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The European Union: European Universities initiative

31 May 2023 | Author/Destination: Knut Wingsch | Rubric: General, European Union, Universities, Colleges, Academies Reading Time:  5 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post At the 2017 Gothenburg Summit, European Union (EU) leaders outlined a vision for education and culture. In its December 2017 Conclusions, the European Council called on EU Member States, the Council and the Commission to take forward a number of initiatives, including   read more…

The European Union: Artificial Intelligence Act

28 May 2023 | Author/Destination: Knut Wingsch | Rubric: General, European Union Reading Time:  7 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) is a regulation proposed on 21 April 2021 by the European Commission which aims to introduce a common regulatory and legal framework for artificial intelligence. Its scope encompasses all sectors (except for military), and to all types of artificial intelligence. As a piece of product regulation, the proposal does not confer rights on individuals, but regulates the providers of artificial intelligence systems, and entities making use of them in a professional capacity.   read more…

European Heritage Label

4 April 2023 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, European Union Reading Time:  6 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The European Heritage Label is a recognition awarded by the European Union to buildings, documents, museums, archives, monuments or events which are seen as milestones in the creation of today’s Europe. The program is managed by the European Commission.   read more…

EU Global Gateway

19 March 2023 | Author/Destination: Knut Wingsch | Rubric: General, European Union Reading Time:  7 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Global Gateway Initiative is a worldwide strategy by the European Union to invest in infrastructure projects and establish economic partnerships, based on certain principles. The project was initiated by the EU Commission, under the leadership of Ursula von der Leyen. It is part of the current plans for European strategic autonomy, and establishing bigger, more democratic and more sustainable trade networks for Europe and its partners. The initiative is also seen as an alternative or rivalry to the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, which EU leaders heavily criticised because of human rights abuse concerns and economic risks, disadvantages and a one-sided trade relation. The EU wants to encourage links, and not dependencies, according to Ursula von der Leyen. As of December 2022, Global Gateway has been criticized for failing to provide concrete details on projects and drawing heavily on already-existing programmes.   read more…

European Quarter in Strasbourg

18 March 2023 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, European Union Reading Time:  5 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The European Quarter is spread over an area covering the districts of Wacken, Orangerie and Robertsau in the north-west of Strasbourg, France, and comprising the intersection of the River Ill and the Marne-Rhine Canal and has held the European Heritage Label since 2015. The first specific European building in the area was the Council of Europe‘s Palace of Europe in 1949, with the Rhine Commission being located towards the centre of the city. The European Audiovisual Observatory and the Institute for Human Rights are the only institutions in the quarter to have moved into pre-existing premises: a 1900 villa and an 18th-century former postal relay station and inn turned conventual building, respectively. The Arte headquarters, previously disseminated on several buildings across the town, were united in a single spacious building close to the Louise Weiss building in 2003.   read more…

European Quarter in Brussels

5 February 2023 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, European Union Reading Time:  16 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Most of the European Union’s Brussels-based institutions are located within its European Quarter (French: Quartier Européen, Dutch: Europese Wijk), which is the unofficial name of the area corresponding to the approximate triangle between Brussels Park, Cinquantenaire Park and Leopold Park (with the European Parliament’s hemicycle extending into the latter). The Commission and Council are located on either side of the Rue de la Loi at the heart of this area near Schuman railway station and the Robert Schuman Roundabout.   read more…

ASEAN, Association of Southeast Asian Nations

22 January 2023 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Rubric: General, Editorial, European Union Reading Time:  10 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post ASEAN, officially the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, is a political and economic union of 10 member states in Southeast Asia, which promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, security, military, educational, and sociocultural integration between its members and countries in the Asia-Pacific. The union has a total area of 4,522,518 km² (1,746,154 sq mi) and an estimated total population of about 668 million.   read more…

The European Union: European Neighbourhood Policy

8 January 2023 | Author/Destination: Knut Wingsch | Rubric: General, Editorial, European Union Reading Time:  11 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is a foreign relations instrument of the European Union (EU) which seeks to tie those countries to the east and south of the European territory of the EU to the Union. These countries, primarily developing countries, include some who seek to one day become either a member state of the European Union, or more closely integrated with the European Union. The ENP does not apply to neighbours of the EU’s outermost regions, specifically France‘s territories in South America, but only to those countries close to EU member states’ territories in mainland Europe.   read more…

The European Union and the European Political Community

9 October 2022 | Author/Destination: Knut Wingsch | Rubric: General, Editorial, European Union Reading Time:  6 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The European Political Community (EPC) is a platform for political and strategic discussions about the future of Europe, established in 2022. The group first met in October 2022 in Prague, with participants from 44 European countries, as well as the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission.   read more…