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Balkans
An annexe «The Thessaloniki Agenda : moving forwards towards integration»
was adopted ; this should tighten privileged relations between the EU and the
western Balkans.
The "Study in Europe" web portal has been created by the Academic Cooperation
Association (ACA), an independent European organisation dedicated to the
management, analysis and improvement of education and training co-operation
within Europe and between Europe and other parts of the world. ACA member
organisations are major European national organisations responsible for the
promotion of international cooperation in education.
This web portal gives access to the national websites of European countries,
which provide information on higher education in these countries: higher
education institutions and study programmes, language of tuition, admission
procedures, degrees awarded, grant opportunities, campus life, country
information and other practical details that might interest you while planning
your studies in Europe. Most of these websites have links to those of individual
institutions of higher education, where even more detailed information can be
found.
Likewise the portal contains an overview of the European Union education and
research programmes with non-European countries or so called "third countries"
(the countries other then the 15 Member States of the European Union: Germany,
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Sweden; EFTA
countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway; and countries candidates to the EU
membership: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta,
Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey), provides
guidelines for application and gives access to the programmes' websites for
further information.
Finally, the portal contains links to other internet information sources on
education opportunities in Europe.
http://www.study-in-europe.org/about.htm
A Constitution for Europe
An historic moment: the draft Constitution for Europe that we have been
waiting for for so long was adopted by the 105 Convention members. The
Convention Chairman Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, will present it officially to the
heads of State and government during the European Council in Thessaloniki on
20th June. The finalised text will then be handed over to Italy who will ensure
the Union's presidency for the second half of 2003 and who is to call an
intergovernmental conference (CIG) from 15th October on. From now on it will be
the member states who will have the chance to turn Europe into a powerful player
on an international level. Amongst the last minute amendments: the most notable
innovation is the introduction of a "right to popular initiative" that will
enable European citizens to send the Commission a proposal for a European law if
they succeed in obtaining one million signatures from the various Union
countries. In addition to this the British representative Peter Hain finally won
the insertion of an interpretative clause in the Charter of Fundamental Rights
that limits its legal range, and this in spite of opposition by the majority of
the Convention members. In order to please Convention members who wanted an
explicit reference to Christian values in the Preamble, the amended text now
speaks of "Europe's cultural, religious and humanist heritage" detailing that
these values "are ever present in its heritage". Finally and in order to
reassure those who feared an imbalance of power between the Council and the
Commission, it was also decided that the President of the Council "would not
exercise any legislative function."
Asylum and migration
The Commission has adopted a proposal for a regulation by the European
Parliament and the Council "Establishing a programme for financial and technical
assistance to third countries in the area of migration and asylum". The proposal
was presented by commissioners Chris Patten and Antonio Vitorino, respectively
in charge of External Relations and Justice and Home Affairs, and contains a
multi-annual programme, with an overall expenditure of 250 Meuro.
South Eastern Europe
European Parliament has requested the strengthening of the procedure of
association and stabilisation for South Eastern Europe, notably by the use of
political instruments for enlargement.
Social Protection
The Commission has adopted a proposal which aims to improve, simplify and
make more visible the EU's work in co-ordinating Member States' social
protection policies - pensions, social inclusion and combating poverty,
healthcare and care for the elderly, social security systems and how they
encourage people to work ('making work pay').
New Database for
Reconciliation in Southeast Europe
A new Database is currently being created for NGOs and institutions in
Southeast Europe, under the auspices of the Stability Pact for South Eastern
Europe and the Hellenic Presidency of the European Union, and organised by the
Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe. The database is
part of the Reconciling for the Future initiative. We request that you submit
information on your organisation by filling out the electronic submission form
found at
http://www.reconcilingforthefuture.org/cdrseedb/sub_form.html
More information:
www.reconcilingforthefuture.org
reconciliation@cdsee.org
Economic governance 2003-2005
For the first time, the European Commission has adopted proposals,
simultaneously and in streamlined form, for the broad economic policy guidelines
and for the employment guidelines and recommendations in order to ensure greater
cohesion and effectiveness of the EU reform agenda in the medium term
(2003-2005).
Air traffic safety in South East Europe
The Commission and Eurocontrol (European Organisation for the Safety of Air
Navigation), in partnership with the Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA), have
signed a Grant Agreement for the first phase of a ? 5 million project to
strengthen the aviation sector in South East Europe in terms of air traffic
navigation and air safety .
The
Balkans fight against organised crime
The leaders of nine Balkan states (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia-Montenegro and Turkey) met for the
sixth summit of the Southeast European Co-operation Project. Discussion focussed
on regional co-operation, trade liberalisation, transportation,
telecommunications, and the fight against organised crime
Ploteus
The EU's Internet portal Ploteus - designed to provide people access to
detailed information on education and training in Europe has just been launched.
It will provide, as a complement to the portal EURES that contains the European
data base on job offers, a wide range of information and open up a world of
possibilities to its users.
'eEUROPE' Proceeds According to Plan (eGov Bulletin: 07/03/03)
The 'eEurope 2002' action plan has achieved most of its 64 targets to help bring
the benefits of the information society to all Europeans, according to a
European Commission report published last month.
Stanca Launches The Challenge, Europe Online (Agenzia Giornalistica
Italia: 10/03/2003)
"From Italy, from the banks of Lake Como, has come the new challenge of an
information society: the creation of a 'big Europe', the ambitious project of
'digital democracy', accelerating and improving the processes of e-government
already under way.
Plenary Session
During a plenary session of the Convention involving the final report of the
working group on Social Europe a wide consensus was established on the values
and objectives of the EU's social policy. The Convention members however were
divided on how to define capabilities, on the possible extension of the
co-decision procedure and on the qualified majority vote involving social
questions.
Daphné II
The Commission has transmitted to Parliament and the Council a draft
Decision on the "Daphne II" Programme (2004-08) aimed at preventing violence
against women and children and protecting victims and at-risk groups. "Daphne
II" will cover the period 2004-08 and follows on from the Daphne Programme
(2000-03) and an initiative of the same name launched by the Commission in 1997
The Europe of 25 is born. After the final financial bargaining the European
Council in Copenhagen finalised is primary mission that was to dedicate the
enlargement of the European Union to 8 countries of Central and Eastern Europe
(Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Latvia) as
well as Cyprus- only the Southern Republic of the island being internationally
recognised - and Malta. The ten will officially enter into the Union on 1st May
2004 before the European elections in June. Romania and Bulgaria will follow
suite in 2007. In all this enlargement will cost 27.5 billion Euros net over 3
years ie less than 25 Euros per inhabitant of the Fifteen. As far as Turkey is
concerned the timetable set takes up the Franco-German suggestions along with a
recommendation by the Commission on membership of the European Council in
December 2004.
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