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1 month ago | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | Roos Döll |Eloise Hardy
Sanctions are a powerful diplomatic tool, but enforcement gaps and political divides often determine how successful they can be. Oil tankers near a terminal in Turkey, which takes in Russian oil despite the EU's sanctions. A week of haggling with Hungary ended on Friday with the member state's agreement to renew European Union sanctions against Russian individuals and entities, but not without getting something in return.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | Matt Lynes |Roos Döll
MEP Bernd Lange, Chair of the Conference of Committee Chairs, discusses the importance of the European Parliament's committees and his role in streamlining EP decision-making. The balance of power in the European Union has shifted to the right, changing the face of the EU and its institutions. Amid these changes, work goes on within the 24 committees of the European Parliament. Committee debate remains the lifeblood of much EU legislation.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | Roos Döll
The European Union is under pressure to secure critical minerals and rare earth elements that are essential for its “green” energy transition.
These mined materials are the building blocks of electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels, and the digital technologies behind the EU’s push to net zero by 2050. While copper, cobalt and lithium are considered "critical,” rare earth elements are a class of geological deposits that cover 17 chemically similar metals.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | Eloise Hardy |Roos Döll
With the European Union increasingly consumed by keeping migration at bay, Israel’s widening war risks sending more people the bloc’s way. Airstrikes and land incursions in Lebanon have displaced at least 1.2 million people, according to Lebanese government estimates, with one quarter of the country under Israeli military evacuation orders. Israel is seeking to weaken its enemy, Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia based in Lebanon.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | Roos Döll |Varg Lukas Folkman
Every iteration of digital innovation brings new threats to people and institutions. One gaining increasing attention is the sexually explicit deepfake – hyper-realistic, AI-generated videos and images depicting people in fabricated explicit scenarios. This form of online harassment disproportionately impacts women. A study in late 2023 found that 98 per cent of online deepfake videos were pornographic, and that 99 per cent of those targeted were women or girls.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | Roos Döll |Julia Kaiser
The eastern German state of Brandenburg held its state elections on Sunday. The centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), which governs Brandenburg and leads a weak coalition at the federal level, eked out a first-place spot taking just under 31% of the vote. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) followed closely with around 29%. Both parties saw a single digit rise in support since the 2019 election.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | Julia Kaiser |Roos Döll
On a sunny afternoon in mid-August, fighter jets flew across a blue sky above Warsaw and a succession of tanks wound through the Polish capital’s streets. The country’s national flag and the NATO flag flew side by side from municipal buildings across the city for Armed Forces Day, a holiday commemorating Poland’s 1920 defeat of the Red Army.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | Roos Döll |Katrin Hugendubel
On August 15, Sweden reported a case of a new strain of mpox known as clade 1b. It marked the first time the more deadly strain of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, was found in Europe and outside of the African continent.
According to Sweden’s public health agency, the person who contracted the virus had just returned from a trip to an unidentified African nation where there has been a major outbreak of the new mpox strain.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | Sarah Schug |Roos Döll
United States and NATO forces bolted out of Afghanistan three years ago, leaving behind a grim scene. Just over half the population needs humanitarian support. The UN Special Rapporteur has called the Taliban's rule an “institutionalized system of discrimination, segregation, disrespect for human dignity and exclusion of women and girls.”
At its height, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and partner countries numbered more than 130,000 troops in the country. Nearly 3,500 of them were killed.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | Stephen Wertheim |Roos Döll
This op-ed is the con-argument for admitting Ukraine into NATO. Read the pro-side here.
In the decade since “America First” took over one of the two major political parties in the United States, transatlanticists on both sides of the ocean have reacted with a sense of dismay, denial and — above all — disorientation. But turmoil within NATO should not have come as a shock, even if its most immediate catalyst, Donald Trump, cut an unlikely figure.
