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There are between ten and twelve million Roma living in the European Union today– roughly equal to the populationof a medium-sized EU Member State, like Belgium or Greece.
Yet despite the fact that the Roma have played an integral part in European history and culture for over seven centuries, most of us still know very little about them. And what we think we do know is more often than not based on ignorance, prejudice and stereotypes.
This has led to a situation where millions of Roma in the EU today face extreme levels of social deprivation. 
Unemployment in ... continua

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Clean air is essential to our own health and that of the environment. But since the industrial revolution, the quality of the air we breathe has deteriorated considerably - mainly as a result of human activities. Rising industrial and energy production, the burning of fossil fuels and the dramatic rise in traffic on our roads all contribute to air pollution in our towns and cities - and damage our natural environment.
Centuries of treating nature like a dustbin has had disastrous consequences on our environment. For example, around 20 % of forests and lakes in ... continua

Terra Futura is a fair-meeting organized in a exhibition area, getting bigger and more articulate every year, and in a very high level program of cultural initiatives, meetings, seminars, workshop; and also laboratories and shows.Inaugurated for the common goal to guarantee a future for our planet – and to achieve it together –, Terra Futura’s cornerstones are the tasks and the "good practices" of social, economic and environmental sustainability, carried out in all fields, from daily life to social relations, from the economic system to the public ... continua

July 3rd 2009University of Cagliari, Monteponi, IglesiasIII Session: “Undermining ” local developmentCo-facilitators and interviewers: Anne-Sophie Simpere (Les Amis de la Terre, France), Kjetil Abildsnes (Norvegian Church Aid, Norway)Alternatives in resources managementBasilio Tzoy Grijalva (Council for the protection of the territory of Indigenous people, Guatemala) talks about it with Jean Marie Ferraris (Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center, Philippines) and a representative of a local group (Sardinia)*Conflict on the use of landKyapa Kapatamoyo (Civil ... continua

-Limits of current PET (or PET/CT)
-Solution to the problem: the 3D-CBS (A device for early detection with high sensitivity, low radiation, low examination cost - ADVANTAGES-).
-Innovative Characteristics of the 3D-CBS technology
-Validation of the advantages and of the feasibility of the 3D-CBS technology
-Obstacles to the realization of the advantages for everyone
Crosetto's DONATION of the income from his patents for the patients' benefit
-Market: Roles of the parties involved (Investors, Donors, Gov., Patients)
-Public REVIEW: The key to transfer the ... continua

Each year in the European Union, 167,000 deaths are attributable to work-related accidents or illnesses, and the number of occupational accidents which result in over three days off work is estimated at 7 million.
Small and medium businesses feature prominently here, as they alone represent 82% of the total number of occupational accidents and 90% of the total number of fatal accidents. The construction, farming, transportation and health industries are among the sectors most affected.
Apart from the sometimes tragic individual consequences, the loss of earnings to ... continua

The rules that govern nutrition labelling have already been in force for over a decade. In general nutrition labelling is included on a voluntary basis so the inclusion on most products depends on the goodwill of the agri-and-food industry. When nutrition labelling can be found, it may be difficult to find since it can be in small or very small print. Moreover, the type of labelling varies from one product to the next and from one country to the other. As a result, when filling their shopping carts, few European consumers take the time to ... continua

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In Belgium, women working on the cash desks and stacking the shelves in Delhaize supermarkets were dismayed to find out that they were earning less than their male colleagues. Now the company is using a new analytical classification system to re-evaluate its salary structure. In Spain, a new equality law was introduced in 2007. As well as insisting on equal pay for jobs of equal value, it introduces paternity leave for the first time and also sets targets for companies to include more women in the board room. Interviews: ... continua