Serving The People Of Europe

Author : European Commission
Publisher : Luxembourg : Office of Official Publications of the European Communities
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : UCSD:31822030854921

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Serving the People of Europe by European Commission Pdf

At the heart of the European Union is the European Commission: a body with a unique combination of legislative and executive powers. It is responsible for a wide range of policy areas ranging from culture to agriculture. Employing 24 000 people from the length and breadth of the EU, the Commission works closely with the European Parliament, the Council of Ministers, civil society and national governments. It strives to bring Europe together through mutual understanding and a desire for peace, freedom and prosperity. What is it like and who works there? This booklet gives you the chance to find out.

Author : Thomas Jansen,Steven Van Hecke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642194146

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At Europe's Service by Thomas Jansen,Steven Van Hecke Pdf

The European People's Party, the largest political party in Europe, has roots that run deep in history. Founded in 1976 as a Christian Democratic federation, the European People's Party is now a strong centre-right movement and a leading European political family. It has member parties in almost all European countries, and it is very well represented in the institutions of the European Union. This book tells the story of the European People's Party: why it was founded, how it is currently organised and what its guiding ideas, values and principles are. It gives an up-to-date account of the party's contribution to European integration, its work with its member parties and its central role in organising the centre-right in Europe. Above all, this book is for everyone who wants to know what a European-level political party looks like, how it is structured and how it acts.

Author : European Commission. Directorate-General Press and Communication,European Commission. Directorate General for Press and Information
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : 9289494840

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Serving the People of Europe by European Commission. Directorate-General Press and Communication,European Commission. Directorate General for Press and Information Pdf

Author : Pascal Fontaine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9279715623

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Europe in 12 Lessons by Pascal Fontaine Pdf

What purpose does the EU serve? Why and how was it set up? How does it work? What has it already achieved for its citizens, and what new challenges does it face today? In a globalised world, can the EU compete successfully with other major economies while maintaining its social standards? How can immigration be managed? What will Europe’s role be on the world stage in the years ahead? Where will the EU’s boundaries be drawn? And what future is there for the euro? These are just some of the questions explored by EU expert Pascal Fontaine in this 2017 edition of his popular booklet Europe in 12 lessons. Pascal Fontaine is a former assistant to Jean Monnet and former professor at the Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris.

Author : Edward C. Page
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996-12-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191583704

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People Who Run Europe by Edward C. Page Pdf

In the minds of many, Brussels is very closely associated with bureaucracy. Yet we know little about the character of the European Union's bureaucracy. Professor Page draws upon a wide range of empirical sources to present a picture of the administrative system of the EU. He discusses the complexities of its internal organization and goes on to explore the people who work in it. As a multinational organization its procedures for appointment and promotion reflect in part the need to maintain a professional career civil service and in part the desire to secure a fair mix of nationalities among top officials. People who Run Europe looks at the distinctive features of the administrative system which these two principles help to produce as well as at the nature of the people - their backgrounds, careers and skills - who are attracted to it. The author also examines the role of top officials in the decision making process, above all in their dealings with politicians and interest groups.

Author : Kevin Cullen,Simon Robinson,Ciaran Dolphin,Lutz Kubitschke,Nadia Clarkin
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9051993463

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Telecommunications for Older People and Disabled People in Europe by Kevin Cullen,Simon Robinson,Ciaran Dolphin,Lutz Kubitschke,Nadia Clarkin Pdf

This book presents the result of the MART study, an action funded under the TIDE (Technology Initiative for Disabled and Elderly People) programme of the EU. TIDE supports research and development in assistive technology with the aim of contributing to the quality of life of older people and people with disabilities and encouraging European industry and markets. The book provides the first complete assessment of the opportunities presented by the Information Society for Older People and people with disabilities in Europe, and of the factors in European telecommunications and in social developments that are facilitating or inhibiting access to these. It is being published at a time when these issues are becoming increasingly considered in EU and national policy, in the strategies of the telecommunications industry and in the concerns of representative user organisations. As the MART study finished in early 1996 and the European situation is changing rapidly, a chapter has been added by the authors to take account of more recent developments.

Author : Krzysztof Michalski
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9637326472

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Conditions of European Solidarity: What holds Europe together? by Krzysztof Michalski Pdf

The book addresses contemporary developments in European identity politics as part of a larger historical trajectory of a common European identity based on the idea of 'solidarity.' The authors explain the special sense in which Europeans perceive their obligations to their less fortunate compatriots, to the new East European members, and to the world at large. An understanding of this notion of 'solidarity' is critical to understanding the specific European commitment to social justice and equality. The specificity of this term helps to distinguish between what the Germans call "social state" from the Anglo-Saxon, and particularly American, political and social system focused on capitalism and economic liberalism. This collection is the result of the work of an extremely distinguished group of scholars and politicians, invited by the previous President of the European Union, Romano Prodi, to reflect on some of the most important subjects affecting the future of Europe.

Author : Elsie Paul,Paige Raibmon,Harmony Johnson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774827126

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Written As I Remember It by Elsie Paul,Paige Raibmon,Harmony Johnson Pdf

Long before vacationers discovered BC's Sunshine Coast, the Sliammon, a Coast Salish people, called the region home. In this remarkable book, Sliammon Elder Elsie Paul collaborates with a scholar, Paige Raibmon, and her granddaughter, Harmony Johnson, to tell her life story and the history of her people, in her own words and storytelling style. Raised by her grandparents who took her on their seasonal travels, Paul spent most of her childhood learning Sliammon ways, teachings, and stories and is one of the last surviving mother-tongue speakers of the Sliammon language. She shares this traditional knowledge with future generations in Written as I Remember It.

Author : Étienne Balibar
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400825783

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We, the People of Europe? by Étienne Balibar Pdf

étienne Balibar has been one of Europe's most important philosophical and political thinkers since the 1960s. His work has been vastly influential on both sides of the Atlantic throughout the humanities and the social sciences. In We, the People of Europe?, he expands on themes raised in his previous works to offer a trenchant and eloquently written analysis of "transnational citizenship" from the perspective of contemporary Europe. Balibar moves deftly from state theory, national sovereignty, and debates on multiculturalism and European racism, toward imagining a more democratic and less state-centered European citizenship. Although European unification has progressively divorced the concepts of citizenship and nationhood, this process has met with formidable obstacles. While Balibar seeks a deep understanding of this critical conjuncture, he goes beyond theoretical issues. For example, he examines the emergence, alongside the formal aspects of European citizenship, of a "European apartheid," or the reduplication of external borders in the form of "internal borders" nurtured by dubious notions of national and racial identity. He argues for the democratization of how immigrants and minorities in general are treated by the modern democratic state, and the need to reinvent what it means to be a citizen in an increasingly multicultural, diversified world. A major new work by a renowned theorist, We, the People of Europe? offers a far-reaching alternative to the usual framing of multicultural debates in the United States while also engaging with these debates.

Author : Yael Ohana
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287159595

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Young People at the Heart of Europe by Yael Ohana Pdf

The European Youth Centres (EYCs) in Strasbourg and Budapest were established to implement the Council of Europe's youth policy by providing international training and meeting centres with residential facilities. The Budapest centre was set up in 1995 as the first permanent service of the Council of Europe in a Central and Eastern European country. This publication contains contributions from a variety of people from different age groups and a wide spectrum of political, cultural and social life in Europe who have had some involvement with the Budapest centre, whether in a political or professional function, through work or voluntary commitment to civil society past or present.

Author : European Investment Bank
Publisher : European Investment Bank
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789286148156

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The European Fund for Strategic Investments: The Legacy by European Investment Bank Pdf

The inside story of the European Fund for Strategic Investments from 2015 to 2020 told through interviews with the Managing Director, Deputy Managing Director, members of the Investment Committee and final beneficiaries across Europe. The architects of this €500 billion-plus programme, the head of the EU bank and the president of the European Commission, describe the genesis of this financial pillar of the Investment Plan for Europe. Then the people who ran one of the biggest economic stimulus programmes in history detail how they did it—and what the lessons are for policymakers responding to new crises, including the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The European Fund for Strategic Investments has been one of the good news stories to emerge in a decade of economic uncertainty. It has gone well beyond its highly ambitious target of €500 billion in mobilised investments. The Juncker Plan has made a strong contribution to the 14 million jobs created in the EU between 2015 and 2020. It has become a success in co-financing projects that otherwise might not have been carried through. It has also charted the path towards new ways of financing. This is not only the case in relatively conventional areas, such as infrastructure, but also in sectors like research and innovation or the contribution to climate change mitigation. This is exactly what makes EFSI so ground-breaking: responding to the needs of the market through continuous financial innovation. The principle of the European Fund for Strategic Investments is here to stay. It has paved the way for its successor, the InvestEU programme, which is to be deployed under the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework. This publication details why the programme was such a success.

Author : Joseph Troisi,Marvin Formosa
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 3825892476

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Supporting Family Carers of Older People in Europe - The National Background Report for Malta by Joseph Troisi,Marvin Formosa Pdf

"Malta has an extensive formal care provision. In the field of ageing there is a wide range of services available for the elderly and for their carers aimed at improving the quality of life of the elderly while maintaining them in their own homes, community and environment. However, the majority of care for the elderly is still provided by the family members. This publication is the first nation-wide report concerning the state of family members taking care of older relatives in the Maltese Islands. It investigates the socio-economic conditions of these carers while analysing their changing role and status, their needs and problems resulting from the various changes which Maltese society and family are passing through. "

Author : Walther Friesen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783752646337

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The Russia-Germans - An Indigenous People of Eastern Europe by Walther Friesen Pdf

The book outlines the history of Russia-Germans - one of the indigenous peoples of Eastern Europe.

Author : Nadine Genet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Home care services
ISBN : 9289002891

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Home Care Across Europe by Nadine Genet Pdf

For every person over the age of 65 in today's European Union there are four people of working age but by 2050 there will only be two. Demand for long-term care of which home care forms a significant part will inevitably increase in the decades to come. Despite the importance of the issue however up-to-date and comparative information on home care in Europe is lacking. This book attempts to fill some of that gap by examining current European policy on home care services and strategies. Home care in Europe probes a wide range of topics including the links between social services and health-care.

Author : Jeremy Leaman,Martha Wörsching
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136970092

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Youth in Contemporary Europe by Jeremy Leaman,Martha Wörsching Pdf

This book examines the everyday living conditions experienced and also shaped by young people in Europe. Contributors reflect on the current context of economic, social and political change affecting youth in the critical transition from dependence to independence. The volume provides the reader with a multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary view of youth cultures, drawn from a variety of recent research throughout the continent.