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Form Without Substance: The European Commission’s Double Standard

June 29, 2018

Guest post by Matthew Spiegl, lawyer and the legal counsel for the Free Morgan Foundation (Netherlands) and Dr. Ingrid N. Visser, whale biologist and the co-founder of the Free Morgan Foundation. Words matter; the arrangement of words, the grammatical structure of sentences, the syntactical separation of subject and the disjunction of dissimilar provisions by paragraphs,… » read more

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Better regulation, blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, Development Policy

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What we should learn from Cambridge Analytica

April 16, 2018

  Guest blog post by Stefano Quintarelli, Member of Parliament, Italy. Two weeks after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it’s time to draw some conclusions and try to advance the debate with some structural proposals. Facts are clear: large-scale usage of a massive amount of user’s profiles collected from unaware and non-participating users, utilized to systematically… » read more

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Better regulation, blogactiv, digital, EU Citizens & Media, EurActiv.com, Future EU, InfoSociety, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth

Rule of law conditionalities – why not focus on misuse and corruption?

April 11, 2018

    Guest post by MEP Benedek Jávor. Cohesion policy is an important tool of solidarity within the European Union. Since the 2004 accession wave this European flow of sources contributed on an altering level to the convergence, and at the same time in the majority of the so-called new Member States, it represented a… » read more

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Better regulation, blogactiv, Competition, Economy & Euro, EurActiv.com, Financial Services, Future EU

How to make innovation thrive when you’re not London, Paris, or Berlin

March 30, 2018

  Guest post by Johan Merlevede. Merlevede is the director of Leuven MindGate, an association that represents the knowledge, high-tech, and healthcare sectors in Leuven, Belgium. Shout the phrase ‘innovation hub’ into a crowd of European techies or start-up fanatics and they’ll probably assume you’re talking about one of the grand capitals known for their… » read more

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Better regulation, blogactiv, digital, EurActiv.com, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth

Ready or not: Moving from climate disclosure to action

March 26, 2018

  Guest post by Richard Samans and Simon Messenger. Richard Samans is Chairman of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board and Managing Director and member of the Managing Board of the World Economic Forum. Simon Messenger is Managing Director of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board. Expectations of investors and regulators are changing regarding the obligation of… » read more

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Better regulation, blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, development

Can new Balearic Islands Climate Law spur Spain and EU into action?

February 19, 2018

  As the Balearic Government launches its first climate law, the president of this autonomous Spanish community looks expectantly towards Madrid and Brussels. Guest post by Francina Armengol – President of the Balearic region of Spain Today my Government is presenting the first climate and energy transition law in Spain, in what we hope will… » read more

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Better regulation, blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, development, Global Europe, Science & Policymaking

Rebalancing EU trade policy in the public interest

January 10, 2018

Guest post by Dr. Laurens Ankersmit, ClientEarth trade lawyer   On the website promoting the EU-Canada trade deal (CETA), the Canadian government proudly lists the ‘opportunities and benefits of CETA for Canada’s oil and gas exporters’. However, provisions on combatting climate change are completely absent from this ‘progressive’ agreement. It was one of the main… » read more

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Better regulation, blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, Economy & Euro, Global Europe, Health & Consumers, Trade & Industry, transatlantic affairs, TTIP

Conférence ministérielle de l’OMC, un moment important pour le multilatéralisme économique

December 12, 2017

Post en tant qu’invité par Thibaud Bodson, Chercheur à l’université libre de Berlin et à l’université hébraïque de Jérusalem   Conférence ministérielle de l’OMC, un moment important pour le multilatéralisme économique Du 10 au 13 décembre se tient à Buenos Aires la onzième Conférence ministérielle de l’Organisation Mondial du Commerce (OMC). Ce sommet bisannuel rassemble… » read more

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Better regulation, blogactiv, Trade & Industry, Trade & Society

Glyphosate: le scandale enfle

November 14, 2017

Post en tant qu’invité par Marcel Kuntz, directeur de recherche au CNRS   Une tribune d‘Euractiv (https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/opinion/from-the-monsanto-papers-to-iarc-gate-a-glyphosate-story/) a déjà révélé les soubassements de la campagne d’interdiction du glyphosate. Ces faits, mis au jour en juillet 2017, ne semblent pas avoir touchés le personnel politique européen. Ont-ils besoin de plus d’éléments ? Eh bien justement, il… » read more

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Agriculture & Food, Better regulation, blogactiv, Health & Consumers

To Karmenu Vella: stop mako sharks fishing before it’s too late!

October 31, 2017

OPEN LETTER 25 October 2017 Karmenu Vella, Commissioner Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries European Commission 1049 Brussels Dear Commissioner Vella: We write regarding one of the world’s most vulnerable and valuable shark species – the shortfin mako, with hopes of enlisting your help to avert North Atlantic population collapse. As head of the EU’s environment… » read more

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Better regulation, blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, Fishery, Food & Consumers

Small European businesses vs. new EU VAT bureaucracy

September 8, 2017

Guest post by Christian Borggreen, Vice President of CCIA Europe An often overlooked European success story is how hundred of thousands of European small companies have thrived thanks to the Internet. With a few clicks on the keyboard, the smallest European firm can now export to consumers across the EU, and the rest of the… » read more

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Better regulation, blogactiv, Competition, Economy & Euro, taxation

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Better Regulation – it really isn’t

March 10, 2016

Guest blog post by Oliver Roethig, UNI Europa Regional Secretary. When the European Commission introduced its ‘Better Regulation Agenda’’ in May last year, for a moment I allowed myself to think this could actually lead to better law-making for all. Then suspicion settled in. The agenda claimed to ensure that the design of European law… » read more

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