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Anti-Obama protest in Berlin
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- Anti-Obama protest in Berlin
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- 0:29
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- 13 years ago
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- Dozens of internet freedom activists protested in Berlin on 18 May against the US secret surveillance program "Prism", as US President Barack Obama was arriving to the German capital for a two-day visit.
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- Anti-Barbie protest in Berlin
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- 1:04
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- 13 years ago
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- Hundreds protested in Berlin on 16 May against the opening of the "Barbie Dreamhouse" - a temporary exhibition and playground shaped like a giant doll house. Feminists and left-wing activists said the thin, long-legged Barbie doll is a sexist symbol and encourages girls to become anorexic.
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- Lithuanian EU presidency logo launch
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- 0:30
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- 13 years ago
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- Lithuania takes over the rotating EU presidency on 1 July 2013. EUobserver reporter Valentina Pop was in Vilnius when the presidency logo was unveiled.
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- Activists barge in on EU's economic headquarters
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- 1:51
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- 14 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (14th March 2013) - While EU leaders met in Brussels for their traditional spring summit, thousands of trade unionists staged an afternoon of events to protest against austerity measures. Some activists occupied the EU's economic headquarters.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- MEP witnesses 'life or death' plight of Syria refugees
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- 5:21
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- 14 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (22 February 2013) - Around 850,000 Syrians have been officially registered as refugees since the start of the uprising in March 2011, according to the UN's refugee agency. Over 250,000 are in neighbouring Jordan.
Spanish MEP Juan López Aguilar just returned from a visit to Zaatari, a refugee camp in Jordan, about 12 kilometres from the Syrian border, hosting almost 100,000 Syrian refugees.
"It is about the end of the regime, in a fight for life or death," he says.
Earlier this week, the EU renewed its sanctions on Syria and extended an arms embargo. On the same day, UN investigators said Syrian leaders should be brought before the international criminal court (ICC) to face justice for murder and torture.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- Fair pay for artists in the digital era
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- 9:36
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels, (3rd December 2012) - How can EU copyright rules be adapted to the age of digital music? This was the key question at the EUobserver conference on E-Culture and collective management of creative rights.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- Farmers douse EU quarter with 1000s of litres of milk
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- 1:27
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- 14 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (26th November 2012) - Dairy farmers from all over the EU descended on Brussels Monday to protest low milk prices and the planned liberalisation of the sector in 2015. The movement - dubbed "1000 tractors to Brussels" - saw hundreds of tractors block the EU quarter. The protest comes ahead of a meeting of EU agriculture ministers later this week.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- Stop faking democracy - Romanians in Brussels tell Premier
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- 3:00
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- 14 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (12 July) - Romanian expats in Brussels gathered at the European Commission headquarters on Wednesday to tell Prime Minister Victor Ponta to "stop faking democracy" and to abide by EU law. The 39 year-old premier - who was inaugurated in May - has attracted attention for his attack on the judicial system, putting his credibility and that of the former Communist state at risk.
Victor Ponta is on a two day visit to the EU capital to reassure Brussels that he is "committed to democracy and rule of law." After a meeting with the socialist President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz, Ponta tweeted that "recent events in my country have been blown out of all proportion."
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- A banker's farewell party
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- 1:54
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- EUobserver - Elsinore Castle, Denmark - This is the farewell party of Joseph Ackermann from the International Institute of Finance, a lobby group of the world's biggest banks. Held at Hamlet's castle in Denmark, there were no expenses spared. An American soprano provided entertainment and a portrait was presented to Ackermann. The latter was instrumental in negotiating the second Greek bailout which included losses for the banks but admits he was rather sceptical it would work.
By Valentina Pop
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- A day in the life of the US ambassador to the EU
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- 5:26
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- 14 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (13th June 2012) - William E. Kennard's day can range from speaking at a seminar on trans-Atlantic relations, to offering advice to young congress staffers at lunch or picking up an award at a black tie do. He told EUobserver that American confidence in EU crisis-fighting efforts is a big factor in market movements, with the economy centre stage in US elections later this year.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- Pirate MEP: Acta treaty would punish young people
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- 5:47
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- 14 years ago
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- EUObserver / Brussels (7th May 2012) - Swedish Pirate party MEP Christian Engstrom has little interest in economics or foreign affairs. The former computer engineer is concentrating his energy on stopping the EU parliament from adopting the Acta treaty on Internet governance this summer.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- Crisis has hit a raw nerve, says Ombudsman
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- 4:19
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- 14 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (20th May 2012) - The crisis has touched a raw nerve among European citizens, acknowledges 69 year old academic and incumbent ombudsman of the European Union. A native of Athens, Nikiforos Diamandouros organised a conference recently to give a selection of European citizens the chance to have direct contact with some of the bloc's key decision makers. Although he was once approached to work as the interim prime minister of Greece, the former professor decided to stay put at the heart of Europe- to serve all European citizens.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- World Bank: babies worst hit by high food prices
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- 4:47
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (7th May 2012) Higher global food prices are hindering attempts to reach UN targets for proper nutrition and lower infant and mother mortality rates. Jos Verbeek - the author of a World Bank study on the problem - tells EUobserver how the food market is harming children's congnitive development.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- Alessandro Cenderollo at the Ernst & Young innovation summit
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- 1:54
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (7th May) We need entrepreneurs to take the lead in Europe, says Alessandro Cenderollo from Ernst & Young at the Ernst & Young government and Innovation summit in Brussels on May 7th.
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- Antti Ilmari Peltomaki at the Ernst & Young innovation summit
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- 1:57
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels ((8th May) - Innovation policy is exciting and challenging at the moment, says Antti Ilmari Peltomaki from DG Enterprise Industry at the Ernst & Young Government and Innovation Summit in Brussels on 7 May.
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- Ilaria Rossa at the Ernst & Young Innovation summit
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- 1:51
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- 14 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (7th May) There are not enough EU projects that support SMEs, says Ilaria Rossa at the Ernst & Young government and innovation summit in Brussels on May 7th. llaria Rossa is the co-founder of Electro Power Systems.
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- Lutz Mehlhorn at the Ernst & Young innovation summit
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- 1:33
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels ((8th May) - We need to go for new business models in Europe, says VIce President of IMU Lutz Mehlhorn at the Ernst & Young Government and Innovation Summit in Brussels on 7 May.
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- Jan Callewaert at the Ernst & Young Innovation summit
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- 1:35
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- 14 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (7th May) - CEO of global leader in wireless connectivity Option, Jan Callewaert points out the main issues for entrepreneurs in Europe today at the Ernst & Young government andinnovation conference in Brussels on May 7th.
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- Jan Callewaert at the Ernst & Young Innovation summit
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- 1:16
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- 14 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (7th May)- Innovation is just a buzzword, we need to deliver, says Jan Callewaert, the founder of Option at the Ernst & Young Government and Innovation Summit in Brussels on 7 May.
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- Vincent Van Dessel at the Ernst & Young Innovation summit
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- 1:03
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- 14 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels ((8th May) - It is important the EU puts innovation at the top of their list, says chairman of Euronext Vincent Van Dessel at the Ernst & Young Government and Innovation Summit in Brussels on 7 May.
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- Jan Nibbe launches the Ernst & Young Innovation summit
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- 1:55
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- 14 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (7th May) - We need to find other ways to stimulate growth in a climate of austerity, says managing partner of Ernst & Young Jan Nibbe at the Ernst & Young Government and Innovation Summit in Brussels on 7 May.
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- EU efforts unknown to business leaders
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- 1:02
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (8th May) - According to a survey by Ersnt and Young, the efforts of the EU to turn the old continent into an "innovation union" are largely unknown to business leaders. In this video, author of the study Andrea Renda says the time for talking about austerity is over, and innovation is the engine that needs to be unleashed.
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- Wikipedia founder: European red tape hampering growth
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- 3:07
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (8th May 2012) - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales tells EUobserver why entrepreneurs do better in America: in the US, you can start your own business in five minutes. In Greece, it can take up to 10 months.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- 'We are not thieves': Greek MEP assistant gets ready to vote
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- 5:00
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (4th May 2012) - Over 4000 thousand MEP assistants work inside the European Parliament. One of them Panayota Maniou. She works for Greek MEP Nikolaos Chountis of the radical left party Syriza. Panayota talks about her hopes for the upcoming elections in her home country. Weary of the austerity measures backed by the big parties, many may vote in numbers great enough to put radical left or right parties into parliament.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- The Brussels Business: Who really runs the EU?
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- 6:58
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels ( 30th April 2012) - For the first time ever, two film-makers Friedrich Moser and Matthieu Lietaert delve into the world of lobbying in Brussels. With edgy shots and sinister music, the documentary aims to to show European citizens the relationship that over 15,000 citizens have with the European Commission and Council. EUobserver spent some time with the two film-makers before their premier screening in Brussels last month.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- A day in the life of an EU affairs consultant
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- 6:27
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (30th April 2012) - A day in the life of an EU public affairs consultant can start at the crack of dawn and end late into the night. From drinks receptions to work meetings abroad, there is no average day for Kerstin Duhme, managing director of FTI consulting. Her role is to act as what she calls a 'facilitator' between industry and law-makers in areas like energy and health.
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- Think-tanks: The 'grey zone' between journalism and policy-makers
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- 4:19
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels - There are about 200 people working for think-tanks in Brussels. They occupy a middle ground between policy-makers and journalists, say Hugo Brady, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform."You have to be able to think like an academic, act like a diplomat and write like a journalist". In this video, he gives his take on the highly politicised discussion on the EU's borderless zone, the Schengen area.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- We still want change: a day in the life of an indignado
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- 5:27
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (29th April 2012) - People from all over the world are expected to take to the streets on 12 May to celebrate the first anniversary of the Spanish 'indignado' movement protesting economic austerity measures. Brussels-based 'indignados' tell EUobserver what they are hoping to achieve.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- Fear and anger ahead of Ireland's fiscal treaty referendum
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- 13:07
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (27th April 2012) - Conservative MEP Seán Kelly, in favour of the fiscal discipline treaty, goes head to head with Socialist MEP Paul Murphy arguing for a No. Analyst Hugo Brady from the Centre for European Reform says Irish people are angry after three years of "EU-enforced austerity". He thinks the fiscal treaty will pass - but only just. The referendum will take place on 31 May.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- EU has no choice but to make friends with China
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- 7:10
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (25th April 2012) - East-Asia expert Professor Christopher Dent was invited to speak at the launch of the EU-China High Level Cultural Forum in Brussels recently. The EUobserver accompanied him to find out more about the relationship between the EU and China.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- Keeping an eye on Burma's new course
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- 6:43
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- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (16th April 2012) - The European Union may soon lift sanctions on Burma despite ongoing fighting in some areas of the country. Chair of the European Parliament's Human Rights Subcommittee Green MEP Barbara Lochbihler describes meeting internationally renowned Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- Many Irish unaware of upcoming referendum
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- 3:38
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Dublin (2nd April 2012) - On 31 May, the Irish government will hold a referendum on the revised EU fiscal compact treaty. According to prime minister Enda Kenny, a yes vote would secure Ireland's role in the eurozone and provide Ireland with the key to the EU's long term bailout fund, the ESM. But according to some left-leaning politicians like MEP Paul Murphy, a yes vote would put generations of Irish people in 'bondage'. EUobserver spoke to some locals in Dublin city to find out how they felt about it, but the majority of people had not yet heard of the upcoming referendum.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- European citizen initiative becomes a reality
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- 12:29
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUObserver / Brussels (1st April 2012) - From 1 April 2012, European citizens will be able to send proposals to the European Commission, if they manage to gather 1 million signatures from at least 7 member states.
By Meabh Mc Mahon
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- Belarus - are economic sanctions the way forward?
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- 11:43
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- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (28th March) - Alexander Lukaschenko has ruled Belarus with an iron fist for 18 years. MEPs from the European Parliament's Belarus delegation discuss the merits of putting economic sanctions on Belarus with Nikolaj Nielsen, EUobserver's investigative reporter.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- EU struggling to attract top officials
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- 2:58
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- So few people are applying for jobs in the EU Commission that the official in charge, EU commissioner Maros Sefcovic, believes it will soon no longer be possible to guarantee a high-calibre workforce.
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- Free Belarus, says young European Federalists
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- 1:35
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- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (23rd March 2012) Once a year, the young European federalists take to streets to gag monuments in cities all over Europe. Their aim is to show the lack of freedom of speech in Europe's last dictatorship, Belarus.
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- Back to Delors, says trade unionist
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- 5:30
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (19th March 2012) - The European Trade Union Confederation is against every recipee the EU cooks up to solve the eurozone debt crisis. Although they believe that some economic governance is needed, the feel that the current concept is hitting the most vunerable.
By Meabh Mc Mahon
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- A day in the life of Sharon Bowles
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- 9:14
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (19th March 2012) - As chair of the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, British Liberal MEP Sharon Bowles is among the most influential in Brussels. Here is a glimpse of a day in her life.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- Greece likely to need a third bail-out, warns economist
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- 3:04
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (15th March 2012) - After a historic debt restructuring, Greece was finally granted its second bail-out this week. Economist Sony Kapoor from think-tank Re-define believes that the success will be short-lived and another bail-out could be around the corner.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- Norway shows female quotas can work
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- 9:52
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (8th March 2012) - EU commission vice-president Viviane Reding wants to see more women on boards in top European companies. For this reason, she is threatening to introduce quotas and sanctions. Some say it will not work, but it has been working in Norway since 2004.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- How to sew an EU treaty
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- 3:06
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- BRUSSELS / 2 March 2012 - Leaders from 25 EU countries signed the new Fiscal Compact Treaty at a summit in Brussels on 2 March 2012. Watch how the document was printed and sewed together with red ribbon before the signing ceremony.
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- "We need you", Sarkozy tells Cameron
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- 1:10
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- BRUSSELS (2 March 2012) - The EU Spring Summit in March might be last for French President Nicolas Sarkozy if he loses the upcoming presidential elections. He ended his press conference in Brussels making fun at David Cameron's expense after the British leader complained that growth ideas he laid out in a letter with 11 other leaders were brushed aside at the summit. Sarkozy said he is glad that "our British friends love Europe so much" that they send letters. "We need you", he joked in English.
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- Over two million people sign petition against acta
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- 13:38
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (29th February 2012) - Two and a half million people signed a petition this week urging the European Parliament to say 'no' to the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement, Acta. The multinational treaty - which among other things aims to protect artists' rights to remuneration - has been met with protests all over the European Union. According to critics, the agreement will result in censorship of the internet and restrict access to life-saving medicines in developing countries.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- Video comment: Student describes police brutality used during Valencia protest
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- 1:51
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (24th February 2012) - Thousands of students marched through Valencia this week to protest against cutbacks in education. In this video, one student accounts the brutality he witnessed by the police.
If you would like to send us video footage or a video comment on any of our stories, please email us at video@euobserver.com
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- Spanish spring protests: 'Enough is enough'
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- 2:49
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- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels - (23rd February 2012) - While thousands of protestors took to the streets of Valencia this week to protest against education cuts and corrupt politicians, the European Commission warns Spain will plunge into recession this year.
Thousands of students gathered in the eastern Spanish town of Valencia to protest against education cuts and corrupt politicians. Adamant to cut the public budget deficit by 15 bn in 2012 in order to obey Eurozone rules, prime minister Mariano Rajoy introduced an education budget cut earlier this month that - according to protestors - have left student classrooms without heating. But what started out as a peaceful movement has evolved into a massive, national uproar against violence used by the police. Demonstrations in support of Valencian students were organised all around the country with students protesting with their "books and hands in the air". Protests will culminate next Wednesday 29th February with the European Trad...
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- Tomorrow's Europe through eurosceptic eyes
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- 4:18
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (21st February 2012) - German Professor Dr Dietrich Murswiek and French Professor Anne-Marie Le Pourhiet argue how the new fiscal compact treaty, an intergovernmental pact enshrining budgetary discipline at the national level, is unconstitutional, undemocratic and ineffective. After the debate, EUobserver talks to locals on the metro who feel - although it will take time - the EU will survive the current crisis.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- Greece out of the euro - but what then?
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- 14:38
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (16th February 2012) - Greece needs to cut down on expenditure and deeply reform, insists German/Greek economist Janis Emmanouilidis from the European Policy Centre. But Yiorgos Vassalos, Greek expat and member of the Greek solidarity movement in Brussels feels Greeks should refuse to pay back their debt and rebuild the economy in the interest of the citizens.
One question that is not answered in this debate is what will happen after the new Greek deal - whether there even will be elections in Greece - and the collateral damage that the whole soveriegn debt crisis will have on the eurozone as a whole.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- Medvedev doesn't have to listen to EU, says MEP
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- 4:52
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (15th February 2012) - With less than one month to presidential elections in Russia, EUobserver chats to the European Parliament's chair for EU/Russia relations, the German MEP Knut Fleckenstein.
The European Parliament passed a resolution before Christmas asking Russia to carry out a full investigation on all the reports of fraud and intimidation in their parliamentary elections on 4 December. This resolution was dissed by President Dmitry Medvedev at a EU- Russia summit before Christmas with Medvedev telling the European Parliament to keep it's nose out of Russia's business. The Chair of the European Parliament's EU-Russia committee is German Socialiast MEP Knut Fleckenstein. He refused to sign the resolution claiming that the EU should not always hone in on the inner situation in Russia. "Medvedev is not obliged to do what the EU advices", he says.
Russia has witnessed some major anti-government protests and revolutionary debates ...
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- Belgian unions show solidarity with Greeks
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- 4:41
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (15th February 2012) - On Friday 10th February, Greek unions in Athens held a 48-hour general strike after the country's cabinet passed a package of austerity measures demanded by the "troika".
In order to express their solidarity, a selection of representatives from Belgian trade unions protested outside the Greek permanent representative to the EU in Brussels on the same day. (10th February). One protester said the only solution was a social, democratic Europe with decent salaries and healthcare. But Greece needs to abide by the rules of the Eurozone in order to avoid a default and guarantee a second bail out of 130billion euros.
By Méabh Mc Mahon
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- Brussels joins anti-acta protest
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- 4:37
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUobserver / Brussels (14th February 2012) - Thousands of people gathered around Europe last Saturday (11th February) to protest against the international intellectual property enforcement treaty, acta.
One protester said the law could mean that internet providers would be able to take control of people's internet consumption and even stop their connection. That is why he spent hours chanting "No to acta, yes to rights" in minus temperatures. Protesters called especialy on the European Parliament to examine the potential impact on internet privacy and trade in generic medicines when debating the dossier. The European Parliament must approve the treaty for it to become law. A vote is expected before the summer.
By Méabh Mc Mahon

