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MEPs back steps to ease foreign child maintenance

The pain of divorce and separation is all too often accompanied by financial and emotional hardship when one parent lives abroad and refuses to provide financial help. more »

Tres en Suma: three artistic spirits and one heart

Following its audiovisual and performance based contribution to the International Contemporary Art Fair (Arco), the Ellas Crean festival is now continuing in its mission to showcase alternative art trends that exist at the outer limits of the commercial rules imposed by the art industry. more »

Online gambling - a roll of the unregulated dice?

A number of MEPs urged Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier to come up with common rules to regulate cross border online gambling in Europe. more »

Haiti on our minds

Commission calls for €90m more in aid for the quake-stricken country, to be drawn from EU emergency funds. more »

EU, USA and UN start to plan for relocation of one million Haitians at the height of the rainy season

The EU, the USA and the UN are going to divide up the workload in order to provide shelter for more than one million Haitians before the rains, which have already started in the Caribbean country, get any worse. more »

Burma: MEPs demand Aung San Suu Kyi release

MEPs discussed Burma and its long-suffering people in Parliament on 11 February. more »

Commission creates two new Directorates-General for Energy and Climate Action

The European Commission has today taken a number of decisions to implement the organisational consequences of the allocation of portfolios to Commissioners. more »

EU social policy to ease the integration of immigrants

The EU should strengthen the links between its integration policies and the Social Policy Agenda and the 2010 review of the Social Agenda should take greater account of the social effects of immigration. more »

Ellas Crean: a festival for equality and culture

The ambitious programme of the sixth edition of “Ellas Crean”, the festival that celebrates and gives recognition to female creativity, includes more than 150 cultural activities, carried out by around 200 artists in 40 cities spread over the five continents. more »

The EU to analyse Haiti reconstruction plans and the UN Millennium Goals

European post-earthquake aid to Haiti, the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and transatlantic cooperation will be the focus of the EU Informal Meeting of Ministers for Development, to be held on 17 and 18 February in La Granja (Segovia). more »

A safer and more social internet? (910)

Think before you post as once you do it is online forever. That was the message on Safer Internet Day marked on 9 February by a seminar in the European Parliament. more »

Tall agenda for Barroso II

When president Barroso's first team took office, the economy was doing well and unemployment was declining. more »

2010: European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion

Approximately 80 million people in the EU have such limited resources that they cannot afford the basics and face unpredictable long-term consequences of the 2008 international economic and financial crisis. more »

EBRD promotes energy efficiency projects in Moldova

The EBRD is promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in Moldova, helping the economy to reduce its energy intensity with a new €20 million credit line for on-lending to local private companies. more »

EBRD supports ice-cream producer in Turkmenistan

The EBRD is lending $1.2 million to Salkyn, one of the largest ice cream producers in Turkmenistan, to help the company expand its distribution network and build up its brand. more »

EBRD makes equity investment in Croatian geodetic company

The EBRD is making a €4 million equity investment in Geofoto, a Croatian geodetic company offering mapping, geodetic survey, photogrammetry, geoinformatics and aerial survey services, to support its drive to expand operations on international level. more »

LDA Has Split into INVEST LITHUANIA and ENTERPRISE LITHUANIA

As of today, the Lithuanian Development Agency (LDA) has been restructured into two public organizations – INVEST LITHUANIA (IL) and ENTERPRISE LITHUANIA (EL). more »

Ten winners of Danske Bankas scholarships for the 2009–2010 academic year determined

After lots were drawn, ten winners of Danske Bankas scholarships and one winner of an iPod shuffle player were established. more »

Strong year - risk-adjusted profit up 22%

Nordea came out of 2009 in an even stronger position, despite one of the most challenging years for decades. Risk-adjusted profit increased 22% and our capital position and cost of funding are among the best in Europe. more »

Uganda Launches Second Northern Uganda Social Action Project

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on February 8 launched the Second Northern Social Action Fund (NUSAF II), aimed at improving access for beneficiary households and communities in Northern Uganda to income earning opportunities and improved basic socio-economic services. more »