The Council of the European Union has published a notice on a Multi-annual European e-Justice Action Plan 2009─2013, in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) 31.3.2009 C 75/1. The project aims at developing the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) at European level in the field of justice. Objectives worth mentioning are: • Improved access to information in th...

The European Union is drafting a new energy efficiency action plan to make good on its pledge to combat climate change and reduce its dependency on imported oil and gas.

Members of the NUJ journalists’ union at were set to take planning further industrial action on Wednesday of this week against management’s plans to make cuts

Plans for ecotowns could be thrown out under European law according to a damning new report that describes Government strategy on the troubled project as "exceptionally poor".

After the European Commission failed to produce its promised action plan on urban mobility in 2008, MEPs have taken the unusual step of reclaiming the initiative, with a report due before the June European elections.

A leaked draft of the 'Europe 2020' strategy ties together research, education, finance and intellectual property as part of a holistic approach likely to be reflected in the European Commission's forthcoming innovation action plan. Several of the proposed reforms are long-standing goals but officials say there is now unprecedented political impetus to fix old problems. The EU's ne...

Britain is the amphetamine cocaine and ecstasy capital of Europe a European Union report claims.

Legal challenge could be brought if teaching union moves to go ahead with industrial action The government has declared a proposed boycott of next year's Sats "unlawful" raising the question of a legal challenge if the National Union of Teachers backs the plans at its annual conference in Cardiff tomorrow. The move escalates tensions between the government and teaching unions. The National As...

For the sake of comparison, an election manifesto can be fairly short and still manage to set a future course for the European Union: Stronger Together in a Federal Europe: UEF Manifesto for the European Parliament 2009-14 Europe must be more united if it is to face up to its current economic and constitutional crises. This is the message of European federalists on the eve of the European Parliame...

Yes, another useful crisis. Reports the Wall Street Journal, the European Commission criticized airport operators in western Europe for being ill-prepared to cope with bad weather. The commission, the European Union's executive arm, may draft new rules if airport operators can't voluntarily take action to plan better for severe weather, Siim Kallas, the commission's transport-policy...