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Neither the programme nor budget for Horizon 2020 has been formally agreed but that did not stop the European Commission going ahead yesterday (10 July) and launching ten projects that will get money from this source, including five Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs) funded by the EU and industry and four public/public partnerships to be jointly funded by the EU and member states,Products from Global Silicon protctive film Products Suppliers. yesterday.
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“Many competitors are investing faster than us,” she said, “and they are thinking big.” For example while the EU has the world’s first commercial-scale advanced bio-refinery for cellulosic biomass, there are reports that China plans to have nine such facilities by 2015. “So no-one can rest on their laurels. We need to bolster both public and private spending if we are to stay in - never mind ahead of - the game.”
Most of the 22 billion in the headline figure will go to the JTIs in innovative medicines, aeronautics, bio-based industries, fuel cells and hydrogen, and electronics. “These partnerships are focused on areas where the market alone has not been able to find a solution quickly, often because the return on investment is not guaranteed,” said Geoghegan-Quinn.
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The industrial partners commit fifty per cent or more of the total costs of the JTIs, although the payment can consist of both in-kind contributions and hard cash.
JTIs proved popular with industry under FP7, and succeeded in attracting a high level of industrial participation, including many SMEs.
The Executive Director of the Innovative Medicines Initiative, Michel Goldman, said, “No specific measures were needed to attract SME involvement. They were attracted to the opportunity of work with both big pharma and academia.”
Geoghegan-Quinn is convinced that industry is committed to the JTIs. “Vice President Kallas, Vice President Kroes and I had an opportunity to eyeball eight CEOs involved in JTIs this morning,” she said. Goeghegan-Quinn is pleased with their commitment to the projects,This Tissue Double sided tissue tape Products is so cool. their willingness to work with their competitors for the best of Europe and to provide the budget as promised. “They have realised that in this tough global environment, it is sometimes better to work together with a competitor than not to work at all.”
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Recent fears that the Federal Reserve could begin withdrawing its economic stimulus have prompted interest rates to rise around the world, putting business loans further out of reach for companies in Spain, Italy and France.
For the United States, the Fed easing on stimulus efforts would signal that the American economic rebound has enough momentum to continue on its own. But for most of Europe, still struggling through a recession, the Fed’s moves could make a recovery even harder to achieve.
The problem is evident to companies like Herbert Kannegiesser, which makes equipment here for large commercial laundries. It is the kind of niche industrial business that has continued to grow even during the economic crisis and helped sustain German exports. But laundry systems costing hundreds of thousands of euros are a tougher sell when loans are more expensive.Forward wholesale fashion shoes sold by the case for your stores and boutiques.
“Europe is our home market,” Martin Kannegiesser, son of the company’s founder, said in an interview in this rural corner of northwestern Germany. “Banks, especially outside of Germany, are very reluctant to give loans and financing to small and medium-size businesses. That is a problem.”
The Kannegiesser problem is a microcosm of the broad issue confronting Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank. He must keep trying to find ways to steer the euro zone out of recession even as his American counterpart at the Fed, Ben S. Bernanke, contemplates how soon to take his foot off the accelerator of the United States economy.
Unfortunately for European executives and central bankers, what happens in Washington does not stay in Washington. Rising yields, or market interest rates, on United States Treasury bonds have had worldwide repercussions.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond is now 2.66 percent, compared with 2.19 percent before remarks by Mr. Bernanke on June 19 raised expectations that the Fed would soon begin to taper off its stimulus program of buying government securities.
The better return available on American debt draws money away from Europe and pushes up rates for euro zone government bonds as well as commercial loans. Yields on Spanish and Italian government bonds rose sharply after Mr. Bernanke’s remarks. Euro zone yields have retreated somewhat since but are still higher than they were before June 19. The Spanish 10-year bond is at 4.79 percent, compared with 4.5 percent in early June.
“From the European point of view, the worst thing that could happen is an increase in long-term interest rates, which is what the Fed action is threatening to do,” said Charles Wyplosz, a professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva.
The timing is terrible for Europe. The European Central Bank is still fighting a severe credit crisis in Southern Europe, which is making it difficult for countries like Spain to emerge from a prolonged recession that has pushed the unemployment rate to 27 percent.
European political leaders are a long way from addressing the causes of the euro zone crisis and need all the help they can get from low interest rates. On Wednesday, European Union officials announced a plan to deal with failing banks that would include centralized decision making and an emergency fund. But the plan,Matco Packaging Llc suppliers of BOPP tape, considered essential to prevent bank failures from taking down entire nations,Uline stocks a wide selection of Double sided tape Products. could face resistance from Germany and other countries wary of giving up control over their banks.
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In the private sector, higher rates on commercial loans threaten to strangle business investment and private consumption. Even blue-chip borrowers could begin to suffer, said Erik Berglof, chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, an institution supported in part by the United States that encourages economic development in former Communist states, as well as North Africa.
“Banks were throwing credit lines at their best clients while not lending to the more risky, small and medium-size enterprises,” Mr. Berglof said in an interview in Frankfurt on Wednesday. “Now I think we’re going to see less availability for the better clients as well.”
In the past, the European Central Bank refused to commit itself on the future direction of interest rates. Last week’s break from that tradition was at least partly an attempt by Mr. Draghi, in remarks at a news conference, to push back against higher rates exported from America. But analysts doubt whether mere words will be enough to withstand the power of the Fed and the gravitational pull of the enormous Treasury market.
“Whether it can be a credible shield, we have some doubts,” said Nick Matthews, an economist at Nomura in London. For Mr.We offer a great selection of women's boots and ladies shoes wholesale. Draghi’s strategy to work, Mr. Matthews said, the central bank might have to be more specific about how long it will keep rates low and what indicators might cause it to begin raising rates.
Not all the news from the United States is bad for Europe. A stronger United States economy should be good for European exporters like the German carmaker Volkswagen, which is in the midst of a revival in America. A stronger dollar is also good for many European companies. The dollar has risen about 4 percent against the euro since June 19 as money flowed into United States assets. The cheaper euro makes European products less expensive when purchased with dollars and gives exports an extra nudge.
But Mr. Wyplosz of the Graduate Institute said a much more drastic decline in the euro would be needed to compensate for the negative effects of higher interest rates.
Germany has escaped the worst of the euro zone downturn so far. Growth is at a standstill, but unemployment is at only 5.3 percent. Germany could even benefit from higher interest rates. Low rates on mortgages have contributed to rising home prices in cities like Frankfurt and stirred fears of a bubble.
But the case of Herbert Kannegiesser, the commercial laundry supplier, illustrates how problems elsewhere in Southern Europe could disturb the German idyll.
For now, Kannegiesser seems to be holding up well, partly because of orders from outside Europe. In June, a special 42-container freight train left a rail yard near Vlotho bound for Sochi, Russia. It was loaded with 10 million euros ($13 million) worth of equipment for the laundry that will serve the Winter Olympics in February, Martin Kannegiesser said.
Mr. Kannegiesser said he worried, though, about the insecurity prevalent among businesses in the euro zone. Sometimes his company has gone so far as to help customers get credit when their own banks are reluctant.
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Joanna Burton, senior heritage consultant at Beacon Planning reviews recent legislative reforms and their impact on listed buildings and conservation areas
A framework for significant changes to the law which will affect listed buildings and conservation areas are provided for in the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act which received royal assent at the end of April 2013.
Many of the reforms have their roots in a parliamentary bill which was drafted in 2008, the Heritage Protection Reform Bill, but later dropped from the legislative programme.
The provisions made by this recent Act of Parliament - which will be underpinned by secondary legislation in the future - are part of the Government's wider ‘red tape challenge' and form part of a package of reforms that seek to achieve deregulation and stimulate economic growth.
In this spirit, the heritage reforms contained within the framework of the Act are aimed at streamlining the listed building and planning consent process for development within the historic environment.
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They are unlikely to be appropriate or cost effective management tools for the majority of heritage assets and are as likely to require a body of evidence not dissimilar to that required under the existing listed building consent regime.
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“She was a great friend of those in need,” said William Shapiro, executive board member for 32 years. “I can’t speak highly enough about her. It’s a tremendous loss to the program.”
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In New York, about 300 demonstrators showed up to march from Union Square to Federal Hall. A debate over the success of New York's protest ensued on Reddit, where some wondered if the media conspired not to cover the rally and where the demonstration was called both "a great idea executed terribly" and "an epic flop."
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There is also talk of another protest, based in a single city (likely Washington, D.C.) later in the summer.
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According to a criminal complaint, the missing jewellery included "numerous diamond bracelets in 18-carat gold; diamond drop and hoop earrings in platinum or 18-carat gold; diamond rings in platinum; rings with precious stones in 18-carat gold; and platinum and diamond pendants.''
Lederhaas-Okun said she had left some of it behind at Tiffany and that some had been lost or damaged, the complaint said. But an investigation found that Ms Lederhaas-Okun resold the goods to an unidentified international dealer for more than $US1.3 million ($1.4 million), it said.
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Romanian Maria Anghel was charged over the theft from Thornton Lodge store Gold International Limited back in 2009, but she was only sentenced today after being on the run for about three years.
Anghel, who now lives in Birmingham, was arrested on a warrant last month and a judge at Bradford Crown Court was told she had gone back to Romania in 2010 to help her family after the death of an uncle.
Prosecutor Simon Haring told the court that Anghel had gone into the shop on Thornton Lodge Road in December 2009 along with two men and the young child.
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Mr Haring said Anghel told officers she had not been stealing the jewellery and claimed that her husband was going to buy it for her.
A judge issued a warrant for Anghel's arrest in June 2010 after she failed to attend at the crown court, but it was only when she was brought back to court last month that she finally pleaded guilty to the theft charge.
Judge Peter Benson was told that in May 2010 Anghel had also been caught stealing ￡13 worth of meat from the Lidl store on Wakefield Road, Huddersfield, but she had again failed to turn up at the magistrates court the following month.
Anghel pleaded guilty to stealing the meat, which she had been hiding under her skirt, and two further charges of failing to attend at court.
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BlackBerry's chances of becoming a viable contender to Apple and Google in the smartphone market are dimming amid lackluster demand for its flagship touch-screen device.Worldwide leader in PET protective film Products and Coated Papers.
Corporate information-technology departments have long wanted a third alternative to Apple's iPhones and devices based on Google's Android operating system, to ensure innovation and price competition. Yet many businesses are dropping support for BlackBerry as employees flock to touch-screen devices from Apple, Samsung Electronics and others, according to makers of software used by companies to manage smartphones at work.
That trend was underscored last week when BlackBerry missed analysts' estimates for phone shipments and profit. Now the Waterloo, Ontario-based company could see further declines as businesses grow more sceptical of its brand, said Bob Tinker, chief executive officer of MobileIron, which makes smartphone-management software used by 5000 companies. That makes Microsoft's Windows Phone a likelier third option.
"Most of our customers have been planning to support three mobile operating systems - iOS, Android and either Windows Phone or BlackBerry," Tinker said. "The recent results indicate that BlackBerry is not going to be the third."
BlackBerry last week disclosed unexpectedly weak sales of its flagship Z10 handset, which was designed to exploit its new BB10 software to take on high-end phones such as the iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy S4.
The disappointing results give a shot in the arm to Microsoft, which has gained ground on BlackBerry in recent years in the struggle for third place.Stock your shoe store with our ladies shoes wholesale, In the global smartphone market, BlackBerry's share shrank to 2.9 per cent last quarter from 6.4 per cent a year earlier, according to research firm IDC. Apple and Android together held 92 per cent of the market. Microsoft's Windows Phone bumped BlackBerry into fourth place.Find great deals on eBay for stainless steel bracelet Bracelet in Fashion Jewelry Bracelets.
BlackBerry's worldwide subscriber base slipped to 72 million last quarter, from 76 million and 79 million in the preceding quarters, and the company last week said it will no longer disclose a user tally.
With limited employee demand for BlackBerry devices, some companies are deciding to turn off the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which is the back-office software that lets BlackBerry users securely get email and synchronise appointments in the corporate network, rather than upgrade to the new version for the BB10 operating system, said Tinker. That saves monthly charges and lowers IT costs. Without BES, BlackBerry devices lack most of the features that made them so popular with IT departments and many users.
"We have seen a very enthusiastic response to BES10 from our customer base," said Pete Devenyi, senior vice president of enterprise software for BlackBerry, who said 18,000 companies have downloaded or deployed the software since it was released in January. A BES10 server can manage 15,000 BlackBerry phones, versus about 2000 for the previous generation. "The adoption of BB10 has been very much in accordance with our expectations," he said.
Microsoft cites a growing library of 160,000 apps for Windows Phone devices as evidence of the platform's strength.
"We agree with the industry experts who say Windows Phone has claimed the third spot in the mobile space and is gaining traction," Tony Mestres, a vice president in Microsoft's Windows Phone unit, said in an emailed statement.
BlackBerry announced an addition to the new version of BES called Secure Work Space on June 25 that's designed to manage iPhones and devices from other platforms in addition to its own products. Still, many companies have decided to use independent mobile-management platforms from MobileIron and AirWatch, among others, said Maribel Lopez, founder of Lopez Research.
The Australian Sports Commission recently decided to stop using BES, as fewer employees wanted to own BlackBerry devices, said Chief Information Officer Steve Solk via email.
"Consumer devices based on iOS, Android and even Microsoft have taken considerable market share while BlackBerry seemed to react very slowly to the shift toward consumerisation," Solk said.The Warehouse offers a tremendous selection of stainless steel bangle at great prices. "It's a bit late to re-evaluate the BES."
Microsoft has its own mobile-management product, called Intune, but provides software tools so companies can use independent systems to keep track of Windows Phone devices, along with iPhone and Android phones, from one software console. BlackBerry refuses to share these tools, called Application Programming Interfaces, said Alan Dabbiere, chairman of AirWatch.
"A lot of companies want to get to one console, but to do that you basically have to turn BlackBerry off," said Dabbiere, who said AirWatch has 8000 customers.Find great deals on eBay for stainless steel bracelet Bracelet in Fashion Jewelry Bracelets.
Microsoft has an advantage with mobile-application developers, said Tim Bajarin, founder of Creative Strategies in Campbell, California. More programmers know how to build Windows Phone apps than BB10, which is a based on a new, less familiar technology.
"I see almost zero interest from the serious money in backing BlackBerry apps," Bajarin said. "People are more interested in Microsoft."
One reason is that Microsoft offers money to software makers to write for its platform, said Wade Beavers, an app developer and CEO of DoApp Inc. He said his company stopped designing for BlackBerry about a year ago because it was making so little money because of the small number of people using the platform.
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