• So over the next five years the development of technologies and price reduction could make it possible to improve on 2020 commitments. (newscientist.com)
  • The European Union and others who are going to overachieve their climate targets for 2020 should see what more they can do. (newscientist.com)
  • In addition, collaboration over the three last years (2015-2017) was assessed and the jointly agreed plans for collaboration for the following three years (2018-2020)1 were examined. (who.int)
  • The CCS development process examines its strategic direction for the next 20 years the health situation in the country within (2000-2020), make it a timely moment for a holistic approach that encompasses WHO to update the Country Cooperation the health sector, socioeconomic status, Strategy for this country. (who.int)
  • en & Kaya, 2020), but also income distribution (Bar- gain et al. (lu.se)
  • The next UK Presidency of the Council of the European Union is scheduled for the second half of 2017. (theglobalist.com)
  • The project was launched in January 2017 and is planned to continue for 2 years. (who.int)
  • This study aims to fill this gap assessing the global Italian cardiovascular disease burden and its changes from 1990 to 2017 and comparing the Italian situation with European countries. (bvsalud.org)
  • METHODS: All accessible data sources from the 2017 Global Burden of Disease study were used to estimate the cardiovascular disease prevalence, mortality and disability-adjusted life years and cardiovascular disease attributable risk factors burden in Italy from 1990 to 2017. (bvsalud.org)
  • Europe from below: Notions of Europe and the European among Participants in EU Cultural Initiatives (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 3. (lu.se)
  • The 2021 SPRP outlines how WHO will support countries in meeting their objectives and the resources we need to do it. (bvsalud.org)
  • On February 27th of this year 2021, the FDA granted emergency use authorization for the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine and the first post-authorization doses were given March 2nd. (cdc.gov)
  • BRUSSELS (AP) - Asylum applications in the European Union continued to rise in the first half of 2023 following a major hike last year, pressuring limited hosting capacities and moving the issue up the political agenda in many nations. (wrbl.com)
  • The EU Commission has established a new EU financing mechanism to support renewable energy projects, as foreseen under Article 33 of the Governance Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the Clean Energy for all European Package. (iea.org)
  • In 2018, the European Union effectively suspended accession negotiations with Turkey, which had been ongoing since 2005, but did not break them off completely. (telegraphindia.com)
  • But if I'm right, the Tallinn Treaty of 2018 will be the successor to the Lisbon Treaty, and it will solve just about all of the European Union's current panoply of problems, including Greece. (theglobalist.com)
  • 24 January 2018 - On 22 January 2018, World Health Organization with financial support from the European Union launched a 4-day workshop on the Customization of Libyan district Health information system. (who.int)
  • The EU's serious concerns on the continued deterioration of democracy, the rule of law, fundamental rights and the independence of the judiciary have not been addressed," European External Action Service officials wrote in their 2022 report on Turkey. (telegraphindia.com)
  • The EU has also repeatedly called on Turkish authorities to respect rulings by the European Court of Human Rights and release activist Osman Kavala, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2022 for taking part in anti-government protests in 2013 at Istanbul's Gezi Park. (telegraphindia.com)
  • NAIROBI, Kenya, March 3, 2022 (ENS) - To tackle plastic pollution accumulating across the globe, governments at the UN Environment Assembly here Tuesday approved the start of talks later this year to draft a legally binding agreement - a treaty - that would promote sustainable production and consumption of plastics and prevent their pollution of the environment. (ens-newswire.com)
  • In 2022, around 125 terawatt hours of electricity were produced in the country. (statista.com)
  • The purpose of the European Union's auction of emission allowances is to mitigate global warming. (nobelprize.org)
  • In this vein, a variety of the European Union's initiatives and programmes have been implemented by the European Union, including the flagship Creative Europe programme aimed at promoting cultural and linguistic diversity and increasing the economic potential of culture-related sectors. (lu.se)
  • Moreover, culture plays an instrumental role in shaping the European Union's external relations. (lu.se)
  • To leverage the role of culture in the process of Europeanization, the European Union has implemented various programmes and initiatives, including the flagship Creative Europe programme, which is intended for the cultural and creative sectors and which started in 2014 but had its roots in earlier initiatives documented in the Union's founding days1. (lu.se)
  • 00:05:08 In that regard we welcome the European Council's statement of solidarity today, committing to contributing the European Union's share of funding to the ACT Accelerator. (bvsalud.org)
  • Als nächster Punkt der Tagesordnung folgt die Aussprache über die Erklärung der Vizepräsidentin der Kommission und Hohen Vertreterin der Union für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik zur Sicherheitslage in Burkina Faso ( 2019/2812(RSP) ). (europa.eu)
  • The initiative was approved in 2019 by the countries of the region, but the pandemic hit just a few months later. (medscape.com)
  • Methods: We compared temporal changes and percent variations (95% Uncertainty Intervals [95% UI]) in rates of disability adjusted life years (DALYs), years of life lost, years lived with disability and mortality from 1990 to 2019, and variations in pollutant-attributable burden with those in the overall burden of each PM2.5- and ozone-related disease. (bvsalud.org)
  • For multilingual countries and federations such as India, Russia, and the European Union, these limitations can be problematic. (amrita.edu)
  • On Wednesday Ghana became the first country outside India to receive doses of COVID-19 vaccine from the COVAX facility and the factory in India, the Serum Institute. (bvsalud.org)
  • I would not say they are dead," said Amanda Paul, a senior analyst at the European Policy Centre think tank in Brussels. (telegraphindia.com)
  • 00:06:34 Today I'm delighted to be joined by Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, the Director of Nigeria's Centre for Disease Control and the Head of WHO's Country Office in Nigeria, Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo. (bvsalud.org)
  • European countries and cooperation with them, but also to the countries that are not part of the European Union, including candidate countries seeking to join this supranational union. (lu.se)
  • 4207 of 1996 was substantial y amended and thus became one of the leading tobacco control laws in the world. (who.int)
  • Hechos e información sobre la enfermedad del coronavirus (COVID-19) y la vida silvestre migratoria. (cms.int)
  • Lombardy, and in particular the areas of Bergamo, Brescia, and Milan, was one of the regions in Europe most hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. (bvsalud.org)
  • Around that time, CDC's website of interim clinical considerations for use of COVID-19 vaccines was updated to state that women less than 50 years should be aware of the rare risk of TTS and the availability of other COVID-19 vaccines without that risk. (cdc.gov)
  • Regulation (EU) 2016/2336 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2016 establishing specific conditions for fishing for deep-sea stocks in the north-east Atlantic and provisions for fishing in international waters of the north-east. (cms.int)
  • Ukraine applied shortly after Russia invaded the country on Feb. 24. (ksmu.org)
  • The 46-nation Council of Europe, the continent's most important human rights organization, and aid groups condemned the move as reneging on international commitments. (wrbl.com)
  • Although difficult to imagine today, wealthy Switzerland was the worst-performing economy among countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) between 1992 and 2002. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • It is likely that the country's EU-facing exporters will, over the years, gradually move production and jobs to the continent. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The right-wing party that governs Poland has chipped away at the country's judicial independence for years. (npr.org)
  • support at country, Regional Office and headquarters levels in a coherent manner to The Syrian Arab Republic is undergoing a address the country's health priorities and period of change and modernization. (who.int)
  • Lawmakers in Washington announced last month that they are also working on new legislation to govern AI tools in the United States that, according to Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., could "prevent potentially catastrophic damage to our country. (upi.com)
  • In an interview with Le Monde , he spoke about the damage inflicted on his country, the industrial and agricultural activities still standing and the obstacles to recovery. (lemonde.fr)
  • Over 40% of agricultural workers in Italy are from outside the European Union, with the remainder coming from EU countries. (cdc.gov)
  • Similarly across the EU countries, unique immigration patterns exist for each country, but all the countries have the similar reality that an increasing percentage of agricultural workers, including dairy workers, are immigrant. (cdc.gov)
  • Despite many tobacco control efforts in Turkey, smoking is stil a very serious health problem with one tenth of al of the disability adjusted life years (DALY) lost in Turkey due to smoking. (who.int)
  • Infant mortality rate is the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year. (nationmaster.com)
  • Adult mortality rate is the probability of dying between the ages of 15 and 60--that is, the probability of a 15-year-old dying before reaching age 60, if subject to current age-specific mortality rates between those ages. (nationmaster.com)
  • Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life. (nationmaster.com)
  • The average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year, if mortality at each age remains constant in the future. (nationmaster.com)
  • Life expectancy at birth is also a measure of overall quality of life in a country and summarizes the mortality at all ages. (nationmaster.com)
  • The SDR is already calculated in the European health for all mortality database, using the direct method and standard European population structure. (who.int)
  • The European mortality database provides data for most Member States of the European Region. (who.int)
  • Tuberculosis treatment outcome monitoring in European Union countries: systematic review. (kit.nl)
  • Attention to tuberculosis (TB) control in the European Union (EU) and European Economic Areas (EEA) has been raised in recent years through a number of initiatives, including the launching of the Framework Action Plan to Fight Tuberculosis in the EU. (kit.nl)
  • Our future is together," tweeted European Council President Charles Michel. (ksmu.org)
  • The European Union alone consumes 10 million tons of Ukrainian corn every year. (lemonde.fr)
  • The Ukrainian (top) and European Union flags fly on poles in Kyiv on Thursday ahead of an EU summit in Brussels considering Ukraine's candidate status to join the 27-nation bloc. (ksmu.org)
  • This rate is often used as an indicator of the level of health in a country. (nationmaster.com)
  • For others, like hepatitis B , we're already very close to the indicator that ensures elimination thanks to mass vaccination started by the countries a few years ago. (medscape.com)
  • OECD ministers recently committed to provide more development assistance to the countries most in need. (ipsnews.net)
  • 42% of respondents who had been stopped by the police over the last year said this happened because of the migrant or ethnic minority background. (europa.eu)
  • Honda introduced a program in 2003 that allows staff to work for up to one year beyond the mandatory retirement age of 60, but hiring depends on the company’s staffing needs. (nationmaster.com)
  • Plastic production has risen exponentially in the last several decades and now amounts to some 400 million tons per year - a figure set to double by 2040 according to the UN Environment Programme, UNEP. (ens-newswire.com)
  • Official relations are based on a three-year plan for collaboration with WHO that has been developed and agreed on jointly by the non-State actor and WHO, and is structured in accordance with the General Programme of Work and Programme budget and is consistent with the Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors. (who.int)
  • This study investigates how is this programme helping the process of Europeanization in Montenegro, a candidate country. (lu.se)
  • The findings reveal that the programme effectively acclimatizes cultural workers, equipping them with European cultural work practices and values. (lu.se)
  • The exercise aims the result of a preliminary analysis of the to identify the health priorities in the country health and development situation and of and place WHO support within a framework WHO's current programme of activities. (who.int)
  • In 2007, the Prime Minister launched the National Tobacco Control Programme and Action Plan of Turkey for the years 2008-2012 (herein, the National Action Plan), prepared by the National Tobacco Control Committee. (who.int)
  • This report provides an all-encompassing analysis of the key growth drivers and restraining factors, demand, and their projections for the upcoming years. (africanewswire.net)
  • The company wants to attract more customers and fuel growth following its IPO later this year. (neowin.net)
  • The primary purpose of this dissertation is to ascertain the extent to which Europeanization is manifesting itself through the participation of this southeastern European country in the Creative Europe projects from 2014 onwards. (lu.se)
  • The European Union and Turkey are at odds on many issues - and problems will likely persist following President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's reelection. (telegraphindia.com)
  • The European Union, however, remains an important strategic partner for Turkey, which often touts the importance of a 2015 agreement that kept displaced Syrians within the country, rather than allowing them to pass into the EU. (telegraphindia.com)
  • With Erdogan in power, there is little prospect of this changing, Paul said - though much depends on the European Union, and not just on Turkey. (telegraphindia.com)
  • The Republic of Turkey, until recently one of the major tobacco-producing countries of the world, has made substantial progress in tobacco control in a short time. (who.int)
  • Report on relations with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in those fields of importance to developing countries (1994 financial year). (pitt.edu)
  • IPEN, the International Pollutants Elimination Network, with over 600 organizations in 125+ countries, expressed hope that a global plastics agreement would be effective in curbing toxic chemicals. (ens-newswire.com)
  • Oxfam called on the global community to agree ambitious new development goals and a new deal for tackling climate change this year, including at the third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, in July. (ipsnews.net)
  • Oxfam said that they must also "put new money on the table from their budgets and from new sources like financial transaction taxes and the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme to help poor countries cope with the devastating impacts of climate change. (ipsnews.net)
  • More broadly, this will have an impact on the energy cost and competitiveness of EU countries, the freedom to choose the energy mix to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. (wireservice.ca)
  • The European Union Agency for Asylum said applications in the 27-nation bloc plus Switzerland and Norway rose 28% in the first half of the year compared to the same period last year. (wrbl.com)
  • We're expecting a little less corn but overall, we'll produce a volume of grain to export that's comparable to last year. (lemonde.fr)
  • GACIAREK: (Through interpreter) Last year, I was selected to preside over a criminal case with one of these neo-judges, but I didn't consider that person a legal judge. (npr.org)
  • The move follows a decision late last year by an EU court to annul an EU-Morocco trade deal. (africanews.com)
  • Throughout the long and complex negotiations that have taken place over the last year and a half, I have never lost sight of that duty. (bbc.com)
  • The affordability of tobacco products has increased in recent years owing to various factors, such as the fact that the increase in per capita income is higher than the increases in prices of tobacco products and also the lack of excise increases on any tobacco products in the last year. (who.int)
  • And we will take back control of our laws, by ending the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in the UK. (bbc.com)
  • AIMS: An exhaustive and updated estimation of cardiovascular disease burden and vascular risk factors is still lacking in European countries. (bvsalud.org)
  • We are glad that the G5 countries have committed to adopting an integrated, strategic framework precisely to synchronise their efforts on security and on development and to identify priority regions for their actions. (europa.eu)
  • The overall reflects a medium-term vision of WHO for purpose is to provide a foundation and technical cooperation with a given country strategic basis for planning as well as to and defines a strategic framework for improve WHO's contribution in Member working in and with the country. (who.int)
  • At the beginning of 2010, Tunisia is now in its fifteenth year of implementation of the FTA, and the results are for the most part already visible. (iemed.org)
  • Since industrial products from Tunisia were already admitted to the EU free of customs duties by virtue of the cooperation agreement of 1976, the real implications of the new agreement lay in the dismantling of customs barriers (customs duties or taxes having equivalent effects) limiting Tunisian imports of industrial products from the European Union. (iemed.org)
  • Cultural diplomacy helps the EU to build and maintain relationships with countries outside of the Union by furthering intercultural cooperation. (lu.se)
  • The Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) and other related partners. (who.int)
  • We assessed the self-reported impact of text versus pictorial health warnings and the determinants of support for plain packaging of tobacco products in the European Union (EU). (who.int)
  • The affordability of tobacco products has increased since (year). (who.int)
  • METHODS: The Special Eurobarometer 385 survey was analyzed for 26,566 adults from 27 EU countries in 2012. (who.int)
  • The vast majority of Muslims in the EU have a high sense of trust in democratic institutions despite experiencing widespread discrimination and harassment, a major survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) shows. (europa.eu)
  • But I am disheartened by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency's report which shows that over the past five years almost one in three Muslims feel that they have been discriminated against when looking for work, but that only 12% of Muslims have reported the latest cases of discrimination. (europa.eu)
  • European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Věra Jourová says: "The Fundamental Rights Agency report shows that discrimination against Muslims is too widespread. (europa.eu)
  • The Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey (EU-MIDIS II): Muslims - selected findings is the second large scale survey of Muslims carried out by the Fundamental Rights Agency. (europa.eu)
  • I am encouraged by the confidence of Europe's Muslim communities in our public institutions and rule of law, despite the individual challenges of discrimination which they attest to," says European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans. (europa.eu)
  • I'm especially concerned about the challenges faced by Muslim women in Europe. (europa.eu)
  • Security is vital but it is not the only answer to the challenges that the country is facing. (europa.eu)
  • In times of ballooning challenges for the world's poorest, it is striking that European overseas aid has stagnated", said Hilary Jeune, Oxfam's EU Policy Advisor. (ipsnews.net)
  • The July 17 ruling against Erlan Baltabai was the latest in a series of measures by authorities against unions following a violent clash between oil workers and police seven years ago. (ecoi.net)
  • Last month, Human Rights Watch criticized the Kazakh authorities for "the grim situation for labor rights" and called on officials to do more to protect unions and workers. (ecoi.net)
  • During the mission, the team term strategy does not preclude response consulted with key officials within the to other specific technical and managerial Ministry of Health as well as officials from areas in which the country may require various other government authorities, WHO assistance. (who.int)
  • In that same year, 1,129,239 babies were born, the lowest number of births since the country’s Ministry of Home Affairs began tracking statistics in 1968. (nationmaster.com)
  • Hence, I believe that improved communication with cultural workers from developing countries could strengthen the efficacy of the process of Europeanization and overcome the aforementioned barriers. (lu.se)
  • of 4-6 years in order to strengthen the A mission comprising two senior staff impact on health policy and health system from the Regional Office together with the development, as well as the linkages country office staff carried out extensive between health and cross-cutting issues at consultations from 12 to 16 August 2007 the country level. (who.int)
  • Nevertheless, it was clearly a strategic agreement for Tunisia and it was considered, particularly at the start, as a real challenge for the country. (iemed.org)
  • Now, if countries that do not have the patent for that drug buy it through PAHO's strategic fund (pooled procurement mechanism), it costs less than $200. (medscape.com)
  • The priorities of the country, a strategic agenda process is sensitive to evolutions in policy for WHO col aboration was developed for or strategic exercises that have been the period 2008-2013. (who.int)
  • Wealthy countries, such as France and Austria, have failed to uphold their commitments to the world's most vulnerable people. (ipsnews.net)
  • Countries with young populations (high percentage under age 15) need to invest more in schools, while countries with older populations (high percentage ages 65 and over) need to invest more in the health sector. (nationmaster.com)
  • Imagine British political headlines in 30 years. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • On the other hand, many of its long-standing concerns about the long-term viability of the Euro in the absence of a political union (which it doesn't want) have, well, been largely validated. (theglobalist.com)
  • PLAZYNSKI: It's more like discussion of political brutality in European Union and that just Polish current government is more conservative than most of the others in the European Union. (npr.org)
  • Europeanization is a complex process that involves adopting common European values, standards, policies, and practices across political, economic, and social aspects. (lu.se)
  • The Ministry of Health created a unit specifical y devoted to tobacco control for the first time in 2006, and the Tobacco and Alcohol Market Regulatory Authority (TAPDK) established its own tobacco control department two years later. (who.int)
  • This is the reason why we took the opportunity of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) extraordinary summit on terrorism in Ouagadougou last Saturday to discuss with countries of a wider region how they can contribute more to counteract terrorism and how we can coordinate our respective actions. (europa.eu)
  • We Europeans have stepped up our support to stop this escalation, to stabilise a crucial region for our own security and to help the people of the Sahel take their future into their hands. (europa.eu)
  • The biggest challenge is working with countries to identify the status of these diseases in each country, set down national goals, and adapt strategies to national realities, leveraging the best practices and experiences in the region. (medscape.com)
  • To assist the countries of the Region to achieve this goal, the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership Association (EDCTP) has been very active in funding clinical research, infrastructure development and training of African scientists, as well as supporting national ethics committees and the strengthening of their rules and regulations systems. (who.int)
  • Especially in financial services, the EU has massively advanced the harmonization of regulations across the continent and thereby shut out service providers from third countries, such as Switzerland and now the United Kingdom. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Baltabai, who heads a union that advocates for energy company workers, said the case against him was another attempt to shut down independent unions in the Central Asian country. (ecoi.net)
  • Many countries across the globe have increased the import and export of chicken meat in recent years, say Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia are the leading importers of chicken meat. (africanewswire.net)
  • For countries that have not yet adopted an implementation law, the age is set to 16. (prezi.com)
  • Ten years ago, in 2005, the European Union was in disarray, coming to terms as it was by the recent referendum defeats in both France and the Netherlands on the question of the ratification of the draft EU Constitution. (theglobalist.com)
  • Draft body and divisions between countries. (wireservice.ca)
  • Deaths are reported by countries every year from national registers of births and deaths. (who.int)
  • Five of the DAC's 28 member countries - Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom - continued to exceed the United Nations target of keeping ODA at 0.7 percent of GNI, while 13 countries reported a rise in net ODA, with the biggest increases in Finland, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. (ipsnews.net)
  • The set of fiscal con- solidations that occurred in Europe following the Maastricht convergence criteria, the creation of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the extraordinary fis- cal stimulus packages implemented during and after the Great Recession, inter alia, entailed a shift in the vision of fiscal policy in the European Union (EU). (lu.se)
  • The increase of asylum seekers and other migrants is an increasingly divisive issue in many European nations, pitting those who say that more should be turned away at borders against those who feel the continent should continue to welcome those fleeing persecution. (wrbl.com)
  • Because our European friends will always be our allies in the fight against terrorism and organised crime, the deal will ensure that security co-operation will continue, so we can keep our people safe. (bbc.com)
  • Countries need to continue current efforts. (newscientist.com)
  • We need to accelerate the supply and distribution of vaccines and we cannot do that if some countries continue to approach manufacturers who are producing vaccines that COVAX is counting on. (bvsalud.org)
  • This selection process was used every year until the country was relegated for a second time in 2000 due to a poor average score. (wikipedia.org)
  • The median age of patients was 3 years (range: 2 months--59 years). (cdc.gov)
  • The median age in both groups was 70 ± 11 years (62% males). (bvsalud.org)
  • The following table shows the age at which children in the particular country can legally consent to the processing of their personal data. (prezi.com)
  • However, bilateral aid - which equates to roughly two-thirds of total ODA - to the least developed countries fell by 16 percent in real terms to 25 billion dollars, according to provisional DAC data. (ipsnews.net)
  • Directly accessible data for 170 industries from 150+ countries and over 1 Mio. (statista.com)
  • Data from Scottish colleges continues to be reported in the same way as in previous years and excludes those students who do not complete the first 25% of their course (the point at which they become eligible for funding). (gov.scot)
  • These rates were calculated by staff of the WHO Regional Office for Europe using the data on deaths by cause, age and sex and mid-year population by age and sex annually reported to WHO by Member States. (who.int)