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[Agenda] Middle East, Egypt, Nato exercise in focus This WEEK

Euobserver.com - Mon, 22/01/2024 - 07:01
EU foreign ministers will discuss Gaza and Israeli sanctions on Monday, as well as frozen assets and Russian sanctions. Nato will launch military exercises. Meanwhile, migration talks with Egypt and the future of agriculture are also planned for this week.
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[Opinion] A climate-denier Milei and a hypocritical EU-Mercosur pact

Euobserver.com - Mon, 22/01/2024 - 06:00
In the rush to finalise the controversial EU-Mercosur trade deal before the European elections in June of this year, its promoters appear willing to shake hands with Argentina's new far-right president, Javier Milei — a known climate change denier.
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EU to blacklist people for pro-Hamas 'incitement'

Euobserver.com - Fri, 19/01/2024 - 17:27
"Inciting or publicly provoking acts of serious violence" against Israel "in support of Hamas" to be made illegal in EU, alongside a new blacklist of Hamas money-men in Lebanon and beyond.
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Hungary digs in against EU over migrants and LGBTi rights

Euobserver.com - Fri, 19/01/2024 - 16:56
Hungary is ratcheting up its rhetoric against migrants and LGBTi rights amid an on-going standoff with the EU over frozen funds following an acrimonious debate in the European Parliament on stripping Budapest of its EU voting rights.
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Agenda - The Week Ahead 22 – 28 January 2024

European Parliament - Fri, 19/01/2024 - 15:58
Holocaust Remembrance Day and committee meetings, Brussels

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[Opinion] Seven ways Gaza conflict gets misreported in Europe

Euobserver.com - Fri, 19/01/2024 - 11:07
Journalists covering Gaza from afar face limited access, contested facts, lobby pressure and a power imbalance. But when they let these distort their coverage, it ceases to reflect reality and start to shape it, in unintended ways.
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Africa scrambles to comply with new EU due diligence rules

Euobserver.com - Fri, 19/01/2024 - 08:00
The EU's new due diligence laws, designed to address deforestation and human rights abuses in supply chains, risk having an uneven effect on African economies and farming, as governments and industry scramble to prepare compliance regimes.
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EU edging toward first-ever sanctions on Israeli settlers

Euobserver.com - Thu, 18/01/2024 - 20:50
EU countries are preparing new sanctions against extremist Israeli settlers as well as Palestinian group Hamas.
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Illegal migrants? No, illegal Britain

Ideas on Europe Blog - Thu, 18/01/2024 - 20:46

The media, the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and the Home Secretary, James Cleverly, call them “illegal migrants.” They are not.

They are mostly desperate, destitute, often stateless men, women, and children fleeing from war, torture, oppression, and persecution.

Nobody risks their lives across the treacherous waters of the English Channel in unsuitable and unsafe boats unless they are deeply distressed and determined, with nothing left to lose.

Just a few want to get to the UK. Really, by comparison to the 110 million forcibly displaced people in the world, it’s a tiny number.

But the few who tenaciously want to make it to our shores against all odds often have compelling reasons.

Speaking English, having family already here, colonial links; all high on the list.

They take the dangerous “irregular route” because there’s NO safe route available. And under current rules, the ONLY way to claim asylum in the UK is to be IN the UK.

Mr Sunak says under his plan – the same plan as ALL Tory Prime Ministers since Brexit – they will be immediately sent back to their home country “if it is safe to do so” or, if not, deported to a “third country” such as Rwanda.

Isn’t there a BIG clue in Mr Sunak’s words?

The MAJORITY of those arriving here in flimsy boats can’t be sent back to their “home country” because their home country isn’t safe.

That’s why they had to escape their UNSAFE country to find a new home.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees strongly opposes Britain’s plan for sending people to Rwanda on the grounds that Rwanda is not a safe country.

But hey, if the Rwanda Bill is now passed, it will be deemed a safe country, by law, no matter the facts.

And once passed, anyone arriving here by that so-called “irregular route” will automatically forfeit ALL rights to claim asylum in the UK, FOREVER, or to make any legal appeals against that decision.

Instead, they will be immediately locked up in detention centres (call them prisons).

Then, as fast as possible, they will be flown out to Rwanda at huge expense (clue: because in most cases, it won’t be safe to send them back to their home country).

Any human rights claims will ONLY be heard AFTER the asylum seeker has been kicked out.

The irony.

Rather than desperate refugees being “illegal,” it’s Britain that’s acting illegally.

What the government plans to do will almost certainly breach international human rights legislation, and it will certainly be in breach of humanity.

And to think, once-upon-a-time, it was illegal Britons who travelled to other countries in boats, not to claim asylum or to befriend the locals, but to plunder those lands of their riches and to create the world’s biggest empire.

But that’s another story. Or is it?
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EU commissioner Schmit will be S&D's Spitzenkandidat

Euobserver.com - Thu, 18/01/2024 - 18:00
The Socialists & Democrats have named Luxembourg's EU commissioner for jobs and social rights Nicolas Schmit as their lead candidate — or so-called Spitzenkandidat — for the June European elections.
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EU Parliament united in call for first-ever geothermal strategy

Euobserver.com - Thu, 18/01/2024 - 16:08
Geothermal energy is heat generated in earth's crust and is used mainly for electricity generation, district heating and industrial processes and could be Europe's next big thing in renewable energy.
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Poland awaits EU-funds approval as Reynders visits Warsaw

Euobserver.com - Thu, 18/01/2024 - 16:02
Restoring the rule of law in Poland to unlock EU funds after the Law and Justice era marks a major challenge for Donald Tusk's new government, as EU justice commissioner Didier Reynders will see during a Warsaw visit on Friday
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MEPs: Cost-of-living crisis means poverty 'has a female face'

Euobserver.com - Thu, 18/01/2024 - 15:59
Poverty has a female face, MEPs agreed on Thursday, passing a resolution calling on both the EU Commission and member states to strengthen the gender perspective in their green and social plans. Only six male MEPs spoke at the debate.
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Press release - The Hungarian government threatens EU values, institutions, and funds, MEPs say

European Parliament (News) - Thu, 18/01/2024 - 15:42
Parliament condemns the deliberate, continuous and systematic efforts of the Hungarian government to undermine the EU’s founding values.
Committee on Budgetary Control
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

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Press release - The Hungarian government threatens EU values, institutions, and funds, MEPs say

European Parliament - Thu, 18/01/2024 - 15:42
Parliament condemns the deliberate, continuous and systematic efforts of the Hungarian government to undermine the EU’s founding values.
Committee on Budgetary Control
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP
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Press release - Fundamental rights report finds threats to key freedoms, equality and dignity

European Parliament (News) - Thu, 18/01/2024 - 15:13
MEPs looked into the state of citizens’ rights in the EU in 2022 and 2023, identifying an array of concerns across the member states.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP
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Press release - Fundamental rights report finds threats to key freedoms, equality and dignity

European Parliament - Thu, 18/01/2024 - 15:13
MEPs looked into the state of citizens’ rights in the EU in 2022 and 2023, identifying an array of concerns across the member states.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP
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