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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
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Juncker plan: Where are we with the Investment Plan for Europe?
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Immigration: Why integration is stalling
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Vaccines in Europe: Who is responsible for the surge in epidemics?
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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
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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!
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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’
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Public health: Europe faces a shortage of doctors
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Social inequalities: Combating poverty is an increasingly uphill battle
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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
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Parental leave in Europe: Who’s staying at home with the kids?
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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
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Wealth and society: Europe is getting more wealthy – and more unequal
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Europe versus the far right: Five minutes to midnight
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EuropaNow!: Manifesto for a European Patriotism
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EuropaNow! in Ferrara: A European picnic for a democratic uprising
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Global warming: Europe is getting warmer, and that is not going to change
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Defence and human rights: Europe’s deadly silence on armed drones
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2018 State of the European Union speech: Counting Juncker’s words
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Right of asylum: When refugees are European
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Anti-corruption: New tools at the service of civil society
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Discrimination against Roma people: How widespread is anti-Roma prejudice?
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Travel: One European in three has never been abroad
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Civico Europa: Relaunching the Union along with its citizens
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Loretta Napoleoni on the “migrant crisis”: ‘None of the solutions proposed will ever work’
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The “Migrant crisis”: Sorting the true from the false
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The EU and the migrants: A political crisis rather than a “migration” one
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The EU and its citizens: The institutions of 2025 should reflect what Europeans expect
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FIFA World Cup: Why Denmark and France will end up in final
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Freedom of the press: Not a priority for MEPs on the right
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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. 
Forecasts for 2023, show that across the EU, the median wealth per adult is on the rise. However, it is still unclear if the distribution of wealth will become more balanced in the future. Germany tops the ranking of EU countries with the highest number of millionaires holding more than $ 50 mln of wealth. 
Traditional political parties are out of ideas, while the radical right have free reign. The time has come for resistance and intellectual rearmament, argues Bernard Guetta. 
With nationalism and fear threatening the European project more than ever, the EuropaNow! association aims to defend the fundamental values of our continent, embodied in the United States of Europe it seeks to establish. 
Twenty-nine years ago civil society representatives from Western and Eastern Europe organised a "Pan-European picnic" in Sopron, at the Austria-Hungary border, helping to bring an end to Cold War division. With nationalism now threatening the European project, we're going to repeat the event during Internazionale's festival in Ferrara on October 6th. 
An exclusive analysis of over 100 million meteorological data points shows that every major city in Europe is warmer in the 21st century than it was in the 20th. Subarctic regions, Andalusia and southern Romania are most affected. 
As EU member states rush to weaponize unmanned planes, those who monitor ‘collateral damage’ to civilian populations and abuses of international law brought about by extensive use of armed drones ask EU countries, as MEPs recently did, to set up a legal framework and to uphold human rights. 
What do the most recurrent terms in the EU Commission president's annual speech at the European Parliament say about the present and future of the Union? 
Every year, almost 100,000 Europeans seek asylum in EU countries, and the number of applications continues to grow. Yet this is a phenomenon which remains at the margins of the debate on asylum – and that on EU enlargement 
Presented recently at the the European Parliament, the Digiwhist platform is based on open data. Its tools allow users to navigate the world of European public tenders, and discover where corruption lurks. 
The controversial eviction of a camping near Rome has once again brought attention to the Roma presence in Italy, which remains small in proportion to many European countries but is nevertheless the target of intense discrimination 
The Civico Europa association calls for a new revival from European leaders as well as from all citizens, opinion influencers, trade unions, and business organisations around the continent, and encourages all Europeans to participate in the citizen consultations, for a more democratic and influent Europe. VoxEurop supports Civico Europe's initiative. 
In this exclusive interview international terrorism and human trafficking expert Loretta Napoleoni explains why she doubts the EU will be able to find a solution to the current crisis provoked by migrants’ influx from Southern Mediterranean. 
The discourse concerning the numbers of migrants crossing the Mediterranean or the Alps to reach the Old Continent doesn't hold up against the facts. A review of the situation in four points. 
Far fewer people are arriving by sea into Europe. Yet the debate at the political level appears to suggest a major migration crisis. The crisis is not migration. The crisis is mismanagement and indecision by political leaders.
Despite some limitations, the white paper on the future of the EU provides an excellent basis for debate, writes activist François Dupont. 
The statistics speak for themselves: countries with higher taxation levels have a greater chance of winning in international football tournaments. 
The European Parliament recently adopted a resolution on media freedom and pluralism. How many voted in favour, and how many against? Did geography and ideology make an impact on the vote? A brief analysis. - 1 of 77
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