Canada wants to be off for 2030 the traditional energy production by burning coal. That Environment Minister Catherine McKenna on Monday in Ottawa told the national media. Currently, coal-fired plants provide about 10 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions in the country.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has come under fire because he Donald Trump said to be willing to change the free trade agreement NAFTA. Both the opposition party members have Trudeaus 'slack attitude' fiercely criticized.
Access to one of the 26 Schengen countries will in future cost 5 euros, as it is up to the European Commission. Adults from countries without visa requirements for the free travel zone must first submit an application online. When that after being removed is not adopted all kinds of databases, the trip is canceled. Such a system already exists for example in the US, Canada and Australia.
Also among Donald Trump, the United States will fulfill their obligation under the NATO treaty to come to the aid allies. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday in Brussels to discuss the next US president.
A Canadian passenger plane with 54 people on board crashed on Monday near a drone in Toronto, Canada. The device had to make a drastic evasive maneuver. Therefore were aboard two crew members slightly injured.
On its own is not an option, not the US, not in Europe, says NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg. He established itself in the British newspaper The Observer weekend the successor of US President Barack Obama, Donald Trump. Stoltenberg stressed that the West now faces the biggest challenge in a generation in terms of safety.
Leonard Cohen was in the 60 world famous with his songs Suzanne, So Long Marianne and Bird on a Wire. Initially he started as a poet, with his monotonous, melancholy voice he had as a musician more successful. He died Thursday at the age of 82.
Donald Trump victory in the US presidential election has caused a lot of strong reactions. Was previously the Canadian immigration website already flat because all requests from the US, it now appears that thousands of Americans would have been removed up to the forthcoming presidential as far as possible.
Ottawa When the Canadian immigration service website collapsed, while in the US the votes for the presidential election were counted, there were approximately 100,000 American visitors to the site. The department announced Thursday that the failure occurred Wednesday when 200,000 visitors approached the service, half of whom are from the US Donald Trump was chosen Tuesday to president.
A boxing match in which you can not actually do that, but that you still get the clap. As Mexico experienced the American elections of 2016. And it will take some time for all fragments are glued and licked the wounds. If that is successful with Donald Trump as president.
German businessman Günter PUSCHMANN was 1 ton of gold lost, with a value of over 40 million. He died not long ago at the age of 82. For years he was in fierce battle with the Swiss bank UBS, one of the leading asset managers in the world.
LinkedIn has developed a new tool that allows members to compare their salaries with that of others and can find out how much extra they can earn when they create new skills: Salary LinkedIn. It takes into account many factors that may affect the pay scale, such as experience, education, industry and company size.
Former President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso and his new job at the US bank Goldman Sachs not violated the ethics rules for former EU commissioners. That is the conclusion of the European Commission's ethics committee. The investigation into former commissioner Neelie Kroes is still ongoing.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had sat a false start, but now he's left yet in the presidential plane from Ottawa to sign the trade agreement CETA in Brussels. Trudeau was already all set to sign the controversial treaty, but technical problems threw a spanner in the works. According to the Canadian news site CP24 turned the plane shortly after takeoff back to the airport in Ottawa because of mechanical problems on the wings.
The probability of Belgian approval of the free trade agreement between the EU and Canada is still not miscalculated, despite the continuing opposition of Wallonia. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel hopes ' at least the next few hours to a positive solution, 'he said prior to the second day of the EU summit in Brussels. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, denied that there was a deadlock.
The Walloon government Thursday night to discuss the latest proposal that the EU's free trade agreement with Canada, CETA, must save. It also feverishly discussed in Brussels between the EU Member States. The Walloon Prime Minister Paul Magnette presented the Walloon parliament Friday in the outcome of the negotiations.
The leaders of the 28 member states of the European Union come together on Thursday and Friday in Brussels. The regular summit is dedicated to the relationship with Russia, the EU trade policy and migration. Also for the situation in Syria has been reserved time.
The blogger Raif Badawi which is in Saudi Arabia caught waiting for a new round of corporal punishment. Which reported Tuesday Raif Badawi Foundation, a Canadian organization that advocates for the release of the blogger.
Belgium hopes the trade agreement between the EU and Canada (CETA) to be able to sign this week. That said Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders Tuesday in Luxembourg prior to consultation of European trade ministers.
Thousands of protesters Saturday in Spain took to the streets to demonstrate against the free trade TTIP and CETA. TTIP is the European Union's free trade agreement with the United States, CETA is an agreement between the European Union and Canada.
The German Government must go further with the provisional Ceta FTA between Canada and the European Union. The German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe on Thursday rejected several objections to the German approval of the agreement, but will bow later deeply about.
A number of civil society organizations has beaten join forces to raise awareness for sustainable and fair trade. Include Friends of the Earth, the FNV, food watchdog foodwatch and the Consumers call on people to come in defense against what they call bad trade agreements.
Chip maker Intel on Monday launched a new product on the market sunglasses. Radar Pace is operated voice. He will soon be on sale in Europe, USA, Canada and Australia.
All schools in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island were evacuated Wednesday. The police do so ordered because of a potential threat ' '. According to the Canadian broadcaster CBC are receiving suspicious phone calls.
In an air raid on jihadists southwest of the Syrian city of Aleppo in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday four medical workers and certainly slain nine rebels.
"Canada supplied the Dutch police, in principle, a colossal amount of encrypted BlackBerry messages, but states that it severely limited. A court in Ontario ruled that the request of the Dutch police can be met data from nearly 20,000 users. That reports The National Post in Canada."
"The promoters of demonstrations in Germany against the European free trade agreements with Canada (CETA) and the US (TTIP) count on hundreds of thousands of participants. In seven German cities are scheduled Saturday demonstrations."
"The British ship HMS Terror was found in perfect condition after 168 years in Arctic Bay, north of Canada. The Terror did in 1848 participated in a polar expedition of the famous researcher Sir John Franklin when he disappeared in 1848."
The agreement between the European Union and Canada on the exchange of passenger data can not legally acceptable. This enables the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice Thursday in an opinion.
He is of course very complicated argue hang about how his artistic photographs came about, but Peter Paul van der Hout (45) from Dordrecht is there not the man: 'It was just a lucky shot.' His photographs of Mars Tunnel in Zutphen nevertheless goes on giant billboards all over the world.
