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Education Above All foundation partners with Asia Development Bank to enrol nearly 1 million children into primary education in Pakistan by 2025

Thursday March 31st, 2022

The project target’s Pakistan’s hardest to reach children by providing cash disbursements to their mothers on the condition that they enrol their out-of-school children into education The global education foundation, Education Above All (EAA) has partnered with the Asia Development Bank to enrol 960,000 of some of Pakistan’s poorest Out Of School Children (OSSC) […]

Reflection on the Energy Transition following TOTALENERGIES’s intervention in the Doha Forum.

Thursday March 31st, 2022

Qatar’s Minister of Energy, H.E. Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi (also CEO of Qatar ENERGY), Patrick Pouyanné, TotalEnergies CEO and Equinor CEO Anders Opedal. ‘’ What are we talking about? Whatever produces it, our societies, our industries, need it: Electricity! ‘’ explains Patrick Pouyanné, CEO of TotalEnergies, at the Doha Forum, together with Qatar’s Minister of Energy, […]

20th edition of the Doha Forum: understanding the challenges of the coming world

Par Sébastien Boussois

Thursday March 31st, 2022

Two years after its last edition, and a pandemic later, the Doha Forum has just celebrated its 20th anniversary. At the heart of complex geopolitical issues, in a region fuelled by fire and powder, at a time in recent history when Europe is itself in the grip of war, this new edition of the second […]

The end of the “Cotton Campaign” boycott heralds the return of Uzbek cotton to the world market

Friday March 25th, 2022

In a context of modernization and openness unprecedented since its independence, Uzbekistan could not do without reforming its sector of the cotton industry. There was a lot to be done in terms of labor rights and in particular to curb the forced labor of children in order to have their rights respected as a matter […]

Fourth package of sanctions in view of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine: 15 additional individuals and 9 entities subject to EU restrictive measures

Tuesday March 15th, 2022

The Council decided today to impose restrictive measures on an additional 15 individuals and 9 entities in respect of the ongoing unjustified and unprovoked Russian military aggression against Ukraine, and of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. We are adding to our sanctions list even more oligarchs and regime-affiliated elites, their […]

EU sanctions against Russia over Ukraine

Friday March 11th, 2022

The EU has progressively imposed sanctions and restrictive measures against Russia since 2014 in response to the illegal annexation of Crimea. In March 2015, EU leaders decided to link the existing economic sanctions regime to the complete implementation of the Minsk agreements. Since Russia has never fully implemented the agreements, the EU has successively extended the sanctions. In […]

Statement of the heads of state or government, meeting in Versailles, on the Russian military aggression against Ukraine, 10 March 2022

Friday March 11th, 2022

Two weeks ago Russia brought war back to Europe. Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified military aggression against Ukraine grossly violates international law and the principles of the UN Charter and undermines European and global security and stability. It is inflicting unspeakable suffering on the Ukrainian population. Russia, and its accomplice Belarus, bear full responsibility for this […]

Informal meeting of heads of state or government, Versailles, 10-11 March 2022

Friday March 11th, 2022

During the first day of the informal meeting, EU leaders adopted a statement on the Russian aggression against Ukraine. They discussed its consequences and the EU response. Statement of the EU heads of state or government on the Russian aggression against Ukraine (10 March 2022) On the second day, EU leaders will discuss how to […]

European Parliament resolutions should not be the tool for disinformation

By Sébastien Boussois

Friday March 11th, 2022

Last week, the European Parliament had another busy day voting and adopting a number of resolutions on very diverse aspects of international and EU-related matters. MEPs shook their fingers to Mexico, Myanmar and Azerbaijan while taking position on EU citizenship and taxation supporting the recovery strategy. I’m not sure how the EP resolutions contributed to […]

Parliament adopts EU environmental objectives until 2030

La rapporteure Grace O'Sullivan (Verts/ALE, IE)

Thursday March 10th, 2022

The EU will develop a binding framework to monitor and report on member states’ progress towards phasing out fossil fuel subsidies Set a deadline for ending fossil fuel subsidies in line with the ambition of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius New methodology to identify other environmentally harmful subsidies by 202 MEPs endorsed on […]

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