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Since Russia launched its unprovoked war against Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the US has worked in lockstep with allies and partners, notably the EU and other G7 countries, towards a strong collective response, including several packages of economic sanctions against Russia, aimed at cutting the country off from technologies and financial sources that fuel its war, directly impacting the individuals and entities involved.
This note gathers links to the recent publications and commentaries from many international think tanks on Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Forced labour, including forced child labour, is still widespread across the world. The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates the global number of people in a situation of forced labour at around 27.6 million, including 3.3 million children.
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly used to improve decision-making processes in a number of sectors such as health (e.g. disease diagnosis tools), mobility (e.g. autonomous driving systems), or agriculture (e.g. monitoring tools).
The transformation to a digital economy and society is changing the economic reality of the single market. New emerging technologies (e.g. cleaning robots and medical health apps) already benefit our society and economy, but also present potential risks.
In December 2020, the EU adopted a global human rights sanctions regime (EUGHR SR) enabling it to apply targeted restrictive measures against persons responsible for serious human rights violations and abuses (such as genocide, torture, slavery, extrajudicial killings or arbitrary arrests), and for other human rights violations (such as human trafficking, abuses of freedoms of: peaceful assembly, association, opinion and expression, religion and belief), if widespread and systematic
The concept of European Union (EU) citizenship was formally introduced into the constitutional order by Article 8 of the Treaty of Maastricht (now Article 20 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU));
In 2023, the EU celebrates the 30th anniversary of the single market, often considered to be the cornerstone of European integration.
The European Commission first floated the idea of an EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) in December 2020, following Joe Biden’s election as the US president.
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