‘Europe 2020 - A European strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth’ is the new economic strategy that focuses on a trio of interlinked priorities: growth from knowledge, creating an inclusive society and building a greener economy that is competitive at international level.
DI - 11/3/2010
The UNEP Yearbook 2010 reports on new science and developments in our changing environment. It highlights the progress in environmental governance, the effects of continuing degradation and loss of the world’s ecosystems, impacts of climate change, how harmful substances and hazardous waste affect human health and the environment, environmentally related disasters and conflicts, and unsustainable use of resources.
DI - 9/3/2010
The first municipal Human Development Report (HDR) launched by the UNDP Office in India focuses on population trends, economy, slums, elementary education, health, gender issues and quality of life in Mumbai in 2009.
DI - 8/3/2010
This declaration was issued at the European Union and Morocco summit held in Granada (Spain) on 7 March 2010. It was the first summit between the EU and a Mediterranean partner country since the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon.
DI - 1/3/2010
The recent study of the ECLAC monitors the progress made and the difficulties encountered in attaining the targets of the seventh MDG for Latin America and the Caribbean. According to these, ‘the constant reduction of forest areas and the sustained increase of CO2 emissions in the region are impeding compliance with the seventh Millennium Development Goal (MDG7) on environmental sustainability’.
DI - 23/2/2010
This publication of the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) offers updated information about country, regional and global population patterns. It also provides demographic, health and environment data for all the countries and major regions of the world.
DI - 20/2/2010
Published by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), this new report on African remittances outlines the main results of a study on regulatory issues and market competition in 50 African countries representing 90 per cent of remittance flows to the region.
DI - 18/2/2010
This study – published by the Research Institute for European and American Studies- analyses counterterrorism policies implemented in different areas by the European Union and their relevance in practice.
DI - 16/2/2010
This policy brief of the Macedonian Centre for European Training (MCET) focuses on the priorities and actions of the Spanish Presidency, the bilateral relations between the EU and Macedonia and the future development of the relations under the Team Presidency. Also, special attention is given to the relations and potentials for strategic partnerships between Spain and Macedonia in light of EU Accession.
DI - 15/2/2010
Published by the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED), the second annual report on Arab Environment Climate Change analyses the region’s response to the urgent need for adaptation measures.
DI - 12/2/2010
The European Union Heads of State and Government pledged their support to Greece to tackle its debt crisis at the meeting on 11 February in Brussels. The statement stresses both the Greek government’s responsibility and the EU’s solidarity.
DI - 8/2/2010
According to this report of the Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM), emigration from South and East Mediterranean countries (SEM) is continuing at a steady rate, while immigration to these countries is increasing, particularly in various irregular forms. However, this trend differs from those preceding it in 2007 and 2008.
DI - 5/2/2010
According to the 2009 edition of the Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean, the economy of the region grew an average 4% from 1950 to 2009 while the population increased 2.1% annually during the same period. Published in February 2010, this report is one of the main sources of statistical information in the region that gather social, economic and environmental data from the Latin American and Caribbean countries.
DI - 1/2/2010
This year’s edition highlights the continued need to further enhance global resilience to risks. It also stresses global governance gaps as one of the nexus of global risks that need an increasingly urgent coordinated global action. The report was published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in February 2010.
DI - 28/1/2010
U.S President Barack Obama delivered his 2010 State of the Union Address on 28 January 2010. The President lays out his priorities for jobs and bolstering the middle class.
DI - 26/1/2010
The 20th annual World Report documents ongoing human rights abuses by states and non-state armed groups across the globe. The report also stresses that governments responsible for serious human rights violations have over the past year intensified attacks against human rights defenders and organizations that document abuse.
DI - 22/1/2010
The latest edition of Freedom in the World – the annual survey of global political rights and civil liberties published by Freedom House on 12 January 2010- states that 2009 marked the fourth consecutive year in which global freedom suffered a decline, ‘the longest consecutive period of setbacks for freedom in the nearly 40-year history of the report’.
DI - 21/1/2010
Following the devastating earthquake that struck this country on 12 January, the UN Security Council –as its 6261st meeting on 19 January 2010- decided to boost the force levels for military and police components of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). The mission will consist of a military component of up to 8,940 troops of all ranks and of a police component of up to 3,711 police and that it will keep the new levels of troops and police in MINUSTAH under review as necessary.
DI - 15/1/2010
According to this Statistics in focus report, the significant growth in the EU’s population in recent years is a trend ‘mainly due to a relatively high net migration rate, which in 2008 was almost three times higher than the rate of natural population growth’. It also presents the latest available figures on the foreign population usually resident in the EU-27 and EFTA Member States, broken down by country of citizenship.
DI - 13/1/2010
This paper critically examines the relevance of the US intelligence community to the counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan in the last eight years. It was written by Major General Michael T. Flynn (Senior Intelligence Officer in Afghanistan), Captain Matt Pottinger (company-grade Officer) and Paul D. Batchelor (Senior Executive Service of the Defense Intelligence Agency).
DI – 13/1/2010
The new study (in Spanish) of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean estimates that the value of total exports from the region fell by 24% with regard to the previous year due to the global crisis, though there could be an improvement in 2010.
DI - 12/1/2010
The African Women Report 2009: measuring gender inequality in Africa Experiences and Lessons from the African Gender and Development Index is based on a technical tool of the UNECA (the African Gender and Development Index). It provides a gender-responsive definition of accountability and focuses on the key elements that are required to ‘make accountability work’ for women.
DI - 11/1/2010
The special report of the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies is focused on India-Bangladesh relationship security issues as follows: maritime demarcation, environment/water security, border issues and Indian Border Security Force’s (BSF) killing of civilians, human insecurity in unsettled enclaves, gross imbalance in trade, disparity in sharing information, transnational security threats and the issue of militancy and terrorism.
DI - 7/1/2010
Published on 5 January, this Congressional Research Service report highlights the threats posed by a crime-terrorism nexus, as the scale and nature of their cooperation are believed to vary widely. US efforts to combat the relationship between crime and terrorism are a subset of broader policy responses to transnational crime and international terrorism individually.
4/01/2010
Spain took over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union on 1 January 2010. We offer the official programme of the Spanish Presidency of the EU Council 2010.
