30.11.2010
The 16 Startups Competing At LeWeb ’10 , “These are all European startups! That’s so racist. Each one of these will get its ass kicked by someone from California.+++
The 16 Startups Competing At LeWeb ’10
We’re now less than a month away from LeWeb ’10, the giant tech conference in Paris, France put on each year by Geraldine and Loic Le Meur. This year’s agenda features a whole lot of TechCrunch as several of us will not only be on stage at various times, but there’s also a modified version of the startup competition that will have more of a TechCrunch Disrupt flavor. So so we’re happy to announce the 16 startups that have been selected to compete this year.
These 16 companies were selected by LeWeb and August Capital. They chose these from over 400 applications submitted. Here they are:
Badgeville Inc
www.badgeville.com
NETHERLANDSCauwill Technologies
www.cauwill.com
IRELANDCity M
www.deways.fr
FRANCEDesk.io GmbH
www.phonedeck.net
GERMANYFiddme
www.fiddme.com
ISRAELGarmz
www.garmz.com
AUSTRIAGreendizer
www.greendizer.com
FRANCEGreenPocket GmbH
www.greenpocket.de
GERMANYNuji
www.nuji.com
UNITED KINGDOMPraized Media Inc.
www.needium.com
CANADASmallrivers
www.paper.li
SWITZERLANDSuper Marmite
www.super-marmite.com
FRANCETagattitude
www.tagattitude.fr
FRANCETinypay.me
www.tinypay.me/
NETHERLANDSWaze
www.waze.com
ISRAELWork4 Labs
www.work4labs.com
FRANCE/USA
As you can see, only one of the companies is based in the U.S. (Work4 Labs), and even they are only half-based here. That will certainly give LeWeb’s competition a bit different of a flavor than many other tech conferences. Or, as our own Michael Arrington puts it, “These are all European startups! That’s so racist. Each one of these will get its ass kicked by someone from California.” Yep, it’s almost time for LeWeb again!
If you’re interested in attending, this link will get TechCrunch readers a 200 euro discount. Startups, meanwhile, will get the special price of 995 euros, while independent developers can get tickets for 500 euros.
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MyWorldNewsCenter,MyNewsCenter & FranceWeb,World news for You ! The world: Four degrees warmer,+++
The world: Four degrees warmer
A collection of papers published today have examined the impact global warming may have on weather patterns, food production and population by the end of this century.
Since the late 1990s, many researchers and policy makers have held a 2°C global temperature increase relative to pre-industrial times as a benchmark limit for global warming, saying that keeping warming below this threshold increases the likelihood that catastrophic changes can be avoided.
But it appears we are unlikely to meet that target, say researchers, and an average global warming of 4°C by the end of this century is more likely.
Appearing today in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, the papers paint a picture of what a four-degree warmer world might look like, including changes in agriculture and water supply, ecosystems, sea level rise and the displacement of populations.
"People are talking about two degrees but the chances of actually delivering on that are pretty slim," says Mark New of Oxford University , United Kingdom, one of the researchers who compiled the collection.
"If we had a kind of a Marshall Plan to transform every major economy to a non-carbon based economy over the next 15 years, it's doable. But that's not going to happen. A lot of work suggests that the most likely outcome is between three and four (°C increase) with it very likely to be more than four."
Four degrees would only be a global average. Air over land will warm more than over the oceans, and some places will warm more than others.
Growing food
Dry areas are likely to get drier, according to a study of water supply done by New and others, which could have severe implications for agriculture.
A team led by Peter Thornton of the International Livestock Research Institute used models to project the effect of a 4°C emperature increase on crop production in sub-Saharan Africa.
"The rate of crop failure in southern Africa increases to nearly one in every two years," says New of the study. "You can't continue to rely on your existing crops or practices. There's going to have to be some kind of a transformation."
"Most of these countries have low capacity to adapt," he adds.
Timing is everything
The timing of the temperature increase will be critical, as global population increases - predicted to peak later this century - will increase demand for food. "If you've got the peak in world population at exactly the same time when global temperatures peak, then clearly you've got a squeeze from both sides - the demand side and the supply side," says New.
New's colleague Fai Fung and others compared projected the global water supply at 4°C warmer with that at two degrees for the 120 largest river basins throughout the world.
"There's already a lot of water stress, so what we're saying is that in the future under these scenarios, it will probably get worse," says Fung. In general, the team's projections suggest that in a world that is 2°C warmer, population increases are more important than climate change in creating water stress, but once temperatures increase by four degrees, temperature increases become more important.
Some places, such as the Ganges river basin, may get wetter, the team's models project, but it could be that the wet season gets wetter, rather than that the water is distributed evenly. "It may be more water at the wrong time," says Fung.
Adaptation is key
Sea level rise is another key consequence of a warmer world. Research by a team led by Robert Nicholls at the University of Southampton , United Kingdom, suggests that four degree warming would result in one-half to two meters of sea level rise, although the greatest increases are less likely.
"I can't say we wouldn't see a half-meter with a two-degree rise," says Nicholls. "But it tends to make the likelihood of the really big changes a lot lower."
"The key question is how do we adapt," says Nicholls. "If we don't adapt, we're talking about tens of millions of people being forced to move from their homes, and huge areas of land being lost to the sea. Some of those areas would be London, Amsterdam, Shanghai and Mumbai."
Nicholls' work suggests up to 2.4% of the world's populations - 187 million people - could be forcibly displaced over the course of the century.
Adapting to the change, that is, building protection for such cities against rising waters, could save these areas. On the other hand, it would be expensive. Nicholls' team predicts it could cost up to 0.02% of global domestic product.
Researchers emphasised the importance of adaptation for other predicted changes, too.
"Some of the impacts could be overcome if society takes adaptive action, but the difference between adapting at two degrees and at four degrees is very different," New says. "There needs to be research into technologies to assist adaptation just as much as we need research into technology for moving out of a carbon based transportation system."
Whether because of sea level rise, water availability or food security, people will be displaced. Anticipating this is a key adaptation strategy, says Francois Gemenne of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations in Paris, France.
"A key point is the importance of fostering the right to leave and the right to choose where," he said. "The majority of people lack the resources to leave and the social networks to do so."
What are the chances?
A study by Richard Betts at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Devon, United Kingdom suggests that a 4°C rise relative to pre-industrial levels could happen by the 2070s, if emissions are high, if the temperature response to those emissions is high, and if the feedback cycles to those emissions are high.
"Everything I'm talking about is within what's thought to be scientifically credible," he says.
If we reach 4°C higher by the 2070s, it would put us on track for an almost 7&176;C increase by the end of the century, he says. The projections are too uncertain to say exactly what trajectory we are on, says Betts.
And, Betts notes, there's nothing magical about 2°C or 4°C.
"I don't particularly sign up to the fact that 2°C is some kind of threshold for catastrophic climate change," he says. "It's all about risk assessment. The greater the warming, the larger the impact. The faster the warming, the harder it is to adapt to any impact. The risk becomes greater the more you put into the system."
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Worldwide news for All of You !, TO antiwar campaigners, Bradley Manning is a hero,Wikileaks,Bradley Manning's transformation from misfit hacker to enemy of the state,+++
TO antiwar campaigners, Bradley Manning is a hero, a whistleblower who is thought to have exposed official secrets with little regard for the personal consequences.
To many others, he is a traitor who has betrayed his country and its secrets to its enemies in a time of war.
To Chera Moore, his childhood friend from Crescent, Oklahoma, he is the same troubled misfit who would fly into rages when people ignored him.
Private First Class Manning's journey from troubled childhood to suicide watch at a military prison is a story of isolation, self-discovery and search for meaning that was still playing out long after he joined the Army.
His classmates in Crescent remember a skinny boy who stood out for his refusal to accept the mainstream view, especially when it came to religion, and suffered the ostracism of his peers.
"He would get upset, slam books on the desk if people wouldn't listen to him or understand his point of view," Ms Moore remembered. He insisted that teachers should respect the separation of Church and State, refusing to say "under God" in the daily pledge of allegiance or to do Scripture work.
He left Crescent aged 13 after his parents' divorce and moved to Haverfordwest, Wales, with his British mother. He struggled to fit in. Classmates teased him for his American accent, but when they began to suspect he was gay, the bullying grew worse. Private Manning, now 22, responded again with fits of rage. Unable to cope, his mother, Susan, sent him back to Oklahoma to live with his father.
There he was hired by a software company for his programming skills, and swiftly sacked, again for his temper.
Then his soldier father found out that his son was gay and kicked him out of the house. The Army might have seemed like the last place Private Manning belonged, but in 2007, after living in his car for weeks, he enlisted, hoping to stay long enough to get a paid-for college education on his discharge.
Shortly before deploying to Iraq as an analyst, Private Manning fell in love with Tyler Watkins, a drag queen from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In Iraq, Private Manning made a show of his difference, displaying custom dog tags inscribed with "humanist" and keeping a fairy wand on his desk.
Online, he poured his heart out on social networking sites such as Facebook. His Facebook posts reveal a sinking mood. By that time, he had broken up with Mr Watkins and been demoted for hitting another soldier. "Bradley Manning didn't want this fight. Too much to lose, too fast," a January 12 status update read. Then, in May, soon after he is thought to have passed the material to WikiLeaks: "Bradley Manning is now left with the sinking feeling that he doesn't have anything left."
About the same time, Private Manning began corresponding with another hacker, Adrian Lamo, also gay. While later he would boast about how he stole the data - taking a Lady Gaga CD into the office, wiping the music and downloading files while pretending to lipsynch - he spent most of the time unburdening his unhappy soul. He was "livid" at having been "lectured by an ex-boyfriend" and was "beyond frustrated with people and society at large". "I'm a wreck," he wrote.
Private Manning said that his epiphany came after he was asked to look into the case of several Iraqis who were arrested for distributing anti-government literature. He reported back that the literature was in fact a scholarly critique of government corruption but told Mr Lamo that he was ignored by superiors. "After that ... I saw things differently," he wrote.
Still, for all Private Manning's idealism, there was a breathless excitement about the fact he had pulled off "possibly the largest data spillage in American history". But as the correspondence with Mr Lamo went on, Private Manning expressed doubts about what he had done. "I'm exhausted ... in desperation to get somewhere in life ... I joined the army ... and that's proven to be a disaster now ... and now I'm quite possibly on the verge of being the most notorious 'hacktivist' or whatever you want to call it."
Was Private Manning facing an even bigger personal crisis? When the full logs of his webchats with Mr Lamo were published, some claimed they found them littered with references suggesting that Private Manning was struggling with gender identity and contemplating a "transition" not only to civilian life but life as a woman.
"I wouldn't mind going to prison for the rest of my life, or being executed so much, if it wasn't for the possibility of having pictures of me ... plastered all over the world press ... as boy ..." Private Manning wrote, later correcting himself: "as a boy." "i've totally lost my mind ... i make no sense."
After his arrest in Kuwait in May on suspicion of releasing a video of a US helicopter attacking civilians in Iraq, FBI agents visited his mother. Mrs Manning, 56, is said to be disabled after a stroke and only partially aware of the trouble that her son is in. Other relatives say they intervened when they heard of the FBI inquiries, and asked for Mrs Manning to be left alone.
Sharon Staples, Private Manning's aunt, said: "I said, 'Back off now, she hasn't been well' and they did. They asked if Bradley used his computer, but he hasn't since he left. It hasn't been plugged in since. Susan won't even read the newspapers. That's her way of dealing with it. She doesn't want to face it."
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29.11.2010
MyWorldNewsCenter,THE AGE OF THE TABLET COMPUTER is upon us,and Wall Street stepped up its efforts this week to gauge just how destructive the trend will be to the traditional personal-computer market,+++
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THE AGE OF THE TABLET COMPUTER is upon us, and Wall Street stepped up its efforts this week to gauge just how destructive the trend will be to the traditional personal-computer market.
Computer-industry observers have been warning for months now that tablets are primed to "crowd out," or cannibalize, personal-computer sales because they can perform a lot of the same tasks but are cheaper and fit better with an on-the-go lifestyle.
The industry has only a few of the slate-style computers on offer at the moment, most prominently Apple's (ticker: AAPL) iPad and Samsung Electronics' (A005930.Korea) Galaxy Tab.
But dozens of companies have announced or are expected to release tablet computers of one sort or another in the coming months, ranging from Archos (JXR.France), a maker of chunky, brick-like portable video players, to ViewSonic, a maker of computer monitors.
The CEO of Acer (2353.Taiwan), currently No. 2 in PC sales, was quoted on Friday boasting the company will dominate tablet sales a couple of years from now.
And so the Street has been busy assembling models: On Monday, Citigroup's team of analysts covering computers, software and semiconductors put out a report saying there will be 35 million tablet computers sold in 2011, with Apple's iPad accounting for three quarters of the total, compared with almost 400 million PCs sold.
While the tablet sales look small by comparison, those 35 million sales will eliminate about 11 million PC sales that normally would be expected next year, enough to reduce the PC's sales-growth rate to 9% next year from an original 12% estimate, the Citi team said.
But Citi's estimates may be too kind to the PC. Craig Berger, who follows Intel (INTC) for FBR Capital Markets, gave a more aggressive estimate on Monday, with 40 million tablets sold by Apple next year and 30 million by the rest of the pack.
Berger warns that the economics of tablet computing are "not good for PCs," with one PC sale lost for every 2.5 tablets sold.
And even Berger's numbers may be too low: On Tuesday, a report by the trade magazine DigiTimes said Apple's manufacturer for iPads, Foxconn Electronics, was expanding capacity in China to produce up to 70 million iPads a year.
A report by the same publication on Wednesday predicted that, on top of Apple's output, up to 30 million tablet computers would be shipped next year by other manufacturers.
While it's debatable how much each tablet sale steals from what would be a PC purchase, there's no arguing with numbers that have shown a drastic drop-off in personal-computer sales in the third quarter from the first two quarters of the year.
Gartner last month reported that third-quarter sales of laptop computers to consumers was "the weakest in the last several years."
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) gave the latest evidence of the slowing this week, saying laptop revenue fell 3% in the quarter from a year earlier, while overall consumer revenue was off 10%.
However many tablets may be sold, we do know this: The age of the tablet is playing havoc with profit margins, essentially because it represents a challenge to the fat profit margins of computing from the razor-thin margins of consumer electronics.
Apple stock was whacked last month when the company delivered a disappointing gross profit margin of 36.9%, down from 41.8% a year earlier and below the Street's expectation of about 38%. Apple forecast December-quarter margins to decline further, to 36%.
Research In Motion (RIMM), maker of the BlackBerry, is expected to go head-to-head with Apple come January with its PlayBook tablet. Its second-quarter report on Sept. 16 was better than expected, and so was the forecast for the third quater, but the company said gross profit will dip to 42%, down from 44.5% in the second quarter.
Expect to hear much more in coming months about the erosion of profits in tech as tablets crammed with features sell at increasingly low prices.
For computer makers, falling profitability means you'd better have a pretty good strategy to make up the profit on volume, or in sales of something else.
Apple will be fine: It can use the iPad to pull in buyers of plain old PCs, and as well as subscriptions to its online service, MobileMe. Google (GOOG), too, will be just fine, selling ads as its Android operating system spreads across the world on non-iPad tablets.
RIM's strategy seems less certain. By pushing a unique tablet operating system for the PlayBook, the company seems to be downplaying its traditional strength, the network it controls, instead falling into the trap of playing the game on Apple's terms—software.
As for Intel, its fortunes seem linked to new chips with supposedly "revolutionary" battery performance, just perfect for tablet computing. But those parts won't show up until 2012, Citigroup's analysts wrote last week.
It's not all bad for plain old computing, though. At some point, all these gadgets will promote sales of traditional PCs to manage their use in homes and offices, as well as servers to house all the content delivered to them.
KUDOS TO THE TEAM that's kept Hewlett-Packard going: Catherine Lesjak, who's been serving as interim CEO since the departure of Mark Hurd under the cloud of impropriety in August, led the company to better-than-expected fiscal fourth-quarter results. On Monday's conference call, she shared the stage with Ann Livermore, head of HP's team that sells to large corporations. The 25% rise in revenue by that unit was key to the quarter.
You would think that HP might be inclined to anoint these two as a kind of Dynamic Duo, perhaps co-CEOs, given the dearth of women in the highest ranks of tech, and given some concerns about incoming CEO Leo Apothekar, who presided over a not particularly memorable period at German software giant SAP (SAP).
But analysts seemed inclined to hope for the best with Apothekar following his debut on the conference call.
He has said the right things so far, talking about raising pay at HP, boosting investment in R&D and focusing the company more on software than hardware, which is, after all, where the profits are headed these days. It will be interesting to see Apothekar's vision unfold in the months ahead.
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MyWorldNewsCenter, La pensée française est-elle « design thinking » compatible ?, Pourquoi les français ne sont-ils plus capables de créer des produits qui font rêver le grand public ?,+++
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La pensée française est-elle « design thinking » compatible ?
Pourquoi les français ne sont-ils plus capables de créer des produits qui font rêver le grand public ? « C’est parce que les ingénieurs français sont complexés », explique Jean-Louis Frechin, dirigeant de l’agence de design numériques NoDesign et enseignant à l’École nationale supérieure de création industrielle (ENSCI). Et lorsqu’ils ne le sont pas – complexés- ils s’en vont innover ailleurs, comme Jean-Marie Hullot, le génial père des derniers systèmes d’exploitation d’Apple.
Mais si les ingénieurs français sont complexés, ce n’est pas parce qu’ils ne sont pas bons. Bien au contraire. Ils ont perdu le palisir de faire des produits. Et s’ils s’excusent de n’être que des « techos », ce serait à cause des « marketeux ». « Depuis les années 70, en France, le marketing à prix le pouvoir. Mais à force de faire ce que veulent les gens, on n’a plus rien à leur proposer de neuf, sauf du luxe et de la cuisine », précise Jean-Louis Frechin. Plus rien qui ne fasse rêver.
Pourtant le français Archos a bien sorti une superbe tablette multimédia, au look léché, bien avant Apple et bien en avance technologiquement sur celles des taïwanais. Il lui manquait juste le rêve, la simplicité, le service… et l’écosystème.
« En France, nous sommes obsédés par l’ergonomie », tempête encore Jean-Louis Frechin.
Obsédé au point d’en oublier de faire des produits désirables.
« Les Allemands s’autocensurent encore plus que les Français ! » C’est par ce constat peu rassurant que s’est clos mon échange avec Véronique Hillen, enseignante en stratégie d’entreprises et innovation, responsable du département génie industriel de l’Ecole des Ponts ParisTech. La jeune femme a bien du mérite. Elle essaye depuis trois ans de convertir étudiants, designers et entreprises françaises à la pensée design, ou design thinking. L’initiative n’a rien d’une sinécure !
Née en Californie, et mis en pratique par l’agence Ideo, le design thinking consiste à faire réfléchir sur un sujet un groupe de 3 à 10 de personnes au profils très différents, (designer, sociologue, technicien, ergonome…) pour, après avoir cassé les préjugés, émettre des idées et les tester le plus vite possible pour arriver, de proche en proche, en itérant beaucoup mais sans rien s’interdire à priori, à un nouveau concept, produit, service. Une sorte de méthode d’innovation de rupture empirique. Pour mieux comprendre, référez-vous au livre « L’esprit Design, de Tim Browm, paru à la rentrée en version Française aux éditions Village Mondial.Mais revenons à la France. Véronique Hillen a décidé il y a deux ans de monter, à l’école des Ponts, un programme de formation de la D. School /Institut du design de Stanford, financée par l’ancien patron de SAP, Hasso Plattner, grand adepte du design thinking.
Tous les ans, elle sélectionne des groupes de trois étudiants, et trois designers, les plus ouverts d’esprit possible, pour travailler sur un « mandat » confié par un industriel français. Cette année, Thales, EADS, Suez et le tandem Amplitude Télecom/INRS ont soumis des sujets. Elle a obtenu un espace de travail adapté, qui doit permettre de rompre plus facilement les codes, de 250 mètre carrés… quand les autres écoles participantes (en Allemagne, au Japon ou en Finlande en ont 2000 !
« C’est ça ton truc, une maternelle !» , lui ont lancé certains de ses confrères méprisants ! Ils ne croit pas si bien dire. Car c’est effectivement au niveau de la maternelle qu’il faudrait revenir pour apprendre à sortir d’une pensée cartésienne afin d’imagier le monde, et donc les objets, autrement. Certains français y arrivent quand même. Ainsi, l’année dernière, un groupe qui devait réfléchir à une bouteille d’eau développement durable… ont fini par proposer un système de fontaine, filtrante, avec carafe se remplissant par le fond, pour fournir l’équivalent de l’eau minéral, à la maison. Pas de bouteille donc. L’industriel était fort mari. Un professionnel de l’environnement, distributeur d’eau, pourrait en revanche exploiter l’idée.
Mais que le chemin est difficile. Véronique Hillen s’accroche, mais reconnait que le design thinking est loin d’être adapté à nos structures mentales, du moins celles de nos ingénieurs. Elle y croit pourtant. On la soutient.
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28.11.2010
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- Online Project Management: What Are the Legal Concerns?
- Thursday Bram - Using an online project management tool usually means putting your clients' information online. You may want to think about the legal ramifications of doing that, especially if you handle confidential data. I got some pointers from James Roberts of the Global Capital Law Group.

- Use “Action Days” to Get Things Done
- Amber Singleton Riviere - "Action days" -- days where you and some friends agree to check in with one another hourly to keep tabs on each others' progress -- are a great way to motivate yourself and keep yourself accountable. Here are some suggestions as to how you could use them.

- Must-have Android Apps For Newbies - Charles Hamilton
- A Handy List of Web Worker Holiday Excuses - Dawn Foster
- Aviary Adds an HTML5 Photo Editor to Its Suite of Online Tools - Simon Mackie
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MyWorldNewsCenter,This is a presentation about Les tateurs,SPEC Tateurs, COMMENT Tateurs, DIC Tateurs, ZAZI Tateurs, ZEZI Tateurs, ZIMI Tateurs, CHOUETTE Tateurs,
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Ce sont les SPEC Tateurs
- D'autres ne proposent jamais leurs aide , mais sont très doue pour critiquer ceux qui agissent.
On les appelle COMMENT Tateurs.
- Puis il y a les autoritaires qui aiment donner les ordres et dire aux autres ce qu'il faut faire, sans jamais mettre eux-mêmes la main à la pâte.
Ce sont les DIC Tateurs.
- Certaines aiment semer la zizanie en entrainant les autres dans la médisance et la critique. Pour eux c'est toujours trop chaud, top tôt ou trop tard.
Ce sont les ZAZI Tateurs.
- Il y a aussi ceux qui voudraient bien faire quelque chose, mais n'arrivent jamais à tenir leurs engagements, ou se dédisent au dernier moment.
On les appelle les ZEZI Tateurs.
- D'autres encore se mettent sur le devant de la scène et montrent une image d'eux-mêmes qui ne correspond pas à leur vraie personnalité.
Ce sont les ZIMI Tateurs.
- Enfin il y a ceux qui regarde chacun affection et tiennent parole quand ils s'engent. Ils sont toujours prêts à interrompre leurs activités quand il s'agit de donner un coup de mail aux autres. Ceux-la mettent du soleil dans leur vie.
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26.11.2010
Global issues on agenda in Brussels,During his meeting in Brussels with his colleagues from Latvia, Lithuania, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg,+++
Global issues on agenda in Brussels
TALLINN - During his meeting in Brussels with his colleagues from Latvia, Lithuania, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Foreign Minister Urmas Paet discussed European security matters, topics related to the upcoming European Union-Russia summit taking place on Dec. 7, Estonian cooperation with the Benelux nations, as well as the global economic environment; climate change; European Union-Russia relations, including Russia joining the WTO, negotiations for a new EU-Russia agreement, the energy sector, visa-free travel, and frozen conflicts; and international topics including Afghanista... Full story...
Germany lags behind pledges in development aid
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As Ireland's austerity measures bite, many of the country's young businesspeople are considering leaving the country. In fact, many have already left, looking for better prospects overseas. »18:44 Publié dans Europe | Lien permanent | Commentaires (0) | Envoyer cette note





















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