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Belgium

Euroviews. EU's new AI law risks enabling Orwellian surveillance states | View

"The list of exceptions to the already narrow prohibition leaves ample room for the use of biometric technologies to watch and monitor us," writes Sarah Chander at European Digital Rights.

22/04/2021

World News

Euroviews. Child-led court case will scrutinise Europe's climate response | View

Four children and two young adults from Portugal have brought a case against dozens of European governments over their climate crisis responses.

22/04/2021

World News

Euroviews. Getting jabs to world’s hardest-to-reach people is a huge task | View

"Delivering projects in hard-to-reach areas requires ingenuity and resilience. And when we talk about vaccines with such delicate delivery requirements, the last mile is simply make-or-break."

15/04/2021

World News

Euroviews. Weaning Europe off COVID bailouts will be a tough balancing act | View

Now is the time to consider how to roll back support when the opportunity presents itself, say Ivan Mikloš and Soňa Muzikárová.

14/04/2021

World News

Euroviews. Panama Papers: 5 years on, EU still failing to tackle tax abuse | View

Much more is needed if the EU is to take effective action to address the problems highlighted 5 years ago by the Panama Papers, says Action Aid's Anders Dahlbeck

02/04/2021

World News

Euroviews. EU must step up and get sea protection treaty over the line | View

"EU leaders must raise their ambitions far beyond the safeguarding language currently on the table that risks creating yet another talking shop," says Sweden's former deputy PM Isabella Lövin

31/03/2021

Russia

Euroviews. You can't appease Russia. The EU mustn't lose its values trying | View

Europe needs a two-track strategy on Russia: offer a helping hand to the growing numbers of discontented Russians and be ready to confront the Kremlin with resolve and systematically punishing its aggressions, argues Rostislav Valvoda.

22/03/2021

World News

Euroviews. Rich countries must stop ‘vaccine apartheid’ | View

"We need courageous leadership that suspends rules that are barriers to expanding life-saving vaccine access," write Aruna Kashyap and Margaret Wurth, both from Human Rights Watch

11/03/2021

World News

Euroviews. EU nations must provide midwifery care for home births | View

Throughout Central and Eastern Europe, institutional mechanisms are still being used to hamper midwifery practice, creating conditions where midwifery is possible in theory but not in practice.

10/03/2021

Japan

Euroviews. How we rose from Fukushima disaster with a renewables vision | View

On Thursday (March 11) it's 10 years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.

10/03/2021

Hungary

Euroviews. Viktor Orban should become the agent of European integration | View

"The best joke on Orban is to turn him into an undercover agent of European integration," writes Romanian MEP Dragoș Tudorache.

08/03/2021

World News

Euroviews. MEPs must vote against lifting Carles Puigdemont's immunity | View

MEPs will on Monday (March 8) vote on whether to lift the parliamentary immunity of their Catalan colleagues Carles Puigdemont, Toni Comín and Clara Ponsatí.

08/03/2021

World News

Euroviews. MEPs must back vote to accurately count EU's fish stocks ǀ View

MEPs will this week take part in a vote that will prove crucial to the future of our seas and the communities who depend on them, says the EU Fisheries Control Coalition

08/03/2021

World News

Euroviews. British lessons for Europe in managing a post-pandemic boom | View

Europe needs a roaring twenties to recover from the pandemic. British history provides some clues.

08/03/2021

Italy

Euroviews. With Draghi, Italy has a chance to set aside Conte’s economic misadventures ǀ View

In moments of acute crisis, Italy relies on apolitical technocrats to make difficult decisions and demonstrate the long-term thinking its elected politicians cannot. It thus falls to Draghi to craft Italy's recovery.

20/02/2021

World News

Euroviews. Mass facial recognition must be regulated | View

Research shows that facial analysis algorithms consistently judge black faces to be angrier and more threatening than white faces.

17/02/2021

Kosovo

Euroviews. Kurti has vowed to change Kosovo. He has a fight on his hands | View

The Vetëvendosj leader will not only have to contend with Kosovo's frozen conflict with Serbia but weeding out the elements of the 'old regime' that has governed the tiny Balkan state for two decades.

16/02/2021

World News

Euroviews. France has become Serbia's new best friend in the EU | View

"When President Vučić wants to talk with Europe, he will dial Macron’s number", argues Vuk Vuksanovic, an associate at LSE Ideas.

12/02/2021

Italy

Euroviews. Draghi is Italy’s best hope but the issues he'll face are huge | View

The fact Draghi's government depends on such a disparate group of political parties will restrict his room for manoeuvre and make it hard to reach consensus, argues Dr Luigi Scazzieri

11/02/2021

Green News

Euroviews. View: We’re all to blame for China and India’s ‘filthy’ CO2 emissions

Yes, China is the world's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide - but have you ever considered why that is?

06/02/2021