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January 15, 2015 4:18 PM
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The EU has given governments more power to decide whether to plant genetically modified (GM) crops, which are highly restricted in Europe.
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January 9, 2015 5:41 PM
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December 30, 2014 12:41 PM
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Costas Lapavitsas: Syriza’s anti-austerity programme is more sensible than radical, and what Greece needs. But the EU is far from convinced
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jean lievens
December 20, 2014 9:50 AM
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We recently took part in the Share and inspire: Infoday on CAPS in Horizon 2020 in Brussels, presenting some of the research findings and an overview of out first year.
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jean lievens
December 10, 2014 2:56 PM
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If you own a 90 percent market share, or in some countries even more than that, you are de facto the entry gate to the digital world.
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November 25, 2014 12:50 PM
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Things aren’t looking too good across the pond lately for the innovators and entrepren
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jean lievens
November 12, 2014 6:14 AM
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The EU soon intends to sign two far-reaching trade agreements: one with Canada (CETA = Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) and one with the USA (TTIP = Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership). The official line is that this will create jobs and increase economic growth. However, the beneficiaries of these agreements are not in fact citizens, but big corporations:
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jean lievens
October 18, 2014 3:26 PM
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Europe has been recently experiencing a new wave of economic disruption driven by the Internet: the so-called Sharing Economy. Companies like Uber, a service that connects drivers and passengers for short-rides, andAirbnb, a short-term apartment and room rental service, want to change how we take taxis and how we do tourism around the Old Continent.
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jean lievens
October 6, 2014 12:27 PM
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Online Networking Platform: Networking is already happening here, online. Join in to contact people and already exchange ideas before the event.
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jean lievens
September 30, 2014 1:42 PM
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A contribution after Agora99 by Rome’s hostin
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jean lievens
September 22, 2014 12:54 PM
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For technology start-ups like Airbnb and Uber, efforts to gain a stronger foothold in European countries have been complicated by varying regulations from different governments.
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jean lievens
August 15, 2014 11:11 AM
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We, as Blockupy international coordinating group, met in Berlin on June 21st, to discuss the outcomes of the May of Solidarity and the future perspectives. During the days of mobilization actions were various and rich, and we valued positively that many have been organized from outside the May of Solidarity process. We also agreed that, though the Blockupy process is focused on mobilizing towards the opening of the new ECB building in Frankfurt (now scheduled for early 2015), an autonomous political initiative cannot be simply bounded to the dates established by the institutional agenda: we need a larger social and political perspective. The postponing of Turin EU summit on “youth employment”, on the other hand, has left many without a common space to gather, act and discuss. The message of May of Solidarity across Europe – “Solidarity beyond borders, building democracy from below!” – found much resonance, but a strong transnational movement is still to come and we know that no one, beginning with us, could consider themselves to be sufficient.
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jean lievens
July 8, 2014 4:26 PM
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Strikes, protests and red tape dog the leaders of these new business models there, too - even in San Francisco, where many were founded.
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jean lievens
January 11, 2015 7:37 AM
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French economist Thomas Piketty has put inequality back on the map and is being hailed as the Karl Marx of the 21st century. He talked to Max Tholl and Florian Guckelsberger about globalization gone wrong, a Eurozone parliament and our obsession ...
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jean lievens
January 9, 2015 4:13 PM
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Connecting Europe’s energy markets will help reduce emissions and slash costs, but some countries are standing in the way of progress
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jean lievens
December 21, 2014 3:10 PM
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Europeans and Americans disagree on how to balance freedom of speech versus privacy. But don’t dismiss the right to be forgotten as European angst.
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jean lievens
December 17, 2014 12:58 PM
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With the rise of the sharing economy, people are sharing cars, houses, sports equipment, clothing, toys, meals, surfboards and much more. There's an intuition among sharers that sharing is not only good for the pocketbook, it’s good for the planet. The thinking goes that sharing helps us reduce consumption and keep usable goods out of landfills.
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jean lievens
December 8, 2014 5:18 AM
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The hype surrounding the innovation society obscures crucial issues of politics and power.
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jean lievens
November 19, 2014 3:45 PM
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The challenge that we are facing – how to get the economy running again – is an industrial revolution which radically changes the relationship with our territory, currently characterized by the Nimby syndrome. For over two centuries we have witnessed a race towards ever bigger plants
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jean lievens
October 20, 2014 9:26 AM
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The text is the result of discussions by an informal group of people interested to interconnect the Social Economy and Commons issues at the European level. This informal group includes Benjamin Coriat and Fabienne Orsi (researchers), Perez Roland, Pierre Calame, Gaelle Krikorian (European Green), Nicole ALIX and Philippe Herzog, ... It was co-signed by MEP Marie-Christine Vergiat.
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jean lievens
October 8, 2014 3:30 PM
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The World Economic Forum has been enriched by the contributions of globally minded and digital innovators. So it will be no surprise that I view digital technologies and digitally delivered services as critical to fostering Europe’s competitiveness.
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jean lievens
October 6, 2014 12:18 PM
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The EU’s chief criminal intelligence agency warms that the threat of “online murder” is set to rise, with cyber criminals increasingly targeting victims with internet technology.
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jean lievens
September 23, 2014 5:34 PM
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“Europe needs to accept and embrace disruption. The old ways of doing things need to face competition that forces them to innovate,” he wrote in an op-ed for Digital Minds for a New Europe, the European Commission’s new tech series. “Uber, for example, is shaking up the taxi market — for the good. It offers riders convenience and cheaper fares. Understandably, the incumbent taxi industry is unhappy.”
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jean lievens
September 17, 2014 10:13 AM
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The EU-funded CATALYST project aims to develop and test collective intelligence tools and make them available, as open source solutions, to any online communities, particularly those focused on social innovation, sustainability and citizen engagement.
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jean lievens
July 28, 2014 1:43 AM
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The ongoing debate about Europe’s so-called ‘right to be forgotten‘ ruling on search engines has shone a light onto a key pressure point between technology and society. Simply put the ability of digital technology to remember clashes with the human societal need to forgive and forget.
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