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EU Presidency: Six Months on the Green!
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By Antoine Patoz; Translated by Danica JordenIn one month, Ireland will hand over the keys to the European Union to Lithuania. All the heads of state met in Brussels today for a European Summit, getting a chance to cast the spotlight on the Irish pre...
EU Presidency: Six Months on the Green!
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By Antoine Patoz; Translated by Danica JordenIn one month, Ireland will hand over the keys to the European Union to Lithuania. All the heads of state met in Brussels today for a European Summit, getting a chance to cast the spotlight on the Irish pre...
Watch your MEPs !
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By Miléna Cazin Did you ever wonder what do your MEPs do in Brussels or in Strasbourg? Or whether they really vote according to their electoral promises or not? If that’s your case, VoteWatch Europe is for you! This independent organizat...
The Urban Road to a Sustainable Future
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By Lorenzo Marchese Many organizations and political groups share the opinion that the first step to make our life sustainable is to make our social habitat sustainable. Cities are the centre of our social life and the way they will be built and pla...
A solution to Euroscepticism: reducing bills, protecting privacy and taxing the banks?
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By Thomas BignalThe EU is often viewed as some huge bureaucratic monster that has no or little appeal to the average person. It is difficult for most people to understand how important the settlement of a long-term European budget is to their own li...
Rediscovering the Path to Europe: The Ambition for a True pan-European Democracy
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By Lorenzo MarcheseMany believe the way out of the crisis can only be found by resisting nationalist temptations and go for more Europe: the Spinelli Group is one of the main platform arguing for this point. It is time to see how, with the help of ne...
Cafebabel Brussels is recruiting its new Editorial Coordinator
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Cafebabel Brussels is currently looking for its new EDITORIAL OFFICER (unpaid trainee position) from March onwards and for a period of 3 or 6 months. Preference will be given to candidates entitled to a grant (i.e. Leonardo or other). Do you happen t...
Cafebabel Brussels is recruiting an Event Moderator
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Cafebabel Brussels office is looking for an EVENT MODERATOR (unpaid trainee) starting on ASAP and for a period of 3 months minimum . Cafebabel Brussels is part of cafebabel.com international – the first cross-border multilingual magazine onlin...
How David Cameron’s EU strategy should be of concern to all EU citizens
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By Thomas Bignal Following years of speculation that Greece may leave the European Union, the attention has recently shifted towards the United Kingdom; the term “brexit” replacing “grexit”. Why should all EU citizens, British included, be co...
Behind the scenes of Internet Freedom: when hacktivists and the EU work hand in hand
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By Jan Nils Schubert Have you ever wondered how in authoritarian States, people still have the Internet. Part of the answer lies in the hacktivist networks. Time to look behind the scenes and discover that a digital war is going on and that your com...
Britishness and Euroscepticism
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By Thomas Bignal A survey published by ComRes only a few weeks ago pointed that 54% of the British public were willing to leave the EU, a number far higher than their other European counterparts. How come the British people are so adamantly opposed t...
From Sweden to Brussels: The European dimension of The Hives.
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By Marnix de Witte The Hives! This Swedish garage rock band has, during more than fifteen years, established itself as one of the most exciting live rock acts. Their energy and stage performance are unbeatable. Cafebabel asked the band some questions...
2nd European Grid Conference: an innovative way to promote infrastructures
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By Carlo Peano On the 5th December 2012 the Renewables Grid Initiative (RGI) organized the Second European Grid Conference in order to explain the lessons learned by its members during the last few years. Founded by the European Climate Foundation...
2013, Odd Numbers and High Stakes
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By Aris Kokkinos (live from the European Summit), translated by Danica Jorden Even if the European Union paid any attention to the Mayan calendar, it seems the 13th year of the 21st century is as frightening as the online apocalypse. In 2013, the le...
2013, Odd Numbers and High Stakes
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By Aris Kokkinos (live from the European Summit), translated by Danica Jorden Even if the European Union paid any attention to the Mayan calendar, it seems the 13th year of the 21st century is as frightening as the online apocalypse. In 2013, the le...
Excessive Councils Harming Health of EU?
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By Pierre-Yves Leveaux (live from the European Summit), translated by Danica Jorden Following the 17-18 October and 22-23 November Summits on the European Union’s budget, 2012’s last meeting of the European Council opened today in Brussels. Not...
Operators of Europe, unite!
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By Jan Nils Schubert. Translation by Rose Kelleher. Calling your grandmother in Italy, texting your girlfriend in Romania or watching news on your Belgian mobile phone while on vacation in Sweden...Thanks to the newly launched ‘One Single Tariff
Operators of Europe, unite!
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By Jan Nils Schubert. Calling your grandmother in Italy, texting your girlfriend in Romania or watching news on your Belgian mobile phone while on vacation in Sweden...Thanks to the newly launched ‘One Single Tariff’ act, all this might...
From the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf
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By Aris Kokkinos To boost growth between the EU and the Arab world is the ambition of many public and private institutions, both in the West and in the East. On December 4, Friends of Europe and Dansk Industri organized a meeting whose purpose was to...
Feminism: it's not all about equality!
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Article by Miléna Cazin "There is no need to be feminist in my generation”, that is what the French former First Lady Carla Bruni lately declared. These words set off many reactions from the feminist movement; she ended up rectifying them and sayi...
