EU parliament gives green light to "Blue Card" scheme Brussels, Nov 20, EuAsiaNews -- The European Parliament (EP) gave Thursday its support to the European Union’s "Blue Card" scheme to att...
Brussels, Nov 20, EuAsiaNews -- The European Parliament (EP) gave Thursday its support to the European Union’s "Blue Card" scheme to attract highly-skilled workers from non-EU countries to take jobs in the 27-member European bloc.
The scheme, modelled on the US "Green C ...
Brussels, Nov 19, EuAsiaNews -- Pakistan Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, met here Wednesday with NATO Secretary General, Jaap De Hoop Scheffer, and also addressed the military committee of the 26-member Alliance.
"Today was a very special day, because today we had Gener ...
Brussels, Nov 19 , EuAsiaNews -- The European Union Wednesday presented a strategy to make the dismantling of old ships safer for workers and the environment. Today ship dismantling takes place largely in South Asia - mainly in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
A spo ...
Brussels, Nov 18, EuAsiaNews -- The European Union is to deploy a big 150-member Election Observation Mission (EOM) for the parliamentary elections in Bangladesh scheduled to take place on 18 December.
A number of experts on election assessment, who will form the Core Tea ...
Krakow (Poland), Nov 18, EuAsiaNews -- The legendary Kathak exponent Pandit Birju Maharaj of Banaras Gharana enthralled the Polish audience on Monday when he and his children gave an amazing performance of Kathak dance here in the medieval capital of Poland.
The a ...
Brussels, Nov 17, EuAsiaNews -- Top military officers of NATO member and its Partner nations will meet at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday for their Autumn meeting.
More than 60 Chiefs of Defence from NATO members, Partnership-for-Peace nations, the ...
Brussels, Nov 17, EuAsiaNews -- The pan-European human rights watchdog, Council of Europe (CoE), published Monday its written contribution to the next UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which takes place from 3 to 6 December, in Hyderabad (India).
Its message to the Hyde ...
Brussels, Nov 17, EuAsiaNews -- Representatives from the European Parliament and the European Commission are encouraging executives from EU countries to gain language and work experience in China .
A Belgian Member of the European Parliament, Dirk Sterckx speaking at a press brief ...
New Delhi, Nov 17, EuAsiaNews -- On buses in London, Brussels and many European cities are posters of children who have ran away from home, or who are missing.
However it was shocking to learn that over a three day period, 762 unaccompanied children arrived on Old ...
Brussels, Nov 14, EuAsiaNews -- The European Securities Committee (ESC) voted here Friday in favour of proposals by the European Commission to grant equivalence to the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAPs) of certain non-EU countries as from next year.
ESC is an EU advi ...
Brussels, Nov 13, EuAsiaNews -- India’s biggest private airline Jet Airways organised a press luncheon here Thursday to announce an agreement with the Indian restaurant 'La Porte des Indes' of Brussels to supply Indian cuisine on Jet Airways long-haul flights departing from its Brussels hub. < ...
Brussels, Nov 12, EuAsiaNews -- On his first official visit to India, EU Commissioner for Education, Jan Figel, in a meeting with the Indian Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Arjun Singh, signed in New Delhi Wednesday a Joint Declaration in the field of education to formally mark the ...
Brussels, Nov 11, EuAsiaNews -- A British Member of the European Parliament (EP), Liz Lynne, invited a delegation of Sikhs to EP Monday as part of the launch of a new interest group.
But she said the EP authorities had ruled the Kirpan dagger worn by some of them to be a security ...
Brussels, Nov 11, EuAsiaNews -- The European Parliament’s (EP) International Trade Committee is to visit India shortly to discuss the progress of ongoing negotiations between the European Union and India on a free trade agreement (FTA).
"I as rapporteur am currently finalizing my report ...
Brussels, Nov 10, EuAsiaNews -- The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemned Monday the killing of a journalist by Pakistan security forces in Swat valley, north-west Pakistan, on the evening of November 8.
Qari Mohammad Shoaib, a reporter for daily newspapers Azadi ...
Brussels, Nov 10, EuAsiaNews -- European Union Foreign Ministers meeting here Monday said they deplored "the lack of progress made this year towards a genuine transition to democracy in Burma/Myanmar since the violent repression of peaceful demonstrations by the military authorities."
Brussels, Nov 5, EuAsiaNews -- King Albert II of Belgium, currently on a state-visit to India, will preside over the signing of Memoranda of Understanding between Belgium’s Ghent University and five Indian Universities • Gulbarga University, Bangalore University, Visvesrarayya Technological U ...
Brussels, Nov 5, EuAsiaNews -- The 4th Meeting of the EU-China Round Table will take place on Thursday and Friday in Paris.
The agenda will include trade and investment and related issues such as intellectual property rights as well as recycling industries, said the EESC in a stat ...
Brussels, Nov 4, EuAsiaNews -- European Union foreign policy chief, Javier Solana , welcomed Tuesday the agreement signed earlier between the authorities of China and Taiwan to improve direct transport and trade links across the Taiwan Straits.
"The European Union has always taken ...
Brussels, Nov 3, EuAsiaNews -- The biggest research event on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is to be held in the French city of Lyon from 25-27 November.
This event organised by the European Commission acts as a networking forum for researchers and innovators, po ...