European Institutions

  • EU Bank Allocates Billions to Global “Climate Action”

    February 06, 2019

    In a recent press release, the European Investment Bank touts its successful navigation of a “politically difficult environment” in 2018, involving the increased popularity of “parochial nationalism,” to deliver hundreds of billions in global investments, with nearly 30 percent of its financing aimed at combating climate change.

  • EC Applauds Companies' Response to “Hate Speech”

    February 05, 2019

    Fortune reports that the European Commission (EC) is applauding the response of internet companies to EU pressure, through a code of conduct backed up by the threat of regulation, to crack down on “illegal hate speech” on their platforms by evaluating increasing levels of “suspect content” within 24 hours of users reporting it.

  • EU Agency Proposes Broad Ban on Microplastics

    February 05, 2019

    The Guardian reports that the European Chemicals Agency has proposed EU legislation banning microplastics that manufacturers intentionally add to products - representing about 90 percent of such microplastic pollutants.

  • EU Struggles to Agree Common Foreign Policy

    February 05, 2019

    An article in Politico highlights how the difficulty for EU member states to agree a common position on foreign policy issues, including on the situation in Venezuela and the disintegration of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, may nudge EU leaders toward deciding foreign policy positions on a non-unanimous basis.

  • EU Plans Emergency Aid for Farmers in Case of No-Deal Brexit

    February 05, 2019

    Showing the ramp-up in EU plans to accommodate a no-deal Brexit, Reuters reports that the European Commission (EC) has agreed to pay out million of euros in emergency aid to Irish farmers in case the UK leaves the bloc without a deal to compensate them for a potentially sharp reduction in prices.

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