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Dear participants of Ljubljana 2018, The Media Team would like to welcome you in Ljubljana and to this incredible journey that you have ahead. With the session starting, we would like to introduce to you our first issue and output, the Academic Issue. Between these pages, you will have the chance to dive into the topics of the session from another perspective. Each journalist created one Infographic in order to visualise the topics you will be working on through the entire session. The goal is to give you the opportunity to have a better understanding of them and discover, visually, how your topic is represented. However, this is only a first glimpse of the output we are planning to produce for Ljubljana 2018 and you can expect much more from us. Videos, pictures, entertainment, music and many other interesting and creative projects will be presented throughout the session. You will get the chance to create your own memories during Ljubljana 2018, in order to come back to them in a few years when you’ll want to look back into this wonderful event. No matter the memories, and the people you meet and talk to during this week, we will always, all the participants, be linked by Ljubljana 2018. This is more than enough to already make it an unforgettable session. All the best, The Media Team
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A F E T
By Miha BenÄ?ina (SI)
I As the Arctic ice is melting, a new field of economic opportunities is opening to the world with the possibility of taking advantage of new resources. Keeping in mind the fragile ecosystem of the region and potential national economic and political interests, what Arctic policy should the EU adopt?
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A F E T
By Filip Frey (PL)
II After Brexit comes the Balk-in? Taking into consideration the challenges the Western Balkans face both internally and externally, how should the relationships between the EU and Western Balkan states look like in the future?
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A G R I
By Maria Taba
Agriculture and innovatio cultural Policy (CAP) is to b rizon 2020 program for in billion euros on research restry and Agritech, is com steps should the EU take gies into agriculture and a
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acaru (RO)
on: As the EU’s Common Agribe reformed, and the EU’s Honnovation, which invested 1.5 h on sustainable farming, foming to an end, what further to incorporate new technoloadvance small-scale farming?
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C R I M
By Anja Dimitrov (RS)
Human grocery store: With illegal organ trafficking estimated to account for 500 million to 1,1 billion Euros of profit on the black market every year, what steps should the EU take to combat the growing industry of organ harvesting?
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E C O N
By Sara Pellegrini (IT)
I Eliminating poverty: general European wealth is increasing, but still 23.4% of the European Union population is currently at risk of poverty or social exclusion. As the EU’s 2020 strategy for fighting poverty is soon coming to an end, how should the EU further adjust its plans to decrease poverty rates?
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By Admir Krila
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Gre a shift towards a circular e do to assist enterprises in economy, while allowing th
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aťević (BA)
eater sustainability requires economy. What can the EU moving towards a circular hem to remain competitive?
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E N V I
By Alessio Pollastrini (IT)
I Beauty is pain: Keeping in mind that 80% of countries worldwide allow testing cosmetics on animals despite the EU ban on sale of products that have undergone animal testing, what steps should EU and its Member States take to further protect animals regulate the market?
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Cosmetics Regulation
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E N V I
By Anna Gurariy (CZ)
II With alcohol use in Europe well above the global average, young people particularly exposed to the development of an addiction and given the various health problems related to alcohol, how can the EU tackle harmful levels of alcohol consumption among the youth?
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F E M M
By Nuno Vilaรงa (PT)
#MeToo?: Contemplating the implications of conventional gender roles and portrayal of sex in society on presence of sexual assault and rape, what stance should the EU take in combating such behaviour?
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J U R I
By Leonardo Bandiera Marlia (IT)
Internet law: With recent changes in the General Data Protection Regulation which received a lot of backlash, what should the EU’s next steps be in creating a more secure internet environment.
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JURI Committee on Legal Affairs
Internet law and GDPR General Data Protection Regulation Adopted in May 2018, GDPR's task is to protect EU citizens' data which have been both shared on the Internet and collected by every kind of company.
GDPR's flaws When a company receives a cyber-attack aiming to steal data, the company is sanctioned while the hacker isn't prosecuted. The GDPR is perceived as a brake to the economy. Since the GDPR is 99 artciles long, private users are not willing to read it, thus not being aware of their rights. The process of data storing is not made clear.Â
Importance of data protection Facebook has been accused to have collected 87 million data about its users in order to promote politicians who paid to be supported. New companies may receive users' data by other companies without any explicit consent of the user. Measures in place
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It is still uncertain what the EU should to in order to tackle the problems which were not solved by the GDPR. Making it more accessible and easier to read is one of the major goals, since its absence would be unbearable. The Information Commissioners' Office developed a 230 pages long guide and provided some kind of Q&A on the GDPR, which became essential since the EU did not provide enough information on the regulation.
P E S T
By Gorkem Cudal (TR)
Keeping bees in the hive: in light of European agriculture being centred around the use of pesticides to ensure efficiency, what measures should the EU take to prevent and respond to the effects that pesticides have on the environment?
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R E G I
By Esen Ăœnal (TR)
Gentrification is on the rise across European cities bringing both benefits and drawbacks to the affected neighbourhoods, however its negative consequences disproportionately affect low-income residents. What steps should the EU take to address the negative effects of gentrification while still supporting urban development?
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S E D E
By LuĂs Ma
Digital is the New Black ber-security threats, incl such as WannaCry and P breaches in recent years, w in order to fortify its cybe cyber-defence against la
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achado (PT)
k: Having faced multiple cyluding ransomware attacks, Petya, as well as massive data what steps should the EU take er-security policy and increase arge scale cyber incidents?
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T E R R
By Maria Koimtzoglou (GR)
‘’Finance is the weapon that makes all other weapons of war possible.” Individual terrorists and terrorist organisations require substantial funding to sustain their activities. What further steps can the EU take to prevent terrorism financing and thus ensure global safety?
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