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DEBATE development : 100 years of Europe's nature parks

100 years of Europe's nature parks

In 2009 the first nature parks protected by the European Union will be 100 years old. Cafebabel has spoken with six people linked to these spaces in different European countries. Conservation or development? The debate lives on

by Irene Martinez @ // 15/09/09

development, park, ecology, sweden, nature, tourism, spain

NEWS development : EBRD in the red, but for the right reasons

EBRD in the red, but for the right reasons

Despite reporting historic losses, the European bank for reconstruction and development (EBRD) is to increase its aid to eastern countries. Latest titbit of news from Brussels

by France Dutertre @ // 04/03/09

development, european central bank, europe de l'est, banque, euweek, europe

FEATURE development : Doha, Qatar: the north-south solidarity harvest in India

Doha, Qatar: the north-south solidarity harvest in India

From 29 November to 2 December, UN member states discuss development aid in these times of financial crisis. There is also a crisis in international solidarity: in India, a quarter of a million live in poverty

by Alexandre Polack @ // 27/11/08 - 7 Comment

development, structural funds, india, poverty, solidarität

FEATURE development : Radar station for US anti-missile defence on Czech soil?

Radar station for US anti-missile defence on Czech soil?

But it hadn’t banked on such a large opposition from two thirds of the population and such an angry reaction from its future neighbours. A return to the cold war?

by agnès baritou // 30/04/08 - 3 Comment

development, protest, defence, foreign policy, prag, best of cafebabel.com, europe on the ground

FEATURE development : Exploiting unpaid interns: rites of passage?

Exploiting unpaid interns: rites of passage?

Associations like Generation Precarity or Fairwork expose an exploited flexible labour force with intermittent incomes and no job security

by farah boucherak // 28/04/08 - 3 Comment

development, germany, capitalism, erasmus, consumers, italy, democratisation

development : Mujahideen Khan: 'we do not know who the Taliban is right now'

Mujahideen Khan: 'we do not know who the Taliban is right now'

Afghanistan remains a huge challenge for NATO. Whilst officials met in the Bucharest's Parliament Palace from 2-4 April, a group of Estonian journalists cast an eye back with a mujahideen in the Afghan mountains

by Nabeelah Shabbir @ , Kadri Kukk @ // 08/04/08

development, afghanistan, peacekeeping, kabul, osama bin laden, terrorism, asia

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Batman, goats and internet in Cavas do Monte, Portugal

The living conditions in the north Portuguese mountaintops of S. Pedro do Sul have hardly changed in hundreds of years. Bit by bit, however, the uniting, modernising world is moving in, and the children are moving out

by laura daub // 26/03/08

development, paris, portugal, internet, devolution, covas do monte, tourism

development : Esplanade of L'Europe in Brussels: more rubbish than town planning

Esplanade of L'Europe in Brussels: more rubbish than town planning

A space without appeal next to Brussels South railway station is far from what we expect from the capital of Europe

by javier delgado rivera // 20/03/08

development, belgium, brussels, city planning, cities, architecture, europe

INVESTIGATION development : Gran Scala – Spain’s new Las Vegas

Gran Scala – Spain’s new Las Vegas

Europe’s largest construction project is an amusement park in Los Monegros. It is in competition with Expo Zaragoza 2008, whose main focus is on raising awareness of sustainable water development

by alma lópez figueiras // 19/03/08 - 2 Comment

development, southern eu, spain, investigation, zaragoza, politics, architecture

INTERVIEW development : Didier Awadi: 'Artists too often have big egos'

Didier Awadi: 'Artists too often have big egos'

The Senegalese hip hop pioneer, 38, invites his fellow rappers to speak out and campaign for a harmonious continent with his latest album 'Presidents of Africa'. Plus an exclusive video interview from Dakar

by Alexandre Polack @ // 25/01/08

development, racism, discrimination, senegal, art, africa, brunch

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Estonian economy: between crash landing and Baltic summer

11% growth, 4.5% unemployment and a lot of liberalism: how the Baltic Tiger catches investors. Inflation means the euro won't be in place before 2012

by Adriano Farano @ // 12/09/07

development, consumption society, tallinn, estonia, central and eastern europe, economy

FEATURE development : Risk factor 'boomtown'

Risk factor 'boomtown'

Liberal reforms over the past decade have catapulted Estonia into one of the fastest-growing market economies of the European Union. But can the Baltic tiger keep up on the social agenda?

by ruth bender // 12/09/07

development, aids, labour, tallinn, estonia, central and eastern europe, economy

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Development in the babelblogs

Federalise EU development aid for more, better and faster delivery

By Philippe Adriaenssens, JEF Belgium More than $1 trillion in development aid has been poured into Africa over the past 50 years but this has only helped to perpetuate a vicious circle of poverty, argues Dambisa Moyo in her book “Dead Aid”.* She demands the phasing out of all foreign ...

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Brazil (according to Samba-rap)

The recurrent case study for International Business and Development Studies scholars - Brazil - is analysed differently by the country’s Samba-rap musicians. The well performing clusters, such as the footwear cluster of Sinos Valley, was analysed by Humphrey and Schmitz (2002) regarding its functional upgrading triggered by US’ demand and value ...

Fabio Pereira by Fabio Pereira on bdev

Innovation could be a basic for recovering

6th of March was a general grey, rainy day in Budapest. In the central of the Hungarian capital many people walked around, went home after a busy day like usual. At the same time it wasn’t an ordinary Thursday for Babelians: in the historical downtown café called Central the ...

baluvagyok by baluvagyok on budapest

Montenegro and Serbia on the way to EU - maybe

Montenegro's Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic has left Monday 15th Dec. 2008 for Paris to submit the country's formal application for European Union membership to French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Same time Holland is still blocking implementation of suspended Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) agreement Serbia regardless of an essentially ...

AriRusila by AriRusila on arirusila

European Development Days - Will Climate Change Development?

Report from Lisbon by Diane Halley Climate change was certainly an apt theme for this year's European Development Days in Lisbon, if only for the very reason that we left Brussels on a Tuesday evening of five degrees, and arrived to a balmy Lisbon where temperatures rose to their ...

Carina by Carina on lisboa