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EU tech institute holds inaugural meeting
News By attracting and retaining the best and most talented students, researchers and staff from across Europe, and worldwide, the EIT will bring significant value added to the EU's research and innovation landscape.
[September 16, 2008, 11:54]
EU backs ISPs over file-sharing
News The highest court in the EU ruled on Tuesday that, in civil cases, internet service providers should not have to disclose the names of those sharing files over their networks. The Spanish courts then went to the ECJ to ask whether EU law requires...
[January 30, 2008, 13:55]
EU creates loophole for personal data transfers
News Countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) will be able to receive personal data from businesses within EU member states under a standard contractual clause newly adopted by the European Commission.
[January 24, 2002, 16:12]
EU Parliament forgives Council for adopting patent directive
Talkback "The European Parliament (EP) agreed on Wednesday that the EU Council did not break procedural rules when it adopted the software patent directive earlier this month. Right, well, I don't know about the rest of you's but I'm off to the EP to break...
[March 31, 2005, 19:50]
EU to introduce own 'Green Card' scheme
Blog According to Auntie, the EU has realised it needs 20m skilled immigrants in the next 2 decades, and this is its way of ensuring that happens. Well, "Blue Card" in this case. The biggest shortfall in skilled workers?
[October 23, 2007, 13:05]
EU votes through software patent changes
News The Directive will now be sent back to the European Parliament for another vote there in the autumn as the different bodies of the EU engage in a game of legislative ping-pong. The Irish Presidency was hoping that a new draft of the EU's Software...
[May 18, 2004, 13:55]
EU sees potential in e-government
News Only a minority of users are experiencing service improvements through e-government, according to a "snapshot" survey issued by the EU. The research finds that online income tax returns are saving EU citizens "seven million hours a year", while...
[January 17, 2005, 14:25]
News Burst: EU telecoms chief to be hauled into court
News The scandal is the latest in a series involving EU officials and is a serious blow to the EU's efforts to repair the tarnished image of its executive. Last week Bangemann was forced to take a leave of absence from his duties.
[July 12, 1999, 11:27]
EU states reach agreement over tech institute
News The dream of a European rival to the US Massachusetts Institute of Technology has inched closer after EU member states agreed on its structure. Each KIC will work in a particular field of interest, with EU priorities like climate change and...
[June 26, 2007, 13:17]
EU plans 'one-stop shop' for VAT
News The EU is planning to set up a "one-stop shop" allowing businesses to make VAT declarations online, it announced on Tuesday. Under the plans, businesses would be able to submit VAT to different countries through a single point of access.
[May 18, 2004, 17:10]
EU readies sanctions against Microsoft
Talkback this comment is regarding the impact on consumers, not on the server-side.the EU commission appears to have forgotten that most consumers would rather have PCs shipped ready to run whatever they throw at it.with more and more WMA files on the...
[March 15, 2004, 11:14]
EU parliament demands patent restart
News But an EC spokesman said that the Commission has not yet decided anything and will "keep its options open" and "see what happens with the EU Council". Mueller said the EU Council is unlikely to ratify the controversial directive in the immediate...
[February 3, 2005, 10:20]
News Burst: EU accused of music copyright bias
News On Tuesday one member accused the EU of indirectly funding the music industry's controversial Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI). According to media management consultant David Philipson, EU money given to the International Federation of the...
[September 28, 1999, 12:50]
EU to launch scam crackdown
News This network of consumer protection watchdogs has been in operation since 29 December, 2006, but will be launched officially in Brussels on Wednesday by the EU commissioner for consumer affairs, Meglena Kuneva.
[February 26, 2007, 15:06]
EU calls for 'Mister Cyber Security'
Blog Speaking on Monday in her weekly video address, Reding claimed that the 27 EU member states had been "quite negligent" in terms of co-ordinating cyber security strategy across the continent. Although the EU has created an agency for network and...
[April 27, 2009, 15:46]
EU to throw patents in with the bath water
News The controversial EU directive that opponents fear will allow software patenting within Europe will be passed without vote or debate on Monday. Scottish National Party MEP Ian Hudghton said he is unhappy that the EU Council is hastily pushing this...
[December 17, 2004, 16:15]
EU's high-speed research network goes global
News Géant, which the EU claims is "the world's largest multi-gigabit computer network dedicated to research and education", already links the national research and education networks of 34 European countries — the UK's network, Janet, being one of...
[March 3, 2008, 12:30]
EU chooses providers of satellite mobile services
News By October 2008, four companies had applied for EU approval to supply such services in Europe. Mobile satellite services have huge potential: they can enable Europeans to access new communication services, particularly in rural and less populated...
[May 15, 2009, 16:42]
EU healthcare reaps benefits of broadband
News However, broadband provision differs widely across the EU — with Demark having the highest penetration of GPs using broadband (91 percent) and Romania the lowest (around five percent). The EU average is just four percent.
[April 29, 2008, 9:11]
US Report: EU panel OKs merger between MCI-WorldCom
News The panel of experts from the 15 EU countries also requested clarification about how Washington-based MCI would transfer its Internet retail customers to a new owner, the source said. The panel met to consider a draft decision by the European...
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