Today is Family Day, all over the world workshops, seminars, policy meetings, exhibitions and events to raise awareness of the importance of families are being organized. This year’s theme is: “Ensuring work family balance.”

“This year’s International Day of Families highlights the need for work-family balance. The aim is to help workers everywhere provide for their families financially and emotionally, while also contributing to the socio-economic development of their societies.” United Nations (UN), Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

In 1993 a UN resolution was adopted to reflect the importance of families and securing their status within … Read more

Today, we celebrate EUROPE day. On 9th of May 1950, the French foreign minister Robert Schuman, read a declaration in front of international press, calling France, Germany and other European countries to pool their coal and steel production together.
His proposal was to create a supranational European Institution managing the coal and steel industry, leading to the creation of the European Coal and Steel community, forming the grounding stones of what we now know to be the European Union (EU). Founding members of the EU were Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. In 1957 the European … Read more