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INTERVIEW WITH BEN BUTTERS, DIRECTOR OF EUROPEAN AFFAIRS AT EUROCHAMBRES : "A PERFECT ROAD MAP FOR EU CLUSTERS DOES NOT EXIST".
December 2, 2009... "Clusters would fail without businesses," says Ben Butters, Eurochambres' director of European affairs, while explaining his association's five-point proposal (see separate article).aClusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies or institutions that are active in a...

COMPETITIVENESS : CHAMBERS PUSH FOR WORLD-CLASS CLUSTERS.
December 2, 2009... How to implement a common European policy on clusters(1)? Eurochambres, together with its French counterpart and the local chamber of commerce from the region Nice-Cote-d'Azur, gave their part of the answer by presenting "five proposals for a common EU policy on clusters" at the fourth annual...

AGENDA.(Brief article)(Conference notes)
December 2, 2009... EUROPEAN COMMISSION Autumn: Recommendation on mobile termination rates November: Communication on car advertisinga End of December: Study on Rome II a End of December: Study on media pluralisma Early 2009:aCommunication on the indicators for media pluralism in the EU...

FIGHT AGAINST INTERNET PIRACY.
December 2, 2009... Faced with the growing problem of illegal downloading and its effects on the sales of CDs and DVDs and thus on artists' revenues, as well as on the development of legal content online, the EU's culture ministers have called for "concerted solutions" between the parties concerned (rights...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS : FORMER MONOPOLIES ASK FOR "TARGETED REGULATION".
December 2, 2009... Incumbent operators are keeping on the pressure two weeks from the Telecoms Council, on 27 November, which must agree on a vast reform of the EU's rules ensuring competition in the electronic communications market (telecoms package). They demand a "targeted regulation," especially in the...