The General Assembly in Prague elected Richard Stock as president of EUNET.
The board consist of the following persons:
President: Richard Stock, F-Scy-Chazelles
1. Vice-President (Treasurer): Hanns Christhard Eichhorst, D-Bonn
2. Vice-President: Wolfgang Forthofer, A-Salzburg
Vice-President: Kamil Sládek , SK-Bratislava
Vice-President: Karsten Lucke, D-Bad Marienberg
board member: Åke Söderman, S-Gävle
board member: Maria-Eleni Sokianou, GR-Rhodes
On the occasion of the General Assembly 2014 in Prague the members of EUNET accepted the applications of the following five organisations to become new members of EUNET:
CZ – EUTIS
D – Europäische Akademie Bayern
F – Maison de l’Europe Sud Bourgogne
F – Maison de l’Europe en Corse
PL – Viribus Unitis
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The report brings together the latest quantitative and qualitative data, recent technical reports and studies, plus policy documents and developments. While focused on empirical evidence, each section in the Monitor has clear policy messages for the Member States and it supports the implementation of the strategic framework “Education and Training 2020”.
The Education and Training Monitor 2014 is accompanied by twenty-eight country reports, as well as a visualisation tool to evaluate the performance and progress of the Member States in relation to the ET 2020 targets.
EU Education and Training Monitor 2014
The European Court of Auditors published its annual report on the EU’s budget.
In its capacity as an independent auditor the Court validated the EU’s 2013 accounts but stressed that the budgetary system is still overly focused on the absolute will to spend funds instead of concentrating on performance.
Hence over the period 2007-2013 the report criticises the various budgets saying that they respond to a logic “use it or lose it” with a choice of projects benefiting from the EU’s funds based on the need to spend available funds, which are then dictated by the respect of rules and finally to a lesser degree according to performance.
Finally the Court of Auditors estimates the error rate at 4.7% in the 2013 budget – ie the amount of payments that should not have been included in the EU’s budgets because the amounts paid were not used in line with the Union’s rules. Most errors involve areas that come under the shared management of the Member States and the European Commission. The most affected spending areas are regional policy, transport, energy, rural development, fisheries and healthcare, states the report.
There was a last minute change in the portfolio of the new EU commissioners with regard to citizenship. Mr Tibor Navracsics will keep the education portfolio, but Citizenship will be taken from his portfolio and moved to the portfolio of the Greek Commissioner Dimitris Avramapoulos, who is now the Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship.
The new portfolio of Mr Navracsics is now called “Education, Culture, Youth and Sport”.