[PDF] Top 20 Eurofocus: a newssheet for journalists. Weekly No. 2/91, 14-21 January 1991

... Without going so far as to make it their lOth working language, "in order not to endanger the smooth working of the European Parliament", the Euro-MPs nevertheless asked that the EC Trea[r] ... See full document

... The Community's social affairs ministers decided recently to launch a 5-year European action programme aimed at helping the member governments organize such training.. The programme's ma[r] ... See full document

... SOCIAL : 30 million poor Europeans More than 30 million people in the European Community live in poverty, on the margin of what are considered "acceptable" living conditions.· Five years[r] ... See full document

... In view of these continuing probLems, European Community authorities have once again proposed a ney annuaL budget for next year that tries to put more emphasis than before on spending fo[r] ... See full document

... The EC doubles its aid for apartheid victims The European Community is doubling its aid to the victims of apartheid to ECU 20m.* this year, according to its Development Commissioner, Lor[r] ... See full document

... Since 1987, COMETT, the Community programme for teaching and trammg in technologies, has enabled some 25,000 students to undergo training in a business located in another European countr[r] ... See full document

... It was in response to numerous requests from Euro-MPs that the European Commission adopted its Green Paper, entitled "Pluralism and media concentration in the single market.. An assessme[r] ... See full document

... But they took part in the 1984 elections to the European Parliament to almost the same extent as men and are not far behind them in wanting to see it play a more important role, accordin[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

... In order to assess the activities undertaken in the framework of the European cities of culture programme 10 cities so far, on the one hand and, on the other, of the "European cultural m[r] ... See full document

... In this connection, the Commission wants to make sure that European companies enjoy as favourable an access to the American and Japanese markets as is enjoyed by the world's electronic m[r] ... See full document

... As of 31 December 1993, by which time 95% of the European legislation needed to complete the single market had been adopted by their ministers, EU countries had transposed, into their na[r] ... See full document

... LOCAL ELECTIONS: Proposal on the right to vote and stand for election The Commission proposes that eadr European citizen be entitled to vote and stand for election in the Member State he[r] ... See full document

... But as it was a framework programme with several wide-ranging objectives, the Commission had to see which parts of it can be fitted into the Community's regional policy and just how the [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

... Less than a month after the Twelve gave the green light to the MEDSPA programme, designed to protect the environment throughout the Mediterranean region, the European Commission presente[r] ... See full document

... 4 INSTITUTIONS; A new "European constitution" for 1992 The European Parliament favours a new proposal for European Union.. 5 ROAD tRANSPORT; Taxing foreign lorries is not in the spirit o[r] ... See full document

... The European Community's Court of Justice has ruled that Member States can restrict the right of residence to six months in the case of nationals of other EC countries who are looking fo[r] ... See full document

... The fact is that excise duties vary a great deal from one Community country to another: in the ratio of 1 to 2 in the case of petrol and 1 to 5 in the case of diesel fuel.. Both the Comm[r] ... See full document

... • More than 550,000 persons, most of them without jobs or qualifications, will receive vocational training, thanks to a series of grants from the European Community's Social Fund, which [r] ... See full document