Report from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on the Eu Support for Democratic Governance, with a Focus on the Governance Initiative

O6: The Development of the EU Talent Support Network-Enrichment, Openness, Cooperation

At the moment, 14 European Talent Centres belong to the recently formed European Talent Support Network, which, in the long run, can bring new dimensions to pan-European cooperation in supporting young talented people all over Europe.  Exchange and adaptation of best practices, spread and application of scientific results, possibilities of mutual visits of young talents, their teachers, me...

The Global Health Policies of the EU and its Member States: A Common Vision?

Background This article assesses the global health policies of the European Union (EU) and those of its individual member states. So far EU and public health scholars have paid little heed to this, despite the large budgets involved in this area. While the European Commission has attempted to define the ‘EU role in Global Health’ in 2010, member states are active in the domain of global health ...

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES Brussels, COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF REGIONS POLICY PLAN ON ASYLUM AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO PROTECTION ACROSS THE EU

Accompanying the document COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS An EU Strategy on adaptation to climate change

Reaching Outside the Comfort Zone: Realising the FCTC’s Potential for Public Health Governance and Regulation in the European Union; Comment on “The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments – What It Brings to Global Health Governance?”

In their paper, Nikogosian and Kickbusch show how the effects of the adoption by the World Health Organization (WHO) of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and its first Protocol extend beyond tobacco control and contribute to public health governance more broadly, by revealing new processes, institutions and instruments. While there are certainly good reasons to be optimisti...