Le Bureau en France du Parlement européen, en coopération avec la Commission européenne, la Ville de Paris et la Maison de l’Europe de Paris organisent à Paris, le samedi 7 mai, l’édition 2022 de la Journée de l’Europe. La Journée de l’Europe est célébrée le 9 mai dans l’ensemble des
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Ce 5 mars 2022 sera lancée l’initiative Café Europa, initiée par l’Institut français dans le cadre de la présidence française du Conseil de l’Union européenne (PFUE) : des dizaines de rencontres se tiendront entre des citoyens et des journalistes, dans des cafés emblématiques, à travers toute l’Union européenne. Celle-ci traverse
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The trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) is the largest trade treaty ever negotiated. Signed a year ago, the ratification of this nearly €17 trillion agreement could fail because of Brazil's environmental and human abuses of
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In the midst of the crisis, Europe is in a state of shock. Italy, Spain and France, in particular, are experiencing an extremely deep sadness and a sense of powerlessness to help the most vulnerable, and in particular the elderly in our societies, despite health and social care systems that have been weakened by the crisis.
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Biodiversité, quand les politiques européennes menacent le Vivant d'Inès Trépant - Préface de Olivier de Schuttze Editions Yves Michel, Mars 2017 - 368 Pages This book is a plea for a decompartmentalization of European policies in order to effectively safeguard biodiversity in Europe. The book was published in March 2017
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The European Parliament has endorsed by a large majority the end in the European Union of single-use plastic products that pollute the oceans from 2021 On 1 January 2021, Europe could be the first continent to ban disposable plastic objects. Cotton buds, straws, swabs
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Digital technology has become the new theatre of international conflicts between states but also with industrial players, as Edward Snowden revealed in his time on the surveillance practiced by the NSA. This is a new challenge facing states, economic actors and citizens themselves,
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Les énergies renouvelables dans l’UE : Onze États membres ont déjà atteint leurs objectifs 2020 En 2017, la part de l’énergie provenant de sources renouvelables dans la consommation finale brute d’énergie a atteint 17,5% dans l’Union européenne (UE), en hausse par rapport à 17,0% en 2016 et plus du double
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Pure plagiarism. In literature, it's not very pretty, but in public health, it's very serious. In 2017, the European Union extended the use of glyphosate, the famous herbicide from the firm Monsanto/Bayer, for five years. This authorisation is the result of an expert report that plagiarized the use of glyphosate.
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The new EU regulation on personal data will be formally applicable in May 2018. Complementing and reinforcing a European directive dating from 1995, it guarantees unprecedented rights to citizens, including the right to forget, to data portability, to be informed of security breaches in case of
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Halt! The risk of Europe collapsing is not a problem for Europe, it is a problem for the whole world. It would mean that the only historic attempt to move peacefully from solitary sovereignties to sovereignties based on solidarity, to use the words of the jurist Mireille Delmas Marty, has resulted in
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According to the dominant discourse, productivity, competitiveness, value added, etc. have become vitally important in our "new economy". Is this the New Grail?! To get out of a crisis triggered by finance, there were many ways out: curbing speculation, regulating the markets, sanctioning bankers, etc.
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One of the ten priorities of the new European Commission is to give a new impetus to European energy and climate policy: in accordance with the wishes of its President, Jean-Claude Juncker, this policy must lead to a "more energy-resilient Union with an
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A consortium comprising Imaxio, the Jenner Institute (University of Oxford, UK), the European Vaccine Initiative and Preclin Biosystems was selected by the FP7 grant programme. The objective of the project is to bring the development of a vaccine against Staphylococcus aureus to a Phase I clinical trial Read More
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