This briefing, published by the European Parliamentary Research Service, aims to provide a broad range of key facts and figures about the European Parliament. Its many graphics offer a picture of the Parliament's Members and the institution's structures and activity in the current parliamentary term (July 2024 to June 2029) and in previous five-year terms since direct elections were introduced in June 1979. Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP
In June 2023, following its investigation into Europe's spyware scandal, the European Parliament issued a final recommendation identifying country-specific shortcomings and proposing EU standards for the use of spyware. Proposed safeguards include judicial approval, proportionality requirements, independent oversight, notification duties, and data deletion. Member States embroiled in the spyware scandal are making progress – albeit uneven – towards meeting these standards. Greece has amended its intelligence law in the wake of the spyware scandal, but it remains to be seen whether it will address outstanding shortcomings. Spain has announced further efforts to strengthen its legal framework, although Parliament considered the country's legal framework fundamentally compliant. Rule of law concerns persist in Hungary. Poland is investigating the alleged spyware abuses thoroughly, and is making decisive efforts to improve its legal framework. Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP
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Riyadh Gov. Prince Faisal bin Bandar received Ambassador of Albania to the Kingdom Saimir Bala in Riyadh on Wednesday. They discussed various topics of common interest, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Meanwhile, Eastern Province Gov. Prince Saud bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz met with Ukrainian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Anatolii Petrenko in Dammam on Wednesday. Prince Saud welcomed the ambassador to the Eastern Province. During the meeting, the two exchanged friendly talks and discussed a number of topics.
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s minister of culture, Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan, and his French counterpart, Rachida Dati, held talks in Paris on Wednesday on cultural cooperation. They discussed cultural exchanges between their countries and cooperation relating to museums, libraries, theater, the arts, cuisine, heritage and film production.
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Seychellois and Kenyan experts will soon be able to use a national biological risk assessment tool to identify key areas that would benefit from national biological risk assessment scenarios. A group of 30 experts in various fields from both countries ranging from health to agriculture are attending a five-day workshop at the Savoy Resort and Spa, in the northern Mahe district of Beau Vallon. They are the key players in their respective countries who respond in instances of biological incidents as they already work in the areas concerned with human, animal and environmental health. This is part of the European Union chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) and Centres of Excellence Project 99, which involves building capacity, and ensuring preparedness and containment in Eastern and Central African countries' biological incidents. The 11 member countries, which include Seychelles, Kenya, and Burundi, are currently working on determining areas where biological incidents may occur in the coming five years. «This training will help us map our risks, as we can see there is so much development happening that risks can be chemical or radiology or even biological,» explained Seychelles' representative, Dr. Jimmy Melanie. This workshop is specifically dealing with biological risks, which include illnesses in animals that may affect human health. Melanie said, «We are also taking into account toxins from plants, viruses, or bacteria that may have adverse effects on people's health.» He explained that Seychelles will have to identify the risks that it faces although he mentioned illnesses from animals such as the bird flu that can harm humans. «We have to work on these to prepare ourselves should there ever be a situation, we know that the policies have been decided on so that we as technicians can now take the appropriate steps,» added Melanie. Before the workshop was held in Seychelles, the experts attended a training session in Nairobi, Kenya, in June this year, where the national biological risk assessment tool was introduced. The project will go on until 2026, and it is only then that the experts will «be in a better position to help the authorities to develop a list of the biological risks that we feel we might be faced with,» said Melanie. The European Commission is funding the project and United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) is assisting with the outreach to the national focal points and experts in the eleven project countries. Project 99 team leader, Scott Spence, said that at the end of the workshop, the participants «will be able to identify potential emerging biological threats and risks in the short and medium term.» During the five days, the experts will also think of the worst-case scenarios of outbreaks and how they will deal with them. «Probably one scenario will be what is the likelihood of a pandemic happening in the next five years and what will be the impacts for the Seychelles and Kenya,» said the project's key expert, Joris Sprokholt. He added that the information gathered in the workshop «is very important information for all the different stakeholders such as non-governmental organisations and expert groups like veterinarians.» Sprokholt said that during the workshop the experts will embrace the 'one health perspective'. This an approach that recognises the close connection between the health of humans, animals, plants, and the environment.
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Hundreds of police officers have cordoned off the Georgian Parliament building amid protests Read Full Article at RT.com
An International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Netanyahu is not enough, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said Read Full Article at RT.com
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Somali migrants have faced a tragedy at sea en route to Mayotte Read Full Article at RT.com
According to Vladimir Artyakov, the Russian Armed Forces are very impressed with the company’s Su-34 frontline bombers, which make it possible for pilots to effectively perform their missions in any theater of war, using guided and unguided aircraft weapons
