Charting Cleaner Waters: Florida Designates First Aquatic Preserve as a No Discharge Zone (NDZ) – Go Health Pro

Charting Cleaner Waters: Florida Designates First Aquatic Preserve as a No Discharge Zone (NDZ) – Go Health Pro

Indian River – Vero Beach to Fort Pierce Aquatic Preserve. Map provided by MapDirect, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The Environmental Protection Agency recently approved a No-Discharge Zone (NDZ) for the Indian River Lagoon Vero Beach to Fort Pierce Aquatic Preserve; this is the fourth NDZ designation in the state and the first of the … Read more

The Branch That Finally Snapped – Verfassungsblog – Go Health Pro

The Branch That Finally Snapped – Verfassungsblog – Go Health Pro

Hungary granting asylum to a Polish member of Parliament and the principle of mutual trust The story goes: a Polish politician after allegedly committing a crime leaves Poland and settles in Hungary. Interestingly, such a short sentence is not enough to clearly identify the politician in question. It may refer to the king Bolesław II … Read more

When is it actually war? – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

When is it actually war? – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

In the last few months, suspicious fires in warehouses and aboard aircraft, the severing of undersea power and Internet cables, GPS jamming, cyber operations against critical civilian infrastructure, and allegations of influence operations and election interference have been depicted as ‘hybrid warfare’ by both politicians and the media. So-called ‘hybrid threats’ or ‘hybrid attacks’, as well as allegations of the use of proxies to project power while attempting to obfuscate attribution and legal as well as political responsibility are a symptom of worrying developments, in particular in Europe. The geopolitical environment today is characterized by increasing/ed tensions among states, a militarized security environment, instability within countries, projection of power through a range of covert and coercive measures, and – at the global level – an increasing number of armed conflicts.

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The three legacies of Václav Havel – Go Health Pro

The three legacies of Václav Havel – Go Health Pro

Former President of the Czech Republic Václav Havel left distinct political, philosophical and artistic legacies. Kieran Williams writes that while his words still hold great meaning, they require reading, re-reading and sometimes struggling with texts that were intended to unsettle. Central Europe recently marked the thirty-fifth anniversary of the 1989 revolutions that ended Communist rule. … Read more

Vulnerable Lives, Militarized State – Verfassungsblog – Go Health Pro

Vulnerable Lives, Militarized State – Verfassungsblog – Go Health Pro

The Forced Disappearance of Children in Las Malvinas, Ecuador Ecuador is grappling with a security crisis, fueled by the growing stranglehold of drug cartels. Fear grips the population, while the government, in a bid to restore order, has resorted to declaring states of emergency in the hardest-hit cities. Rather than alleviating the crisis, the measures … Read more

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