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January 18, 2019
Guest blog post by Peter Griffiths. As we rapidly approach the final days of the UK’s membership of the European Union, it is clear that our political representatives are no closer today, on how to achieve a separation, than they were the day the referendum result was given. As Brits we face uncertainty of action,… » read more
January 10, 2019
In December NATO allies agreed the civil and military budgets for 2019. At a meeting of the North Atlantic Council allies agreed a civil budget of €250.5 million and a military budget of €1.395 billion for 2019. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed the agreement of the budgets, saying: “The world is changing, and NATO… » read more
Posted by News from the Baltic States
Ο πανικός στην ηγεσία της αξιωματικής αντιπολίτευσης δεν κρύβεται. Δεν είναι ένα καινούργιο φαινόμενο αυτός ο πανικός, καθώς το έχουμε παρατηρήσει ήδη από το 2016 και την ανάληψη της ηγεσίας της ΝΔ από τον Κυριάκο Μητσοτάκη. Μπαίνοντας ωστόσο στο κρίσιμο εκλογικό έτος 2019, και με μια σειρά μυθευμάτων και fake news που καλλιέργησε επί μακρόν… » read more
Posted by Dimitris Rapidis
January 7, 2019
Information spreads via Internet not only by means of big online media and social networks. There is a huge ramified ecosystem of “junk websites”. “News” shared by such “media” is often of very low quality or even complete fake. Still, it reaches millions of visitors per month. Such websites also generate information flow that brings… » read more
2019 will be a big political year in Lithuania, with elections in national focus. Lithuania will hold presidential, municipal and European Parliament elections this year. Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite in her traditional New Year congratulation message was very restrained and short-spoken. She clearly understands that she did nothing outstanding to be proud of. This message… » read more
Posted by News from the Baltic States
In all European history, the European Commission amounts to the greatest innovation of political governance systems of Europe. It is not found in centralised systems. It is not found in confederal systems. It is not found in federal systems. The European Commission — which was first called the High Authority — is an Honest Broker.… » read more
Posted by EURDEMOCRACY
On 14 December 2018, the Austrian Central Bank (OeNB) and the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee co-organised a conference on “Connecting Europe and Asia” convening high-level policy makers, top business executives and renown researchers. Taking place toward the end of the Austrian Presidency in the Council of the European Union, the goal of the event was… » read more
Posted by Lisbon 2 Vladivostok
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blogactiv, Enlargement, EurActiv.com, Europe's East, Global Europe |
Teachers of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) need more support, training and tools for implementing innovative pedagogies in schools, such as student-centred learning. It is of particular concern that more than 35% of STEM teachers think they get no pedagogical or technical support in their line of work, even from other teachers of the… » read more
Posted by European Schoolnet
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blogactiv, EurActiv.com, Innovation & Enterprise, Science & Policymaking, Social Europe & Jobs |
“The UN’s latest climate meeting ends positively. But there is a lot more to do if global warming is to be stopped” says The Economist about the 24th UN Conference of Parties, the so-called COP24, which came to an end in Katowice on Saturday 15th December. “The agreement struck in Poland is not strong enough,… » read more
Posted by EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy
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blogactiv, Climate & Environment, EurActiv.com, Global Europe, Regional Policy |
December 20, 2018
The wedding took place on May 9, 1950. French Foreign Minister Robert Schumann initiated a program for France and Germany to collaborate in the production of coal and steel, which were important resources for conducting war. Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands joined the “marriage contract,” and 6 years later the same countries signed the… » read more
Posted by Uniting Europe
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blogactiv, Development Policy, EU Citizens and Media, Future EU |
Au cours des 60 années de son histoire, l’Union européenne s’est souvent distinguée par des mécanismes innovants. Deux viennent immédiatement à l’esprit : les quotas et les mécanismes de la Convention de Lomé offrant aux exportateurs des PVD non le prix de dumping pratiqué sur les marchés mondiaux, mais le prix intérieur de l’UE. Depuis,… » read more
Posted by Daniel Gueguen
In its 60-year history, the European Union has often distinguished itself by the use of innovative tools. Two come immediately to mind: the quotas and mechanisms under the Lomé Convention that offer developing country exporters the internal EU price rather than the dumping price practised on world markets. The regulatory innovation that was the rule… » read more
Posted by Daniel Gueguen
Bulgarian MEP Nikolay Barekov (ECR) has many assistants, but most of them would find it hard to justify what exactly they are doing in support of his very modest activities. Fake job contracts have been exposed recently involving French MEPs Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon. But the practice in the European Parliament is possibly… » read more
Posted by Reuniting Europe
December 18, 2018
by Alexander Scheibe, PhD student in the Institute of Political Science, University of Luxembourg This blog is a summary of a working paper written while I was a visiting fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, University of Oxford, September to November 2018. The full paper is available for download here. The… » read more
Posted by RSIEAblog
La Plateforme Citoyenne Européenne (« European Citizen Platform » ou ECP) a organisé le mardi 4 décembre, avec le soutien du Conseil consultatif des Affaires européennes de la Commune d’Ixelles, une rencontre sur « Le changement climatique, vous et l’Europe », à l’occasion de la COP24 qui se tenait du 3 au 14 décembre 2018.… » read more
Posted by EU-Logos
