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Why the UN is investigating poverty in the United Kingdom

November 18, 2018 by World Economic Forum Leave a Comment

This article is brought to you thanks to the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Authors: John McKenna, Formative Content For the past 12 days Philip Alston, the United Nation’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, has been investigating the poverty of a nation in 2018. But the country he is investigating […]

Filed Under: Employment & Social Affairs, Policy, World Economic Forum Tagged With: below poverty line UK, Brexit, poverty, poverty line, poverty UK, The European Sting, The Sting, Theresa May, Theresa May UK, UN, United Kingdom, WEF Agenda, World Economic Forum

Commission hardens its stance against carmakers ensuring emissions reductions targets

August 8, 2018 by Chris Anyfantis 1 Comment

The car industry will be under tighter surveillance by the European Commission after 2020 when the next phase of the EU’s emission regulation will take place. All car manufacturers who do not meet the 2021 fleet CO2 emissions compliance for new passenger vehicles sold in the Old Continent will face fines of more than €14 […]

Filed Under: Automotive, Business, Environment, Policy Tagged With: 95 grams of CO2 per kilometer, Austria, Belgium, carmakers, CO2 emissions, Denmark, EC, EU, European Environmental Bureau, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, IHS Markit, Ireland, Karmenu Vella, Luxembourg, Miguel Arias Cañete, Spain, United Kingdom, VW scandal

G7 summit: Trump Vs. G6 leaders on trade and climate change

June 13, 2018 by Chris Anyfantis 1 Comment

US President Donald Trump continued yesterday his fierceful critic to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the aftermath of last weekend’s G7 summit which took place in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada with the seven largest advanced economies in the world to discuss about gender equality, women’s empowerment, clean energy, and economic growth that works for […]

Filed Under: Environment, EUGlobe, Policy, Politics, Trade, USA Tagged With: Angela Merkel, Canada, Chrystia Freeland, climate change, Donald Trump, EU, fossil fuels, France, G6, G7, Germany, Italy, Japan, Justin Trudeau, Mexico, Paris agreement, Trade, United Kingdom, US

The EU stops being soft with 10 Downing Street about Brexit

September 14, 2017 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

After the failed successive meetings about Brexit between the European Union and the British negotiation teams, the European Commission decided to stiffen its position. Last week EU’s executive arm issued a Press Release saying, “As it was a UK’s decision to leave the EU, it’s a UK’s responsibility to propose solutions…”. One of the most […]

Filed Under: Policy, Politics Tagged With: 10 Downing Street, Brexit, Brexiteers, Britain, Brits, Brussels, Common Travel Area, Customs Union, EU, European Commission, House of Commons, internal market, Ireland, London, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Schengen Area, Theresa May, UK, United Kingdom

Trump ‘used’ G20 to side with Putin and split climate and trade packs

July 10, 2017 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

While protesters were dynamically trying to reach the part of Hamburg where the G20 leaders of the largest economies of the world were gathered, the most powerful politicians of the globe were reduced to the status of viewers, in the Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin spectacle of rapprochement. Trump also ‘used’ the G20 to tell […]