September 28, 2009
This Saturday, Blogactiv will provide live, up-to-the-minute coverage of the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Live results, constituency-by-constituency, with comment and analysis on breaking news as it happens. Log on from 11am (CET) for what could be an eventful day…
Posted by Gary Finnegan
September 23, 2009
Patent reform shelved pending European Cout of Justice decision European member states have found a new excuse for their failure to agree on the community patent system which all are agreed is essential to the much-vaunted “knowledge economy”: the positive move to introduce a unified patent litigation system (UPLS) requires the opinion of the European… » read more
Posted by Gary Finnegan
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September 3, 2009
Market, Economy and Crisis dominate Commission President’s list of most-used words. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso unveiled his ‘summer homework‘ today, setting out his agenda in a bid to convince a sceptical European Parliament that he has a vision for a second term. So what were his priorities? Well, taking an outrageously crude quantative… » read more
Posted by Gary Finnegan
September 2, 2009
Sitting listening to the EU’s enterprise commissioner holding forth at the European Parliament’s environmental committee on the subject of regulating medicines, I was prompted to wonder how the status of health policy could be so low. Swine flu, counterfeit drugs, and our ageing population are supposed to be priorities but health is an afterthought. The… » read more
Posted by Gary Finnegan
