News tagged with 'eu'. Found 23 tagged news.

EU Bullies Smaller Nations in Bluefin Tuna Trade

London :: United Kingdom | 6 days ago

Posted by mwilson16

Countries involved in the Mediterranean bluefin tuna trade have voted to maintain catches nearly 50% above what scientists say are "safe" levels. Environment groups labelled the move, by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas...

Tags: bluefin tuna, iccat, eu

Global Trends 2025 & Europe

Jyväskylä :: Finland | 9 days ago

Posted by AriRusila

I just took a glance at very interesting new report published on 21st November 2008 by the United States National Intelligence Council - Washington's main intelligence body.  The report, Global Trends 2025: A World Transformed, is published every...

Tags: BalkanBlog, EU, US Foreign policy

Environmental News Network: EU’s ideas for energy looking tired

Brussels :: Belgium | 13 days ago

A coherent plan to reduce energy consumption was conspicuous by its absence from the European Union’s latest attempt to deal with the energy and climate crisis. The European Commission today released an “Energy security and solidarity action plan”�, which...

Tags: EU&

Powergame in EU-Russia summit today

Jyväskylä :: Finland | 17 days ago

Posted by AriRusila

EU summit meeting with Russia in France is designed to reopen talks on a pact of cooperation after the crisis in relations caused by the Georgia conflict on August 2008. Before meeting hard words have been changed over Kaliningrad missiles, Nato radars...

Tags: Energy, EU, Russia, Balkans, Caucasus, GUUAM, South Stream, Baltic Pipe

EU,G-8 want India to join emergency summit on financial crisis

Newcastle :: WA :: USA | about 1 month ago

Posted by kalex

Leaders of the European Union and Group of Eight major industrial countries want India to join in an emergency global summit to devise strategies to tackle the global financial crisis and overhaul the world's financial system. At the EU summit that ended...

Tags: EU, G-8

Western economic powers finally getting their act together

Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago

Posted by MarcusCato

Good news from the world’s financial markets at long last.  Stock markets in Asia and Europe have reacted favorably to the news that western financial and political leaders agreed over the weekend to pump billions of dollars and euro into their...

Tags: USA, EU, G7, Financial Crisis, Coordinated Action.

EU To Ban Traditional Light Bulbs Starting 2010

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago

Posted by wikiboy

European Union ministers have agreed that traditional high energy filament bulbs are to be banned from 2010. It is an important part of stated goals to improve energy efficiency and meet climate change targets. Environmentalists are understably thrilled...

Tags: EU, lightbulb, renewable

Out from confrontation

Jyväskylä :: Finland | 2 months ago

Posted by AriRusila

Caucasus suffers about US Cowboy policy Georgia is one again failed example about US Foreign policy which aims to create classical “banana republic” to Eastern Europe where US controls crucial foreign and/or domestic policies of another nation...

Tags: Crisis management, Balkans, Caucasus, Russia, USA, EU

Iran Moves to Expand Uranium Enrichment Program Against Western Pleading

Tehrān :: Iran | 4 months ago

Posted by Rachel

After 7 nuclear talks, the UN, EU and US have failed to sway Iran in their pursuit of an enhanced uranium enrichment program. After a brief period of silence, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that the country has dramatically expanded...

Tags: Iran, Ahmadinejad, UN, EU, Uranium, Nuclear Power

EU threatens to make US diplomats get visas

Brussels :: Belgium | 4 months ago

Posted by Waqas

The European commission will propose forcing US diplomats to get visas to travel to the European Union from January 2009 unless Washington moves towords granting citizens of all EU states visa-free entry. Citizens of 12 EU member states continue to...

Tags: EU, USA, VISAS