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The S&D Group is today launching the #Progressives4Europe initiative to promote progressive views and voices to feed into the Conference on the Future of Europe launching on 9 May.
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#Progressives4Europe includes the first multilingual debate platform in 24 EU languages and more, alongside a dedicated Facebook page, that encourages people to submit views and ideas online to help shape the Progressivesâ contribution to the debate on the Future of Europe.
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 Iratxe GarcÃa, S&D Group president and member of the Executive Board for the Conference on the Future of Europe, said:
âThe Conference on the Future of Europe provides a unique opportunity for citizens to contribute to the discussions about what kind of Union we want to build. The future belongs to all of us and we should not take these decisions alone in the Brussels bubble. The pandemic has made us all familiar with new tools to connect with each other online and this
The Turkish Diaspora in Europe
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More than 5 million people of Turkish descent live in Europe outside Turkey itself, a human connection that has bound Turkey and the wider European community together since large-scale migration began in the 1960s. The questions of immigration, citizenship, integration, assimilation, and social exchange sparked by this migration and the establishment of permanent Turkish diaspora communities in Europe have long been politically sensitive. Conservative and far-right parties in Europe have seized upon issues of migration and cultural diversity, often engaging in fearmongering about immigrant communities and playing upon some Europeans’ anxiety about rapid demographic change. Relations between the European Union as well as many of its constituent member states and Turkey have deteriorated dramatically in recent years. And since 2014, Turks abroad, in Europe and elsewhere around the world, have been able to vote in Turkish elect
Young activist fights to criminalize catcalling in Germany
The murder of Sarah Everard in London has sparked fresh debate about harassment and assaults against women. In Germany, one young woman is campaigning for the introduction of a catcall law.
Public harassment is a fact of life for women everywhere Hey, blondie! Babe, come over here! many men still think this sort of lewd comment, along with wolfwhistles and obscene gestures, is a compliment. For women it s outright harassment.
Catcalling sexually suggestive and inappropriate remarks directed at women by strangers occurs both in public and on the Internet. All the time.