UN boss: Brexit would mean rewriting Paris Agreement on climate change

A vote for Brexit in tomorrow’s UK referendum on EU membership (23 June) would mean that the COP21 agreement would have to be rewritten, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Clima

Source: UN boss: Brexit would mean rewriting Paris Agreement on climate change

BBC News – How the EU works?

The European Union grew out of a desire for peace in a war-torn and divided continent. Five years after World War II ended, France and Germany came up with a plan to ensure their two countries would never go to war against each other again. The result was a deal signed by six nations to pool their coal and steel resources in 1950.

Source: BBC News – What is the EU and how does it work?

Theresa May’s call for UK to exit European Convention on Human Rights will delight human rights abusers

Bashing the European Court of Human Rights is not a new development in Conservative policy – although it’s worth remembering that it was one of May’s predecessors as a Tory Home Secretary, David Maxwell Fyfe (also a prosecutor at Nuremberg, no less), who helped to draft the 1950 ECHR.

Source: Theresa May’s call for UK to exit European Convention on Human Rights will delight human rights abusers