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Remember the Rubik’s Cube?
Remember the Rubik’s Cube?
Remember the Rubik’s Cube? Did you love it or did it drive you crazy with its complexity? Today it celebrates its 40th birthday. I was a little surprised to discover it had been around quite so long. Almost as long as myself, in fact. Apparently there are 43 quintillion possible combinations to the Rubik’s Cube but it can always be solved in no more than 20 moves. As a child I knew people who…
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Proposal text from the EU Commision as presented today.
The full package of related documents can be found here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/publications/migration-and-asylum-package_en
The European Commission yesterday (18 August) refuted claims by Greece’s health minister that a first batch of COVID-19 vaccines is expected in December saying there is no timeline as there is no vaccine yet.
Asked by EURACTIV, EU spokesperson Vivian Loonela said: “We are in a situation where we cannot tell the exact date of delivery. We are working to have the vaccine ready as fast as possible as well as safe as possible.”
Loonela added that the executive is currently in talks with several pharma companies to make sure enough vaccines are available for EU member states as well as for donations to low-income countries.
Last week, EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen announced a first deal with British-Swedish multinational AstraZeneca to purchase a potential vaccine against COVID-19.
According to the agreement, the EU will purchase on behalf of EU member states 300 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, with an option to purchase 100 million more.
Speaking on TV, Greek health minister Vasilis Kikilias said once the AstraZeneca vaccine passes the last testing phase, Greece would receive 700,000 doses in December and overall some three million doses until June 2021.
However, the Commission made it clear that no delivery date has been given to EU member states considering that the testing phases are still underway.
Our guest is former Greek MEP and EU Commission spokesperson Margaritis Schinas, who is now the EU Commission Vice-President for Promoting the European Way of Life. Speaking to FRANCE 24's Catherine Nicholson, he discussed the planned new EU migration pact ahead of an upcoming EU summit, plus the situation of child migrants in Greece and a possible relaunch of EU Mediterranean search and rescue operations. Schinas also shared his thoughts on EU racial diversity and representation in the bloc's institutions following recent worldwide protests against racism.
Five years on from the unprecedented influx of asylum seekers into the EU, the man in charge of co-ordinating migration policy for the bloc says it's "unthinkable" not to have a comprehensive framework for EU migration policy.
The European Commission is refusing to release a preliminary legal assessment into Greece's decision to temporarily shelve asylum applications.
Greece froze applications for a month in early March, following Turkey's failed bid to use migrants as political leverage after sending thousands to its side of its shared border with Greece.
The Greek government's unilateral action attracted widespread criticism from both civil society and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) while the European Commission itself declined to take a stand.
The commission insisted it first needed to study the measure - a position it continues to maintain almost three weeks after Greece lifted the suspension on 1 April and in light of the current pandemic.
However, an internal note from the European Commission's legal service had already been drafted and shared with president Ursula von der Leyen shortly after Greece imposed the restrictions.
Dated 4 March, the note contains a preliminary analysis of the national measures taken by the Greek government.
On that same day, the European Commission said they were in talks with Athens to find out more details.
"We are now in dialogue with the Greek authorities to find out what exactly that is," Ylva Johansson, EU home affairs commissioner told reporters.
Margaritis Schinas, a vice-president of the commission in charge of migration, made a more blunt assessment.
"EU support will be unequivocal," he said of Greece.
The former spokesman of European Commission Presidency, Margaritis Schinas, has been nominated as Vice President in the ‘cabinet’ of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Schinas will have the Portfolio “Protecting our European Way of Life.”
The portfolio with the weird and mysterious name covers migration, security, employment and education.
Many were puzzled about the portfolios name and asked for an explanation, while other saw some “dystopian euro-conservative nightmare.”
The former spokesman of European Commission Presidency, Margaritis Schinas, has been nominated as Vice President in the ‘cabinet’ of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Schinas will have the Portfolio “Protecting our European Way of Life.”
The portfolio with the weird and mysterious name covers migration, security, employment and education.
Many were puzzled about the portfolios name and asked for an explanation, while other saw some “dystopian euro-conservative nightmare.”
We’ll Shoulder The Cost If You Take In Migrants, Brussels Tells EU Govts.
We’ll Shoulder The Cost If You Take In Migrants, Brussels Tells EU Govts.
The European Commission offered on Tuesday to shoulder the cost of taking in migrants from boats in the Mediterranean, seeking to entice more governments to shoulder the burden after Italy’s new government closed the country’s ports to rescue vessels.
Under the proposal, the Union’s common budget would pay out 6,000 euros (7,000 dollars) for each migrant taken in, as well as funding the cost of…
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