Violence in Georgia escalates in connection with the challenged elections

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Violence in Georgia escalates in connection with the challenged elections

Rapid attacks are growing in Georgia Political tensions. After the hot questioning of October 2024 Election resultsThe ruling Georgian Dreams Party made some controversial decisions, including Frosty discussions On attempts to join the EU. Many believe that the Georgian Dreams Party are behind attacks on political figures, journalists and protesting citizens.

On January 14, 2025, former Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia was hospitalized after being attacked. According to one member of the parliament, the Georgian Dreams Party attacked the former prime minister. A member of the parliament claims that the film material was “bright”. However, the Georgian party of dreams denied any commitment to assault and instead accused Gakharia’s political party of fraud. In particular, the Georgian Dreams Party did not know the attempts to identify attackers.

On the same day, the regional head of Transparency International, Zviad Koriga, was also attacked when he visited Georgia to cover thing journalist arrested for protesting the results of the election. Coffee later accused Two members of the parliament to get closer to him, with one scream at him before he was hit and his glasses were broken.

On January 15, Georgian employees continued strikeBy closing their stores and demanding the release of hundreds of citizens arrested for ongoing protests calling for new parliamentary elections. Film material He was released from the numbers holding the sticks when they attacked striking employees. Once again, the Georgian dream party was accused initiating the attack.

European wolves are no longer “strictly protected”

Wolves in the European Union member countries will no longer have the same security that allowed them to recover from the edge of extinction. Over 20,000 wolves currently live in the EU – a huge revival from the moment the status of protection has been introduced to stop the species from extinction. However, in December 2024, the Bern Convention Committee Agreement To track the EU proposal and reduce the “strictly protected” status to “protected”. This enables EU member states to permit less restrictions related to repeal – reducing the wild population through selective slaughter.

The main reason cited in Report of the EU Commission In case of abolition of protection, it is a pity that wild wolves cause farmers. Although deadly attacks on people by wolves have not been carried out for 40 years, over 65,500 breeding animals are killed annually, price analysis Countries around 19 million euros.

However, palling can harm biological diversity, often hurting many species. It is also not possible to say how EU member states will comply with the mouths of the mouth, and it is apprehension That if the wolf populations are not monitored, the species may become threatened again. In particular, instead of using Culling funds, the Life Wolfalps EU project successfully provided farmers with compensation protect Keep wolves without killing them for your farms in the French Alps.

Despite this, many farmers were waiting for the opportunity to kill wolves threatening their farm animals. Only time will show whether the most successful protection efforts in Europe will become a distant memory.

European action plan to protect healthcare against cyber attacks

The European Commission began Action plan January 15, 2025 to improve cyber security in healthcare. The first step is to develop the Cybersecurity Advisory Council in the next two years to implement the plan.

The European Commission has taken action after the European Union agency for cyber security (ENISA) report In detail that in the years 2021–2023 the healthcare system was the target of many cyber attacks, including attacks on service providers and hospitals. Given the confidential data stored digitally for healthcare providers, the protection of private information has the highest problem.

Cybersecurity is the most important because the EU changes towards Unified healthcare databaseEuropean health data space. The health data space will collect the expected health care data and will compile collected data from various applications and research, such as the socio -economic class and behavioral habits in order to inform about political decisions. Although the health data space has specific provisions regarding the protection of data use, funds should also be taken to develop cyber security.

The action plan to improve cyber security will add to existing programs and infrastructure, but it is apprehension About how effectively the EU will implement this plan. Early created the EU Directive Nis 2which required the implementation of EU national regulations to protect confidential information against cyber attacks. But on deadlineOnly Belgium and Croatia were able to confirm that they implemented the rules, and Italy and Lithuania partly do it.