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  • Estonia to conduct the first cyber defence exercise for defence ministers

    ESTONIA, 2017/07/29 As a part of the programme for the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Estonia is organizing a strategic level table-top exercise 'EU CYBRID 2017' on cyber defence for the EU defence ministers in Tallinn. EU CYBRID 2017 is organized in cooperation with the European Defence Agency and the objective of the exercise is to put ministers to the test in dealing with the aftermath of a cyber-attack. At his conference with the Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency Jorge Domecq in Brussels, Minister for Defence Jüri Luik discussed how to apply the conclusions drawn from the strategic level table-top exercise in policy planning.

  • Estonia to conduct the first cyber defence exercise for defence ministers

    ESTONIA, 2017/07/29 As a part of the programme for the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Estonia is organizing a strategic level table-top exercise 'EU CYBRID 2017' on cyber defence for the EU defence ministers in Tallinn. EU CYBRID 2017 is organized in cooperation with the European Defence Agency and the objective of the exercise is to put ministers to the test in dealing with the aftermath of a cyber-attack. At his conference with the Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency Jorge Domecq in Brussels, Minister for Defence Jüri Luik discussed how to apply the conclusions drawn from the strategic level table-top exercise in policy planning.

  • European Union to support Albania's public administration reform

    ALBANIA, 2017/07/11 The European Union (EU) will be totally committed to provide assistance in the transformation of Albania's public government as it sees such reform as an absolute priority for the opening of EU accession talks, EU Ambassador to Albania Romana Vlahutin Monday told reporters. According to the EU ambassador, Albanian public government must be ready at the same time as the talks with the EU are launched.

  • European Union to support Albania's public administration reform

    ALBANIA, 2017/07/11 The European Union (EU) will be totally committed to provide assistance in the transformation of Albania's public government as it sees such reform as an absolute priority for the opening of EU accession talks, EU Ambassador to Albania Romana Vlahutin Monday told reporters. According to the EU ambassador, Albanian public government must be ready at the same time as the talks with the EU are launched.

  • Diplomats ponder whether UK may U-turn on Brexit

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2017/07/02 A British newspaper says EU diplomats are frustrated at a lack of clear vision over the UK Brexit plan. One envoy thinks a weakened leadership and the scale of what leaving the bloc entails could force a change of mind. Despite British Prime Minister Theresa May's insistence that the UK will not seek to remain in the EU's single market or customs union once it leaves the European Union, several EU diplomats believe a softer Brexit option is likely to emerge presently that negotiations have begun between UK and EU officials.

  • Trump congratulates Emmanuel Macron on French election win

    FRANCE, 2017/05/08 Donald Trump has congratulated the centrist Emmanuel Macron on his emphatic victory against Marine Le Pen in the French presidential run-off, attempting to put behind him the implicit support he had offered the far-right leader ahead of Sunday’s election. US president released statement notable primarily for its brevity, attempting to put behind him the implicit support he offered far-right leader Marine Le Pen In a statement put out by his press secretary Sean Spicer and notable primarily for its brevity, the White Home said: “We congratulate President-elect Macron and the people of France on their successful presidential election. We look forward to working with the new President and continuing our close cooperation with the French government.”

  • French election: Macron wins presidency by decisive margin

    FRANCE, 2017/05/08 The pro-EU centrist Emmanuel Macron has won the French presidency in a decisive victory over the far-right Front National leader, Marine Le Pen, and vowed to unite a divided and fractured France. Macron, 39, a former economy minister who ran as a “neither left nor right” independent promising to shake up the French political system, took 65.1% to Le Pen’s 34.9%, according to initial projections from early counts. His victory was hailed by his supporters as holding back a tide of populism next the Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s victory in the US election. Live Macron beats Le Pen in French presidential election – live updates

  • No simple solution for the problems besetting France

    FRANCE, 2017/04/28 The death of a police officer on the Champs-Elysee on Thursday brings to additional than 240 the number of people shot, stabbed, run over or blown up by Islamist terrorists in France since the Charlie Hebdo massacre in January 2015. That’s additional victims of terrorism than France endured in all 20th century. Perhaps it’s remarkable Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s nationalist National Front, isn’t a shoo-in in the initial round of tomorrow’s presidential election. The fact she’s one part four possible winners reflects the complexity and unpredictability of Europe’s second major economy, the eurozone’s only nuclear power and the intellectual custodian of Europe’s sputtering unification project. France’s completed three presidents have proved deeply unpopular with voters, a mix of ineffective, corrupt and embarrassing.

  • Burundi: European Parliament Accuses Burundi Government of Human Rights Violations

    BURUNDI, 2017/01/23 This Thursday 19 January 2017, the European parliament has written to the Burundi government, spelling out a number of accusations about human rights violations. It has as well condemned the law legalising the "Imbonerakure", a violent youth militia, according to the European parliament. The European parliament says its statement on Burundi expresses its deep concerns at the worsening political security situation and violence occurring in Burundi since 2015.

  • General Secretary of the EFJ, Ricardo Gutierrez

    MACEDONIA, 2016/09/24 The fact that Macedonia is one of the few nations in Europe to have incarcerated a journalist - not for the initial time - speaks volumes about the national of media freedom there, Ricardo Gutierrez says. The EFJ General Secretary, who visited Macedonia, part other things, to promote an EU funded project, “Journalists' Network for Promoting Media Freedom,” notes that each time he has visited the country, a journalist seems to have been imprisoned under suspicious circumstances. “Before it was Tomislav Kezarovski and presently it is Zoran Bozinovski,” Gutierrez recalls.
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