Robinson: ‘Climate change is a threat multiplier.’
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UN special envoy and former Irish president Mary Robinson talks to leading experts about the 2015 Paris climate negotiations.
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History shows that for France, assimilation has always been a selective process and anything but universally applied.
Charting a different course.
REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
With economies in Europe and America forging very different recoveries, their central banks are having to navigate by different stars.
A Syrian immigrant and his son after arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos, September 2015.
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Do terrorists linked to Daesh slip into the groups of migrants streaming toward Europe? Our response to the Paris attacks and any potential manipulations shouldn’t fall on refugees’ heads.
Climate change is not top of countries like Greece’s agenda right now. Maybe it should be.
Christophe Petit Tesson
COP21 is an opportunity for countries like Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal to reinvent their economies along environmentally friendly and sustainable lines.
A migrant is processed upon arrival in Sicily.
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Simon McMahon travelled to Sicily, where arrivals are being ordered to leave without understanding why.
Welcoming migrants and integrating them is a national security issue.
Reuters
The attacks in Paris are putting refugees in the crosshairs, yet it’s the integration of these and past migrants that are key to the security of Europe.
Overdoing it? Pills and thrills and bellyaches.
Jessica Lucia
When one in six hospitalisations of older patients are due to harm from their medicines, then something is going seriously wrong.
Legal high? Is the EU a benchmark or a burden.
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
There is fresh political impetus behind a constitutional device to allow Britain to veto EU laws, but the enthusiasm ignores the powers that already exist and the dangers of legislation on the hoof.
Dutch painter Pieter Claesz’s Still Life with Turkey Pie (1627) features a cooked turkey that’s been placed back inside its original skin, feathers and all.
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Most of the flavor combinations and traditions we’ve come to associate with the holiday date back to the Middle Ages.
French prime minister Manuel Valls talking with the president, Francois Hollande.
EPA/Stephane De Sakutin
Conflict is normally governed by rules and regulations but France is taking on an enemy that disregards them all.
A soldier looks out over Paris.
EPA/Benoit Tessier
The language used by François Hollande and others implies extremism can be bombed out of existence. It can’t.
EPA/Malte Christians
As borders are re-erected and national interests take precedence over collective ones, it is hard to see the Europe that we know surviving in quite the same way.
The Paris attacks were a ghastly media spectacular. What will be the broader historical significance in Europe and further afield?
Dark days.
Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes
IS claims responsibility for series of assaults. President Hollande says it is an ‘act of war’.
A problem shared is a problem divided into 50 small parts?
EPA/Lino Arrigo Azzopardi
A €1.8bn trust fund is on offer if only African countries will take the problem away.
People don’t want refugees for the same reason they reject climate change.
Reuters
Most evidence shows that climate change is caused by humans and immigration is good for the economy. So why do many of us reject these notions anyway?
Unveiling of the completed “50 for Freedom” panel on the World Day Against Child Labour at the 104th International Labour Conference in Geneva. June 12, 2015.
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Yes, there are more and more children working in Europe. An in-depth revision of the European directives on working youth is needed.
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The government’s hands are tied on taxing tampons, but there are alternatives.
Protestors took to the streets in Brussels to send a message.
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New research shows texting combined with rising levels of youth unemployment were primary drivers of the unrest that has unsettled Europe.