Agrégateur de flux

A három évvel ezelőtti angliai körút alapvetően pozitív tapasztalatokkal járt, az ország egész kellemesnek és érdekesnek bizonyult, olyannak ahová szívesen látogatnék el újra. Azt azonban nem gondoltam, hogy erre a látogatásra a közeljövőben sor kerülne, és egyébként is inkább az északi, skót területeket terveztem be következő úti célként. Azonban úgy adódott, hogy idén ismét lehetőség nyílt egy angliai kirándulásra, és nem láttam okát annak, hogy ne éljek vele. A célpont ezúttal kimondottan Portsmouth volt, innen indultunk tovább más kikötők felé.

Az angliai beutazás ezúttal korántsem volt olyan egyszerű, mint három éve, mivel éppen indulás előtt két hónappal tették itt is kötelezővé a beutazási engedélyt. A hasonló amerikai engedély megszerzése annak idején nagyon egyszerű volt, a neten ki kellett tölteni és be kellett küldeni egy formanyomtatványt, be kellett fizetni az illetéket, és gyakorlatilag automatikusan megküldték a beutazási engedélyt, hacsak az ember nem nyilatkozott úgy, hogy beutazásának célja terrorista merényletek elkövetése, és az USA államrendjének megdöntése. Az angol engedély beszerzése már jóval macerásabb, le kell tölteni hozzá egy külön applikációt, és be kell szkennelni az útlevelet. A legtöbb gondot szerintem mindenkinek a fényképes azonosítás okozza, a rendszer elég nehezen fogadja el a szelfiket. Végeredményben nem egy ördöngösség, nekem félóra se kellett az egészhez, de elég bosszantó, és szerintem feleslegesen bonyolult. Az engedély két évig érvényes.

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Belgien verwaltet die eingefrorenen russischen Staatsvermögen, mit denen der „Reparationskredit“ zur Unterstützung der Ukraine finanziert werden soll.

Les dirigeants européens sont arrivés au sommet de Bruxelles jeudi 23 octobre avec un certain optimisme, Donald Trump s’étant enfin rapproché de leur position sur la guerre en Ukraine en sanctionnant plusieurs compagnies pétrolières russes. Mais l’ambiance a vite changé à cause du Premier ministre belge, Bart De Wever, qui a bloqué un accord clé pour aider Kiev.

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Energy experts and decision-makers from South-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean met in Vienna on 15-16 October for an OSCE Regional Workshop on “Building Energy Systems Resilience: Science-based Decisions to Face Future Risks and Extreme Weather”.

The event equipped participants with detailed long-term climate projection data and practical anticipatory and risk management tools to help make energy systems more resilient to future risks. Senior representatives from ministries of energy and environment, transmission system operators, energy regulators, hydrometeorological services, and academia took part, reflecting the cross-sectoral nature of the project.

“Through this project the OSCE provides critical, high-detail datasets that are essential for long-term energy system planning,” said Kliment Naumoski, Advisor and Grid Planning Expert at MEPSO, the Electricity Transmission System Operator of the Republic of North Macedonia. “The new tools, particularly the visualized climate indices, give us clear and practical insights for screening future risks and opportunities for our infrastructure. This workshop was especially valuable as it helped us learn how to read, interpret, and apply these climate datasets directly in our day-to-day energy planning decisions.”

Over two days, participants reviewed the findings from the OSCE’s downscaled climate-modelling data at a 12 km spatial resolution, covering key energy-relevant indices – such as average temperature rises, consecutive warm and dry days, cooling and heating demand, and precipitation intensity – and explored their implications for energy infrastructure resilience, generation, transmission and demand planning.

Delegates also explored the forthcoming OSCE Energy Security Platform – an online decision support tool that will help energy and climate stakeholders in the beneficiary countries anticipate and prevent multi-dimensional risks while identifying opportunities to enhance energy security and advance the energy transition.

Recognising that energy systems face growing pressures from heatwaves, droughts, flooding, wildfires and shifting resource availability, participants emphasized the need for climate-informed strategies to diversify supply, improve operational robustness and foster cross-border cooperation, and highlighted the key role of the OSCE in making these tools available.

The event was organized by the OSCE Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory, under the OSCE extrabudgetary project Mitigating Climate Change Threats to the Energy Sector in the OSCE Region | OSCE, funded by Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland, and the United States.

ÄNDERUNGSANTRÄGE 1 - 436 - Entwurf eines Berichts Menschenrechte und Demokratie in der Welt und die Politik der Europäischen Union in diesem Bereich – Jahresbericht 2025
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Francisco Assis

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Three members of the Legal Affairs Committee will travel to Ljubljana next week to examine Slovenia’s successful approach to general waste management.
Committee on Legal Affairs

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Three members of the Legal Affairs Committee will travel to Ljubljana next week to examine Slovenia’s successful approach to general waste management.
Committee on Legal Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Three members of the Legal Affairs Committee will travel to Ljubljana next week to examine Slovenia’s successful approach to general waste management.
Committee on Legal Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Three members of the Legal Affairs Committee will travel to Ljubljana next week to examine Slovenia’s successful approach to general waste management.
Committee on Legal Affairs

Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Three members of the Legal Affairs Committee will travel to Ljubljana next week to examine Slovenia’s successful approach to general waste management.
Committee on Legal Affairs

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Alors que les dirigeants européens étaient réunis à Bruxelles jeudi 23 octobre, un avion militaire russe a brièvement survolé l’espace aérien lituanien, selon le président lituanien.

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To mark the 80th anniversary of the UN Charter, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Security and Defence, the Committee on Development, and the Subcommittee on Human Rights will hold a joint meeting on 4 November to reflect on eight decades of multilateralism and to discuss the challenges and hopes for the future. Speakers will include representatives from the United Nations and the European Union, as well as a young political leader.
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L'annulation du sommet entre les deux dirigeants n'est que le dernier rebondissement en date dans les efforts déployés par Donald Trump pour mettre fin à la guerre, écrit Anthony Zurcher.

Jeudi 23 octobre, les députés européens ont soutenu la toute première loi européenne sur la santé des sols, malgré la pression exercée par l’Allemagne pour la bloquer.

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In Hela Province, in the distant interior of the PNG mainland, rural women would need to travel considerable distances by road or air to reach a hospital that provides breast screening mammograms. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPS

By Catherine Wilson
SYDNEY, Australia , Oct 24 2025 (IPS)

The burden of breast cancer, the most common cancer among women, is global, and the projected increase in cases in the coming decades will affect women in high- and low-income countries in every region.

That includes the Pacific Islands, where it is the top cause of female cancer mortality. Now, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, islanders talk about tackling the disparities they face and reversing the trend.

“Breast cancer is a significant health concern in Madang Province,” Tabitha Waka of the Country Women’s Association in Madang Province on the northeast coast of Papua New Guinea told IPS. “Most of our women residing in urban centers have access to enough information and facts about cancer, but at least half who live in rural areas don’t.”

Current global trends indicate that new breast cancer cases could reach 3.2 million every year by 2050, reports the World Health Organization (WHO). In the Pacific Islands, which comprise 22 island nations and territories and 14 million people, more than 15,500 cases of cancer in general and 9,000 related deaths were recorded in 2022. But experts warn that the true numbers are unknown.

“It is currently not possible to accurately estimate the true burden of breast cancer in the Pacific Islands due to significant challenges in cancer data collection and the incomplete coverage of population-based cancer registries,” Dr. Berlin Kafoa, Director of the Pacific Community’s Public Health Division in Noumea, New Caledonia, told IPS, adding that it was an issue that countries were working to rectify.

Lack of cancer data is one sign of the funding and resource constraints experienced by national health services. And women are being affected, especially in rural communities where they have less access to knowledge about breast cancer and live far from urban-based health clinics and hospitals. These are major factors in global disparities, and while 83 percent of women in high-income countries are likely to survive following a breast cancer diagnosis, the likelihood of survival declines to 50 percent in low-income countries.

Breast cancer occurs when cells in the breast change, multiply and form tumors. Symptoms can include unusual lumps or physical changes in the breasts. If the cancer is detected early, the chances of successful surgery and treatment are high. At a more advanced stage, it can spread to other parts of the body. Risk of breast cancer increases after 40 years and with a family history of the disease, as well as lifestyle factors, such as tobacco and alcohol use and lack of physical exercise. However, this is not prescriptive and about half of all breast cancers are diagnosed in women with no significant risk criteria, apart from their age.

Importantly, being diagnosed with breast cancer today is not fatal and many women can enjoy long and productive lives. The key to this outcome is early detection, but one of the hurdles for women in the Pacific is that specialist services are centralized in main cities. In Papua New Guinea (PNG), women can seek mammograms, the main method of breast screening, in hospitals in the capital, Port Moresby, and the cities of Lae and Kimbe on the northeast coast of the mainland. But most of the 5.6 million women, who make up 47 percent of the population, live in rural areas, whether densely forested mountains or far-flung islands. And it could entail a long and costly journey by road, air or boat for many to reach a hospital with a mammogram machine.

But it is also not uncommon for women to hold back from seeking medical advice or proceeding with treatment because of cultural and community taboos.

“There is evidence to suggest that cultural and community taboos, personal inhibitions and fears surrounding medical examinations are significant factors contributing to the low levels of early breast cancer diagnosis and treatment among women in Pacific Island societies,” Kafoa said.

Modesty and privacy are important to many women in traditional Melanesian societies. In Palau, for example, a study published by Australia’s Griffith University in 2021 revealed that ‘low screening rates were, at least in part, explained as being due to women feeling uncomfortable during examinations due to its personal nature.’

There can also be pressure from families that may encourage or dissuade women from taking treatment. “If the family disagrees with the treatment, women might comply due to cultural norms,” and concerns about mastectomy and how it changes women’s bodies “can cause resistance to surgical procedures,” reports a breast cancer study in Fiji published last year.

Taking action now is imperative to save women’s lives across the region and, globally, achieve Sustainable Development Goal No. 3 of good health and well-being. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) predicts that breast cancer cases could increase globally by 38 percent and mortality by 68 percent by 2050. Experts project that cancer incidence in the Pacific Islands could rise by 84 percent between 2018 and 2040. Kafoa says that the “Pacific Island governments are not yet sufficiently prepared to confront the projected surge in breast cancer by mid-century.”

The PNG government’s national health plan includes strengthening health services to reduce cancer morbidity and mortality, but a population-wide breast screening program is yet to be rolled out. Waka says there is a need for more investment in breast cancer services. “One or two facilities is not enough to cater for the large numbers of women living with breast cancer,” she stressed.

But efforts to transform the quality and outreach of healthcare in the country, through the ‘glocal’ approach of combining global technology and local pathways to action, have begun. “This process is already underway,” Dr. Grant R. Muddle, ML, a global healthcare expert who has worked to assist health system transformation in Australia, the Pacific and other regions, told IPS. He is now working with health services in PNG.

Two years ago, a collaborative project was set up with an Australian health agency that “is providing PNG with proven cancer registry software and technical support, while local officials adapt it to PNG’s context. The result is a win-win: PNG quickly gains a modern data system and trained personnel, rather than building from scratch,” Muddle explained.

Mobile technology could also be used to help expand the recording of cancer cases. “Village health workers or clinic nurses, even in isolated areas, could be trained to input basic patient and tumor details into tablets or smartphones,” he continued.

A major step in improving rural health services occurred this year when a new public hospital opened in the remote Highlands province of Enga. It is expected to have an operational mammography unit by the end of this year. But there is also a need to “take the screening technology to women, rather than expecting women to travel to the technology,” Muddle emphasized. “Globally mobile mammography clinics in vans or portable units have been used to bring breast cancer screening to underserved communities…these could be truck-mounted clinics or portable equipment that can be flown by small plane or ferried by boat to regions with no road access.”

And telemedicine, another proven strategy, can link isolated clinics to specialist doctors at provincial hospitals via video consultations.

As PNG celebrates its 50th anniversary of Independence this year, these initiatives support better outcomes for women’s breast cancer survival and the long journey ahead of meeting the nation’s healthcare goals.

“What needs to be done, we must do. Let us not compromise basic healthcare but at the same time provide specialist care. Together, let us secure a functioning health system for the 10 million people of PNG,” Prime Minister James Marape advocated to the Medical Society of PNG in September.
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