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Sunday, 2 February 2020- edited by Ilaria
Saltarelli, Laura Harth and Angelica
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Publication
of annual report and statistics of
European Court of Human Rights for
2019.
The
Court has published its annual activity report and
statistics for 2019. At the close of 2019 the
number of application pending before the Court
totaled 59,800. The 2019 statistics show that the
number of new cases has risen on account of an
increase in applications against
Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Russian Federation, Turkey
and Ucraine.
During
the year the Court delivered 884 judgements and
38,480 applications were declared inadmissible or
struck out of the list by a single judge, a
three-judge Committee or a Chamber.
At
31 December 2019 the majority of pending cases
were against the Russian Federation (25,2%),
followed by Turkey (15,5%), Ukraine (14,8%),
Romania (13,2%), and Italy (5,1%).
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Freedom
House special report. Beijing's Global Megaphone:
The Expansion of Chinese Communist Party Media
Influence since 2017 The
Chinese Communist Party and various Chinese
government entities have long sought to influence
public debate and media coverage about China
outside the country. New research illustrates the
ways in which CCP's media influence is extending
far beyond the borders of mainland China to reach
audiences around the globe, via three key tactics:
global censorship, propaganda, and control over
content-delivery systems. by Sarah
Cook, Senior Research Analyst for China, Hong
Kong, and Taiwan.
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Global
Wave of Debt Is Largest, Fastest in 50
Years WASHINGTON, December 19,
2019—Debt in emerging and developing economies
(EMDEs) climbed to a record US$55 trillion in
2018, marking an eight-year surge that has been
the largest, fastest, and most broad-based in
nearly five decades, according to a new World Bank
Group study that urges policymakers to act
promptly to strengthen their economic policies and
make them less vulnerable to financial shocks.
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Make
no mistake: Poland and Hungary aren’t the only EU
states abusing the law Wed 22
Jan 2020, Agata Gostynska- Jakubowska for the
Guardian.
Countries
from Britain to Greece are guilty of democratic
backsliding. And that threatens the integrity of
the EU itself.
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