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Political deal reached  on 960 bn EU budget The agreed 960 billion budget paves  the way for the unlocking of funds to  combat youth unemployment in Europe.

EU leaders 'rally' against  youth unemployment EU leaders have come together in a "rallying point" to combat youth  unemployment in Europe, according  to the European Council president.

Shah Deniz's pipeline of  choice is TAP The SDC confirmed that the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) has been  selected to transport gas from Azerbaijan to Europe.

EU's agreement on bail-ins and its exceptions European leaders agreed on a draft directive establishing a framework for dealing with credit institutions and investment firms in difficulty. Commissioner Füle stresses need to better protect the right of children EU Commissioner stressed the need to further promote and protect the rights of children, notably in the EU enlargement countries. Ireland still in recession Ireland's economy continued to contract sharply in early 2013 just months before it is due to exit its EU/IMF bailout program.

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US FILMMAKER DAVID LYNCH POSING IN HIS INSTALATION ‘WITHOUT TITLE AT
 THE MAX ERNST MUSEUM IN  BRUEHL. ALTHOUGH SIMILAR IN FEEL LYNCH’S 
EXHIBITION ‘CIRCLE OF DREAMS’ IN LA  LOUVIERE MIRROR’S HIS UNIQUE 
CHARACTER AND ETCHINGS. |EPA/OLIVER BERG|

 ‘Fire Walk with Me’

By  ALIA PAPAGEORGIOU |
MAY 4, 2013 - 12:29AM

Let me take you back to the year 1990. In high school wearing a bad school uniform. Bob Hawke was Prime Minister with the widest Aussie drawl you ever heard and a ripper political satire show on a hit radio station in the morning called ‘How Green Was My Cactus’.

Life was simple, being a teenager life revolved on my parents’ schedules and like all good Australian households the 37 inch TV, in a large wide brown wooden piece of furniture built to house it and our best friend, the VCR. 

The times were sunny, the Melbourne warmth provided laughter and carefree days and then, in 1990 a darkness, albeit imaginary, came along to bring fascination and fire into the mix. That darkness was Twin Peaks, born of the machinations behind David Lynch’s imagination and Hill Street Blues creator Mark Frost, added to that the haunting music by Angelo Badallamenti, opening visuals of a town up near the Canadian border consumed by pine trees, woodchip and wood cutting factories as well as the peachiest of peach pies and dark black coffee our world was transformed.

Lynch let his darkest thoughts spill forth into a weekly show beginning with the shocking image of a blue girl (also a teenager) wrapped in plastic and floating down a river.

In case you want to revisit or haven’t watched Twin Peaks, I’ll let you discover its dark crevasses on your own with no spoilers.

This created a want for more David Lynch, soundtracks were bought, books based on the diaries of Twin Peaks characters and a leap and jump into the world of Lynch movies.

Blue Velvet, a Dennis Hopper led cult classic, Wild At Heart with a crooning Nick Cage and one of the later favourites The Straight Story which still stirs emotions.

David Lynch has never really stopped over the years; having started as a painter and then moved onto short film and film he continues creativity in various forms.

In just the last year he’s released a new CD Crazy Clown Time, started a charity organisation which allows for homeless or drug addicted youths to benefit from meditation classes in the US – giveforyouth.org and continues with his art.

This month with great surprise I was happy to relive all of the above from my youth to my latest exposure to Mr Lynch as I realised that he had an exhibition in Belgium. Art made of large, dark, wonderful hues of his mind encased in glass and printed on Japanese paper – his etchings had travelled to Belgium.

I found myself catching a train more than one hour away from Gare Centrale with one change of trains in Mons to re-capture just a slight feel of my youth and to see what David Lynch had been up to now traipsing out to the centre of Wallonie, a little former mining town filled with old Italio-Belgo migrants (majority, not solely).

Marie van Bosterhaut the commissioner of art works for the Belgian Centre De La Gravure Et De L’Image Imprimee welcomed me.

As you walk into the centre, a huge image of David Lynch in an apron over a metal plate covered with ink is the first impression you receive and underneath it you read that David Lynch have been working out of a studio in Paris called idem on and off for the last couple of years, the same atelier where Picasso, Giacometti and Matisse also created lithographs.

As we began on our tour Marie shows me the first ever works as etchings that David Lynch did – they are of cream background, have striking red objects on them and dark black lines in fluid form they almost seem to be inspired by Picasso, Marie tells me these need three separate blocks to produce and that Lynch has never mentioned this but who knows. His preferences she notes are Francis Bacon and Munch, inspirations visible and tangible. The idem studio in Montparnasse has been a great inspiration to Lynch, in videos which are placed outside the second floor entrance to the exhibition we see the entire process of making and shaping an image.

The exhibition covers two of the three floors of the gallery refurbished in 2007 and which is quite unique in its extensive coverage of Belgian etchings since the 1970s, its library and educative uses.

For the Lynch exhibit the team of five, took two weeks to set up the almost maze like meander through the white and grey walls which include two black small theatres where with a wall between them and back to back two television screens keep playing short films made by David Lynch’s art, etchings and music. They left me wondering whether all his new songs would be receiving this treatment. 

Although David Lynch hasn’t been to see the exhibition, and Marie seems to negate the possibility of him coming to La Louviere before it closes on 19 May, Patrice Forest the head of idem in Paris has seen it. 

“It is an original piece of curation” she tells me as she explains how the centre specifically chose the 160 pieces in their exhibit and curated the means to display them down to the lighting and frames for each print.

They are quite large prints, anyone with the disposable income interested has the chance to buy a limited 14 pieces which range in price from €1400 – €2400 , being an asbl the centre also has a bookshop and has created a couple of versions of the David Lynch catalogue for sale.

There is a certain feeling that follows you when you watch, see or hear any of David Lynch’s work, on my way home the jumble of textures, images and words etched into the metal plates he used or pieces of wood travelled with me as did a curious piece entitled ‘Eye in the Mountain’ on display on the second floor.

To see it, get yourself to La Louviere.

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Exclusive: John Dalli interview on OLAF, resignation, tobacco directive [VIDEO]

ARTICLE | OCTOBER 17, 2012 - 11:32AM

John Dalli came to New Europe's Brussels HQ on the morning of October 17, and was interviewed by Alexandros Koronakis and Cillian Donnelly on the OLAF investigation, his resignation, and the tobacco directive.

You can find the full timeline of the Dalli affair here.

You can also find Dalli's statement to the press from October 16 here.

The interview video follows:

The Urban Myth... By Alia Papageorgiou*

The European Political Newspaper

October 18, 2012, 23:19

Print Edition        

When Kosta* was 13 years old he had to move from his small village in Greece to the nearest, biggest town of Trikala to go to school, and then high school. Completing this he had to go to Athens, then Cyprus to complete his military requirements, beginning to search for work he was then invited to Australia and took a boat for 30 days that stopped in Dubrovnic, Johannesburg South Africa and Australia's Perth, before he reached Port Melbourne and friends of his from that same small village came
to help him find a job.
This story happened more than 60 years ago, but even today, in Europe, and worldwide we have figures and stories of those closest to us, supportedy data showing us that moving to the bigger city, nine times out of 10, improves our livelihoods.
That same village that Kosta left in Greece, which numbers today a mere 88 residents, used to have a functioning school, local shop, church and main square; none of these remain as more and more residents depend on the main city seven kilometres away in Trikala of Thessaly
.In many villages in Asia the same thing is happening. The globe and all its potential, is considered the ultimate goal and the next step to allow us all to live at our desired levels, despite the exponential growth in cities.

Asia and Europe have taken  a further binding step. Through the appropriate channels, the European Union and the government of China, have ventured into the pertinent question of urbanisation together.
The results can only benefit both and this is why earlier this autumn the commissioner for development, Andris Piebalgs, and Chen Deming, minister of commerce of the Republic of China, signed a financing agreement promoting the environment, transition towards a low-carbon economy and a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in China.
Development commissioner, Andris Piebalgs has said that the “agreement with China is a concrete example of how we can work in partnership to tackle global and shared challenges. We commend China's commitments and we'll support their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; to make cities cleaner and to better manage water, waste and heavy metal pollution. The EU has a solid experience in the fight against climate change and the path towards a green economy that we're happy to share. The results of these projects will benefit all of us and contribute to our common objective: a sustainable development of the planet."
Climate Action commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, said: "Today's agreement is an important step for an ever closer cooperation towards a robust international carbon market. Needless to say that it makes a significant difference when now also China wants to use carbon markets to reduce emissions cost-effectively and boost low-carbon technologies. Our joint commitment to carbon markets shows the potential and benefits of smart climate policies. This is a huge opportunity to modernise our economies, stimulate growth and create jobs in new dynamic industries with innovative technologies and clean energy".
The EU will help China in meeting its environmental, energy- and carbon-intensity targets and in the long run, contribute towards achieving a global reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The EU support will result - through pilot projects - in providing technical assistance, training and fostering exchanges of experience, best practice and know-how in areas like the low-carbon economy and the green economy. The three projects -for which the EU contribution amounts to €25 million- will be implemented over a period of 4 years and focus on areas like water, waste and heavy metal pollution, emission trading system (ETS) and sustainable urbanisation.
*Kosta is a general Greek male name used to illustrate a point, the story did occur to a member of the author's family as to millions of others on our small globe.

About the Author

Alia Papageorgiou

Managing Editor

*H Aλία Παπαγεωργίου,γεννήθηκε στη Μελβούρνη,παρακολούθησε Δημοτικό,Γυμνάσιο,Λύκειο(μπακαλοριά)στη Μελβούρνη και σπούδασε στο Πανεπιστημιοα 

του ΚΕΝΤ(Αγγλία)και του Άμστερνταμ, Ολλανδίας Ευρωπαικό Δίκαιο. Τωρα είναι Αρχισυντάκτρια στην Εφημερίδα των Βρυξελλών NEW EUROPE και συγχρόνως κάνει το διδακτορικό της σταΜΜΕ και Πολυμέσα,σε αγγλικό πανεπιστήμιο. Τη στιγμή αυτη είναι μια άξια εκπρόσωπος και της Αυστραλίας και της Ελλάδας στην Ευρωπαικη πρωτεύουσα