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European Juggling Association The European Juggling Association, abbreviated as EJA, is a non-profit association for European jugglers. Its main goal is to promote juggling in Europe, especially by ensuring that, each year, a European Juggling Convention (EJC) takes place in a different European city or town.
European leaders in procurement European Leaders In Procurement magazine (ELP magazine) is the leading business title for senior procurement and supply chain executives in Europe. The publication offers topical news, thought-provoking features, profiles, comments and much more.
European lobster The European lobster (Homarus gammarus) is a large European clawed lobster. It is difficult to distinguish from the American lobster (Homarus americanus) — the best distinction is the geographical location, with the European lobster in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the American lobster in the western Atlantic, and by the lack of teeth on the underside of the rostrum of a European lobster .
European long-distance paths The European long-distance paths are a network of extremely long distance footpaths across Europe. They all pass through many different countries, unlike most other European long-distance footpaths which are located in just one country or region.
European Lacrosse Championships The European Lacrosse Championships are held every four years, and have been held since 1995 to determine the best national lacrosse team of Europe. Before 2002, the championships were held annually (except for men in 1998 because of the World Championships, and for women in 2001 because of the World Cup), but in 2002 the European Lacrosse Federation (ELF) changed it to every four years, occurring on the even years between the World Championships.
European Land-Robot Trial The European Land-Robot Trial (ELROB) is the first European robot trial providing an opportunity to demonstrate today’s state-of-the-art robotics. Two scenarios, focussing on both mobility and RSTA (Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target acquisition), allow participating teams to demonstrate their technical realisations of unmanned ground vehicles.
European Landowners' Organisation The European Landowners' Organisation (ELO) is a vountary organisation that represents the interests of the owners and managers of rural land, and rural businesses, within the EU. It was created in 1972, at the time when the United Kingdom was joining the EEC, as a European extension of the British Country Landowners' Association.
European Language Council The European Language Council is a permanent and independent association whose main aim is the quantitative and qualitative improvement of knowledge of the languages and cultures of the European Union and beyond. Membership is open to all institutions of higher education and all national and international associations with a special interest in languages.
European Latsis Prize The European Latsis Prize is awarded annually by the European Science Foundation for "outstanding and innovative contributions in a selected field of European research". The prize is worth 100,000 Swiss francs and is awarded within a different discipline each year.
European LC Championships 1991 The European LC Championships 1991 were held in Athens, Greece from August 18 to 25. The competition, organised by the LEN, was held in the Olympic Aquatic Centre, which also hosted the swimming competition during the 2004 Summer Olympics.
European LC Championships 1993 The European Long Course Championships 1993 in swimming were held in Sheffield, England from Tuesday August 3 to Sunday August 8, in the 50 m pool of the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre. The 21st edition of the event was organised by the LEN.
European LC Championships 1997 The European Long Course Championships 1997 in swimming were held in Seville, Spain from Tuesday August 19 to Sunday August 24, in the 50m pool of the Piscina Centro Deportivo San Pablo. The 23rd edition of the event was organised by the LEN.
European LC Championships 1999 The European Long Course Championships 1999 were held in Istanbul, Turkey from Monday July 26 to Sunday August 1, in the 50m pool of the Ataköy Olympic Pool Stadium. The 24th edition of the event was organised by the LEN.
European LC Championships 2000 The European LC Championships 2000 were held in Helsinki, Finland from Monday July 3 to Sunday July 9, in the 50m pool at the Mäkelänrinne Swimming Center. The 25th edition of the event was organised by the LEN, less then three months prior to the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
European LC Championships 2002 The European LC Championships 2002 were held in Berlin, Germany from Monday July 29 to Sunday August 4, at the Berlin Eurosportpark in the German capitol. The 26st edition of the event was organised by the LEN.
European LC Championships 2004 The European LC Championships 2004 were held in Madrid, Spain from May 5 to 16, at the M-86 Swimming Center in the southeast of the city, less than three months before the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Some of the participating nations used the event therefore as a qualifying tournament for the Olympics.
European Le Mans Series The European Le Mans Series (ELMS) was a sportscar endurance series based around the 24 Hours of Le Mans that was created in 2000 and ran its only season in 2001 before being cancelled. It was created by Don Panoz as an expansion on his successful American Le Mans Series run by IMSA.
European Liberal Youth European Liberal Youth (LYMEC - Liberal and Radical Youth Movement of the European Community) is an international organisation of Liberal youth movements - mostly the youth wings of members of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party.
European Library The European Library is a service on the World Wide Web that offers access to the resources of the 45 national libraries of Europe. The resources, both digital and non-digital, include books, magazines, journals, audio recordings and other material.
European Lighting Designers' Association The European Lighting Designers' Association (ELDA+) is an international association of lighting designers whose work primarily involves them in architectural lighting design. Based in GĂĽtersloh, Germany, the organisation was originally created as a European entity, a counterpart to the North American International Association of Lighting Designers.
European Lion The European lion (Panthera leo europaea) could be an extinct subspecies of lion that inhabited southern Europe until historic times. This population is generally considered part of the Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica), but others consider it a separate subspecies, the European lion (Panthera leo europaea).
European mandatory age limits and related laws In individual European countries, there are laws and age limits relating to subjects such as abortion, driving, alcohol and tobacco consumption, that vary considerably between nations. Through EU directives, many EU countries share many laws relating to trade and industry, such as maximum working hours each week.
European mantis The European mantis (Mantis religiosa) is one of the most common species of the order Mantodea. Originating in southern Europe, the European mantis was introduced to North America in 1899 on a shipment of nursery plants.
European Magpie The European Magpie (Pica pica) is a resident breeding bird throughout Europe, much of Asia, and northwest Africa. It is one of several birds in the crow family named as magpies, and belongs to the Holarctic radiation of "monochrome" magpies.
European Maritime Safety Agency The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) is a European Union agency charged to reduce the risk of maritime accidents, marine pollution from ships and the loss of human lives at sea by helping to enforce the pertinent European Community legislation. It is headquartered in Lisbon.
European Mathematical Society The European Mathematical Society (EMS) is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians.
European Medical Writers Association The European Medical Writers Association (EMWA) was founded in 1989 as a professional organisation for European biomedical communicators, whether working freelance or in-house at pharmaceutical companies or medical communications companies. Its head office is in Zug, Switzerland.
European Medicines Agency The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) is a European agency for the evaluation of medicinal products. Until 2004, the European Medicines Agency was known as The European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products.
European Megalithic Culture The European Megalithic Culture was a prehistoric (and preliterate) civilisation based primarily in Western Europe, that has left a legacy of large stone monuments, or megaliths, scattered widely across the continent. The earliest of these constructions, found in Brittany and the Iberian Peninsula, are reckoned to date to around 4800 BC, thus predating the Egyptian pyramids by some two millennia.
European Men's Handball Championship The European men's handball championship is the official competition for senior men's national handball teams of Europe, and takes place every two years. In addition to crowning the European champions, the tournament also serves as a qualifying tournament for the World Championship.
European Mink The European Mink, Mustela lutreola, is a European member of the Mustelidae family found in some regions of Spain, France, Romania, Sweden, Poland and the greater part of Russia, though not found east of the Ural Mountains. Formerly it extended across all Europe, reaching Finland in the north, but it is now extinct in the major part of its ancient range.
European Molecular Biology Laboratory The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is a molecular biology research institution supported by 19 European countries. The EMBL was created in 1974 and has laboratories in Heidelberg, Germany; Hamburg, Germany; Grenoble, France; and Hinxton, UK, and an external Research Programme in Monterotondo, Italy.
European Monitoring Centre on Change The European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC) is "a place for exchanging practice, information and ideas on the management and anticipation of change," consisting primarily of an informational website. It was founded at a 2001 conference on "What drives change?
European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia The European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) is an independent body (agency) of the European Union based in Vienna whose goal is to provide the EU "with objective, reliable and comparable data at European level on the phenomena of racism and xenophobia in order to help them take measures or formulate courses of action within their respective spheres of competence."
European Mortgage Federation Founded in 1967, the European Mortgage Federation represents the interests of mortgage lenders at EU level on both the retail and lending side. It groups national associations and individual lenders from amongst the EU 25 and the Accession Countries.
European Movement Ireland The European Movement Ireland (EMI) is an independent voluntary membership organisation, which exists to promote the economic, political and social development of Europe and Ireland's place in Europe. The EMI is a civil society organisation which aims to show Irish citzens what kind of Europe we have, and to ask what Union we want to be involved with.
European Muon Collaboration The European Muon Collaboration (EMC) conducted high energy particle physics experiments at CERN. In 1983, it discovered that nucleons inside an nucleus have a different distribution of momentum among their component quarks.
European Music Radio European Music Radio began in 1976 broadcasting from clandestine, mobile transmitters on various frequencies on the 48 metre Short-Wave band. Typical transmitter power was just 10 watts, but despite the low power, EMR's signal was received over most of Western Europe and Scandinavia.
European Nations Cup (rugby union) The European Nations Cup, also referred to as the "Six Nations B" or simply ENC, is a second-level competition for European nations where rugby union is still an amateur sport. It is administered by FIRA-AER.
European Neighbourhood Policy The European Neighbourhood is the region beyond the frontier of the European Union. It is comprised of primarily developing countries, who seek one day to become either component states of the European Union itself, or more closely aligned to the economy of the European Union.
European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights (ENIAR) is a European wide non-profit organisation that promotes awareness of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues and to provide information for Indigenous Australians about European and international organisations.
European Network of Information Centres The European Network of Information Centres (ENIC) were established as a join initiative of UNESCO and the Council of Europe. They are intended to implement the Lisbon recognition convention and, in general, to develop policy and practice for the recognition of qualifications.
European Northern Observatory The name by which the Instituto de AstrofĂ­sica de Canarias (IAC) and its observatories, the Teide Observatory, on Tenerife, and the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, on La Palma, are collectively known. It was named in response to the successful collaboration of the member countries in the European Southern Observatory organisation.
European ordering rules When lists of names or words need to be ordered, but the context does not define a particular single language or alphabet, the European ordering rules, or the EOR, provide a way to put them in sequence. The ordering rules consist of 5 levels.
European outsourcing association The European Outsourcing Association is a federal body, launched by the British National Outsourcing Association in June 2004, at an inaugural conference in Amsterdam. The aim of the EOA is to act as an umbrella body for the national outsourcing trade associations throughout Europe.
European Optical Society The European Optical Society is a pan-European society that aims to contribute to the progress in optics. Founded in 1991 by several national optical societies it organises optical meetings and conferences in Europe.
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites EUMETSATTM (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) is an intergovernmental organisation created through an international convention agreed by a current total of 20 European Member States: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. These States fund the EUMETSAT programs and are the principal users of the systems.
European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation EUROCONTROL is the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, an international organisation whose primary objective is the development of a seamless, pan-European Air Traffic Management (ATM) system. This civil organisation currently has 37 member states; its headquarters are in Brussels.
European Otter The European Otter, Lutra lutra, is a European member of the Mustelidae or weasel family, and is typical of freshwater otters. It may also be known as the Eurasian river otter, common otter, or Old World otter.
European patent law European patent law covers a wide range of legislations including national patent laws, the Strasbourg Convention of 1963, the European Patent Convention of 1973, and a number of European Union directives and regulations.
European political party A European political party, formally a political party at European level, sometimes informally (especially in academic circles) a Europarty, is a type of political party organization operating transnationally in Europe. The European Union recognizes such organizations and provides them with funding, largely per Article 191 of the Treaty of Maastricht, which states
European pornography Pornography in Europe is dominated by a few pan-European producers and distributors, the most notable of which is the Private Media Group that had successfully claimed the throne of Color Climax Corporation in early 1990s. Most European countries also have local pornography producers, from Portugal (e.
European Parliament The European Parliament (formerly European Parliamentary Assembly) is the parliamentary body of the European Union (EU), directly elected by EU citizens once every five years. Together with the Council of Ministers, it composes the legislative branch of the institutions of the Union.
European Parliament (Representation) Act 2003 European Parliament (Representation) Act 2003 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (2003 Chapter 7). The long title is "An Act to make provision enabling alterations to be made to the total number of Members of the European Parliament to be elected for the United Kingdom and to their distribution between the electoral regions; to make provision for and in connection with the establishment of an electoral region including Gibraltar for the purposes of European Parliamentary elections; and for connected purposes.
European Parliament election, 1979 (Netherlands) In 1979 the first direct elections to the European Parliament were held in the Netherlands. Four parties were able to win seats: the conservative liberal VVD, the progressive liberal D66, the christian-democratic CDA and the social-democratic Labour Party.
European Parliament election, 1979 (United Kingdom) The European Assembly Election, 1979, was the first European election to be held in the United Kingdom after the European Community (EC) decided to directly elect representatives to the European Parliament. It was held on 7 June.
European Parliament election, 1984 (Netherlands) In 1984 elections to the European Parliament were held in the Netherlands. In these elections both the leftwing CPN, PSP and PPR parties and the orthodox protestant SGP, GPV, RPF parties have formed a successful common lists, which win two respectively one seat.
European Parliament election, 1989 (Netherlands) In 1989 elections to the European Parliament were held in the Netherlands. In the election the conservative liberal VVD looses seats to the progressive liberal D66, which return to the European parliament after a five year absence.
European Parliament election, 1994 (Netherlands) In 1994 elections to the European Parliament were held in the Netherlands. The liberal VVD and D66 parties and the orthodox protestant alliance of Political Reformed Party, Reformatory Political Federation and Reformed Political Alliance profited from the expansion of the number of seats.
European Parliament election, 1999 The 1999 election was the first election for the European Parliament after the enlargement of the European Union with Austria, Finland and Sweden. The voter turn-out was generally low, except in Belgium and Luxembourg, where voting is compulsory and where national elections were held that same day.
European Parliament election, 2004 Elections to the European Parliament were held from June 10, 2004 to June 13, 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union, using varying election days according to local custom. Votes were counted as the polls closed, but results were not announced until 13 June and 14 so results from one country would not influence voters in another where polls were still open; however, the Netherlands, voting on Thursday 10, announced nearly-complete provisional results as soon as they were counted, on the evening of its election day, a move heavily criticized by the European Commission.
European Parliament election, 2004 (Belgium) Elections to the European Parliament were held in Belgium on June 13, 2004. The elections produced little overall change in the distribution of seats in the European Parliament among Belgium's many political parties.
European Parliament election, 2004 (Czech Republic) The first elections to the European Parliament after the EU accession were held in the Czech Republic on June 11 and June 12, 2004. On a very low turnout, the ruling Czech Social Democratic Party suffered a heavy defeat, losing ground to both the conservative Civic Democratic Party and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia.
European Parliament election, 2004 (Finland) Elections to the European Parliament were held in Finland on June 13, 2004. Both the Finnish Social Democratic Party and the Finnish Centre Party improved their vote at the expense of the conservative National Coalition Party and the Greens.
European Parliament election, 2004 (Germany) Elections to the European Parliament were held in Germany on June 13, 2004. The elections saw a heavy defeat for the ruling Social Democratic Party, which polled its lowest share of the vote since World War II.
European Parliament election, 2004 (Gibraltar) Gibraltar's first elections to the European Parliament were held on 10 June 2004 as part of Europe-wide elections. Although part of the European Union, Gibraltar had never before voted in European Parliamentary elections, in part due to its small electorate of just over 20,000 which would cause Gibraltar to be over-represented by about 30 times if even a single seat were to be assigned to it.
European Parliament election, 2004 (Greece) Elections to the European Parliament were held in Greece on June 13, 2004. The ruling New Democracy party made strong gains, while the opposition Panhellenic Socialist Movement made smaller gains, both at the expense of minor parties.
European Parliament election, 2004 (Hungary) Elections to the European Parliament were held in Hungary on June 13, 2004. The ruling Hungarian Socialist Party was heavily defeated by the opposition conservative Hungarian Civic Union and other conservative parties.
European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy) Elections to the European Parliament were held in Italy on June 13, 2004. Italy's highly fragmented party system made it hard to identify an overall trend, but the results were generally seen as a defeat for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a victory for the centre-left opposition coalition identified with Romano Prodi, who was President of the European Commission until 2004, and was widely expected to re-enter Italian politics at the next election.
European Parliament election, 2004 (Netherlands) Elections to the European Parliament were held in the Netherlands on June 10, 2004. The ruling centre-right parties, the Christian Democratic Appeal and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy polled poorly, while the opposition Labour Party and Socialist Party gained ground.
European Parliament election, 2004 (Slovenia) Elections to the European Parliament were held in Slovenia on June 13, 2004. The biggest surprise was the victory of the New Slovenia Christian People's Party over the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia and the defeat of the Slovene People's Party, which did not win a seat.
European Parliament election, 2009 Elections to the European Parliament will be held 11–13 June 2009 in the 27 member states of the European Union, using varying election days according to local custom. It will be the first time that Bulgaria and Romania participate in European Parliament elections at the same time as the other member states; Croatia still hopes to have wrapped up accession negotiations by 2008, enabling it to participate in these elections as well.
European Parliament election, 2009 (United Kingdom) The European Parliament election will be the United Kingdom's component of the European Parliament election, 2009 and will be held on Thursday 11 June 2009. Some predict that the election will coincide with the next general election.
European Parliament political group Political groups in the European Parliament combine the MEPs from European political parties, informal European political blocs, and independents, into powerful coalitions. Each group must consist of no less than 19 MEPs from five different EU member states.
European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Act 2004 European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Act 2004 is in Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (2004 c. 2, long title An Act to make provision for piloting in certain regions different methods of voting at the European Parliamentary general election in 2004 and at certain local elections held at the same time; and to enable consequential alterations to be made to voting procedures at local elections.
European Parliamentary Elections Act 1993 The European Parliamentary Elections Act 1993 is an Act of Parliament that amended the procedures on European elections in the United Kingdom, amending the European Assembly Elections Act 1978. It received the Royal Assent on 5 November 1993.
European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002 The European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (2002 Chapter 24). The long title is "An Act to consolidate the European Parliamentary Elections Acts 1978, 1993 and 1999".
European Patent Bulletin The European Patent Bulletin is a weekly trilingual publication of the European Patent Office (EPO), generally issued every Wednesday. European Patent Office web site, Publication dates for 2006, retrieved on July 7, 2006 It contains "entries made in the Register of European Patents, as well as other particulars the publication of which is prescribed by [the European Patent Convention (EPC)] or its implementation".
European Patent Convention The Convention on the Grant of European Patents of 5 October 1973, commonly known as the European Patent Convention (EPC), is a multilateral treaty instituting the European Patent Organisation and providing an autonomous legal system according to which European patents are granted. Although the term European patent is used to refer to patents granted by the EPO, after grant such a patent is not a unitary right, but a group of essentially independent nationally-enforceable, nationally-revocable patents, subject to revocation and/or narrowing as a group pursuant a time-limited, unified, post-grant opposition procedure.
European Patent Institute The Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office or European Patent Institute (epi) is a professional association of European patent attorneys and an international non-governmental public law corporation. It was founded on October 21 1977 by the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation.
European Patent Litigation Agreement The draft European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA), or formally the Draft Agreement on the establishment of a European patent litigation system, is a proposed patent law agreement aimed at creating an "optional protocol to the European Patent Convention (EPC) which would commit its signatory states to an integrated judicial system, including uniform rules of procedure and a common appeal court". European Patent Office microsite, "Legislative Initiatives in European patent law", EPLA - European Patent Litigation Agreement, retrieved on July 11, 2006 In 1999, a Working Party on Litigation was set up by member states of the European Patent Organisation to propose an optional agreement on the creation of such a central judicial system.
European Patent Organisation The European Patent Organisation (EPO or EPOrg in order to distinguish it from the European Patent Office, which is the main organ of the organisation) is a public international organisation set up by the European Patent Convention (EPC). The European Patent Organisation has its seat at Munich, Germany.
European Pear The European Pear Pyrus communis is a species of pear native to central and eastern Europe and southwest Asia. The European Pear is one of the most important fruits of temperate regions, being the species from which most orchard pear cultivars grown in Europe, North America and Australia are developed.
European People's Party–European Democrats The European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats is a group in the European Parliament. It is comprised of the European People's Party and the non-party subgroup European Democrats (not to be confused with the centrist European Democratic Party).
European Petroleum Survey Group The European Petroleum Survey Group or EPSG (1986 – 2005) was a scientific organization with ties to the European petroleum industry consisting of specialists working in applied geodesy, surveying, and cartography related to oil exploration. EPSG compiled and disseminated the EPSG Geodetic Parameter Set, a widely used database of Earth ellipsoids, datums, geographic and projected coordinate systems, units of measurement, etc.
European Pharmacopoeia The European Pharmacopoeia is a listing of a wide range of active substances and excipients used to prepare pharmaceutical products in Europe. The 2005 edition includes 1800 specific and general monographs, including various chemical substances, antibiotics, biological substances; Vaccines for human or veterinary use; Immunosera; Radiopharmaceutical preparations; Herbal drugs; Homoeopathic preparations and homoeopathic stocks.
European Pied Flycatcher The Pied Flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca, is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family, one of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers. It breeds in most of Europe and western Asia.
European Poker Players Hall of Fame The European Poker Players Hall of Fame was created by poker professional Bruce "Elvis Senior" Atkinson to recognise European poker players who have made great achievements throughout their poker careers.
European Polecat The European Polecat (Mustela putorius), also known as a fitch, is a member of the Mustelidae family, and is related to the stoats, otters, weasels, and minks. They are dark brown with a lighter bandit-like mask across the face, pale yellow underbody fur, a long tail and short legs.
European Police College The European Police College (CEPOL), an agency of the European Union, is an academy for training senior and middle-ranking EU police officials. Its mission is to help the EU’s national police forces in their fight against crime, especially cross-border crime.
European Policy Centre The European Policy Centre (EPC) is a European non-profit think tank. The EPC as an organization works on promoting European integration, by providing its members and the wider public with information and analysis on the European Union and the global policy agenda.
European Portuguese European Portuguese (also named Continental Portuguese or Lusitanian Portuguese) is a group of Portuguese dialects spoken in Portugal. Standard Portuguese (Português-padrão) is traditionally based on Estremenho dialect of Coimbra, where the single university of the country existed for centuries, and, currently, also Lisbon’s, despite the pronunciation of Lisbon is still perceived by many as a dialect.
European Pressurized Reactor The European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) is a third generation nuclear fission pressurized water reactor (PWR) design. It has been designed and developed mainly by Framatome (Areva NP) and Electricité de France (EDF) in France, and Siemens AG in Germany.
European Procurement European Procurement is a centralized system of notification of public procurement of all supplies, services, and works by government bodies in the European Union (formerly known as the EEC) has been in existence since before 1992, as seen in Directive 92/50/EEC. It is estimated that up to 16% of the region's GDP falls within this category.
European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study is a Europe-wide prospective cohort study of the relationships between diet and cancer, as well as other chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease. With over half a million participants, it is the largest study of diet and disease to be undertaken.
European Psychologist The European Psychologist is the official organ of EFPA and is supported by other European psychological organizations. Published by Hogrefe and Huber it is a scholarly peer reviewed journal, each annual volume consisting of four regular issues, with occasional supplements.
European PSK Club The European PSK Club, or EPC for short, is an informal club of amateur radio operators dedicated to maintaining high levels of amateur radio communications on PSK modes. Its purpose is to promote activity and good operating practice on the PSK modes on all amateur bands.
European Public Relations Education and Research Association The European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA) is an organization working to promote and combine research and practice within the field of public relations in Europe. It organizes and promotes various conferences, including an annual congress, held in collaboration with selected universities across Europe, as well as the annual International Bled Symposium in Bled, Slovenia.
European Quality Improvement System The European Quality Improvement System (or EQUIS) is a school accreditation system without recognition from the US Department of Education or any foreign government oversight. It specializes in higher education institutions of management and business administration, run by the European Foundation for Management Development.
European route E134 European highway E134 goes through Norway, westwards from Haugesund, over the Hardangervidda mountain plateau. With the highest point at 1085 meters above sea level, the road is sensitive to snow conditions and foul weather during the winter season, during which the mountainous sections may be closed in short periods.

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