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THIS MONTH THE Trade Union European Information Project for London opens its web site for public use. After an extended period of training, practice, trial and error and donkey work, we think it's worth a click of your mouse
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On it you will find about half of the European Review issues which we have published so far (we aim to catch up with the rest by the end of the year), some 'hot faxes' which we sent to London union officers in 1998 and 1999, a facility to e-mail the project and a clickable map of Europe to find articles on individual countries (the number of clickable countries will be increased as the site expands). We have tried to make the site as user-friendly as possible though, as usual with all things internet, your experience of it will depend on such factors as the speed of your connection, whether you are using a Windows PC or an Apple Macintosh, Internet Explorer or Netscape and, probably most importantly, the age of your version of the software. Please note that if you do have an ageing browser it is often possible to download more up to date software from the web sites of the companies concerned. We would be interested to receive your comments on the web site or the magazine, or other European queries, and the e-mail web page is the ideal way to do this. We have plans to add more sophisticated features such as a site search engine and more animation but we hope that you will find the inaugural site useful and informative. |
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THE PRESIDENT OF THE European Commission, Romano Prodi, has encouraged the start of a debate among EU citizens about which road the union should now take and he has enabled them to have their say via a new web site. He said that 'inter-governmentalism' is no longer enough and that 'Europe's citizens on the whole demand more, not less, of Europe' whilst seeing it 'as increasingly opaque and incomprehensible'. He then invited people to 'take part in this debate, especially through this new Internet site'. The new web site, called 'Futurum' went online on 7th March. The main, and novel, feature of the web site is a bulletin board where members of the public can post their comments. So far (the European Review had a look at the end of March) the main subjects seem to be the inadequacy of the board, contributors want 'threads' so that comments are grouped by topic, with a few Eurosceptic British messages which are answered by respondents from other countries.
The web-site started operation in English, German, French and Swedish and will operate in 11 languages from June. It also contains messages from the Prime Ministers of Sweden, the present holders of the EU presidency, and Belgium, the next holder as well as Michel Barnier, reform Commissioner.Mr. Monti, however, replied that without proper regulation monopolies could spring up and 'even temporary market power can be a serious concern, particularly when it may have a negative impact on the levels of innovation and consumer choice in a given market'. Recent mergers and consolidations in the media and telecommunications industries have stimulated fears of monopoly power and the commissioner said that the rules may have to be changed to deal with this. The EU is not the only authority which is objecting to some of these deals, the United States department of Justice is pursuing Microsoft and is suspicious of the WorldCom merger while the Federal Trade Commission is likely to block that between AOL and Time Warner which Commissioner Monti approved.
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