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Civil Georgia is a free daily news website. Founded in 2001, it published news stories and analytical articles on Georgia's political and social life in Georgian, English, and Russian. It is run by Georgian NGO UN Association of Georgia.
Forest abandonment and poor management threaten Europe’s …
Nov 21, 2024 · The condition of Europe's forests has been deteriorating, as the European Union itself concluded in a 2021 study.The strategy for 2021-2030, based on the European Green Deal, aims to improve the quantity and quality of Europe's forests and make them more resilient to the "uncertainty of climate change". Carbon neutrality, which Brussels aims to achieve by 2050, is a key element in this process.
The three horsemen of social media: brain rot, anxiety and foreign ...
Dec 10, 2024 · On a similar front, for France Inter, Victor Dhollande reports that depression rates have risen sharply among young people in France since the first Covid lockdowns. "41% of students have depressive symptoms (compared with 26 percent before Covid). That's an increase of 15 points in just four years. Over the same period, suicidal thoughts among 18-24 year-olds have risen from 21% to 29%.
A shockwave in Syria - voxeurop.eu
Dec 10, 2024 · So ends more than fifty years of dictatorship in Syria.On Sunday 8 December, an armed coalition led by Abu Mohammad al-Julani's Islamist group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) stormed the capital, Damascus, after a lightning offensive.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who inherited power from his father and whose regime was known for its brutality and corruption, promptly fled the country.
Migration in Europe: Planning for tomorrow's crises
Dec 3, 2024 · More conflict, more movement. 59 armed conflicts in 34 countries: 2023 was one of the most violent years ever, according to a study by the Oslo Peace Research Institute. War in Ukraine, in Gaza, in Sudan: the more conflicts there are and the more they get bogged down, the greater the chances of new waves of migrants heading for Europe.And that's without counting global warming, which will ...
Elections in Georgia and Moldova: where does Europe end?
Oct 15, 2024 · In Georgia, the situation is more complex.In recent months, the positions of the government and the opposition parties have hardened. The ruling party, Georgian Dream (KO), is being manipulated in an increasingly secretive manner by the party’s founder and the country's richest man (his fortune is estimated to represent almost …
People of no nation: how being stateless means living ... - Voxeurop
Aug 1, 2024 · In 2013, UNHCR launched an action plan to end statelessness by 2024. However, just ahead of the deadline, the agency’s figures for stateless people as of mid-2023 were still far from the goal: around 381,000 stateless people in the EU in 2023. However, UNHCR itself acknowledges that, because it is based on data provided by governments and NGO, the real figure must be higher.
When Russia meddles in Europe’s democracy: the case of Romania
Dec 17, 2024 · On 6 December, Romania’s constitutional court cancelled the first round of the presidential election, held on 24 November. This small earthquake came after the incumbent liberal president, Klaus Iohannis, released documents from the Supreme Council of National Defence (CSAT) showing that the pro-Russian, anti-EU candidate Călin Georgescu had gained a leg-up on the social network TikTok with ...
Novaya Gazeta Europe - Voxeurop
Novaya Gazeta Europe is an independent Russian newspaper founded in April 2022, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine six weeks earlier and the subsequent introduction of wartime censorship that forced most of Novaya Gazeta’s editors and journalists to leave the country. From exile, it seeks to continue the legacy of Novaya Gazeta, which has been one of the most trusted names in Russian ...
Climate change, despair and misinformation: the fight goes on
May 30, 2024 · Can fear prevent us from fighting climate change? In The Guardian, Damian Carrington asked 380 top scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) how they felt about the future: the results revealed that they were terrified, but determined to keep fighting. “Sometimes it is almost impossible not to feel hopeless and broken,” said the climate scientist Ruth Cerezo-Mota.