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| Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:51:14 +0200 Demjanjuk declared fit to stand trial |
| A man alleged to have helped to kill almost 30 thousand Jews in a Nazi death camp has been deemed fit to stand trial in Germany by doctors.… |
| Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:51:15 +0200 WHO declares swine flu 'unstoppable' |
| The United Nations' senior health officer has warned that the spread of H1N1, so-called swine flu is now unstoppable. Dr Margaret Chan delivered her… |
| Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:51:15 +0200 Protestors blockade Yemenia Airways |
| Protestors continue to block check-in desks for Yemenia Airways flights out of Paris' Roissy airport, claiming lax safety regulations are to blame… |
| Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:51:15 +0200 Europe promises tough Iran response |
| Europe has promised a tough, unified response to the arrest of local staff at the British embassy in Iran, who are accused of fomenting the recent… |
| Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:51:14 +0200 L'Aquila prepares for G8 summit |
| Tremors continue to trouble the Italian town of L'Aquila, the venue for next week's G8 summit. It was a strong earthquake in April that brought… |
| Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:51:15 +0200 Bulgaria's centre-right look set for poll victory |
| Polls suggest Bulgaria's right-wing Gerb party is poised to win this weekend's parliamentary election as voter frustration over the economic crisis… |
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| Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:27:43 +0200 Who are we? Where are we? |
| Over the last thousand years, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have had multiple identities and been members of several empires. Now, writes the President of Estonia, "we should be looking to create identities that go beyond those that history has foisted upon us". |
| Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:27:43 +0200 Still not free |
| The dissident generation of the 1970s and 1980s produced a body of work unprecedented in Czech history. Yet its monumentality stands in the way of an uncompromised interpretation of the communist past, argues Martin Simecka. [Lithuanian version added] |
| Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:27:43 +0200 The first man |
| Nordic countries might not have a "classical" colonial past, writes Stefan Jonsson, yet a "northern colonialism" does exist. Any understanding of it must start with Nordic culture's view of nature and the myth of the "first man". |
| Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:27:43 +0200 The geopolitics of memory |
| The controversy around the statue of the Soviet soldier in Tallinn in April 2007 provided a striking demonstration that memory politics is less about the communist past than about future political and economic hegemony on the European continent. [Ukrainian version added] |
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| Sport movement optimistic despite EU Treaty setback |
| Despite the hurdles still facing the EU's Lisbon Treaty, European sports movements firmly believe that a future EU competence on sport - as planned in the text - will come into effect in one form or another and are thus continuing their work to encourage EU-level exchange of best practices.
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| Sarkozy backs European 'sporting exception' |
| French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he hopes to see a "sporting exception" to EU freedom of movement rules introduced to prevent local football clubs' training efforts from being undermined by competitors purchasing their young players.
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| Female sports 'untapped' market opportunity |
| The UK Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation is calling on sports governing bodies and private companies to seize the as-yet untapped female sports market, saying it would boost to individual sports and provide unexplored sponsorship opportunities.
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| Sarkozy's Olympic attendance triggers outrage |
| Confirmation that French President Nicolas Sarkozy plans to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics has outraged members of the European Parliament, who slammed France for placing its own commercial interests above human rights concerns in China.
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| Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:23:00 +0200 Akamai brings variable bit rate streaming support on iPhone |
(Telecompaper) Content services provider Akamai Technologies has introduced its variable bit rate streaming support feature for live and high-quality video content on the iPhone and iPod touch. Akamai HTTP Streaming for the iPhone is available as part of Akamai's Media Delivery service. Akamai has also launched of the iPhone 3.0 Video Showcase, iphone.akamai.com, to demonstrate this new service. Content owners and publishers including Canadian Broadcasting, Discovery, Fox News, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, MTV, NPR, Turner Sports and USA Today are participating in the showcase site. Inlet Technologies' Armada and Spinnaker services are being used to encode the VoD and live experiences on the showcase site. |
| Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:17:00 +0200 Telekom Austria to invest EUR 1.5 bln in broadband upgrades |
(Telecompaper) Telekom Austria has announced plans to invest EUR 1.5 billion over the next four years to modernise the country's telecommunications infrastructure, including EUR 1 billion on a next-generation fixed-line network and EUR 500 million to meet growing demand for mobile internet access. The first phase of the Next Generation Network (NGN) project will establish pilot 'Fibre City' projects to test fibre-optic broadband connections with speeds of up to 1 Gbps for 150,000 households. It is currently installing FTTH in Klagenfurt and two districts in Vienna to test 100 Mbps broadband services from 2010. Villach will become the first 'Fibre City' from end-September. Telekom Austria is installing fibre-to-the-curb (FTTC) technology in Villach to provide homes with up to 30 Mbps connections. In addition to the Fibre Cities, it will provide over 750,00 homes and businesses in rural areas with VDSL2 high-speed broadband at up to 30 Mbps. The NGN project will also see the existing copper phone network upgraded into an all-IP service platform, with all 2.3 million customers connected to the new system in phases. It will start upgrading exchanges to IP in Salzburg and Lower Austria by end-2009. Subsidiary Mobilkom will invest EUR 500 million over the next four years to expand and upgrade its network. The operator currently has 440,900 mobile broadband customers. |
| Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:41:00 +0200 FCC opens consultation for US broadband for all plan |
(Telecompaper) The FCC has published the results of its Commission Meeting, outlining the goals of its national broadband plan to promoting access for all at an affordable price and inviting comments from all parties to establish the benchmarks for promoting that plan. The FCC said it wants have a plan for 17 February next year. The commission aims to integrate work streams so that everyone can look at the same data and create an Omnibus Broadband Initiative, gathering institutional knowledge to inform policy deliberations. The FCC will conduct a series of workshops with different groups to get input on the future plan and has launched a new beta broadband.gov website, requesting feedback from the public. The FCC has been put in charge of the broadband plan, which in turn was enabled by the Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which has released in a first stage USD 4 billion in loans and grants to expand broadband access across the country. The Recovery Act will provide a total of USD 7.2 billion to the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the US Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) to accelerate broadband deployment. |
| Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:47:00 +0200 US media organisations collaborate on online privacy rules |
(Telecompaper) The largest media and marketing associations in the US have jointly released self-regulatory principles to protect consumer privacy in ad-supported interactive media, the Interactive Advertising Bureau said. The principles stipulate advertisers and website should clearly inform consumers about data collection practices and enable them to exercise control over that information. The collaboration represents the entire marketing-media industry and includes the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A's), the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the Council of Better Business Bureaus (BBB), a organization dedicated to advancing marketplace trust. The self-regulatory programme is expected to be implemented at the beginning of next year. Taken collectively, the participating associations represent more than 5,000 leading US companies across all of the key businesses that have played a role in the transformation of the way consumers experience media. An IAB study showed that the ad-supported internet represents 2.1 percent of total US GDP and contributes USD 300 billion to the economy, creating 3.1 million US jobs.T |
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| Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:00:00 GMT State TV new media ventures under EU scrutiny |
| Public sector broadcasters will have to prove they are not distorting the media market before launching mobile phoneor internet services,according to revamped EU rules on broadcasting unveiled by the European Commission yesterday (2 July). |
| Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:50:00 GMT Russian experts scoff at EU's latest gas tactics |
| Energy experts and editorialists in Moscow derided yesterday's (2 July) EU recommendation to fill up gas storage quickly while prices were low in order to prepare for a potential supply disruption this winter after tensions between Russia and Ukraine resurfaced over a payment row. |
| Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:40:00 GMT 'Clean Sky' gets off the ground despite initial delay |
| The ?1.6 billion European programme to drive the aviation sector towards more environmentally-friendly development is now on track, according to Allan Cook, president of the Aerospace and Defense industries association of Europe (ASD). |
| Fri, 3 Jul 2009 06:30:00 GMT Socialists bid to grab key Commission portfolios |
| Martin Schulz, leader of the centre-left group in the European Parliament, announced the Socialists' intention on Thursday (2 July)to get several important portfolios in the next European Commission. |
| Fri, 3 Jul 2009 06:20:00 GMT Commission ponders 'burden-sharing' for farm aid |
| Supportto European farmerswill not decrease under the revised Common Agricultural policy (CAP) after 2013, said a top official at the Commission's agriculture department, buta redistribution of the "burden-sharing" of aidbetween the EU and individual member states could be envisaged, he said. |
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| EP on Transnistria referendum |
| After a long absence, the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria was once again on the European Parliament's agenda today. |
| Azeri press pressured |
| The OSCE is increasingly concerned about press freedom following a string of cases of prosecution of journalists in Azerbaijan. |
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| Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:00:00 +0100 Volume of retail trade down by 0.4% in euro area |
| In May 2009, compared with April 2009, the volume of retail trade fell by 0.4% in the euro area (EA16) and by 0.5% in the EU27. In April retail trade rose by 0.1% and 0.3% respectively. |
| Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:00:00 +0100 Industrial producer prices down by 0.2% in euro area |
| In May 2009 compared with April 2009, the industrial producer price index fell by 0.2% in the euro area (EA16) and by 0.4% in the EU27. In April, prices decreased by 0.9% and 1.0% respectively. |
| Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:00:00 +0100 Euro area unemployment up to 9.5% |
| The euro area (EA16) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 9.5% in May 2009, compared with 9.3% in April. It was 7.4% in May 2008. The EU27 unemployment rate was 8.9% in May 2009, compared with 8.7% in April. It was 6.8% in May 2008. For the euro area this is the highest rate since May 1999 and for the EU27 since June 2005. |
| Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:00:00 +0100 Euro area inflation estimated at -0.1% |
| Euro area annual inflation is expected to be -0.1% in June 2009 according to a flash estimate issued by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities. It was 0.0% in May. |
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| Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:27:43 +0200 Who are we? Where are we? |
| Over the last thousand years, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have had multiple identities and been members of several empires. Now, writes the President of Estonia, "we should be looking to create identities that go beyond those that history has foisted upon us". |
| Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:27:43 +0200 Still not free |
| The dissident generation of the 1970s and 1980s produced a body of work unprecedented in Czech history. Yet its monumentality stands in the way of an uncompromised interpretation of the communist past, argues Martin Simecka. [Lithuanian version added] |
| Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:27:43 +0200 The first man |
| Nordic countries might not have a "classical" colonial past, writes Stefan Jonsson, yet a "northern colonialism" does exist. Any understanding of it must start with Nordic culture's view of nature and the myth of the "first man". |
| Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:27:43 +0200 The geopolitics of memory |
| The controversy around the statue of the Soviet soldier in Tallinn in April 2007 provided a striking demonstration that memory politics is less about the communist past than about future political and economic hegemony on the European continent. [Ukrainian version added] |
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| Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:42:00 UT Planck: Planck instruments reach their coldest temperature |
| The extremely low operational temperature of just a tenth of a degree above absolute zero (0.1 K) has been reached on the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument (HFI). This makes the HFI detectors the coldest known objects in outer space. The achievement, seven weeks after launch, marks a key milestone for the Planck mission. The spacecraft's active cooling system has now reached its final operational conditions and the two instruments onboard Planck (HFI and the Low Frequency Instrument, LFI) are now both at their cryogenic operational temperatures. |
| Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:30:00 UT Cassini-Huygens: Sodium salts point to subsurface ocean on Enceladus |
| The Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) on board the Cassini spacecraft has found sodium (Na) in varying concentrations in virtually all of its in-situ measurements of the water ice particles in Saturn's E ring. This has important implications for the icy moon Enceladus as the moon's south polar plumes are considered to be the main source of these E-ring water ice particles. In an article published today in Nature, Frank Postberg and colleagues conclude that the amount and type of sodium-bearing minerals found in the CDA measurements strongly favour the presence of a subsurface liquid water reservoir on Enceladus. |
| Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:26:00 UT Herschel: Herschel's sneak preview: PACS images of M51 |
| On 14 June 2009, precisely one month after launch, Herschel opened its eyes as the cryocover, the cryostat lid, was commanded to open. The images obtained by the PACS instrument during the remainder of the operational day (14-15 June) are shown below. |
| Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:18:00 UT Cluster: Cluster & Double Star: 1000 publications |
| The Cluster and Double Star missions have reached the milestone of 1000 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals. After almost nine years in space, the four Cluster spacecraft, which are still in good health, continue to produce new science and cross new regions of space. Last year, 2008, produced the most publications in a single year since launch. |
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| Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT EU study tackles nanotoxicology dilemma |
| How nanoparticle toxicity (i.e. nanotoxicology) affects the health and environment of Europeans is a concern that many researchers are currently investigating. Rising to the challenge is the NHECD ('Nano health-environment commented database') project, funded under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to the tune of EUR 1.45 million. The project partners are seeking to create a critical and commented database on the health, safety and environmental impact of nanoparticles. The project coordinator is Professor Oded Maimon from Tel Aviv University with participants from JRC (Italy), IVAM (Netherlands) and tp21 (Germany). |
| Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT European researchers make advances in solar eclipse studies |
| European researchers have succeeded in linking solar observations from satellites with ground-based observations. They used state-of-the-art image processing tools to reveal spatial details, effectively showing the structure of the coronal magnetic field. The findings are published in a review of the journal Nature. |
| Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT Whirling maple seeds create vortex to fly high and far |
| People have always been fascinated by the whirling talent of maple tree seeds. Now a team of Dutch and US researchers sheds light on this truly aerodynamic enigma: how the seed's whirling, called auto-rotation, gives it extra lift allowing it to 'fly' greater distances and drop to the ground slowly. The results, published in the journal Science, show how evolutionary development has enabled plants and animals to improve their flight performance. |
| Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT Researchers identify new DNA cell repair mechanism |
| A team of international researchers has discovered a new way that DNA repairs itself; it is a process that not only protects the genome but also prevents cancer development. Published in the journal Nature, the findings show how elements from known mechanisms combine with an unrelated second method whose contribution to DNA repair was previously unknown. |
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| 2009-06-29 12:00:00 A greener music festival in Roskilde |
| The European Environment Agency (EEA) is teaming up with Roskilde Festival to give thousands of music fans visiting Denmark this week relevant, up-to-date information about Europe's environment.The Roskilde Festival is northern Europe's biggest music event, drawing 100 000 visitors from around the world and bringing together some of the world's leading rock, pop, soul, R&B, electronic and hip hop artists. |
| 2009-06-23 12:00:00 "Climate change: act and adapt" at Green Week 2009 |
| 2009 will be a critical year in the battle against climate change, with negotiations on a global agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol due to conclude at the Copenhagen climate conference in December. |
| 2009-06-18 09:00:00 Everything about your favourite beach is now at your fingertips |
| How is the water quality at your favourite bathing spot? What do other beachgoers think? What does the beach look like? The European Environment Agency (EEA) and Microsoft environmental information portal 'Eye on Earth' shows not only the latest information on water quality but also user ratings and comments, pictures and live webcam streaming. |
| 2009-06-11 12:00:00 Bathing water quality improving in the EU |
| The annual bathing water report presented by the European Commission and the European Environment Agency reveals that the large majority of bathing sites across the European Union met EU hygiene standards in 2008. During that bathing season some 96 % of coastal bathing areas and 92 % of bathing sites in rivers and lakes complied with minimum standards. The report provides useful water quality information for the millions of people who visit Europe's beaches every summer. |
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| Sport movement optimistic despite EU Treaty setback |
| Despite the hurdles still facing the EU's Lisbon Treaty, European sports movements firmly believe that a future EU competence on sport - as planned in the text - will come into effect in one form or another and are thus continuing their work to encourage EU-level exchange of best practices.
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| Sarkozy backs European 'sporting exception' |
| French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he hopes to see a "sporting exception" to EU freedom of movement rules introduced to prevent local football clubs' training efforts from being undermined by competitors purchasing their young players.
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| Female sports 'untapped' market opportunity |
| The UK Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation is calling on sports governing bodies and private companies to seize the as-yet untapped female sports market, saying it would boost to individual sports and provide unexplored sponsorship opportunities.
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| Sarkozy's Olympic attendance triggers outrage |
| Confirmation that French President Nicolas Sarkozy plans to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics has outraged members of the European Parliament, who slammed France for placing its own commercial interests above human rights concerns in China.
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