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Yesterday and today, the European Development Days take place in Brussels. The EDD is an annual event organised by the Commission dedicated to the development policies. It includes discussions, seminars and brainstorming sessions during which more than six thousand participants exchange ideas on how the European Union, the biggest donor in the world, could improve its development cooperation efforts. This year, Lithuania which is currently presiding over the EU Council also shapes the EDD, and contributes with a few events. One of them was yesterday moderated by the Member of the European Parliament Leonidas Donskis. (Read more...) |
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This week`s EP plenary session in Strasbourg was vital for the EU. The EP finally approved the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2014 - 2020 and the budget for the upcoming year. The adoption of the MFF which resulted after long and complicated negotiations between different EU institutions makes it possible to take important decisions in the areas of EU cohesion policy, agriculture, the main EU education, culture, environment, infrastructure, and research policies. (Read more...) |
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This Wednesday is a long-awaited day for the former colleagues and family members, journalists and politicians around the world fighting for the comprehensive legal inquiry into the death of Sergei Magnitsky, and the rule of law in Russia. Right before the fourth anniversary of Magnitsky`s death, the first meeting of the inter-parliamentary group Justice for Sergei Magnitsky took place in the European Parliament in Brussels. Earlier that day a book Why Europe Needs a Magnitsky Law: Should the EU follow the US? by the French-Russian journalist Elenos Servettaz was presented in the EP. (Read more...) |
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This week Leonidas Donskis and his team were actively engaged in the EU-Tibetan Youth Leadership training in the European Parliament in Brussels. The training is aimed at the Tibetan youth from all over Europe who aspires to use this knowledge and competence for the peaceful fight for the preservation of the Tibetan culture and identity. Young people were learning how to effectively raise this issue within the EU institutions and in different EU states. (Read more...) |
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2012.07.16
| 15:00 | - | Meeting with human rights NGOs |
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