Strasbourg24 May 2012 We could save many young people from unemployment with a greater entrepreneurial spirit, knowledge and courage. It is essential for education systems to pay more attention to entrepreneurialism. Another issue is that we still have two different speeds: the speed and drive of companies to survive, develop … Continue reading
I would like to communicate my goals to all of you. I stand for new employment, new economic growth and brave business ideas. During the past weeks, I have shared my thoughts with journalists, professors, and citizens. Our key role today is to establish policies for concrete measures and for … Continue reading
Brussels, 9 May 2012 Dear all, I greet you sincerely on the occasion of Europe Day! The future of Europe is in reasoned saving, research and development, the enlargement of the Single Market, maintaining cultural diversity, traditional values and harmony between the young and the elderly. Europe will maintain … Continue reading
The sun, heat, just the right amount of humidity. Greenery and the sounds of birds that call from trees along the streets. I’m getting reading for the trip to the airport and the move to Chennai. It is a city in the south, a centre of one of the largest … Continue reading
India is a land of contrasts. Like the EU, it is made up of 28 states. Although 1.2 billion people live in India, as opposed to the EU’s 500 million inhabitants. Half of them have no electricity, at least a quarter of them are poor. When we spoke in the … Continue reading
I am in India this week as part of the European Parliament’s delegation. This delegation is the biggest thus far, showing the great interest of both sides for closer business and political cooperation. The central topics of discussion will be: the Free Trade Agreement, climate change and renewable energy, European … Continue reading
Politicians are deeply aware that management of the crisis is necessary to create the conditions for work and new jobs. To achieve the latter, we need sources of finance and new investments. The solution, i.e. how to access them, is in the new EU financial perspective, which we discussed this … Continue reading
The candidate’s life’s work shows an outstanding commitment to fostering mutual understanding and closer integration among Member States and facilitating cooperation in the European Union. He was a postgraduate student of the International Faculty of Comparative Law in 1961/62 inStrasbourg, where he made his first pan-European contacts. In the seventies, … Continue reading
Unfortunately, Slovenia is now amongst those European states that have seen their debt rapidly increase for several years. In the last three years, Slovenia has borrowed more than seven billion euros. With each passing year, the financial situation worsens and very soon it could become completely untenable. We therefore have … Continue reading
Strasbourg, 19 April 2012 Zofija Mazej Kukovič, MEP fromSlovenia, emphasized the need yesterday in a debate on the taxation of energy products and electricity, to adjust planned taxation during this time of crisis. Despite Mazej Kukovič’s support of a low-carbon society, she considers in addition to protecting the environment, … Continue reading