President of Venezuela - Access to adequate housing should be a fundamental European right - Right to disconnect should be an EU-wide fundamental right - EU help for Croatia after devastating earthquakes - EU tax haven blacklist is not catching the worst offenders - Parliament calls for action to solve housing crisis - Human rights breaches in Hong Kong, Turkey and Vietnam - Parliament demands significantly tighter EU sanctions against Russia - Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025 - Corona crisis: ensuring aid and protection for those in need - Human rights and COVID-19
Reform of the EU’s list of tax havens
Portuguese Presidency
During the debate on the Portuguese Council Presidency, the Greens/EFA urged the Prime Minister Costas to revisit, along with the Commission, the current proposals on the Common Agricultural Policy and the EU-Mercosur trade agreement in order to bring them in line with the European Green Deal. The Greens/EFA group is looking forward to working with the new Council Presidency on a strong and ambitious European Climate Law, supporting vaccine rollout across the EU, and ensuring that recovery funds contribute to a greener, more social and resilient union.
Today, Members of the European Parliament will vote on a report on the Gender Equality Strategy, released by the Commission last March. The report welcomes the Commission s strategy, which lays out strategic objectives on how to strengthen women’s rights and gender equality in the EU for the coming five years. However, it addresses several shortcomings of the strategy and the fact that it remains vague in terms of concrete measures, and concrete gender equality targets.
2020 vision: A year in review
The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most challenging in generations. Lorna Hutchinson looks back on an extraordinary twelve months.
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The year kicks off on a celebratory note, as Finland, Austria and Sweden celebrate 25 years of EU membership, when they became the 13th, 14th and 15th Member States of the EU following referendums in each of the states prior to accession.
Meanwhile, Brexit is at the forefront of many people’s minds as the 31 January deadline when the UK is due to leave the EU looms ever closer. EU citizens living and working in the UK as well as citizens’ rights groups and the European Parliament’s political groups express their growing concern over the impact that Britain’s exit from the bloc will have on their lives and legal status.
14 Powerful Quotes From the 2020 Global Citizen Prize for World Leader Finalists
Get to know these inspirational female leaders through some of their most stirring quotes.
Why Global Citizens Should Care
Leadership based on compassion, care, and dedication has rarely been more important than throughout 2020, as the world tackles a pandemic, climate crisis, a reckoning on racial equality, and more. The 2020 Global Citizen Prize for World Leader, to be presented at the Global Citizen Prize award ceremony, will celebrate the world’s most inspirational government officials who have taken action this year to uplift the most vulnerable. You can join us to help celebrate activism, and take action to help achieve the UN s Global Goals, here.