Poland’s former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki from the conservative PiS party in the ECR has also left the door open to a big tie-up on the right, and there is wide speculation that Hungary’s Viktor Orbán will affiliate his Fidesz party there after the election. All of these mergers and reconfigurations are complex and vulnerable to post-election deals and disagreements. The Czechs and Romanians in the ECR don’t want to team up with nationalist Hungarians sympathetic to the Kremlin, for example. Major political gymnastics and resets would be required to get the AfD back in the tent. While losing the…
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The Philadelphia Inquirer recently investigated Philadelphia’s use of what it described as a “little-scrutinized, 7,000-camera system that is exposing residents across the city to heightened surveillance with few rules or safeguards against abuse.” The article detailed how Philadelphia narcotics cops not only allegedly failed to disclose their use of video surveillance in arrest reports or to prosecutors, but also that the video footage at times proved officers were lying when they testified. The Conversation U.S. talked to Albert Fox Cahn, founder and executive director of the nonprofit Surveillance Technology Oversight Project and a practitioner-in-residence at NYU School of Law, about…
Today (Friday 24th May) the Victims and Prisoners Bill was granted Royal Assent, creating a new arm’s length body called the Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA). Before the IBCA can make final payments, the Government will need to make the regulations to enact the compensation scheme for victims of the Infected Blood scandal. The legislation also means that the final regulations must be made by the Government – within three months, so by 24 August 2024. The Prime Minister delivered a state apology on the 20th of May, in response to the publication of the Infected Blood Inquiry report. The Minister for the Cabinet Office outlined the Government’s…
Secretary Antony Blinken will travel to Chisinau, Moldova and Prague, Czechia, May 28-31. In Chișinău, Secretary Blinken will meet with Moldovan President Maia Sandu and other senior officials to reaffirm U.S. support for Moldova’s progress on EU accession and energy security. In Prague, he will meet with Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský and other senior officials to discuss continued support for Ukraine, collaborative defense modernization, and deepening energy ties. While in Prague, Secretary Blinken will participate in an informal NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting to discuss priorities for the upcoming NATO Washington Summit. Source_link
In 2023, 9.8 million people in the EU worked as ICT specialists, representing 4.8% of the total people in employment. A growth trend in ICT specialists in the EU has been taking place over the past few years, with the number of people working in this area rising by 1.5 percentage points (pp) since 2013 and an increase of 0.2 pp compared with 2022 (4.6%). Among the EU countries, in 2023, the share of ICT specialists was highest in Sweden (8.7%), followed by Luxembourg (8.0%) and Finland (7.6%). The lowest shares were observed in Greece (2.4%), Romania (2.6%) and Slovenia…
Many, many years ago dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Six-year-old Aga knows that a meteorite wiped them out… but could another meteorite bring them back? You can read a print version of this story here. The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast is published in partnership with FunKids, the UK’s children’s radio station. It’s hosted and produced by Eloise. The executive producer is Gemma Ware. Email your question to curiouskids@worldnewsintel.com or record it and send your question to us directly at funkidslive.com/curious. And explore more articles from our Curious Kids series on The Conversation. Disclosure statement: During the past 40+ years, William Ausich…
Delhi Metro, often hailed as India’s premier metro system, is now receiving acclaim from foreign visitors as well. In a trending video, two Irish influencers shared their impressions of the Delhi metro, describing it as surprisingly calm, clean and safe.Smooth, safe and clean Delhi metroThe Irish influencer duo took to Instagram to share their thoughts on the Delhi metro, expressing initial reservations due to misconceptions and general tourist caution associated with metros worldwide. InstagramHowever, they were pleasantly surprised to find the Delhi metro to be the ‘best metro ever.’In the video, one of them highlights feeling secure thanks to the…
Employers: Gordo Corp., operating as El Gordito, Belleville, Illinois Patricia and Samuel Gonzalez Lara, ownersAction: Complaint filingCourt: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of IllinoisCourt action: The U.S. Department of Labor filed a complaint in federal court on May 21, 2024, alleging Gordo Corp., operator of El Gordito restaurant violated federal minimum wage, overtime and recordkeeping regulations. The filing comes after an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division found the restaurant and its owners and operators Patricia Gonzalez Lara and Samuel Gonzalez Lara violated the Fair Labor Standards Act when they did the following:Failed to pay servers…
First the cunning: Europe is still holding out hope that it can somehow resurrect the failed nuclear deal with Iran that relaxed sanctions on Tehran in return for allowing international inspections of its atomic activities. To keep the door open, European leaders, whose countries also stand to benefit from a resumption of trade with Iran, have taken pains not to offend the regime. By this logic, a failure to express condolences over Raisi’s death would be considered an unnecessary provocation. Leaving aside the continued viability of the nuclear deal at this stage, it’s worth recalling the details of Iran’s malevolent…
In the occupied far east of Ukraine, Russian forces are aiming waves of missiles against Ukrainian civilian targets. Each of Russia’s state-of-the-art missile launch systems costs more than US$100 million (A$150 million). They allow Russia to launch attacks from safe positions many kilometres behind the front lines. The S-300 surface-to-air missile launcher is designed to avoid detection. Their locations are closely guarded secrets. However, using publicly available satellite images, we have detected telltale signs of the operation of these weapons that give away their location. This is just one example of why the strategic and tactical use of publicly available…