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Press release - Violence in north-east Syria may amount to war crimes, warn MEPs

Europäisches Parlament (Nachrichten) - Thu, 12/02/2026 - 13:33
Parliament strongly condemns all violence against civilians in north-east Syria and calls on all parties to abide by the ceasefire.
Committee on Foreign Affairs

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Press release - Violence in north-east Syria may amount to war crimes, warn MEPs

Parliament strongly condemns all violence against civilians in north-east Syria and calls on all parties to abide by the ceasefire.
Committee on Foreign Affairs

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Pressemitteilung - Vorschläge des Parlaments zur Bekämpfung von Armut in der EU bis 2035

Europäisches Parlament (Nachrichten) - Thu, 12/02/2026 - 13:23
Am Donnerstag forderte das Parlament mehr Mittel und eine bessere Koordinierung zur Bekämpfung von Armut und sozialer Ausgrenzung in der EU.
Ausschuss für Beschäftigung und soziale Angelegenheiten

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Press release - Human rights violations in Iran, Türkiye and Uganda

Europäisches Parlament (Nachrichten) - Thu, 12/02/2026 - 12:53
On Thursday, Parliament adopted three resolutions on the human rights situations in Iran, Türkiye and Uganda.

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How the war in Sudan could end

SWP - Thu, 12/02/2026 - 12:52
As the battlefield stabilizes, a window for negotiations opens

Press release - New rules to protect farmers against unfair trading practices

Europäisches Parlament (Nachrichten) - Thu, 12/02/2026 - 12:43
On Thursday, Parliament adopted new measures to protect European farmers from unfair trading practices by buyers of agricultural products.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

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Press release - President Metsola: “We have a narrow window to deliver for Europe and we must.”

Europäisches Parlament (Nachrichten) - Thu, 12/02/2026 - 12:23
Speaking at the Leaders’ retreat on competitiveness, President Metsola said that there was “a narrow window of opportunity” to do the necessary to push Europe forward.

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Südkorea ist der ideale Partner für die deutsche Zeitenwende

SWP - Thu, 12/02/2026 - 12:05
Deutschland wird allein mit europäischen Partnern nicht schnell genug verteidigungsfähig. Südkoreas starke und exportorientierte Rüstungsindustrie könnte zügig helfen, meint Eric Ballbach.

DRAFT OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing the European Competitiveness Fund ('ECF’), including the specific programme for defence research and innovation activities, repealing...

DRAFT OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing the European Competitiveness Fund ('ECF’), including the specific programme for defence research and innovation activities, repealing Regulations (EU) 2021/522, (EU) 2021/694, (EU) 2021/697, (EU) 2021/783, and amending Regulations (EU) 2021/696, (EU) 2023/588, (EU) [EDIP]
Committee on Security and Defence
Riho Terras

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"Transgressive" mobility and the structuring of space and belonging

One of the hallmarks of colonization was transplantation of the European nation-state to the colonies in line with colonialism’s consideration of sedentarism as indispensable to its ‘civilization’ by domination mission. The structuring of space and belonging around the Eurocentric notion of nationhood and statehood became the vehicle through which populations in the colonized parts of the world were reconfigured as insiders and outsiders as well as legal and illegal among other designations. This chapter addresses the Eurocentric configuration of space around the nation-state, its reproduction in the colony and post-colony and the implications for contemporary global mobility. Building on Michel Foucault’s (1986) heterotopic spaces and Freerk Boedeltje’s (2012) discussion of the structuring of space around the ‘normal’/‘deviant’ binary, the chapter argues that this dichotomous dissection of space inscribes varied texts on mobile bodies and creates hierarchies that bestow varied identities and differential mobility opportunities on people who inhabit different spaces. The Eurocentric structuring of space construes mobility as anomalous and straining the hyphen in nation-state through its disruption of the order created around sedentarism and spatial demarcation of belonging. The chapter highlights how the nation-state attaches belonging to space in ways that restrain mobility particularly by ‘othered’ bodies from ‘deviant’ spaces. It illustrates its main argument by discussing the tethering of belonging to space exemplified by physical and legal barriers buttressed by securitizing discourses that seek to deter presumably transgressive mobilities’ ‘encroachment’ into spaces where they are ostensibly anomalous.

"Transgressive" mobility and the structuring of space and belonging

One of the hallmarks of colonization was transplantation of the European nation-state to the colonies in line with colonialism’s consideration of sedentarism as indispensable to its ‘civilization’ by domination mission. The structuring of space and belonging around the Eurocentric notion of nationhood and statehood became the vehicle through which populations in the colonized parts of the world were reconfigured as insiders and outsiders as well as legal and illegal among other designations. This chapter addresses the Eurocentric configuration of space around the nation-state, its reproduction in the colony and post-colony and the implications for contemporary global mobility. Building on Michel Foucault’s (1986) heterotopic spaces and Freerk Boedeltje’s (2012) discussion of the structuring of space around the ‘normal’/‘deviant’ binary, the chapter argues that this dichotomous dissection of space inscribes varied texts on mobile bodies and creates hierarchies that bestow varied identities and differential mobility opportunities on people who inhabit different spaces. The Eurocentric structuring of space construes mobility as anomalous and straining the hyphen in nation-state through its disruption of the order created around sedentarism and spatial demarcation of belonging. The chapter highlights how the nation-state attaches belonging to space in ways that restrain mobility particularly by ‘othered’ bodies from ‘deviant’ spaces. It illustrates its main argument by discussing the tethering of belonging to space exemplified by physical and legal barriers buttressed by securitizing discourses that seek to deter presumably transgressive mobilities’ ‘encroachment’ into spaces where they are ostensibly anomalous.

Nationale Sicherheitsstrategie 2.0 – Herausforderungen und Anforderungen

SWP - Thu, 12/02/2026 - 09:58
Im Laufe des Jahres 2026 wird die Bundesregierung die Nationale Sicherheitsstrategie neu fassen. Mit ihrem Leitmotiv der integrierten Sicherheit schafft sie Orientierungspunkte für staatliches Handeln und Bezüge für die öffentliche Debatte.

EPPO: Council appoints new prosecutors for Belgium and Czechia

Europäischer Rat (Nachrichten) - Thu, 12/02/2026 - 09:29
The Council today appointed new prosecutors for Belgium and Czechia to the EU Public Prosecutor Office (EPPO). European prosecutors supervise investigations and prosecutions and, together with the European Chief Prosecutor, form the EPPO College. 

Neue Zollvorschriften für kleine Pakete: Rat gibt endgültig grünes Licht

Europäischer Rat (Nachrichten) - Thu, 12/02/2026 - 09:29
Heute hat der Rat Maßnahmen förmlich gebilligt, um den Zustrom an Waren anzugehen, die in kleinen Paketen zollfrei in die EU gelangen – ein Problem, das zu unfairem Wettbewerb für EU-Verkäufer führen kann.

EU Special Representatives: Council extends the mandates of the EUSRs for Human Rights and the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue

Europäischer Rat (Nachrichten) - Thu, 12/02/2026 - 09:29
The Council extended the mandates of the EU Special Representatives for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and for Human Rights.

SAFE: Council clears path for financial assistance to eight member states and concluding the Canada agreement

Europäischer Rat (Nachrichten) - Thu, 12/02/2026 - 09:29
The Council adopted a set of implementing decisions making the financial assistance under the SAFE regulation available to eight EU member states and adopted decisions authorising the EU to sign and conclude the bilateral agreement between the EU and Canada.

Press briefing - Eurogroup meeting of 16 February 2026

Europäischer Rat (Nachrichten) - Thu, 12/02/2026 - 09:29
Press briefing ahead of the Eurogroup meeting will take place on 13 February 2026 at 10.30. 

Erklärung der Hohen Vertreterin im Namen der Europäischen Union zur Erklärung einiger Länder, sich dem Beschluss des Rates über restriktive Maßnahmen angesichts von Handlungen, die die Stabilität und den politischen Übergang Sudans untergraben,...

Europäischer Rat (Nachrichten) - Thu, 12/02/2026 - 09:29
Erklärung der Hohen Vertreterin im Namen der Europäischen Union zur Erklärung einiger Drittländer, sich dem Beschluss (GASP) 2026/254 des Rates vom 29. Januar 2026 zur Änderung des Beschlusses (GASP) 2023/2135 über restriktive Maßnahmen angesichts von Handlungen, die die Stabilität und den politischen Übergang Sudans untergraben, anzuschließen.

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