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