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		<title>Irish research will benefit from EU funding boost</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Irish third level colleges, research organisations and private sector industries are being urged to make the most of the EU’s biggest ever research funding programme launched in Brussels this week. Ireland’s European Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn announced a €7 billion package, to be made available in 2012 under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research, known [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurolinknews.com&amp;blog=1609914&amp;post=2509&amp;subd=eurolinknews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beware the ‘green jersey’ approach, warns MEP</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Irish MEPs urged the Oireachtas Joint Committee on European Affairs last week to get more involved in European decision-making by cooperating with our EU neighbours. Addressing the newly-formed committee in Leinster House, Fine Gael MEP Mairead McGuinness said Ireland’s problems are common EU problems that must be solved on the basis of EU solidarity. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurolinknews.com&amp;blog=1609914&amp;post=2507&amp;subd=eurolinknews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dublin MEP in Kazakhstan, but not on holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Socialist MEP Paul Murphy hit the international headlines this week during a trip to Kazakhstan, when he took issue with reports in the Kazakhstan national press that he was only visiting the country “in a personal capacity”. The 27 year old Dubliner responded that the release was “an attempt to undermine the purpose of my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurolinknews.com&amp;blog=1609914&amp;post=2505&amp;subd=eurolinknews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MEPs in a bad Moody over US rating agencies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Irish MEPs have joined the growing chorus of criticism throughout Europe against US credit rating agencies, after they downgraded Irish and Portuguese debt to “junk” status earlier this month alongside that of the most embattled eurozone economy, Greece. Fine Gael MEP Jim Higgins urged the President of the European Commission to confirm whether he will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurolinknews.com&amp;blog=1609914&amp;post=2501&amp;subd=eurolinknews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cash-strapped arts groups should look to Brussels</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cultural organisations including drama, dance and other artistic groups are being encouraged to avail of EU grants worth up to €30,000 before a deadline of September 1st. The European Cultural Foundation allocates “collaboration grants” averaging at €15,000 to projects by independent groups working together across borders and disciplines. In order to qualify for a grant, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurolinknews.com&amp;blog=1609914&amp;post=2499&amp;subd=eurolinknews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EU wants to halve food waste by 2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catering firms that agree to redistribute their unused or unsold food items to charitable groups for free could be awarded lucrative public contracts, under a new plan being considered by MEPs in Brussels. A report entitled “Avoiding Food Waste” recommends changing public procurement rules across Europe so that companies are rewarded for reducing the amount [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurolinknews.com&amp;blog=1609914&amp;post=2495&amp;subd=eurolinknews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Irish fishing quotas for sale to the highest bidder</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An EU proposal to allow member states buy and sell fishing rights could spell the end of the Irish family-owned fishing fleet, it was claimed this week. The controversial plan, part of a major reform package put forward by EU Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki, has been roundly condemned by fishing groups and politicians in Ireland [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurolinknews.com&amp;blog=1609914&amp;post=2490&amp;subd=eurolinknews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gay prepares for “one hell of a campaign”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dublin MEP and Fine Gael’s presidential candidate Gay Mitchell has been instructed by the Taoiseach to get the most from the week-long summer holiday he has planned with his wife Norma before facing the rigours of the election campaign in the autumn. “Take your holidays and be anonymous and enjoy it, because, believe you me, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurolinknews.com&amp;blog=1609914&amp;post=2487&amp;subd=eurolinknews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Irish holiday makers unaware of emergency number</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Irish people holidaying abroad this summer are being asked to remember three digits &#8211; 112 &#8211; the number to call for emergency services anywhere in the EU. The free hotline has been in place since 1991, but a recent Eurobarometer survey revealed a widespread ignorance of the number in all member states, particularly in Ireland. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurolinknews.com&amp;blog=1609914&amp;post=2483&amp;subd=eurolinknews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended airport scanners “will not show human body”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New generation body scanners recommended by the European Parliament will not display the human body but will simply indicate when the passenger is carrying something dangerous, it was claimed last week. Passengers should also be given the right to refuse this type of scanning as long as they are prepared to undergo other security checks, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurolinknews.com&amp;blog=1609914&amp;post=2481&amp;subd=eurolinknews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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