Happy Social Enterprise Day 2008. Today social enterprises will be celebrating their success and promoting social entrepreneurship to young people. Among today's events are the launch of the One Water Project which asks young people to think of new ways of selling ethical water brand One Water (check out the interactive game on the site). The Social Enterprise Coalition will be announcing the...

Europe's water industry has urged farmers to record their exact water consumption and opt for more efficient irrigation methods, in a drive to reconcile the bloc's Common Agricultural Policy with its Water Framework Directive and pave the way for a 'new blue deal'.

Sometimes the EU Treaty of Lisbon introduces new elements to ordinary ‘Community’ policy areas. The social partners are recognised and the Tripartite Social Summit for Growth and Employment is consecrated at treaty level. We ask our readers to reflect upon a translation issue: The English treaty uses different terms in two places where five other language versions stay on track. Some p...

This week, as part of the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, details of a Water Bills Rebate Fund were announced, with a £50 rebate to be provided on water bills for households in Cornwall and other South West Water areas from 2013-14. Along with fellow Liberal Democrats, I have long campaigned on getting a fair deal for

Is it really such a bad thing that there aren’t “enough” social workers? After all, as Parkinson’s Law of Social Work states that social problems increase to occupy the total number of social workers available to deal with them Yes, that was me being facetious, but the point remains that we don’t need huge numbers of social

In an attempt to soften the impact of the economic slowdown on European households, the EU executive and social partners announced plans to embark on a series of talks to devise ways to avoid social freefall and come up with new ideas to carve out recession-proof employment policies at an upcoming employment summit on 7 May.  

The Copenhagen climate summit ended in chaos and acrimony, forcing leading nations back to the drawing board in the search for a legally-binding deal on emissions.

At the World Water Week conference, held last week (16-22 August) in Sweden, political leaders and experts called for water to be a key part of the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December.

Review to look at the emergency services' ability to deal with all forms of water rescue.

The head of the European Commission expressed hope on Thursday (22 October) that European Union leaders will agree on funding for a global climate change deal at a summit next week, despite deadlock at talks.