Generally you get so wrapped up in engaged on thrilling new tasks, that different tasks endure. Or at the very least, I do. Oops.
Finish of 12 months is at all times a fraught time, when one is each engaged on the day-to-day and on plans for subsequent 12 months. Foolish, really, that it occurs at a considerably arbitrary level in our rotation across the solar, however who am I to problem the Gregorian calendar.
Anyway. Simply parting the kimono a bit of and hopefully incomes some forgiveness, I am engaged on plans for partnerships with different organisations to do extra structured deep dives into the problems European residents are dealing with, and the coverage concepts to repair them.
Subsequent 12 months, we’ll be launching what I suppose you could possibly name verticals that target particular matters. The primary will cope with the rise of illiberalism in Europe, the second with labour crises Europe is perhaps dealing with within the close to future.
These can be pages with devoted journalists reporting solely on EU tales throughout the theme.
Additionally, we’ll be doing a lot of themed weeks, wherein we publish a lot of articles all revolving round an thought, drawback or alternative — or all three.
If you happen to’re curious in regards to the matters, attain out to me, I at all times worth suggestions.
Aside from that, this week I am afraid I will simply be sharing the articles you must have learn this week. On the intense aspect, my negligence saves you time. I promise I will be again with a greater publication subsequent week.
Onwards.
Hungary and the EU are approaching a year-end showdown over rule of regulation, with billions of euros and key EU insurance policies, corresponding to monetary assist to Ukraine, at stake.
Hungary has till Saturday (19 November) to place in movement the 17 measures that the EU Fee requested for in September as a prerequisite for not suspending an estimated €7.5bn from the long-term EU funds over corruption and rule-of-law considerations.
European banks and traders have invested closely in Qatari sovereign bonds and building and hospitality firms lively in Qatar, paying scant consideration to the well-documented human rights violations being perpetrated in these sectors.
Truthful Finance Worldwide’s new report exhibits that just about half (47 %) of the financing to building and hospitality firms lively in Qatar is supplied by European banks, pension funds and insurance coverage firms.
As talks on the COP27 local weather summit within the Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm el Sheikh enter the ultimate stretch, negotiators from almost 200 nations are scrambling to show a draft deal into one thing they’ll agree on.
“I feel it may be an extended and troublesome journey,” EU local weather chief Frans Timmermans mentioned throughout a press convention in Sharm el Sheikh on Thursday (17 November).
Russian disinformation efforts in Germany goal to divide public opinion, increase anti-Western sentiment, and exploit political debates over sanctions and inflation, a report printed final month by Budapest-based Political Capital has discovered.
The disinformation efforts pushed varied pro-Kremlin narratives with the assistance of faux, or stolen Fb profiles concentrating on broadcast and tabloid media, and the webpages of mainstream and far-left and far-right politicians, in an effort to sow division.
Girls are hit more durable by the vitality disaster than males, as a consequence of their decrease common earnings, a survey on the cost-of-living disaster by Eurofound mentioned.
The figures mirror the influence of the 13 % common European gender pay hole, the European Commerce Union Confederation (ETUC) mentioned on the EU’s Equal Pay Day on Tuesday (15 November).
The analysis, performed by the EU company on enhancing the residing and dealing situations in Europe, and printed final month, mentioned that ladies are at a higher threat of vitality poverty than males.
Spanish authorities are being accused of a canopy up over the deaths of dozens of refugees at its Melilla enclave with Morocco.
Some 23 younger males had been confirmed useless and one other 77 stay lacking after round 1,500 tried to enter the enclave from the Moroccan aspect on 24 June. Consultants from the UN human rights physique say at the very least 37 had been killed.
Spain claims the deaths occurred on the Moroccan aspect, a view sharply contested by human rights organisations.
Gender equality is the EU precedence which is least properly lined throughout totally different programmes within the bloc’s funds, the European Courtroom of Auditors (ECA) concluded in a new report printed on Monday (14 November).
The auditors checked how the EU Fee integrated the bloc’s overarching objectives, corresponding to preventing local weather change, digital transition, biodiversity preservation, sustainable improvement, and gender equality, in its spending programmes.
It was the primary time auditors had investigated such objectives as an entire, and located main variations in how these priorities had been integrated into the present 2021-2027 funds.
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See you subsequent week,
