Tag Archives: European Union (EU)
Around Europe 340 – March 2012
Israel’s Supreme Court Adapts International Law in West Bank Quarrying ruling; A View of the EU Budget through Green-Tinted Spectacles; Continued Cognitive Dissonance in EU Energy Effort; Democracy under stress: The global crisis and beyond. Click here to download (PDF – 1.3 MB) Deutsche Ausgabe – März 2012 Israels Oberster … More…
Recommendations to the Foreign Affairs Council on Palestine Israel released
In February 2012, on the basis of cooperation between QCEA, the EAPPI Programme of the World Council of Churches and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian Territories (UN OHCHR OPT), we released a press release with clear recommendations to the European Union … More…
Briefing paper: EU security research and peacebuilding – a case of institutional and political disconnect
QCEA has done work on the European Security Research Programme for several years; this was focused initially on making the programme better known in order to demonstrate the involvement of the defence industry in the programme. This briefing paper brings this strand of our work together with research we have … More…
Posted in Briefing Papers, Publications
Tagged Democratic governance, European Commission (EC), European Union (EU), Militarisation, Peace
Around Europe 339 – February 2012
The EEAS: First Year Score Card – Room for Improvement; Election of the new Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe; Daylight Madness: The UK’s Lacklustre Green Transformation; Council of Europe: Structure, History and Issues in European Politics
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Deutsche Ausgabe – Februar 2012
Der Europäische Auswärtige Dienst (EEAS): die Ergebnisse nach einem Jahr – Möglichkeiten zur Verbesserung
Posted in Around Europe, Publications
Tagged Book review, Council of Europe (Strasbourg), EU Budget, European External Action Service (EEAS), European Union (EU), Human rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Sustainable energy security, The United Kingdom (UK), United Nations (UN)
Briefing paper: EU trade with Israeli settlements
This briefing paper discusses EU trade with Israeli settlements, looking at how this trade reinforces illegal settlements in the West Bank and the effect that this has on the Palestinian population. It contrasts the trade between the EU and settlements with the EU’s own position on the illegality of settlements, … More…
Briefing paper: the EU’s response to the threat of terrorism (update)
In 2005 QCEA published twelve briefing papers outlining and evaluating EU responses to terrorism, and in its 2007 report “Effective Counter-Terrorism: A Critical Assessment of European Union Responses” QCEA set out a series of recommendations to policy makers. Since then, there has been a dizzying array of counter-terrorism related policy … More…
Posted in Briefing Papers, Publications
Tagged Complicity in the use of torture, Counter-terrorism, European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), European Union (EU), Extra-ordinary rendition, Passenger Name Records, Secret detention, Stockholm Programme, Terrorism, Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme, Treaty of Lisbon
Anti-boycott law violates human rights and further undermines Israeli democracy: EU must unequivocally condemn the law
APRODEV, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), Front Line, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, and the Quaker Council for European affairs call for the EU to condemn the Israeli anti-boycott law. Read the press release here (pdf – 236.57 kB) “La loi anti-boycott constitue une violation … More…
Posted in Press Release, Publications
Tagged Boycott, E, European External Action Service (EEAS), European Union (EU), Human rights, Israel
Press Release: Anti-boycott law violates human rights and further undermines Israeli democracy
QCEA, in association with APRODEV, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), Front Line, and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders issue a press release stating their concern over a law (‘Law for Prevention of Damage to the State of Israel through Boycott – 2011′) passed by the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) … More…
Public Research should benefit Society, not Big Business: An Open Letter on the Common Strategic Framework for EU Research and Innovation Funding
An open letter to J.M.D. Barroso (President of the European Commission), Commissioners and services of the European Commission, Members of the European Parliament, and Representatives of Member States relating to Horizon 2020 and the need for funding to focus on the needs of society and the environment rather than those of big business. Read the … More…
Briefing paper: the 2009 European Parliamentary elections
The European Parliament Elections took place over a period of 4 days from 4 to 7 June 2009. This was be the 7th time that the European Parliament is directly elected by the citizens of Europe, and as it happens, the largest-ever transnational democratic election in history, electing over 700 … More…
Posted in Briefing Papers, Publications
Tagged Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), European Parliament (EP), European Parliamentary elections 2009, European People's Party (EPP), European Union (EU), Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA), Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Member States of the European Union (MS), Quaker Faith in Action, Quaker Ffriends, Socialists and Democrats (S&D), The United Kingdom (UK), Voter turnout trends
