"Renewed social agenda: Opportunities, access and solidarity in 21st century Europe", a document where Barroso's European Commission uptates and brings to the present an European social agenda that has been on stand-by. The European Commission presents an agenda held on three main pillars: creating opportunities, providing access and demonstrating solidarity. A policy document where this institution gathers the main working lines that we all will hopefully witness in a mid term.

Civil society organisations hold the only remaining key to averting catastrophic climate change and must seize the opportunity now to mobilise their supporters and beneficiaries, according to an influential new report from Green Alliance. Environmental issues are the more and more connected to human rights topics and they mix up with other volunteering fields.