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We offer the possibility for small and medium enterprises to order products from our various producers consolidated in a single bulk order. This enables lower cost of shipping and delivery of goods to final destination.
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Euro-father passes away
By Baron Henri Estramant.
9 May 2015: Baron Alexandre Lámfalussy, first president of the European Monetary Institute (EMI), a short-lived institution created in 1994 with the sole purpose of setting up the ECB and then willing itself out of existence.
Lámfalussy’s role in forging a path towards a monetary union began in 1976 when he embarked on a career at the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel, Switzerland-based clearinghouse for the world’s central banks. He was promoted to BIS general manager in 1985 and, three years later, joined a committee of central bankers who sketched a road map for the European currency. They included a future president of the ECB, Wim Duisenberg, and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, who later became Italian prime minister and president.
Born on 26 April 1929 as Lámfalussy Sándor in Kapuvár, then Kingdom of Hungary, Lámfalussy fled his homeland in 1949 as the Iron Curtain was sealing off eastern Europe. With three friends, he snuck across the snowy border to Austria, en route to a Belgian university scholarship.
Baron Lámfalussy married Anne-Marie Cochard in 1957. The couple had three children. Belgians’ King Albert II awarded him the noble title of baron in 1996.
For more information
European Central Bank: www.ecb.europa.eu/home/html/index.en.html
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2015/html/pr150511.en.html
Italian President Sergio Mattarella visits EU institutions
By Office of the President of Italy
Translated from the Italian by Anna Maria Mistretta.
President Sergio Mattarella was very positive about his talks with the heads of the European Union last March. He said that there is great attention for Italy and its role.
President Mattarella met with Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, with whom he spoke about several issues as well as the role that the European Parliament can have in increasing European Union citizens’ acceptance. They also talked about refugees and migrants arriving in Italy, and of the fact that this issue should be discussed more at the European Union. President Mattarella has discussed this important issue with Federica Mogherini, and with the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk.
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The talks with Mogherini focused on the actions required for issues such as immigration, but also Libya, foreign politics, and the defence policy of the European Union.
With President Tusk they discussed Libya and Ukraine in order to stress all problems that the Union has to address, whether they are located North or South of the Union; they all are equally important and shared by all member states. President Mattarella says that President Tusk was very interested in the talks about Libya and is also convinced that the European Union should regarding the refugees that actually arrive on European shores, but likewise towards the issues of a lack of infrastructure and the risk that this could help the forming of favourable conditions to Islamic terrorism, which is a danger both for Italy and for Europe. Although they are two different issues, they both have their origin in Libya.
President Mattarella has agreed with all those he met the importance that the international community supports the talks of the mediator Léon, in order to achieve a cease-fire in Libya, a united national parliament and the be able to help the country find stability and a new start so much needed for this country.
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Prime Minister Rõivas meets with EU leaders
5 May 2015 – Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas was in Brussels to meet with the President of the European Commission.
At the meetings with Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission, and Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, the current issues of the European Union were the topics for discussion, including the Eastern Partnership summit, which will be held in Riga in May, the security situation, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the harmonisation of energy markets and ensuring security of supply, and the digital single market.
Rõivas in Brussels: Supporting Eastern partners is the most important European security challenge
Brussels, 5 May 2015 – Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas discussed at today’s meeting in Brussels with Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission and Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council the issues of security, energy and Digital Single Market, as well as the challenges faced by Eurozone.
“As Russia has not met all the conditions stipulated in the Minsk Agreement, there is no other choice than to continue with the sanctions,” Prime Minister emphasised during the meeting with the European leaders in Brussels. Prime Minister added that with regard to the Eastern Partnership Summit that is currently held in Riga, it its essential to use the remaining weeks in order to take concrete steps towards visa freedom for Georgia and Ukraine.
At the meeting with the President of the European Commission, the main focus was on the integration of the energy market into European market in order to warrant energy security. “Given the current security situation, Baltic region’s energy independence from Russian market is of strategic importance for the whole of Europe,” said Prime Minister Rõivas.
“Support given by the European Commission to large-scale energy projects, for example, Balticconnector, as well as the electric power and gas connections between Poland and the Baltic States, is important for us,” said Rõivas.
At the meeting with President Juncker, Prime Minister also raised the question of air pollution limits suggested by the Commission. “In Estonia, the situation of air quality is among the best in the world. We have put the emphasis on a wider use of domestic renewable energy, including using solid biomass for the energy and heat production. European Union has set a goal of reducing the share of fossil fuels and environmental and climate policies of the Union must support each other.”
At the meeting with Donald Tusk, the President of the of the European Council, the topics of political and security situation of the Baltic Sea were also discussed.
Prime Minister recognised the preparation of the Digital Single Market Strategy under the leadership of Andrus Ansip; the Strategy will be disclosed tomorrow and will also be discussed at the European Council Summit in June.
In addition, Prime Minister Rõivas presented the priorities of this new government.
Sources: Ave TEMPERE, https://valitsus.ee/en/news/prime-minister-roivas-meets-eu-leaders
https://valitsus.ee/en/news/roivas-brussels-supporting-eastern-partners-most-important-european-security-challenge
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AMADE Mondiale in plenary session
Monaco, 9 and 10 April 2015: AMADE Mondiale’s annual plenary session was held in order to assess the ongoing programmes, and draw up new perspectives of cooperation.
AMADE Mondiale adopted in 2013, year of its 50th anniversary, a new strategy reaffirming the organisation’s vision: that is, a world wherein children can live with dignity, security and the respect of their fundamental rights regardless of their social origins, religion or cultural background. That of a world wherein every child can freely express his/her potential.
The general assembly brought together members of AMADE Mondiale’s Administrative Council as well as the representatives of national branches. Since 2013 AMADE Mondiale has donated a total of 1.124.603 € in favour of fifteen programmes for the protection of children against violence, exploitation and abuses, access to education, access to healthcare or in favour of children refugees or victims of natural catastrophes.
The commitment covers four continents (i.e., Europe, Africa, Asia and South America) and is made possible thanks to the global AMADE network and the privileged partnerships with international organisations.
AMADE Mondiale’s Administrative Council under the presidency of HRH The Princess of Hanover, Caroline of Monaco, equally decided to increase its intervention in the domain of rare diseases. Hitherto the focus has been given to research against pediatric cancers, the care of inherited metabolic diseases in Chile but now shall also cover the fight against sickle cell anemia in Niger.
A couple of days after the plenary session Monaco’s Princely Palace announced the birth in London on 12 April 2015 of India Casiraghi, daughter of The Princess of Hanover’s eldest son Andrea Casiraghi and her consort Tatiana Santo Domingo. India is their second child after Sasha born in 2013.
Source: www.monacochannel.mc/Chaines/Palais-Princier-de-Monaco/News-Photos/L-AMADE-reunie-en-conference-pleniere
For more information
AMADE plenary session: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs1g7V_gkEM
AMADE Mondiale: www.amade-mondiale.org/en/
Thai sovereign out of hospital
By Martin Kammandel.
On Sunday, 10 May 2015 Their Majesties The King and Queen of Thailand together with HRH The Princess Royal, Sirindhorn, left Siriraj Hospital in the afternoon heading towards Klai Kangwon Palace at Hua Hin town by the seaside.
Tearful but cheering crowds shouted “Long live the king!” as The King, wearing a red shirt, and Queen Sirikit passed by in a convoy en route to Hua Hin.
The move came only four days after the world’s longest reigning monarch presided over a ceremony marking Coronation Day at the Grand Palace in Bangkok. According to the Bureau of the Royal Household’s announcement The Royal Couple left for Hua Hin for a “change of atmosphere”. Rama IX was crowned on 5 May 1950.
For more information
Bureau of the Royal Household: www.brh.thaigov.net/brh-2011/index.php
Grand Palace in Bangkok: www.palaces.thai.net/
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Pictures: Pattarachai Prechapanich & Thiti Wannamontha
The move came only four days after the world’s longest reigning monarch presided over a ceremony marking Coronation Day at the Grand Palace in Bangkok. According to the Bureau of the Royal Household’s announcement The Royal Couple left for Hua Hin for a “change of atmosphere”. Rama IX was crowned on 5 May 1950.
For more information
Bureau of the Royal Household: www.brh.thaigov.net/brh-2011/index.php
Grand Palace in Bangkok: www.palaces.thai.net/
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Pictures: Pattarachai Prechapanich & Thiti Wannamontha
Strasbourg visit for King and Queen of the Belgians
21 April 2015, Strasbourg: Philippus, King of the Belgians, held an allocution before the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly focusing on fundamental European values, deploring individualism and indifference which can lead to “unworthy situations” for human beings.
The monarch’s speech was held in French wherein he highlighted:
“Les droits et libertés trouvent leurs racines dans l’idée d’une société décente. J’entends par là : une société qui bannit les abus de pouvoir, les indignités et l’humiliation”. “Malgré des avancées indéniables, il reste encore, dans nos sociétés, trop de situations où des hommes et des femmes ne sont pas traités avec dignité”.
“certaines attitudes indignes que nos sociétés développent face aux pressions migratoires”. “Nous détournons notre regard de la pauvreté, de la précarité et de la solitude, pourtant bien présents autour de nous, et qui sont autant d’insultes aux droits humains”.
“La responsabilité collective aujourd’hui est de créer un ordre social et international tel que les droits fondamentaux civils et politiques, économiques, sociaux et culturels puissent trouver plein effet”.
After his speech the King and Queen offered to the building of the Council of Europe an original piano score of Belgian composer Marcel Poot, which he played for a Competition Queen Elisabeth.
For more information
King Philippus’ speech: www.rtl.be/rtltvi/video/533789.aspx
Council of Europe: www.coe.int/en/
Competition Queen Elisabeth: www.concours-reine-elisabeth.be/cgi?lg=en&pag=1677&tab=108&rec=0&frm=0
“certaines attitudes indignes que nos sociétés développent face aux pressions migratoires”. “Nous détournons notre regard de la pauvreté, de la précarité et de la solitude, pourtant bien présents autour de nous, et qui sont autant d’insultes aux droits humains”.
“La responsabilité collective aujourd’hui est de créer un ordre social et international tel que les droits fondamentaux civils et politiques, économiques, sociaux et culturels puissent trouver plein effet”.
After his speech the King and Queen offered to the building of the Council of Europe an original piano score of Belgian composer Marcel Poot, which he played for a Competition Queen Elisabeth.
For more information
King Philippus’ speech: www.rtl.be/rtltvi/video/533789.aspx
Council of Europe: www.coe.int/en/
Competition Queen Elisabeth: www.concours-reine-elisabeth.be/cgi?lg=en&pag=1677&tab=108&rec=0&frm=0
IV World Tourism Forum
On 23 and 24 April 2015, top tourism industry specialists and speakers from more than 60 countries assembled in Switzerland for the 4th World Tourism Forum Lucerne.
The World Tourism Forum Lucerne (WTFL) took place for the fourth time in the central Swiss city on 23 and 24 April 2015 under the slogan “Talents, Innovation & Sustainable Development – Walk the Talk”. Held every two years, the event is again expected to attract more than 400 decision-makers from the tourism industry and related sectors of economics, politics, finance and science. They will meet at Lucerne’s KKL Culture & Convention Centre to debate challenges and changes in global tourism and travel.
The World Tourism Forum Lucerne focuses strongly on the future generation of decision-makers. Participating managers are therefore encouraged to invite their top up-and-coming young talents to the two-day event. The most qualified students from the Forum’s international partner-universities are also being invited to attend and three will receive the Young Talent Award. In addition, the Start-Up Innovation Award will be presented to three enterprises selected from the international companies invited to participate.
WTFL Think Tank participants debated key concerns facing the future of global travel and tourism, after which selected topics will be discussed within the wider interactive framework of the Forum. The line-up of eminent international speakers included Her Majesty Queen Mother Sangay Choden Wangchuck of Bhutan, Ms Amel Karboul (Tunisia’s first female Minister of Tourism), Swiss Economics Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann, Dr Michael Frenzel (Chairman of the World Travel & Tourism Council), Paul Griffiths (CEO Dubai International Airport), Samih Sawiris (Chairman and CEO Orascom Development) and the American economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin.
Martin Barth, General Manager of the World Tourism Forum Lucerne, emphasised the increasing international orientation of the forum: “Since its founding we have developed into a platform embracing also other exclusive events within Switzerland and abroad. As part of a strategic partnership with Shanghai, for example, we will be staging a forum in China’s largest city in 2016”.
Queen Mother Sangay Choden founded Bhutan’s Textile Museum in 2005 in her efforts to promote traditional Bhutanese crafts.
World Tourism Forum Lucerne
The World Tourism Forum Lucerne is an interdisciplinary professional platform which offers decision makers in business, politics, science and finance an overview of current topics and trends in the global tourism industry. It is the only international platform enabling leading decision makers and emerging young talents in the industry to interact as part of a next generation programme. The World Tourism Forum Lucerne is supported by an international Advisory Board under the chairmanship of Reto Wittwer.
For more information
World Tourism Forum Lucerne: http://wtflucerne.
Bhutan Textile Museum: www.
Mexico and the EU revise strategic relations in Brussels
By Mission of the United Mexican States to the EU, Belgium and Luxembourg.
Translated and edited by Baron Henri Estramant.
Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs, José Antonio Meade Kuribreña, paid a visit to Brussels on 21 April to meet for the first time the EU leadership that took office in October 2014. Together with his European partners Secretary Meade analysed new paths to strengthen economic and cooperative relations.
Meade Kuribreña held a work meeting with the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, over economic, political and cooperation matters. Further they discussed the upcoming CELAC-EU summit and current affairs worldwide.Secretary Meade also held meetings with the Commissioner for Energy Union, the Slovak, Maroš Šefčovič, as well as with the Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs, Frenchman, Pierre Moscovici.
Mexico and the European Union share common and cultural bonds. They share fundamental values such as democracy, respect for the rule of law and human rights. In 2008 the two established a strategic partnership, and in 2015 the 55th anniversary of relations is being celebrated.
Since the signing of the general agreement in 2000 trade between Mexico and the EU has increased ca. 230%. Mexican exports to the EU increased by 261%, whereas EU exports to Mexico by 226%. The EU is the second largest trade partner for Mexico; bilateral trade in 2014 amounted to 64,327 million dollars. Foreign EU investment in Mexico amounted in 2014 to 10,590 million dollars, or 46,9% of the overall direct foreign investments in Mexico.
For more information
Mission of Mexico to the EU, Belgium and Luxembourg: http://embamex.
Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (Foreign Office): www.sre.gob.mx
EU-CELAC summit: www.eucelac-
EU-UAE Schengen visa-waiver
By Baron Henri Estramant.
Latvia’s Permanent Representative to the EU, HE Ms. Ilze Juhansone, and Emirati Ambassador to the EU, the Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg (non-resident), HE Mr. Sulaiman bin Hamid Al Mazroui, signed a reciprocal bilateral short-stay visa-waiver agreement in Brussels. The United Arab Emirates becomes the first Arab/GCC country to receive a visa-waiver for its citizens. Emiratis holding diplomatic, special, service or even ordinary passports will be able to travel without a visa to 34 European countries (including non-EU member states such as Norway or Iceland) which make up the Schengen area for stays of up to 90 days (within any 180-day period of one year).
Latvia is currently holding the rotating Presidency of the European Council. The signing ceremony was attended by the staff of the UAE embassy in Brussels as well as by Assistant Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs, Mr. Abdul Rahim bin Yousef Al Awadhi; Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Mr. Mohammed bin Mir Al Raissi; Director of Consular Services at MoFA, Ambassador Ahmed bin Elham Al Dhaheri as well as the Director of the Communications Department at MoFA, Ms Mariam Al Falasi.
The success for Emirati diplomacy was personally backed up by Foreign Minister HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Dr. Anwar bin Mohammed Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
For more information
Mission of the UAE in Brussels: http://uae-embassy.ae/Embassies/be
http://uae-embassy.ae/Embassies/be/news/2015/05/07/6606
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