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Fundamental Rights Forum, Vienna. FRA. Under the motto "Rights, Respect, Reality: the Europe of Values in Today's World", #FRA, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, has announced the celebration of the Fundamental Rights Forum in Vienna on 20-23 June...
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Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine The EU has welcomed the adoption in the final reading of constitutional amendments related to the judiciary by the Verkhovna Rada in Ukraine yesterday. In a joint statement, EU HRVP Federica Mogherini and EU Commissioner Johannes...
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European Space Strategy. Credits: ESA The European Union will invest over €12 billion in space programmes including Galileo/EGNOS in satellite navigation, # Copernicus in Earth Observation and space research in the framework of Horizon 2020. The space...
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"Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level in five years. We have five million more jobs than in 2013 – nobody knows it but that is the reality. Investment is starting to pick up – nobody is seeing it, but that is the reality. And the state of public...
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Lisbon & Porto. Portugal. Martin Schulz, European Parliament President, announced his visit to #Portugal where he will meet with the Prime Minister, António Costa, and the President of the Assembly, Eduardo Ferro. Martin Schulz announced the visit in...
Read moreThe European Youth Orchestra #EUYO will be able to continue its activities Today, the European Commission has found short and long term solutions to keep the European Union Youth Orchestra alive. The Orchestra has been a symbol of Europe's cultural diversity...
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#CollaborativeEconomy Different EU countries have different approaches to business models built upon the # CollaborativeEconomy i.e. how people provide goods and services directly to one another, usually through websites or apps - you may know of some...
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Cyclone Roanu. EU Aid. Source: Caritas In mid May, Tropical Cyclone Roanu swept across Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh, triggering strong winds, landslides and flooding, which affected hundreds of thousands of people. In this photo, villagers in Banshkhali...
Read more"We are from all over the world, but we have one common objective: promoting development through sports," said Lorine Durski, a gender specialist and a participant in the UN Women first training on gender, football and development with Valencia CF . Similar...
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Britain IN Artwork. #ukEUreferendum Top international artists, including Rankin, Anthony Gormley and Axel Scheffler, have created inspiring, brand new artwork to tell everyone that Britain is stronger and better off IN Europe.
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The Juncker Plan for investment in Europe # InvestEU - die Investitionsoffensive für Europa: Nutzen Sie den Europäischen Fonds für strategische Investitionen (EFSI) Was sind die Ziele des EFSI? • Investitionen in Europas ankurbeln, • Erhöhung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit...
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Armenian genocide Viele von Euch haben uns die Frage gestellt, welche Haltung wir zu der Diskussion um die Bezeichnung der Gräueltaten an den Armeniern haben. Wir möchten dazu die Vizepräsidentin der EU-Kommission Kristalina Georgieva zitieren: „Ganz...
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Gender Equality Index Italy. Source: EIGE Today Italy celebrates its National Day (Republic Day)! While there is still work to be done, EIGE's Gender Equality Index shows that progress has been made particularly in regard to economic power. Check # EIGEIndex...
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Kindergartens (Mykolaiv, Ukraine) #EU support 2 kindergartens of Mykolaiv (Ukraine) partially repaired and refurbished with the EU support opened their doors for children from IDPs families and small citizens of the city. 2 дитсадки Миколаєва, де було...
Read moreHow to find jobs for refugees when Europe is already experiencing high unemployment? New plans aim to help migrants integrate into society and become economically independent.
Read moreWhat to do with migrants staying in Europe illegally? MEPs approved this week plans to make it easier to send them back.
Read more"We shouldn’t have a democratic deficit, but nor should we have a leadership deficit either." At a time when the European Union’s foundations are being called into question – with the euro crisis, a refugee crisis and growing public disenchantment – it...
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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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EU Inflation and GDP evolution. Sources: EC, ECB and Eurostat Euro area annual inflation was -0.2% in April 2016, down from 0.0% in March. In April 2015 the rate was 0.0%. European Union annual inflation was also -0.2% in April 2016, down from 0.0% in...
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O2 3 blocked merger The Commission has blocked the proposed acquisition of O2 by Hutchison under the EU Merger Regulation. It had strong concerns that UK mobile customers would have had less choice and paid higher prices as a result of the takeover, and...
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Energy Charter Conference in Tbilisi. December 4, 2015 According to sources, on April 13, the ministers of Energy of Georgia, Russia, Armenia and Iran met in the Armenian capital of Yerevan, where they agreed to create a single, common electricity market...
Read more"Propaganda warfare can have as big an impact as regular warfare so the EU needs to strike back by setting the record straight - in an entertaining way," says Elmar Brok to EuroparlTV. Repressing dissent and using Media to promulgate anti-Western sentiment,...
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Jahjaga & Mogherini EU handshake. UNMIK chief meets Hyseni. Photo credits EU, UN Last Friday, April 1st , the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) between the European Union and Kosovo entered into force. The SAA establishes a contractual relationship...
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EU response hybrid threats. NATO cooperation. Photo credits: EC AS Working on a stronger Europe when it comes to security and defence. Increasing cooperation with NATO. Hybrid threats refer to mixture of activities often combining conventional and unconventional...
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European Border Agency Today, the Permanent Representatives Committee agreed, on behalf of the Council of the European Union, its negotiating position on the proposed regulation on the European Border Guard. The proposal, which is part of the Borders...
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