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Eurostat Publishes Review of EU’s Progress on SDGs
December 05, 2018
In September, EU statistics agency Eurostat published a review of EU progress toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), finding that in areas such as education and health the EU is advancing toward the SDGs but that in “reduced inequalities” in terms of income the EU is failing.
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EIB Launches Global “Green” Investment Program for Cities
December 05, 2018
The European Investment Bank (EIB) recently announced a partnership with the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy to help ramp up investments supporting “green projects and programmes” in cities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to advance the UN’s Paris climate agreement.
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EC Proposes Counterterrorism Mandate for EU Prosecutor
December 04, 2018
In September, the European Commission (EC) proposed extending the powers of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, which now focuses solely on criminal misuse of EU funds and fraud in the value-added tax (VAT) system, to tackle cross-border terrorism.
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CoE Body Places Denmark in Non-Compliance Procedure on Corruption
December 04, 2018
In September, the Council of Europe’s (CoE) anti-corruption body GRECO placed Denmark in its non-compliance procedure for failing to adopt a sufficient number of the body’s recommendations on mechanisms to prevent corruption in the country’s Parliament and judiciary.
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EU Agency Reviews Eurosur Impacts on Fundamental Rights
December 04, 2018
Following a European Commission request to review the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur), the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights produced a report containing a list of policy recommendations including a call for countries to bind themselves to explicit fundamental rights language in deals on border surveillance.