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8 December Dec 2015 1338 08 December 2015 Access City Award 2016 for access-friendly cities goes to Milan
The prize is awarded to European cities for their efforts to improve accessibility for people with disabilities and the elderly.
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2 December Dec 2015 1643 02 December 2015 Europe's new circular economy
Brussels, 2nd December: The European Commission adopted a Circular Economy Package: a series of measures that aim to stimulate the European economy, increase its competitiveness on the global markets, and create new jobs.
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2 December Dec 2015 1136 02 December 2015 Flavia Micilotta is the new Executive Director of EUROSIF
She joins the leading pan-European sustainable and responsible membership organisation from the Brussels based Foreign Trade Association (FTA).
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30 November Nov 2015 1101 30 November 2015 Bernd Nilles (Cidse): "Paris is just a milestone for bigger change"
In the run up to the COP21 Summit in Paris, Vita International spoke to the secretary general of CIDSE Bernd Nilles in Brussels, in order to understand civil society’s message and strategy ahead of talks in Paris, as well as better understand his position as a member of the Vatican's twelve-person delegation to the summit.
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23 November Nov 2015 1224 23 November 2015 When multiculturalism becomes monoculturalism
The excessiveness of good intentions, and the reaction towards globalizaton. What has contributed to changing the commune of Molenbeek into a monocultural zone ? Vita International speaks to Jan De Volder, head of office of The European Federation of the Community of Sant’Egidio,the international movement of Christians.
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22 November Nov 2015 0257 22 November 2015 Photos: Brussels lockdown on Saturday night
The streets of Brussels last night were tense and eerie. On the way into the city centre, the sound of cars was conspicuously absent. Salah Abdehslam has not been caught yet, and whilst the manhunt continues, Brussels remains on its highest level of terror alert.