What Is Flexible Working? A simple question, but one that many small businesses (SMEs) aren't sure how to answer. Whether or not they can answer it, evidence collected in a new report by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), written in conjunction with the UK All-Party Parliamentary Small Business Group, shows that SMEs are often actively engaged in offering flexible working opportunities to their staff, even if they are unaware that what they are providing is 'flexible working'.

Dubai, 20 January 2010

On January 20, the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) is officially announcing the theme of its 59th World Congress and Mobility & City Transport Exhibition ‘Boosting public transport: Action!’ The Congress and the Exhibition will be hosted by Roads and Transport Authority of Dubai (RTA) on 10-14 April 2011 in Dubai. UITP and RTA welcomed press and media to a press conference organised for the event at the RTA Auditorium located in Umm Ramool, Dubai.

The earthquake which has struck Haiti is a test for the capacity of Europe to act outside its borders. Nonetheless this catastrophe has seen a humanitarian response based on a national level. Each Member State is sending its own personnel, its own sniffer dogs, planes etc. This tragedy confronts us once again with the lack of European coordination in the face of humanitarian crises.

18 January 2010, Malta & Brussels - BirdLife International [1] Partners in Europe today launched an international campaign aimed at Maltese Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi demanding the proper enforcement of the EU Birds Directive, which has been largely ignored since EU membership.