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...ensure that this change in Poland is reflected not just in rhetoric but in some hard cash being handed out as incentive to continue with those reforms,” said Jakub Jaraczewski, research co-ordinator at NGO...
...Context: The initiative would force NGOs and media that receive more than 20 per cent of their funding from abroad to register with the Ministry of Justice, or face fines....
...A group of NGOs, industry bodies and member states will gather in Brussels today to debate its implementation....
...Even after WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala took up complaints with Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, the UAE trade minister chairing the conference, NGOs were still prohibited from displaying banners...
...Many NGOs have cried foul over possible rights breaches and criticised the reforms for not overhauling the distribution of refugees between member states — as originally proposed....
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...But a new report led by the NGO Both ENDS has found that few of them have stuck to that promise....
...NGOs have also pointed out that the EU has previously criticised laws targeting NGOs as “foreign agents” abroad, for instance in Georgia and Russia....
...It follows other agreements with Tunisia and Mauritania that pledged money and other incentives in return for better policing of the countries’ borders, despite concerns from politicians and NGOs over human...
...the NGOs said....
...The power of the European Commission’s mighty trade department was put to the test in November, when it tried to throttle a plan to improve dog and cat welfare for animals, horrifying NGOs....
...Fifteen NGOs launched a new legal case this week seeking to overturn the reinstatement of necessary construction permits that have been repeatedly granted and withdrawn, citing the planned site’s impact...
...Many schools and hospitals have closed, while NGOs — often the administrators of services in Haiti — have warned food, water and fuel are running low....
...“Honestly it’s a bit of unknown territory, there’s no clear rule in Article 7 on how to drop the procedure,” said Jakub Jaraczewski, head of research at Democracy Reporting International, an NGO....
...But reaching the 2030 goal alone will require €813bn per year between 2024 and 2030 — or 5.1 per cent of EU GDP, according to a report by the Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE), an NGO, published today...
...Email us: robert.Armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...More than 2.4mn dogs are sold annually in the EU in illicit transactions worth more than €1.5bn, according to animal welfare NGO Four Paws....
...(Ethan Wu) One good read Seymour Hersh on Henry Kissinger....
...many refugees as well as other migrants, there is no alternative to using smugglers, due to an absence of safe routes,” said Catherine Woollard, head of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, an NGO...
...The NGOs, including the WWF, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, said Hoekstra had a questionable record on climate, pointing to a previous job at the oil company Shell....
...Based on data from January, the NGO found that European financial institutions (including Switzerland and the UK) held over €118bn in fossil fuel bonds and shares....
...But you can still email me: ethan.wu@ft.com....
...NGOs are now filing two lawsuits before the Court of Justice of the European Union, after they announced first legal steps in September....
...Henry Mance writes that, if anything awaits us, it will be further bafflement....
...The platform’s members are consultancies, businesses and NGOs. Manfred Weber, the EPP’s chair, accused the commission of not being “respectful” of the parliament....
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