In 1988 Ingvar Carlsson’s Social Democrat government presented a gender equality target. At the time the proportion between men and women in government was only 28 percent. His goal was to equalize chances between genders. He would like to achieve the target in 10 years. Now his dream come true. Sweden has achieved a long-term gender equality target. Sweden has one of the world’s highest representations of women in parliament. Databases show that by the end of last year the proportion of women on the boards of government bodies was 51 percent. 

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Recently, Serbia and Hungary have agreed for the Hungarian police officers to be deployed at the Serbian-Bulgarian border. During the press conference on the 8th of September, the Interior Minister of Serbia, Nebojsa Stefanovic, invited France and Austria to follow suit and to send their police contingent to help Serbia controlling the borders because Serbia expects an intensification of migration flow in the coming months. At summer, migrant flaws were mainly directed to Italy and Greece as they could reach these countries by sea. Nowadays, as autumn comes, the travel by the sea becomes even more dangerous, therefore, the route to the EU by land through the Balkans could start to be very appealing again. 

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Ambassador of Ireland to the UK Dan Mulhall stated that EU should recognizes region’s ‘unique circumstances’. He hoped that Brexit would not create external border. An open border between Northern Ireland and the Republic post Brexit wouldn't pose a risk to Britain in terms of immigration, Ireland's ambassador has insisted. These words confirm what arrangements were made in June during the meeting between British Prime Minister Theresa May and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny. May promised a "practical solution" on the Irish border after Britain leaves the European Union.

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The French Defense Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, raised concerns about IS fighters who could flee to Tunisia and Egypt, from Libya. "We should begin to look seriously at the question of the spread of the terrorists once Sirte...(is) emptied of the terrorists" he stated in a conference, in Paris, on Monday. He specified that "Indirectly this will pose new risks for Tunisia and Egypt". Le Drian's Tunisian counterpart, Farhat Horchani, also attended the conference and called for further cooperation. He stated that it was a "shame" that all the neighboring states of Libya are not organized. He declared: "We have a large number of foreign fighters who arrived from Sirte, or from Syria. I can see no strategy, no cooperation between the states". Ultimately, the forces loyal to Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) recaptured the main strongholds in north Africa, still backed by US air strikes.

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Jeremy Corbyn believes Britain should reject key aspects of the single market when it leaves the European Union, he has made clear, sparking a fresh row with some of his party's MPs. In a briefing after prime minister's questions, a senior Labour source said Corbyn wanted to ditch some of the rules which other member countries see as integral parts of the single market – including restrictions on when governments can bail out failing companies. It came as Theresa May yesterday refused to say whether Britain will seek to retain its single market membership after Brexit, insisting that she doesn't not want to "give away" Britain's negotiating hand.

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The AfD was founded in 2013 as an anti-euro party. It has changed its policy and  focused to immigration and Islam. It is the right-wing nationalist party which has MPs in nine of Germany's 16 state parliaments. Leaders of that party say that they want to win its first seats nationally in next year's federal elections. The biggest achievement of AfD was pushing Chancellor Angela Merkel's into third place in a regional election. AfD is critical of further European integration, the existence of the Eurozone, and the bailouts by the Eurozone for countries such as Greece.

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2,700 migrants were saved and fifteen bodies recovered on Monday, in the Mediterranean, thanks to the intervention of Italy's navy and coast guard ships. The Italian Navy said six bodies had been found earlier in the same day. The rescuers consisted of various boats from the European Union anti-smuggling mission, humanitarian groups, and also a commercial tug boat. According to Italy's Interior Ministry, it is Europe's worst migrant crisis since World War Two while the U.N. refugee agency spokesman declared that the death toll has increased to one migrant for every 42. By the end of August some 93,000 people had arrived, and according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 3,171 migrants have died or gone missing while crossing the Mediterranean this year.

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British Prime Minister Theresa May gave an interview for the BBC, during which she rejected the possibility of organizing a second referendum on outputs the UK from the EU. She added that there won’t be earlier elections before 2020. "Britain needs time of stability to cope with the challenges that we face" she pointed out. May clearly excludes the holding of a second referendum on the country's membership in the community. "The British want us to leave the European Union and this is what we do" - he stressed.

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On the 4th of September, a regional election took place in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany which is Angela Merkel's home state. The center-left Social Democrats came first with 31% of the votes, the far-right Alternative for Germany came the second with 21% of votes and, thus, for the first time in modern Germany, a far-right party overtook Merkel's Christian Democrat bloc who received 19% of votes at this election. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has already claimed to be unhappy about the outcomes of the election, and linked the results with the immigration policy.

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During the first day of a two-day visit of the President of Bulgaria to Prague, R. Plevneliev met his counterpart M.Zeman. The main focus of the discussion was on the refugee crisis. M.Zeman has assured R. Plevneliev that the Czech Republic will assist Bulgaria in protecting the EU's external border. Bulgaria has the longest land border with Turkey among all the member states and therefore faces serious challenges from migrant influx. The President of Bulgaria underlined that the border remains under control mainly due to productive cooperation with Turkey, still called the EU for tighter control of the external borders.

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