Despite recent progress, women in Europe are still shut out of top posts in both politics and business, says a new European Commission report. Across the EU, 24% of parliamentarians are women – up from 16% a decade ago – with a similar proportion holding ministerial office. In the private sector, men still represent 9
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Careers in information and communications technology (ICT) are often thought to be restricted to men. Such a common stereotype is far from the truth. Although the proportion of women graduating in engineering or computer science is still very low, young girls can expect a successful and rewarding career in the ICT sector. This topic is
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Just two years after being elected to parliament and a year after taking the reigns of the Democratic Party (DIKO) leadership, Marios Karoyian has been elected as President of the House of Representatives, with 36 votes in favour, none against and 15 abstentions from the opposition Democratic Rally. He replaces communist AKEL party General Secretary
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Nokia Siemens Networks and Germany’s mobile operator E-Plus Group have extended their frame cooperation to cover an expansion and upgrade of the E-Plus 3G radio network until 2010. The upgrade will allow the operator to increase network capacity and to offer new, high-quality services to its customers. Nokia Siemens Networks will expand E-Plus’ radio access
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PandaLabs, Panda Security’s malware detection and analysis laboratory, has discovered a new vulnerability in Microsoft Access. This is a similar security problem to the one discovered a few months back, categorized as CVE-2007-6026. The newly discovered flaw also affects the msjet40.dll library, albeit at a different point. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that
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By Douglas Hamilton BELGRADE, March 7 (Reuters) – FYROM took out full page ads in the Western press on Friday to complain that its neighbour Greece is unjustly blocking the path to membership of NATO because FYROM refuses to change its name. It said Macedonia had already made concessions to Athens, including a constitutional amendment
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By Karolos Grohmann ATHENS, March 7 (Reuters) – Greek labour unions on Friday pledged fresh nationwide strikes next week to oppose a pension reform bill. The conservative government, which has already seen months of protests over the planned changes, insists reforms are needed to save the ailing pension system from possible collapse in 15 years’
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Fears of recession and credit failure battered global stocks and the dollar on Friday as sharp U.S. job losses and Federal Reserve attempts to boost liquidity painted a bleak picture of the world’s largest economy. The dollar was at record lows against major currencies. Wall Street looked likely to open sharply lower and European stocks
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By Elisabeth O’Leary and Jesus Aguado MADRID, March 7 (Reuters) – A clear win for either of the main parties in Spain’s election on Sunday would be a quick shot in the arm for its flagging economy and stock market, but a hung result would be another drag, analysts said on Friday. The ruling Socialists
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U.S. employers cut payrolls for a second straight month during February, slashing 63,000 jobs for the biggest monthly decline in nearly five years as the nation’s labour markets weakened steadily. The Labour Department said last month’s cut followed an upwardly revised loss of 22,000 jobs in January rather than the 17,000 reported a month ago.
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