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Davidson County Community College will host a public lecture June 22 featuring Dr. Olivier Peyr, a business administration faculty member at Nicolas Brmontier Technical College in Bordeaux, France.

The lecture starts at 6 p.m. in Room 110 of the Mary E. Rittling Conference Center.

Peyrs talk will cover topics including the Greek crisis, Brexit, the increase of migrants, the Common European Defense Project, the rise in populism and other impacting changes in the European Union. Peyr will also offer commentary on Frances recent election and its global impact on society and culture.

Peyr, who holds a PhD in political science and international relations from the University of Toulouse 1 Capitol, has led his students in virtual video conference exchanges with DCCC students for more than a decade.

The world is now interconnected like never before. It's invaluable for our students to virtually meet people across the world who are like them in many ways, but different in others. We're honored to have him here in 'real life' this summer, said Suzanne LaVenture, director of International Education.

Peyr will lead the audience through shared connections between the U.S. and the world by focusing the similarity of issues being faced in the U.S. and abroad. He will bring to light how the European Unions current state could impact the worlds economy.

My talk could be the opportunity to introduce today and tomorrows main challenges, said Peyr.

Passport events offer cultural enrichment to DCCC students and the public through enlightening presentations that focus on the customs and perspectives of other countries and their citizens. Several events throughout the year provide students, faculty and the community the opportunity to learn more about other cultures, all within their own backyard.

The fact is we're all global citizens whether we realize it or not. What happens in the rest of the world affects us and vice-versa, LaVenture said. The more understanding we have about the impact of this interdependence, the better able we are to navigate our path in life.

To learn more, visit https://www.davidsonccc.edu/international

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Global lecturer and French economist to speak at DCCC about European Union's impact on the US - Lexington Dispatch

Britain's department for leaving the European Union says exit talks with the EU will start Monday as planned ABC News Britain's department for leaving the European Union says exit talks with the EU will start Monday as planned. By The Associated Press. LONDON Jun 15, 2017, 11:27 AM ET. 0 Shares. Email. Star. 0 Shares. Email. Britain's department for leaving the ...

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One of the major complaints fair or unfair of the Paris agreement is that there is no punishment of any form for countries that fail to meet their greenhouse gas (GHG)-slashing targets. In response to both this and Americas decision to withdraw from the accords, the European Parliament just voted overwhelmingly in favor of making the EU member states' GHG-cutting targets legally binding.

The final tally of votes was534 to 88 for the legislation, which aims to get the blocs overall GHG emissions to at least 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 ambitious, but definitely possible.

The EU, although wary of low-carbon nuclear power, is ditching coal in favor of wind and solar power at a remarkable pace. Several of its member states, including France and the UK, have vowed to shut down their last coal power plants within the next decade.

The approved measure also ensures that lower-income member states will be given economic assistance in helping them achieve a low-carbon economy and infrastructure. This has echoes of the Green Climate Fund, a Paris pact initiative that asks wealthy nations to donate to poorer countries for much the same reason.

Collectively, the EU is the worlds third-most prolific GHG producer, so its behavior on this issue makes a truly massive difference to the worlds efforts to curb anthropogenic climate change.

The legislation still needs to be approved by each of the member states individual governments, which could take a couple of years. Nevertheless, the consensus required to pass this initial legal step bodes well for its future.

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Since President Trump made his globally derided announcement in the White House Rose Garden at the start of the month, the worlds most prolific GHG emitters including the EU have vowed not just to continue to uphold the goals of the Paris agreement, but also strengthen them over time.

The refusal of the US to commit to the Paris agreement will push the rest of the world to be even more united against climate change, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told the parliament.

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The European Union Just Voted To Make The Paris Agreement Legally Binding - IFLScience

Each year on 12th June, the World Day against Child Labour calls on governments, employers, workers organizations and civil society to highlight the global extent of child labour and the actions and efforts needed to eradicate it.

The European Union supports this appeal to ensure inclusive and equitable quality of education and to promote learning opportunities for all. The European Union calls for immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of all forms of child labour by 2025.

In line with international conventions as the Minimum Age Convention and the Worst Forms of Child Labour both ratified by the Government of Sudan, the European Union funds several initiatives to protect children, to stop their exploitation and guarantee them a proper childhood and a resourceful future.

The 22 million programme Education Quality Improvement Programme in Sudan funded by the European Union in seven Eastern and Southern States. It supports forcibly displaced populations and host communities, improving the quality of basic education and making it accessible to all.

The European Union also takes actions to protect the socio-economic situation of families, a major cause of child labour exploitation. The European Union specifically supports the most vulnerable among refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and host communities, to enhance their working conditions. The EU also funds projects on Technical Vocational Education and Training in Khartoum, Gedaref and Kassala, with an allocation of 5 million Euros, providing specific skills required by the labour-market to increase job opportunities and ability to respond to crisis situations.

Ambassador Jean-Michel Dumond, Head of Delegation of the European Union to Sudan said "We undertake actions to protect children, to avoid their exploitation and guarantee them a proper childhood and a resourceful future. In line with the Sustainable Development Goals and ILO Conventions, we once again reaffirm our strong commitment in restlessly carrying on all necessary actions to completely eradicate child labour.

Khartoum 14th June 2017

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European Union Fights Child Labour through better education and decent work [EN/AR] - ReliefWeb

At last there is a bit of good news for those of us who view Brexit as a massive disaster in the making. No, if readers will forgive the double negative, I am not referring to the recent election result, although that was not unhelpful. But rather to what President Macron told Theresa May in Paris on Tuesday afternoon that the possibility of the UK remaining in the European Union is an option until Brexit negotiations have been concluded.

Adding to the significance of this statement was the fact that the German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schuble said much the same thing on the same afternoon. Referring to the British, he observed: If they want to change their decision, of course they would find open doors, but I think its not very likely.He was speaking to Bloomberg Television.

What this means is that we can stop the process immediately if we so wish.This is a big surprise. For instance the well-informed commentator on the Financial Times, Martin Wolf, wrote just before the announcements that unfortunately, it might be difficult for the UK to withdraw its application to leave.Now it turns out that it would not be difficult at all.

Given the strong Franco-German relationship on European matters, this looks like a deliberately coordinated initiative taken in response to the British election result. The two leaders had jointly decided to leave the door slightly ajar.

However, for the time being, we Remainers will have to keep this possibility in the back of our minds. For there is as yet scarcely any sign that British voters want to exercise this option. After all, over 80 per cent of voters have just supported the two parties, Conservative and Labour, which intend to take Britain out of the European Union. And according to a CNN/ComRes poll taken six months after the referendum, some 47 per cent of British voters said they would vote Leave, with 45 per cent saying they would choose to Remain.

Yet only a quarter of them (24 per cent) said they thought they would be personally better off financially as a result of Brexit. By contrast, nearly half (44 per cent) said they personally expected to be worse off financially. The other third (32 per cent) of respondents said they didnt know.

Now this stance of voting according to your heart rather than your wallet is about to be challenged. For economic conditions are deteriorating largely as a consequence of the Brexit decision that has weakened the exchange rate between pounds and euros.

Yesterday, the most recent figures for prices and wages were published and they showed the biggest decline in real wages since August 2014. In the three months to April, average wages grew by just 2.1 per cent compared with prices rising by 2.7 per cent in that period. And this supports what the vast majority of economists expect.The decision to leave the EU will hit growth in the medium to longer term. And even more miserably, it turns out that between 2007 and 2015 the UK had the worst real wages performance of any advanced economy except Greece.

Theresa May should admit result is a rejection of hard Brexit, says EU negotiator

We can assume, too, that as the Brexit talks wind on, Britains economic performance will continue to deteriorate, not just because the pound will remain weak to the detriment of peoples spending power, but because business managers will postpone decisions to invest in expansion until the terms of any exit from the European Union are known.

Nonetheless I must be frank and state that, unfortunately, I dont believe that any of this is going to affect support for Brexit, counter intuitive though that may be. The Leavers took an emotional decision rather than one of calculation.

However there is one more factor that will determine whether the door left ajar by the French and German leaders will be pushed open in time the attitude of the young voters.

They are mostly Remainers rather than Leavers. In addition the recent general election has taught us that they are much more likely to vote than was formally the case. Thus if any group of electors were to feel inclined to heed the gesture of the French and German leaders, it is the 18 to 40 year olds. It may not be too much of an exaggeration to say that the future of our country is in their hands.

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