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Growing Japan-Philippines defense ties are linking the East China Sea and South China Sea.

Carney is trying to find an answer to his American problem by increasing Canada's engagement with China. He should remember he himself called China Canada’s “biggest geopolitical risk.”

As China continues to expand its nuclear capabilities, and Russia and the U.S. walk away from arms control, the future is terrifying: a new nuclear arms race, with more players, and less predictability.

Europe in the World Days – Security Track Report

Committee and political groups meetings, Brussels

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Ministers are holding a series of meetings in parliamentary committees to present the priorities of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Committee on Culture and Education
Committee on Development
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Committee on International Trade
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
Committee on Legal Affairs
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Committee on Fisheries
Committee on Security and Defence
Committee on Transport and Tourism

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Die im DIW Berlin angesiedelte forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) ist eine der größten und am längsten laufenden multidisziplinären Panelstudien weltweit, für die derzeit jährlich etwa 30.000 Menschen in knapp 15.000 Haushalten befragt werden. Das SOEP hat den Anspruch den gesellschaftlichen Wandel zu erfassen und steht immer neuen vielfältigen Themen- und Aufgabenfeldern gegenüber. Für das Kohäsionspanel, das in Kooperation mit der Universität Bremen durchgeführt wird, suchen wir um nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine studentische Hilfskraft (w/m/d) für 10 Wochenstunden.

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Described as the "mother of all deals," this is the largest trade agreement that the EU and India have ever concluded.

Its participation in the Future Mineral Forum meeting in Saudi Arabia reflects its plans to market its mineral reserves. But people in mining areas remain unenthused.

The BNP has a new leader. Students speak more openly about their affiliations with right-wing politics, and there is more freedom to criticize the powerful intelligence agencies.

The Philippine foreign secretary nonetheless expressed optimism that "something positive" might emerge from the recent one-sided polls.

How Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines are vying for the world's mobile workforce, and what it means for the region.

António Costa, the president of the European Council, said that the upgrade “underlines the importance we attach to the region and to Vietnam’s growing role within it.”

From 2021-2026, despite massive vacancies leaving 35 empty seats in the Central Committee (due to disciplinary dismissals or deaths), none were filled by alternates.

The rights group Amnesty International says that the government is doing nothing to deal with the mounting "humanitarian crisis."

The country's growth has become increasingly expensive to maintain, and its dividends are reaching ordinary households with diminishing force.

PDF/EPUB Cite Share options Information, rights and permissions Metrics and citations Figures and tables Abstract In 2004 the European Union (EU)’s membership grew from 15 to 25 member states. This article analyses how the EU used this ‘big bang enlargement’ to promote horizontal and vertical expansion to its role as a global development actor. It describes how the Union’s larger membership realised considerable horizontal expansion, primarily by increasing the development cooperation budget managed by the EU institutions. The global financial crisis, austerity measures in its member states as well as legal and institutional changes, however, hampered vertical expansion, with many member states failing to sufficiently increase their own national budgets and efforts to promote coordination and harmonisation delivering limited results. The understanding of the task division between the EU and its member states has evolved with the EU having gained a stronger role as a global development actor in its own right. This article contextualises and describes these expansion patterns by analysing key policy trends in the period 2000–2025 in a historical and international perspective and contributes new evidence to the literature on international organisation expansion.

PDF/EPUB Cite Share options Information, rights and permissions Metrics and citations Figures and tables Abstract In 2004 the European Union (EU)’s membership grew from 15 to 25 member states. This article analyses how the EU used this ‘big bang enlargement’ to promote horizontal and vertical expansion to its role as a global development actor. It describes how the Union’s larger membership realised considerable horizontal expansion, primarily by increasing the development cooperation budget managed by the EU institutions. The global financial crisis, austerity measures in its member states as well as legal and institutional changes, however, hampered vertical expansion, with many member states failing to sufficiently increase their own national budgets and efforts to promote coordination and harmonisation delivering limited results. The understanding of the task division between the EU and its member states has evolved with the EU having gained a stronger role as a global development actor in its own right. This article contextualises and describes these expansion patterns by analysing key policy trends in the period 2000–2025 in a historical and international perspective and contributes new evidence to the literature on international organisation expansion.

PDF/EPUB Cite Share options Information, rights and permissions Metrics and citations Figures and tables Abstract In 2004 the European Union (EU)’s membership grew from 15 to 25 member states. This article analyses how the EU used this ‘big bang enlargement’ to promote horizontal and vertical expansion to its role as a global development actor. It describes how the Union’s larger membership realised considerable horizontal expansion, primarily by increasing the development cooperation budget managed by the EU institutions. The global financial crisis, austerity measures in its member states as well as legal and institutional changes, however, hampered vertical expansion, with many member states failing to sufficiently increase their own national budgets and efforts to promote coordination and harmonisation delivering limited results. The understanding of the task division between the EU and its member states has evolved with the EU having gained a stronger role as a global development actor in its own right. This article contextualises and describes these expansion patterns by analysing key policy trends in the period 2000–2025 in a historical and international perspective and contributes new evidence to the literature on international organisation expansion.

India has secured tariff-free access to the EU’s garment market even as Bangladesh’s loss of preferential status looms.