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27 Apr 2021
27 April 2021
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Dear members of PACE, Honourable Ambassadors,
Last week the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe held a memorable debate on a topic of great importance for the future of human rights protection in Europe: the imprisonment of Russian opposition…
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18 Apr 2021
18 April 2021
Faced with Russian defiance of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of Alexey Navalny European democracies and elected parliamentarians have four options:
No strong response. This is what Russian politicians demand. They have threatened the Council of Europe: even…
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13 Apr 2021
Oxford University. Photo: flickr / Marcin Pieluzek
ESI’s Gerald Knaus was invited by the Oxford University Austrian Society to give a lecture on “Can ideas change the world?”. He spoke about key moments of his career and focused on the current challenges in migration policy,…
News
21 Apr 2021
Video: CARE Austria
ESI’s Gerald Knaus was invited to give a presentation for CARE Austria on “Empathy and Factfulness” and how to save the refugee convention. He presented 10 concrete facts on irregular migration, asylum, pushbacks and borders, and debunked populist rhetoric on the threat of…
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25 Apr 2021
Video: Batory Foundation
ESI’s Gerald Knaus participated in an online debate organised by the Polish Batory Foundation. He said that at the moment the EU’s institutions are fragile and that there is an urgent need for member states who believe in the rule of law to unite and defend it.…
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10 May 2021
Photo: ESI
On 10 May 2021 ESI deputy Chairman Kristof Bender participated in the "Vienna Dialogue about the future of Europe. Potential German-Austrian co-operation" (Wiener Dialog zur Zukunft Europas. Potentiale deutsch-österreichischer Kooperation) organised…
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20 May 2021
Adnan Cerimagic spoke with Ljubljana University students on EU-Balkans relations. Photo: ESI
ESI senior analyst Adnan Cerimagic took part in a seminar on EU enlargement policy. The seminar was organised by the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Participants included students taking part…
Newsletter
28 May 2021
Wer als Flüchtling zählt
Die tragische Schweizer Grenze
Wem wird Schutz gewährt?
Liebe ESI-Freunde,
Es sind noch zehn Wochen bis zum 70. Jahrestag der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention. Die Konvention, die im Sommer 1951 beschlossen wurde, konfrontierte die Welt mit einer radikalen neuen Idee:…
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26 May 2021
Counting refugees worldwide
Swiss border lessons
Who gets protection?
Dear friends of ESI,
It is ten weeks until 28 July, the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Refugee Convention. This convention, negotiated in the summer of 1951, introduced a radical new idea: that states should give protection to…