Cluj Innovation Days 2015: The City of Cluj, Regional Innovation HQ for a Week

Over 400 programmers, IT managers, academics and businesspeople participate on March 19-20th in Cluj-Napoca at the third edition of Cluj Innovation Days, the most important event dedicated to innovation in Central and Eastern Europe. Specialists from Germany, Austria, UK, France, Italy, USA, and Romania, as well as ambassadors and representatives of the European Commission are among the invited guests of the regional forum.

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How much does the Spanish government wants Greece to succeed?

by Dan Luca, Casa Europei, BruxellesGreece and the threat of exclusion from the euro zone is one of the most discussed topics recently. When it comes to unemployment, which reached high levels both in Greece and in Spain, the European institutions are in touch with national governments, helping to find solutions. For example, Greece managed to get a total of 26 billion euros through bilateral loans from Spain, even though the country itself is in crisis. The sum is “what we spend in a year on unemployment benefits in a country where the unemployment rate is 23%. In addition, Spain was forced to borrow at interest rates higher than those Greece currently pays”, said Luis de Guindos, Spain’s Minister of Economy, in a recent press conference.

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