Monday
28th Nov 2022
Tokayev received congratulations on his election victory from presidents Xi, Putin, Erdogan, and Lukashenko. However, the phone in the Akorda, Kazakhstan's presidential palace, did not ring with congratulatory calls from Berlin, Paris, London, or Washington.
A central auction that pays consumers significant money for outbidding each other on energy savings could be a more effective mechanism to reduce both energy use and gas prices in one go.
Here are five lessons for the EU from the G20 meeting in Bali and the East Asia summit in Phnom Penh.
EU sanctions' policies have one notable omission — they do not include corruption as an offence warranting restrictive measures, explains the Open Society Foundation.
We're asking the EU to stop hiding behind pinkwashed slogans and finally walk the talk by providing all necessary legal tools to guarantee women their rights, say two Left MEPs, for International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
An investigation by COE reveals oil and gas lobbyists have enjoyed unprecedented access to EU decision-making. As a result, a series of critical decisions on tax, energy-infrastructure, and regulation put fossil-fuel industry profits above millions at risk of energy poverty.
As MEPs debate the situation in Libya in the plenary for the first time in four years, the International Rescue Committee's Libya director says the EU must act now to prevent the country spiralling further into chaos.
It should be clear that the EU cannot remain silent. It must send a clear signal that the Turkish actions are unacceptable and will have consequences for EU-Turkey relations.
Europeans must realise that there is only one issue that keeps policy makers in Washington awake at night: the rise of China. Everything else is secondary.
'National security' means different things to different people, lacking a strict, agreed definition. Therefore, any exemption for its sake is vague from the outset and open to abuse.
Turkey deported 44,768 Afghan nationals in the first eight months of 2022, a 150-percent increase from the first eight months of 2021 — *before* the Taliban takeover.
Recent research by the Bruegel think-tank warned that freelancers are, on average, at a much higher risk of poverty in old age than traditional employees. Here's how to fix this.
The EU will do Bosnia and Herzegovina no favours by moving them forward on a candidacy track that they are not prepared for — and itself no favours by abandoning its own values.
As the principal author of the OECD's new 2023 draft regulation on lobbying, I'd like to see many meaningful comments and suggestions from all kinds of stakeholders.
Through a mechanism to be discussed on Wednesday, member states would permanently be able to derogate at will from their obligations under EU asylum law — de fact creating a cherry-picking system between EU member states.
If Musk's trajectory is towards multiplying political dog-fights and opening the gates to far-out opinions, the promise is not a better Twitter. The promise is MySpace — which fizzled out when users started to share obscene, nasty, and outrageous content.
By focusing on achieving arbitrarily set low-debt objectives rather than responsible investment, the EU's economic policy has damaged public services, living standards and our efforts to tackle the climate crisis. It's time for change.
Brexit has curtailed Britain's role within European internal security, presenting new risks. The greatest impact comes from the loss of UK influence — and the newfound reliance on informal influence and the goodwill of its European counterparts.
For the first time, the EU is facing pressure at COP27 to soften its resistance to compensate the world's poorest nations for the loss and damage created by floods, rising seas and other impacts fuelled by the climate crisis.
60-year-old cleaner José Antonio González died of a heart attack after being forced to sweep the Madrid streets in a 40 degree heatwave — just one example of workers losing their lives because labour law hasn't changed with the climate.
The spike in violence against the LGBTQ+ community directly reflects the proliferation of hateful, ultra-nationalist rhetoric — often perpetrated by Poland's PiS party leaders.
Europe and the US are seen as imposing rules upon the rest but not following these rules themselves. Europe is insisting on democracy, human rights and the rule of law in third countries — but not several EU member states.
Much has been made of how the fate of the world's eco-system depends on the Amazon — and the Brazilian election. But there's another problem in Lula's in-tray: the destruction of the wetlands.
The US recently dropped one of the biggest regulatory bombs in history, by blocking sales of advanced microchips to China. How should the EU react?
If parts of Europe are cold and hungry while others are able to protect themselves, there will be a political backlash that could tear the EU apart — a solidarity mechanism can prevent this.
"National governments have to come out of their comfort zone to shape Europe together, including the prospect for change treaties. And if all this is not possible with 27, let's move forward with a coalition of the willing."
"Our friends from other political parties and groups in the European Parliament are well too aware of their inconsistencies. They claim righteousness but are hypocritical."
"Christian Democrats need to decide whose side they're on."
What the EU needs most of all is an honest conversation on the role it wants to play in a transformed world.
Supporting investment in Ukraine's renewable energy sector and importing green electricity back into the European Union is a quadruple policy win at minimal cost to taxpayers.
Patriarchal violence is defined by the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women as a collective term for the violence that is experienced throughout the world and that is rooted in the patriarchal power structures it defends.
"This story will be largely written in Iran, but it does not mean the outside world cannot do anything."
If you live in the EU, chances are your plastic trash might be recycled by child or migrant workers in Turkey. The Waste Shipment Regulation should be amended to prevent this.
