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CD-ROM Updates
This page lists all of the factsheets that Civitas has updated on the EU Facts resource. From here, schools can download the new files and update the CD-ROM version of EU Facts to ensure that all of the information that it contains is current.
Instructions on how to update are found at the bottom of the page.
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24/09/07
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Member States and Enlargement
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All sheets reformatted to new style, and redrafted to reflect recent developments in each country.
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21/09/07
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EU Constitution
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Sheet completely redrafted to reflect the shift of constitutional debate from the failed Treaty of 2004, to the currently proposed Reform Treaty.
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30/04/07
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Overview Sheets, EU Facts
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All factsheets in EU Facts re-categorised and all overview sheets re-formatted to a new, more accesible, style in response to teacher feedback. Ultimately, all factsheets will be converted to this new style.
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25/04/07
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Development & the ACP countries
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New factsheet added to EU Facts on the EU's role in development, in particular concerning African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.
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25/04/07
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External Trade
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Sheet updated to include reference to the EU agreeing to open free trade talks with India and the ASEAN countries; and to remove tariffs on agricultural produce imported from ACP countries.
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20/04/07
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Justice & Home Affairs
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Sheet updated to include reference to the Council of the European Union agreeing to incorporate the provisions of the Prum Treaty into EU law (Feb 07).
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20/04/07
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European Parliament
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Sheet updated to reflect Hans-Gert Pottering's election as the new President of the EP.
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29/03/07
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Maps & Stats
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Added to sheet to include maps showing EU members, enlargement, the eurozone, Schengen area and Western Balkans enlargement negotiations.
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21/03/07
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Austria, Finland & Sweden
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Sheet updated to reflect the narrow victory of the incumbent Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen's Centre Party in the Finnish parliamentary election. Coalition negotiations are underway.
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05/03/07
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The Baltic States
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Sheet updated to reflect the victory of the incumbent Prime Minister Andrus Ansip's Reform Party in the Estonian parliamentary election. Coalition negotiations are underway.
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28/02/07
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EU Energy Policy
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Sheet updated to include reference to the recent EU Commission report on progress in liberalising the energy sector and to the proposed NEGP gas pipeline.
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28/02/07
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EU Environmental Policy
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Sheet updated to include reference to recent EU Commission proposals to force car manufacturers to cut emissions by 20% and to introduce harmonised penalties for environmental crimes.
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23/01/07
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Common Fisheries Policy
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Sheet updated to include the latest agreement (Dec 2006) on reducing fish catches.
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18/01/07
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European Parliament, European Institutions, EU Political Parties
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Sheets updated to reflect the election of Hans-Gert Poettering as president of the European Parliament and the new political groupings in the EP as a result of the number of MEPs being increased to 785, following the accession of Bulgaria and Romania.
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12/12/06
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Enlargement, Turkey
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Sheets updated to reflect the decision of EU foreign ministers to follow the Commission's recommendation and suspend accession talks with Turkey on eight of its 35 negotiating chapters.
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12/12/06
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European Neighbourhood Policy
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Sheet updated to account for the European Neighbourhood Policy Instrument replacing the TACIS and MEDA programmes.
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25/10/06
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European Court of Auditors
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Sheet updated to include the Court's decision not to sign off EU accounts for the twelfth year running.
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25/10/06
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Arguments against the EU
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Sheet updated to include EU Enterprise Commissioner, Gunter Verheugen's, recent announcement that EU regulation is costing EU business €600bn p.a.
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10/10/06
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Romania and Bulgaria
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Sheet updated to reflect final decision by European Union to accept Romania and Bulgaria as EU member states from January 1st 2007.
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10/10/06
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The Baltic States
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Sheet updated to reflect government changes in Estonia following their general election.
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20/09/06
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Sweden, Finland and Austria
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Sheet updated to reflect government changes in Sweden following their general election.
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How to update
- Ensure that the EU Facts CD-ROM is in the disk drive.
- Right click here. Select 'Save target as' from the drop-box that will appear.
- This will open a box asking you where to save the file to. Go to 'My Documents' and click 'Make a new folder' icon in the top-right corner. Call the folder 'EU Facts'.
- Double click on this new 'EU Facts' folder and press 'Save'. This will download the updated version of EU Facts onto your computer.
- In the EU Facts folder, click 'Extract All' on the left-hand menu. Follow the on-screen instructions to extract all the EU Facts files from the zip file (keep the 'EU Facts' folder as the file location).
- Once this has been completed, press control&A to select all the files now in the EU Facts folder. Click on 'Copy selected items', select the CD drive (D:/CIVITAS EU Facts) (in 'My Computer') and click 'Copy'.
- There will be a number of prompts asking you, if you want to overwrite the existing files; click 'Yes to all'.
- After this process has finished, a bubble will appear in the bottom-right of your screen, that reads: 'You have files waiting to be written to the CD'. Click on the bubble and follow the on-screen instructions to write the copied files to the CD.
- You have now updated EU Facts!
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