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The State Aid blockage to public funding within the EU and how to address it

January 15th, 2011

This is  an EU Directive designed to prevent one Member State giving an unfair advantage to a particular commercial organisation or sector. For instance if the UK Government were to give subsides to its steel industry, this would distort  competitivity across the EU. I have noticed however that the State Aid principle is being quoted [...]

The Bartlett Society

January 4th, 2011

http://zoohistory.co.uk I always find this site – all about zoo history and memorabilia intriguing

Why no Darwinian Zoo…?

January 3rd, 2011

o the best of my knowledge there is no animal collection in the world that takes the idea of evolution as its overall theme, although we do have a quasi creationist zoo here in the UK, and I am pretty sure several in the USA ( to be clear, I am with Voltaire in defending [...]