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Fishing in the Mediterranean: The EU’s risky move on (un)sustainable fisheries
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European elections 2019: How gender balanced will the next European Parliament be?
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (Trento) 1 -
Managers and gender equality: A male world
Alternatives économiques (Paris) 1 -
Report on inequality in Europe: Tax harmonisation is the key to curb inequality
VoxEurop 6 -
Xi Jinping in Europe: Take away
Cartoon movement (Amsterdam) 1 -
Advocating for a European army: The alternative to new Maginot lines
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European elections and gender balance: The gender gap at EU elections
EUobserver.com (Brussels) 16 -
European elections 2019: The five big issues that will shape the campaign and the vote
Wake Up Europe! (London) 1 -
#WeEuropeans public consultation: What are the policy-priorities of European citizens
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Britain leaving the EU: Hard Brexit could cost Europe and UK citizens up to 57 billion euro annually
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Europe 2020 strategy: EU set to meet its Climate Change targets
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European elections 2019: A democratic constitution for the European Union
Movimento europeo in Italia (Rome) 8 -
Agriculture and environment: EU promotes meat, despite climate goals
EUobserver.com (Brussels) 1 -
Social media: Europe, it’s time to engage with your friends and followers
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Equal rights in politics: Women in Power
Der Spiegel (Hamburg) 19 -
Reforming the EU: Placing the individual and the citizen at the centre of the Union’s policies
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Madeleina Kay on EU communication: ‘Europe, learn from the Brexit mistake’
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#WeEuropeans public consultation: Europeans, it’s time to take back control!
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Transparency International 2018 corruption index: Looking at European countries’ performance
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Guillaume Klossa and “We Europeans”: ‘What is at stake is the Enlightenment spirit and the very idea of progress’
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European elections 2019: Voters left out from the polls
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (Trento) 1 -
Juncker plan: Where are we with the Investment Plan for Europe?
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Immigration: Why integration is stalling
Alternatives économiques (Paris) 15 -
Vaccines in Europe: Who is responsible for the surge in epidemics?
El Confidencial (Madrid) 1 -
Traffic pollution: Looking at the healthcare cost of our cars
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Brexit as a podcast: Cutting through the fog in the Channel
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Smart cities: Joining the data boom
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Europeans and nostalgia: Living – and voting – in the past
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European elections: What prospects for the European Left?
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Citizen lobbying: Challenging MEPs to deregister EU parties for keeping in values breachers
The Good Lobby (Brussels) 1 -
Overfishing in the Mediterranean: Why MEPs should vote to save the region’s natural resources
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What’s next for 2019 : A critical year ahead for Europe
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After COP24 : What role for Europe in the fight against global warming ?
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Reforming the EU : Building the United States of Europe
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EU-Italy: Brussels caught in Italian Catch-22
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Dieselgate: The European Court rules against the relaxation of emission limits
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#WeEuropeans: Europeans, let’s take back control of our future!
Civico Europa (Paris) 111 -
Infectious diseases are coming back: Half a century of vaccinations gone wasted
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Reforming the EU: ‘We, European citizens from different backgrounds and countries, are launching this appeal for transforming the European union’
T-Dem (Paris) 119 -
Public health: Europe faces a shortage of doctors
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Social inequalities: Combating poverty is an increasingly uphill battle
Alternatives économiques (Paris) 20 -
Music: Europe takes centre stage in Subsonica’s current tour
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Environment and food: Electric pulse fishing, symbol of a decomposing Europe
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Electric pulse fishing : Putting to the test a democratic and Green Europe
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Violence against women: Better data can prevent violence against women
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Reform of the EU: Four proposals for the Europe of the future
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EU refugees policy: Appealing asylum seekers may be asked to cooperate to own return
EUobserver.com (Brussels) 4 -
Parental leave in Europe: Who’s staying at home with the kids?
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (Trento) 7 -
Environment and public health: Air pollution kills more than 500,000 Europeans each year
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The European Balcony Project: Manifesto for a European Republic
European Democracy Lab (Berlin) 75
Pressures on the EU from industrial fishery lobbies to maintain business as usual in the Western Mediterranean may put both fish stocks and small fishermen’s livelihoods at risk, while also undermining the economic sustainability of the industry itself, as we reveal in a three-part investigation, the first of which concerns EU mislegislation. 
Will parties run enough women, and will they be placed in electable positions on electoral lists? Besides electoral systems, determination and concrete action are required to incentivise female representation. Let’s take a look at where we are now, with the numbers in hand. 
From top to bottom of the salary scale, inequality rules. 
According to a new report by the World Inequality Lab, inequality in Europe has declined slightly since 1980, but remains significant, particularly between the east and west of the continent 
A supporter of an integrated European defence as a corollary of a true foreign policy, former MEP Olivier Dupuis details here the characteristics that this army should have, as well as its legal and political bases. 
Women across Europe don't tend to vote as much in European elections, compared with men, posing questions on the growing gender gap in both politics and representation in the European Parliament. 
Ever since the first European elections in 1979, turnout has been on the decline. But in 2019, the contest is set to be particularly fierce. Indeed, the vote may come to determine the course of the European Union at an absolutely crucial moment in its history. Wake Up Europe looks at which are the main issues and on how more people can become engaged in what is arguably the largest democratic exercise in the world.
Within this unique public consultation organised by Civico Europa, millions of European citizens have proposed their solutions for reinventing Europe and voted on others to express their priorities. The environment and democracy are on the top. 
If the United Kingdom were to leave the European Union without a new deal, it could lead to billions of euro in losses to the European Union and British citizens. 
The European Union (EU) has already achieved one of its three targets in the Climate Change sector as a part of the Europe 2020 strategy. 
As the 23-26 May European elections are coming closer, the European Movement in Italy and the Academic Agora Europe network have listed "ten priorities for a united, democratic and supportive Europe, as an instrument of peace in a globalised world" that will be submitted to parties and candidates. 
The European Union has allocated around €71.5m in the past three years on programmes promoting European meat – raising questions about such spending's compatibility with the bloc's stated climate ambitions. 
With the European elections rapidly approaching and old promises of bridging the communication gap between the EU and its citizens lingering, social media, arguably the most effective tool to facilitate dialogue, has received a token treatment. It’s high time to talk about how Europe can use the online space to foster meaningful interactions between its political system and citizens. 
Sweden does it without a law, France does it with one. The proportion of women in European parliaments and cabinets is determined by a number of different factors. A comparison. 
The European Union's relationship with European citizens is filtered by national governments, which in most cases take credit for the progress made under European law, while attributing exclusive responsibility for unpopular choices to "Brussels". This has to change, say two European thinkers. 
With one month to go for the UK leaving the European Union, popular British anti-Brexit activist known as EU Super Girl stresses in this speech she recently held in Brussels the need for Europe to show more inclusiveness, diversity and engagement with citizens if it does not want to fail them. 
Launched by the Civico Europa platform, We Europeans aims at consulting over 100 million European citizens and ask for their proposals for "concretely reinvent Europe". 
According to the 2018 TI Corruption perception index, Nordic countries are again global leaders in the fight against corruption. But looking at the data since 2012, Baltic countries appear to be the rising stars. 
Founder of EuropaNova and initiator of the civic movement Civico Europa, Guillaume Klossa has just published “Media for Good”, an essay on the media of the future, and has launched the public consultation “We Europeans”, in view of the European elections. 
Almost 17 million EU citizens live in a member state other than their country of origin. These citizens are entitled to vote for the European Parliament from where they reside, but almost none of them do so. It’s a wasted opportunity for a more transnational politics. 
In December 2018, the European Commission released the latest update concerning the results achieved by the Investment Plan for Europe, the so-called Juncker Plan. Besides sheer volumes of financing, we analysed the data to give a more qualitative overview of how resources were allocated and how many SMEs benefited from the plan in each EU country. 
Jobs, housing, education, equality: these are what allow the integration of immigrants in Europe. But the process is often compromised by its numerous flaws, the OECD notes in a recent report. And France is at the back of the class. 
The vast majority of member states have immunization rates below recommended WHO levels. Religion could be playing a decisive role. 
Each year 500 000 Europeans die prematurely as a result of air pollution. Road transport alone causes 18 percent of air pollution. The overall cost for healthcare systems exceeds 60 billion euro per year. 
In his weekly podcast "Fog in the Channel", European journalist Stefan de Vries looks at how the Continent will survive isolation as the UK sets sail. 
Many European cities did not wait for central governments’ green light to take advantage of the opportunities provided by technology and big data to improve governance and their citizens’ lives. A closer look at Utrecht and Santander shows how smart cities can play a role model.
According to a new Bertelsmann report, “nostalgia” can be framed as a political tool to expand electoral bases. But how does the European geography of nostalgia look like? And how do political views of nostalgic and non-nostalgic persons differ? 
In this essay, political science scholar Arthur Moinet argues that the future of the European Left lies in ending its coalition with the EPP and proposing an ambitious political program based on environmental concerns and social progress. 
On 10 January, The Good Lobby submitted a complaint to the European Ombudsman denouncing the repeated failure by the European Parliament to address its demand. The civic startup wanted to verify whether the EPP and the ACRE groups might have breached EU law by keeping in Fidesz and the Law & Justice parties despite they have been clearly breaching fundamental rights. 
On 10 January, the European parliament should vote on the first multiannual plan for the Western Mediterranean Sea. The head for Europe of the Oceana Ngo explains why MEPs should take action to save the “Mare Nostrum” from overfishing. 
If 2018 has been a troubled year in politics, 2019 might well be at least as hectic. As the uncertainties around Brexit will dominate the early months, much of the attention will also focus on the European elections’outcome: populist parties are exepcted to gain ground, shaping the EU’s ability to run under the traditional “Franco-German engine”, says political scientist Cas Mudde. 
While the Katowice climate change conference has finally given rise to a protocol for the implementation of the Paris accord, aiming to limit global warming, European leaders were conspicuous by their absence, notes VoxEurop’s correspondent at the conference. 
If Europe is currently stuck, it’s at least partly because its institutions are not adapted to the global power it aspires to be. Those institutions standing in the way of a truly democratic and sovereign Europe should therefore be abolished, suggests a representative of Pulse of Europe. 
Italy’s government, especially the populist Five-Star Movement (M5S), is on a collision course with the European Union. Where is the communication breakdown headed? 
The European Court of Justice has ruled in favour of Paris, Madrid and Brussels against the European Commission’s decision to allow car manufacturers to exceed diesel emission limits. However, it will be some time yet before manufacturers are forced to make the necessary changes. 
CIVICO Europa movement, together with Make.org and many well-known Europeans, is launching a non-partisan civic campaign in the 28 Member states of the European Union to mobilise citizens and empower them to take back control of the European project: #WeEuropeans. 
In terms of the number of people vaccinated against measles, Europeans are already below the safety limit. 
To relaunch the EU and bring it closer to citizens, more than 120 European intellectuals and politicians have signed a manifesto written by a group of French economists and legal experts for a new social model. More just, more equitable, and more sustainable, it is based on a budget capable of reducing inequalities between countries, voted on by an assembly that has been democratically elected by Europeans. 
A surge in retirements, lack of new doctors in training, emigration to countries with better working conditions… by 2020, Europe could be facing a shortage of 230,000 doctors. 
The European Social model is pretty much on its last leg. Over the last few years, social transfers granted by the member states of the European Union are increasingly losing their ability to reduce poverty. 
Facing the rise of populist and authoritarian movements, the Italian alternative rock group are taking a stand by holding their next concerts under a banner defending European ideals and values. 
Bloom, an NGO fighting for the preservation of the oceans and their resources, argue in this op-ed that the influence of lobbies on the decisions of European institutions, made glaringly clear in the case of electric pulse fishing, only serves to stoke citizens' mistrust towards the European Union. 
French NGO Bloom has just revealed that the European Commission has allocated at least 21.5 million euro in subsidies to Dutch trawlers. The revelations throw a spotlight on what is at stake, both democratically and ecologically, for Europe. 
Lack of standardisation in reporting and cultural differences between Northern and Eastern European countries complicate efforts towards an effective response against gender-based violence. 
The nationalists' challenge to the EU requires a credible response: Strenghten the institutions and those policies which support the European construction's efficiency and democratic legitimacy. The federalist ideal no longer suffices, say Olivier Dupuis and Carmelo Palma. 
People refused asylum in Europe may be asked to get their own travel documents at embassies even during appeal, posing risks to themselves and their families. 
Too many fathers delegating childcare to their partner; mothers staying too long outside the workforce; an uneven range of rights and guarantees: how and why parental leave is changing in Europe. 
Despite the efforts of European countries, atmospheric pollution (fine particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ozone in particular) continues to kill hundreds of thousands of people every year. 
For the first time in European history, citizens all over the continent will gather at a single moment in time – 10th of November at 4 p.m. – to spark a broad debate about European democracy and what it means to be European citizens. - 1 of 77
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