European Council meeting will take place on 17-18 December 2015 in Justus Lipsius building in Brussels.
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Deutschland führt bei klimafreundlichen Innovationen: Kein Land hat in den vergangenen Jahren so viele nachhaltige Technologien zum Patent angemeldet, zeigt ein Bericht des Europäischen Patentamtes.
Pierre Montagnon prononcera une conférence sur "Les écrivains militaires de Monluc à Charles de Gaulle", le jeudi 10 décembre à 19h, en salle des cartes du Château de Vincennes.
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Saint-cyrien, Pierre Montagnon a servi comme officier en Algérie avant de se consacrer à une œuvre historique d’une quarantaine d’ouvrages. Celui précisément consacré à la guerre d’Algérie a reçu, en 1984, le prix de l’Académie française. Dans son dernier livre, L’épée et la plume, Pierre Montagnon évoque ces hommes d’armes qui ont pris la plume pour raconter leurs campagnes, réfléchir sur l’art de la guerre, ou aborder d’autres formes de manœuvres, comme l’auteur des Liaisons dangereuses.
European governments and EU institutions need to be onalert, and should consider publicly addressing the possibility of a terroristattack using chemical, biological, radiological or even nuclear materials. TheEU institutions have devoted considerable efforts to preventing a CBRN attackon European soil and preparing worst-case scenarios. However, some gaps remain,in particular with regard to information-sharing among Member States.
With the festive season comes all kinds of traditions in Brussels: mulled wine, Saint Nicholas, and another deadline for nations to strike a deal on a financial transactions tax.
But while last year ministers found themselves empty handed when a December deadline for an agreement rolled around, this year it’s different. Sort of.
As Bruxellois bought their sapins de noel (Christmas trees) on the pavement outside the EU summit building, inside another Sapin (Michel), the French finance minister who has been one of the tax’s biggest champions, was full of holiday cheer.
During a meeting of EU finance ministers, Sapin (the minister) hailed a breakthrough moment in the nearly three-year slog for an FTT, which would issue a levy on all stock and a derivative trades in the ten EU countries who are part of the scheme.
Could this Christmas miracle really be true? Could there really be a deal?
In practice, it’s more like half of a deal. Pierre Moscovici, the EU commissioner in charge of tax issues, found a convoluted combination of tenses to sum it up: “We have now the main parameters of what this FTT should be, and hopefully will be.”
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