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Legal opinion: Implementation of a ban on the export of certain hazardous pesticides from Germany

The German government has announced it will implement an export ban on certain hazardous pesticides. The legal opinion examines the potential scope of such an export ban and if it could be compatible with the law of the European Union as well as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) of the World Trade organization (WTO).

Foto: Ehrengarde des Innenministeriums der Republika Srpska, Flaggenzug während der Parade zum Tag der Republik 9. Januar (Verfassungsungswidriger Feiertag) Banja Luka, 2019

Misguided Balkans policy. Dangerous appeasement

Analysis

For many years, Western players have been going all out to placate the populistic-nationalist players and their destructive ideologies: yet their questionable methods of appeasement and undemocratic interventions have ended up bolstering the very powers that have come to pose a threat to peace.

By Marion Kraske

Joumana Seif sitzt in einem roten Sessel

Anne Klein Women's Award 2023 to Joumana Seif

Honor

The Anne Klein Women's Award 2023 goes to the Syrian lawyer and women's and human rights activist Joumana Seif, who has spent the past decade in forced exile in Berlin.

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#StandWithUkraine

We declare our full solidarity with Ukraine. We stand by the side of our Ukrainian partners and colleagues and, at the same time, by the side of our partners in Russian civil society who are beset by harsh repression.

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Actually European!? 2022

Summary

This year`s representative survey reveals, citizens expect Germany to play a more active role in the EU during this "Zeitenwende”.

By Christine Pütz and Johannes Hillje

Proteste in Tokyo gegen Russlands Ukraine-Krieg.

The Ukraine War: Perspectives and Reactions in Asia

Introduction

This article provides an overview of how Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine is being viewed and assessed in various regions and countries in Asia, and how the governments there are positioning themselves and reacting: in the Southeast Asian ASEAN countries, in Northeast Asia, and in India, China, and Myanmar.

By Shalini Yog Shah and Jost Pachaly

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Basic Income | Livelihood

The work shows that in the discourse on transformation and sustainability in the fight against the constantly advancing climate change, a systematic integration of the issues of social inequality and the global creation of decent livelihoods are absolutely necessary.

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Debt Relief for Green and Inclusive Recovery

Report

This report proposes a Debt Relief for Green and Inclusive Recovery Initiative as an ambitious, concerted, and comprehensive debt relief initiative that frees up resources to support recoveries in a sustainable way, boosts economies’ resilience, and fosters a just transition to a low-carbon economy.

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Beyond the Karabakh Conflict:

In the second half of the 1980s, with the beginning of the Armenian-Azerbaijani military escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani residents of Kyzyl-Shafag, a village in northern Armenia, and Armenian residents of Kerkenj, a village in central Azerbaijan, met through their own initiative to negotiate a peaceful exchange of their villages.

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