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City diplomacy offers opportunities
Published originally on December 26th 2020 at the TaipeiTimes. This year has been unusual on many levels. In the midst of a global health crisis ravaging the world, Czech Senate President Milos Vystrcil in September led a delegation of 89 civic and political leaders to Taiwan, the only corner of the world that for more…
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Book Excerpt| Till We Win: India’s Fight Against The Covid-19 Pandemic
… conditions’. We have written this book to communicate a similar message … Win” with permission from Penguin Books. Dr Chandrakant Lahariya is a …
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Council of Europe report assesses compliance with data protection principles
Strasbourg – A report published today by the Council of Europe identifies a number of shortcomings in the protection of privacy and personal data in some of the legal and technical measures adopted by governments to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic among the 55 African, Latin-American and European countries which have joined the…
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Coronavirus: International Organization for Migration (IOM), European Union and the Government of Ethiopia strengthen Partnership to support migrants during COVID-19
Download logo With the European Union’s (EU) revitalized commitment to a … -level delegation from the European Union visited Ethiopia for a … High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security … 80,000 people. The European Union is among IOM’s major …
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EIOPA publishes bi-weekly information for Relevant Risk Free Interest Rate Term Structures and Symmetric Adjustment to Equity
EIOPA publishes bi-weekly information for Relevant Risk Free Interest Rate Term Structures and Symmetric Adjustment to Equity Risk with reference to 11 August 2020<div class=”field field-label-hidden field-name-field-eiopa-body field-type-text-long item-list”> <div class=”field-items”> <div class=”even field-item first last”> Due to COVID-19 outbreak, European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority is carrying out extraordinary calculations every two weeks to…
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Four Western Balkans’ fact-checking organisations join Facebook’s platform against disinformation
Disinformation and misinformation proliferated around the world including in the Western Balkans as the COVID-19 pandemic started. Western Balkans’ fact-checking organisations intensified their work on exposing and countering disinformation, raising the awareness and contributing to local public debates about the problem. As of 30 July, leading fact-checking organisations from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia…
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FoRB Publications launches new book of Rosita Šorytė, on NRMs and the Pandemic
New religious movements are rarely given credit for their humanitarian work. A case in point is the Church of Scientology during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Opponents used the epidemic as an opportunity to accuse Scientology of spreading conspiracy theories and not respecting anti-virus precautions.
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Spanish human rights attorney writes to Von der Leyen on planned violations of fundamental health rights
A Spanish consumers association Atty Luis de Miguel Ortega, with a coalition of other associations, has written the President of the European Commission requesting urgent response and adjustment to the law in different health issues related to the current situation of pandemic, saying that: This institutional behavior, together with the evident collusion with philanthropic-looking pharmaceutical…
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CoR COTER Bulletin No. 3: Updates on the COVID-19 crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected our world and our way of living with dire loses and substantial consequences on every aspect of our daily existence. The Commission for Territorial Cohesion Policy and the EU Budget (COTER) at the European Committee of the Regions will prepare regular bulletins on the policy fields within its remits…