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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is to cooperate with health authorities in Taiwan and Japan to establish a communication platform to promote the mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccination certificates, an official said yesterday. The Japanese government is looking to ease its quarantine requirements for visitors, mainly short-term business travelers, students and technical interns, later this month, the Nikkei Asia reported on Monday. The Japanese government has not yet formally announced the ne...

Date: 10 November 2021 - Time: 14.00 – 15.00 GMT (15.00 – 16.00 CET)Hot on the heels of the European Parliament’s Gender Equality week 25-29 October 2021 and

A delegation from the European Union (EU) is reportedly planning a visit to Taiwan in November. The European Parliament’s Special Committee on Foreign

The European Parliament’s Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the EU (INGE) is to send a delegation to Taiwan next month with the aim of exchanging experiences in countering false information and Internet interference by China, sources said. Concerned about information security, the European Parliament on Oct. 6 voted to adopt a report on the state of the EU’s cyberdefense capabilities, urging the EU and its member states to further develop their comprehe...

By Lu Yi-hsuan / Staff reporterThe European Parliament’s Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the EU （INGE） is to send a delegation to Taiwan next month with the aim of exchanging experiences in countering false information and Internet interference by China, sources said.

Pirate MEPs agreed that yesterdays outage (4 October) of Facebook and other networks could have been avoided. The solution would have been interoperability: interconnection of individual networks managed by different providers. The European Pirates have been pushing for interoperability at the European level in the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA). […]

killing Democracy Once And For All: The Global Elites Coupdetat That Is Destroying Life As We Know It Source: Robert J. Burrowes Listen to article Politically savvy individuals know that democracy has rarely existed and probably never outside small groups of humans who deliberately organize themselves to share power or grant it temporarily to one or a small number of people for a particular purpose. In most contexts, ‘democracy’ is simply a label used to deceive the unwary into believing t...

By Robert J. Burrowes* Politically savvy individuals know that democracy has rarely existed and probably never outside small groups of humans who deliberately organize themselves to share power or grant it temporarily to one or a small number of people for a particular purpose. In most contexts, ‘democracy’ is simply a label used to deceive the unwary into believing that ordinary people have a say in how we are governed. But this has never been the case in any political framework on a large...

URL copied to clipboard Kyrgyzstan is in shock following the murder of Aizada Kanatbekova, who was ‘bride-kidnapped’ (abducted in order to be forced into marriage) in the centre of Bishkek, the countrys capital. On 7 April, Kanatbekova was found strangled in a car next to the body of her kidnapper, who had taken his own life. It became clear that the police knew the cars licence plate, the name of the suspect and his phone number, but still "did not manage" to save the womans life. Kana...

Content courtesy of the Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the European Union (NL PermRep)  How will disinformation shape European democracy in the years to come and how far-stretching are its consequences? The Dutch Permanent Representations to the EU is inviting you for an online discussion on this topical issue in the light of the upcoming Parliamentary elections in various European countries. The pandemic and the lockdown have shown the power of online platforms,...