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Bienvenida Croacia
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O “dobro dosli Hrvatska!”. La Comisión Europea ha dado finalmente luz verde al ingreso de Croacia a la Unión Europea, completando un proceso que comenzó en 2003 con la solicitud de ingreso por parte del país balcánico. Si todo sale &...
more party time!
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*”A cheap ass is a boss who drinks expensive wine at the dinner table but at work can’t pay you for travel time.” Party!! I will be at the cloakroom from 22.30 to 00.30, so difficult to be missed. By … Continue reading →...
News from the ESJ
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ESJ is soon comming out. You can still send articles for the printed version, to be released at the end of the stage. Dear stagiaires, Believe it or not, your stage within the European Commission is coming to its midway … Continue reading ͛...
Bienvenido Sr. Presidente
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Hoy he tenido la oportunidad de asistir a la presentación que el presidente de la Comisión Europea, Jose Manual Durao Barroso, ha ofrecido a todo el staff, desde la sala de prensa del Berlaymont, a través de EbS. Ante la … Continue reading &...
If your country could move…
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… where would it go? The Economist imagines a new map of Europe, more “accurated” and “logical”. Here it’s how would look like: PEOPLE who find their neighbours tiresome can move to another neighbourhood, wherea...
Visiting the king’s garden
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An interesting leisure proposal: going to the Royal Greenhouses, which are open just till 9 May. The rest of the year, the king keeps this wonder of nature for himself. But well, It’s really worthy, above all when you are … Continue readi...
La Comunitat Valenciana, contra el maltrato
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La Oficina de la Comunitat Valenciana en Bruselas continúa su importante labor contra el maltrato hacia las mujeres. Mis amigos de la FCVRE organizan un seminario en la oficina el día 4 de mayo a las 16.00 con el título … Continue reading &#...
La pregunta del mes
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“¿Te has apuntado al Concour?”, se pregunta todo el mundo con ansiedad en Bruselas. EPSO, la oficina europea de selección de personal, inaugura esta primavera su nuevo proceso de selección y todo el mundo quiere estar en primera líne...
Un plan de primavera
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Hoy mi Comisario, Andris Piebalgs, ha presentado el “Spring Package“, un conjunto de medidas para poner en su sitio los Objetivos del Milenio, y con ello llegar a tiempo antes de que venza el plazo, en 2015. Estos objetivos, acordados ...
Planes or volcano?
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Who pollutes the more? Planes or volcanos? The answer below, with this amazing graph designed by David McCandless and Ben Bartels. I found the post in escolar.net.
Un periodismo muy humano
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Acaba de ver la luz periodismohumano, un nuevo medio de comunicación online con un enfoque muy claro centrado en los derechos humanos y los temas sociales, encabezado por Javier Bauluz, nuestro premio Pulitzer. Entre sus firmas, profesionales del ni...
Power to the people
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One of the new provisions in Lisbon Treaty is the European citizens’ initiative, which will allow citizens to directly participe in European law-making process. [...] the ECI will allow at least one million citizens from at least one third of...
La Transardennaise
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Aprovechando el largo puente de Pascua, he organizado una pequeña excursión para mañana. Se trata de una etapa de la Transardennaise, una ruta de 160 kilómetros desde la Roche-en-Ardenne hasta Bouillon, vía Saint-Hubert. Nosotros recorreremos l...
A new future for Haiti
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EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Commission Vice-President, Catherine Ashton along with Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs and Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response...
A handful of EU myths
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The European Commission is typically blamed of being the driving force behind the most bizarre and surrealistic policies. In such articles, “Brussels” is pictured as the home of a bunch of mad and grey bureaucrats who know nothing about...
Your article on the ESJ
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The Communications Subcommittee is looking for stagiaires who want to take part in the European Stagiaires Journal (ESJ). I encourage you to write an article for the magazine on something of your particular interest . Anyone want to try? I’m he...
Querido viejo teatro
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Por Pedro Espinosa El Teatro Falla se ha hecho viejo. Y como veterano que es, le gusta presumir de las batallitas vividas, de las estrellas que ha conocido, de las emociones que han explotado en su interior. Nostalgia del que cumple 100 años. Una...
Best mixing: wine & cheese
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Best way of finishing the week is by going to Wine & Cheese party at Barrio on Friday. Barrio is nice, above all when people is not waving swords at the place. But this is another story. Let’s meet up over there! Have a nice relaxed even...
A millennium of reasons
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Today I attended Oxfam meeting at the European Parliament, where women from eight continents called for the achievement of Millennium Development Goals. Commissioner Piebalgs was there, that’s the reason I had to be present as well. It was very int...
