Tag: european union

• 10 key policies in Brussels’ plan to slash emissions

  July 18, 2021

  This article is part of POLITICO’s Fit For 55 series. The hard work of cutting Europe’s emissions to net-zero starts now. The European Commission proposed a legislative package Wednesday that aims to take… more ›

• It is time to end pushbacks and to abolish Frontex

  June 20, 2021

  An informal migrant camp in Serbia. Photo by Abdul Saboor The European Union’s border regime has been rapidly expanding in the past years, especially since the so-called “refugee crisis” of… more ›

• ‘A question of dignity’: the pathologist identifying migrants drowned in the Med

  June 6, 2021

  Since 2013, Cattaneo, a professor of forensic pathology and head of Labanof (the laboratory of forensic anthropology and odontology) at the University of Milan, has been committed to putting a name to… more ›

• The high-tech ‘makeover’ of Europe’s deadly border with Africa

  June 6, 2021

  Falikou’s border crossing came as work was due to be completed on a $40 million (33 million euro) overhaul, which Spain’s socialist government claims will not only make the borders… more ›

• Billionaires club: These people are Europe’s wealthiest, according to Forbes

  April 7, 2021

  The number of billionaires worldwide grew by 660 in 2020, according to the latest annual tally by Forbes magazine. There are now a record 2,755 people globally who have more… more ›

• Sci-fi surveillance: Europe’s secretive push into biometric technology

  December 10, 2020

  EU science funding is being spent on developing new tools for policing and security. €1.7bn from the programme over the past seven years backed the development of security products for… more ›

• ‘We want to build a life’: Europe’s paperless young people speak out

  December 5, 2020

  A generation of undocumented Europeans – inspired by the ‘Dreamers’ in the US – are fighting for residency rights.  Europe has its own dreamer generation, but unlike the US Dreamers,… more ›

• The Clash of Capitalisms

  November 22, 2020

  Capitalism rules the world. With only the most minor exceptions, the entire globe now organizes economic production the same way: labor is voluntary, capital is mostly in private hands, and… more ›

• EU companies selling surveillance tools to China’s human rights abusers

  September 29, 2020

  European tech companies risk fuelling widespread human rights abuses by selling digital surveillance technology to China’s public security agencies, a new Amnesty International investigation reveals. Amnesty International found that three… more ›

• ‘We pick your food’: migrant workers speak out from Spain’s ‘Plastic Sea’

  September 27, 2020

  The tens of thousands of migrant workers working in the province are vital to the Spanish economy and pan-European food supply chains. Throughout the pandemic, they have held essential worker… more ›