Civil Georgia - voxeurop.eu
Civil Georgia is a free daily news website. Founded in 2001, it published news stories and analytical articles on Georgia's political and social life in Georgian, English, and Russian. It is run by Georgian NGO UN Association of Georgia.
2024 in Europe, as seen by press cartoonists around the world
2024年10月10日 · Created in 2019 by the European Press Prize and Studio Europa Maastricht following the New York Times announcement that they would stop publishing press cartoons, the European Cartoon Award is designed to reward "courage and quality in the field of cartooning and foster conversation on the topic of Europe". These are two objectives that are at the heart of Voxeurop's mission.
The three horsemen of social media: brain rot, anxiety and foreign ...
2024年12月10日 · On a similar front, for France Inter, Victor Dhollande reports that depression rates have risen sharply among young people in France since the first Covid lockdowns. "41% of students have depressive symptoms (compared with 26 percent before Covid). That's an increase of 15 points in just four years. Over the same period, suicidal thoughts among 18-24 year-olds have risen from 21% to 29%.
Forest abandonment and poor management threaten Europe’s …
2024年11月21日 · The condition of Europe's forests has been deteriorating, as the European Union itself concluded in a 2021 study.The strategy for 2021-2030, based on the European Green Deal, aims to improve the quantity and quality of Europe's forests and make them more resilient to the "uncertainty of climate change". Carbon neutrality, which Brussels aims to achieve by 2050, is a key element in this process.
A shockwave in Syria - voxeurop.eu
2024年12月10日 · So ends more than fifty years of dictatorship in Syria.On Sunday 8 December, an armed coalition led by Abu Mohammad al-Julani's Islamist group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) stormed the capital, Damascus, after a lightning offensive.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who inherited power from his father and whose regime was known for its brutality and corruption, promptly fled the country.
Elections in Georgia and Moldova: where does Europe end?
2024年10月15日 · In Georgia, the situation is more complex.In recent months, the positions of the government and the opposition parties have hardened. The ruling party, Georgian Dream (KO), is being manipulated in an increasingly secretive manner by the party’s founder and the country's richest man (his fortune is estimated to represent almost …
Hans Kundnani: ‘A powerful Europe doesn’t have to be a great …
2024年7月2日 · Hans Kundnani is an associate fellow in the Europe programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London and a visiting fellow at The Remarque Institute of New York University. He’s the author of Utopia or Auschwitz.Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust, The Paradox of German Power and Eurowhiteness.Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project.
Migration in Europe: Planning for tomorrow's crises
2024年12月3日 · 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 ...
People of no nation: how being stateless means living ... - Voxeurop
2024年8月1日 · In 2013, UNHCR launched an action plan to end statelessness by 2024. However, just ahead of the deadline, the agency’s figures for stateless people as of mid-2023 were still far from the goal: around 381,000 stateless people in the EU in 2023. However, UNHCR itself acknowledges that, because it is based on data provided by governments and NGO, the real figure must be higher.
Understanding Georgia’s protests
2024年12月12日 · The scenario of a Russian intervention typically results from a reductive Russia versus the West prism. The regional situation is geopolitically more advantageous for Georgia: the country is a strategic transit corridor for Turkey, Azerbaijan and Central Asian countries. These countries have a strong interest in maintaining a Georgia that is not totally subservient to the Kremlin’s demands.