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Georgia Receives EU and U.S. Support after Arbitrary Sentencing in Conflict Zone
February 09, 2021
Euractiv reports that the European Union and the United States have condemned the heavy prison sentence given to a Georgian citizen by the authorities in the Russia-controlled Georgian region of South Ossetia, calling for his immediate release.
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AI Lie Detector Project Challenged in EU Court
February 09, 2021
Natasha Lomes writing for TechCrunch explores the current transparency lawsuit before The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg that highlights questions of ethics and efficacy attached to the European Union’s flagship R&D program which involves an experiemental facial recognition lie detector test.
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Paris Court Finds French State Guilty Over Climate Inaction
February 03, 2021
The Paris administrative court recognized ecological damage linked to climate change and held the French state responsible for failing to fully meet its goals in reducing greenhouse gases after a group of NGOs backed by two million citizens had filed a complaint accusing the French state of failing to act to halt climate change.
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Johnson: EU ‘undermined’ Northern Ireland Protocol
February 03, 2021
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has accused Brussels of having "undermined" the Northern Ireland protocol following the move by the European Commission to invoke Article 16 of the Protocol, triggering an emergency override provision in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement as part of efforts to control vaccine exports.
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ECtHR to Consider Nalvany Complaint
February 02, 2021
The European Court of Human Rights announced it has informed Russia that it will consider a complaint filed to the court by the opposition politician Aleksei Navalny who argues that his right to life was violated under the EU Convention on Human Rights.
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