Paris, 28 August 2003 Commenting on the Columbia accident report delivered to NASA by the independent Investigation Board, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of the European Space Agency, said...
Paris, August 2003 You need to have thought of almost every eventuality when landing on a distant moon in a remote corner of the Solar System. You must have tested your spacecraft to its limits to be...
Paris, 28 August 2003 The Italian Presidency of the European Union has organised a Seminar of European Union Ministers of Culture, to be held in Venice from 28 to 31 August, in conjunction with the...
Brussels, 02 Sep 2003 The authors of the most comprehensive study of climatic history ever undertaken have concluded that the Earth is hotter now than at any point during the last 2,000 years....
Brussels, 2 September 2003 The European Commission has decided to reject a request from Austria to introduce national measures banning the use of GMOs in the region of Upper Austria for a three-year...
'Ignorant' scientists threaten wildlife survival The international effort to save wildlife from extinction is threatened by scientists' "extraordinarily limited knowledge" of biodiversity, the Royal...
No alternative to university top-up fees, says Clarke Education secretary Charles Clarke began his campaign to persuade Labour MPs to support university top-up fees yesterday by declaring that there...
Brussels, August 2003 Some 355 976 ha of land had been burnt in Portugal by 20 August 2003, 301 180 ha of which was forest, according to figures derived from satellite observations by the European...
Brussels, 18 August 2003 Argentina, Canada and the U.S. have requested today the establishment of a WTO Panel on the EU´s approach to genetically modified organisms (GMOs). EU Trade Commissioner...
Brussels, 1 September 2003 At the WHO conference in Johannesburg on 1 September, European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin will present the Europe-Developing Countries Clinical Trials...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2003 An EU project is aiming to re-establish the manufacture and use of roman cement - an obsolete historic binding material - to help safely restore Europe's heritage buildings to...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2003 The EU funded nanotechnology network Nanoforum, together with the Austrian national contact point BIT and the VDI, will hold an information seminar on nanotechnology research...
Brussels, August 2003 Due to this summer's unprecedented heat wave, we have been witnessing particularly devastating fires in Southern Europe, particularly around the Mediterranean. Hundreds of...
Brussels, 01 Sep 2003 An international seminar on 'the meanings of genomics' will take place from 20 to 22 November in Exeter, UK. The main aim of the conference will be to examine how genomic...
Brussels, 25 August 2003 The present document, written jointly by scholars specializing in the economics of innovation and intellectual property, critiques and corrects misleading impressions...