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EU action against climate change

Tackling climate change is one of the biggest challenges we face. Unless global action is taken quickly to stabilise the rising temperature of the earth’s surface, there is likely to be irreversible and catastrophic damage. The EU has put forward an integrated energy and climate change policy proposal, including ambitious new targets for 2020.  It hopes to set Europe on the right track – towards a sustainable future with a low-carbon, energy-efficient economy – by: ...

Meeting between the ministers for vocational education and training and the ministers for higher education: results

This meeting brought together the countries participating in the cooperation process known as the Copenhagen process (the EU Member States, Norway, Croatia and Turkey), the European Commission and the European social partners. The Copenhagen process was launched in November 2002 by the ministers responsible for education and vocational training of the European Union, the European Economic Area (EEA) and the European Free Trade Area (EFTA), the European social partners and the European Commiss...

A Comissão lança um importante Plano de Relançamento a favor do crescimento e do emprego, com vista a estimular a procura e a restabelecer a confiança na economia europeia

Key Data on Teaching Languages at School in Europe – 2008 Edition

This second edition of Key Data on Teaching Languages at school in Europe gives a clear picture of the language teaching systems in place in the schools of 31 countries covered by the Eurydice Network. It covers aspects ranging from foreign language learning at a very early age, the variety of languages learnt, the taught time at various education levels, the proportion of language learners at each level, content and language integrated learning (CLIL) to the training of teachers of foreign l...