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• Mass of Media: War in Georgia

  Saturday, August 9th, 2008

  Bush says attacks on Georgia “dangerous escalation”
  Reuters
  BEIJING (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Saturday said attacks by Russia on neighboring Georgia outside the war zone of South Ossetia marked a …
  Georgia proposes cease fire in S Ossetia
  The Associated Press
  TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili proposed Saturday [...]

• The benumbing of the human spirit in Italy

  Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

  Some hours ago, an immigrant just died near the Reggio Calabria city in the Mediterranean waters, because he didn’t know to swim. Tens of Italians just looked at him and did nothing, They called the emergency after the man died, only. (La Repubblica)
  Some days ago, sunbathers sit next to the bodies of two Gypsy girls [...]

• Italy: Rome starts today fingerprinting the gypsies

  Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

  This is the first time after the World War II when a government initiate an ID action based on racial criteria. During the next 48 hours, Rome’s authorities will fingerprint about 10,000 gypsies, helped by the Italian Red Cross.
  In accordance with ANSA agency, about one hundred employees of the Red Cross [...]

• The digital Europe - i2010 Initiative

  Sunday, May 18th, 2008

  Preparing Europe’s digital future i2010 Mid-Term Review {SEC(2008) 470}
  INTRODUCTION

  Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) continue to be a major driver of economic and social modernisation. Today, businesses in the EU devote 20% of investment to ICTs, and the sector accounts for 26% of overall research expenditure. Moreover, 60% of basic public services [...]

• Kosovo, a solution for all the European countries with ethnic minorities

  Monday, February 18th, 2008

  In a public declaration right after the proclamation of the independence of Kosovo, the leader of the Hungarian party in Romania (Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania), Marko Bela, said that Kosovo is a precedent, and a solution for all the European countries that have ethnic problems.
  Marko Bela saluted Kosovo’s independence and [...]

• Kosovo and the Russian dolls, the democracy as the new religion

  Sunday, February 17th, 2008

  Kosovo will proclaim soon, in some hours, its independence. It’s a fact. Kosovo will be the world’s newest state. And it will be recognized by US and most of the European countries, as well as the most other countries. But what if tomorrow, a small area within Kosovo wants to declare [...]

• Kosovo, the Pandora’s box

  Saturday, February 16th, 2008

  France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, the states of the old USSR… almost all the European countries have provinces in the same situation with the Serbian province Kosovo. The European Union would be a solution. But the independence of the provinces is a solution too.
  I think that the Kosovo’s independence is [...]

• Mass of Media: Kosovo

  Friday, February 15th, 2008

  Kosovo moves to calm minority Serbs as it prepares for independence
  The Canadian Press
  PRISTINA, Serbia - Kosovo’s prime minister announced on Friday the creation of a government office to handle the concerns of the Serb minority in an attempt …
  Kosovo breakaway prompts East-West split
  Times Online, UK
  Russia warned the West [...]

• Creative Content Online for EU

  Thursday, January 17th, 2008

  On January 3rd, the European Commission (EC) launched a public consultation for the preparation of a recommendation on Creative Content Online for the European Union for a common legal environment for online content, proposing multi-territory licences.EU policies should support the rapid implementation of “new services and related business models for [...]

• Two neighbors that quarrel on their poverty: Romania and Bulgaria

  Saturday, January 5th, 2008

  Now I am living at the border with Serbia, but in my childhood I was living at the border with Bulgaria. It is true, during the communist era there was not so much visits of the Romanians in Bulgaria or Bulgarians in Romania. Now, a lot of Romanian pass on their [...]

• My predictions for the new year 2008

  Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

  Due to the global warming with increased effects for this year, the developed states will change their national strategies by taking into account these aspects, and we will see important geopolitical changes.
  United States will try to overcome the economical crisis by extending its influence in new areas, but it will encounter a [...]

• EU fights against misleading advertising and aggressive sales practices

  Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

  Just two weeks before Christmas, sweeping new EU rules to crackdown on misleading advertising and aggressive selling practices - including a ban on fake “free” offers and a ban on “pester power” advertising (direct exhortation) to children on the Internet - will come into force across the EU (December 12 [...]

• Internet access and e-skills in the EU27 in 2007

  Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

  Internet access and e-skills in the EU27 in 2007
  More than 40% of households have broadband internet access
  More than one individual in two use internet search engines
  In the EU27, 54% of households1 had access to the internet during the first quarter of 2007, compared with 49% during the first quarter of 2006, and 42% [...]