Brussels, 06 Jun 2003 The Council and the European Parliament, in the framework of the co-decision procedure, have been able to reach agreement in second reading on the Regulation concerning the...
Brussels, 06 Jun 2003 The European Parliament's Women's Rights committee has adopted a non-binding resolution, calling for increased research into the prevention of breast cancer. Debating the...
Students expect to leave with top degree High expectations, fuelled by "grade creep", have led to 86 per cent of undergraduates expecting to leave university with a first-class or upper second degree...
Gen ève, 5 juin 2003 Monsieur le Recteur, Mesdames, Messieurs, C'est un très grand plaisir, pour moi, de pouvoir m'exprimer devant vous à l'occasion de ce "Dies Academicus" 2003. Avant tout, je...
Brussels, 05 Jun 2003 Full text of Document 252/03 Suite of documents 252/03 Council Register
Brussels, 05 Jun 2003 Full text of Document 250/03 Suite of documents 250/03 Council Register
Paris, 05 Jun 2003 ESA is providing data from its Earth observation satellites to monitor the tropical forests in French Guiana and help the French government meet its obligations under the...
Brussels, 05 Jun 2003 Full text of Document 248/03 Suite of documents 248/03 Council Register
Brussels, 05 Jun 2003 Full text of Document 251/03 Suite of documents 251/03 Council Register
Paris, 05 Jun 2003 The new Soyuz TMA spacecraft, which will carry ESA astronaut Pedro Duque to the ISS and back in October 2003, has been fully approved for operations. This was announced by Nikolai...
Brussels, 05 Jun 2003 There was a high response to stage one of the call for proposals for Priority 3, with a 17% success rate in the April 2003 evaluation. A workshop on 8 May clarified the main...
Brussels, 05 Jun 2003 NANOMAG is developing corrosion-resistant nanocomposite coatings to replace hazardous chromium-based coating treatments for magnesium alloys applicable specifically to the needs...
Brussels, 05 Jun 2003 The Commission-funded MicroChem initiative culminated in the successful demonstration of prototype miniaturised laboratory-on-a-chip systems suitable for rapid field testing of...
Paris, 05 Jun 2003 When blind people take a taxi, they will be able to give directions to the taxi driver!" says Jose Luis Fernandez Coya. The man speaking really knows what he is talking about: he...
Lib Dem leader angers universities The Liberal Democrat leader, Charles Kennedy, sparked a row with university vice-chancellors yesterday after claiming that degree courses lack "intellectual rigour...