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Populism, unemployment and social injustice are among the key challenges for the EU, said Commission President Juncker in his annual State of the Union speech in the EP on Wednesday. The refugee crisis, Brexit and counter-terrorism were also debated with political groups’ leaders and other MEPs, who put forward their visions of how to address people’s deepest concerns about the future.
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A series of pictograms created to highlight the international development achievements and goals highlighted during President Barack Obama's 2016 State of the Union address on January 12, 2016.
President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Address
24 January 2012
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
January 24, 2012
Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery
State of the Union Address
“An America Built to Last”
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Washington, DC
As Prepared for Delivery –
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans:
Last month, I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together, we offered a final, proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens fought – and several thousand gave their lives.
We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world. For the first time in nine years, there are no Americans fighting in Iraq. For the first time in two decades, Osama bin Laden is not a threat to this country. Most of al Qaeda’s top lieutenants have been defeated. The Taliban’s momentum has been broken, and some troops in Afghanistan have begun to come home.
These achievements are a testament to the courage, selflessness, and teamwork of America’s Armed Forces. At a time when too many of our institutions have let us down, they exceed all expectations. They’re not consumed with personal ambition. They don’t obsess over their differences. They focus on the mission at hand. They work together.
Imagine what we could accomplish if we followed their example. Think about the America within our reach: A country that leads the world in educating its people. An America that attracts a new generation of high-tech manufacturing and high-paying jobs. A future where we’re in control of our own energy, and our security and prosperity aren’t so tied to unstable parts of the world. An economy built to last, where hard work pays off, and responsibility is rewarded.
We can do this. I know we can, because we’ve done it before. At the end of World War II, when another generation of heroes returned home from combat, they built the strongest economy and middle class the world has ever known. My grandfather, a veteran of Patton’s Army, got the chance to go to college on the GI Bill. My grandmother, who worked on a bomber assembly line, was part of a workforce that turned out the best products on Earth.
The two of them shared the optimism of a Nation that had triumphed over a depression and fascism. They understood they were part of something larger; that they were contributing to a story of success that every American had a chance to share – the basic American promise that if you worked hard, you could do well enough to raise a family, own a home, send your kids to college, and put a little away for retirement.
The defining issue of our time is how to keep that promise alive. No challenge is more urgent. No debate is more important. We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by. Or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules. What’s at stake are not Democratic values or Republican values, but American values. We have to reclaim them.
Let’s remember how we got here. Long before the recession, jobs and manufacturing began leaving our shores. Technology made businesses more efficient, but also made some jobs obsolete. Folks at the top saw their incomes rise like never before, but most hardworking Americans struggled with costs that were growing, paychecks that weren’t, and personal debt that kept piling up.
In 2008, the house of cards collapsed. We learned that mortgages had been sold to people who couldn’t afford or understand them. Banks had made huge bets and bonuses with other people’s money. Regulators had looked the other way, or didn’t have the authority to stop the bad behavior.
It was wrong. It was irresponsible. And it plunged our economy into a crisis that put millions out of work, saddled us with more debt, and left innocent, hard-working Americans holding the bag. In the six months before I took office, we lost nearly four million jobs. And we lost another four million before our policies were in full effect.
Those are the facts. But so are these. In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than three million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005. American manufacturers are hiring again, creating jobs for the first time since the late 1990s. Together, we’ve agreed to cut the deficit by more than $2 trillion. And we’ve put in place new rules to hold Wall Street accountable, so a crisis like that never happens again.
The state of our Union is getting stronger. And we’ve come too far to turn back now. As long as I’m President, I will work with anyone in this chamber to build on this momentum. But I intend to fight obstruction with action, and I will oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on this economic crisis in the first place.
No, we will not go back to an economy weakened by outsourcing, bad debt, and phony financial profits. Tonight, I want to speak about how we move forward, and lay out a blueprint for an economy that’s built to last – an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values.
This blueprint begins with American manufacturing.
On the day I took office, our auto industry was on the verge of collapse. Some even said we should let it die. With a million jobs at stake, I refused to let that happen. In exchange for help, we demanded responsibility. We got workers and automakers to settle their differences. We got the industry to retool and restructure. Today, General Motors is back on top as the world’s number one automaker. Chrysler has grown faster in the U.S. than any major car company. Ford is investing billions in U.S. plants and factories. And together, the entire industry added nearly 160,000 jobs.
We bet on American workers. We bet on American ingenuity. And tonight, the American auto industry is back.
What’s happening in Detroit can happen in other industries. It can happen in Cleveland and Pittsburgh and Raleigh. We can’t bring back every job that’s left our shores. But right now, it’s getting more expensive to do business in places like China. Meanwhile, America is more productive. A few weeks ago, the CEO of Master Lock told me that it now makes business sense for him to bring jobs back home. Today, for the first time in fifteen years, Master Lock’s unionized plant in Milwaukee is running at full capacity.
So we have a huge opportunity, at this moment, to bring manufacturing back. But we have to seize it. Tonight, my message to business leaders is simple: Ask yourselves what you can do to bring jobs back to your country, and your country will do everything we can to help you succeed.
We should start with our tax code. Right now, companies get tax breaks for moving jobs and profits overseas. Meanwhile, companies that choose to stay in America get hit with one of the highest tax rates in the world. It makes no sense, and everyone knows it.
So let’s change it. First, if you’re a business that wants to outsource jobs, you shouldn’t get a tax deduction for doing it. That money should be used to cover moving expenses for companies like Master Lock that decide to bring jobs home.
Second, no American company should be able to avoid paying its fair share of taxes by moving jobs and profits overseas. From now on, every multinational company should have to pay a basic minimum tax. And every penny should go towards lowering taxes for companies that choose to stay here and hire here.
Third, if you’re an American manufacturer, you should get a bigger tax cut. If you’re a high-tech manufacturer, we should double the tax deduction you get for making products here. And if you want to relocate in a community that was hit hard when a factory left town, you should get help financing a new plant, equipment, or training for new workers.
My message is simple. It’s time to stop rewarding businesses that ship jobs overseas, and start rewarding companies that create jobs right here in America. Send me these tax reforms, and I’ll sign them right away.
We’re also making it easier for American businesses to sell products all over the world. Two years ago, I set a goal of doubling U.S. exports over five years. With the bipartisan trade agreements I signed into law, we are on track to meet that goal – ahead of schedule. Soon, there will be millions of new customers for American goods in Panama, Colombia, and South Korea. Soon, there will be new cars on the streets of Seoul imported from Detroit, and Toledo, and Chicago.
I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products. And I will not stand by when our competitors don’t play by the rules. We’ve brought trade cases against China at nearly twice the rate as the last administration – and it’s made a difference. Over a thousand Americans are working today because we stopped a surge in Chinese tires. But we need to do more. It’s not right when another country lets our movies, music, and software be pirated. It’s not fair when foreign manufacturers have a leg up on ours only because they’re heavily subsidized.
Tonight, I’m announcing the creation of a Trade Enforcement Unit that will be charged with investigating unfair trade practices in countries like China. There will be more inspections to prevent counterfeit or unsafe goods from crossing our borders. And this Congress should make sure that no foreign company has an advantage over American manufacturing when it comes to accessing finance or new markets like Russia. Our workers are the most productive on Earth, and if the playing field is level, I promise you – America will always win.
I also hear from many business leaders who want to hire in the United States but can’t find workers with the right skills. Growing industries in science and technology have twice as many openings as we have workers who can do the job. Think about that – openings at a time when millions of Americans are looking for work.
That’s inexcusable. And we know how to fix it.
Jackie Bray is a single mom from North Carolina who was laid off from her job as a mechanic. Then Siemens opened a gas turbine factory in Charlotte, and formed a partnership with Central Piedmont Community College. The company helped the college design courses in laser and robotics training. It paid Jackie’s tuition, then hired her to help operate their plant.
I want every American looking for work to have the same opportunity as Jackie did. Join me in a national commitment to train two million Americans with skills that will lead directly to a job. My Administration has already lined up more companies that want to help. Model partnerships between businesses like Siemens and community colleges in places like Charlotte, Orlando, and Louisville are up and running. Now you need to give more community colleges the resources they need to become community career centers – places that teach people skills that local businesses are looking for right now, from data management to high-tech manufacturing.
And I want to cut through the maze of confusing training programs, so that from now on, people like Jackie have one program, one website, and one place to go for all the information and help they need. It’s time to turn our unemployment system into a reemployment system that puts people to work.
These reforms will help people get jobs that are open today. But to prepare for the jobs of tomorrow, our commitment to skills and education has to start earlier.
For less than one percent of what our Nation spends on education each year, we’ve convinced nearly every State in the country to raise their standards for teaching and learning – the first time that’s happened in a generation.
But challenges remain. And we know how to solve them.
At a time when other countries are doubling down on education, tight budgets have forced States to lay off thousands of teachers. We know a good teacher can increase the lifetime income of a classroom by over $250,000. A great teacher can offer an escape from poverty to the child who dreams beyond his circumstance. Every person in this chamber can point to a teacher who changed the trajectory of their lives. Most teachers work tirelessly, with modest pay, sometimes digging into their own pocket for school supplies – just to make a difference.
Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. In return, grant schools flexibility: To teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren’t helping kids learn.
We also know that when students aren’t allowed to walk away from their education, more of them walk the stage to get their diploma. So tonight, I call on every State to require that all students stay in high school until they graduate or turn eighteen.
When kids do graduate, the most daunting challenge can be the cost of college. At a time when Americans owe more in tuition debt than credit card debt, this Congress needs to stop the interest rates on student loans from doubling in July. Extend the tuition tax credit we started that saves middle-class families thousands of dollars. And give more young people the chance to earn their way through college by doubling the number of work-study jobs in the next five years.
Of course, it’s not enough for us to increase student aid. We can’t just keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition; we’ll run out of money. States also need to do their part, by making higher education a higher priority in their budgets. And colleges and universities have to do their part by working to keep costs down. Recently, I spoke with a group of college presidents who’ve done just that. Some schools re-design courses to help students finish more quickly. Some use better technology. The point is, it’s possible. So let me put colleges and universities on notice: If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down. Higher education can’t be a luxury – it’s an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.
Let’s also remember that hundreds of thousands of talented, hardworking students in this country face another challenge: The fact that they aren’t yet American citizens. Many were brought here as small children, are American through and through, yet they live every day with the threat of deportation. Others came more recently, to study business and science and engineering, but as soon as they get their degree, we send them home to invent new products and create new jobs somewhere else.
That doesn’t make sense.
I believe as strongly as ever that we should take on illegal immigration. That’s why my Administration has put more boots on the border than ever before. That’s why there are fewer illegal crossings than when I took office.
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Populism, unemployment and social injustice are among the key challenges for the EU, said Commission President Juncker in his annual State of the Union speech in the EP on Wednesday. The refugee crisis, Brexit and counter-terrorism were also debated with political groups’ leaders and other MEPs, who put forward their visions of how to address people’s deepest concerns about the future.
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One of the pictures taken during the second State of the Union address delivered by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on 15 September 2021 in Strasbourg.
It was followed by a debate with Members of Parliament where they assess the work accomplished by the Commission in the preceding twelve months and discuss future challenges.
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Populism, unemployment and social injustice are among the key challenges for the EU, said Commission President Juncker in his annual State of the Union speech in the EP on Wednesday. The refugee crisis, Brexit and counter-terrorism were also debated with political groups’ leaders and other MEPs, who put forward their visions of how to address people’s deepest concerns about the future.
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One of the pictures taken during the second State of the Union address delivered by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on 15 September 2021 in Strasbourg.
It was followed by a debate with Members of Parliament where they assess the work accomplished by the Commission in the preceding twelve months and discuss future challenges.
Read more: www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/priorities/soteu...
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Populism, unemployment and social injustice are among the key challenges for the EU, said Commission President Juncker in his annual State of the Union speech in the EP on Wednesday. The refugee crisis, Brexit and counter-terrorism were also debated with political groups’ leaders and other MEPs, who put forward their visions of how to address people’s deepest concerns about the future.
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President Juncker called for the EU to speak and act as one on a global stage, defend its democratic values and turn its back on poisonous nationalism.
“The EU is a global payer, but must also become a global player”, said Jean-Claude Juncker in his speech on the State of the Union 2018. “There are no guarantees that our allies of yesterday will remain our allies of tomorrow”, he added, announcing further proposals to strengthen the Defence Union, step up protection of EU external borders and reinforcethe Euro as an international currency. ”It is absurd that the EU pays 80 % of its bill for energy imports in dollars...whilst only 2% of those energy imports come from the US”, he said.
Juncker highlighted the difference between enlightened patriotism and unhealthy nationalism. “Article 7, must be activated where media freedom and the rule of law are under threat”, he said. “There is no democracy without a free press. (...) Respecting judiciary decisions is not an option, but an obligation”. Europe must also shield its democratic process from international and private interests.
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State of the Union address delivered by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on 14 September 2022 in Strasbourg.
This year's guest of honour was Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine.
It was followed by a debate with Members of Parliament where they assess the work accomplished by the Commission in the preceding twelve months and discuss future challenges.
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Populism, unemployment and social injustice are among the key challenges for the EU, said Commission President Juncker in his annual State of the Union speech in the EP on Wednesday. The refugee crisis, Brexit and counter-terrorism were also debated with political groups’ leaders and other MEPs, who put forward their visions of how to address people’s deepest concerns about the future.
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Europe is faced with unprecedented challenges, from globalisation to migration, terrorism and unemployment. How can the EU best meet people’s expectations on these?
The annual State of the Union debate is the perfect opportunity to take a fresh look at these issues. On 14 September MEPs will review what the European Commission has done recently and scrutinise what it intends to do with Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
As the EU’s only directly-elected institution, the European Parliament is the ideal platform for a discussion on how to ensure an EU that delivers.
Follow the debate live on www.soteu.eu
One of the pictures taken during the second State of the Union address delivered by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on 15 September 2021 in Strasbourg.
It was followed by a debate with Members of Parliament where they assess the work accomplished by the Commission in the preceding twelve months and discuss future challenges.
Read more: www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/priorities/soteu...
This photo is free to use under Creative Commons license CC-BY-4.0 and must be credited: "CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2021 – Source: EP".
One of the pictures taken during the second State of the Union address delivered by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on 15 September 2021 in Strasbourg.
It was followed by a debate with Members of Parliament where they assess the work accomplished by the Commission in the preceding twelve months and discuss future challenges.
Read more: www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/priorities/soteu...
This photo is free to use under Creative Commons license CC-BY-4.0 and must be credited: "CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2021 – Source: EP".
Hosts for the American Sunday morning political talk shows.
Left to Right
- George Stephanopoulos host of This Week on NBC.
- Bob Schieffer, aka Bob Schieffer host of Face the Nation on CBS.
- Candy Crowley host of State of the Union on CNN.
- Chris Wallace host of Fox News Sunday on Fos.
- David Gregory host of Meet the Press on NBC.
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State of the Union address delivered by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on 14 September 2022 in Strasbourg.
This year's guest of honour was Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine.
It was followed by a debate with Members of Parliament where they assess the work accomplished by the Commission in the preceding twelve months and discuss future challenges.
Read more: www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/eu-affairs/20220...
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Miss Kay Francis
Katherine Edwina "Kay" Francis (née Gibbs, January 13th. 1905 to August 26th. 1968) was an American stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920's, she moved to film, and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star at the Warner Brothers studio, and the highest-paid American film actress.
Some of her film-related material and personal papers are available to scholars and researchers in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives.
Kay Francis - The Early Years
Francis was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory (present-day Oklahoma), in 1905. Her parents, Joseph Sprague Gibbs and his actress wife Katharine Clinton Francis, had been married in 1903; however, by the time their daughter was four, Joseph had left the family.
Francis inherited her unusual height from her father, who stood 6 feet 4 inches. She was to become Hollywood's tallest leading lady of the 1930's at 5 ft 9 inches.
She never discouraged the assumption that her mother was the pioneering American businesswoman who established the "Katharine Gibbs" chain of vocational schools.
However Francis was actually raised in the hardscrabble theatrical circuit of the period. In reality, her mother had been born in Nova Scotia, Canada, and eventually became a moderately successful actress and singer under the stage name Katharine Clinton.
Francis was often out on the road with her mother, and attended Catholic schools when it was affordable, becoming a student at the Institute of the Holy Angels at the age of five.
After also attending Miss Fuller's School for Young Ladies in Ossining, New York (1919) and the Cathedral School (1920), she enrolled at the Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School in New York City.
At age 17, Francis became engaged to a well-to-do Pittsfield, Massachusetts man, James Dwight Francis. Their December 1922 marriage at New York's Saint Thomas Church ended in divorce three years later. Although he made an offer of support, Francis refused, instead gaining employment on the stage.
In the spring of 1925, Francis went to Paris to get a divorce. While there, she was courted by a former Harvard athlete and member of the Boston Bar Association, Bill Gaston. They were secretly married in October 1925, and although this marriage was not filled with disagreements as her first had been, it too was short lived.
Francis and Gaston saw each other only on occasion; he was in Boston and Francis had decided to follow her mother's footsteps and go on the stage in New York. She made her Broadway debut as the Player Queen in a modern-dress version of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' in November 1925.
She often "borrowed" wardrobe for nights out in New York as one of the fashionista's reported on by the papers of the day. Francis claimed she got the part by "Lying a lot, to the right people".
One of the "right" people was producer Stuart Walker, who hired Francis to join his Portmanteau Theatre Company, and she soon found herself commuting between Dayton, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati, playing wisecracking secretaries, saucy French floozies, walk-ons, bit parts, and heavies.
By February 1927, Francis returned to Broadway in the play 'Crime'. Sylvia Sidney, although a teenager at the time, had the lead in Crime, but would later say that Francis stole the show.
After Francis' divorce from Gaston in September 1927, she became engaged to a society playboy, Alan Ryan Jr. She promised Ryan's family that she would not return to the stage – a promise that lasted only a few months before she was back on Broadway as an aviator in a Rachel Crothers play, 'Venus'.
Francis was to appear in only one other Broadway production, a play called 'Elmer the Great' in 1928. Written by Ring Lardner and produced by George M. Cohan, the play starred Walter Huston. It flopped, and unfortunately for Francis, she was flat broke at the time but she was not willing to ask friends for a loan, instead:
"I vowed to crawl out
of this mess myself."
That's when Huston, who was so impressed by Francis in 'Elmer', recommended and encouraged her to take a screen test for his new studio Paramount Pictures and the film 'Gentlemen of the Press' (1929).
Paramount offered her a starting contract of $300 a week for five weeks. Francis made this film and the Marx Brothers film 'The Cocoanuts' (1929) at Paramount's Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens, New York before transitioning to Hollywood.
By that time, major film studios, which had formerly been based in New York, were already well-established in California, and many Broadway actors had been enticed to travel west to Hollywood to make sound films, including Helen Twelvetrees, Barbara Stanwyck, Humphrey Bogart, and Leslie Howard.
Francis, now signed to a featured players contract with Paramount Pictures, also made the move, and created an immediate impression. She frequently co-starred with William Powell, and appeared in as many as six to eight movies a year, making a total of 21 films between 1929 and 1931.
Francis's career flourished in spite of a slight, but distinctive, speech impediment (she pronounced the letter "r" as "w") that gave rise to the nickname "Wavishing Kay Fwancis".
Francis' career at Paramount changed gears when Warner Bros. promised her star status at a better salary. She appeared in George Cukor's 'Girls About Town' (1931) and '24 Hours' (1931). After Francis' career skyrocketed at Warner Bros., she returned to Paramount for Ernst Lubitsch's 'Trouble in Paradise' (1932).
In 1932, Warner Bros. persuaded both Francis and Powell to join the ranks of Warners stars. In exchange, Francis was given roles that allowed her a more sympathetic screen persona than had hitherto been the case—in her first three featured roles she had played a villainess. For example, in 'The False Madonna' (1932), she played a jaded society woman nursing a terminally ill child who learns to appreciate the importance of hearth and home.
On the 16th. December 1931, Francis and her co-stars opened the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California, with a gala preview screening of 'The False Madonna'.
From 1932 through 1936, Francis was the queen of the Warners lot, and increasingly, her films were developed as star vehicles. By 1935, Francis was one of the highest-paid actors, according to IMDb, earning a yearly salary of $115,000; compared to Bette Davis, who would one day occupy Francis' dressing room, who made $18,000.
From the years 1930 to 1937, Francis appeared on the covers of 38 film magazines, the most for any adult performer, and second only to Shirley Temple, who appeared on 138 covers during that period.
Francis had married writer-director John Meehan in New York, but soon after her arrival in Hollywood, she consummated an affair with actor and producer Kenneth MacKenna, whom she married in January 1931. When MacKenna's Hollywood career foundered, he found himself spending more time in New York, and they divorced in 1934.
Francis frequently played long-suffering heroines, in films such as 'I Found Stella Parish', 'Secrets of an Actress', and 'Comet Over Broadway', displaying to good advantage lavish wardrobes that, in some cases, were more memorable than the characters she played—a fact often emphasised by contemporary film reviewers.
Francis' clotheshorse reputation often led Warners' producers to concentrate resources on lavish sets and costumes, designed to appeal to Depression-era female audiences and capitalise on her reputation as the epitome of chic, rather than on scripts.
Eventually, Francis herself became dissatisfied with these vehicles, and began openly to feud with Warners, even threatening a lawsuit against them for inferior scripts and treatment. This, in turn, led to her demotion to programmers, such as 'Women in the Wind' (1939), and, in the same year, to the termination of her contract.
The Independent Theatre Owners Association paid for an advertisement in The Hollywood Reporter in May 1938 that included Francis, along with Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Fred Astaire, Mae West, Katharine Hepburn, and others, on a list of stars dubbed "Box office poison".
After her release from Warners, Francis was unable to secure another studio contract. Carole Lombard, one of the most popular stars of the late 1930's and early 1940's (and who had previously been a supporting player in Francis' 1931 film, 'Ladies' Man'), tried to bolster Francis' career by insisting Francis be cast in 'In Name Only' (1939).
In this film, Francis had a supporting role to Lombard and Cary Grant, but recognized that the film offered her an opportunity to engage in some serious acting. After this, she moved to character and supporting parts, playing catty professional women – holding her own against Rosalind Russell in 'The Feminine Touch', for example – and mothers opposite rising young stars such as Deanna Durbin. Francis did have a lead role in the Bogart gangster film 'King of the Underworld', released in 1939.
Miss Kay Francis - The Later Years
With the start of World War II, Francis joined the war effort doing volunteer work, including extensive war-zone touring, which was first chronicled in the book attributed to fellow volunteer Carole Landis, 'Four Jills in a Jeep'. It became a popular 1944 film of the same name.
Despite the success of 'Four Jills', the end of the war found Francis virtually unemployable in Hollywood. She signed a three-film contract with Poverty Row studio Monogram Pictures that gave her production credit as well as star billing.
The resulting films 'Divorce', 'Wife Wanted', and 'Allotment Wives' had limited releases in 1945 and 1946. Francis spent the remainder of the 1940's on the stage, appearing with some success in 'State of the Union' and touring in various productions of plays old and new, including one, 'Windy Hill', backed by former Warners colleague Ruth Chatterton.
Declining health, aggravated by an accident in Columbus, Ohio during a tour of 'State of the Union' in 1948 when she was badly burned by a radiator, hastened her retirement from show business.
This incident was reported as a fainting spell brought on by accidental overdose from pills, causing a respiratory infection. When her manager and travelling companion arrived at Francis' hotel room, in an attempt to get her fresh air, he burned her legs on the radiator near the window. She recovered in an oxygen tent at the local hospital; soon retiring from acting and then public life.
Kay stated in her private diaries in 1938:
"My life? Well, I get up at a quarter to six
in the morning if I'm going to wear an
evening dress on camera.
That sentence sounds a little ga-ga,
doesn't it? But never mind, that's my life ...
As long as they pay me my salary, they
can give me a broom and I'll sweep the
stage.
I don't give a damn. I want the money ...
When I die, I want to be cremated so that
no sign of my existence is left on this earth.
I can't wait to be forgotten".
Personal Life of Kay Francis
Francis married five times. Her diaries, preserved in an academic collection at Wesleyan University, paint a picture of a woman whose personal life was often in disarray. She regularly socialised with homosexual men, one of whom, Anderson Lawler, was reportedly paid $10,000 by Warner Bros. to accompany her to Europe in 1934.
Death of Kay Francis
In 1966, Francis was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy, but the cancer had spread and proved fatal.
Having no living immediate family members, Francis left more than $1,000,000 to The Seeing Eye, which trains guide dogs for the blind. She died in 1968, aged 63, and her body was immediately cremated; her ashes were disposed of according to her will:
"How the undertaker sees fit."
She wanted no services or grave marker.
President Juncker called for the EU to speak and act as one on a global stage, defend its democratic values and turn its back on poisonous nationalism.
“The EU is a global payer, but must also become a global player”, said Jean-Claude Juncker in his speech on the State of the Union 2018. “There are no guarantees that our allies of yesterday will remain our allies of tomorrow”, he added, announcing further proposals to strengthen the Defence Union, step up protection of EU external borders and reinforcethe Euro as an international currency. ”It is absurd that the EU pays 80 % of its bill for energy imports in dollars...whilst only 2% of those energy imports come from the US”, he said.
Juncker highlighted the difference between enlightened patriotism and unhealthy nationalism. “Article 7, must be activated where media freedom and the rule of law are under threat”, he said. “There is no democracy without a free press. (...) Respecting judiciary decisions is not an option, but an obligation”. Europe must also shield its democratic process from international and private interests.
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Populism, unemployment and social injustice are among the key challenges for the EU, said Commission President Juncker in his annual State of the Union speech in the EP on Wednesday. The refugee crisis, Brexit and counter-terrorism were also debated with political groups’ leaders and other MEPs, who put forward their visions of how to address people’s deepest concerns about the future.
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We attended the 2011 MLB All-Star Game at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona. The pre-game ceremony honored the victims of the January 8, 2011 shooting in Tucson Arizona.
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PHOENIX -- John Green said his daughter, Christina-Taylor Green, would have been right here at Chase Field on Tuesday, watching the 82nd All-Star Game with rapt attention.
"Oh, she definitely would have been here," Green said. "This is definitely right down her alley."
Christina, 9, the granddaughter of former Major League pitcher, manager and executive Dallas Green, was the youngest of six victims shot and killed in a Jan. 8 shooting in Tucson, Ariz. On Tuesday night, a moment of silence was held for victims of the tragedy, and the names of those lost were shown on the giant scoreboard in center field.
In a moving pregame ceremony, John Green and his wife, Roxanna, were escorted by All-Star managers Bruce Bochy and Ron Washington to home plate, where they delivered the lineup card.
"It was very emotional, but it was a fitting place to honor our daughter and the other families who lost people in the Tucson tragedy," John Green told MLB.com while sitting behind the first-base dugout along with Roxanna and their son, Dallas. "Our baseball community got behind us. We always felt that, but one thing, it showed the other families how good the baseball industry is at taking care of people. We appreciate it. It meant a lot to us for our son to be here. Christina would have loved to have been here."
"We're very honored to be here," Roxanna added.
During the pregame ceremony, Daniel Hernandez, the local hero who helped save the life of U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords during the shooting, threw out the ceremonial first pitch along with Hall of Fame broadcaster Joe Garagiola.
"The whole week, actually, having my son and wife involved, was special," said John Green, a Dodgers scout. "We're with Danny Hernandez again, who was with us for the State of the Union address, and all of the events that surrounded the Tucson tragedy. It was nice seeing other people who went through all of that. It's kind of a healing thing.
"We still miss our daughter unbelievably. One of the things we didn't want is for people to forget. Maybe they learned whatever lessons you can learn from these things."
The Greens asked people to continue to help The Christina-Taylor Green Memorial Foundation by visiting Christina-TaylorGreen.org.
"Anyone who wants to contribute or buy the merchandise we have for sale there, they have to reach out to the website," Roxanna said.
"Christina is kind of our beacon of hope, born on 9/11, and then she passed away during this tragedy," John said. "But with her foundation we are running, we are doing things helping those less fortunate -- things she would have been involved with. Helping school children with all the budget cuts and things like that, we're trying to give back to the community in that way. That's something Christina would have been proud of."
The Greens said they especially enjoyed the ceremony, because of what it meant to little Dallas.
"They were nice," John said of Bochy and Washington. "It's not often you get a chance to be around that gang. And they were a little looser than they would be normally, during an All-Star Game. To have my son down there, and Andre Ethier came up, and he's wearing Christina's bracelet. I didn't know he was wearing it. That was pretty special. He's an Arizonan, so he understands, and he's a Dodger, so he knows what we went through."
Bochy said after the game that the lineup-card ceremony was "pretty emotional" for him and Washington.
"It breaks your heart what happened," he said. "It was a beautiful young girl, and for her family to go through that, it was emotional for everybody. The players were talking about it, so it was nice to have them out there, and I told them that it was a special moment, I thought, but a very tough moment, for us and for the family."
With a giant U.S. flag unfurled in the outfield, Arizona's own Jordin Sparks delivered a stunning national anthem, befitting a 2007 "American Idol" winner.
"I get nervous every time I sing the national anthem. That and 'American Idol' make you nervous," said Sparks, just back from touring. "The national anthem is a song that everyone knows, and they'll know if you mess up. It's definitely a lot of pressure. But it's such an honor to be able to sing it, as well, because it's the nation's song."
Taylor Sturges, 17, representing the Metropolitan Phoenix Boys & Girls Clubs of America, had the honor of delivering the game ball for Roy Halladay to throw the first pitch. Since 2005, a lucky B&GCA youth has been able to handle that assignment.
"I'm amazed and I'm so honored to be here," she said. "This is my first All-Star Game ever. I brought my little brother and all my family, so I'm really excited."
Mark Newman is enterprise editor of MLB.com. You also can leave comments on his MLB.com community blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
Christina-Taylor Green, 9, of Tucson.[106] Green was killed in the shooting in Tucson that wounded US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Because her date of birth was September 11, 2001, she had appeared in the book Faces of Hope: Babies Born on 9/11 (page 41).[108][109][110] She was the granddaughter of former Major League Baseball player and manager Dallas Green.[109][111]
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"The test of a civilization is in the way it cares for its helpless members."
-Pearl S. Buck (21st Century Dictionary of Quotations)
Everyone
Anyone
Each has a name.
Mrs. Johnson seeks this spot to sit and absorb the warmth of the sun whenever it shines. She is a friendly and generous person with a remarkable sense of humor and loves to tell jokes.
“My husband told me: If a man wants to lead a happy life, he shouldn’t marry a pretty woman.
That’s why he married me. He’s a happy man. Yes, he’s still alive.” She chuckles.
She knows which addresses to visit for a warm meal in the city and pads thick felt between her clothing for extra insulation. She had slept in a shelter and had breakfast that morning in a nearby church. Next to her was some wash drying on the stone. A large bag of frozen strawberries that apparently had been discarded at a hotel or restaurant were her treat for a few days to come.
She was evicted from her apartment in the downtown area. There are some days Mrs. Johnson just gets confused. She needs a bit more help than the average person. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York and has a number of sons. She doesn’t regret the life she lives and is a very proud woman, happy to reach out to anyone who crosses her path in life.
#SOTEU: Let’s make the most of the momentum to shape an ambitious future.
* Roadmap to EU 2025 built on democratic values and efficient decision-making
* Complete Defence, Security, Energy, Digital, Monetary and Capital Markets Union
* Offer equal opportunities to all citizens and strengthen industrial competitiveness
* Create EU agencies for workers’ rights, cybersecurity and counter-terrorism.
Political groups welcomed Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s ambitious vision for a strong and united Europe 2025 in the annual “State of the Union” debate this morning.
Plans on defence, security, legal migration, international trade, social equality and on how to strengthen the Union’s budgetary capacity and democratic decision-making process were discussed by political group leaders in a three-hour debate.
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Populism, unemployment and social injustice are among the key challenges for the EU, said Commission President Juncker in his annual State of the Union speech in the EP on Wednesday. The refugee crisis, Brexit and counter-terrorism were also debated with political groups’ leaders and other MEPs, who put forward their visions of how to address people’s deepest concerns about the future.
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Almost two years after the presentation of the EU Global Strategy and more than a year after Jean Claude Juncker’s white book on the future of Europe, the European Union still struggles with major challenges and threats that seem to undermine the stability of the security environment within its borders and in its neighbourhood. In the aftermath of Brexit and with the proximity of to the European Parliament elections in 2019, the third International Conference Europe as a Global Actor (Lisbon, May 24 & 25, 2018) will discuss the role the EU can play in the current global transformations, as well as the domestic and external obstacles it faces as a global actor.
The Center for International Studies of ISCTE-IUL organized the third edition of the International Conference “Europe as a global actor”, on 24 and 25 May.
The opening lecture was given by the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, on May 24, at 09:30 am.
The Conference Program also included a debate on the state of the Union with the presence of Portuguese MEPs, panels and round-tables on the challenges of the Common Security and Defense Policy, the future of European security and defense, the EU’s relationship with other global players and the future of the European Union as a global player. In addition to the presence of several invited scholars, in plenary sessions moderated by Portuguese journalists, the program also included the presentation of communications by around 40 international researchers in this area of knowledge.
May 24th
9h00 | Registration – Floor 2, Building II
09h30 | Opening Remarks (Aud. B203) – session in Portuguese
Keynote Speaker: Augusto Santos Silva, Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs
Helena Carreiras (Director, School of Sociology and Public Policies, ISCTE-IUL)
Luís Nuno Rodrigues (Director, Center for International Studies, CEI-IUL)
10h45 – 11h00 – Coffee Break
11h00 | Round Table I: CSDP: challenges and opportunities (Aud. B203)
Moderator: António Mateus (RTP)
Laura Ferreira-Pereira (Universidade do Minho)
Jochen Rehrl (EEAS – ESDC)
Ana Isabel Xavier (CEI-IUL)
12h30 – 14h00 – Lunch
14h00 – 15h45 | Parallel Sessions I
Panel 1 –The future of European Security and Defence (Room C201)
Moderator: Ana Isabel Xavier (CEI-IUL)
Stefano Loi (CEI-IUL): “The PESCO agreement and the future of the European common defence”
Lorinc Redei & Michael Mosser (University of Texas at Austin): “The European Union as a Catalyst in European Security”
Patricia Daehnhardt (IPRI-NOVA): “The EU and transatlantic relations: the end of the Euro-Atlantic security community?”
Panel 2 – The European policy on migration and asylum (Room C301)
Moderator: Giulia Daniele (CEI-IUL)
João Barroso (CEI-IUL): “The EU and the refugee crisis: a literature review”
Tommaso Emiliani (College of Europe): “EU Migration Agencies: More “Guarding”, Less “Support for Asylum”? An Assessment of How the European Board and Coast Guard and the European Asylum Support Office Pursue Their Relations with Third Countries in Light of the So-Called ‘Refugee Crisis’.”
Emellin de Oliveira (NOVA): “The Securitization of Migration through Technology: an analysis of the PNR Directive”
Panel 3 – The state of the Union and the future of Europe: reflections and scenarios (Room C302)
Moderator: Ana Lúcia Sá (CEI-IUL)
Luís Machado Barroso (CEI-IUL; IUM) & Marco António Ferreira da Cruz (IUM): “It is not enough to be… It needs to be seen”: the analysis of EUGS implementation 1st Year report”
Ricardo Alexandre (CEI-IUL): “The Western Balkans Euro-fatigue and the impact on EU of potential alternatives to integration”
Dina Sebastião (University of Coimbra): “The persistence of Portuguese Atlanticism as a block for a supranationalization of European defence policy”
15h45 – 16h00 – Coffee Break
16h00-18h00 | Round Table II – The EU & other global players (Aud. B204)
Moderator: Helena Tecedeiro (Diário de Notícias)
Thomas Diez (University of Tübingen)
Maria Raquel Freire (CES-UC, Coimbra)
Luís Tomé (Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa)
Bruno Cardoso Reis (CEI-IUL, Lisbon)
18h00 – 20h00 | Parallel Sessions II
Panel 4 – Brexit (Room C401)
Moderator: Bruno Cardoso Reis (CEI-IUL)
Sanja Ivic (Institute for European Studies, Serbia): “The Question of European Identity in Light of Brexit”
Allan F. Tatham (Universidad San Pablo-CEU): “‘Breaking up is Hard to Do’: The evolution of the EU’s withdrawal criteria”
Christopher Pitcher (ISCTE-IUL): “‘I voted remain’ a look at the social and political divides within Brexit Britain through qualitative analysis of the narratives and attitudes of British citizens who voted remain”
Luana Lo Piccolo (ISPI – Milan): “Brexit: an increasing fragmentation of the international architecture”
Panel 5 – The EU and its Neighbourhood (Room C402)
Moderator: Cátia Miriam Costa (CEI-IUL)
Petar Georgiev (Council of the EU): “Pursuit of greener pastures in the Eastern neighbourhood: reconciliation of EU’s security interests and normative ambitions”
César García Andrés (Universidad de Valladolid): “The role of Ukraine within the European neighborhood policy and its effects on relations with Russia”
Mónica Canário (CEI-IUL): “Why do we need a real gender policy in the EU?”
Filipe Lima (CEI-IUL): “The EU and Israel and Palestinian Conflict”
Panel 6 – Transnational threats (Room C502)
Moderator: Ana Margarida Esteves (CEI-IUL)
Sofia Geraldes (ISCTE-IUL): “Digital Battlefields: Assessing the EU soft security actorness countering social media information warfare activities”
Marc de Carrière (Amarante International): “Going beyond NATO’s Article 5: A EU-NATO Blockchain to deter cyber warfare”
Davoud Gharayagh-Zandi (IRS; Shahid Beheshti University) & João Almeida Silveira (FCSH-NOVA): “The European Union security actorness within EU-Iran relations in the Post JCPOA Era”
Henrique Miguel Alves Garcia: “Radicalization in Belgium and EU security environment”
Susana Pedro
Sen. Paul, R-Ky., said he did not know who he would be sitting with at the State of the Union address. (Shirley Li/Medill)
Hosts for the Sunday morning political talk shows.
Left to Right
- George Stephanopoulos host of This Week on NBC.
- Chris Wallace host of Fox News Sunday on Fox.
- Jake Tapper host of State of the Union on CNN.
- Chuck Todd host of Meet the Press on NBC.
- John Dickerson host of Face the Nation on CBS.
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Almost two years after the presentation of the EU Global Strategy and more than a year after Jean Claude Juncker’s white book on the future of Europe, the European Union still struggles with major challenges and threats that seem to undermine the stability of the security environment within its borders and in its neighbourhood. In the aftermath of Brexit and with the proximity of to the European Parliament elections in 2019, the third International Conference Europe as a Global Actor (Lisbon, May 24 & 25, 2018) will discuss the role the EU can play in the current global transformations, as well as the domestic and external obstacles it faces as a global actor.
The Center for International Studies of ISCTE-IUL organized the third edition of the International Conference “Europe as a global actor”, on 24 and 25 May.
The opening lecture was given by the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, on May 24, at 09:30 am.
The Conference Program also included a debate on the state of the Union with the presence of Portuguese MEPs, panels and round-tables on the challenges of the Common Security and Defense Policy, the future of European security and defense, the EU’s relationship with other global players and the future of the European Union as a global player. In addition to the presence of several invited scholars, in plenary sessions moderated by Portuguese journalists, the program also included the presentation of communications by around 40 international researchers in this area of knowledge.
May 24th
9h00 | Registration – Floor 2, Building II
09h30 | Opening Remarks (Aud. B203) – session in Portuguese
Keynote Speaker: Augusto Santos Silva, Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs
Helena Carreiras (Director, School of Sociology and Public Policies, ISCTE-IUL)
Luís Nuno Rodrigues (Director, Center for International Studies, CEI-IUL)
10h45 – 11h00 – Coffee Break
11h00 | Round Table I: CSDP: challenges and opportunities (Aud. B203)
Moderator: António Mateus (RTP)
Laura Ferreira-Pereira (Universidade do Minho)
Jochen Rehrl (EEAS – ESDC)
Ana Isabel Xavier (CEI-IUL)
12h30 – 14h00 – Lunch
14h00 – 15h45 | Parallel Sessions I
Panel 1 –The future of European Security and Defence (Room C201)
Moderator: Ana Isabel Xavier (CEI-IUL)
Stefano Loi (CEI-IUL): “The PESCO agreement and the future of the European common defence”
Lorinc Redei & Michael Mosser (University of Texas at Austin): “The European Union as a Catalyst in European Security”
Patricia Daehnhardt (IPRI-NOVA): “The EU and transatlantic relations: the end of the Euro-Atlantic security community?”
Panel 2 – The European policy on migration and asylum (Room C301)
Moderator: Giulia Daniele (CEI-IUL)
João Barroso (CEI-IUL): “The EU and the refugee crisis: a literature review”
Tommaso Emiliani (College of Europe): “EU Migration Agencies: More “Guarding”, Less “Support for Asylum”? An Assessment of How the European Board and Coast Guard and the European Asylum Support Office Pursue Their Relations with Third Countries in Light of the So-Called ‘Refugee Crisis’.”
Emellin de Oliveira (NOVA): “The Securitization of Migration through Technology: an analysis of the PNR Directive”
Panel 3 – The state of the Union and the future of Europe: reflections and scenarios (Room C302)
Moderator: Ana Lúcia Sá (CEI-IUL)
Luís Machado Barroso (CEI-IUL; IUM) & Marco António Ferreira da Cruz (IUM): “It is not enough to be… It needs to be seen”: the analysis of EUGS implementation 1st Year report”
Ricardo Alexandre (CEI-IUL): “The Western Balkans Euro-fatigue and the impact on EU of potential alternatives to integration”
Dina Sebastião (University of Coimbra): “The persistence of Portuguese Atlanticism as a block for a supranationalization of European defence policy”
15h45 – 16h00 – Coffee Break
16h00-18h00 | Round Table II – The EU & other global players (Aud. B204)
Moderator: Helena Tecedeiro (Diário de Notícias)
Thomas Diez (University of Tübingen)
Maria Raquel Freire (CES-UC, Coimbra)
Luís Tomé (Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa)
Bruno Cardoso Reis (CEI-IUL, Lisbon)
18h00 – 20h00 | Parallel Sessions II
Panel 4 – Brexit (Room C401)
Moderator: Bruno Cardoso Reis (CEI-IUL)
Sanja Ivic (Institute for European Studies, Serbia): “The Question of European Identity in Light of Brexit”
Allan F. Tatham (Universidad San Pablo-CEU): “‘Breaking up is Hard to Do’: The evolution of the EU’s withdrawal criteria”
Christopher Pitcher (ISCTE-IUL): “‘I voted remain’ a look at the social and political divides within Brexit Britain through qualitative analysis of the narratives and attitudes of British citizens who voted remain”
Luana Lo Piccolo (ISPI – Milan): “Brexit: an increasing fragmentation of the international architecture”
Panel 5 – The EU and its Neighbourhood (Room C402)
Moderator: Cátia Miriam Costa (CEI-IUL)
Petar Georgiev (Council of the EU): “Pursuit of greener pastures in the Eastern neighbourhood: reconciliation of EU’s security interests and normative ambitions”
César García Andrés (Universidad de Valladolid): “The role of Ukraine within the European neighborhood policy and its effects on relations with Russia”
Mónica Canário (CEI-IUL): “Why do we need a real gender policy in the EU?”
Filipe Lima (CEI-IUL): “The EU and Israel and Palestinian Conflict”
Panel 6 – Transnational threats (Room C502)
Moderator: Ana Margarida Esteves (CEI-IUL)
Sofia Geraldes (ISCTE-IUL): “Digital Battlefields: Assessing the EU soft security actorness countering social media information warfare activities”
Marc de Carrière (Amarante International): “Going beyond NATO’s Article 5: A EU-NATO Blockchain to deter cyber warfare”
Davoud Gharayagh-Zandi (IRS; Shahid Beheshti University) & João Almeida Silveira (FCSH-NOVA): “The European Union security actorness within EU-Iran relations in the Post JCPOA Era”
Henrique Miguel Alves Garcia: “Radicalization in Belgium and EU security environment”
Susana Pedro
Commission president José Manuel Barroso delivers his last State of the Union speech for this legislative term on Wednesday 11 of September 2013.
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Disagreements about how to respond to the public health crisis and resulting economic devastation divide us at a time when we should most be cooperating.
Flag is hoisted in front of Bozeman, Montana's (temporarily) closed Meadowlark Elementary School.
Almost two years after the presentation of the EU Global Strategy and more than a year after Jean Claude Juncker’s white book on the future of Europe, the European Union still struggles with major challenges and threats that seem to undermine the stability of the security environment within its borders and in its neighbourhood. In the aftermath of Brexit and with the proximity of to the European Parliament elections in 2019, the third International Conference Europe as a Global Actor (Lisbon, May 24 & 25, 2018) will discuss the role the EU can play in the current global transformations, as well as the domestic and external obstacles it faces as a global actor.
The Center for International Studies of ISCTE-IUL organized the third edition of the International Conference “Europe as a global actor”, on 24 and 25 May.
The opening lecture was given by the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, on May 24, at 09:30 am.
The Conference Program also included a debate on the state of the Union with the presence of Portuguese MEPs, panels and round-tables on the challenges of the Common Security and Defense Policy, the future of European security and defense, the EU’s relationship with other global players and the future of the European Union as a global player. In addition to the presence of several invited scholars, in plenary sessions moderated by Portuguese journalists, the program also included the presentation of communications by around 40 international researchers in this area of knowledge.
May 24th
9h00 | Registration – Floor 2, Building II
09h30 | Opening Remarks (Aud. B203) – session in Portuguese
Keynote Speaker: Augusto Santos Silva, Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs
Helena Carreiras (Director, School of Sociology and Public Policies, ISCTE-IUL)
Luís Nuno Rodrigues (Director, Center for International Studies, CEI-IUL)
10h45 – 11h00 – Coffee Break
11h00 | Round Table I: CSDP: challenges and opportunities (Aud. B203)
Moderator: António Mateus (RTP)
Laura Ferreira-Pereira (Universidade do Minho)
Jochen Rehrl (EEAS – ESDC)
Ana Isabel Xavier (CEI-IUL)
12h30 – 14h00 – Lunch
14h00 – 15h45 | Parallel Sessions I
Panel 1 –The future of European Security and Defence (Room C201)
Moderator: Ana Isabel Xavier (CEI-IUL)
Stefano Loi (CEI-IUL): “The PESCO agreement and the future of the European common defence”
Lorinc Redei & Michael Mosser (University of Texas at Austin): “The European Union as a Catalyst in European Security”
Patricia Daehnhardt (IPRI-NOVA): “The EU and transatlantic relations: the end of the Euro-Atlantic security community?”
Panel 2 – The European policy on migration and asylum (Room C301)
Moderator: Giulia Daniele (CEI-IUL)
João Barroso (CEI-IUL): “The EU and the refugee crisis: a literature review”
Tommaso Emiliani (College of Europe): “EU Migration Agencies: More “Guarding”, Less “Support for Asylum”? An Assessment of How the European Board and Coast Guard and the European Asylum Support Office Pursue Their Relations with Third Countries in Light of the So-Called ‘Refugee Crisis’.”
Emellin de Oliveira (NOVA): “The Securitization of Migration through Technology: an analysis of the PNR Directive”
Panel 3 – The state of the Union and the future of Europe: reflections and scenarios (Room C302)
Moderator: Ana Lúcia Sá (CEI-IUL)
Luís Machado Barroso (CEI-IUL; IUM) & Marco António Ferreira da Cruz (IUM): “It is not enough to be… It needs to be seen”: the analysis of EUGS implementation 1st Year report”
Ricardo Alexandre (CEI-IUL): “The Western Balkans Euro-fatigue and the impact on EU of potential alternatives to integration”
Dina Sebastião (University of Coimbra): “The persistence of Portuguese Atlanticism as a block for a supranationalization of European defence policy”
15h45 – 16h00 – Coffee Break
16h00-18h00 | Round Table II – The EU & other global players (Aud. B204)
Moderator: Helena Tecedeiro (Diário de Notícias)
Thomas Diez (University of Tübingen)
Maria Raquel Freire (CES-UC, Coimbra)
Luís Tomé (Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa)
Bruno Cardoso Reis (CEI-IUL, Lisbon)
18h00 – 20h00 | Parallel Sessions II
Panel 4 – Brexit (Room C401)
Moderator: Bruno Cardoso Reis (CEI-IUL)
Sanja Ivic (Institute for European Studies, Serbia): “The Question of European Identity in Light of Brexit”
Allan F. Tatham (Universidad San Pablo-CEU): “‘Breaking up is Hard to Do’: The evolution of the EU’s withdrawal criteria”
Christopher Pitcher (ISCTE-IUL): “‘I voted remain’ a look at the social and political divides within Brexit Britain through qualitative analysis of the narratives and attitudes of British citizens who voted remain”
Luana Lo Piccolo (ISPI – Milan): “Brexit: an increasing fragmentation of the international architecture”
Panel 5 – The EU and its Neighbourhood (Room C402)
Moderator: Cátia Miriam Costa (CEI-IUL)
Petar Georgiev (Council of the EU): “Pursuit of greener pastures in the Eastern neighbourhood: reconciliation of EU’s security interests and normative ambitions”
César García Andrés (Universidad de Valladolid): “The role of Ukraine within the European neighborhood policy and its effects on relations with Russia”
Mónica Canário (CEI-IUL): “Why do we need a real gender policy in the EU?”
Filipe Lima (CEI-IUL): “The EU and Israel and Palestinian Conflict”
Panel 6 – Transnational threats (Room C502)
Moderator: Ana Margarida Esteves (CEI-IUL)
Sofia Geraldes (ISCTE-IUL): “Digital Battlefields: Assessing the EU soft security actorness countering social media information warfare activities”
Marc de Carrière (Amarante International): “Going beyond NATO’s Article 5: A EU-NATO Blockchain to deter cyber warfare”
Davoud Gharayagh-Zandi (IRS; Shahid Beheshti University) & João Almeida Silveira (FCSH-NOVA): “The European Union security actorness within EU-Iran relations in the Post JCPOA Era”
Henrique Miguel Alves Garcia: “Radicalization in Belgium and EU security environment”
Susana Pedro
President Joe Biden greets Brandon Tsay after delivering remarks on his efforts to reduce gun violence and announcing an Executive Order to increase background checks for firearm sales, Tuesday, March 14, 2023, at the Boys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley in Monterey Park, California. Tsay disarmed the Monterey Park gunman who killed 11 people during a Lunar New Year celebration in January, and was a guest of the First Lady at the President’s State of the Union Address on February 7. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
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The text of the 2012 State of the Union Address is here:
www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/us/politics/state-of-the-union...
Words are connected when they appear prior to another word in the same sentence.
Some word pairs occur more than once. The frequency of a word pair is displayed on the edge.
High betweenness words:
american
jobs
new
back
manufacturing
workers
down
businesses
million
people
Top word pairs:
right, now
clean, energy
united, states
natural, gas
first, time
fair, share
high, tech
economy, built
million, jobs
five, years
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Populism, unemployment and social injustice are among the key challenges for the EU, said Commission President Juncker in his annual State of the Union speech in the EP on Wednesday. The refugee crisis, Brexit and counter-terrorism were also debated with political groups’ leaders and other MEPs, who put forward their visions of how to address people’s deepest concerns about the future.
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Title: Senator George Smathers Reports - Senator Stuart Symington
Date of film: ca. 1958
Physical descrip: b&w; sound
Local call number: AA329;V-184; M89-17
General note: Senator George Smathers interviews Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, former director of the Strategic Air Command. Senator Symington responds to President Eisenhower's 1958 State of the Union Address. He asserts that the United States is falling behind the Russians in missile research, bomber and submarine production and military spending. He complains that more military development is needed, especially in the wake of Sputnik. Produced by the Senate Recording Studios.
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Populism, unemployment and social injustice are among the key challenges for the EU, said Commission President Juncker in his annual State of the Union speech in the EP on Wednesday. The refugee crisis, Brexit and counter-terrorism were also debated with political groups’ leaders and other MEPs, who put forward their visions of how to address people’s deepest concerns about the future.
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#SOTEU: Let’s make the most of the momentum to shape an ambitious future.
* Roadmap to EU 2025 built on democratic values and efficient decision-making
* Complete Defence, Security, Energy, Digital, Monetary and Capital Markets Union
* Offer equal opportunities to all citizens and strengthen industrial competitiveness
* Create EU agencies for workers’ rights, cybersecurity and counter-terrorism.
Political groups welcomed Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s ambitious vision for a strong and united Europe 2025 in the annual “State of the Union” debate this morning.
Plans on defence, security, legal migration, international trade, social equality and on how to strengthen the Union’s budgetary capacity and democratic decision-making process were discussed by political group leaders in a three-hour debate.
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Brass Balls Bobbers ( www.brassballsbobbers.com) went to the Smoke Out 10 East event and brought back these photographs form the Big 10 Year event.
Everything comes together at “The Rock” . The 10th Anniversary Smoke Out will be the most entertaining chopper event ever. The event includes bands, a chop off, XS Speed’s mini-bike races (super-hero costume required), roller derby, vendors, & drag racing.
The bands this year include The Kings of Hell, Uncle Scratch’s Gospel Revival, Jasmine Cain and Blackberry Smoke. Blackberry Smoke is an awesome Southern Rock style band that does covers and originals. It is Southern Rock the way it is supposed to sound.
The Smoke Out is about choppers. It is about builders, from professional builders to those bloody-knuckled guys (and ladies) burning the midnight oil in an unheated shed to build a chopper they can call their own. Chops of all makes are featured, American, British, Japanese, everything. The event is about riders, cross-town to cross-country in a rainstorm.
There are two distinct groups of people at the Smoke Out. The first group is the readers, builders and riders known as THE HORSE world network of operatives. The core of the chopper world. This is the place to be for the Chopper World State of the Union Address.
The second group of invited guest is those that want to observe the core of the chopper world.
Brass Balls Bobbers builds Bobbers and Choppers for the Average Joe. We design it so that it works first time and every time. Check us out at www.brassballsbobbers.com. 405-270-0995 - World Headquarters, 401 S. Blackwelder Ave., Oklahoma City, OK 73108
34th and P Sts. NW...This house was used as the residence of Sydney Ellen Wade (Annette Benning) in the film "The American President"
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The American President is a 1995 romantic comedy film directed by Rob Reiner and written by Aaron Sorkin. It stars Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Richard Dreyfuss and Michael J. Fox. In the film, President Andrew Shepherd (Douglas) is a widower who pursues a relationship with attractive lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade (Bening) — who has just moved to Washington, D.C. — while at the same time attempting to win passage of a crime control bill.
Composer Marc Shaiman was nominated for the Original Musical or Comedy Score Oscar for The American President.
The film was nominated for Golden Globes for best director, best screenplay, best actor in a comedy/musical for Michael Douglas, best actress in a comedy/musical for Annette Bening, and best comedy/musical motion picture.
Plot
Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) is introduced as an immensely popular Democratic president from the state of Wisconsin preparing to run for re-election with a 63% approval rating. The President and his staff, led by Chief of Staff A.J. MacInerney (Martin Sheen), attempt to consolidate the administration's high poll ratings by passing a moderate crime control bill. The difficulty is that support for the bill is not very strong. Conservatives and Republicans don't want the bill at all, and liberals and Democrats think the bill is too weak. If the bill passes, President Shepherd's re-election is a shoo-in.
The President of France is also about to arrive on a state visit to the United States, presenting the leader of the free world with the awkward predicament of having to find a partner to accompany him to the state dinner. Shepherd's wife has been dead for three years, and the President's cousin, with whom he had planned on attending, is ill.
The President's attention soon focuses on the attractive Sydney Ellen Wade (Bening), who has just moved to Washington, D.C. to work for an environmental lobby in the attempt to persuade the President to pass legislation committing his Administration to substantially reduce carbon dioxide emissions. During their first meeting, Shepherd and Wade are immediately intrigued by each other, and Shepherd invites Wade to the state dinner.
At the same meeting, Shepherd strikes a deal with Wade: if she can secure a certain number of votes for the environmental bill, he will deliver the rest. Whatever his personal feelings towards Wade, he expresses this to his staff, especially the pragmatic A.J., as a sound political move. He believes Wade will not be able to get enough votes to meet her obligation, thus releasing Shepherd who will be seen to have tried, without being blamed for failing.
During the state dinner, as well as subsequent occasions (during which Shepherd acts as pursuer), the couple fall in love. The relationship, as well as Shepherd's politicking down the middle, results in a decline in his popularity. The decline is spurred by relentless attacks by presidential hopeful Bob Rumson (Dreyfuss), the U.S. Senate Minority Leader. The attacks focus on Wade's activist past, an attack on Shepherd's family values, and the President's refusal to respond to Republican attacks (although the plot is perhaps vague on the attacks to which Shepherd won't respond). The President's precarious situation is exacerbated by the impending failure of his crime bill.
Eventually Wade does manage to get enough votes to meet her part of the deal. Before she can tell Shepherd, he discovers that three Congressmen from Michigan are willing to deliver their votes if he shelves the environmental bill. As he is exactly three votes short, with no other apparent options to acquire them, he agrees, betraying Wade, who is fired, then breaks up with him.
The film builds to a climax timed to coincide with the State of the Union speech, planned as a conciliatory, non-partisan event. However, ruminating on Wade leaving him and his sacrifice of a bill he believes in for the sake of a bill he doesn't really believe will have much effect, Shepherd has a change of heart.
He makes a surprise appearance in the White House press room to rebut the Republican attacks on his values and character, and then sends the controversial environmental bill to Congress, promising that he will write a stronger crime bill in due time, and fight for that as well. His passionate defense of what he believes, in contrast with his earlier moderate conciliation, galvanizes the press room and his staff. His speech writer Rothschild (Fox) has only half an hour to re-write the State of the Union speech to reflect the new, confrontational tone of the administration - yet seems happy about the challenge. Wade comes back to him, arriving in the Oval Office just before he leaves for the Hill leading to a reconciliation. Shepherd enters the House to rapturous applause.
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Almost two years after the presentation of the EU Global Strategy and more than a year after Jean Claude Juncker’s white book on the future of Europe, the European Union still struggles with major challenges and threats that seem to undermine the stability of the security environment within its borders and in its neighbourhood. In the aftermath of Brexit and with the proximity of to the European Parliament elections in 2019, the third International Conference Europe as a Global Actor (Lisbon, May 24 & 25, 2018) will discuss the role the EU can play in the current global transformations, as well as the domestic and external obstacles it faces as a global actor.
The Center for International Studies of ISCTE-IUL organized the third edition of the International Conference “Europe as a global actor”, on 24 and 25 May.
The opening lecture was given by the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, on May 24, at 09:30 am.
The Conference Program also included a debate on the state of the Union with the presence of Portuguese MEPs, panels and round-tables on the challenges of the Common Security and Defense Policy, the future of European security and defense, the EU’s relationship with other global players and the future of the European Union as a global player. In addition to the presence of several invited scholars, in plenary sessions moderated by Portuguese journalists, the program also included the presentation of communications by around 40 international researchers in this area of knowledge.
May 24th
9h00 | Registration – Floor 2, Building II
09h30 | Opening Remarks (Aud. B203) – session in Portuguese
Keynote Speaker: Augusto Santos Silva, Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs
Helena Carreiras (Director, School of Sociology and Public Policies, ISCTE-IUL)
Luís Nuno Rodrigues (Director, Center for International Studies, CEI-IUL)
10h45 – 11h00 – Coffee Break
11h00 | Round Table I: CSDP: challenges and opportunities (Aud. B203)
Moderator: António Mateus (RTP)
Laura Ferreira-Pereira (Universidade do Minho)
Jochen Rehrl (EEAS – ESDC)
Ana Isabel Xavier (CEI-IUL)
12h30 – 14h00 – Lunch
14h00 – 15h45 | Parallel Sessions I
Panel 1 –The future of European Security and Defence (Room C201)
Moderator: Ana Isabel Xavier (CEI-IUL)
Stefano Loi (CEI-IUL): “The PESCO agreement and the future of the European common defence”
Lorinc Redei & Michael Mosser (University of Texas at Austin): “The European Union as a Catalyst in European Security”
Patricia Daehnhardt (IPRI-NOVA): “The EU and transatlantic relations: the end of the Euro-Atlantic security community?”
Panel 2 – The European policy on migration and asylum (Room C301)
Moderator: Giulia Daniele (CEI-IUL)
João Barroso (CEI-IUL): “The EU and the refugee crisis: a literature review”
Tommaso Emiliani (College of Europe): “EU Migration Agencies: More “Guarding”, Less “Support for Asylum”? An Assessment of How the European Board and Coast Guard and the European Asylum Support Office Pursue Their Relations with Third Countries in Light of the So-Called ‘Refugee Crisis’.”
Emellin de Oliveira (NOVA): “The Securitization of Migration through Technology: an analysis of the PNR Directive”
Panel 3 – The state of the Union and the future of Europe: reflections and scenarios (Room C302)
Moderator: Ana Lúcia Sá (CEI-IUL)
Luís Machado Barroso (CEI-IUL; IUM) & Marco António Ferreira da Cruz (IUM): “It is not enough to be… It needs to be seen”: the analysis of EUGS implementation 1st Year report”
Ricardo Alexandre (CEI-IUL): “The Western Balkans Euro-fatigue and the impact on EU of potential alternatives to integration”
Dina Sebastião (University of Coimbra): “The persistence of Portuguese Atlanticism as a block for a supranationalization of European defence policy”
15h45 – 16h00 – Coffee Break
16h00-18h00 | Round Table II – The EU & other global players (Aud. B204)
Moderator: Helena Tecedeiro (Diário de Notícias)
Thomas Diez (University of Tübingen)
Maria Raquel Freire (CES-UC, Coimbra)
Luís Tomé (Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa)
Bruno Cardoso Reis (CEI-IUL, Lisbon)
18h00 – 20h00 | Parallel Sessions II
Panel 4 – Brexit (Room C401)
Moderator: Bruno Cardoso Reis (CEI-IUL)
Sanja Ivic (Institute for European Studies, Serbia): “The Question of European Identity in Light of Brexit”
Allan F. Tatham (Universidad San Pablo-CEU): “‘Breaking up is Hard to Do’: The evolution of the EU’s withdrawal criteria”
Christopher Pitcher (ISCTE-IUL): “‘I voted remain’ a look at the social and political divides within Brexit Britain through qualitative analysis of the narratives and attitudes of British citizens who voted remain”
Luana Lo Piccolo (ISPI – Milan): “Brexit: an increasing fragmentation of the international architecture”
Panel 5 – The EU and its Neighbourhood (Room C402)
Moderator: Cátia Miriam Costa (CEI-IUL)
Petar Georgiev (Council of the EU): “Pursuit of greener pastures in the Eastern neighbourhood: reconciliation of EU’s security interests and normative ambitions”
César García Andrés (Universidad de Valladolid): “The role of Ukraine within the European neighborhood policy and its effects on relations with Russia”
Mónica Canário (CEI-IUL): “Why do we need a real gender policy in the EU?”
Filipe Lima (CEI-IUL): “The EU and Israel and Palestinian Conflict”
Panel 6 – Transnational threats (Room C502)
Moderator: Ana Margarida Esteves (CEI-IUL)
Sofia Geraldes (ISCTE-IUL): “Digital Battlefields: Assessing the EU soft security actorness countering social media information warfare activities”
Marc de Carrière (Amarante International): “Going beyond NATO’s Article 5: A EU-NATO Blockchain to deter cyber warfare”
Davoud Gharayagh-Zandi (IRS; Shahid Beheshti University) & João Almeida Silveira (FCSH-NOVA): “The European Union security actorness within EU-Iran relations in the Post JCPOA Era”
Henrique Miguel Alves Garcia: “Radicalization in Belgium and EU security environment”
Susana Pedro
President Juncker called for the EU to speak and act as one on a global stage, defend its democratic values and turn its back on poisonous nationalism.
“The EU is a global payer, but must also become a global player”, said Jean-Claude Juncker in his speech on the State of the Union 2018. “There are no guarantees that our allies of yesterday will remain our allies of tomorrow”, he added, announcing further proposals to strengthen the Defence Union, step up protection of EU external borders and reinforcethe Euro as an international currency. ”It is absurd that the EU pays 80 % of its bill for energy imports in dollars...whilst only 2% of those energy imports come from the US”, he said.
Juncker highlighted the difference between enlightened patriotism and unhealthy nationalism. “Article 7, must be activated where media freedom and the rule of law are under threat”, he said. “There is no democracy without a free press. (...) Respecting judiciary decisions is not an option, but an obligation”. Europe must also shield its democratic process from international and private interests.
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A series of pictograms created to highlight the international development achievements and goals highlighted during President Barack Obama's 2016 State of the Union address on January 12, 2016.
Populism, unemployment and social injustice are among the key challenges for the EU, said Commission President Juncker in his annual State of the Union speech in the EP on Wednesday. The refugee crisis, Brexit and counter-terrorism were also debated with political groups’ leaders and other MEPs, who put forward their visions of how to address people’s deepest concerns about the future.
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Matthew Charles’s life is a story of redemption. In 1996, he was sentenced to 35 years in prison for selling crack cocaine and other related offenses. While in prison, Matthew found God, completed more than 30 bible studies, became a law clerk, taught GED classes, and mentored fellow inmates. On January 3, 2019, Matthew was the first prisoner released as a result of the First Step Act. (Official White House Photo by Keegan Barber)
State of the Union address delivered by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on 14 September 2022 in Strasbourg.
This year's guest of honour was Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine.
It was followed by a debate with Members of Parliament where they assess the work accomplished by the Commission in the preceding twelve months and discuss future challenges.
Read more: www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/eu-affairs/20220...
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These are the connections among the words Twitter users used when they recently tweeted the word State of the Union OR SOTU when queried on January 14, 2012, scaled by betweenness centrality. The data set starts on 1/12/2012 12:46 and ends on 1/14/2012 14:55 UTC. Edge width is equal to frequency of mention.
Layout created with the "Group Layout" feature of NodeXL which tiles bounded regions for each cluster. Clusters calculated by the Clauset-Newman-Moore algorithm are also encoded by color.
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Betweenness Centrality is defined here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality#Betweenness_centrality
Clauset-Newman-Moore algorithm is defined here: pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v70/i6/e066111
Top word pairs:
days, without
union, address
democrat, budget
watch, party
union, speech
party, seating
fun, coincidence
bipartisan, seating
sen, shelby
climate, threat
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Speaker John Boehner sits down with a couple of his guests for the State of the Union address, fourth-graders Zuri Franklin (left) and Laci Joseph, who are both Opportunity Scholars in the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program. February 12, 2013. (Official Photo by Heather Reed)
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Angela Lansbury (Film)
Inducted 1995
Award-winning actress Angela Lansbury is everyone's cup of tea. And while she is probably best known to television audiences as Jessica Fletcher in the long-running detective series, "Murder, She Wrote," it's her performance as Mrs. Potts, the beloved teapot in the animated classic "Beauty and the Beast," that Disney fans cozy up to most.
When the film was released, in 1991, film critic Leonard Maltin called Lansbury's performance "...just charming." He continued, "She expresses such warmth. To convey that with just your voice...there's something tremendously appealing about the character and the way she plays it."
Born in London, England, in 1925, Angela began studying acting at the Webber-Douglas School of Dramatic Art until World War II forced her family to escape the London Blitz and emigrate to the United States.
In New York, she enrolled in the Feagin School of Dramatic Arts and at 16, earned her first professional job performing in a cabaret act, in Montreal. Eventually, her family relocated to Los Angeles, and in 1944, director George Cukor cast the 17-year-old actress as the Cockney maid in "Gaslight." The role not only won her a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), but an Academy Award® nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
A year later, she received a second Oscar® nomination for her performance as a music-hall singer in "The Picture of Dorian Gray." From there, she went on to make more than 40 films, including "State of the Union" with Spencer Tracy, "The Harvey Girls" with Judy Garland," and "The Manchurian Candidate" for which she received her third Oscar® nomination.
In 1966, Angela won her first (of four) Tony Awards for her performance as Mame Dennis in the hit musical "Mame." She dazzled Broadway audiences with her interpretation of the madcap title role, displaying for the first time, the full-range of her extraordinary talents. Cut to 1971. In her musical-comedy motion picture debut, Angela mesmerized audiences as the delightful apprentice witch, Eglantine Price, in Disney's fantasy "Bedknobs and Broomsticks."
Twenty years later, she returned to Disney for "Beauty and the Beast," in which (besides playing the voice of Mrs. Potts) she sang the Academy Award®-winning title song by the same name, written by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman. She encored her popular animated role in Disney's 1997 direct-to-video sequel "Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas." Angela later served as a segment host, introducing "Firebird," in the Studio's millennial animated classic "Fantasia 2000," a continuation of Disney's original 1941 "Fantasia."
The bio comes from the Official Disney Legends Home Page - legends.disney.go.com/legends/index
Almost two years after the presentation of the EU Global Strategy and more than a year after Jean Claude Juncker’s white book on the future of Europe, the European Union still struggles with major challenges and threats that seem to undermine the stability of the security environment within its borders and in its neighbourhood. In the aftermath of Brexit and with the proximity of to the European Parliament elections in 2019, the third International Conference Europe as a Global Actor (Lisbon, May 24 & 25, 2018) will discuss the role the EU can play in the current global transformations, as well as the domestic and external obstacles it faces as a global actor.
The Center for International Studies of ISCTE-IUL organized the third edition of the International Conference “Europe as a global actor”, on 24 and 25 May.
The opening lecture was given by the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, on May 24, at 09:30 am.
The Conference Program also included a debate on the state of the Union with the presence of Portuguese MEPs, panels and round-tables on the challenges of the Common Security and Defense Policy, the future of European security and defense, the EU’s relationship with other global players and the future of the European Union as a global player. In addition to the presence of several invited scholars, in plenary sessions moderated by Portuguese journalists, the program also included the presentation of communications by around 40 international researchers in this area of knowledge.
May 24th
9h00 | Registration – Floor 2, Building II
09h30 | Opening Remarks (Aud. B203) – session in Portuguese
Keynote Speaker: Augusto Santos Silva, Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs
Helena Carreiras (Director, School of Sociology and Public Policies, ISCTE-IUL)
Luís Nuno Rodrigues (Director, Center for International Studies, CEI-IUL)
10h45 – 11h00 – Coffee Break
11h00 | Round Table I: CSDP: challenges and opportunities (Aud. B203)
Moderator: António Mateus (RTP)
Laura Ferreira-Pereira (Universidade do Minho)
Jochen Rehrl (EEAS – ESDC)
Ana Isabel Xavier (CEI-IUL)
12h30 – 14h00 – Lunch
14h00 – 15h45 | Parallel Sessions I
Panel 1 –The future of European Security and Defence (Room C201)
Moderator: Ana Isabel Xavier (CEI-IUL)
Stefano Loi (CEI-IUL): “The PESCO agreement and the future of the European common defence”
Lorinc Redei & Michael Mosser (University of Texas at Austin): “The European Union as a Catalyst in European Security”
Patricia Daehnhardt (IPRI-NOVA): “The EU and transatlantic relations: the end of the Euro-Atlantic security community?”
Panel 2 – The European policy on migration and asylum (Room C301)
Moderator: Giulia Daniele (CEI-IUL)
João Barroso (CEI-IUL): “The EU and the refugee crisis: a literature review”
Tommaso Emiliani (College of Europe): “EU Migration Agencies: More “Guarding”, Less “Support for Asylum”? An Assessment of How the European Board and Coast Guard and the European Asylum Support Office Pursue Their Relations with Third Countries in Light of the So-Called ‘Refugee Crisis’.”
Emellin de Oliveira (NOVA): “The Securitization of Migration through Technology: an analysis of the PNR Directive”
Panel 3 – The state of the Union and the future of Europe: reflections and scenarios (Room C302)
Moderator: Ana Lúcia Sá (CEI-IUL)
Luís Machado Barroso (CEI-IUL; IUM) & Marco António Ferreira da Cruz (IUM): “It is not enough to be… It needs to be seen”: the analysis of EUGS implementation 1st Year report”
Ricardo Alexandre (CEI-IUL): “The Western Balkans Euro-fatigue and the impact on EU of potential alternatives to integration”
Dina Sebastião (University of Coimbra): “The persistence of Portuguese Atlanticism as a block for a supranationalization of European defence policy”
15h45 – 16h00 – Coffee Break
16h00-18h00 | Round Table II – The EU & other global players (Aud. B204)
Moderator: Helena Tecedeiro (Diário de Notícias)
Thomas Diez (University of Tübingen)
Maria Raquel Freire (CES-UC, Coimbra)
Luís Tomé (Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa)
Bruno Cardoso Reis (CEI-IUL, Lisbon)
18h00 – 20h00 | Parallel Sessions II
Panel 4 – Brexit (Room C401)
Moderator: Bruno Cardoso Reis (CEI-IUL)
Sanja Ivic (Institute for European Studies, Serbia): “The Question of European Identity in Light of Brexit”
Allan F. Tatham (Universidad San Pablo-CEU): “‘Breaking up is Hard to Do’: The evolution of the EU’s withdrawal criteria”
Christopher Pitcher (ISCTE-IUL): “‘I voted remain’ a look at the social and political divides within Brexit Britain through qualitative analysis of the narratives and attitudes of British citizens who voted remain”
Luana Lo Piccolo (ISPI – Milan): “Brexit: an increasing fragmentation of the international architecture”
Panel 5 – The EU and its Neighbourhood (Room C402)
Moderator: Cátia Miriam Costa (CEI-IUL)
Petar Georgiev (Council of the EU): “Pursuit of greener pastures in the Eastern neighbourhood: reconciliation of EU’s security interests and normative ambitions”
César García Andrés (Universidad de Valladolid): “The role of Ukraine within the European neighborhood policy and its effects on relations with Russia”
Mónica Canário (CEI-IUL): “Why do we need a real gender policy in the EU?”
Filipe Lima (CEI-IUL): “The EU and Israel and Palestinian Conflict”
Panel 6 – Transnational threats (Room C502)
Moderator: Ana Margarida Esteves (CEI-IUL)
Sofia Geraldes (ISCTE-IUL): “Digital Battlefields: Assessing the EU soft security actorness countering social media information warfare activities”
Marc de Carrière (Amarante International): “Going beyond NATO’s Article 5: A EU-NATO Blockchain to deter cyber warfare”
Davoud Gharayagh-Zandi (IRS; Shahid Beheshti University) & João Almeida Silveira (FCSH-NOVA): “The European Union security actorness within EU-Iran relations in the Post JCPOA Era”
Henrique Miguel Alves Garcia: “Radicalization in Belgium and EU security environment”
Susana Pedro