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2 months ago | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | Eloise Hardy |Sarah Schug
How did we get here? February marks five years since Brexit became official. Here are some key developments since the EU-UK breakup. Boris Johnson, pushing for a Brexit deal as prime minister, promotes leaving the EU at a campaign event in 2019. The 1 February marks five years since the United Kingdom formally left the European Union. It is the first — and only — member state to do so.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | Eloise Hardy |Sarah Schug
With Germany heading to new elections, France will have to carry on supporting the EU despite its own domestic political peril. Emmanuel Macron is not the power he once was. With a minority government, a crippling budget deficit and an all-time low approval rating of 22 per cent, some might say he’s barely in control of France, let alone Europe.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | William Glucroft |Sarah Schug
Ask ChatGPT how much energy it takes to answer a user’s query, and it will tell you it’s as much as one kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity. That's roughly equivalent to ten hours of light from a single, 100-watt light bulb.
With more than 200 million active weekly users, that's a lot of lightbulbs.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | William Glucroft |Sarah Schug
Mario Draghi is the talk of the town this week. The former European Central Bank president who coined the phrase "whatever it takes” to save the euro more than a decade ago is now warning of "slow agony,” economically speaking, if the European Union does not catch up to the United States and China.
After a year putting it together, Draghi handed his two-part, 393-page competitiveness report over to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | Gabriele Rosana |Sarah Schug
If you believe proximity breeds collaboration, take a ride on bus 12 from the centre of Brussels to the city’s main airport at Zaventem. Within minutes of each other, the European Union’s political institutions and the NATO headquarters will pass by the window. And yet there are few instances of these two overlapping blocs, which evolved concurrently in the wake of the Second World War, working together effectively.
Both projects aim, in some way, to guarantee European security.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | Sarah Schug |Raluca Besliu
It's 2099, and a NATO spacecraft is under attack in Earth’s orbit. As drones take off from the moon, the fog of war descends.
“Our AI sets are inundating us with data we are no longer able to process,” says Sandy Masala, the NATO secretary general.
This isn’t a scene from the next Star Wars movie, but rather from NATO 2099, a science-fiction graphic novel published by NATO to celebrate its 75th anniversary.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | Sarah Schug |Lili Rutai
Alexandra Kusá, the director of Slovakia’s National Gallery, was fired by the country’s culture ministry last month. The announcement came one day after she threw her support to Matej Drlička, the head of Slovakia’s National Theatre, who met the same fate.
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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 22, 2024 | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | Sarah Schug
A job ad published in Flanders earlier this month has garnered a lot of attention: The Belgian region is searching for a “climate doctor” to tackle the medical consequences of climate change.
In Europe and beyond, governments are realising that the consequences of climate change have started to take effect and cannot be reversed. Attention is turning to mitigation, from flood defences to drought-resistant crops, alongside efforts to cut emissions and minimise future effects.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
theparliamentmagazine.eu | Sarah Schug |Jan-Christoph Oetjen
Summertime is disaster time. Wildfires, floods, droughts and heatwaves are as much a part of the holiday period as crowded beaches and empty offices. Since 2018, more than half of Europe has suffered from extreme drought conditions, according to the European Environment Agency (EEA).
Local, regional and national authorities across the European Union are confronting the dangers of persistent water shortages.
