Compulsory military service back in Europe?
Jan 2, 2025 · Spain abolished compulsory military service in 2001, France in 1996, Germany in 2011, Belgium in 1994 and the UK all the way back in 1963. Iceland has no national army, while Ireland has never had compulsory military service. Now, however, the picture is beginning to change. Considering conscription. In July, debate engulfed Germany on the reintroduction of military service, as well as the ...
How many people die in police custody or operations in Europe?
Oct 30, 2024 · The UN recommended in 1991 that countries provide public information on all police-related deaths. Portugal began publishing theirs in 1997, Denmark in 2012, and France only in 2018. The Netherlands only reports cases investigated by the Public Prosecutor's Office, Ireland only reports cases investigated by the Ombudsman and Sweden’s Agency of Forensic Medicine reports deaths it attributes ...
COP29: missing $1 trillion for climate - voxeurop.eu
Nov 29, 2024 · The list comes from a series of publications by Carbon Brief’s Josh Gabbatiss, together with Vera Deleja-Hotko, Gustav Elfving, Lyse Mauvais, and Sevilay Nur Saraçlar, probably the best starting point for whoever wants to understand what the world’s leaders did – or tried to do – for two weeks in Baku.. From 11 to 24 November, negotiators at the so-called “climate COP” mainly ...
Cas Mudde: In 2025, Europe must learn to stand on its own two feet
Jan 2, 2025 · Germany will hold crucial elections in February 2025, but while the polls show a clear winner, the Christian Democratic CDU-CSU, coalition formation will be difficult given the strength of the far-right AfD – one of the few far-right parties still to face a cordon sanitaire in Europe. In contrast, French president Emmanuel Macron remains stubbornly committed to coalition governments that ...
Paul Nemitz: ‘Democracy must prevail over technology and
Dec 16, 2023 · Paul Nemitz is a senior advisor to the European commission's directory general for Justice and a professor of Law at the Collège d’Europe. Considered one of Europe's most respected experts on digital freedom, he led the work on the General Data Protection Regulation.He is also the author, along with Matthias Pfeffer, of The Human imperative: power, freedom and democracy in the Age of ...
Migration in Europe: Planning for tomorrow's crises
Dec 3, 2024 · More conflict, more movement. 59 armed conflicts in 34 countries: 2023 was one of the most violent years ever, according to a study by the Oslo Peace Research Institute. War in Ukraine, in Gaza, in Sudan: the more conflicts there are and the more they get bogged down, the greater the chances of new waves of migrants heading for Europe.And that's without counting global warming, which will ...
How post-truth media fuels polarisation in Georgia
Dec 24, 2024 · The current anti-government protests in Georgia highlight the country's political polarisation, government brutality towards journalists and media manipulation. Highly biased state media, starting with television, are responsible for this division, argues Georgian journalist Salome Belkania. – At ...
How many guns are in circulation in Europe?
Aug 26, 2024 · "Getting a gun legally in Europe may be hard, but terrorists have little trouble," read a Washington Post headline back in February 2015, after the attacks on a Copenhagen shopping centre, the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, and the Bataclan nightclub. For the latter attack, the terrorists acquired an arsenal of weapons, including AK-47 assault rifles and Zastava M-70 rifles ...
The Spanish migration route: European necropolitics
3 days ago · “The [Spanish] state’s migration necropolitics have cost the lives of 1,538 girls and boys and 421 women”, says the magazine, drawing on the figures and terminology of the migrant rights group Caminando Fronteras. Spain is at the heart of an ongoing migratory drama which, to relative indifference, has seen the deaths of thousands trying to reach its borders.
‘She’s his wife, he can do what he wants’: after #MeToo, the Mazan …
Oct 29, 2024 · In Krytyka Polityczna Aleksandra Herzyk writes that the trial displays the “banality of evil” that is so often hidden behind media attention that focuses on immigrants without legal permits, and avoids looking instead “into the homes of ordinary families, the respected members of the community”.. Mazan's defendants are, for the most part, “family men”, “normal”, “banal ...