Links

The main EU website: EUROPA

http://europa.eu
The home website of the EU. Available in all the major EU languages. An enormous site with voluminous documentation on all aspects of the EU.

http://ec.europa.eu/europedirect/index_en.htm

European Commission Europe Direct Website

http://europa.eu/teachers-corner/index_en.htm

One-stop resource for a wide range of teaching material about EuropeEuropean Consumer Centre Ireland

European Consumer Centre Ireland

www.eccireland.ie
The European Consumer Centre Network offers consumers across Europe advice on their rights when shopping in another European state.

EU Diary Service

www.eurodiary.ie is a dedicated portal for all EU-related events in Ireland and activities of interest to Ireland happening elsewhere, whether official, unofficial, political, NGO, local, regional, lectures, seminars, workshops, meetings, rallies etc, as well as any European Institution's agendas and consultations - European Commission, Parliament, Council of Europe etc.

The aim is to make the site a useful tool for anyone who is either interested in Europe-related events, or who is planning one and wishes to make sure it does not clash with other similar events.

To have your event/meeting put on the Eurodiary website, please email the details too:

events@eurodiary.ie

The Irish Goverment Website

http://www.gov.ie/
The main site of the Irish Government online. Includes links to the various government departments and agencies.

EU Matters-Informamation about Ireland's membership of the EU

http://www.eumatters.ie/
eumatters.ie is a Department of Foreign Affairs website which provides you with factual information about Ireland’ s membership of the European Union. It's part of our Communicating Europe Initiative which has been in place since 1995.

EU Internet library

'Europeana , giving access to hundreds of thousands of books, many of which are rare or out-of-print altogether (EurActiv 21/11/08). Paintings, music, maps, manuscripts and newspapers were also put online.

EU Bookshop

The EU Bookshop website hosts an electronic library containing 12 million scanned pages from over 110,000 historical publications. A further two million pages from more recent ones are also included.

Public Domain Manifesto

Sixteen non-profits led by COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain, released the Public Domain Manifesto, which aims at “reminding citizens and policy-makers of a common wealth that, since it belongs to all, it is often defended by no-one. In a time where we for the first time in history have the tools to enable direct access to most of our shared culture and knowledge it is important that policy makers and citizens strengthen the legal concept that enables free and unrestricted access and reuse”.
Among other provisions, the manifesto points out that active maintenance of the Public Domain must take into account a number of general principles:
• The Public Domain is the rule, copyright protection is the exception
• Copyright protection should last only as long as necessary to achieve a reasonable compromise between protecting and rewarding the author for his intellectual labour and safeguarding the public interest in the dissemination of culture and knowledge
• What is in the Public Domain must remain in the Public Domain
• The lawful user of a digital copy of a Public Domain work should be free to (re-)use, copy and modify such work
• Contracts or technical protection measures that restrict access to and re-use of Public Domain works must not be enforced
In addition to these general principles, the Manifesto presents a set of recommendations aimed at protecting the Public Domain and ensuring that it can continue to function in a meaningful way.
Individuals and organisations are invited to read and, if supported, sign the Manifesto which can be found at http://www.publicdomainmanifesto.org/.

EU opens historical archives to public

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