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The Venezuelan displacement crisis has become a defining moment in South-South migration dynamics across Latin America. Since 2015, severe food shortages, medicine scarcity, soaring inflation and widespread human rights violations have driven a massive exodus from Venezuela. By June 2024, the deepening humanitarian and economic collapse under Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian government – in power since 2013 – had forced at least 7.7 million Venezuelans to leave the country. Of these, 6.5 million remain in Latin America and the Caribbean, with nearly 3 million residing in Colombia.
This situation has posed a significant challenge for the Colombian government over the past decade. On the one hand, Colombian institutions were not equipped to manage large numbers of refugees. On the other hand, host communities have had to deal with long-standing structural socioeconomic issues such as poverty and job informality. Additionally, recent US policy shifts and immense aid cuts have further deteriorated the situation in Colombia. 
This policy brief focuses on social cohesion dynamics in the Colombian context of the displacement of Venezuelans and Colombian returnees. It shows that negative narratives about Venezuelans have declined over the past ten years. Both communities have learned to live jointly in relative harmony despite the ongoing economic and social challenges they face. This policy brief offers recommendations 
for improving social cohesion in host communities that receive displaced Venezuelans in Colombia.
Key policy messages:
• Continue regularisation programmes, ensure equal access to basic services and support socioeconomic and cultural inclusion efforts from governments at the local level for Venezuelans and host communities, especially regarding access to the labour market. 
• Engage with local peacebuilding actors, both non-state and state, to develop a shared understanding of violence in Colombia and the State’s assistance pathways for affected Venezuelans and their host communities. Many Venezuelans struggle to understand the long-standing Colombian conflict and how the violence permeates society and their host communities. 
• Build on the local efforts to tamp down xenophobia and discrimination by women community leaders who have helped address these jointly with Venezuelans and Colombians. Issues of xenophobia and discrimination, particularly towards women and LGBTQ+ persons, harm social cohesion. 
• Address negative narratives that are spread mostly through mainstream media, and, in some cases, by local politicians, with fact-checking and positive messages around migration. 

 

Europe faces critical choices about its relationship with the rest of the world as it begin to negotiate the post 2028 EU budget. The broad consensus sees strength and prosperity of the Union in terms of its competitiveness, with research, innovation and skills at the heart of the European economy. As such, even actions focused on the needs and opportunities in Europe are defined in relation to other countries and global regions. This underscores the importance of ensuring the novel Global Europe funding instrument is designed correctly. Europe’s capacity to cooperate with the world, especially with low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), will be shaped by the funding allocations and spending rules decided upon in the next months. However, there are questions about how research, innovation and higher education fits into this global outlook: will these aspects of cooperation with LMICs remain peripheral, or can they be recognised as a strategic enabler of European competitiveness and better implemented to address shared global challenges?

Europe faces critical choices about its relationship with the rest of the world as it begin to negotiate the post 2028 EU budget. The broad consensus sees strength and prosperity of the Union in terms of its competitiveness, with research, innovation and skills at the heart of the European economy. As such, even actions focused on the needs and opportunities in Europe are defined in relation to other countries and global regions. This underscores the importance of ensuring the novel Global Europe funding instrument is designed correctly. Europe’s capacity to cooperate with the world, especially with low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), will be shaped by the funding allocations and spending rules decided upon in the next months. However, there are questions about how research, innovation and higher education fits into this global outlook: will these aspects of cooperation with LMICs remain peripheral, or can they be recognised as a strategic enabler of European competitiveness and better implemented to address shared global challenges?

Europe faces critical choices about its relationship with the rest of the world as it begin to negotiate the post 2028 EU budget. The broad consensus sees strength and prosperity of the Union in terms of its competitiveness, with research, innovation and skills at the heart of the European economy. As such, even actions focused on the needs and opportunities in Europe are defined in relation to other countries and global regions. This underscores the importance of ensuring the novel Global Europe funding instrument is designed correctly. Europe’s capacity to cooperate with the world, especially with low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), will be shaped by the funding allocations and spending rules decided upon in the next months. However, there are questions about how research, innovation and higher education fits into this global outlook: will these aspects of cooperation with LMICs remain peripheral, or can they be recognised as a strategic enabler of European competitiveness and better implemented to address shared global challenges?

La Commission européenne a présenté son rapport annuel sur les « progrès » réalisés par les candidats à l'Union européenne ce mardi 4 novembre. Dans les Balkans, à part pour l'Albanie, la Moldavie et le Monténégro, le constat est sévère.

- Le fil de l'Info / Elargissement UE, Kosovo, Questions européennes, Courrier des Balkans, Moldavie, Monténégro, Albanie, Turquie, Serbie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Une - Diaporama, Une - Diaporama - En premier

La Commission européenne a présenté son rapport annuel sur les « progrès » réalisés par les candidats à l'Union européenne ce mardi 4 novembre. Dans les Balkans, à part pour l'Albanie, la Moldavie et le Monténégro, le constat est sévère.

- Le fil de l'Info / Elargissement UE, Kosovo, Questions européennes, Courrier des Balkans, Moldavie, Monténégro, Albanie, Turquie, Serbie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Une - Diaporama, Une - Diaporama - En premier

La Commission européenne a présenté son rapport annuel sur les « progrès » réalisés par les candidats à l'Union européenne ce mardi 4 novembre. Dans les Balkans, à part pour l'Albanie, la Moldavie et le Monténégro, le constat est sévère.

- Le fil de l'Info / Elargissement UE, Kosovo, Questions européennes, Courrier des Balkans, Moldavie, Monténégro, Albanie, Turquie, Serbie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Une - Diaporama, Une - Diaporama - En premier

La Commission européenne a présenté son rapport annuel sur les « progrès » réalisés par les candidats à l'Union européenne ce mardi 4 novembre. Dans les Balkans, à part pour l'Albanie, la Moldavie et le Monténégro, le constat est sévère.

- Le fil de l'Info / Elargissement UE, Kosovo, Questions européennes, Courrier des Balkans, Moldavie, Monténégro, Albanie, Turquie, Serbie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Une - Diaporama, Une - Diaporama - En premier

Onze personnes sont décédées dans l'incendie qui a ravagé une partie de la maison de retraite de Tuzla dans la nuit du 4 au 5 novembre. Le directeur de l'établissement a annoncé sa démission et la ville a déclaré ce jeudi, jour de deuil dans le canton. Des manifestations sont prévues.

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Die US-Luftfahrtbehörde FAA plant, den Flugverkehr an 40 Standorten um zehn Prozent zu reduzieren. Grund sind Engpässe bei der Flugsicherung. Tausende Flüge könnten ab Freitag betroffen sein.

Heute kommt es bei Tesla zu Showdown: Die Aktionäre müssen über eine gigantische Vergütung für ihren CEO abstimmen. Für den Fall einer Ablehnung drohte Musk mit seinem Rücktritt.

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Einem Berner Ehepaar konnten 20'000 Franken vom Konto abgeluchst werden – trotz Sicherheitsmassnahmen. Laut IT-Experte Gianclaudio Moresi sind heutige Sicherheitsmethoden der Banken schon längst überholt. Er wünscht sich, dass diese mehr in die Verantwortung gehen.

Auf der «Trübsee»-Terrasse des Titlis steigt am 22. und 29. November zum ersten Mal das Moving-Mountain-Festival. Gewinne zwei VIP-Tickets für das erste Wochenende, und erlebe eine unvergessliche Nacht mit den Superstar-DJs.

Die Christmas Sessions in Biel präsentieren vom 20. bis 23. November ein Line-up mit nationalen und internationalen Stars. Bei uns kannst du Tickets für einen Konzertabend gewinnen.