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July 20, 2018
For more than one year your author has been avidly following the regular news and gossip updates from the United States regarding the Mueller investigation. It is one of the reasons why this blog has been so quiet – the news I am most interested in appears to have little EU relevance. Then this weekend… » read more
Posted by FinancialGuy Writes!
July 18, 2018
Many Member States are in crisis: the UK with Brexit; Germany with immigration; Italy, Spain and Greece with an incomplete Schengen; too much regionalism from the Visegrad Four; France being too French. What to do: leave the EU? Wait for the storm to pass? Or change the EU? These are things to think about during… » read more
Posted by Daniel Gueguen
July 16, 2018
The main priorities of the state anticorruption policy in Ukraine should be defined in a special regulatory act – the Anticorruption Strategy. This is an important document for combating corruption in Ukraine, as it defines the main priorities of the state anticorruption policy for a certain period and is the only basis for the elaboration… » read more
In a groundbreaking bill approved by Irish parliament on Thursday 12th of July, the Irish government is set to completely divest its Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) from companies with shares in the fossil fuel industry. The move makes the Irish government the first government in the world to divest from fossil fuels. The Fossil… » read more
Posted by Arthur Wyns - environmental journalist
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blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Energy, EurActiv.com, Euro & Finance |
Even those who did not expect much of the NATO summit currently held in Brussels may end up disappointed. At the last minute, Jens Soltenberg, the secretary-general of the organization announced the holding of a last-minute meeting, following Trump’s last declaration about NATO’s budget. Almost caricatural, the American president keep putting the topic on the… » read more
Posted by EU-Logos
July 10, 2018
Dear Theresa May, I feel compelled to write, expressing a desire and hope that the United Kingdom can change course from the current political disaster that is Brexit. My hope is not, surprisingly, that Brexit should be stopped. With such important issues at stake, the current state of negotiations between your government and the EU… » read more
Posted by FinancialGuy Writes!
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blogactiv, EU Priorities and Opinion, EU Treaty & Institutions, UK in Europe |
July 9, 2018
European Parliament votes to start interinstitutional negotiations on the revision of the European Citizens’ Initiative, but simultaneously commits to holding plenary debates on successful ECIs. On 5 July 2018, the European Parliament voted to start institutional negotiations on the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) on the basis of the legislative report adopted by the Parliament’s Constitutional… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
Guest blog post by Mauricio Ruiz, Freelance Journalist “Morocco has made significant progress in promoting democracy and the respect of human rights,” said Willy Fautré, Director and Co-founder of Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF), on Tuesday June 26th, at the European Parliament. “There are nonetheless a number of issues that still need to be addressed,… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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
Posted by The Guest Blog
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Better regulation, blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, Development Policy |
June 27, 2018
As I have said 1,000 times, Brexit is a technical issue, not a political one. We see this with the headache of the Irish border. Not re-establishing a physical border is a political goal; failing to do it is a technical obstacle. Already in December 2016, an in-depth conversation with one of the EU negotiators… » read more
Posted by Daniel Gueguen
Le 7 février 2018 le Parlement européen a déposé une résolution sur la situation actuelle des droits humains en Turquie (2018/2527(RSP)). Depuis maintenant presque deux ans, le pays est le théâtre de violations perpétuelles des droits de l’Homme et de l’Etat de droit. En effet, cinq jours après le coup d’Etat manqué du 15 juillet… » read more
Posted by EU-Logos
June 21, 2018
Guest blog post by Maarten de Groot, Campaign Coordinator ECI campaign and Daniela Vancic. The ECI Campaign is highly disappointed that the majority of the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the European Parliament yesterday decided to ignore our call, supported by more than 70 civil society organisations, to take greater ownership and responsibility for the European… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
Guest blog post by Eugenio Cusumano, assistant professor in International Relations, University of Leiden The recent disembarkation in Valencia of the migrants rescued by the Aquarius, a ship operated by the charity SO-Mediterranée, solves a diplomatic standoff in danger of turning into a humanitarian crisis. The roads and sea routes to hell, however, are paved… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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blogactiv, Fundamental Rights, Global Europe, italy, Spanish |
June 18, 2018
Guest blog post by Lionel Rudant, Strategic Marketing, CEA-Leti and Bernard Strée, European Research Program, CEA-Leti The Industrial Revolution beginning in the mid-18th Century and its periodic echoes were driven by electronic miniaturisation that led to massive, low-cost production of consumer goods. From now on, new technologies will be deployed and adopted based on the… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
« Pour les dominants, le plus souvent, la politique est une question esthétique : une manière de se penser, une manière de voir le monde, de construire sa personne. Pour nous, c’était vivre ou mourir » – Edouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père ? Plusieurs milliers. C’est le nombre de personnes qui sont mortes… » read more
Posted by EU-Logos
