[PDF] Top 20 Eurofocus: a newssheet for journalists. Weekly No. 17/87, 4-11 May 1987

... In 1986 the European Community put ECU 45m.* at the disposal of charitable organizations in its member states, the so-called NGOs non-governmental organizations, to launch development pr[r] ... See full document

... This would encourage the creation of a single market for telecommunications services, lead to more jobs and the development of the Community•s outlying regions, in the context of the sin[r] ... See full document

... To help the less well-off member states join the European financial area as quickly as possible, the Commission proposes extending the present system of Community financing in favour of [r] ... See full document

... The 12-nation European Community will not run short of oil, even if the Persian Gulf were to be closed to Western shipping, according to the European Commission's experts, who have just [r] ... See full document

... TRADE: A fa 11 i n__EC/fast European tra~e + The sharp fall in trade between the European Community and the East European members of COMECON*, recorded over the last two years, continued[r] ... See full document

... The loans granted in 1986 by the European Coal and Steel Community should lead to the creation of another 31,000 jobs, thanks to retraining programmes in favour of miners and steelworker[r] ... See full document

... The technical report which the European Commission sent to the EC Council of Ministers a year ago, entitled "Towards a European network of high speed trains", notes that the efforts by i[r] ... See full document

... The European Commission has proposed the Community implement a special ECU lOOm.* programme over the period 1988-89 in favour of the poorer, heavily indebted countries south of the Sahar[r] ... See full document

... 6 REGIONAL AND SOCIAL AID: Effectiveness above all The European Commission proposes an ambitious reform programme to the Twelve as a prel~de to 1992.. 7 EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Still waitin[r] ... See full document

... The money will go to national projects which seek to protect endangered species in eight member countries of the European Community.. The projects, some of which have already been launch[r] ... See full document

... Faced with this situation the European Commission has approved funds for a programme to combat AIDS in the African, Caribbean and Pacific ACP countries linked to the European Community t[r] ... See full document

... 4 TRANSPORT: The European driving licence Not all EC countries have sent the European Commission a copy of their projected driving licence, based on the model contained in a Community di[r] ... See full document

... Eurofocus 26/87 SPORTS: • Footlopse footballers hav~ nowhere to go UEFA refuses to play by the Community•s rules • The European Commission will take the necessary measures to guarantee t[r] ... See full document

... Industrialists and scientific experts from the world's largest trading power, on the one hand, and the world's largest democracy, on the other, are to work together, thanks to an ambitio[r] ... See full document

... In 1986 the European Social Fund devoted 25% of its resources to meeting long-term unemployment; this year the European Commission plans an increase of 15%, most of which will be spent o[r] ... See full document

... If the 12-nation European Community is to be ready for the completion of the single market in 1992, the Community's regional, social and agricultural funds will have to work more effecti[r] ... See full document

... These are the kinds of problems highlighted by the European Commission's report on the situation in the regions of the 12-nation European Community.. The third of its kind, the report is[r] ... See full document

... • HEALTH: Community's major role in nuclear accident protection and prevention The European Community plays a major role in research into radiation protection and the safety of nuclear r[r] ... See full document

... Forewarned is forearmed The European Commission recommends a rapid information system for the EC • Community-wide, rapid, effective, obligatory and covering every aspect of nuclear safet[r] ... See full document

... Roughly 75% of the public procurement contracts in the 12-nation European Community are awarded by governments and public sector undertakings to national firms.. This absence of Communit[r] ... See full document