Latest on Russia’s war on Ukraine [What Think Tanks are thinking]
This note gathers links to the recent publications and commentaries from many international think tanks on Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Briefings
The 2023 G20 Summit: A deepening rift heralding an uncertain future
The G20 is an international forum for economic cooperation on key issues on the global economic and financial agenda.
Prisoners’ voting rights in European Parliament elections
Disenfranchisement broadly means depriving someone of a legal right or privilege. Nowadays the term is often used to mean taking away the right to vote from a person or a group. Reasons for this can include residence abroad, a criminal conviction, intellectual disability or mental illness.
State of the Union address, European Parliament, 2023
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s fourth State of the Union address, scheduled for 13 September 2023, will be the last address in this legislative mandate, ahead of the 2024 European elections.
Voting from abroad in European Parliament elections
The right to vote is recognised as a fundamental right by international, European and national legal instruments.
Nuclear energy in the European Union
Nuclear policy has been present from the very beginning of the European Union. The six founding nations signed the Treaty on the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom Treaty) in 1957, which is one of the three founding treaties establishing the EU.
Standards of quality and safety for substances of human origin intended for human application [EU Legislation in Progress]
SoHO-based treatments are of high value. They provide large numbers of life-saving and life-enhancing therapies every year: 25 million units of blood for transfusion (e.g. for surgery or trauma care); 36 000 stem cell transplants for blood cancers, life-creating therapies (medically assisted reproduction treatments, e.g. 940 000 cycles of in vitro fertilisation), and life-improving therapies (e.g.14 500 cornea transplants for restoring sight, and 2 000 skin transplants for burn wounds and other injuries).
Standards of quality and safety for substances of human origin intended for human application [EU Legislation in Progress]
SoHO-based treatments are of high value. They provide large numbers of life-saving and life-enhancing therapies every year: 25 million units of blood for transfusion (e.g. for surgery or trauma care); 36 000 stem cell transplants for blood cancers, life-creating therapies (medically assisted reproduction treatments, e.g. 940 000 cycles of in vitro fertilisation), and life-improving therapies (e.g.14 500 cornea transplants for restoring sight, and 2 000 skin transplants for burn wounds and other injuries).
Towards gender balance in the European elections: Electoral quotas – What can they achieve?
Equality between women and men is a fundamental principle of the EU (Articles 2 and 3 of the Treaty on European Union) and an objective to be pursued by the EU through all its policies (Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union).
FASTER – Faster and safer tax excess refunds [EU Legislation in Progress]
When discussing the international taxation framework, two main principles determine the right of taxation in today’s globalised economy:
• The source principle: a country has the right to levy taxes on income arising in that country (‘the source country’).
• The residence principle: a country has the right to levy taxes on income received by residents of that country (‘the residence country’).