• The position of the main parties on migration

    Migration

    The Uk Elections have been focusing also on migration, which has been a major topic also in the conversation that lead to the decision pro Brexit. Here below you can find a summary of the position of each party in this matter.   Tories Reduce annual net migration to a “sustainable” level in the tens of […]

  • U.K. Energy policy after Brexit end general election

    Energy

    There are a number of outcomes possible for how the EU and the UK can structure the UK’s access to the broader EU energy market and it is yet early to predict what direction negotiations will take. Nonetheless, once the UK has left the EU, trade between the UK and the EU is likely to […]

  • EACEA: Support to Literary translation projects

    EU funding opportunities

    EACEA, Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, has recently launched a call for proposal in support to literary translation projects under Creative Europe Work Programme. The main objectives of the support for literary translation projects are: – to support cultural and linguistic diversity in the EU and in other countries participating in the Culture Sub-programme […]

  • The UK déjà vu

    Economy

    “An exultant Donald Tusk wrote: “Deal. Unanimous support for new settlement for #UKinEU”, in his long awaited twit, picked up ovations for probably the most cited announcement made that day in the world media. Soon after, all British newspapers and TV stations started a bidding quest of predicting the ultimate outcome of the revealed referendum […]

  • UK elections: May, Corbyn and the European Union

    Editorial

    Finally the 8th June. After a series of bad news coming from London. And before another series some days after the vote. It is not a cool time for London and for all the UK. After the shock of the Brexit vote, the usual, profound, problems of the British society re-emerged. Ms. May wanted this […]

  • The Environment ministerial G7 Summit: the next step

    Energy

    President Donald Trump on the first of June said he would withdraw the United States from the landmark 2015 global agreement to fight climate change, drawing anger and condemnation from world leaders and heads of industry. What is he withdrawing the US from is a common path that a great many of sovereign countries have […]

  • ERC: Advanced Grants 2017

    EU funding opportunities

    The ERC (European Research Council) launches the yearly Advanced Grant, a funding scheme for Principal Investigators. ERC Advanced Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements. Applicant Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition […]

  • The EU struggle with US unpredictability

    Employment and Social Affairs

    The summit of G7 nations in Taormina could mark a historical change in transatlantic relations. The traditional role of the United States of America was not as usual a leading one, as over the past years normally highlighted those meetings. US president Donald Trump acted as a real unpredictable actor: for the first time in […]

  • A post G7 summit economic agenda

    Economy

    The 43rd annual G7 summit of seven most economically developed economies in the world has held in Italian Taormina, on May 26-27. It seems that “Building the foundations of renewed trust”, a slogan of the summit did not fulfil all the expectations in practice. Under the Italian presidency, this year`s Summit has brought wider politico-economic […]

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