Environment
EU plan to replace diesel trucks with electric ones
In early 2021, the EU has set a target of 20,000 environmentally friendly vehicles by 2030 The shift to electric vehicles will affect not only car manufacturers but also trucks.…
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Europe
Press briefing on next week’s plenary session – Friday, 15 October, at 11.00 | News | European Parliament
Spokespersons for Parliament and for political groups will hold a briefing on the 18-21 October plenary session this Friday at 11.00, in Parliament’s Anna Politkovskaya press room. Source : ©…
Europe
EU and OHCHR hold first strategic dialogue on human rights
Brussels, 13 October 2021 - The EU and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) held their first Strategic Dialogue yesterday in Brussels. This high-level dialogue…
Environment
Biodiversity commitment builds hope for ‘living in harmony with nature’
More than 100 countries on Wednesday committed to develop, adopt and implement an effective post-2020 global framework, that aims to put biodiversity on a path to recovery, by 2030 at the latest.
News
UNODC launches a compendium of promising practices on public-private partnerships to prevent and counter trafficking in persons
Vienna (Austria) – 13 October 2021. The global pandemic has vastly increased vulnerabilities to human trafficking and of trafficked victims. Traffickers prey upon the marginalized and impoverished. Evidence shared by States…
Institutions
The IMF has confirmed its “full confidence” in Kristalina Georgieva
Will Kristalina Georgieva keep her position in the IMF? The council adds that she has confidence in Georgieva's "commitment"! The International Monetary Fund's board of directors has announced that it…
European Council
The Spanish Constitutional Court upheld Puchdemon’s arrest warrants
The Constitutional Court of Spain has confirmed the validity of the national, European and international arrest warrants of the former Catalan Prime Minister Carles Puigdemon and the three former ministers…
European Council
The European Commission supports the countries of the Union that build fences at the external borders
EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ilva Johansson voiced support for EU countries that are building fences at the external borders to prevent the illegal entry of migrants. "Further efforts are needed…
Europe
Food Hero: Cultivating women farmers in Georgia
A farmer in the central European country, Georgia, has been sharing her lifetime of knowledge with other women farmers in the region, saying that “there is nothing in agriculture that…
Institutions
MINI-STATES – NON-TRADITIONAL SUBJECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
Consideration of non-traditional legal personality would be incomplete without the example of the four European "mini-states" in whose history and / or present it is intertwined. Andorra / 465 sq.…