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The UN 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals includes SDG 10 on Reducing Inequalities as well as a commitment to Leave No-One Behind (LNOB). The European Union (EU) committed itself to achieving these goals both internally and, through its new 2017 European Consensus on Development, to support partners in their achievement worldwide. This study considers what progress the EU has made in addressing inequality, SDG 10 and the LNOB principle since then. The report undertakes an extensive ...

Media pluralism is an essential condition for any democratic society. It constitutes a source of access to a plurality of editorial lines and analyses, opinions and issues expressed, as well as a coexistence of public and private service media. Media pluralism is at risk due to several factors. First, the level of basic protection for journalists is threatened, for example in terms of the protection of their personal data online or abusive defamation charges against them. Second, most EU countries ...

Premium live sports content attracts large audiences, drives TV subscriptions upwards and generates advertising for broadcasters, particularly in an increasingly diversified media landscape. With no foreseeable end to the rush for premium sports rights over a handful of major sports events, the dramatic intensification of competition in the past 20 years has led to a steep increase in the pricing levels of audiovisual rights. In 2009, EU broadcasters spent around €5.8 billion on the acquisition of ...

Upon request by the LIBE Committee, this study looks into the impact of the economic crisis and the austerity measures which were introduced as a response thereto, to the enjoyment of a set of selected fundamental rights by individuals in Cyprus. It also contains recommendations on how to make sure that the enjoyment of these rights is ensured in the future.

The present study examines the human rights impacts of the extractive industries on indigenous peoples worldwide. It finds that there continue to be significant human rights risks associated with mining, oil and gas extraction falling disproportionately on indigenous peoples. It argues that the growing demand for non-renewable resources and the need to explore and exploit resources in ever more invasive ways suggest that such activities are likely to impinge even more on the lands of indigenous communities ...

Cost of Non Europe Reports are intended to evaluate the possibilities for gains and the realisation of a ‘public good’ through common action at EU level in specific policy areas and sectors. In particular, this study analyses the cost for citizens and businesses of the formalities which are currently necessary in order to make certain public documents acceptable in different Member States. The study concludes that the abolition of legalisation and Apostille, the simplified certification of copies ...

On 12 November 2013, the Central Committee of China's Communist Party adopted measures to 'deepen reform'. The reforms would support China's economic development. Legal reform will continue, but the Party’s supremacy and application of law remain key issues. Re-education through labour is to be abandoned. China will gradually reduce the number of crimes subject to the death penalty. Public ownership will remain at the centre of the Chinese economic system. State-owned enterprises will lose some of ...

À la suite de la proposition de refonte de la directive 93/7/CEE sur le retour des biens culturels classés comme «trésors nationaux ayant une valeur artistique, historique ou archéologique», la commission de la culture et de l'éducation (CULT) du Parlement européen a préparé un rapport sur «la restitution des biens culturels ayant quitté illicitement le territoire d'un État Membre». En raison de la nature complexe du sujet, CULT a organisé un débat entre experts et députés le 4 de Novembre 2013 ...

In civil and commercial matters, the provisional and protective measures are set to preserve the factual or legal situation, in a way to protect the rights whose recognition was claimed elsewhere by the court, having jurisdiction over the substance of the matter. Thus, protection measures shall surprise the defendant by depriving him/her of the possibility to make the protection sought useless. Talking about domestic violence, the protective measures are set to give immediate protection in cases ...

La présente note propose les éléments de compréhension juridique concernant les titres détenus par l’intermédiaire de banques et d’autres intermédiaires qui s’avèrent nécessaires pour accéder au domaine hautement complexe du droit des titres transfrontalier, situé aux confins du droit commercial, du droit de l’insolvabilité et du droit de la propriété. Elle décrit également la législation connexe et des initiatives internationales voisines. Les lois concernées étant très fragmentaires, la détention ...