Maternity rights are set out in the 1992 Pregnant Workers Directive. This EU legislation sets the minimum period for maternity leave at 14 weeks, with 2 weeks' compulsory leave before and/or after ...

In 1947, drawing on the lessons learnt from the global economic damage caused by trade protectionism and tariff wars prior to World War II, 23 countries, including the United States, initiated the ...

Conscription has long been a defining feature of defence policies in Europe, shaping national security and defence strategies for centuries. By definition, conscription (or the ‘draft’) refers to an ...

Efforts to increase the number of returns have been a feature of EU migration policy for the past 20 years. Since the 2015 peak in arrivals of asylum-seekers and irregular migrants, the EU and its ...

Written by Suzana Anghel and Mario Damen. By waging war on Ukraine, Russia looked for a reset of the European security architecture as established at the end of the Cold War, for a new delimitation of ...

New methods are now available for processing mined metal ores that produce essentially no pollution compared to existing techniques.

Apart from clarifying the timeline, Figure 3 also visualises the nature of pathways towards the various scenarios. The pathways towards European NATO and EU Defence Union start with a disruption from ...

Citizens are appealing to the European Parliament about the situation of the Christian community in Syria. Citizens are appealing to the European Parliament about the situation of the Christian ...