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Greenland's four-month-old ruling coalition government has lost its parliamentary majority. Pro-independence party Naleraq pulled out because the government chose Copenhagen as a project partner, over China, to fund an update of three airports. Denmark's prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen travelled to Greenland on Monday to discuss the plans for Danish support with Greenland's prime minister Kim Kielsen - both fearing that Chinese funding could potentially complicate relations with the US.

A Braunschweig court on Monday opened hearings in the first German court case against Volkswagen over diesel emission fraud. A group of investors are seeking €9bn in compensation for losses caused by the scandal, that caused share prices to fall and resulted in large penalties and fines in the US. Lawyers for the plaintiffs said the VW should have told the market in June 2008 that they were cheating.

Tech giants and open-internet activists, not always natural bedfellows, are fighting a proposed copyright law that returns for approval at the European Parliament on Wednesday (12 September).

Sweden faces a political impasse after its mainstream centre-left and centre-right blocs virtually tied in an election on Sunday (9 September), while the far-right - which neither wants to deal with - made gains on a hardline anti-immigration platform.

European Union leaders are likely to hold a special summit on Brexit in mid-November when they hope to be able to sign off on a divorce deal with Britain, diplomats and officials said on Monday (10 September).

From national silos to an integrated market, Europe’s gas network has come a long way writes Alex Barnes.

It’s a contradiction that policymakers are currently struggling to resolve. But fossil fuel back-up plants are probably necessary in the short term in order to give EU countries the confidence to bring in higher shares of renewable electricity, says Michael Pollitt.

Europe’s creative sector is without doubt very important to our economy. Over the past decades it has grown, mainly due to what is arguably Europe’s (and the world’s) most valuable shared economic asset: the internet.

Italy’s far-right leader Matteo Salvini lashed out at the UN’s new human rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet on Monday (10 September) after she criticised the country’s treatment of migrants. “Italy has over the last few years accepted 700,000 immigrants, including many...

The president of the European Commission met six lobbyists so far this year, but no one took notes of what was said.

The European technology industries continue to grow at a phenomenal pace: 5.0 % in 2017, according to the latest figures from Orgalime’s economists.

Ukraine should decrease its transit fees if it wants to undercut the business case for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline bringing Russian gas directly to Germany, says Thierry Bros.

Fake news is proliferating, carried by the virality of the internet and the crisis of confidence in democracies. However, nobody manipulates information as well as Russia does, according to a French study. EURACTIV France reports.

The Trump administration on Monday (10 September) threatened tough action against the International Criminal Court should it try to prosecute Americans for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan and said the PLO's office in Washington would be closed for seeking to punish Israel through the court.

More than ever, Europe’s democratic values are under threat and the political developments in Hungary perfectly illustrate that. Hence the importance of this week's vote on Hungary in the European Parliament, writes Giulio Ercolessi.

The industry believes that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has no evidence to back its claim that sugar taxes are an effective way to improve public health. Instead, the industry says, taxes only lead consumers to cheaper brands with similar or even higher calorie content, which may undermine any positive health outcome.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that over-consumption of free sugars is a major contributor to obesity, diabetes and tooth decay and free sugars are not essential nutrients for human health.

Carmakers will have to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 45% by 2030, according to members of the European Parliament’s environment committee, who voted on Monday night (10 September) to tune up a European Commission proposal.

The leader of Austria's far-right party raised the prospect Monday (10 September) of forming a common bloc in the European Parliament with the party of nationalist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

I asked for more information on the activity of the mission and Iooked for an interview with the EULEX Kosovo mission. Several e-mails signed by no one have arrived : conversation with no-names, unable to understand my request and my questions.

People who treat us as idiots who do not know the sites of the European Union (www.eeas.europa.eu and www.europa.eu). Poison pens who do not dare to sign a letter, people who do not dare to take responsibility. Which simply "did not feel like" transferring questions to the right people. Answers from an EU mission`s information service with visible evidence of not wanting to help. I have never encountered such a situation concerning an EU, UN (etc.) mission or operation...

(I have not had any other choice because unfortunately there is no more e-mail address on the site.)

We strongly doubt the importance of these information services funded by European citizens. They would be obliged to answer us.

They have webpage whose links do not work anymore. (I can imagine the thousands of euros that were paid for this.) But they do not stop creating advertising for themselves, in the name of genderism, book about the biography of the female mission`s members and the other things really very, very important. (In this case, no problem with urls.) Unbelievable.

My books and university textbooks about CSDP and EU missions are used by several universities all over Europe in Africa and elsewhere in education. In our next book on the Balkans this case will be mentioned.

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Dear Mr. Türke,
As already mentioned on 2 and 9 August 2018, we do not have the resources to meet each request for information.
Having explained the above, we hereby inform you that we will not respond to any further inquiries on this matter.

Yours sincerely,
Office of Chief of Staff
EULEX Kosovo

From: Dr. TÜRKE András István [mailto:(...)]
Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 10:33
To: EULEX Kosovo Information
Subject: request for additional informations II.

Dear Office of the Chief of Staff,

Please forward my e-mail towards competent persons, who are able to answer to my questions, like Ms. Alexandra Papadopoulou or Mr. Bernd Thran.
Thanks a lot.

Best regards:
Andras Istvan Türke
director
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Europa Varietas Institute
www.europavarietas.org

Le 2 août 2018 à 10:13:23, EULEX Kosovo Information (eulexkosovoinformation@eulex-kosovo.eu) a écrit:

Dear Mr Türke,
Thank you for your email and interest in EULEX Kosovo.
Unfortunately, we do not currently have the resources to meet each request for information. While we regret not being able to accommodate your request for information, we would kindly direct you to the EULEX website (www.eulex-kosovo.eu) which contains information about the Mission, its work, press releases, EU in Kosovo, EU External Action, CSDP, and other relevant data. We would also kindly direct you to the websites of EEAS and EU, www.eeas.europa.eu and www.europa.eu respectively for more information.

Yours sincerely,
Office of the Chief of Staff
EULEX Kosovo

From: Dr. TÜRKE András István [mailto:(...)]
Sent: Thursday, 19 July 2018 10:18
To: EULEX Kosovo Information
Subject: request for additional informations

Madam / Sir,

I am director of the independent Swiss based Europa Varietas Institute.

I am writing a book about EU diplomacy and mission in the Western Balkans (1991-2018) and I request for some additional informations about the activity of EULEX Kosovo.

I read a lot of very critical books about EULEX activity during the period 2008-2013, the mission was accused to being biased towards former UCK members.
I would like to know how far the mission has been changed since them.
What are the on-site experiences, the most important challenges to overcome?
What are the lessons learned compared to other EULEX missions?
I would like to have information that is beyond the official EU texts.

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I need some lists
- about prosecutors investigated 400 war crimes
- about the 150 drafted laws
- about EULEX HoMs with period of activity

Other interesting documents are welcome.

I need also these documents but impossible to download, there are a lot of bugs on your site :
http://www.eulex-kosovo.eu/docs/justice/judgments/criminal-proceedings/D...
http://www.eulex-kosovo.eu/docs/justice/judgments/criminal-proceedings/D...
(+ other and older verdicts)

Thanks a lot.

Best regards:
Andras Istvan Türke
director

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Europa Varietas Institute
www.europavarietas.org

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