Európai Unió : hírek magyarul

Demonstration plots (demo plots) are crucial for knowledge dissemination and knowledge production to and with smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, making them important in rural development. Beyond their agricultural extension function considerations, their political and ecological dynamics remain undertheorized. Drawing on qualitative empirical data across Mbeya Region, Tanzania, we analyze the political ecology of different demonstration plots as assemblages deployed by private-sector actors, NGOs/grassroots organizations, and research institutions, to shape agricultural transformation. Our study reveals stark power asymmetries: private sector and research-led demo plots, strategically located and strongly resourced, dominate both physical and discursive landscapes. Their alliance building and branding practices territorialize monocultures, input-dependent farming as aspired futures. Conversely, the more conservation-oriented grassroots demo plots, despite retaining agroforestry socioecological systems, fostering local knowledge and diverse practices, are marginalized by resource constraints and limited institutional support, exposing their territories to constant erasure. Using assemblage theory, we scrutinize demo plots as active sites of socio-technical selection, configuring actors, spaces, and knowledge systems in ways that privilege market integration through intensification, while sidelining alternatives. The analysis challenges prevailing narratives of demo plots as neutral (even apolitical) pedagogical tools, instead arguing to understand them as instruments of power that determine which agricultural futures materialize.

The European Investment Bank (EIB), the world’s largest multilateral financial institution, has supported projects in over 160 countries, including fragile and conflict-affected states (FCSs). Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the EIB adopted its first Strategic Approach to Fragility and Conflict in 2022. While the bank has a history of operating in FCSs, this strategy signals its ambition to strengthen the bank’s focus on state fragility. What is driving this shift and how does it align with the EIB’s traditional emphasis on financial sustainability and risk aversion? This paper examines the drivers of the EIB’s engagement with fragile states through an institutional logics lens, identifying three core logics embedded in the bank’s identity: development, investment and bureaucratic logics. The analysis shows that although development and bureaucratic logics strongly shape the new strategy, the investment logic – anchored in financial prudence – continues to influence lending practices. This finding suggests that the progressive rhetoric on fragility is constrained by institutional caution.

While both states share dissatisfaction with the Western-led international order and seek a more multipolar system, the summit revealed important differences.

Afghanistan’s path to international recognition and fuller participation in the global community depends, in part, on the approach the European Union chooses to take.

A delegation from the Employment and Social Affairs Committee was in La Réunion to assess youth employment initiatives and to meet government representatives.
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Council agrees position to simplify and strengthen food and feed safety requirements.

The press briefing will take place on Thursday 28 May 2026 at 14:30.

Az Albániával tartott csatlakozási konferencia nyolcadik ülésére a mai napon került sor Brüsszelben. Az ülésen megerősítést nyert, hogy Albánia összességében teljesítette az 1. témakörre („Alapkérdések”) vonatkozó időközi kritériumokat, és tárgyalási zárókritériumok kerültek meghatározásra.

A Tanács egy évvel, 2027. május 28-ig meghosszabbította az olyan személyekre és szervezetekre irányuló korlátozó intézkedések keretét, akiket, illetve amelyeket felelősség terhel Oroszországban elkövetett súlyos emberi jogi jogsértésekért és visszaélésekért, valamint az ország civil társadalmának és demokratikus ellenzékének elnyomásáért.

A Tanács módosította az európai választási okmányt, és ezáltal lehetővé tette a meghatalmazott útján történő szavazást az Európai Parlamentben.

A Tanács megerősítette a mobilis uniós polgárok aktív és passzív választójogának a helyhatósági választásokon történő gyakorlására vonatkozó szabályokat.

Press briefing ahead of the upcoming Competitiveness Council (Internal market, Industry, Research and Space) will take place on Wednesday, 27 May 2026 at 14.00.

The President of the European Council, António Costa, presented the main results of the leaders’ discussions during the eighth EU-Mexico summit, held in Mexico City on 22 May 2026.

The leaders of the European Union and Mexico held their 8th EU-Mexico summit in Mexico City on 22 May 2026, and agreed on a joint statement.