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The invisible workers
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 01/09/2020
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Mathis Hampel
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Europe of concentric circles… or divergent values0
- EU Governance and Politics, Op-ed
- 02/09/2016
The elephant in the room is now too big to be ignored and too obvious to be buried in mumblings.
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EU/Morocco trade: How can a David engage in a win-win situation with a Goliath?0
- International Trade, Op-ed
- 02/03/2016
The Kingdom of Morocco worked very hard to attain an advanced status within the EU. A status abounding with opportunities for an emerging country and its economy, culminated in 2013 when negotiations for a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) started.
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EU-US data transfers: Why Safe Harbour 2.0 may just be an empty shell1
- Digital Policy and Internet Governance, Op-ed
- 12/02/2016
The European Commission and the US have just come to a deal to replace Safe Harbour, which ensured a blanket allowance for EU-US data transfers before its invalidation by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The newly-baptised Privacy Shield is supposed to set a framework for transatlantic data flows ensuring compliance with the EU Data Protection Directive. However, except for a fancy new name and a couple of nice declarations of intention, there is – at this time – no sign that it will offer better guarantees regarding EU citizens’ rights to privacy and data protection.
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EU-PNR directive: Overlooking EU fundamental rights will not make Europe safer2
- Digital Policy and Internet Governance, Op-ed
- 09/01/2016
On 2 December 2015, the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties (LIBE) Committee endorsed a directive on “the use of passenger name record (PNR) data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime” (EU-PNR). It seems, therefore, that the long journey of the EU-PNR directive – initially proposed in 2011 – is coming to its end, as the European Parliament (EP) is expected to hold a final vote in February 2016. However, this directive still seems strongly contestable – and contested – on the grounds that it jeopardizes EU citizens’ fundamental rights to privacy and data protection (Art. 7 and 8), while its effectiveness in fighting terrorism remains unclear
READ MOREEU’s grinding of Balkan claws: Pejorative linguistic connotations at EU enlargement to Western Balkans0
- Analysis
- 06/04/2012
INTRODUCTION Three years ago I took part in a youth exchange in Subotica, Vojvodina, Serbia where future challenges and opportunities of Western Balkans’s EU membership were the main issue. Slovenia was already the EU member and I pointed out some critical approaches to the topic. When naming EU as a kind of mythological community, my
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EU VAT reform, hit or miss1
On the 4th of October 2017, the EU released its proposals for the change of the value added tax (VAT) rules, which included key reforms for cross-border trade between businesses in Member States. The initiative promised to decrease the EU VAT gap, in other words, the difference between expected VAT revenues and actual member state collections. While broad questions remain about the new system, the EU is convinced that the VAT fraud is to be reduced by 80% by 2022 thanks to the proposed reform.
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