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Success Against Online Child Abuse

  • December 29th, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

europol-media-conference.jpgA coordinated pre-Christmas swoop by European police saw 112 arrests in connection with child abuse material on the Internet.

The operation was based on intensive work, breaking into a file sharing network, a kind of set-up highly resistant to surveillance. … Read More »

New EU-Australia Review: Education Leads …

  • August 21st, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

international-studentsa2-240x236.jpgThe European Union in a fresh update on relations with Australia says new emphasis is being put on growing cooperation and exchanges in education. … Read More »

Uh-oh, Could This Phones Revolution Really Be Harmful?

  • May 24th, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

roam-phones.jpgFresh agitation emerged this month over mobile phones, with the Council of Europe recommending  a ban on them – along with WiFi * networks– in schools. … Read More »

Shake-up In Australia - EU Links: Ambassador …

  • April 2nd, 2011
  • Posted by Lee Duffield

brendannelson-resize.jpgChanging relations with the Europeans …

The Australian Ambassador talks about a turn-around in attitudes towards the EU. … Read More »

Galliano, zu Guttenberg: New Take On EU Job Losses …

  • March 2nd, 2011
  • Posted by Lee Duffield

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Embarrassment over two sackings: a fashion designer John Galliano (see designs - images) dismissed by his company in France, for something he is said to have said; and a senior German politician, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (picture), accused of not saying, on his own account, something he said that he said, in his doctorate. … Read More »

Postcard From Kantchari

  • February 20th, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

kant-vue-de-linternat.jpgFollowing the report on the adventures of French couple Monique and Pierre Bertaud, building up the schools complex at Kantchuri, in Burkina Faso, (EUAustralia Online, “Life Itself …”, 17.2.11).

Please see further pictures form that project in Africa:

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Life Itself: Windows On The Life Of Europeans; Family Bertaud …

  • February 17th, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

valence-aerial.jpgTwo French teachers, Monique and Pierre Bertaud, have passed up an easy retirement to spend their time now traveling to work in the desert interior of Burkina Faso, in Africa.

bertaud-couple.jpg bk-landscape-2.jpeg They are bringing the chance of a good education to hundreds in need.

A HOME TOWN IN THE HEART OF FRANCE

The city of Valence (city population 66000) on the Rhone River 100 kilometres South of Lyon offers a contented existence to Monique and Pierre Bertaud who retired from their jobs as a primary teacher and high school English specialist there, at the start of the last decade. … Read More »

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