Full Coverage: Europe

30.11.2006 Transparency International Croatia reacted today to the draft-Law on Financing of Political Parties that entered parliamentary procedure earlier this week. TIC believes that the Law is an important step forward in creation of legal framework for fight against corruption, but that this draft has one great defect – it doesn’t regulate the financing of election campaigns.

30.11.2006 Finnish human rights groups say that European Union leaders failed to raise human violations in Russia effectively enough at their meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin here last week.

30.11.2006 from The BBC:
The European Union has established carbon limits for the second phase of the carbon trading scheme, a key step in cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

30.11.2006 Under the “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence” campaign, the Anima Centre for Women and Peace Studies from Kotor sent an open letter to the Montenegrin Parliament, Government, political parties, the Parliamentary Committee on Gender Equality and the Office of Gender Equality, with the demand that the status of women as constitutional part of the state body is confirmed in the preparation of the new Constitution of Montenegro.

30.11.2006 Executive Director of the World AIDS Campaign, Marcel van Soest speaks to UNAIDS about the history of the World AIDS Campaign, how people can become involved in this year’s events and why ‘accountability’ is such a crucial theme for World AIDS Day 2006.

29.11.2006 In commemoration of Universal Children’s Day, some 120 young people from different ethnic groups visited Albanian Mosques and Serbian Orthodox Monasteries, as part of an awareness raising activity promoting respect for religious sites among the youth in Kosovo. Rick Spruyt reports for World Vision from Kosovo.

29.11.2006 U Bosni i Hercegovini je do početka rata u prvoj polovini devedesetih godina prošlog stoljeća postojala izgrađena telekomunikaciona infrastruktura, koja je uključivala telefonsku i telegrafsku mrežu, te mrežu za prenos podataka. Ukupan kapacitet bh. telefonskih centrala bio je 744.000 telefonskih priključaka. Ratna dešavanja su pričinila veliku materijalnu štetu na telekomunikacionim objektima, a sa administrativnom podjelom zemlje na dva entiteta dolazi i do podjela u telekomunikacionom sektoru.

29.11.2006 Kada je u junu 2005. Telekomu Srbija istekao osmogodišnji ugovor o monopolu, poznavaoci tržišta telekomunikacija ponadali su se da će u narednih godinu dana i u Srbiju stići kokurencija u ovom sektoru, a sa njom i pad cena i podizanje kvaliteta usluga. Godinu i po dana kasnije, stanje na srpskom tržištu ostalo je nepromenjeno, a prema Strategiji razvoja telekomunikacija, koju je nedavno usvojila Vlada Srbije, monopol Telekoma Srbija faktički se produžava do 2010. godine.

29.11.2006 Nedostatak informacija jedan je od elemenata siromaštva. Osnovni uzroci zacaranog kruga siromastva su nedostatak obrazovanja i informacija. Uprkos proklamovanoj političkoj volji za smanjenje siromaštva, gradjanima jugoistične Evrope, najsiromašnijeg evropskog regiona, sistematski se uskraćuju prava na informacije, obrazovanje i komunikacije, kroz onemogućavanje pristupa telekomunikacijama. Procitajte vise.

29.11.2006 from The Times:
The Tories want to replace the present climate change levy with a tax that will fall more heavily on the biggest polluters.

28.11.2006 Between November 22 and December 15, 2006, the Youth Information Agency and the Creative Development Foundation will organize a campaign to collect letters of support for the initiative to establish a special fund for introduction of information science technology in B&H education system.

28.11.2006 The SEE Youth Network annual assembly, held earlier this month in Montenegro, decided, by unanimous decision, to accept the Croatian Youth Network for associate membership. CYN may become full member of SEEYN in a year’s time, if it proves, through its activities and engagement, itself worthy of it.

28.11.2006 Amnesty International welcomes the initiative of the 46 member states of the Council of Europe to join forces with local and international NGOs to eradicate domestic violence, which is prevalent in every society in Europe--cutting across boundaries of wealth, race, and culture.

28.11.2006 Cullen International, Belgian institute that provides monitoring services on telecommunications and electronic commerce, has started a project for monitoring of Development of Electronic Communications Sector in SEE countries. This is the second report released under this project.

28.11.2006 NGO INTEGRA in cooperation with UNICEF HQ Prishtina, Kosovar Committee for AIDS and other local and international partners, continuous hard work to combat the HIV/AIDS.

28.11.2006 Gender equality has emerged as an important social issue in Albania. This is reflected by the new master’s programme on gender and development now offered at Tirana University.

28.11.2006 from Blue Climate:
Portugal will invest in a carbon fund to ensure that the country can meet its Kyoto targets for the 2008-2012.

27.11.2006 If Sudan's president does not act to end the bloodshed in Darfur, he will have to answer to a war crimes court, a top UK diplomat said last week. "If there are more atrocities," he added, it will be because "a government denied protection to its people."

27.11.2006 The On.Net Internet provider and several cable operators may become the first companies to enter the landline telephone services market and compete with “Macedonian Telecommunications” Co. at the start of next year. The potential operators complain of the high interconnection charges as the main obstacle to their entry in the market.

27.11.2006 The legal framework in Albania is covered by the Telecommunication Regulatory Entity, the regulatory body on telecommunications and development policies. Although legally its task was to regulate the telecommunications operations and it aims to protect public interests and create transparent regulatory environment, which assists in inciting investments and free competition situation in the telecommunication market in the country is still monopolized and with many abuse cases and corruptive affairs.