BREXIT NEXT STEP: THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

On 11 December, the House of Commons will debate and then vote upon a government motion to approve the EU withdrawal agreement and accompanying political declaration. The terms of the UK's departure from the EU. But at the moment, it looks as if Theresa May faces an incredibly hard job getting it passed. She leads a government with a working majority of just 13. Only seven Tory rebels are needed to defeat it.

MACRON NEEDS TO DESIGN A STRATEGY OF INFLUENCE

Author: Nicholas Dungan, nonresident senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative, associate research fellow of the French Institute for International and Strategic Relations, and an adjunct faculty member of Sciences Po Paris.

G20 TRANSITION TO A LOW CARBON ECONOMY (2018)

Source: Brown to Green Report Executive Summary.

The G20 Countries that need to do the most in the power and transport sectors lack concrete action plans.

Power: South Africa, Australia and Indonesia have the highest emission intensity in the power sector and lack concrete actions to phase out coal.

BREXIT: WHAT HAPPENS NOW?

November 20: The European Commission will agree the declaration on the future of the UK, after which the member states will have 48 hours to offer comments on the declaration.

November 25: EU leaders to approve the draft deal at an emergency European Council  Summit. A Brexit deal must also be signed off by a supermajority (at least 20 states representing 65 per cent of the population) of leaders of member states.

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ADVOCATES (FRANCE)

Environment Protection Advocates in France

LE COMITE POUR L'ECONOMIE VERTE (FRANCE)

Le comité pour l’économie verte  (sous le Ministère de la  Transition écologique et solidaire) réunit les autorités et parties prenantes concernées par les enjeux de la fiscalité de l’énergie, de l’économie circulaire, de l’eau et de la biodiversité, ainsi que de l’ensemble des outils économiques permettant, en complément des leviers budgétaires et réglementaires traditionnels, de favoriser la transition énergétique.

Ses missions

Le comité pour l’économie verte a pour missions :

THE PARIS PEACE FORUM

Author: Célia Belin, Visiting Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

On Sunday November 11, 60 world leaders will join French President Emmanuel Macron in inaugurating the first edition of the Paris Peace Forum, a few hours after commemorating the centenary of the armistice that ended World War I.

TRUMP’S INTERNATIONAL RATINGS

Source:  Pew Research Center (01/10/2018)

LIST OF POPULIST PARTIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Party Acronym is followed by affiliation in the EP; % indicates popularity among likely voters 

Austria

  • Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) ENF 35%

Belgium

  • Flemish Interest (VB) ENF 13%

Bulgaria

  • Attack (Ataka) 2%
  • Patriotic Front (NFSD) EFD 7%
  • Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) EPP 42%

Croatia

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