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Collaboration for impact

May 23, 2018

Guest blog post by Stefan Crets, Executive Director, CSR Europe and Louise Scott, Director, PwC Are European associations and industry sectors working with their members to raise sustainability impact? Do they engage in collaborative projects with other sectors to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals? In partnership with PwC, CSR Europe releases a new White Paper… » read more

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Mr. Zuckerberg: cleaning 99% of extremist content from FB is not enough

Guest blog post by David Ibsen, Executive Director of the not-for-profit Counter Extremism Project (CEP). Last just over a month ago, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg survived his much anticipated first appearance before the U.S. Congress, in large measure because Senators and Representatives tried to focus too narrowly on how technology works, rather than how it… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

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The preeminent scholar Bernard Lewis passed away

Bernard Lewis, a preeminent scholar of Middle Eastern history whose work profoundly shaped Western views of the region died on May 19. He was 101 years old. Beyond the polarizing arguments among the academics, Dr. Lewis was a man of expansive intellectual appetites…Lewis wrote more than 30 books, hundreds of articles and had competence in… » read more

  Posted by BBurak

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Cargo delay. Transit potential and cooperation with the EU

May 16, 2018

How will non-adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to the EU directives in the transport sector affect the transit potential of the country? An increase of Ukrainian export to the EU cannot be achieved without the development of transport infrastructure. Therefore, the Association Agreement aims to bring Ukrainian legislation closer to the requirements of the European Union,… » read more

  Posted by Ukrainian Think Tanks Liaison Office in Brussels

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The Netherlands draws consequences from the Achmea case. What consequence will the CJEU draw? By Pieter Jan Kuijper

May 9, 2018

The recent judgment of the Court of Justice CJEU) in the so-called Achmea case[1], has given rise to a lot of comments. Now we also dispose of the reaction of the Netherlands government to the case, which can be characterized as quite radical: in the end, all intra-EU bilateral investment treaties (BITs) should be terminated.… » read more

  Posted by ACELG

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Attitudes of Ukrainians toward Russia and Russians: Dynamics and Main Trends

Dynamics of Public Opinion in Ukraine in the “Prewar” Period (2008–2013) From the start of monitoring of public opinion in Ukraine and Russia to the time of Russian military aggression against Ukraine in 2014, sociologists generally noted a relative stability in the dynamics of attitudes of Ukrainians toward Russia. This prewar period of monitoring of… » read more

  Posted by Ukrainian Think Tanks Liaison Office in Brussels

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Problems that complicate the reforming of ministries in Ukraine

April 30, 2018

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has prepared an interim report on the implementation of the 2016-2020 Strategy for Public Administration Reform during 2016-2017. The Strategy was approved by the Government’s decision following the demands by Ukrainian and international experts when it became apparent that attempts at rapid economic and social reforms following the Revolution… » read more

  Posted by Ukrainian Think Tanks Liaison Office in Brussels

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NATO doesn’t want to protect Baltics

April 26, 2018

NATO soldiers scare to be in the epicentre of a possible military conflict in the territory of the Baltic states. Most likely, they could become those who need to be saved and not those who must protect. And that’s why… Soldiers clearly remember the words of former commanding general of US Army Europe General Ben… » read more

  Posted by NATO and Baltic states today

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Brexit under the radar

April 25, 2018

If the House of Commons, Council and European Parliament are to approve any deal by 29 March 2019, negotiations will need to be done by the end of October 2018 at the latest. Taking into account the summer break, that is basically tomorrow! Not only have talks been advancing at a snail’s pace for months,… » read more

  Posted by Daniel Gueguen

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Tashkent International Conference on Afghanistan “Peace process, security cooperation and regional connectivity”

April 24, 2018

The conference was eagerly welcomed among the world community and was widely acclaimed as a big success. For the first time in recent history, all active players in the region with all their diverse views on Afghan crisis gathered together to find common approaches on Afghanistan. Tashkent Conference on Afghanistan opened a broad path for… » read more

  Posted by UzbekmissiontoEU

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