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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/education

Parliament adopts Zatloukal report on efficiency and equity in European education and training systems

Strasbourg, 28/09/2007 (Agence Europe) - Member states must step up their investment in pre-school education, in order to form an effective base for later learning. Such is the message set out in the Tomás Zatloukal report (EPP-ED, Czech Republic) on efficiency and equity in European education and training systems. The own-initiative report was adopted on Thursday in plenary session by 479 votes to 53 and 12 abstentions.

The report highlights the need to improve efficiency in the field of...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Energy: Remarks on the unbundling of production and distribution activities, and its repercussions on EU external relations
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EP/TREATY: Extraordinary meeting on revised treaty in European Parliament on 2 October, attended by José Manuel Durão Barroso
(EU) EP/DEATH PENALTY: MEPs urge Council to present resolution on moratorium on death penalty to UN
(EU) EU/KOSOVO:
(EU) EU/CENTRAL AMERICA:
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/COMPETITIVENESS: In the face of challenges from globalisation and sustainable development, Council and Commission together suggest closer integration of Community policies
(EU) EU/RESEARCH: Council reaches consensus on joint research initiatives
(EU) EU/ACP: EU decides formally to terminate Sugar Protocol - Increased indignation from ACP countries at this unilateral decision
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Confidence falls and inflation rises in September
(EU) EU/TURKEY/ENLARGEMENT:
(EU) EU/JHA COUNCIL: New EU anti-terror tsar to make his appearance at informal meeting in Lisbon on 1 and 2 October
(EU) EU/JHA: Special EU counter-terrorist units receive training
(EU) EU/JHA/IMMIGRATION:
(EU) EU/ACP: International 'Stop EPAs' campaign targets the Commission - Joint response from Louis Michel and Peter Mandelson
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT COUNCIL: Full agenda for ministers on 1 and 2 October - focus on Galileo
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT: ICAO fails to agree on cutting aviation greenhouse gas emissions
(EU) EU/ENERGY:
(EU) EU/ENERGY:
(EU) EU/TRANSPORT:
(EU) EP/EDUCATION: Parliament adopts Zatloukal report on efficiency and equity in European education and training systems
(EU) EP/CULTURE: MEPs back setting up European digital library
(EU) EP/AGRICULTURE:
(EU) EP/INTERNAL MARKET: EP raises idea of horizontal instrument to enhance protection for consumers of cross-border services
(EU) OMBUDSMAN: Nikiforos Diamandouros calls on Parliament to guarantee access to information on MEPS' personal allowances
(EU) EU/HEALTH:
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Council cannot adopt “refugee status” directive without taking Parliament amendments into account
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Spain and Luxembourg guilty of barring access to public sector information
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Major legislation published in the Official Journal
(EU) EU/CONFERENCES: Workshops, conferences and seminars on European integration in October 2007
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