Friday, July 26, 2024
European Parliamentary breakfast on the protection of a work-free Sunday in Europe
European Parliamentary breakfast on the protection of a work-free Sunday in Europe
On April 10, the European Sunday Alliance – a broad European coalition of trade unions, employers' associations, social NGOs and church organisations campaigning for synchronised free time in Europe – held a European Parliamentary breakfast on the protection of a work-free Sunday in the EU.
The event was hosted by MEPs Miriam Lexmann and Tomáš Zdechovský (EPP) and came ahead of the European elections in June. On the occasion of the European Day for a Work-Free Sunday on 3 March, the members of the European Sunday Alliance had already launched an election manifesto that calls on European decision-makers to work at national and Brussels level to ensure that Sunday protection is as consistent as possible.
The event in the European Parliament served to highlight in particular how, from different perspectives, a protection of synchronised free time – in other words a work-free Sunday – is a worthy matter, not least also as a tool to fight loneliness. It also flagged substantial challenges that however exist in practice on many fronts to protect synchronised free time, a work-free Sunday, and thus to fight loneliness. It stressed that with employment patterns and working times becoming ever more scattered, with social media and digitalisation and online life becoming ever more central, societies need to be careful that loneliness and individualisation do not become a New Normal in private and economic life.
Members of the European Sunday Alliance made clear: Loneliness is in many cases undesired by affected persons and therefore a negative matter – and a tool to fight this is to ensure synchronised free time, to protect a work-free Sunday, to provide alternatives to solitary online life, to ensure that retired people, workers, their families, their children can again spend more time together.
Speakers included Béatrice D’Hombres (Project Coordinator ‘Fairness and Loneliness’ at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, JRC), Stefan Eirich (President of the German Catholic Workers’ Movement, KAB) and Antonella Sinagoga (Expert on Parish and Family for the Salesian Youth Ministry Department). It was moderated by representatives of organisations that constitute the European Sunday Alliance’s steering committee, Franziska Kuster (Protestant Church in Germany, EKD), Hendrik Meerkamp (European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions, CESI), Alix de Wasseige (Commission of the Bishops’ Conference of the EU, COMECE) and Maria Waszkiewicz (Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe, FAFCE).
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Secret Service director resigns after Trump assassination attempt: reports
Secret Service director resigns after Trump assassination attempt: reports
Jacob Knutson
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle in Chicago in June 2024. Photo: Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images
U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned on Tuesday following the attempted assassination of former President Trump earlier this month at a rally in Pennsylvania, according to multiple media outlets.
Why it matters: The shooting by a lone gunman killed one person and wounded the Republican presidential nominee and two others. By Cheatle's own admission, it marked the "most significant operational failure of the Secret Service in decades."Cheatle told a House committee in mid-July that she took "full responsibility" for the lapses that led to the shooting.
Context: Cheatle resigned as the Secret Service faces intense scrutiny from numerous federal and congressional probes into its handling of security before and during Trump's political rally near Butler, Pennsylvania.Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers called on her to step down over the lapses.
Zoom in: House lawmakers have said that FBI and Secret Service officials told them that the building from which the gunman fired his shots was identified as "an area of concern" as early as five days ahead of the event.On the day of the rally, the Secret Service was notified of a suspicious person with a rangefinder about 10 minutes before Trump walked on stage and roughly 20 minutes before shots were fired.
Zoom out: The Secret Service had increased its protective measures around Trump ahead of the rally after the U.S. received intelligence concerning an Iranian plot to assassinate him.However, the service had also denied requests for additional federal resources from Trump's security detail over the two years before the assassination attempt, according to the New York Times.
The big picture: The FBI, which is investigating the shooting as a potential act of domestic terrorism, has yet to determine the gunman's motive.The little information so far released about the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, has not clearly indicated political or ideological intentions behind the attack.
Crooks was registered as a Republican and donated money to a Democratic political action committee, but was also too young to have voted in any previous presidential elections.
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Usha Vance, wife of Trump's VP pick, has deep ties to India
INDIA
Murali Krishnan in New Delhi
'A powerful female voice'
In addition to her law degree, Vance holds a bachelor's degree in history from Yale and a master of philosophy from the University of Cambridge. She has clerked for US Supreme Court justices and, most recently, was a corporate litigator before stepping away after her husband's nomination.
Who is Trump's running mate JD Vance?
In a 2020 podcast interview, JD Vance said of his wife: "I'm one of those guys who really benefits from having sort of a powerful female voice over his left shoulder saying, 'Don't do that … do that.'"
Indian-Americans' role in US public life
For Indians, the spotlight on Vance has revealed another Indian-American immigrant success story.
"Indian Americans have come of age and are active in public life in America," Meera Shankar, a former ambassador of India to the US, told DW.
"There have been two governors of Indian origin, and the number of congressmen and senators of Indian origin has increased in recent elections. All this has an exemplary effect encouraging others to follow in their footsteps," added Shankar.
In 2020, Kamala Harris' ancestral village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu celebrated after she became the first US Vice President of Indian descent. Harris was also the first woman to hold the office.
When she was sworn in, Harris credited her mother, Shyamalan Gopalan Harris, for helping her succeed.
"When she came here from India at the age of 19, she maybe didn't quite imagine this moment. But she believed so deeply in an America, where a moment like this is possible," Harris said.
Murali Krishnan in New Delhi
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Usha Chilukuri Vance has inspired people in India as a diaspora success story. She is now in the spotlight after her husband, JD Vance, was named Donald Trump's running mate.
Usha Chilukuri Vance has inspired people in India as a diaspora success story. She is now in the spotlight after her husband, JD Vance, was named Donald Trump's running mate.
Usha Chilukuri Vance is a Yale-educated litigator who could become second lady of the USImage: Jeff Dean/AP/picture alliance
When Usha Vance, met her husband, JD Vance, at Yale Law School, the now US vice presidential candidate described her as his "spirit guide" at the prestigious institution.
"She instinctively understood the questions I didn't even know to ask, and she always encouraged me to seek opportunities that I didn't know existed," wrote JD Vance in his bestselling 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."
The couple were married in 2014 and were blessed by a Hindu priest in a separate ceremony. They have three children, two boys and a girl.
Vance was born Usha Chilukuri in 1986 to Indian immigrants from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, and grew up in an ethnically diverse San Diego suburb. Her father, Krish Chilukuri, is an aerospace engineer and university lecturer, and her mother, Lakshmi, is a professor of molecular biology.
Vance has credited her devout Hindu household as a child with instilling a deep sense of faith and a set of values that have guided her path to success.
"I did grow up in a religious household. My parents are Hindu. That was one of the things that made them good parents, made them good people," Vance told the Fox & Friends talk show in June.
When Usha Vance, met her husband, JD Vance, at Yale Law School, the now US vice presidential candidate described her as his "spirit guide" at the prestigious institution.
"She instinctively understood the questions I didn't even know to ask, and she always encouraged me to seek opportunities that I didn't know existed," wrote JD Vance in his bestselling 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."
The couple were married in 2014 and were blessed by a Hindu priest in a separate ceremony. They have three children, two boys and a girl.
Vance was born Usha Chilukuri in 1986 to Indian immigrants from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, and grew up in an ethnically diverse San Diego suburb. Her father, Krish Chilukuri, is an aerospace engineer and university lecturer, and her mother, Lakshmi, is a professor of molecular biology.
Vance has credited her devout Hindu household as a child with instilling a deep sense of faith and a set of values that have guided her path to success.
"I did grow up in a religious household. My parents are Hindu. That was one of the things that made them good parents, made them good people," Vance told the Fox & Friends talk show in June.
Usha Chilukuri VanceImage: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
'A powerful female voice'
In addition to her law degree, Vance holds a bachelor's degree in history from Yale and a master of philosophy from the University of Cambridge. She has clerked for US Supreme Court justices and, most recently, was a corporate litigator before stepping away after her husband's nomination.
Who is Trump's running mate JD Vance?
In a 2020 podcast interview, JD Vance said of his wife: "I'm one of those guys who really benefits from having sort of a powerful female voice over his left shoulder saying, 'Don't do that … do that.'"
Indian-Americans' role in US public life
For Indians, the spotlight on Vance has revealed another Indian-American immigrant success story.
"Indian Americans have come of age and are active in public life in America," Meera Shankar, a former ambassador of India to the US, told DW.
"There have been two governors of Indian origin, and the number of congressmen and senators of Indian origin has increased in recent elections. All this has an exemplary effect encouraging others to follow in their footsteps," added Shankar.
In 2020, Kamala Harris' ancestral village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu celebrated after she became the first US Vice President of Indian descent. Harris was also the first woman to hold the office.
When she was sworn in, Harris credited her mother, Shyamalan Gopalan Harris, for helping her succeed.
"When she came here from India at the age of 19, she maybe didn't quite imagine this moment. But she believed so deeply in an America, where a moment like this is possible," Harris said.
Kamala Harris's ancestral village of Thulasendrapuram in Tamil Nadu celebrated her VP nominationImage: P. Ravikumar/REUTERS
Sreeram Chaulia, director general of the Jindal India Institute, a strategic think tank, told DW that the Indian diaspora has been making rapid strides in American life.
"Their uniquely high education levels, income levels and peer support networks within diaspora circles have enabled them to take on more and more prominent roles in US politics and public life," Chaulia said.
Although the role of a second lady is not an official government office, if Trump and Vance are elected in November, Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa, a former diplomat, thinks that Vance's place at the vice president's side will have heavy symbolic value for Indians.
"This is a just reflection of the number and influence of Indian immigrants in the US who are highly educated and very well assimilated," Gopalan Wadhwa told DW.
"It is a testimony of the ease with which the Indian diaspora integrates into other countries and contributes to the economic prosperity and political systems of wherever they are."
Edited by: Wesley Rahn
Sreeram Chaulia, director general of the Jindal India Institute, a strategic think tank, told DW that the Indian diaspora has been making rapid strides in American life.
"Their uniquely high education levels, income levels and peer support networks within diaspora circles have enabled them to take on more and more prominent roles in US politics and public life," Chaulia said.
Although the role of a second lady is not an official government office, if Trump and Vance are elected in November, Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa, a former diplomat, thinks that Vance's place at the vice president's side will have heavy symbolic value for Indians.
"This is a just reflection of the number and influence of Indian immigrants in the US who are highly educated and very well assimilated," Gopalan Wadhwa told DW.
"It is a testimony of the ease with which the Indian diaspora integrates into other countries and contributes to the economic prosperity and political systems of wherever they are."
Edited by: Wesley Rahn
Friday, July 19, 2024
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