Rules and procedures when things go wrong. The European Commission will be proposing a new european law. In this field which will tackle the issue of supervision of personal data and control of personal data every time we access a website and it asks us to establish a new Digital Identity or set up a user profile or to register on my platform the fact is we simply dont know what will happen to our data we must put a stop to this. And. This is why the European Commission well come forward with a proposal for a new secure Digital Identity one that we can really trust and that citizens can use europe wide for everything whether its right renting a bicycle or paying taxes. And identity that you have full control over where you can control the data that is transferred and how it is used that is our idea of a Technology Focused and centered around people. For the service of people in the 3rd focal point in infrastructure. We must keep up with the racing pace of technology and if we want to b
As American Leadership is crucial in bringing the world out of the shadow of covid19. In advocating for American Values, defending human rights, transparency, and Economic Freedom and seeking to ensure a more secure, stable, and prosperous world, where democracy and freedoms are able to flourish, we are all working towards that end. With that in mind, i wish to again thank our nominees for appearing and your willingness to continuing our nation. Today, this committee will consider the nominations of six individuals to represent the United States of america. The nominees before us are mr. William, doug douglas, to serve as the u. S. Ambassador to the commonwealth of the bahamas. Higgins to be the u. S. To the republic of burgundy. Ms. Jean maloney to be the ambassador of the kingdom of s bikini. Mr. Michael mccarthy to serve as the u. S. Ambassador to the republic of liberia. Singh toable monisha be u. S. Representative to the organization for Economic Cooperation and development with t
Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the president s pick for several ambassadorial positions including james story to be u. S. Ambassador to venezuela, and William Douglas to be the u. S. Ambassador to the bahamas. Want to thank each of our nominees today for their willingness to serve in these important roles and to my colleagues on this committee for joining this hearing. One of this committees most important tasks i have discovered is to review and evaluate the president s nominee to serve in critical posts around the globe, like those you aim to serve. These nominees serve as the most window into america and to our universal values. ,he willingness of talented qualified individuals to serve has never been more valuable than it is today. As American Leadership is crucial in bringing the world out of the shadow of covid19. In advocating for American Values, defending human rights, transparency, and Economic Freedom and seeking to ensure a more secure, stable, and prosperous world,
Have a postdoctoral program, we have a number of postdoctoral fellows here at sais this year with us doing their work. And one of them has just finished a book before she got here, and we were really delighted to end publicize it and the first public release of the book. So cornelia has this new book. So, peace, security and defense cooperation in postbrexit europe. Pretty timely. Shes been working with her colleagues on those questions. So so we thought the context of the book would be good to talk about a very timely issue now which is whats going on with brexit, what does it mean not only for the u. K. And the e. U. Member states, but also for broader Security Issues which start to affect, of course, u. S. Interests quite intensely. So what well do is i will just briefly introduce the speakers. You have had an invitation and so on, more about their backgrounds, but just to keep it brief, i want to have cornelia tell us briefly about the book, and then were going to go to two colleag
We appreciate your spending your time with us. My name is dan hamilton, im a professor here at Johns Hopkins, Foreign Policy institute fellow. We have a post doctoral fellows. We are delighted today help publicize it in the first public release of the book. So shes here as a post doc fellow has this new book. Pretty timely. And shes been working on it with her colleagues in europe on those questions. We thought the context of the book would be good to talk about very timely issue now, which is whats going on with brexit. What does it mean, not only for the uk and the e. U. Member states, but also for broader Security Issues, which will start to affect, of course, the u. S. Interests quite intensely. So what well do is i will just briefly introduce the speakers. Youve had an invitation and so on, more about their backgrounds. But just to keep it brief, ive got cornelia to tell us briefly about the book. Then were going to go to two colleagues, the assistant professor here who does work