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Wednesday - February 27, 2008
EU fines Microsoft record $1.4bn
(BBC News) - The European Commission has fined US computer giant Microsoft
for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour.
Microsoft must now pay a record 899m euros ($1.4bn) after it failed
to comply with a 2004 ruling that it abused its position. The ruling
said that Microsoft was guilty of not providing key code to rival software
makers. EU regulators said the firm was the first to break an EU anti-trust
ruling.
Sunday - February 17, 2008
Kosovo, Serbia: Ethnic Albanians declare independence
PRIŠTINA, BELGRADE (with B92) - Ethnic Albanians have today unilaterally
declared independence of the Serbian province of Kosovo. Belgrade has
reacted with a televised address to the nation by Prime Minister Vojislav
Koštunica. As expected and announced earlier this week, he declared
such proclamations illegal, null and void, and rejected them, based
on Serbia's right as an internationally recognized and sovereign member
of the United Nations.
Kosovo has been administered by the UN since June 1999, after NATO bombing
of FR Yugoslavia. Its international and internal status was defined
with the UN SC Resolution 1244.
Sunday Kosovo's assembly in Priština unanimously
endorsed a unilateral declaration of independence. The declaration,
read by Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, said Kosovo would be a "democratic
country that respected the rights of all ethnic communities." Many
of MPs were members of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, officialy
listed as a terrorist group. Thaci himself is a former member.
Sunday - February 3, 2008
Elections in Serbia: Boris Tadić re-elected for president
BELGRADE - Serbia has re-elected Boris Tadić for president after second
ballot of presidential elections held today. Very tough battle against
candidate of Radical Party Tomislav Nikolić is finished by result 50,45
% : 47,82 % for Democratic Party candidate. Some experts say that means
Serbian people have choosen to go towards European Union, better living
standard and more foreign investments. The others say it's only presenting
Serbian society divided almost half-half and very high level of public
opinion going towards more cooperation with Russia and Eastern countries
hoping that also means Kosovo will stay with Serbia.
Sunday - January 27, 2008
Australian Open 2008: Sharapova and Djokovic won the titles
MELBOURNE - Russian Beauty Maria Sharapova and the best Serbian tennis
player ever - Novak Djokovic, are the winners of this year's Australian
Open in Melbourne. They won the titles in the first grand slam tournament
in 2008 by beating Serbian Ana Ivanovic and French player Jo Wilfried
Tsonga in the finals.
Monday - January 14, 2008
2:54 PM EST: French newspaper says Sarkozy might have wed
Bruni
PARIS (Reuters) - A French newspaper reported on Monday that President
Nicolas Sarkozy might have married his new girlfriend Carla Bruni last
week, but the mother of the former Italian supermodel said she was unaware
of any secret nuptials. Regional daily l'Est Republicain quoted a source
close to someone who "attended the ceremony" as saying that
Sarkozy and Bruni married last Thursday at the Elysee presidential palace.
"Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni reportedly got married on Thursday
at the Elysee," the paper said on its website.
Thursday - January 10, 2008
Eur@dioNantes: Call for internship!
Eur@dioNantes is looking for bilingual students (a high level
of practice of french language is required) wishing to be involved in
an internship to become professionals and that are open to Europe. They
would alternately be journalists, moderators, news-anchors; and will
work on three downbeats every day. The internship usually last 6 months,
but can last less or more according to universities and students' possibilities.
The students need to be present in March 2008.
Eur@dioNantes is a local pilot project with a European vocation,
an associative radio that has already obtained an official authorization
for broadcasting. Diffused on the frequency 101.3 in the area of Nantes
(France), Eur@dioNantes equally benefits a direct broadcast on the internet.
The students, supervised by professional journalists, will treat local
and national information and compare them with the current news of their
native country. The idea is to create a common reflection on the European
actuality through these multicultural exchanges.
Even though several candidates may apply for the internship, only one
applicant from each university is accepted for the same period. The
acceptance of the student brings in the students from his class and
his supervisor. The other students from his class will also participate
in the project from a distance as journalist correspondents. Thus the
intern at Eur@dioNantes remains in contact with his supervisor and the
students from his class. She/he will send them the topics to be treated
every week to compare (with his/her country and city) the information
treated in France. The student correspondents will treat the topics
from their country and propose speakers to the intern, make reports,
write articles...
The application files need to be returned to Eur@dioNantes before
15 February 2008. The selection of the candidates will follow after
a phone interview and the chosen candidates will be informed by mail
the week after. An internship convention between university and the
Eur@dioNantes structure should be sent filled-out before the reception
of the student. The student should arrive to Nantes at the end of
February 2008 in order to be able to start the internship on March the
1st.
More information on www.euradionantes.eu.
Wednesday - December 26, 2007
Take the Survey: The best in WAVE Magazine in 2007!
New Year is coming, we are summing up the old one! So many articles,
so many topics in 12 monthly issues... What did you like the most in
WAVE magazine in 2007?
Give your votes to the favorite
article and favorite
author!
Tell us your opinion!
Friday - December 21, 2007
9:11 AM EST: Former Cold War borders fall away in new Europe
ZITTAU, Germany (Reuters) - Frontiers in east Europe once guarded by
machineguns and barbed wire in the Cold War fell away on Friday as nine
mostly former communist states joined the EU's border-free zone amid
fireworks, cheers and music. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, herself
from ex-communist East Germany, hailed as historic a move seen by many
as a final lifting of the old Iron Curtain. From midnight, the nine
joined 15 existing members to create an area one third the size of the
United States, allowing passport-free travel for 4,000 km (2,500 miles)
from Estonia to Portugal. The extension of the European Union's so-called
Schengen zone brought in Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic,
Slovenia, Malta, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The move is expected
to boost business and tourism, though some worry about a rise in crime
or illegal immigration. Border posts were ceremonially lifted or cut,
border guards left their booths and people walked freely across frontiers
that once divided the former Soviet bloc from the West.
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