On Love, Politics and the Francophone Culture Julie Gayet at the Deauville Film Festival via Wikipedia Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Ukraine uprisings: News coverage of events in far-away lands, 2004 vs 2014 The pictures coming out of Kiev yesterday (decent galley here) gave me ? and no doubt plenty of others ? … Read more
Greece takes over EU presidency Crisis-hit Greece on Jan. 1 took over the six-month rotating EU presidency from Lithuania European labour market opens for Romanians, Bulgarians Romanians and Bulgarians have the right to work in any of the European Union’s 28 countries from Wednesday but “no major increase” in emigration is expected Spain: A … Read more
MAIN FOCUS: EU opponents forge an alliance | 14/11/2013 The right-wing populists Marine Le Pen from France and Geert Wilders from the Netherlands announced on Wednesday in the Hague that they would forge an alliance and form a parliamentary group in the EU Parliament after the 2014 elections. Commentators warn against underestimating right-wing nationalists and advise politicians to … Read more
Leaders gather in Warsaw for climate talks Delegates expected to make only modest progress in halting global warming, but could lay the groundwork for comprehensive agreement in two years? time ‘Realism’ to dominate climate talks Over the next fortnight, negotiators from all over the world are meeting in Warsaw in the hope of advancing discussion … Read more
Kosovar Prime Minister Hashim Thaci (R) and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, inspect an honour guard in Pristina’s main airport in Slatina on Oct 23. AP Photo Serb president wants Turkey’s apology on Kosovo Serbia’s president says he won’t take part in a Balkan initiative with Turkey in protest over reported remarks by Turkey’s … Read more
Morning Brief: NSA Monitored 60 Million Calls in Spain in One Month NSA Monitored 60 Million Calls in Spain in One Month Top News: A report that the National Security Agency monitored 60 million Spanish telephone calls over the course of a one-month period prompted calls from Spain that that the United States must explain the extent of … Read more
Athens anti-Nazi protest turns violent Greek police fired tear gas at anti-fascist protesters who hurled petrol bombs and stones near the Athens headquarters of Golden Dawn on Wednesday (25 September) following the killing of an anti-racism rapper by a supporter of the far-right party. Thousands of Greeks marched towards the party’s offices earlier on … Read more
Barroso warns on EU political instability José Manuel Barroso warns against complacency saying progress is being put in peril by leaders attempting to return to ?business as usual? Q&A: The Catalan Way explained Why are Catalans taking part in a human chain this Wednesday? The Catalan newspaperAra has produced a series of questions … Read more
Healthcare workers in demand across EU Data show sector is one bright spot as overall vacancies across the continent fall 4 per cent in past year as eurozone?s economic crisis continues Europeans punishing Greek Cyprus for abusing EU perks Greek Cypriots are receiving their comeuppance for abusing their position in the EU to punish Turks … Read more
Merkel embarks on final election sprint The German chancellor used a Beatles band to invoke a feelgood factor at a big campaign rally in Düsseldorf, pitching herself as a safe pair of hands Welcome to Britain: ‘Go Home or Face Arrest’ For decades racists have yelled “Go Home” at minority ethnic and Black people. Now … Read more
The Tragic Link Between Economic Crisis and Suicide Europe’s four-year economic collapse has left an indelible scar on the continent, and the depressing data-points documenting its decline just keep rolling in. On Thursday, a Spanish suicide help-line reported that it saw a 30-percent increase in the number of calls it fielded in 2012. With … Read more
France says it was no victim of Prism The French Ministry for Foreign Affairs has told EurActiv that its diplomatic network system is protected and secure, and could not have been a target for the NSA. Human rights organisations have however filed complaints against Apple, Google and Facebook. The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has … Read more
When Reality TV Meets Humanitarian Action in Italy RAI 1, the flagship television channel of the national public service broadcaster and the most watched channel in Italy, is developing a humanitarian aid show in reality form. The first episode is planned to be broadcast next 4 December 2013. German elections TV duel produces no winner … Read more
British navy arrives in Gibraltar amid tension with Spain British warships arrived in Gibraltar on Monday for scheduled exercises amid tensions with Spain over fishing Poverty: a human rights abuse in the UK Internationally poverty has been recognised as a violation of human dignity and, when a consequence of government policy, a violation of human … Read more
Eastern Europe: the new autocrats From Hungary to the Czech Republic, and from Romania to Turkey, democracy is being tested by a new generation of authoritarian leaders. Click on the faces below Eastern European autocrats pose new test for democracy From Hungary’s Orbán and Czech Republic’s Zeman to Erdoğan in Turkey, a new breed of … Read more