Ukraine Visa-Free Regime Setbacks: EU wont offer visa-free regime #39; at May summit
The European Union will likely not offer a visa-free regime with Ukraine or Georgia at the upcoming Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, Latvia in May. Radio Poland reports that details about...
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Mariana Kotzeva at NTTS 2015
Dr. Mariana Kotzeva is Deputy Director General of Eurostat (Statistical Office of the European Union). March 2003 to date: She has an academic background working as an Associate Professor...
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BITCOIN FILTER #37 GREECE THE SKIDS
It #39;s more macro economic soap opera mayhem this week from the European Union, the likes of which we have not seen since Cyprus in 2013. Have you learned the word Grexit yet? If this is all...
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ADDIS ABABA: The European Union said on Tuesday it hopes development aid to Eritrea will stem a growing exodus of Eritreans attempting the dangerous journey to Europe to claim asylum there.
Eritrea is now the second largest source of migrants to arrive in Italy by boat, after Syria. The highly perilous crossing of the Mediterranean on overcrowded, rickety boats claimed around 3,000 lives last year.
The United Nations and rights groups say poor human rights conditions in Eritrea are to blame for the outflow of people. Some have called for measures against the government. Asmara denies the charges.
Neven Mimica, the EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, told Reuters in Addis Ababa that the EU would try to address social and economic exclusion in migrants' countries of origin in a bid to halt the crisis.
The number migrants are rising sharply: During the first two months of 2015, arrivals to the EU via Italy were up 43 percent versus the same period of 2014.
"In that context in Eritrea, we see that we need to assist such processes that would be beneficial for the overall advancing of the human rights and democracy framework, but also that would address the long-term development needs," Mimica said.
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR says the number of Eritrean asylum seekers in Europe tripled to nearly 37,000 in the first 10 months of 2014, of whom 34,000 came by sea.
Earlier this month, an interim report of a U.N. investigation said Eritrea was ignoring human rights laws and exerting pervasive state control and ruthless repression on the population.
According to EU diplomats, Brussels is planning a multi-million euro development package that Eritrea will be allowed to spend on energy and other sectors.
The EU approved a major aid package for Eritrea in 2007, worth 122 million euros (87 million pounds) in aid over a six-year period.
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Maximillian Schrems has taken his fight agaisnt Facebook to the European court of justice in Luxembourg. Photograph: Max Schrems/Europe-V-Facebook.or/PA
A Facebook user is taking his privacy campaign to the European Unions highest court to prevent US intelligence agencies gaining access to his personal data.
The case brought by Maximilian Schrems against Irelands Data Protection Commission may eventually shape international regulations over access to, and ownership of, online information.
The Austrian law student began the case before the US whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the US National Security Agency was routinely intercepting data from emails, social media and telephones.
His initial complaint was to Facebook over what was happening to his personal records. He eventually recovered 1,222 pages of material in 2011 from the US company, whose European headquarters are based in Dublin.
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Publication of Snowdens revelations spurred him on to take action against the data regulator in the Irish Republic, arguing that his privacy should have been safeguarded against security surveillance. The regulator declined to intervene.
Schrems, whose legal case has been crowdfunded, maintains that companies inside the EU should not be able to transfer data to the US under safe harbour protections which state that US data protection rules are adequate if information is passed by companies on a self-certify basis because America no longer qualifies for such a status.
He is seeking a declaration that the safe harbour designation under EU law should be cancelled and that the Irish DPC should audit the exchange of information rather than allow it to continue unexamined.
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