Why the first World Expo in the Middle East has the potential to become a blueprint for smart cities around the globe. The Eiffel Tower and the Atomium, colour TV and the zipper: a World…
Traiskirchen, Austria — Imagine a nuclear emergency triggered by another emergency, such as a natu- ral disaster like an earthquake, volcanic eruption, or tsunami. Or, imagine a tropical cyclone, hurricane or civil disturbance leading to…
The Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) launches an annual competition to acknowledge outstanding contributions to social cohesion across Europe. The CEB Award for Social Cohesion will bestow a €25,000 prize on a project that…
“In negotiating, the main force is to know which interests you are serving, that of the country and not a political line or personal career interests.” So says Salomé Zourabichvili, former French citizen and now…
MSC Cruises and Chantiers de l’Atlantique sign firm contracts for construction of third and fourth LNG-powered MSC World Class ships. Partnership further reinforced with two additional newbuild projects that will focus especially on the development…
Visit any public place in the West, especially in places popular with tourists, and you’ll see lots of people taking “selfies” – photographs of themselves, with or without their friends or colleagues. Often they have…
SPIRIT, ARE YOU THERE? THE PAINTERS OF THE BEYOND MUSÉE MAILLOL, Paris 2 April – 26 July 2020 The next exhibition that will be held in the Musée Maillol—after initially being presented in the LaM…
Europeans are spending at least EUR 30 billion on drugs each year at retail level, making the drug market a major source of income for organised crime groups in the European Union according to the…
France has a prison problem…its jails are overcrowded. In total, 70,818 people were incarcerated on October 1, 2019. It’s the fifth largest prison population in Europe. Thousands of prisoners share cells with at least 3…
Belgium must strengthen the rules on the integrity of members of the government and review the system of authorisation of outside activities by police officers. The Council of Europe’s Group of States against corruption (GRECO)…
BGK, the Polish state development bank, opens next representative offices abroad Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK) has opened its third representative office abroad in London. There are also plans for opening offices in Amsterdam, Singapore, Washington…
When I was a younger journal- ist in North East England, there was a joke going the rounds that Nissan had decided to set up on Wearside because one of the company executives thought he’d…
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The author Douglas Adams once wrote in one of his comic science fiction books that in no language in the universe (his universe was full of weird civilisations and even weirder aliens) will you find…
On the one hand it’s easy to see why the United States and its NATO allies in Europe would want to get together from time to time to check that their military forces can work…
In Muslim societies as well as in a number of other cultures around the world, an intact hymen traditionally acts as a signifier of the virginity of a woman and can be of paramount importance…
