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CoE Launches Online Course on Human Rights Education
November 30, 2018
The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe (CoE) has launched an online course, called “Global Education - The Human Rights Dimension,” to train educators on teaching the global human rights agenda to their students.
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Article: To Survive, EU Must Nurture Shared Identity
November 30, 2018
An article in The Economist asserts that the only way for European leaders to keep the EU afloat in the long-term is to “nurture a clearer European identity” and show clear benefits of the European project that outweigh the complexity of EU institutions and problematic policies they impose on member states.
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UK Lawmaker Warns of Entanglement in EU Defense Policy
November 30, 2018
British Member of Parliament Andrea Jenkyns explains that the UK’s involvement in EU defense structures following Brexit comes at the cost of required alignment with EU defense policy and application of EU rules, potentially hastening the UK’s integration into the EU in the realm of defense.
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Hungarian, Italian Leaders Launch Platform Against Illegal Migration
November 29, 2018
EurActiv reports that talks between Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán and the Interior Minister of Italy Matteo Salvini resulted in the launch of a political manifesto in the lead-up to the 2019 European Parliament elections calling for stronger EU policies on illegal migration.
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ECtHR: Anti-Police Blog Post Deserved Protection as Free Speech
November 29, 2018
The European Court of Human Rights recently held that Russia violated the right to freedom of expression of a man it had convicted of “incitement to hatred” for a blog post in which he insulted police officers and called for the extermination of “infidel cops.”
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