Brussels remains untouched by the Occupy movement, as protestors are absent, and the EU is turning a blind eye to demonstrations across the continent. It’s been almost two months since the occupy movement took to European streets, and two months of silence from the European Union. Tim Noonan, Director of Communications at the International Trade Union Confederation says that EU politicians are sending two messages to the protestors by...
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In the corridors of power works a former priest and a former political activist that today is a pirate. Follow two Swedish members of the parliament at a normal day in Brussels.
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After a year and a half of debate and negotiations between the Flemish and the Walloons, Belgium will finally have a government with full executive powers in the coming days. Still, Belgium is not out of crisis. The country which houses the heart of the EU may explode at any time, sowing discord in all of Europe. Yet, the only ones who really seem to care about Belgium are...
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The 6th annual European Forum on the Rights of the Child was held in Brussels last week, on the 23rdof November. The key actors from European Institutions, EU Member States, and Ombudspersons for children, international organisations and NGOs were sharing their experiences and ideas, exchanging views and providing examples of the best practices of promoting child-friendly justice and improving the protection of children when they are vulnerable. However, the...
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Business and industry has a strangle-hold on the world’s climate efforts. To avert a humanitarian catastrophe we need ambitous climate policy, but the veto of business stand in the way.
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  BRUSSELS – The EU is running out of Dutch interpreters. If nothing is done, many Dutch interpreting booths might by 2020  remain silent.
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  Brussels Dec. 4–It’s hard but humorous to imagine world leaders getting together to play computer games.  Yet that’s what EU and US leaders were doing in early November, when they decided to simulate their cyber-defense capabilities and test their skills.  Unfortunately, neither side saw it necessary to use computers when training for a possible cyber-world-war.  Instead they approached the issue “more strategically,” using paper work, discussions, and other...
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  Last month, the European commission on home affairs released a report assessing the implementation of the laid down rules in the 2004 Directive on the conditions of admission of non EU nationals for purposes of studies, exchange, unremunerated training or voluntary service. In the report, the commission noted that foreign students still experience difficulties coming to the EU to study, due to an uneven implementation of the relevant...
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Things are not going really good nowadays in Spain. Recession, economic stagnation, upcoming elections and not knowing what is going to happen in the following years are some of the main issues that worry Spanish society at this moment. The biggest one is unemployment, which is over 20% now. Almost 5,000,000 people in Spain don’t have a job and more than 1,000,000 entire families are unemployed. This is a...
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