Juan Branco, Julian Assange’s legal advisor released a statement during the Web Summit, the world’s leading technology event taking place in Lisbon. Juan Branco participated in the talk “Should the Internet be a safe place?” in the “Future Societies” stage with Salil Shetty from the Amnesty International, Laurie Penny (New Statement), Rabia Chaudry from Adnan’s…
Former Portuguese PM and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, set to become the next UN Secretary-General. All 15 ambassadors of the United Nations Security Council unanimously nominated Antonio Guterres to be the next Secretary-General. Guterres won 13 votes in his support and two abstentions, with zero votes against him. In a formal…
Landing.jobs is a tech jobs marketplace with a human approach to recruitment and aims to increase efficiency between job openings and talent. We met with the founders, Pedro Oliveira and José Paiva, to understand how they managed to come up with a leading European tech jobs marketplace. Miguel Carvalho: Landing.jobs is now leading in the…
It’s a historic moment. 26 years later, a woman will be moving into 10 Downing Street again. Last time it happened was when Margaret Thatcher took office as Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. The “Iron Lady” was also the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. After the Referendum result and Mr….
Nigel Farage wants to speed up the process for leaving the EU. According to the terms of the Lisbon treaty, a country’s referendum is not legally binding. When a Member State decides to withdraw from the EU, it shall notify the European Council of its intention by invoking article 50. David Cameron today made it…
The referendum is not legally binding, so the leaving EU process does not initiate until the prime minister invokes Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty. The Lisbon treaty is an international agreement which establishes the constitutional basis of the EU. Today, at the House of Commons, David Cameron made it clear he will not trigger…
Martin Schulz, the European Parliament President, delivered a speech at the 21st Congress of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) on June 4 in Lisbon, Portugal. Martin Schulz, the European Parliament President, speech at the 21st Congress of the Portuguese Socialist Party. The European Parliament President said on Saturday that there is a need to strengthen…
Rosetta is the European Space Agency (ESA) space probe launched on 2 March 2004, now conducting a detailed study of comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P). The spacecraft reached the comet’s orbit and on 12 November its lander module successfully descended on 67P. It was the first time in history that a spaceship landed on a comet. “This…
It was the first time the UN Chiefs of Police gathered at the United Nations headquarters in New York. It all started back in February when the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, invited all the UN Chiefs of Police for the June UN-Police Summit. “I urge all Member States to invest in UN Police and…
HUFUD founder, Alberto Portugheis, talks about demilitarization, the power hungry power that gets people killed in wars, the World War 3 possibility, hunger in the world, and the need to protect children. Interview transcript
