Britain and Germany will team up to work on developing the next super-fast mobile network, 5G, Prime Minister David Cameron told the opening of the world's biggest high-tech fair on Sunday.

http://www.thelocal.de/20140310/uk-and-germany-to-join-forces-for-super-fast-internet

While ministers have insisted the funds spent directly by the Department for International Development must go on poverty relief projects in a handful of the very poorest countries, Brussels spends much of its aid budget on helping Europe's neighbours to adopt a European way of life. That has included £2 billion in Ukraine since the collapse of the USSR in 1991 in order to prepare it for one day joining the bloc.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10687948/British-aid-to-train-Ukrainian-riot-troops.html

wouldn’t it make sense for Mr. Soros to make at least some reference to what happened in 1971? ... America defaulted on the dollar. The gold exchange standard that had been operated since Bretton Woods was abandoned. Now a lot of people, including Mr. Soros, made a lot of money in the chaos that followed. ... What Mr. Soros and his fellow sages should be saying is that long-term full employment is not going to return to Britain until it restores itself to a system of sound and honest money. By the way, we’d say the same thing to Ukraine and its striving millions. Their hunger for freedom and democracy is inspiring. But to scramble to get onto the European Union is to seek to clamber aboard a raft that is caught in a whirlpool.

http://www.nysun.com/editorials/george-soros-two-cents/88619/

The EU finds itself in the embarrassing situation of having mishandled a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Ukraine’s landmark Association Agreement, and the new Kyiv government is furious, EurActiv has found.

http://www.euractiv.com/global-europe/eu-mishandles-ukraine-trade-pact-news-534002

Comment canaliser la fièvre innovatrice de nos sociétés ? Garder ce qui est bon, écarter ce qui est mal, après avoir défini ces caté­gories ? Questions au cœur du livre de Benjamin Sourice, Plaidoyer pour un contre-lobbying citoyen. Sa thèse : les industriels pervertissent les institutions censées protéger la société contre les risques de leurs innovations. Et la meilleure manière de parer cette action consiste à y opposer des contre-pouvoirs citoyens. Lanceurs d’alertes, expertises indépendantes, conférences de citoyens… En voici les outils, présentés dans un ouvrage qui mérite une lecture attentive.

http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/home/2014/03/lobby-citoyen-contre-lobby-industriel-.html

Les parlementaires se sont étonnés qu'après le scandale du Libor il y a deux ans, les responsables de la Banque d'Angleterre, régulateur du secteur financier, ne se soient pas inquiétés de possibilités de truquage d'autres marchés, comme celui des devises, de l'or, du pétrole ou des swaps. «Nous n'avons pas d'information suggérant que quelqu'un à la Banque d'Angleterre ait fermé les yeux, facilité ou participé à des manipulations de marchés», a insisté Mark Carney.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/

"Europe is, without a doubt, in its most serious crisis since the fall of the Berlin Wall," Steinmeier said on Monday. "Twenty-five years after the end of the conflict between the blocs, there's a new, real danger that Europe will split once again."

http://www.spiegel.de/

Sweden threatened Wednesday to sue the European Commission over a delay in identifying harmful chemicals in everyday products. The Commission was supposed to set criteria by December 2013 for identifying endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in thousands of anti-bacterial products-- found in items such as clothes, shoes and toiletries -- which have been linked to cancers, birth defects and development disorders in children.

http://www.thelocal.se/20140226/sweden-threatens-to-sue-the-eu-over-chemicals

«La Commission a demandé une libéralisation complète, c'est-à-dire une stricte séparation du réseau et des opérations. Pour ma part, je continue de plaider pour le maintien de différents modèles structurels, tels qu’ils existent – et fonctionnent – actuellement en Europe. Au Luxembourg, nous avons un modèle de société intégrée; en Allemagne, la DB est structurée en holding, tandis que dans la plupart des pays du Nord, en Suède, en Grande-Bretagne ou en République tchèque, il y a une séparation stricte et nette. Chacun de ces trois modèles présente ses succès et ses faiblesses; il n’y a pas de modèle unique ‘parfait’», explique Georges Bach.

http://www.paperjam.lu/article/fr/la-commission-sur-la-mauvaise-voie

Visa restrictions and imposition of tuition fees for first time mean fewer people from overseas are applying to study at Swedish universities ... In a recent op-ed article in the daily Dagens Nyheter, Gudmundson argued for a review of the fees decision and better visa arrangements.

http://www.scmp.com/