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EU Parliament will see far-right surge at election, study says

Euobserver.com - Wed, 24/01/2024 - 00:01
The EU Parliament is expected to see a rise of the far-right after the upcoming elections, according to a new study — but what would the coalitions look like and what would be the policy implications?
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Press release - Trafficking in human beings: deal on new EU rules

European Parliament (News) - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 23:43
Parliament and Council negotiators reached a provisional deal to revise rules on preventing and combating human trafficking on Tuesday.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
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Press release - Trafficking in human beings: deal on new EU rules

European Parliament - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 23:43
Parliament and Council negotiators reached a provisional deal to revise rules on preventing and combating human trafficking on Tuesday.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

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Turkish MPs vote for Sweden's Nato accession

Euobserver.com - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 22:17
Turkey has waved Sweden into Nato, marking a strategic blow to Russia in the High North and Baltic Sea regions.
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Amazon snubs EU hearing on warehouse work conditions

Euobserver.com - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 18:01
Amazon refused to participate in an EU parliamentary hearing on working conditions in its warehouses, prompting criticism from MEPs. The hearing came the same day Amazon received a €32m fine over an "overly intrusive" surveillance system in France.
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Athens to unpause screening programmes, health ministry sources say

Euractiv.com - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 17:46
The implementation of the "Spyros Doxiadis" Action Plan of public health screening is expected to get back on track within the first semester of 2024, as Greece’s new health minister takes office. First up is the cervical cancer screening programme, due to start next month.
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Resilient Europe: A Playbook for Future European Economic Competitiveness

Euractiv.com - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 17:29
The future of European competitiveness and innovation and its global investment attractiveness is at a critical juncture. In the coming years, it’s imperative that EU policymakers remain laser-focused on addressing pressing challenges—including tech, environmental, sustainability, and security policy—and transforming them into opportunities for EU leadership. Join global technology trade association ITI, EU lawmakers, industry leaders, and tech policy experts for this in-person event to explore how policymakers can transition to a more innovative digital economy, strengthen open trade, and further deepen the single market. This event will include a keynote interview and panel conversation with a leading EU policymaker moderated by ITI’s global President and CEO Jason Oxman.
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French Green MEPs call for radical change in agricultural policy

Euractiv.com - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 17:27
Amid growing farmers' protests across the EU, the French EU Greens chief on Tuesday (23 January) called for a new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) that temporarily insures farmers' pay and limitations on free trade deals that could undermine EU farmers' competitiveness.
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Aid for Ukraine breaks records, but 7.4 percent cut for Africa

Euobserver.com - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 17:22
Ukraine received in 2022 more aid in a single year than any country since records began, according to new data published this week.
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EU looks towards future space law, launcher alliance and threat awareness strategy

Euractiv.com - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 17:18
With an EU space rulebook in the works, Europeans should already look at the space programme's next generation, including a launcher demand aggregator, and threat mapping strategy, Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said on Tuesday (23 January).
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EU proclaims new 'golden age' in relations with Egypt

Euobserver.com - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 17:13
The EU has entered a "golden age" of relations with Egypt, says the European Commission — as it deepens cooperation with a repressive state known for widespread human rights abuses.
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Belgian presidency reinforces call to regulate influencers at EU level

Euractiv.com - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 17:12
In an internal document obtained by Euractiv, the Belgian presidency shared preliminary thoughts on supporting and regulating online influence, tapping into an open discussion at the EU and national level.
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Commission insists tobacco meetings ‘transparent’, despite maladministration charges

Euractiv.com - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 17:00
The European Ombudsman’s inquiry has found maladministration regarding the European Commission’s meetings with tobacco lobbyists, but the EU executive insists there are sound transparency measures in place.
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My Research at the Archives of The United Nations Office at Geneva – A Field Trip

Ideas on Europe Blog - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 16:45

My two-day field trip to the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva, funded through a UACES-JMCT Scholarship, had the added benefit of being the site of the long-deceased League of Nations and was truly a wonderful location for one to conduct archival research at.

The research I conducted in Geneva was focused on material from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). My research project is Scandinavia in Global Politics: Staffing International Organizations and Seeking Influence (1970-2020). Thus, the aim of my trip was to find out more about the Scandinavian states’ (in my thesis this is defined as Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) activities in the two UN sub-agencies stated above in the 1970s and early 1980s.

The archival evidence demonstrated that the Scandinavians, especially Sweden, were the funders of the first resort for ad hoc projects within UNCTAD. The archives also showed that UNCTAD staff were careful to add a gender component to their funding bids in an effort to placate and gain the financial support of the progressive Scandinavians. The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) were also involved in multiple projects to educate and train individuals from the Global South in areas such as Port Management and Industrial Planning and much more than any other Western aid agency within UNCTAD. This ties in with Sweden’s support for the Global South’s New International Economic Order (NIEO) agenda in the 1970s and early 1980s and the pivotal, albeit doomed, role that the Scandinavian states played in supporting the NIEO agenda in the West, especially within the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

In addition, the archives helped to trace the early efforts of the Scandinavian states to combat air pollution, which led to the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). Altogether, the evidence found at the UN Archives in Geneva has proven vital for the development of my research project (forming the basis for two chapters) and as hugely complemented the several dozen semi-structured interviews I have done with both Scandinavian and non-Scandinavian practitioners.

More about the UACES scholarship: The scholarships are travel bursaries designed to provide mobility to existing postgraduate students so that they can undertake research in another country.

The post My Research at the Archives of The United Nations Office at Geneva – A Field Trip appeared first on Ideas on Europe.

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The Brief – Germany’s wrestle with the far right

Euractiv.com - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 16:19
Last weekend, around a million protesters took to the streets in various German cities to protest against the far right. However, even this new wave of civil commitment is unlikely to stop the astronomical rise of the AfD party.
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Commission proposes extending in vitro diagnostics implementation timeline

Euractiv.com - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 15:43
The European Commission released on Tuesday a proposal to review the timelines for companies to comply with the In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation to ensure availability and avoid shortages.
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EU Commission readies establishment of AI Office

Euractiv.com - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 15:30
The European Commission is set to adopt a decision establishing the European Artificial Intelligence Office, according to a draft document obtained by Euractiv.
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[Column] The week Germany woke up to the far-right AfD

Euobserver.com - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 15:22
The significance of Germany's nationwide anti-fascist mobilisation cannot be overstated. Authoritarian parties have gained office in many countries by stealth, pretending to be conservative, democratic parties. When they show their authoritarian face, people start to protest — often too late.
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Press release - MEPs warn that European values are being eroded across the EU

European Parliament (News) - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 15:03
A draft report on the state of the rule of law in 2023 endorsed by the Committee on Civil Liberties on Tuesday paints a concerning picture of the state of European values.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

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Press release - MEPs warn that European values are being eroded across the EU

European Parliament - Tue, 23/01/2024 - 15:03
A draft report on the state of the rule of law in 2023 endorsed by the Committee on Civil Liberties on Tuesday paints a concerning picture of the state of European values.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

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