Forthcoming EU-related events

March 26 Financial markets seminar
The European Journalism Centre is organising, in co-operation with DG Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission, a one-day information briefing for financial journalists from the eurozone and the opt-out member states. The briefing will mainly focus on forecasts, surveys and fiscal surveillance. Event will be held in Frankfurt.
http://www.ejc.net/

March 27-28 Eurozone data: Issues and implications for economic analysis
The ninth workshop of the Euro Area Business Cycle network (EABCN), hosted by the University of Cambridge, will discuss methodological issues such as the aggregation of data from across the eurozone, and the use of real-time data and the impacts these can have on economic analysis.
http://www.ecb.int

March 31
This conference will identify the long-term societal and economic trends of future online societies, how they will impact the underlying network and service technologies and how they subsequently drive research and technology requirements towards a future internet. This event is organised under the Slovenian Presidency of the EU with European Commission support and will be held in Bled, Slovenia.
http://www.fi-bled.eu/

March 31-April 3 European wind energy conference
The event is intended to attract business leaders, scientists and policy-makers, offering them an opportunity to interact, exchange information and influence the legislative process. The conference will be chaired by EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs. Event will be held in Brussels.
http://www.ewec2008.info/

April 7-8 The future of cohesion policy
Organised by the Slovenian Presidency, the purpose of this conference is to review cohesion policy by looking at its structure, goals and working areas. This will help to identify any deficiencies that need to be eliminated in further phases of discussion. The event will be held in Maribor, Slovenia.
peter.wostner@gov.si

April 9-12 e-society 2008
The IADIS e-society 2008 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within the information society. Broad areas of interest are e-society and digital divide, e-business/e-commerce, e-learning, new media and e-society, digital services in e-society, e-government/e-governance, e-health, information systems and information management. The event will be held in Algarve, Portugal.
http://www.esociety-conf.org/

April 16-17 European perspectives on innovation and policy
A conference on European perspectives on innovation and policy will be held in Stockholm, Sweden. The event will focus on the challenges of open innovation for policy-makers and new directions in national innovation policy governance structures.
http://www.visioneranet.org/

April 24-25 A strategic vision for statistics: Challenges for the next 10 years
This fourth ECB conference on statistics will consider the role of statistics in monetary and other economic policy-making, the future directions for collecting and compiling statistical data, and future avenues for cooperation in the field between the ECB and the European Commission. The event will be held in Frankfurt.
http://www.ecb.int

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