The European Commission has published a call for proposals to support Transatlantic Civil Society Dialogues between the European Union and the United States.  Funding is available for projects that strengthen dialogues on a wide range of issues, including the continuation of the consumer dialogue, a transatlantic development and humanitarian dialogue with a special focus on the security nexus in development, and a transatlantic environmental dialogue focusing on energy issues and climate change. All shall involve a broad set of stakeholders...

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The single market has been at the core of the European project from the start, and today, instead of being blocked by national borders and barriers, people, goods, services and money move around the EU nearly as freely as they do within a single country.    Between 1992 and 2009, measures creating the single market generated an additional 2.75 million jobs and 2.15 percent in growth in the EU. Today, trade among EU member countries accounts for 17 percent of...

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European Union leaders meeting in Brussels yesterday and today took decisive measures to safeguard financial stability, restore confidence and revive economic growth. Leaders agreed that the European Stability Mechanism could recapitalize banks directly as soon as a EU-wide single banking supervisor will be in place. The existing firewalls will be used in a flexible and efficient manner to stabilize markets for Member States complying with the fiscal and economic policy rules, guidelines and recommendations. A "Compact for Growth and Jobs" will...

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