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EU Announces "Sustainability" Strategy for Transport Industry
August 02, 2017
In the first of a series of eight "Europe on the Move" proposals for EU-wide policies regulating the transportation sector to promote a "socially fair transition towards clean energy," the European Commission has proposed regulations for road travel that include standardization of labor rights in the truck driving industry.
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EU Body: Member States Are Failing Fisheries Duties
August 02, 2017
The European Court of Auditors has released a report analyzing fisheries practices in Italy, Spain, France, and the UK and finding that these EU member states are failing to fully implement their responsibilities under the bloc's fisheries control regulation by measuring a broad array of details about their fishing fleet, including capacity, tonnage, engine power, and catch data.
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EU Officials Signal Focus on Defense Union
August 02, 2017
Signaling that it will maintain its push to consolidate policy-making on defense cooperation in EU institutions, in May, the European Commission held an "orientation debate" on the future of European defense, where EU officials called for greater strides toward the funding of and collaboration on a European "Security and Defence Union."
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FRA Calls for EU "Strategic Framework" on Rights
August 02, 2017
In its 2017 Fundamental Rights Report, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) calls on the EU to create an "internal strategic framework for fundamental rights" to ensure the implementation of the global human rights agenda within the bloc.
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CoE Official Seeks Reform of Swiss Migration Policies
August 02, 2017
Following a visit to Switzerland, the Council of Europe's (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks called on the country's government to reform its legislation to ensure that it offers special protection to "vulnerable" migrants arriving in its territory and criticized what he perceived to be inadequate funding for the country's national human rights institution.
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