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The EU and NATO make love in Warsaw
Una foto publicada por Komisja Europejska w Polsce (@komisjaeuropejska) el 7 de Jul de 2016 a la(s) 3:49 PDT Warsaw, cradle of the former collective defence treaty among the extinct Soviet Union (driver of Putin's nostalgia) and seven other Soviet satellite...
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The European Union commits to action at the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit
World Humanitarian Summit (Istanbul 2016). Photo credits ECHO "Time for action not for complacency. The inevitability of change. The system, as it stands, will not stand. Change is happening, and the system can catch up, or not catch up. Fewer people...
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Apple's head office exists only on paper, says the Commission
It has no employees, no premises and no activities but it allows Apple to pay less than €500 per €1 million tax on its EU profits. Commission's ruling hits the core of the international offshore industry. Silicon Valley firms have also called on the Dutch...
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JungleGib: beautiful Gibraltar risks becoming concrete Gibraltar
Save Queensway Quay : a Civil Society platform created to save Queensway Quay Marina, threatened by a private project for the construction of a hotel in its basin waters, and apartment blocks Gibraltar, pearl of the Strait, heiress of the ancient and...
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JungleGib: beautiful Gibraltar risks becoming concrete Gibraltar
Save Queensway Quay : a Civil Society platform created to save Queensway Quay Marina, threatened by a private project for the construction of a hotel in its basin waters, and apartment blocks Gibraltar, pearl of the Strait, heiress of the ancient and...
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JungleGib: beautiful Gibraltar risks becoming concrete Gibraltar
Save Queensway Quay : a Civil Society platform created to save Queensway Quay Marina, threatened by a private project for the construction of a hotel in its basin waters, and apartment blocks Gibraltar, pearl of the Strait, heiress of the ancient and...
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JungleGib: beautiful Gibraltar risks becoming concrete Gibraltar
Save Queensway Quay : a Civil Society platform created to save Queensway Quay Marina, threatened by a private project for the construction of a hotel in its basin waters, and apartment blocks Gibraltar, pearl of the Strait, heiress of the ancient and...
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Don't do it! Call GibSams, the hope phone
Every year close to 800,000 people take their own life and there are many more who attempt it. Every suicide is a tragedy that affects families, communities and entire countries and has long-lasting effects on the people left behind. While the link between...
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The UK, an Irish's overseas territory? The Commonwealth, the Queen and Greenland
Big Yellow Taxi. Joni Mitchell "...Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone." Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth SG The Commonwealth Leavers say that the Commonwealth is waiting with open arms for Brexit Britain but far...
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As a culmination of an historic week for Climate Action the EU deposited its instrument of ratification of the Paris Agreement at the UN in New York
Ambassadors from the EU and the seven Member States that have already completed their National procedures (Slovakia, France, Hungary, Germany, Malta, Austria and Portugal) formally materialised the act last Friday. EU deposits the instrument of ratification...
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Geo-blocking: Council agrees to remove barriers to e-commerce
Geo-blocking. Andrus Ansip, EC Vice President for the Digital Single Market The NETmundial meeting, the World Economic Forum, the G7, and the OECD have all addressed questions of Internet openness and fragmentation to varying degrees. A number of factors...
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El Plan Juncker financia la construcción de 2.198 viviendas sociales en Barcelona
El Banco Europeo de Inversiones (BEI) otorgará un préstamo de 125 millones de euros al Patronato Municipal de la Vivienda de Barcelona con el objetivo de construir 2.198 viviendas destinadas al alquiler público para personas de recursos limitados. El...
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La Comisión estudia dar cobertura a las prestaciones por desempleo en los países UE
La Comisión Europea ha salido al paso de las noticias aparecidas en diversos medios de comunicación sobre unas supuestas declaraciones en las que el Presidente Juncker pedía la creación de un seguro europeo de desempleo. Mediante una nota de prensa la...
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El Consejo Europeo refrenda el proyecto de Acuerdo de Salida del Reino Unido y la Declaración Política sobre la Relación Futura
La protección de los derechos de los ciudadanos, la creación de un Área de Libre Comercio UE-RU y el alineamiento de políticas y sistemas legales, ejes principales. Consejo Europeo Art.50 extraordinario © Unión Europea 2018 Los tres Presidentes de la...
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La Unión Europea refuerza el Sistema de Información Schengen (SIS) para la lucha antiterrorista
Desde el pasado viernes los Estados miembros UE tienen la obligación de crear alertas de terrorismo en el SIS reforzado. La Agencia Europea para la gestión operativa de tecnologías de la información a gran escala en el Área UE de libertad, seguridad y...
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La UE presenta un Plan de Acción contra la desinformación
La rápida diseminación a través de Internet de desinformación ha sido identificada como una de las diez tendencias más importantes en las sociedades modernas y constituye para las democracias europeas una amenaza ante la que la Unión, blanco habitual...
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EU smart power: the Commission proposes a European Defence Action Plan
The Plan includes the establishment of a European Defence Fund and other actions to support Member States' more efficient spending in joint Defence capabilities, strengthen European citizens' security and foster a competitive and innovative industrial...
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Sakharov Prize awarded to Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar
Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar. Sakharov Prize 2016. Parliament’s 2016 Sakharov Prize has been awarded to Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar, two young Iraqi Yazidi women, Daesh/ISIS survivors and activists. “More than 3,500 children and women are still...
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2.5 years of conflict, 2.5 million displaced. Filippo Grandi visits Ukraine
Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, urges safety nets for those really in need – the elderly, the disabled and poorest. Filippo Grandi in Ukraine Two and a half years of conflict have left more than two million Ukrainians displaced...
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US centre for countering propaganda and disinformation campaigns
Russian propaganda Last Friday, President Obama signed the 2017 US National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) providing nearly EUR593 billion for war and military spending and restricting transfers from the Guantánamo Bay detention centre, guaranteeing...
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II Annual Colloquium on Fundamental Rights: Media Pluralism and Democracy
Considerable work to be done in ensuring the independence of National Media. Widespread experience of hate speech, abuse and threats in online spaces. Freedom of Speech #1 On 17-18 November 2016 the Commission hosts the second Annual Colloquium on Fundamental...
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Europeístas: a breath of fresh air in the face of the increasingly acute polarization of society. Rocío Santos.
English version. Interview with Rocío Santos. Europeístas. Introduction. 2017 (Note: English is an open and evolutive language, flexible and self-made. There is not an Academy to rule its usage. I've kept the term Europeist ('Europeísta' in Spanish) instead...
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"Europeístas: un soplo de aire fresco ante la polarización, cada vez más aguda, de la sociedad". Rocío Santos.
Entrevista a Rocío Santos. Europeístas. Introducción. 2017 Todos los partidos políticos españoles incorporan a sus idearios en gran medida y de distinta manera la noción de Europa. Desde los clásicos en los que se apuesta por una mayor integración política...
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European Union to chair the Kimberley Process on conflict diamonds in 2018
Kimberley Process on conflict diamonds. Africa. The Kimberley Process, KP, the International initiative to stem the trade in conflict diamonds, has appointed the European Union as its Chair for 2018. As well, the EU will serve as Vice-Chair in 2017, during...
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Associate citizenship for Brits after Brexit not on Parliament's table
The European Parliament has issued a note to refute the news published in the weekend press about the consideration by the European Union of granting Britons "associate citizenship status" to counter the effects of Brexit on their EU citizenship, actually...