News
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20/08/2010
Which European city will win a prestigious Access City Award?
Put your city on the European map as a proactive supporter of accessibility for persons with disabilities.
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16/07/2010
3rd meeting of the European Roma Platform
The third meeting of the integrated European Platform for Roma inclusion took place in Brussels on 17th June 2010.
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09/07/2010
RegioStars Awards
Commission reveals winners of "RegioStars Awards" celebrating Europe's most innovative regional projects Johannes Hahn, European Commissioner for Regional Policy, and Jan Olbrycht, Member of the European Parliament and Chairman of the Jury, will announce the winners in the six separate categories of the "RegioStars Awards" 2010
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07/07/2010
EU launches public debate on the future of pensions
The European Commission has on July 7, 2010 launched a Europe-wide public debate on how to ensure adequate, sustainable and safe pensions and how the EU can best support the national efforts.
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06/07/2010
Citizens’ views crucial to building a social Europe
Policies to create a social Europe must be led by the needs and wishes of EU citizens, according to Totyu Mladenov, Minister of Labour and Social Policy in Bulgaria.
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06/07/2010
Eurodiaconia and 2010: an ecumenical understanding of poverty and other activities
On Tuesday the 1st June, Eurodiaconia ran in partnership with Crossreach, its Scottish member, a conference on “Digging Deeper - delving below the surface of poverty” in Edinburgh, Scotland
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05/07/2010
European Competition on 'Good practice in cities and municipalities in Europe for and with elderly migrants'
The European Commission is supporting a project on Active Ageing of Migrant Elders across Europe (AEMEE project) which is realised by the Ministry of Intergenerational Affairs, Family, Women and Integration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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02/07/2010
President Barroso addresses VIVA EUROPA 2010
On the 18th of June 2010, Georges Bizet's opera Carmen was broadcasted simultaneously in around 40 European cities.
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30/06/2010
MICROFINANCE: Combating poverty - supporting enterprise
From 23 to 25 June 2010, the European Microfinance Network (EMN) and the Community Development Financial Association (cdfa) organised their first Annual Joint Conference in London
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29/06/2010
Achieving excellence in social service provision (Romania)
One of the key goals of the social services reform launched in Romania in 2004 was to increase the quality of social services by introducing an accreditation system for social service providers. The system sets minimum quality standards that both public and private providers have to respect in a bid to better respond to beneficiaries' expectations.