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Mobilizing resources urgently for climate action: overcoming longstanding challenges and learning from Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that countries can marshal significant resources quickly and at scale in an emergency. The climate crisis requires no less. Only when longstanding issues of climate finance are resolved, can the international system ensure that the poorest and most vulnerable people, communities, and countries can make the necessary changes the whole world needs.

By Mohamed Adow

Africa’s free-trade area signals intent for a new kind of relationship with the EU

E-paper

The momentous African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which went into effect on 1 January 2021, demonstrates the continent’s desire to carve its own economic destiny. But as Africa’s biggest trading partner, the European Union’s actions will have a strong impact on the project’s chances of success. The EU’s historical record suggests it would benefit from more serious listening to what its African partners want on trade.

By Dr. Olumide Abimbola

Digital trade rules: Big Tech’s end run around domestic regulations

E-paper

Trade agreements have become an important battleground for tech companies to fight the regulatory pressure they are finally facing in the Global North. But allowing tech companies to capture digital trade talks to defang domestic regulation creates serious risks for privacy, fundamental rights, competition, social and economic justice, and sustainable development.

By Burcu Kilic

La régulation des plateformes numériques et la liberté d’expression en Afrique de l’Ouest

E-paper

Les pays africains ont de plus en plus accès à l’Internet haut débit, les questions liées à la neutralité de l’internet, à la régulation et à l’interopérabilité adéquate se posent, il est nécessaire de veiller à ce que les citoyens puissent exercer librement leurs droits. En tant qu’intermédiaires, les plateformes numériques peuvent mettre en relation, faciliter l’accès à l’information, à la liberté d’expression et de communication. Ce qui fait que la force des plateformes tient en grande partie à leur capacité à multiplier les flux d’informations collectées auprès de leurs utilisateurs.

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Aegean chronicles: A reporter’s confrontation with Europe’s failures and moral imperative

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A 6-year-old boy from Afghanistan drowned in November 2020 off the coast of Samos. Ηe was with his father and other asylum seekers onboard a dinghy that was shipwrecked. The tragic loss of a child’s life hardly made an impression on the international media or public discourse in Greece.

By Giorgos Christides

EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment

E-paper

This scoping paper compiled by focuses on the potential risks for the EU from enshrining rights for Chinese investors in Europe in an inter-national investment treaty. It emphasises these “defensive” interests, because investment treaties by their very nature restrict the ability of a state to regulate or even restrict foreign investment.

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International Relations

Mobilizing resources urgently for climate action: overcoming longstanding challenges and learning from Covid-19

Africa’s free-trade area signals intent for a new kind of relationship with the EU

Digital trade rules: Big Tech’s end run around domestic regulations

La régulation des plateformes numériques et la liberté d’expression en Afrique de l’Ouest

The Istanbul Convention: Our Struggle for Equality

Peace processes need a feminist vision!

The global impacts of Covid-19

International Women's Day 2021

Aegean chronicles: A reporter’s confrontation with Europe’s failures and moral imperative

EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment