Avionics plays a heavy role in modernization initiatives like the Federal Aviation Administration's ( FAA ) Next Generation Air Transportation System project in the United States and the Single European Sky ATM Research ( SESAR ) initiative in Europe.

It continued therefore to engage in the Grand Coalition ( a coalition with the Socialist Group, or occasionally the Liberals ) to generate the majorities required by the cooperation procedure under the Single European Act.

Genscher also was an active participant in the further development of the European Union, taking an active part in the Single European Act Treaty negotiations in the mid 1980s, as well as the joint publication of the Genscher-Colombo plan with Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Emilio Colombo which advocated further integration and deepening of relations in the European Union towards a more federalist European State.

In June 1990, Major suggested that the proposed Single European Currency should be a " hard ecu ", competing for use against existing national currencies ; this idea was not in the end adopted.

For the rest of Major's premiership the main argument was over whether Britain would join the planned European Single Currency.

For elections to the European Parliament, most member states use open lists ; most of the United Kingdom uses closed lists, but Northern Ireland uses the Single transferable vote, as does Ireland.

The main development overseen by the Jenkins Commission was the development of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union from 1977, which began in 1979 as the European Monetary System, a forerunner of the Single Currency or Euro.

The Single European Sky is a European Commission initiative by which the design, management and regulation of airspace will be coordinated throughout the European Union ( ECAA area ).

In October 2001, the European Commission adopted proposals for a Single European Sky, to create a Union regulator for air traffic management within the EU, Norway and Switzerland.

# The Single European Sky ATM Research ( SESAR ) programme is to provide the future technology.

One report from the British Parliament, dated 2000, reported that Spain blocked the inclusion of Gibraltar Airport in the Single European Sky, meaning the whole package was suspended.

The air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption caused the acceleration to integrate the national air traffic control systems into the Single European Sky and the immediate creation of a crisis coordination group to handle future transport disruptions.

* Single European Sky ATM Research ( SESAR )

* Single European Sky-European Commission website

* Single European Sky-EUROCONTROL website

* Construction of the Single European Sky

* Implementing Rules for the Single European Sky

# The existing Single Sky legislation is sharpened to deal with performance and environmental challenges.

* The Commission launches Single European Sky II for safer, greener and more punctual flying

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The Single European Sky is one initiative aimed at solving these problems.

DVB-S is used in both Multiple Channel Per Carrier ( MCPC ) and Single channel per carrier modes for Broadcast Network feeds as well as for Direct Broadcast Satellite services like Sky ( UK & Ireland ) via Astra in Europe, Dish Network and Globecast in the U. S. and Bell TV in Canada.

* Single European Sky

This was further strengthened in July 2008 when the Irish and UK governments announced that NATS and IAA had jointly introduced the first Functional Airspace Block under the European Commission's Single European Sky initiative.

* Trans-European Air Traffic Management network, which includes the Single European Sky and SESAR concepts

As part of Single European Sky II the agency have been given additional tasks.

Other work includes recent guarantees of air passenger rights and the Single European Sky.

# Dome Sleeper Car 256 4 Double Berooms, 4 Duplex Single Rooms, 4 Roomettes ( rebuilt to Dome Lounge Sleepers “ Lounge in the Sky ” in 1967 — car always for Seattle )

* A Single Sky ( Dave Douglas & Frankfurt Radio Big Band ), Greenleaf Music, 2009

EUROCONTROL has been delegated parts of the Single European Sky regulations by the European Commission.

However, in September 1999 the European Commission ruled against a complaint made by Sky News that the publicly funded channel was unfair and illegal under EU law.

* Sinnott, Roger W. and Perryman, Michael A. C. ( 1997 ) Millennium Star Atlas, Epoch 2000. 0, Sky Publishing Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A., and European Space Agency ( ESA ), ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

According to a study looking into immigration patterns, Wisbech was once identified as the seventh " most English " town in Britain by Sky News However, on 16 February 2008 a report in the Daily Express titled " Death Of A Country Idyll " wrote about how the influx of Eastern European immigrants may have caused the increase of crime and other illegal activities.

In September 1999 the European Commission ruled against a complaint by Sky News which argued that the publicly funded BBC News 24 was unfair and illegal under EU law.

Following the release of the album, the band toured the United States with Devastation and Bleed the Sky in the fall, toured Europe in winter of 2009 with Incite, played a small UK and European festivals during the spring and summer of 2009, and went on a fall 2009 U. S. headlining tour with Cattle Decapitation, Prong, and Mutiny Within.

In other European countries with large British expatriate populations, such as Spain, Sky is widely available.

Telefónica is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV ( HbbTV ) initiative ( a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES, OpenTV and Institut für Rundfunktechnik ) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface, and has run pilot HbbTV services in Spain.

The " IPmodem " ( satellite modem " developed and made by Newtec of Belgium for SES S. A. | SES ' 2Mbit / s ASTRA2Connect European two-way satellite Internet system

A book, High Above, telling the story of the creation and development of the Astra satellites and their contribution to developments in the European TV and media industry, was published in April 2010 to mark the 25th Anniversary of SES.

SES had no regulatory permission to broadcast, had plans ( initially ) for only one satellite with no backup and the European satellite launch vehicle Ariane suffered repeated failures.

ZDF is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV ( HbbTV ) initiative ( a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES, OpenTV and Institut für Rundfunktechnik ) which promotes the establishment of an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface.

ORF is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV ( HbbTV ) initiative ( a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES, OpenTV and Institut für Rundfunktechnik ) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface.

TF1 is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV ( HbbTV ) initiative ( a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES, OpenTV and Institut für Rundfunktechnik ) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface.

Canal + is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV ( HbbTV ) initiative ( a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES, OpenTV and Institut für Rundfunktechnik ) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface.

France Télévisions is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV ( HbbTV ) initiative ( a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES, OpenTV and Institut für Rundfunktechnik ) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface, and has selected HbbTV for its interactive news, sports and weather service, and plans to add catch-up TV and social media sharing capability.

TVN is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV ( HbbTV ) initiative ( a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES, OpenTV and Institut für Rundfunktechnik ) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface, and conducted the first tests of HbbTV services in Poland in March 2012.

The Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV ( HbbTV ) consortium of industry companies ( such as SES, Humax, Philips, and ANT Software ) is currently promoting and establishing an open European standard ( called HbbTV ) for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast and broadband digital television and multimedia applications with a single-user interface.

France 24 is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV ( HbbTV ) initiative ( a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES, OpenTV and Institut für Rundfunktechnik ) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface, and has announced that it will launch an HbbTV interactive news service in 2012 via the Astra 19. 2 ° E satellites, with support from Orange and SES.

The labels and relevant specifications are based on agreements between over 60 broadcasters and manufacturers of the European HDTV Forum at its second session in June 2004, held at the Betzdorf, Luxembourg headquarters of founding member SES Astra.

Institut für Rundfunktechnik is a founding member of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV ( HbbTV ) consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies ( also including SES, OpenTV, Espial and ANT Software ) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard ( called HbbTV ) for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface.