Of Racial Discrimination across the world. Black lives do matter and systematic racism and discrimination have no place in our society. The event that triggered the recent protests raise for some foremost the issue of Police Treatment of africanAmerican People and more broadly the place in society. And because it is each countries history and social and political context, this situation cannot just respond to your 121. The quality, Human Dignity, respect for human rights, gender equality and the prohibition of discrimination are founding values of the European Union. Among the treatment of fight racism, new fundamental rights which protect citizens against any discrimination on the grounds of race, color, ethnic origin and religion or belief. The racial equality directive is the first new generation equal treatment instrument extending Legal Protections against discrimination beyond the ground of gender is the key instrument at the eu level. This not only for extended protections to ne
Were supposed to go and vote on these amendments when the front theyve already been approved without asking those. The question isnt so much about the constitutional amendments themselves i just think its dangerous to go to the polling station because there will obviously be a lot of people there that feel theres a rush i mean some sort of a fresh start thats what i think we need different people to be in power people are just tired of it all. It seems to me that nothing will ever change i dont remember any changes im 72 years old and they have never been changes there are. Also on the day just days from insolvency the shareholders back the German Governments 9000000000 euro rescue package for the german ally. You know we have run out of money well living from the reserves we set aside in good years without support bankruptcy is looming. The russians have begun voting on constitutional changes that would allow president putin to stay in office until 2036 the president proposed the chan
Governments 9000000000 euro rescue package for the germany. You know we have run out of money were living from the reserves were set aside in good years without support bankruptcy is looming. The russians have begun voting on constitutional changes that would allow president putin to stay in office until 2036 the president proposed the changes in january and they have already been accepted by both houses of parliament and the Constitutional Court despite yes mr putin has insisted the changes be ports to a ballot the vote which is not legally binding will take a week to complete it was originally planned for april 21st but was postponed because of the coronavirus epidemic. And a massive surprise during the state of the nation address in january russian president Vladimir Putin stumped the country with his plan for constitutional reform. Proposal envisages strengthening the role of the state council as well as expanding powers for parliament and creating new entrance hurdles for presiden
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Theres no better place than to be in the u. S. To step back and ask what do we have achieved in the last. Years when i look back i see that in the last years europeans have begun to understand that they can in a european way that we must pave our own way to stay relevant in the 21st century for me is in the way europeans are changing the way they look at themselves and starting to see you are as capable of being strong and being sovereign. We europeans often do not see ourselves as being powerful when you look at europe you probably see facts you see 450 million citizens you see 27 countries united around a common political project. You see a quarter of the gdp. You see the bigger straining blood and probably we hope you see diplomatic power. When we europeans we look at ourselves we often do not see this power. We see we sold out divisions disagreements. Consensus on important decisions. And this is changing. It is changing because of my front president is putting a lot of energy the