE BOX METHOD TO STOP IRAN’S NUCLEAR DRIVE | The most recent estimates concerning Iran´s nuclear program suggest that Iran will have mastered the process of making a bomb within the year and will actually be able to possess such a bomb within three years. The possibility that these estimates are accurate requires of us that we begin to think "outside the box" when looking for solutions to our Iran problem. Although the problem poses an immense security threat to the United States, the current Obama administration—as Secretary of Defense Roert Gates has admitted this last month—has no viable plan to stop Iran´s acquisition of nuclear | | Published in 18-05-2010 by radamutz |
| WOULD A PALESTINIAN STATE SOLVE AMERICA’S MIDDLE-EAST PROBLEMS? | Given the current view espoused in much of the media that the Palestinian-Israeli squabble is the root of all or much of America´s poor image in the Arab world, we might want to examine whether creating a Palestinian state—in whichever form of borders—would indeed solve the problems that the United States finds itself confronting in the Middle-East, and whether the creation of a Palestinian state would improve America´s popularity in the region. Will a sovereign Palestinian state solve America´sproblems, or will it create more headaches for Uncle Sam? | | Published in 08-04-2010 by Daniel M. Zucker |
| THE ROOTS OF WASHINGTON’S FAILURES IN DEALING WITH “ROGUE REGIMES” | Those who handle our foreign policy must be able to comprehend adequately the threats that emanate from those rogue regimes and their terrorist proxies by having a comprehensive and broad training in the beliefs, methodologies, and mores of our adversaries. Diplomacy today must be more than the art of cutting a deal—diplomats and Foreign Service personnel need to be much more than glorified used car salesmen. They need to be specialists in all the areas mentioned above. Today´s world is much toodangerous for our diplomatic corps to be playing a game; our continued existence as a civilizatio | | Published in 29-03-2010 by radamutz |
| HELPING THE "THIRD OPTION" BRING REGIME CHANGE TO IRAN | Given the overwhelming body of evidence that demonstrates the Islamic Republic of Iran´s sponsorship of terrorism and belligerent behavior against American and Western governments and/or their allies, it is time to impose a strict regime of sanctions and embargoes on the Iranian regime. As Iran imports some 40% of the refined petroleum products that it needs, we must cut off the supply that the Islamic regime imports from abroad. So too, any equipment that can have possible military usage needso be embargoed | | Published in 25-02-2010 by radamutz |
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