How many guns are in circulation in Europe?
Aug 26, 2024 · "Getting a gun legally in Europe may be hard, but terrorists have little trouble," read a Washington Post headline back in February 2015, after the attacks on a Copenhagen shopping centre, the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, and the Bataclan nightclub. For the latter attack, the terrorists acquired an arsenal of weapons, including AK-47 assault rifles and Zastava M-70 rifles ...
Compulsory military service back in Europe?
Jan 2, 2025 · Spain abolished compulsory military service in 2001, France in 1996, Germany in 2011, Belgium in 1994 and the UK all the way back in 1963. Iceland has no national army, while Ireland has never had compulsory military service. Now, however, the picture is beginning to change. Considering conscription. In July, debate engulfed Germany on the reintroduction of military service, as well as the ...
Weaponisation of migration: a conversation with Kelly Greenhill
Nov 7, 2024 · Militarised engineered migrations are employed during active conflict to gain military advantage against an adversary, by using population movements to disrupt or destroy an opponent’s command and control, supply chain, or movement capabilities, or to gain manpower by pressganging those displaced into military service.
Understanding Georgia’s protests
Dec 12, 2024 · The scenario of a Russian intervention typically results from a reductive Russia versus the West prism. The regional situation is geopolitically more advantageous for Georgia: the country is a strategic transit corridor for Turkey, Azerbaijan and Central Asian countries. These countries have a strong interest in maintaining a Georgia that is not totally subservient to the Kremlin’s demands.
Islamophobia, a European problem
Dec 20, 2024 · “The issue of Islamophobia is a global problem, which has been amplified everywhere since 11 September 2001,” says Julien Talpin, a French sociologist at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), who specialises in questions related to integration and discrimination.. The FRA report is based on a sample of 9,604 people in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany ...
People of no nation: how being stateless means living ... - Voxeurop
Aug 1, 2024 · In 2013, UNHCR launched an action plan to end statelessness by 2024. However, just ahead of the deadline, the agency’s figures for stateless people as of mid-2023 were still far from the goal: around 381,000 stateless people in the EU in 2023. However, UNHCR itself acknowledges that, because it is based on data provided by governments and NGO, the real figure must be higher.
In Spain, regularising undocumented migrants could counter …
Sep 17, 2024 · “Living without papers is like living inside an invisible prison”, utters Lamine Sarr with a voice clipped and filled with impotence. The 40-year-old, who crossed the sea from Senegal to reach Spain eighteen years ago is one of the spokesperson of Regularización Ya, a popular platform calling for the Spanish state to regularise the legal situation of thousands of undocumented migrants and ...
COP29: missing $1 trillion for climate - voxeurop.eu
Nov 29, 2024 · The list comes from a series of publications by Carbon Brief’s Josh Gabbatiss, together with Vera Deleja-Hotko, Gustav Elfving, Lyse Mauvais, and Sevilay Nur Saraçlar, probably the best starting point for whoever wants to understand what the world’s leaders did – or tried to do – for two weeks in Baku.. From 11 to 24 November, negotiators at the so-called “climate COP” mainly ...
2024 in Europe, as seen by press cartoonists around the world
Oct 10, 2024 · Created in 2019 by the European Press Prize and Studio Europa Maastricht following the New York Times announcement that they would stop publishing press cartoons, the European Cartoon Award is designed to reward "courage and quality in the field of cartooning and foster conversation on the topic of Europe". These are two objectives that are at the heart of Voxeurop's mission.
Migration in Europe: Planning for tomorrow's crises
Dec 3, 2024 · More conflict, more movement. 59 armed conflicts in 34 countries: 2023 was one of the most violent years ever, according to a study by the Oslo Peace Research Institute. War in Ukraine, in Gaza, in Sudan: the more conflicts there are and the more they get bogged down, the greater the chances of new waves of migrants heading for Europe.And that's without counting global warming, which will ...