Publié mercredi 14 mai 2008 à 10h36
par
Editeur
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 104 fois et 1 commentaires)
Last Wednesday
evening around 18h30. In the renovated Brigittines chapel in
Brussels Sp.a co-workers are getting nervous. This
evening we present our input for the PES manifesto. We have
worked hard to provide for an interesting program (attached), but
can it compete with the beautiful spring evening?
At 7 o’clock our fears prove to be unfounded. Sp.a International
Secretary Saïd
El Khadraoui can introduce the evening before approximately
80 people. We kick off with a debate about New Social
Europe. Europe has done pioneering work on certain domains,
but it turns out that a lot more can be gained at European level.
For example, the health services directive that we are still
waiting for. There is no discussion about the need for a more
social approach of the Lisbon objectives. But ambitious and
enforceable European objectives concerning social themes are a
logical next step. The conclusions run parallel: Europe has a lot
of instruments at his disposal, but lacks ambition and
decisiveness when it comes to social themes. Political action
pays off, that becomes clear in dossiers such as the adjusted
Bolkenstein directive. As...
Tags: démocratie, énergie, environnement, partis politiques, providence, santé, traîté, transparence
Dossier:
manifesto_spa_FR.pdf,
flyer_spa.pdf
Publié mardi 13 mai 2008 à 09h42
par
Duncan Anderson 
dans L’UE dans le monde (vu 120 fois et 0 commentaires)
I don't want to suggest that PES/EU can solve this problem within one term of office. But I do think that the EU should start talking to other countries and organisations about dealing with the consequences of over population.
Over population or having more people on the planet that it can sustain was a topic of discussion during the 1970s and China responded. I'm not saying that we or other countries should follow China's route.
But over population is at the core of many global problems. We need to use artificial fertilisers and G.M. products to feed the world and even then a lot of people starve. There is insufficient water to both grow food for people and for them to drink. We can't provide enough energy for everybody without damaging the planet.
Question, how do we address the twin problems of having a sustainable level of population on this planet? Answer, I don't know, but I'm interested in listening to there people's views.
If it is decided to reduce the population we have to consider the demographics of having more older people who are above a working age - but still need food, water and energy - than younger people who would be generating income and therefore taxes to pay for the water, food and energy of the older people.
But until we start discussing these concepts, both amongst ourselves and with other countries we're not going to fully understand the problems and therefore we won't find the correct answers.
Lire la suitePublié mercredi 9 avril 2008 à 10h25
par
martina
dans Sauvons notre planète (vu 538 fois et 2 commentaires)
Climate neutrality, or, in scientific terms 'CO2 neutrality',
describes processes by which the global CO2 balance remains
constant (source: Wikipedia).
In my opinion this CO2 balance no longer exists – we need to
bring back this balance before we can actually maintain it. In a
time of increased environmental awareness, this worthy goal can
nevertheless produce unusual ideas.
Our lifestyles are often careless: jetting off to remote
countries, taking the car to go to the bakery around the corner,
using the tumble dryer and all the other small things which makes
life easy. These actions need no longer give us a guilty
conscience. By spending a bit of money you can compensate for
your polluting sins. For example, take a look at Atmosfair,
Greenmiles, The Climate Company or My Climate. There are probably
more such projects, especially outside Germany. Yet a study from
Tufts
University in Boston revealed that only three of thirteen
such ‘compensation agencies’, including Atmosfair and My Climate,
are actually recommended service providers.
When travelling by plane, Atmosfair can help you obtain a cleaner conscience.
You can pay when you book, but also calculate and compensate for
your CO2 emissions later. When...
Tags: blogueur de la semaine, changement climatique, CO2, CO2, électricité, electricity, énergie, energy, environnement, green-IT
Dossier:
IT_climate_DE.pdf
Publié mardi 8 avril 2008 à 15h12
par
Wind Energy
dans Sauvons notre planète (vu 410 fois et 0 commentaires)
The world is facing
an energy and climate crisis. Globally, the energy sector emits 26
billion tonnes of CO2 each year and electricity production alone
accounts for 41% of emissions. The International Energy Agency
expects CO2 emissions in 2030 to have increased by 55% to reach
more than 40 billion tonnes of CO2. The share of emissions coming
from electricity production will increase to 44% in 2030, reaching
18 billion tonnes of CO2. Europe is going to be importing a growing
share of its energy at unpredictable but most likely higher prices,
from unstable regions, in ever-fiercer competition with the rest of
the world and at staggering environmental cost. Spare electricity
generating capacity is at a historic low. Europe has to invest in
new capacity to replace ageing plants and meet future demand. In
the period 2005-2030, the EU needs to install 862 GW of new
electricity generating capacity. 427 GW of generating capacity will
be retired in the EU and an additional 435 GW will be needed to
satisfy the growing demand for power. The required capacity exceeds
the total capacity operating in Europe (723 GW). Satisfying our
energy needs over the coming decades will be a big challenge. For a
region that currently imports 56% of its energy – and is on track
to reach 70% in the next 20 to 30 years – the challenge is big. Our
own...
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Publié mardi 25 mars 2008 à 11h00
par
frederic.vareillas
dans L’UE dans le monde (vu 323 fois et 1 commentaires)
Hi,
Recently, the French President took a trip to Washington to say to the US congress how he "admired John Wayne". I won't elaborate.
Then John Mc Cain came to Paris and that same President promised to send more French troops to Afghanistan.
Next, the French President is preparing an alliance with Britain to develop Nuclear technology, build and export nuclear plants with the British and only the British.
He baptized a new submarine with sixteen nuclear missiles on board ("the Terrible", by the way).
I have just one thing to say : My God ! What does Germany think about that ?
Regards,
Frederic (Paris)
Lire la suitePublié mardi 25 mars 2008 à 10h16
par
cafeneaua.politica
dans Sauvons notre planète (vu 412 fois et 2 commentaires)
The most important matter of sustainable
development doesn’t support the quantity of economic growth but
the quality of an environmental, economic, social, and cultural
development.A sustainable community effort consists of a
long-term and integrated systems approach to developing and
achieving a healthy community by balanced environmental,
economic, social, and cultural issues. The Romanian (European)
Social Democrats advocates a sustainable development of our
planet and not the destruction of the environment and our
resources.
It is necesary that the price of the different resources must cover all calculatable external costs. The government has to add the calculated charges so the different resources get the same conditions on the market. If the charges are creating an income, this income is to restitute to the inhabitants and to the companies (the same restitution per inhabitants or worker).
As basic measures we can talk about sustainable development when total production of the region is sufficient to provide for the inhabitant’s needs without requiring more resources than the area can regenerate (energies,...
Lire la suitePublié lundi 10 mars 2008 à 10h12
par
frederic.vareillas
dans Sauvons notre planète (vu 409 fois et 3 commentaires)
Publié samedi 1 mars 2008 à 18h32
par
rikkeindenmark
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 458 fois et 0 commentaires)
La conférence au Danemark sur le programme électoral du PSE à laquelle je participe, s'est terminée cet après-midi par une plénière au cours de laquelle les 4 groupes de travail sur les quatre thèmes du programme ont présenté leurs trois priorités. Voici, à mon sens, les idées les plus intéressantes qui ont été présentées:
Publié vendredi 29 février 2008 à 15h44
par
frederic.vareillas
dans Sauvons notre planète (vu 467 fois et 4 commentaires)
All right, my friend,
You are concerned about the waste. So, all I can tell you is: What do you suggest we do?
We have two years left before oil and gas cost ten times more
than today; solar energy and wind turbines can supply maximum 7
percent of our total consumption of energy; oceans are littered
with plastic bags, wrappings, and are 80 percent DEAD; the sun is
getting hotter; we are killing the great forests to get wood to
burn (and transform into paper); Earth's temperature is rising 2
degrees Celsius (which is huge) due to CO2 and methane.
What would you say if we could recycle and reutilize nuke waste
and nuke plants?
Think again: We have two years in front of us before the great
depression.
What do you suggest we do?
Friendly,
Fred
Publié jeudi 28 février 2008 à 12h26
par
Editeur
dans Sauvons notre planète (vu 532 fois et 1 commentaires)
Un débat très animé sur toute une série de thèmes importants se tient dans la section 'Sauvons la planète' de Yourspace. Les contributions des blogueurs et des militants du PSE montrent qu'il existe un intérêt croissant pour les thèmes relatifs aux changements climatiques et des idées importantes ont déjà été soumises sur lesquelles le PSE planchera. Voici quelques-uns des points forts de ce débat:
Biocarburants
Les arguments en faveur et contre le soutien de l'UE aux biocarburants ont été un grand
thème de discussion qui a suscité de nombreux commentaires de nos
participants. Migeru, taipale et d'autres utilisateurs se sont
montrés sceptiques sur la question de savoir si l'actuelle
génération de biocombustibles était vraiment une réponse à la
pénurie énergétique. Clairement, les participants veulent une
solution durable et non une réponse qui menace de créer d'autres
problèmes environnementaux.
Encourager des modes de vie plus écologiques
Quelle est votre réponse...
Publié mardi 26 février 2008 à 14h47
par
reimannsdavid
dans Sauvons notre planète (vu 508 fois et 2 commentaires)
Hey!Publié mardi 26 février 2008 à 10h24
par
frederic.vareillas
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 476 fois et 3 commentaires)
Bonjour,
Des chercheurs américains ont réussi à filmer un électron en
"live" dans l'atome. Voir Yahoo News: "most viewed"/ "science". Il est
temps pour nous Européens de bien payer nos chercheurs. Il est
grand temps de financer à fond nos universités scientifiques.
Qui trouvera la prochaine source d'énergie du Monde ? Les USA ou
l'Europe ?
Bien à vous,
Frederic (Paris)
Publié mardi 26 février 2008 à 10h16
par
frederic.vareillas
dans Sauvons notre planète (vu 474 fois et 2 commentaires)
Chers amis,
Suite aux réactions concernant mon article sur Jim Lovelock et
"La revanche de Gaïa", je précise que je n'ai pas souvenir,
depuis ma naissance, du moindre accident nucléaire civil en
France. Quant aux déchets, ils sont retraités ou stockés de façon
sûre (7 grammes par habitant seulement).
Souvenons-nous des guerres du pétrole, des coups de grisou dans
les mines de charbon, des explosions de gaz etc...
CO2 , méthane et soufre, serait-ce là l'avenir de l'Europe qui se réchauffe de plus en plus ? Voulons-nous rester à la merci de la Russie ? de la Lybie ? Je ne dis pas que l'énergie nucléaire serait LA solution définitive mais , qui a mieux à proposer pour les vingt-cinq ans à venir ?
Le risque zero n'existe pas.
Alors, allons vers une Europe autonome, relativement propre, sûre
et respirable. Les éoliennes et les panneaux solaires ne
fourniront au mieux que cinq à sept % de notre énergie.
J'ai deux autres lecture à soumettre à votre réflexion:
Premièrement : Le numéro 24 ,Oct-Dec 2007, de "L'Ecologiste", au sujet du scandale des bio-carburants et de la nécessité de réduire notre vitesse en voiture à 50 km / heure + mort de 80 % des oceans de la Terre par invasion de...
Lire la suitePublié lundi 25 février 2008 à 17h22
par
frederic.vareillas
dans Sauvons notre planète (vu 525 fois et 2 commentaires)
Dear friends,
I have read your remarks about my
post.
True. Nuclear power is not 100 percent safe but which energy is?
Coalmines ? Gas? Forget it: To many deaths. And oil is the
poison, our lethal addiction. I remember Chernobyl but, compared
to a French reactor, Chernobyl 3 was a poor piece of junk. Risk
zero doesn't exist.
Do we really have a choice? For the generation to come (25
years), nuclear power is the only possible choice unless we want
to be in a new dark age (back to middle ages). Do you want this
regression? Again, do we have a choice? We should have changed
and adapted 25 years ago when the oil prices quadrupled. We
didn't. Europe needs power - Europe needs electricity to avoid
wars and to keep civilized.
As to the disposal of nuclear WASTE I recommend again you read
Sir Jim Lovelock's book "Revenge of Gaia". This book is
a project to save civilization from the dark age. While you're at
it, you should also read "Vers un monde de ressources
rares" by Eric Orsenna and Le Cercle des Economistes" (2007,
paperback).
Then you'll understand the urgency of the present Europe's (and
Earth's) situation. Good luck, keep it up!
Yours friend,
Frederic (Paris)
Publié jeudi 21 février 2008 à 12h40
par
jonworth
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 437 fois et 3 commentaires)
Free trade
between Member States is one of the principles on which the
European Union is founded. I profit from this personally, being
able to sell website services in the UK, Belgium, Germany and
Sweden. It's good that a company from Ynys-ddu can sell its
widgets in Ystad without hindrance.
Europe-wide markets have helped many large firms to develop - plenty of us make calls with our Vodafone mobiles, fly Easyjet and drink beers brewed by Inbev. Regulatory frameworks established by the EU help these firms to develop.
Yet what about services traditionally provided by the state such as refuse collection, water and energy services? Street sweeping in Camden, London, the underground in Stockholm, trains in northern Netherlands, buses in Pontypridd and sewage works in Budapest are all operated by Veolia - a logo that's appearing all over Europe. SUEZ is active in many countries in similar sectors - water, waste, recycling and energy...
Lire la suitePublié mercredi 13 février 2008 à 15h55
par
Eric
dans Sauvons notre planète (vu 678 fois et 3 commentaires)
Hey!
It’s my third day as your guest blogger, and today I would like
to present some specific policy proposals. And I will start with
a political issue very close to my heart: the environment.
None of my parents (Bo and
Gunnel) were members of a political party when I
grew up. However, my dad Bo was very interested in politics in
general, and environmental issues in particular. He started
working with green issues already in the early 1960s, when
Rachel Carson’s book ”Silent Spring” served as one
of the first alarm bells. At the time, my dad did some research
into why some birds’ eggs were too shallow and broke before the
new little bird was born. The reason was that the birds were fed
with foodstuffs containing mercury.
Ever since 1960s, we have gradually become better at ensuring
that growth must be ecologically and socially sustainable. If
growth means that birds are fed mercury, our society will not be
sustainable in the long run. The EU has been good at slowly
transforming societies in the right direction in this way, and
Mark Leonard wrote a fantastic little book about
how the EU's ”soft power” is so much more efficient...
Publié jeudi 7 février 2008 à 11h00
par
frederic.vareillas
dans L’UE dans le monde (vu 528 fois et 2 commentaires)
Je viens de voir hier
"le monde de Gazprom" sur ARTE. Au vu de ce reportage, il me semble
très urgent que l'UE renforce ses liens avec la Russie de Poutine
et de Medvedev.Publié vendredi 1 février 2008 à 12h50
par
Editeur
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 909 fois et 4 commentaires)
Le Parti socialiste
espagnol PSOE a lancé son programme électoral pour les
élections législatives du 9 mars prochain, lors d'une conférence
ce samedi au cours de laquelle le président du PSE Poul Nyrup
Rasmussen a déclaré: “Nous ne pourrons avoir d'Europe sociale
sans une Espagne sociale!”
Le programme électoral du PSOE comprend toute une série de
nouvelles propositions innovantes sur la façon de renforcer
l'Etat-providence espagnol, de lutter contre les changements
climatiques et d'arriver au plein emploi, notamment en
élargissant les infrastructures d'accueil pour les enfants de
moins de 3 ans, thème sur lequel le PSE a fait campagne partout
en Europe.
Le PSOE a également formulé plusieurs propositions qu'il compte
défendre au sein du Conseil européen et du Conseil des ministres,
s'il remporte les élections: l'introduction d'une directive-cadre
européenne sur les services publics; le renforcement des droits
des travailleurs, notamment à travers la révision de la
législation européenne sur les droits d'information et de
consultation des travailleurs; une politique...
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