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Profile Sigrid Kaag - Atypical Times Call for Atypical Leaders
The social liberal party D66 managed to become the second biggest party in the country in the Dutch parliamentary elections. It is led by the new party leader Sigrid Kaag, who has decades of negotiating experience in some of the most difficult areas in the world. It would be difficult to imagine anyone better suited for the country's upcoming difficult tasks.
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From Poland With Love - March
From undermining media freedom, cyber threats & government transparency, over negligence & punishment in the Catholic church up to "Food Apartheid" in Eastern Europe: In his monthly newsletter, guest contributor Dr. Milosz Hodun gives us updates about current news, events and all other things you need to know about Poland.
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How to Counter Antisemitism?
The Hungarian Free Market Foundation in partnership with CEJI and with the support of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom created a project to help the media and individuals in recognizing, understanding and countering antisemitism.
The project's main components - a guide for journalists, online exhibition, and a language course - are aimed at explaining the forms of antisemitism, and the actions that can be taken against it.
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Liberal success stories in the Netherlands – What Liberals can learn from the Dutch elections
In the Netherlands, the Liberals achieved successes in the last parliamentary elections that Liberals in Germany can only dream of. Jeroen Dobber analyses what led the VVD and D66 to their electoral success and gives an outlook on what lessons could be adopted internationally to help liberalism to flourish.
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Infosecurity.sk: Bi-Weekly Report on Emerging Disinformation Trends (March 30, 2021)
Project Infosecurity.sk organized by STRATPOL – Strategic Policy Institute and Slovak Security Policy Institute, supported by the Prague office of Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, continuously monitors the activities of both Slovak and foreign disinformation actors, but focuses mainly on the former. This report represents a bi-weekly summary of arising trends in the spread of malicious information content online.
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Women Leading Protests – Female Voices For Democracy
Around the world, women are leading the fight for freedom and democracy. The documentary film "Women Leading Protests - Female Voices for Democracy" by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation looks at the stories of four women who have been involved in protests for democracy in various forms.
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What can the pension system of the future look like?
Like Germany, Spain has one of the oldest populations in the world. Demographic change, combined with increasing life expectancy and very high structural unemployment (especially among young people), means that fewer and fewer younger people have to finance the pensions of more and more older people.
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Animate Europe - Animated Short Films
In 2013, we launched our biannual international comic competition Animate Europe. Throughout the past four editions we have asked comic artists and graphic novelists from all over the world to share with us their ideas about Europe. Its overwhelming success is a clear sign that artists have fascinating visions to share. Check out the winners' comics of our past comic competitions as animated short films!
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Rutte riding high - but watch out for the undercurrent
In the current parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, Prime Minister Mark Rutte is likely to successfully defend his office. But even if the forecasts superficially look like continuity, there is movement beneath the surface. Changes in the coalition composition could change the dynamics of the government, analyzes Jeroen Dobber.
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Business Meets Human Rights
Ten years after their adoption, the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are increasingly incorporated into legal regulations. Yesterday, the EU Parliament voted on the Legal Affairs Committee's report on corporate due diligence. Better known as due diligence law, this is just another step towards a regulation at the European level.
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Neither right nor left - is the system of the 5th Republic outdated?
Executive-based, elitist and not very close to the people - there is no shortage of critical adjectives to describe the weak points of the French political system.
In contrast, the French presidential party La République en Marche (LREM) took office with the promise not only to transform France's economy into a "start-up nation", but also to turn around the political dynamics in the country as a whole, analyses Jeanette Süß. -
Keeping Channels Open
FNF EU and Partners launched a project in September 2020 to proactively generate ideas for keeping channels open between the UK, US and Europe - beyond Brexit. Together, this ever-expanding international network is brainstorming initiatives to promote constructive relations in several spheres – with the goal of fostering interconnectedness and resilience in this new era of populism and challenge to democracy.
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Corporate Due Diligence and Corporate Accountability
In April 2020, EU Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders announced his commitment to a legislation on corporate mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence in 2021. But just how far have we come in 2020 and what are we building on in 2021? Our experts at Löning - Human Rights & Responsible Business have the answers.
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Good Sex Ed
This publication is a mini-guide through contemporary sexual education in Europe. It helps the reader understand what are the greatest challenges it faces, where they come from and what they can result in. It also points out crucial, burning issues— existing and possible—in the essential and geographical meaning. And it presents the best and the worst practices based on experiences from many European countries.
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Biden Calls Out to Europe
In just 20 minutes, the new US President Joe Biden laid out the cornerstones of his foreign policy agenda at the end of last week. The words Europe or EU did not appear once in his keynote speech. And yet, in terms of content, Biden's speech was a call for support from allies in Europe. They now have to use the potential for transatlantic cooperation, Thomas Ilka demands.
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NEW EPISODE - Illiberalism in #Hungary with Indítsuk Be Magyarországot Alapítvány 🇭🇺 In an environment in which self-organization and activism are strongly advised against, NGOs, activists and media become obvious targets for the illiberal regime. What can they do, in order to survive and thrive? Continue the journey with us in Ep. 2 - The Community 👇 http://bit.ly/IlliberalismInHungaryEp2
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💸 Never waste a good crisis: Today Ursula von der Leyen unveiled the #NextGenerationEU Covid19 recovery fund. But can the proposed strategy fix the reform backlog in the Member States? . Moritz Körner (FDP) and Jonas Roleder (Renew Europe) analysed her strategy for you 👇 http://bit.ly/RRFMKJR
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