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Debate: Macron urges Europeans to take action

Eurotopics.net - Tue, 03/05/2019 - 12:15
With just under three months to go before the EU elections French President Emmanuel Macron has stressed Europe's importance and proposed an action plan for revamping the European Union. His guest commentary has appeared in leading newspapers in all 28 EU member states. Can Macron's impassioned appeal reboot the EU project?
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Debate: Dulkiewicz is Gdańsk's new mayor

Eurotopics.net - Tue, 03/05/2019 - 12:15
Roughly six weeks after the deadly knife attack against mayor Paweł Adamowicz the people of Gdańsk have elected Aleksandra Dulkiewicz as his successor by a large majority. She was already deputy mayor, and served as acting mayor after his death. What does her election portend?
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Debate: The fallout from the Skripal attack

Eurotopics.net - Tue, 03/05/2019 - 12:15
A year ago the Russian ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned in the English city of Salisbury with the chemical nerve agent novichok. Moscow refutes any involvement in the attempted murder even though it has been proven that Russian agents were in the city on the day the poisoning occurred. It wasn't just the former agent and his daughter who suffered as a result of the poisoning, commentators conclude.
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Debate: Estonia: Reform Party wins, far right rises

Eurotopics.net - Tue, 03/05/2019 - 12:15
After three years in opposition the liberal Reform Party won Estonia's parliamentary elections on Sunday with just under 29 percent of the vote. Its leader Kaja Kallas is now set to become the country's first woman prime minister. Journalists discuss not just Kallas' victory but also the rise of the national conservative party Ekre, which came third with almost 18 percent of the vote.
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[Exclusive] Brexit cities want free EU wifi before leaving

Euobserver.com - Tue, 03/05/2019 - 12:05
A majority of the 15 municipalities from the United Kingdom granted a €15,000 EU subsidy to set up free wireless internet voted to leave the EU.
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Agenda - The Week Ahead 04 – 10 March 2019

European Parliament - Tue, 03/05/2019 - 12:02
Committee and political group meetings, Brussels

Source : © European Union, 2019 - EP
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EDA’s 3D-Printing project for Energetic Materials launched

EDA News - Tue, 03/05/2019 - 11:55

The Additive Manufacturing Techniques for Energetic Materials (AMTEM) project, for which the programme arrangement was signed last December by six participating EDA Member States (Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden) as well as Norway, was officially launched at a kick-off meeting on 12/13 February. 

The event, which took place at the French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL), brought together 15 European organisations working in the field of Energetic Materials, namely: ISL, Ariane Group, EURENCO, NEXTER Group, Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT), The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), NAMMO, Chemring Nobel, Polish Military Institute of Armament Technology (MIAT), Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Finish Defence Research Agency (FDRA), Oy Forcit AB, Raikka OY and Aalto University.

Additive manufacturing (AM) - or 3D-Printing - technologies have been identified as a major enabling technology to improve Europe’s industrial competitiveness. The defence sector is also exploring the potential offered by AM technologies to further develop military capabilities. Within EDA’s CapTech Ammunition Technologies, a group of Member States agreed to join forces and develop a multinational research project on the use of Additive Manufacturing for the production of Energetic Materials to be used both as propellants as well as warheads. It was this initiative that led to the AMTEM project. 

Over the next four years, the AMTEM project team will investigate and assess appropriate materials and related Additive Manufacturing production techniques, in particular with a view to producing new types of warheads and propellants with enhanced performance and ensuring faster and cheaper production processes for short series as well as rapid prototyping. The research project is also expected to help develop new munitions and missiles systems concepts with increased operational performance and further strengthen the European industrial competitiveness.
 

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ESIF funding for space R&T project supported by EDA

EDA News - Tue, 03/05/2019 - 11:41

A €9.18 million space research project with both civilian and defence implications has been awarded co-funding under the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF). EDA actively supported the funding application for this project run by an Italian consortium and designed to develop a RAM-EP propulsion system (use of atmosphere gases as a propellant) expected to extend the operational lifetime of spacecraft in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) areas, i.e. below an altitude of 250 km. 

The project, known as “CLOSE to Earth” (Constellation at very Low Earth Orbit based on RAM-EP Small SatellitEs), is to be implemented by a consortium which is led by the Italian Aerospace Technological Cluster (Distretto Tecnologico Aerospaziale - DTA) and also encompasses a number of other enterprises as well as universities and R&T organisations. Among the main challenges of this project are the development of an atmospheric gas collector and a Hall-effect engine capable of using the gases already present in the atmosphere as a propellant. The project also foresees the study of a new small space vehicle (under 500 kg) able to accommodate a RAM-EP propulsion system and operate at VLEO altitudes. Half of the project cost is covered by project holders, while ESIF will co-fund the remaining 50% (€ 4.59 million).

This successful ESIF-funding application supported by EDA is yet another example of how the Agency, with its expertise, can help defence-related R&T projects to access EU funding, even (or especially) if they involve small and medium-sized enterprises. It also demonstrates once again that Member States’ investments made through EDA have multiplier effects in terms of practical output. So far, EDA has a track record of ten such ESIF success stories in defence involving projects worth a total of about €26 million. 

ESIF is open to defence projects and is expected to continue supporting them during the next Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027. 

To explore the wide range of European funding currently available to defence and dual-use projects and activities, see EDA’s European Funding Gateway for Defence.
 

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[Ticker] UN warns of five overlooked environment threats

Euobserver.com - Tue, 03/05/2019 - 09:28
UN environment experts on Monday presented their latest report on environmental challenges facing the planet Frontiers 2018/19, highlighting five key issues of emerging concern for the planet: gene-editing techniques; fragmentation of previously-intact landscapes around the globe; vulnerability of permafrost peatlands, widespread nitrogen pollution and maladaptation to climate change.
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[Ticker] Russia courts EU approval for Bulgaria pipeline

Euobserver.com - Tue, 03/05/2019 - 09:14
The EU must give Russia guarantees before it helps build a gas pipe in Bulgaria to join up to its Turk Stream 2 pipeline to Turkey, Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev told Bulgarian leader Boiko Borissov in Sofia Monday, the Reuters news agency said. Medvedev spoke after the European Commission derailed a previous Russia-Bulgaria pipeline project in 2014. He also offered money for the rebuilding of Bulgaria's Belene nuclear plant.
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[Ticker] Denmark shamed by Amnesty over rape convictions

Euobserver.com - Tue, 03/05/2019 - 09:11
Denmark has a "pervasive 'rape culture' and endemic impunity for rapists", international NGO Amnesty International said in a report Tuesday. Out of an estimated 5,100 rape cases in 2017, just 94 ended in guilty verdicts it said. The vast majority (20) of EU states lacked a "consent-based" definition of rape, in which a woman must say yes to sex in order for it to be legal, the NGO said.
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[Ticker] EU diplomats in Washington have status restored

Euobserver.com - Tue, 03/05/2019 - 09:09
The US has restored full diplomatic status to EU diplomatic staff in Washington following a downgrade last year, which had left them less likely to be invited to high-end events, the Reuters news agency said. "We're pleased that the US took the decision to revert to the usual practice," the European Commission noted. The move coincided with the arrival of the new EU ambassador, Stavros Lambrinidis, in the US.
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