by Charles Fletcher 19/05/2004 Ten years ago, young Romanian journalists training at the BBC School in Bucharest dismissed guidelines on the use of violent pictures in television news. The BBC guideline calls for more sensitivity, restraint on the amount of violent images that can be screened, particularly together in one ...
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Make Your Vote Count
by Adrian Taylor 23/04/2004 Governments and elections Imagine what a scandal would follow if a general election in any EU Member State led to the nomination of a Prime Minister from a party that clearly lost. Worse still, if the policy programme that the Prime Minister designate presented ...
Read More »Grappling with Graft – Civil Society and the Fight against Corruption in Central Europe
by Kilian Strauss 24/11/2003 ” It was veritable fireworks of corruption that accompanied the demise of the Polish government” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung* Greasy Palms One of the most pressing problems in the countries of Central Europe today remains the question of corruption, which despite more than a decade of ...
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May 9 – 23, 2002 03/05/2002 The first Trans-European online election First European Student Council elected and democratic 82,000 European students elect their representatives by Internet An event organized by Europe 2020 and Newropeans Thanks to the support of the Hippocrène Foundation, the Robert Schuman Foundation, Andersen, ...
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Paris (Hôtel de Ville), April 15, 2002 15/04/2002 “Towards a new EU institutional geography for a Europe closer to its citizens” Organised in partnership with the City of Paris Seminar’s executive summary Concept The European institutional system is the result of a double requirement strongly consistent with the ...
Read More »Europe in 2009 could end up in the hands of the post modern great grand sons of Hitler, Franco, Mussolini and Petain
a scenario drawn up by Franck Biancheri for Europe 2020 in November 1998 25/03/2002 «Forecasting is a difficult art, especially when it comes to the future» (Pierre Dac) «Thinking about the future only makes sense if it is aimed at improving one’s thinking about the present and about the ...
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