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European policy causing dairy farm losses
02-15-2007 · EurekAlert!Recently introduced EU deficiency payments will not affect several important production factors in the Dutch dairy sector, says Dutch researcher Daan Ooms. However, although direct deficiency payments do not directly affect production, the changed policy will lead to a strong decrease in the number of dairy farms in the Netherlands.
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- EU aims to clean up European seas by 2021
11-17-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)
European scientists and policy makers met at the Baltic Sea and European Marine Strategy conference in Helsinki, Finland, this week to discuss how to achieve good environmental status for European seas in the next 15 years. ESA took part by demonstrating the potential of Earth observation for monitoring and implementing marine policies.
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- A giant leap for space activities in Europe: ministers to adopt European Space Policy in Brussels
05-16-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
ESA PR 20-2007. Ministers in charge of space activities in ESA's Member States and those responsible for the internal market, industry and research in the European Union's Competitiveness Council, are meeting in Brussels on Tuesday 22 May to adopt the European Space Policy (*).
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- A stepwise retreat: How immune cells catch pathogens
07-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
To protect us from disease our immune system employs macrophages, cells that roam our body in search of disease-causing bacteria. With the help of long tentacle-like protrusions, macrophages can catch suspicious particles, pull them towards their cell bodies, internalize and destroy them. Using a special microscopy technique, researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory now for the first time tracked the dynamic behavior of these tentacles in three dimensions.
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- European Space Agency's Envisat captures breath of volcano
07-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
Indonesia’s Mount Gamkonora volcano is spewing hot ash and smoke into the air, as seen in the attached image taken by the MERIS instrument aboard ESA’s satellite Envisat, causing more than 8000 people to be evacuated amid fears of an imminent eruption, according to officials.
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- A step closer to a European Space Policy
04-26-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
ESA PR 19-2007. Space is a strategic asset which Europe must exploit more effectively. Europe cannot afford to lose out when it comes to securing the economic and societal benefits of space for its citizens. The European Space Policy will soon give Europe a comprehensive tool with which to widen its dimension vis-Ã -vis space activities.
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- Watching what we eat: Food systems in Europe
11-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
Food has never been more of a global commodity than it is today. But there is an urgent need to understand the problems that face future European food supplies within this global market. And so scientists and policy makers gathered in Budapest last week to push for a more holistic approach to the study of what Europeans eat.
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- Europe's Space Policy becomes a reality today
05-22-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
ESA PR 21-2007. A stronger Europe in space, better equipped and better coordinated to face the future needs of its citizens. A wider strategic scope to address new challenges, including the areas of security and defence space programmes, and space as an added dimension to the EU's external relations: all this in a novel policy designed to fit European interests and values.
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- Conference organised at University to mark 50th anniversary of European Union
10-26-2007 · University of Bath
The effect of the European Union's trade policy on businesses in the west of England will be explored at a conference on November 14 organised at the University of Bath to mark the 50th anniversary of the EU.
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- Variability in health care treatment costs amongst 9 EU countries
01-08-2008 · EurekAlert!
With "health tourism" rising across the European Union, consumers, insurers and governments are increasingly interested in the relative cost of common procedures in different countries. In an innovative and insightful collection of papers -- published tomorrow as a supplement to Health Economics -- a group of EU policy analysts and economists have addressed the issue of treatment cost variations using a "case vignette" approach that standardises patients in nine European countries needing care for hip replacements, stroke, acute myocardial infarction, birth delivery, appendectomy, cataract and dental filling.
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- European Union outpaces United States on chemical safety
01-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
New stricter European environmental policies may force even U.S.-based electronics makers to change their ways, say policy analysts at Brown University and Boston University. Stacy D. VanDeveer, a visiting fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies, and Henrik Selin, an assistant professor of international relations at Boston University, analyzed the controversial new policies in the December issue of the journal Environment.
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