Belgium Science & Technology News

The federal government is sending a delegation to Europe to lobby the European Union against proposed legislation that could ban Canadian seal products. Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea says she will be meeting with EU politicians in a couple of...

The European Commission said Friday that it had scaled back its plans for a new telecommunications agency that would ensure consistent regulatory decisions by national authorities. The original plan, which was announced last November, called for giving the commission more power...

Gazprom says independent monitors are needed because Ukraine is not allowing Russian staff to monitor the gas flows. The company has also accused Ukraine of stealing gas intended for EU customers. Russia cut gas supplies to Ukraine last week after...

Being one of the national telecommunications regulators in Europe is not an easy job, largely because the governments they work for still own significant stakes in powerful former state phone monopolies...Consider Dan Cristian Georgescu, the former telecommunications regulator for Romania,...

Viviane Reding is the EU's information society commissioner. To read a shortened version of the interview, please click here . The two major sports events of last summer, the Olympic Games and the European Football Championships, were expected to be a launch...

Key in the negotiations will be measures to contain the wasteful practice of "discards," throwing perfectly fine fish overboard because they do not meet certain catch quotas or commercial and environmental standards. It would allow fishermen to market more fish...

The 'Europeana'  website , launched yesterday by Commission President José Manuel Barroso and French Culture and Communication Minister Christine Albanel, gives access to hundreds of thousands of books, many of which are rare or out-of-print altogether.  It seeks to provide...

The quotas are a compromise between environmental groups who say some fish stocks are on the verge of collapse, and fishermen who fear for their jobs. Quotas have been increased for cod and plaice in the North Sea, for mackerel,...