Siu-Tsiu, a non-profit social enterprise based in Greenland, has won the Laurence Trân Arctic Futures Award. This provides €7,500 of financial assistance to a fledgling start up or young entrepreneurs based in the Arctic. This year’s winner was chosen by an international jury of experts on startups, innovation and entrepreneurship from various parts of the…
Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash The Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have had a significant impact on cancer patients, emphasising the need for global collaboration in response to these crises. Recognising the need for a voice to address such challenges, the European Cancer Organisation (ECO) has created a new Focused Topic…
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash In her bid to become Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition, Commissioner-Designate Teresa Ribera’s fielded difficult questions from MEPs in the European Parliament. Her appearance has now led to a furious row between the two biggest groups in the parliament. The Socialists claim that the EPP’s…
Photo by Melany Rochester on Unsplash When historians look back on pivotal moments that reshaped Europe, they may well choose 2015-16. Not Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, nor the way Covid laid bare our economic weaknesses, but when immigration started to tear Europe apart, writes Giles Merritt. Far-right populists have succeeded in inflaming voters across the…
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash A British peer has warned that the UK’s two mainstream political parties may end up finding solace with each other on the beach at Clacton over Brexit. Lord Balfe was responding to a major new study on the impact of the UK’s EU exit, still the subject…
Photo by Samuel Regan-Asante on Unsplash An exhaustive dossier on Brexit contains over 2,000 examples of the negative – and 39 positive impacts of the UK’s exit from the EU. Britons voted by a narrow majority to leave the EU in 2016 but it is still a cause of friction with some wanting…
Photo by Sam McNamara on Unsplash An international campaign to solve the mystery of scores of missing women in Belgium and mainland Europe is being stepped up. The initiative, called “Operation Identify Me”, aims to identify women whose bodies were found in six European countries, many of whom are believed to have been murdered….
The new UK government’s goals are modest. But economic reality may force it to follow changing public opinion, writes Richard Corbett. In its campaign for the general election in the United Kingdom in July, Labour generally kept a low profile on the UK’s departure in 2020 from the European Union. In government, the party said,…
The UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said after their meeting this week that they have agreed on the importance of the unique relationship between the European Union and Britain. They said that in line with our shared values they wanted to strengthen ambitiously…
Photo by Matt Brown on Unsplash MEPs and an ex UK government minister have joined forces in appealing to both the EU and UK to tackle growing public intolerance of the fall-out from Brexit. The appeal coincided with a visit, his first as PM, by Sir Keir Starmer to Brussels on Wednesday. The…
