The Party of the European Left (EL) manifesto 2020: "The health crisis that the world is facing reveals a structural crisis that already existed and that the EL has consistently exposed. The EL took on the task of proposing an alternative model for this Europe following the explosion of Covid-19. For this, a Platform has been created and we are working very actively to develop it focusing not only on solutions for the actual crisis, but also, more in the long term, for a public, social and ecological transformation of the economy. It is important to rethink the role of European and global institutions, to ensure investments that go in the direction of a Social Green New Deal, and to protect workers: for a tomorrow focused on human needs and not just on profit. "
BRI, Shipping, "From Zeebrugge and Liège to the ports of Italy, Spain and France and to the Eastern part of the continent, Chinese corporations and the Belt & Road Initiative are accelerating the development of infrastructure megacorridors, putting trade in front of people and planet." "There is also the question of how the rest of the world will react to this new restructured global capital and the even more pervasive issue of accessing the last remaining natural resources. Is the trade war, which is very much about technology, only the beginning of a more serious conflict?
Khrono 26.11.2020
Från vaggan till graven. "Universiteter og høgskoler vil lagre informasjon om studenter og ansatte fra de begynner å studere til de er ferdige i arbeids- og utdanningslivet. Men personvernet har skapt implikasjoner.
Juni 2020 DGAP asked leading European experts on foreign policy about Germany’s role in providing nuclear deterrence in Europe. These experts, who each represent an EU member or a key partner, responded to three open-ended questions. You can read the introduction below or download a printable PDF of all responses using the download button to the right. In the related content section, you can view the responses by country.
RTL 20.9.2020: La Coalition belge contre les armes nucléaires a lancé jeudi un appel aux différents partis impliqués dans les négociations pour la formation ...
June 18, 2020 Topic: Security Region: Europe Tags: RussiaUSSRSoviet UnionWorld War IIHistory
Vladimir Putin: The Real Lessons of the 75th Anniversary of World War II
The Russian president offers a comprehensive assessment of the legacy of World War II, arguing that "Today, European politicians, and Polish leaders in particular, wish to sweep the Munich Betrayal under the carpet. The Munich Betrayal showed to the Soviet Union that the Western countries would deal with security issues without taking its interests into account."
It’s not a good time for anyone being pro-European in Italy these days. In the thick of the COVID-19 crisis, a different one is looming in the country: an increasing sentiment of mistrust in the EU.
We know (now), it’s serious. After having underestimated the threat for a long while, European governments have put the bloc’s economy in an induced coma to halt the dramatic spread of the virus.
Cloud project ‘Gaia X’ intends to become the ‘European Cloud,’ as a European alternative to the U.S. and Asian hyperscalers such as AWS, GCP, Azure and ...
av Anthony Dworkin 7th January, 2020
En kommentar till mordet på Soleimani på ECFR:s hemsida. Intressant kasuistik från gångna decennier : bombningen av Libyen på 1980-talet (som skulle döda Gaddafi) , framställd som repressalie för discoattentatet i Västberlin.
The EU’s regional policy Commissioner Elisa Ferreira revealed on Tuesday (14 January) details of the €100 billion Just Transition Mechanism, a key financial component of the European Green Deal that should make the bloc climate neutral by 2050.
“Nuclear energy is excluded from the Just Transition Mechanism,” Ferreira told a small group of journalists ahead of the college meeting of the European Commission that approved the proposal for the fund aimed at supporting poorer EU regions achieve climate neutrality.
By David Meyer, Fortune December 19, 2019
A new EU court ruling is shaping what "used" means in the era of digital media.
"Tom Kabinet’s defense was that the so-called “rule of exhaustion” should apply when it comes to second-hand ebooks, as it does with paper books—in other words, after the ebook has been sold the first time, the publisher no longer has a right to control how it is traded. (This is known as the “first sale doctrine” in the U.S.)"
Our pamphlet argues why Labour needs to adopt a clear anti-Brexit stance and act as a catalyst for change in Europe, says professor of global governance Mary Kaldor
The Copyright Directive: how the mob was told to save the dragon and slay the knight
... For those of you, who don’t know nor care about what the Copyright Directive is nor any of the articles within it, look away now. Take this test: Type in ‘EU Copyright Directive’ into the search box…
Public Libraries 2030 will work with libraries to promote participation and engagement in the upcoming European elections as an official partner of the European Parliament.
This year’s elections are critical with huge issues at stake for the future of the union such as the rise of populism and fake news, the erosion of democracy and, of course, Brexit. These are all issues that public libraries, as trusted institutions, are uniquely placed to address.
Public Libraries 2030, in partnership with IFLA and EBLIDA, will develop a range of tools and opportunities for libraries to explore these important issues at the heart of our European democracies.
This is the first initiative for Public Libraries 2030 and shows how the new organisation can help to create vital new projects and community services to tackle the global issues facing EU citizens.
Marie Ostergaard, Chair of the board and Library Director, Aarhus Public Libraries, Denmark:
Messinakonferensen 1955; sex statschefer möttes på inbjudan av Gaetano Martino för att diskutera Europas framtid efter att Fördraget om upprättandet av Europeiska försvarsgemenskapen (EFG-fördraget) misslyckats; Walter Hallstein (Förbundsrepubliken Tyskland) Jan Willem Beyen (Pays-Bas), Gaetano Martino (Italie), Joseph Bech (Luxembourg), Antoine Pinay (France), Walter Hallstein (RFA) et Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgique).
Ett nytt franskt utkast till europeisk konfederation i gen. de Gaulles anda, uppenbarligen tillkommet efter brexit; ordf för gruppen : Jean-Pierre Chevènement
1ère Vice-présidente : Marie-Françoise Bechtel, députée de l’Aisne
Vice-présidents : Christian Hutin, député du Nord, Christine Meyer, conseillère régionale des Pays de Loire, Jean-Yves Autexier, ancien parlementaire
Secrétaire générale : Estelle Folest, cadre supérieure
Secrétaire général adjoint : Claude Nicolet, conseiller régional du Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Trésorier : Gérard Pierre, universitaire
Trésorier adjoint : Marie-Pierre Logelin, professeur
Rund um den 25. März 2017 ertönen zum 60. Jahrestag der Europäischen Verträge Hohelieder auf die Erfolge der Europäischen Integration. Angesichts der Bilanz der Integration, der Erweiterung und der Beziehungen zu unseren Nachbarn sehen wir wenig Grund zum Feiern und Singen. Das Fundament des Europäischen Hauses hat tiefe Risse. Wir, Unterzeichnerinnen und Unterzeichner dieser Aufforderung zur Diskussion, nehmen den Jahrestag der Römischen Verträge zum Anlass, um Positionen über die Zukunft Europas zu erinnern, neu zu entwerfen und einen Austausch zu organisieren.
Det finns en överhängande risk att EU missar chansen att uppdatera upphovsrätten för en digital verklighet, skriver Svensk biblioteksförenings ordförande Johanna Hansson, och påpekar att det är avgörande att den kommande regeringen agerar snabbt.
Public libraries may, under certain conditions, digitalise books in their collections without the author’s consent
06/01/2015
(All TAX LAW and European Law information with LexGo and Mrs. Ruxandra Rata Associate)
Les Suédois sont appelés aux urnes ce dimanche 9 septembre. À Stockholm comme ailleurs sur le continent européen, le Parlement pourrait voir progresser le nombre de sièges de l’extrême droite. Radiographie d’une Europe qui penche de plus en plus du côté des forces brunes.
September 2018
By Monica Montgomery
Leaders of the 29 NATO member nations approved changes to the alliance’s policies on nuclear deterrence and nonproliferation during their July 11–12 summit in Brussels.
Former EU ambassador developing an EU and Security site focussing on comprehensive approaches - defence, multilateral (UN and OSCE), crisis response issues . Many geographic, thematic pages including on WMD, freedom and gender
Jan 2018 Several factors explain why a Eurodeterrent is attractive to some experts. By moving some French weapons to Germany and other European countries, the flexibility of the nuclear-sharing program would be preserved. Germany would not lose its status as a de facto nuclear weapon state in case of war, and a potential enemy would have to face several states that could independently deliver nuclear weapons, rather than just France and the United Kingdom. For France, Eurodeterrence would provide an opportunity to become a leader in European security. For the rest of Europe, it would offer independence from the Americans. Furthermore, a homegrown nuclear deterrent is more credible than an imported one.
There are some indicators that the Eurodeterrent is not just a thought experiment anymore. In addition to the “public debate” that was encouraged by European officials, the German Parliament has looked into the legality of such a program. The review, requested by Kiesewetter, reported that German financial support for the stationing of French nuclear weapons on German territory would indeed be legal. The timing of the review might be telling as well—it concluded merely two weeks after the election of Macron, a fierce supporter of close security cooperation between France and German
Screpanti, Department of Political Economy and Statistics, University of Siena. This is a modified version of the Preface to the book (in Greek): C. Lapavitsas, T. Mariolis and K. Gavrielidis, “Economic Policy for the Recovery of Greece” Athens: Livanis, 2018.
Tuesday 19th December 2017
According to our sources, the European Union (EU) delegation to the United Nations General Assembly’s Fifth Committee, which deals with budgetary matters, is trying to eliminate the financing of the Human Rights Council’s intergovernmental working group (IGWG) mandated to draft a legally binding instrument on transnational corporations (TNCs) and human rights.
It is worth recalling that the intergovernmental working group, set up under Human Rights Council Resolution 26/9 adopted in June 2014, is tasked with creating a mechanism at the international level to allow victims and affected communities access to justice in the face of human rights violations committed by TNCs.
Few people know that the European member states taken as a whole is one of the biggest arms exporters in the world. On the international stage Europe likes to present itself as a continent that stands for democracy and peace, but this façade does not correspond to reality.
Did you know that the EU wants to allocate more than 40 billion euros to the research, development and procurement of new arms? That the arms industry is trying to hijack the European Defence policy? Read all about it on this page.
Tony Robinson: "DiEM25 believes that nuclear weapons have no place in European security doctrines and that all nuclear weapons should be removed from European territory, be they British, French, American or Russian. We call on all European nations to sign the Ban Treaty as a matter of human survival."
"Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on copyright in the Digital Single Market
Article 12 Claims to fair compensation Member States may provide that where an author has transferred or licensed a right to a publisher, such a transfer or a licence constitutes a sufficient legal basis for the publisher to claim a share of the compensation for the uses of the work made under an exception or
limitation to the transferred or licensed right.
Lännen Media 12.9.2017 19:28: "Kirjallisuuden tekijänoikeusjärjestö Sanasto varoittaa, että Euroopan unionissa valmisteltava digitaalisia sisämarkkinoita (DSM) koskeva direktiivi uhkaa siirtää osan kirjailijoille ja kääntäjille maksettavista kirjastojen lainauskorvauksista kustannusyrityksille."
"Europol’s annual EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (TE-SAT) provides an overview of the terrorism phenomenon in the EU in a given year. The fight against terrorism is a top priority for the EU and for Europol, and that means that TE-SAT is one of Europol’s most significant pieces of strategic analysis. It offers law enforcement officials, policymakers and the general public facts and figures on terrorism in the EU, while also identifying developing trends in this crime area, based on information that Member States make available to Europol."
Defintion of terrorism , Tesat2012: "EU Member States define terrorism as acts which aim to intimidate populations, compel states to comply with the perpetrators’ demands and/or destabilise the fundamental political, constitutional, economic or social structures of a country or international organisation."
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Together with 37 organisations from across Europe, CEO launched the #StopGlyphosate European Citizens Initiative (ECI) this morning. We're jointly trying to collect signatures from at least one million EU citizens before the summer - an ambitious but urgent goal we are hoping to reach as the European Commission and national governments will likely take their final decision on glyphosate then. The petition is hosted by WeMove.eu.
Varoufakis: ...the other insurgency that caused the rise of this Nationalist International has remained in the shadows: an insurrection by the global establishment’s technocracy whose purpose is to retain control at all cost. Project Fear in the UK, the troika in continental Europe and the unholy alliance of Wall Street, Silicon Valley and the surveillance apparatus in the United States are its manifestations. ...
Only a third insurgency promoting a New Deal that works equally for Americans and Europeans can restore to a billion people living in the west sovereignty over their lives and communities.
Jan Fleischhauer in der Spiegel thinks Grillo represents "Green Fascism".
"In the Swiss magazine Weltwoche, British journalist Nicholas Farrell draws a comparison between Grillo and another famous Italian who founded his own populist movement nearly a hundred years ago: Benito Mussolini. Farrell is an expert on the fascist dictator, having written a much cited 2003 biography of Il Duce."
"Italy represents a case where for a variety of historical reasons — and perhaps marketing — among the bondholders there appear to be a lot of ordinary individuals. If that is the case, which it appears to be, when you make them bear the cost you are really going after depositors, like happened in Cyprus, which I think the consensus was was a bad idea.
"A rule that works most of the time, that you ought to let the bondholders bear the cost looks like it may not be the right rule for Italy."
Stiglitz: "This is a case where I think the European rigidity may have very high costs both for democracy and for Italy, and for in the end, if there’s a referendum, the future of the eurozone."
The Guardian 6 Aug: In a few months, probably in November, Italians will head to the polls to vote in a referendum on a constitutional reform that Renzi says will make it easier to pass legislation by dramatically restricting the powers of the senate, a major source of political gridlock [...] Much like Brexit in the UK, the referendum is increasingly being seen as a way for Italians to air their general discontent with the establishment, in large part because Renzi swore that he would leave politics if the referendum did not go his way. If he loses his gamble, the results of the referendum could have vast consequences for Italy and the whole of Europe.
By Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy (1996-1998, 2006-2008) and former President of the European Union Commission (1999-2004), and David Gosset , Director, Academia Sinica Europaea at China Europe International Business School
S'exprimant lors d'un débat à l'Alpbach Forum intitulé « UE et Russie : rivaux, adversaires, partenaires ? » le 31 août, l'ambassadeur russe auprès de l'UE, Vladimir Chizhov, a reproché au traité de Lisbonne et à l'élargissement de l'UE d'avoir contribué à l'actuelle paralysie des relations entre l'UE et le plus grand de ses voisins.
Pour l'ambassadeur russe à Bruxelles, le Traité de Lisbonne a contribué à la détérioration des relations entre l'UE et la Russie.
Nykyinen euroalueen kriisi johtuu siitä, että mukana on liian erilaisia kansantalouksia. Tätä ongelmaa yritetään nyt ratkaista keskenään päinvastaisia keinoja käyttäen.
The internet giant is growing so fast that if the EU fails to tackle its monopoly status now, in a decade or so Google might be too big to be held to account
European Trade Commissioner, Cecilia Malmström has made a bad choice in appointing Jan Eric Frydman as Special Adviser on EU-US Trade Policy. Frydman, whose ongoing work for Swedish law firm Ekenberg & Andersson creates potential conflicts of interest, has a strong pro-ISDS background and a tricky revolving door history. He's part of the problem, not the solution.
The European Central Bank will discuss next week whether to begin laying the groundwork to add the Chinese yuan to its foreign-currency reserves, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
Such a measure by the ECB would mark a major step in the internationalization of China’s currency, also known as the renminbi. While China is the world’s second-largest national economy, the yuan isn’t ranked among the most-held foreign reserve assets, according to data from the International Monetary Fund. The U.S. dollar leads at 61 percent of holdings.
News 18.9.2014 19:56
EU Parliament resolution takes aim at Fennovoima-Rosatom project
The European Parliament has passed a resolution that says the EU should consider freezing nuclear co-operation with Russia. A controversial proposed nuclear power plant to be built at Pyhäjoki by the Russian state-owned firm Rosatom would be on the chopping block if the EU did decide to freeze nuclear links.
P. Nikiforos Diamandouros on to the public hearing on the Revision of Regulation 1049/2001 on public access to documents, European Parliament - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Brussels, 2 June