The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing a total of up to €550 million for motorways, local authorities’ infrastructure and, for the first time in Greece,...
In its immediate response to the vast devastation caused in the Philippines by the tropical cyclone Haiyan (Yolanda), the European Commission is making available €3 million...
What is big data? Every minute the world generates 1.7 million billion bytes of data, equivalent to 360,000 standard DVDs. More digitised data was created in...
On 7 November, the European Commission announced the overall winner of its World You Like Challenge competition for the best solutions to climate change. The Portuguese...
What is the current situation? 5.6 million young people were unemployed in the EU-28 area in September 2013. This represents an unemployment rate of 23.5% (24.1%...
Separating Tibet from China is the equivalent to severing an arm from a body, according to chairman Zhu Weiqun (pictured below), China’s chairman for ethnic and...
In the lead up to the high-level Climate Conference COP 19 in Warsaw, Poland the United Nations University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security today released...