To help meet its commitment to youth employment, the European Union is investing more in human capital through better education and skills, including through the European Youth Pact for Young People adopted in February 2005.

The city is going to be European Capital of Culture, World Book Capital and host European Film Awards in 2016.

We are cooperating with, among others, the European Youth Forum.

Dublin was European Capital of Science in 2012.

In 2000, Kraków was named European Capital of Culture.

Along with Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, Turku was designated the European Capital of Culture for 2011.

The capital of Malta is Valletta, which at 0.8 km2, is the smallest national capital in the European Union.

During the German Presidency of 1999, the European City of Culture programme was renamed the European Capital of Culture.

WASHINGTON, DC European leaders are convinced that bank capital is expensive, in the sense that raising capital requirements would slow economic growth.

BRUSSELS European policymakers have decided that they must be seen to be doing something about youth unemployment.

The city was a European Capital of Culture for 2011, along with Turku in Finland.

Now the capital of a European kingdom, Turin had about 90,000 inhabitants at the time.

That is why 170 youth leaders from 82 countries are gathering this week in Sarajevo, at the invitation of the World Bank, the European Youth Forum, and the Scout Movement.

The European Union welcomes the progress made by the Secretary General's Youth Employment Network and encourages its further expansion to facilitate the implementation of national action plans for youth employment.

The European Financial Stability Facility European Stability Mechanism (EFSF ESM) should carry out the necessary recapitalization of the Greek banks via direct capital injections.

Recently, in response to an initiative by France, Germany, Spain and Sweden, the EU has also made a stronger commitment to the promotion of youth employment through the European Youth Pact.

Brussels, the capital of the European Union, stands for everything populists, whether left or right, hate.

European governments are adamantly opposed to capital punishment the European Union bans it outright and some Europeans consider its use in the United States barbaric.

This is a mistake. The European Commission should have introduced capital requirements on banks holdings of public debt.

Indeed, many European intellectuals argue that not just capital punishment, but punishment in general, does not deter criminals.

Indeed, gradual integration of the potentially vast European capital market, and the creation of cross border European banks as a result of mergers, made it look as if a new European breed of superbanks was emerging.

But the latest developments in the Greek crisis show that the exact opposite is true it s European banks lack of capital that threatens to derail European and global growth.

The eurozone needs a banking union a European deposit insurance scheme in order to stem capital flight, a European source for financing bank recapitalization, and eurozone wide supervision and regulation.

History The European Capital of Culture programme was initially called the European City of Culture and was conceived in 1983, by Melina Mercouri, then serving as Greek Minister of Culture.

Human capital not natural resources, production capacity, or financial reserves should constitute the foundation of Russian and European development policies.

As they struggle to raise new capital, European banks and insurers are likely to be forced to sell overseas assets.

One model is the European Investment Bank, which, with 50 billion of capital, has been able to invest 400 billion.

The simplest way to achieve this would be to require banks exposed to southern European debt to raise more capital.

Eurostat, the European Union s statistical agency, calculates youth unemployment using both methodologies, but only the flawed indicator is widely reported, despite major discrepancies.

On March 12, in many cities across the country and outside Portuguese delegations throughout the European Union, youth are taking to the streets.

I wish to associate myself with the statement made by the youth representative of the United Kingdom on behalf of the European Union.

European banks, traditionally a major source of trade finance, have pulled back dramatically, owing to capital adequacy problems caused by sovereign debt capital losses and, in some cases, losses from real estate lending.

Unfortunately, European banks do not have enough capital, irrespective of eurozone bailout efforts, because the damage will not be limited to Greece.

European banks have been operating on a great deal of debt and very little shareholder capital the essential buffer against potential losses.

Second, a fudged set of financial stress tests sought to persuade markets that European banks needed only 3.5 billion in fresh capital.

Other rankings In 2011, European University ranked 6th best business school in the world for female students by Capital magazine in France.

19. Governments should facilitate the development of ICT capacity for youth, including indigenous youth, youth with disabilities and youth in remote and rural communities.

He expressed support for the forthcoming plenary Assembly discussions on youth, specifically the event celebrating the tenth anniversary of the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond. The European Union looked forward to participating actively in those discussions.

Meanwhile, the lack of bank capital will continue, weighing heavily the European economy s short run performance and undermining its longer term growth potential.

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital.

Experts from the European Commission and from my foundations are developing a demonstration project to make private sector internships available to Roma youth enrolled in vocational schools.

Further, the Government has introduced measures such as the creation of a revolving fund for loans to youth to give young people access to financial capital to a set up small businesses.

62 126. Policies and programmes involving youth youth in the global economy promoting youth participation in social and economic development

The European Union pays particular tribute to the United Network of Young Peacebuilders, a global network of young people and youth organizations active in the field of peacebuilding.

A gold standard rule would have produced higher rates for the southern European borrowers, which would have attracted funds to where capital might be productively used, and at the same time acted as a deterrent against purely speculative capital flows.