Report: EU 'losing business' due to lack of language skills
                   
euractiv.com     Jul 14, 2008          

Published: Monday 14 July 2008 European business risks losing competitiveness as other countries start outperforming the EU in terms of language skills, concludes a report presented by business leaders last week (11 July). The Business Forum for Multilingualism brings together prominent business leaders and human resources managers from across Europe to discuss investment in language skills and identify how companies can use language skills to maximise economic performance. Chaired by former EU commissioner Viscount Etienne Davignon of Suez-Tractabel, the forum was established by the European Commission in September 2007 on the occasion of a conference on business, languages and intercultural skills. The report complements an earlier one from the High Level Group on Multilingualism chaired by Lebanese author Amin Maalouf,... [read full story]                    


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Industry Officials Predict Current Procurement Plan Will Delay Galileo (SPACE.com)

yahoo.com     Aug 4, 2008   2 related          

SPACE.com - The heads of Europe's two biggest satellite prime contractors urged the European Commission to accelerate its procurement of the Galileo satellite navigation system or face what might become politically unacceptable...                    

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EU states begin debate on greener product policy

wbcsd.org     Jul 30, 2008          

ENDS Europe Daily, 30 July 2008 - Governments have broadly welcomed European commission plans unveiled this month for a greener EU product policy, it emerged from a first discussion of the plans in the council of ministers last...                    

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Cost in space

eureferendum.blogspot.com     Jul 25, 2008          

Courtesy of the invaluable Open Europe daily press digest, we learn from Le Figaro that the "colleagues" have been plotting their next moves in developing a fully-fledged space policy, with a decision to allocate space spending...                    

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West Tells Moscow: 'You Are Irresponsible'

usc.edu     7 hrs ago          

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