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Voxeurop editorial: Europeans demand more from the EU
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The EU and the Covid-19 crisis: Eurobonds can wait – for now
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Open letter to the EU and European leaders: ‘We need Renaissance bonds to face the health and economic crisis’
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Facing the coronavirus crisis: ‘The time has come for a new European patriotism’
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Call to the EU : ‘Why we need coronabonds to help EU states face the crisis’
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EU and the COVID-19 crisis: Not helpless nor hopeless
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German-Italian appeal to EU Member States: European solidarity now, in the interest of all
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COVID-19 and disinformation: The infodemic is as virulent as the pandemic
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EU and the COVID-19 crisis: The nation-state strikes back
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COVID-19: Life support
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Explaining the COVID-19 pandemic: Mind the gaps in the data
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EU response to COVID-19: Every government for itself
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COVID-19: Virus forecast
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The EU and the coronavirus: Five decisions the EU should make right now
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Call for a European response to the coronavirus threat: Let’s prove the EU is a true community with a shared future!
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Europe and the coronavirus: Bracing for the pandemic
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Newsstand: European dailies and the coronavirus outbreak
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Coronavirus epidemic: How prepared are healthcare systems for the Covid-19 impact?
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Pharmaceutical industry: Europe’s suicidal reliance on drugs made in China
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Ahmet Insel on the asylum crisis: Refugees held hostage by Turkey, Greece and the EU
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ONEurope initiative: The European Republic begins in Tuscany
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European digital strategy: Escape plan
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European military presence in the Sahel: Searching for purpose
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European Green Deal: What about social objectives?
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Health: Cancer remains a burden on EU societies
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Conference on the future of Europe: Let civil society have its say!
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VoxEurop editorial: The morning after
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Gender violence: Time to get tough
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Schengen area: How will the new visa-free European travel system work
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European democracy in a digital era: Trust in the media, and regulation for the platforms
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Alberto Alemanno on Europe in 2020: Overambitious?
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Missing children: What happens to the thousands of kids who disappear every year
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Inequalities: Rich getting richer
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Europe and the Western Balkans: Great expectations, dull reality
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Eric Jozsef on Europe in 2020: Regain momentum, or scuttle the European Union
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VoxEurop editorial: Tomorrow’s world
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The EU and the US-Iran tension: Moving forward in the Middle East
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Cas Mudde on Europe in 2020: Time for Europe to live up to its responsibilities
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Railway transport | Data: Six infographics to explain how affordable and fast trains in Europe are
Journalism++ (Stockholm) -
Equal rights: Most citizens are not aware of non-discrimination laws
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Carbon emissions: Europe will likely miss 2030 climate goals
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Media and democracy: Call for respect for press freedom and journalistic independence in Europe
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Agriculture and the environment: The EU bans the successor of DDT
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The Von der Leyen Commission: How we got here
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European Citizens’ initiative: A democratic fiasco?
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COP 25 in Madrid: Raging bull
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Emissions: The EU carbon market, serving its purpose at last?
Alternatives économiques (Paris) -
Migrants relocation: EU states fail on sharing refugees
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The Von der Leyen Commission: The new cabinet in figures
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European Parliament committees: Welcome to the EU engine room
EUobserver.com (Brussels)
As Covid-19 ravages Europe, the grassroots call for more coordination and intervention at the European level gets louder by the day. 
The European summit of 26 March, held by videoconference, ended in failure. The 27 heads of state and government failed to agree on a united response to the economic crisis triggered by Covid-19. They simply asked the Eurogroup (the eurozone's economy and finance ministers) to make proposals to them by 7 April.
In this open letter to EU heads and national leaders, over 1,500 economists, academics, and professionals from all over Europe propose a series of urgent measures in response to the Covid-19 epidemic. They also demand that the EU create a common fund that would issue European securities called "European Renaissance Bonds" to help EU countries overcome the crisis. 
In this open letter first published by EUobserver, several European academics call for the EU to show it can help and bring hope to citizens facing the challenges the Covid-19 pandemic is posing to our societies. 
In an appeal published by Die Zeit and Le Monde, several German personalities including political scientist Ulrike Guérot and philosopher Jürgen Habermas are calling for the creation of a European "corona fund". The fund would help European countries struggling to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. 
Contrary to what is being said and written by many, the European Union can do a great deal to protect its citizens from the pandemic, and to compensate for shortcomings due to lack of coordination between member states. 
As the coronavirus crisis spreads across Europe, there are increasing calls for greater coordination and solidarity at the European level. Here is the latest one, already signed by several European personalities. We support it, and invite you to sign it. 
From genocide accusations to alleged cures, the coronavirus pandemic is accompanied by a swathe of conspiracy theories. These are perpetrated not only by clickbait websites but also authoritarian regimes who exploit the crisis for political purposes and try to shift the blame from their inadequate responses. An international survey and a detailed case study. 
While initial responses to the coronavirus crisis have favoured national sovereignty and public authority, effective solutions will only emerge from a complex network of multi-level governance. 
Since the data available on the coronavirus pandemic is patchy and incomplete, it needs to be approached with caution and an awareness of what it can – and cannot – tell us about the deadly virus. 
Besides its devastating impact on human health and the global economy, the coronavirus epidemic is also a live-action, real-time test of European member states’ capacity for coordination, at a time when intergovernmentalism prevails, lament three Belgium-based academics. 
Calls have been coming from all sides for the EU to intervene in the COVID-19 crisis in the name of European solidarity. Although the Union has little room for manoeuvre in the public-health sphere, it can use the powerful lever of economic and monetary policy to counter the coming economic downturn. 
In this open call, a group of academics, politicians, professionals and European citizens are asking the EU institutions and Member States for a series of urgent measures to address the current coronavirus pandemic at the European level. 
As the COVID-19 gets a foothold in Europe, health services are being put through their paces. Are they up to the job dealing with the unpredictable enemy? 
An overview of selected European dailies' front pages, on the day after several European governments announced new restrictive measures to counter the COVID-19 outbreak. 
How prepared are European hospitals to manage a steep increase of intensive care hospitalizations, needed in severe cases of coronavirus syndrome? We have collected some data, but the picture is far from complete. 
The COVID-19 outbreak has revived fears over acute drug shortages in Europe, sparking calls to repatriate the production of pharmaceutical ingredients from China. But rebuilding capacity would take years, if it were even possible. 
The human tragedy being played out on the Greek-Turkish border definitively buries one of the greatest achievements of international humanitarian law – and with the blessing of the European Union. The timing is good for the autocrat Erdoğan, whose blackmail over refugees is helping divert rumbling discontent in Turkish society. 
While waiting for the Conference on the future of Europe in May, civil society, along with several municipalities and pro-European associations, met on 15 February in the Tuscan city of Scandicci. They are mobilising for the European Republic, based on the equal rights of European citizens. 
On January French President announced a new Coalition for the Sahel, to tackle with the security and development challenges in the region. But public debate in some countries about why so many organisations and countries are engaging in the region and what they hope to achieve has been lacking. 
Will the European Commission's ambitious climate programme achieve the goal of "building a more social Europe" that it set itself after the 2008 crisis? 
Data shows awareness is key on World Cancer Day, says the global initiative led by the Union for International Cancer Control. 
As the European Union is about to embark on another ambitious conference on the future of Europe, more than 100 academics who have been studying European democracy call for it to be open to civil society. 
Brexit has finally happened. What responsibility does the media have in this democratic debacle? 
According to a 2014 pan European survey on the issue of gender violence, 50 per cent of women across the EU experienced sexual harassment at least once, since the age of 15. The latest podcast episode of The Grassroots View series sheds light on the state of the art of the fight against gender-based violence in Europe. 
Set to enter into force next year, the ETIAS scheme aims at speeding up traveling authorisation for travellers from countries which do not require a visa. In this regard, it looks pretty much like the US ESTA. But there is still some confusion on how it works, so here we have a closer look at it. 
Democratic debates require trusted information, less economic pressure on media, and more policy pressure on platforms. Supporting citizens’ choices, three concepts will help the von der Leyen Commission: ‘co-regulation’, ‘trust indicators’, ‘systemic publishing platforms’. 
As the EU enters a new policy cycle, Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law & Policy at HEC Paris, and member of VoxEurop's supervisory board, Alberto Alemanno offers five predictions. 
Various forms of abuse, violence, neglect, family disputes, and poverty all account for over one thousand children going missing every year in Europe. A new development is the increasing number who disappear down migration paths. 
An overview of wealth distribution in Europe since the Eighties by Alternatives Economiques 
For leaders in the region, EU membership risks losing control over power and patronage. For EU leaders, it is a political headache that they would rather avoid. Writer and diplomat Zlatko Dizdarević analyses how and why the process seems to be going nowhere, as both parties turn in upon themselves. 
For the co-founder of EuropaNow! and member of VoxEurop's supervisory board, the Conference on the Future of Europe taking place this year may be the last chance for the European Union to make the leap towards a fully democratic European federation. 
Europe goes – eventually – green: some good news for starting the year. Cofounder Catherine André's editorial. 
Geopolitically isolated but economically strong, the EU should enter the new decade by finally becoming an independent global player, defending its institutions and values, says political scientist Cas Mudde. 
Where in Europe is taking the train fast and affordable, and where is it not? The European Data Journalism Network has gathered data on train journeys from 28 booking websites across Europe, collecting more than 8,000 single journey ticket prices and travel times for 73 sample routes. 
Over the last twenty years, European directives have facilitated the creation of equality bodies. The majority of these institutions are still not very familiar to European citizens, but there are some exceptions in south-eastern countries 
While the Commission is unveiling its Green Deal on 11 December, the European Environmental Agency's latest report says that Europe as a while will not achieve its 2030 climate and energy targets if no urgent action is taken in the 10 coming years. 
At the conference it is organising in Paris on 6 December, the Association of European Journalists (AEJ) joined forces with other organisations defending press freedom to call on European institutions and governments to adopt effective measures to protect the Fourth estate for the sake of democracy. VoxEurop joins the call. 
After lengthy discussions the European Union is preparing to ban the use of chlorpyrifos, the most widespread pesticide in the world, and suspected of causing neurological damage. 
After months of delays, the von der Leyen Commission is finally set to take office on the first of December. What did the last few months involve, and why did it take so long? 
Eventually, European policy makers and MEPs greeted the start of the new European Commission’s term under the leadership of president, Ursula von der Leyen. In September, Von der Leyen mentioned that the priority of the Commission’s team would be to revive Europe’s democracy. However, it might need to break with the past if it plans to achieve. 
Without a high enough carbon price, surplus emissions permits will remain high and the European carbon market will remain broken.
A mandatory 2015 scheme to dispatch people seeking international protection from Greece and Italy across the European Union did not deliver promised results, say EU auditors. 
The new EU Commission led by president-elect Ursula von der Leyen is now finally set, with all 26 commissioners having being vetted by the European parliament. MEPs should give their green light on 27 November. Here's an updated overview of the new EU cabinet composition. 
Welcome to the EU engine room: the European Parliament's 22 committees, which churn out hundreds of new laws and non-binding reports each year and keeps an eye on other European institutions. - 1 of 80
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