European Union

Donald Tusk, President of the European Council of the European Union, addresses the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly.
UN Photo/Cia Pak

More unity, ‘collective action’ needed to maintain international order, EU leader tells UN Assembly

27 September 2018
UN Affairs

Rules-based international order is under “great strain,” Donald Tusk, President of the European Council of the European Union (EU), told the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, saying that his organization is “fighting intensely” to preserve it.

A young child holds a toy as she seeks shelter with other Afghan refugees from very cold, wet weather conditions at the Tabanovce reception centre for refugees in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia after being refused entry into Serbia. February 2016.
UNICEF/Tomislav Georgiev

EU migration deal welcomed by UN agencies

29 June 2018
Migrants and Refugees

UN humanitarian agencies on Friday broadly welcomed a freshly-inked deal on migration by European Union leaders which calls for more Member States to take responsibility within their borders for those in need of protection, amid a hardening stance by some since 2015.

Ann Mari May, Economics Professor at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and David Kucera, Senior Economist at ILO's Employment Policy Department.
courtesy of Ann Mari May. Photo: Ave Kukuli

The economics of gender balance

16 March 2018
UN Gender Focus

As women fight for gender parity in and out of the workforce a new study shows that in most of Europe, women are slowly catching up to men.

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