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December 18, 2018
Guest blog post by Alastair Macphail, head of the Communication Department at the European Training Foundation (ETF). As we move deeper into the information age, the emerging technologies of artificial intelligence and advanced robotics – combined with widespread digitalisation, near-universal connectivity of people and things, big data, geolocation and much more – threaten to revolutionise… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
Ukraine has sufficient natural gas reserves to meet own gas demand. According to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, in 2017 Ukraine ranked second among the European countries by its proved gas reserves (1.1 trillion cubic meters), with only Norway surpassing (1.7 trillion cubic meters). However, it is only fourth by production volumes with… » read more
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blogactiv, Energy, EurActiv.com, Europe's East, Global Europe |
According to the latest statistics published by the European Commission last month, EU road fatalities have been reduced by more than half since 2001, from 54,900 just after the turn of the century to 25,260 in 2017. By contrast, the number of passenger cars on Europe’s roads increased from just over 200 million to 259.7… » read more
Posted by Secretary General of the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA)
Recently researchers and analysts of the RAND Corporation issued the report “Exploring Requirements for Effective Deterrence of Interstate Aggression.” The stated aim of this report is “to provide a fresh look at the subject in this context, with two primary purposes: to review established concepts about deterrence, and to provide a framework for evaluating the… » read more
Posted by News from the Baltic States
Andreas Umland The prominent Western commentator of post-Soviet affairs Taras Kuzio has recently come forward with a barrel of English-language attacks on Ukrainian opposition politician Yulia Tymoshenko – so far, the clear front-runner in Ukraine’s upcoming presidential elections in March 2019. Kuzio has placed several critical and partly denigrating texts about Tymoshenko in reputed… » read more
Posted by Andreas Umland
On 22 March 2017, a communication has been issued by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (ECtHR) about 49 cases against Russia. The country’s Foreign Agent Act is now under scrutiny by the European judges of the ECtHR. This law emerged from a law on NGOs in 2006 and was transformed and strengthened… » read more
Posted by In medias res blog
Un avant-goût sociologique Comment passer en revue l’actualité européenne de ces derniers temps sans se pencher sur la question d’un mouvement en France qui concentre et crispe autour de lui toute l’attention médiatique. Une attention bien évidemment française, mais comme toujours également européenne, car les voisins de la France suivent souvent avec curiosité les grèves,… » read more
Posted by EU-Logos
December 13, 2018
Confidence in the EU has gradually diminished after a series of crises of values. This has enabled the rapid growth of the populist and the far-right parties in the V4 countries, which are causing fragmentation within the EU due to what they perceive as unresolved asylum and migration issues. In 2004, Romano Prodi commented on… » read more
Posted by EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy
The initiative of creating a European Army actually is in the air of the European Union. Both French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel declared this month that they support the need to create a joint European army. By the way these two countries are the strongest EU member states from economic and… » read more
Posted by News from the Baltic States
D’après les conclusions de l’étude sur la charge des maladies 2010, les principaux problèmes de santé et de bien-être dans l’ensemble des Etats européens membres de l’OMS sont liés à l’alimentation. Pour les individus, la communauté et les pouvoirs publics, les coûts sociaux, économiques et financiers de la malnutrition sont phénoménaux. L’Europe se nourrit mal… » read more
Posted by In EU
Die Unruhen im Herzen von Paris sind der Keim einer unvermeidlichen Änderung der Regeln des sozioökonomischen Spiels in Europa. Die „Gelben Westen“ protestieren gegen die steigenden Treibstoffpreise und Lebenshaltungskosten, während sie die Straßen verwüsten, Autos in Brand setzen und Geschäfte auf den Champs-Élysées plündern. Sogar die Statue von Marianne, das nationale Symbol der Freiheit, die… » read more
Posted by Uniting Europe
There is a sad joke in Slovakia that the country could become a museum for renewable energy sources (RES). Not because the Slovak physicist Aurel Stodola invented in 1928 the world’s oldest heat pump that still powers Geneva’s city hall, but because of its antiquated energy policy that lacks systematic support for renewables at the… » read more
Posted by Bankwatch
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blogactiv, Climate & Environment, EU Budget, EurActiv.com, Sustainable Dev. |
December 10, 2018
Guest blog post by Patrick Bailey, a professional writer focusing on mental illness and addiction graduated at Central Michigan University. Retaining the unenviable ‘title’ as the world’s heaviest drinkers for more than a decade now, Europeans have recognized the health consequences of alcohol consumption to the drinker and to those around him. The European Union… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
December 7, 2018
According to Le Figaro, the yellow vests could be considered “coupists”. Indeed, protests continue in France since more than a week. In Nice, there were clashes between students and police: 33 people were stopped around one of the city’s biggest high schools, the Parc Imperial, with over 1,700 students. The protest, with clashes and barricades,… » read more
Posted by EU-Logos
Comment passer en revue l’actualité européenne de ces derniers temps sans se pencher sur la question d’un mouvement en France qui concentre et crispe autour de lui toute l’attention médiatique. Une attention bien évidemment française, mais comme toujours également européenne, car les voisins de la France suivent souvent avec curiosité les régulières grèves, manifestations et… » read more
Posted by EU-Logos
