Sara Maryniak and Marisa López report- On your average day, Heerlen casts sounds through the tall trees in the city center, and brightens up your day with the beautiful visuals on the sides of empty…
The MEPs say #MeToo against sexual harassment
Two words were said around the world to fight against sexual harassment and assault: Me Too. Those two words began a campaign that also reached the European Parliament putting on the table the fact that…
Goodbye, Dounreay: “It is going to be the…
A nuclear site at the northernmost point of the British mainland has provided a whole region with jobs for sixty years. But soon the site will close and the question is: What happens now? [caption…
The refugee crisis is far from finished
The European Commission is drafting a new agreement to decide the way it handles asylum seekers Last September the EU’s emergency refugee relocation scheme came to an end. The Council of the European Union had…
Waiting for the penny to drop: Fighting the…
[caption id="attachment_7886" align="aligncenter" width="448"] Source: James Cridland[/caption] Activist Madi Sharma gazes out from the pulpit. “This is not my Europe. Is it yours?”, the crowd is fixed with a stern, quizzical stare. “So why are…
Controversy Continues Amidst Final Vote on Glyphosate Use
After much intense debate and deadlock in Brussels, the world’s most used weed killer glyphosate has been given the green light to be used within the EU for another five years. The final decision to…
EU Talks Climate with California
Bilateral Cooperation in Carbon Trading Markets “What we saw in Bonn is that the Paris spirit is very much alive,” Anna-Kaiser Itkonen, Commission spokesperson for Climate Action and Energy, said referring to the Paris accord…
There is something a little fishy about Brexit
[caption id="attachment_7807" align="aligncenter" width="519"] Photo: European Commission[/caption] Whilst Britain pull their nets out from the vast expanse that is the European Union, the issue of fish is largely unheard of by the consumers whose…
How can animal suffering on European roads be…
The Commission and a majority of the EU member states do not want to make time limits on how long live animals can be transported across Europe. Instead, the Commission wants a better implementation of…
The Downside of the Digital Utopia
[caption id="attachment_7804" align="aligncenter" width="579"] (source: businesscrunch)[/caption] Digital technology is considered the solution to everything in the society we live in. One can do anything from organising a date to making a political decision, from paying…
Human Trafficking in the EU: “Nobody is guaranteed…
Irina Todorova, the EU Specialist in the field of counter-trafficking for International Organization for Migration (OIM), alerts that nobody is guaranteed to not become a victim of trafficking of human beings in the European Union.…
“Let’s not have democracy anymore, let’s have internet…
[caption id="attachment_7795" align="aligncenter" width="500"] © Unsplash/Priscilla Du Preez[/caption] Tick… Tock… Tick… Tock... While reading these four words, millions of new data online was uploaded, shared, commented and seen in the online sphere. The internet is…
When claims on food don’t tell the (full)…
And EU citizens are consciously misled in their food purchase decisions The sliding door is opening. The uncomfortably hot air blasts your face whilst entering the big hall. And there you are, in the corridors…
Human rights at stake in Spain
Surrogacy will soon be debated in the Spanish Parliament after Ciudadanos, the Spanish Liberal Party, presented a law proposal to regulate it last June. The project they support only allows altruistic surrogacy, but it has…
The battle is real – EU arms for…
“Cyber attacks can be more dangerous to the stability of democracies and economies than guns and tanks.” - Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, claims at his State of the Union at the European…
The transformation of the Ruhr: From dirty coal…
The Ruhr region in Germany was once known for having Europe’s biggest coal production. Today all the mines are shut down, but the old buildings still serve a purpose. Now they function as office spaces…