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| Telecommunications - new rules for the digital era |
Lower prices and more consumer choice on the telecoms market should be the result of new EU laws designed to boost competition in the industry. The legislation will create a level playing fiel...
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| Keeping Europe at the forefront of the internet boom |
The explosion in internet use over the last few years has prompted the European Union to pass a wide range of legislation in the hope of increasing the benefits of this new technology while protecti...
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| Helping artists enjoy the fruits of their labours |
Everything is digital: text, music and films are on tap anytime, anywhere. And thanks to new technologies they can be copied without restriction and at little cost. In the information society, we can ...
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| MEPs to the aid of Europe's film industry |
More than a million people in the EU are directly employed in the audiovisual industries (film, television, radio and related sectors). These industries are not just important economically, th...
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Energy package for Europe - freedom of choice
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Europeans will soon be able to decide who to buy their gas and electricity from, at the price they are prepared to pay - just like buying food at the supermarket. In many EU Member States, consumers...
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| Fighting the greenhouse effect by using renewable energy |
As a keen supporter of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Parliament backs the idea of research into alternatives to traditional energy sources and warmly supports renewable forms of energy such as wi...
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| 16.3 billion euro boost for scientific research |
The Sixth Framework Research Programme is the EU’s main instrument for funding scientific research, its chief focus being the creation of a European Research Area, the equivalent of a "common market" ...
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