The Major Lynx team won the provincial championship this past summer after defeating archrival Valleyfield in a hard fought victory on our home turf in NDG.

"The competition for the prize was very tight but the high quality of the winners' work clearly shows the potential of European research and the necessity to continue supporting its many talents," said Professor Anne Glover, the European Commission's Chief Scientific Advisor and a jury member.

4. Stresses that margins available according to the financial programming published by the Commission in May 2009 for the budget years 2011 -2013 are very tight; emphasises that this will prevent the institutions from taking any new, meaningful political initiative in areas set as priorities by the newly appointed President of the Commission such as, for example and to name only a few, addressing climate change or the "EU 2020" strategy; emphasises, moreover, that, following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, a number of policies will be strengthened at EU level, which will require additional EU funding; therefore calls on the ...[+++] new Commission to publish, as soon as possible, a report on the functioning of the (IIA), as provided for in Declaration 1 thereof, together with an adjustment, a review and a revision of the current MFF 2007-13, including its prolongation until 2015/2016;

4. Stresses that margins available according to the financial programming published by the Commission in May 2009 for the budget years 2011 -2013 are very tight; emphasises that this will prevent the institutions from taking any new, meaningful political initiative in areas set as priorities by the newly appointed President of the Commission such as, for example and to name only a few, addressing climate change or the "EU 2020" strategy; emphasises, moreover, that, following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, a number of policies will be strengthened at EU level, which will require additional EU funding; therefore calls on the ...[+++] new Commission to publish, as soon as possible, a report on the functioning of the IIA, as provided for in Declaration 1 thereof, together with an adjustment, a review and a revision of the current MFF 2007-13, including its prolongation until 2015/2016;

4. Stresses that margins available according to the financial programming published by the Commission in May 2009 for the budget years 2011 -2013 are very tight; emphasises that this will prevent the institutions from taking any new, meaningful political initiative in areas set as priorities by the newly appointed President of the Commission such as, for example and to name only a few, addressing climate change or the "EU 2020" strategy; emphasises, moreover, that, following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, a number of policies will be strengthened at EU level, which will require additional EU funding; therefore calls on the ...[+++] new Commission to publish, as soon as possible, a report on the functioning of the (IIA), as provided for in Declaration 1 thereof, together with an adjustment, a review and a revision of the current MFF 2007-13, including its prolongation until 2015/2016;