European Directorate-General for Education, Culture and Multilingualism

List of 27 nominees to next European Commission

Nominees of the 27 EU nations for a job on the next European Commission. Their current jobs are in brackets. EU portfolios will be assigned in the weeks ahead. _ Austria: Johannes Hahn (Austrian research minister) _ Belgium:...

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School translators to battle it out for the third time

Students from three Maltese schools will join some 3,000 others from all over Europe, including Kalix near the Arctic Circle in Sweden, Heraklion in Crete, Saint Martin in the West Indies and Paralimni in Cyprus, in the third...

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EU addresses shortage of French interpreters

European Commission representatives are in France this week to encourage young people to consider a career in languages, amid fears that the EU executive will face a "serious shortage" of French-language interpreters within...

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Maros Sefcovic is Slovakia's candiate for EU commissioner

Bratislava - The Slovak government proposed its incumbent European Commissioner Maros Sefcovic for a post in the next European Commission, a government spokesman said Wednesday. Prime Minister Robert Fico's centre-left...

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EU officials offered hotline for 'clear writing'

The European Commission is seeking to kill off excessive legal speak by setting up a hotline that will give officials advice on how to write more clearly, it emerged at a conference in Brussels yesterday (17 November).

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EIT chief: 'Private funding needed to make projects sustainable'

The new European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT) is working to attract private funds to ensure its flagship research consortia are sustainable, EIT Director Gérard de Nazelle told EurActiv Hungary in an interview.

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Jan Truszczyński New Director-General for Education and Culture At The European Commission

Today the European Commission appointed Jan Truszczyński as Director-General of the Education and Culture DG. He will be responsible for overall management of the Directorate-General and its staff of over 650 women and men....

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Platforms of the European Commission for a consultation with the civil society

IETM has been taking an active part in the “Access to Culture” platform for structured dialogue between the European civil society in the cultural sector and the European Commission . Input, advice and opinions of IETM members...

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EU launches new platform for promotion of multilingualism

BRUSSELS, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) Friday launched a new civil society platform for the promotion of multilingualism. It is intended to promote a permanent dialogue between the European Commission (EC) and...

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Fury in Frankfurt at Google's global library project

Frankfurt (AFP) Oct 17, 2009 - "Garbage" and "hysterical propaganda" was one angry reaction at the world's biggest book fair this year when Google, the world's biggest Internet search service, defended plans to turn millions of...

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