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Les suisses ont tranché. Une leçon pour le Brexit?

January 30, 2017

Il y a 3 ans la Suisse surprenait l’Europe par sa votation fermant le pays à l’Immigration de masse. Ce mois-ci, le gouvernement Suisse a tranché. Au nom du libre accès des Suisses à l’Europe de la Connaissance il a confronté les populistes et les xénophobes en acceptant de laisser entrer les travailleurs Croates –… » read more

  Posted by TAXI: Europa

blogactiv, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, EurActiv.fr, Global Europe, immigration, Innovation & Enterprise, intégration, Politique, Science & Policymaking

Development Aid and Migration: Shift in strategy or old wine in new bottles?

Written by Etienne Bergès, co-founder of Kiron France and Development coordinator at CARAS. “We’ll soon have 2 billion Africans, and we better prepare for that”, Werner Hoyer, president of the EIB, told POLITICO in Davos this January. The EU’s ‘preparation’ was announced in Juncker’s 2016 State of the Union address: an External Investment Plan (EIP),… » read more

  Posted by 1989 Generation Initiative

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A majority of candidates for the EP presidency support #1Head2Votes- TAXI: Strasbourg, Europe

January 17, 2017

Dear readers (yes there where more than 100 of you say the Blog stats…) a quick update on the date when MEPs will debate it out to elect their first democratically elected president. The Europe group of the Union of European Federalists has contacted the 7 candidates for the European Parliament (EP) Presidency asking them… » read more

  Posted by TAXI: Europa

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Malta EU presidency: Time to act for the Mediterranean Sea.

January 12, 2017

2017 begins under a busy schedule for the newly appointed Maltese presidency of the Council of the European Union. For the next six months, the smallest member of the European Union, in the heart of the Mediterranean, is undertaking an ambitious leadership for the first time. Maritime affairs, with its potential for growth, competitiveness and… » read more

  Posted by Oceana Europe

Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, Development Policy, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, Fisheries, Science & Policymaking, Sustainable Dev.

#1Head2Votes – Thanks to Brexit, European voters should be able to vote for real EU MEPs – TAXI: Strasbourg, Europe

January 5, 2017

What if #Brexit, that supposedly fatal – for the EU – event, were to eventually help an old Eurofederalist dream to become true? It is now more than 70 years that European Federalist groups and associations ask for a Parliament elected by all Europeans on European lists. Pse play Vous êtes lents (A.Souchon – 1985… » read more

  Posted by TAXI: Europa

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Rebuilding Europe’s fish stocks can increase catches by more than 50%. Why should Europeans settle for less?

Lasse Gustavsson is the Executive Director of Oceana in Europe, the world’s largest international advocacy organisation focused solely on marine conservation.   For the first time ever, we know the full potential of fish recovery in Europe and it’s good news! If we fully implement the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and manage stocks sustainably, fish… » read more

  Posted by Oceana Europe

Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, Fisheries, Health & Consumers, Science & Policymaking, Sustainable Dev.

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Two years after Macedonia’s wiretapping scandal: the price of the EU laxity

December 12, 2016

Guest blog post by Daan Fonck, PhD Researcher at the University of Leuven. This Sunday, long-awaited snap parliamentary elections will take place in Macedonia, almost two years after the outbreak of the worst political crisis since the inter-ethnic violence of 2001. The EU’s mediation throughout the last two years has been helpful, yet also late… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

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How to achieve coherence between trade and public health in TTIP?

November 28, 2016

Genval, 27 November 2016 – The author, who is Policy Coordinator at the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) argues that trade liberalisation policy can both support public health goals and undermine them. The potential for economic growth and higher incomes enable wider access to healthier lifestyles, while increased availability of cheaper processed foods, tobacco and… » read more

  Posted by EU ZMK's Diary

blogactiv, Civil Society (NGOs), Consumer Protection, EU Priorities 2020, Health & Consumers, Public Health

Walking the tightrope of fiscal harmonisation: Paths towards a European corporate tax regime

Written by Anouk Canet Luxleaks and the Panama Papers have made awareness about tax evasion issues mainstream. But as painful for the global economy as it may sound, tax evasion still overshadows the broader issue of tax competition – the relative lowering of tax base and tax rate to attract investments – and the subsequent… » read more

  Posted by 1989 Generation Initiative

blogactiv, EU Priorities 2020, Euro & Finance

Euranet Plus Network: EU investment in radio cooperation now at risk?

November 7, 2016

Jean-Michel Bos [Connect Euranet/ Flickr] Jean-Michel Bos is Editor-in-Chief of Euranet Plus, grouping top national radios like RTBF, Radio 24 and BFM Business, now at risk of stopping. Just before the Commission apparently decided not to renew Euranet Plus’s contract, he spoke with EurActiv Founder Christophe Leclercq, as part of the series #Media4EU .Mr Bos… » read more

  Posted by EuRoman

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