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A Mol után az OMV is 50 literben korlátozta a benzinkutaknál hatósági áron kiadható üzemanyag mennyiségét.

A következő választási időszakban 53 – a jelenleginél hárommal több – megyei képviselő fog ülni Pozsony Megye Önkormányzatában. Így határozott pénteken a pozsony megyei parlament. A választási körzetek száma (24) és határaik ugyanakkor változatlanok maradnak.

Pour plus de deux millions de FCFA dus à des épargnants de leur groupe de tontine, deux responsables étaient devant le Tribunal de Première Instance de Cotonou, mercredi 22 juin 2022, pour des faits d'escroquerie. Le procès a été renvoyé au 27 juillet prochain.
Le président et le trésorier d'un groupe de tontine seront jugés le 27 juillet 2022 pour escroquerie au Tribunal de Première Instance de Cotonou.
Les deux responsables doivent plus de deux millions de FCFA à cinq de leurs épargants. A la première victime, les prévenus doivent 700.000 FCFA. Les quatre autres épargnants réclament respectivement plus d'un million de FCFA ; 710.000 FCFA ; 420.000 FCFA et 80.000 FCFA.
Les prévenus ont indiqué à la barre, mercredi 22 juin 2022, avoir remboursé une partie des sommes dues à leurs épargnants.
La défense des accusés a plaidé la clémence et la libération provisoire des deux responsables de tontine.
Le procès a été renvoyé au 27 juillet 2022 sur réquisition du Ministère public. Les prévenus retournent en prison.
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Sur l'émission spéciale ‘'Le gouvernement en action'', le ministre des sports s'est prononcé sur les deux défaites de l'équipe nationale lors des deux premières journées des éliminatoires de la CAN Côte d'Ivoire 2022. Oswald Homéky, au cours de l'entretien avec les journalistes a invité le public sportif béninois à ne pas perdre confiance.

Pour leurs deux premiers matchs des éliminatoires de la CAN 2023, les Ecureuils ont été battus : (3-1) contre le Sénégal et (1-0) contre le Mozambique. Ce deuxième match joué au stade de l'amitié général Mathieu Kérékou de Cotonou a suscité la colère des supporters béninois qui ont attaqué le bus transportant l'équipe nationale. Cette attitude des supporteurs selon le ministre des sports, est légitime mais inacceptable.
Oswald Homéky est revenu sur les critiques à l'encontre de l'encadrement technique. « Est-ce que le staff des Ecureuils est donc faible ? Tantôt tout le peuple souhaite la promotion d'un encadreur local, […]. Au bout de deux matchs, tout le monde dit qu'il est faible et qu'il faut le remplacer tout de suite », a fait observer Oswald Homéky exhortant les uns et les autres au travail. « Les Béninois ont le droit d'être exigeants. Je les comprends mais comme je le dis, nous sommes partis de loin. Nous avons construit quelque chose, nous sommes à quelques mois, à quelques années de la stabilité de la constance. Que les contre-performances ne les choquent pas au point de perdre confiance en ce projet qui est en place », a expliqué le ministre des sports.

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Nemcsak a két országot, hanem az EU-t is erősebbé teheti a tagjelölt státusz megadása Ukrajnának és Moldovának – mondta Roberta Metsola az uniós vezetőknek.

Forrás : © Európai Unió, 2022 - EP

Malgré toute la préparation mise en place par les voyageurs lors de leurs traversées, les imprévues sont souvent au rendez vous. Entre autres, les grèves sont un problème qui cause beaucoup d’annulation de vols. Certains vols vers l’Algerie seront donc annulés pour le 24 et 25 juin 2022. En effet, à l’aéroport de Lille-Lesquin par […]

L’article Grève en France : les vols avec l’Algérie seront-ils impactés ? est apparu en premier sur .

After last Sunday's legislative elections in France (19 June), EURACTIV took a look at how many of the newly elected 577 lawmakers belong to the farming community.

Après 2 saisons de bons et loyaux services au sein de l’équipe de l’Étoile du Sahel, l’international algérien, Hocine Benayada, s’apprête à quitter le club de la ville tunisienne de Sousse. En effet, le latéral droit de l’équipe d’Algérie a annoncé son départ du club rouge et blanc via ses réseaux sociaux, « je suis […]

L’article Mercato : Hocine Benayada annonce son départ de l’Etoile du Sahel est apparu en premier sur .

Nachdem der albanische Premierminister Edi Rama Bulgarien auf dem erfolglosen EU-Westbalkangipfel am Donnerstag in Brüssel scharf kritisiert hatte, schlug Sofia mit einer eigenen Erklärung zurück.

Men working for Edy Prasetyo harvesting catfish in Indramayu, West Java, take a break on a recent day. Credit: Kafil Yamin/IPS

By Kafil Yamin
INDRAMAYU, Indonesia, Jun 24 2022 (IPS)

For years Indramayu has been known as one of Indonesia’s rice centres. The district in West Java is the country’s number one rice producer, generating 1.3 million tonnes of husked rice in 2021, according to Indonesia’s Centre of Statistics (BPS). The country’s total rice production was 54 million tonnes.

What we witness as we drive to the district confirms the rice-dominant economy. Paddy fields stretch on the right and left as far as the eye can see. This is early June, traditionally the start of the harvest, but the plants are still green, indicating that the harvest is still months away.

It is also a clear sign that the paddy growing cycle has changed, due to a shift in climate.

Ironically, Indramayu was one of the five poorest districts in West Java in 2021, according to the BPS report, which also revealed that the Covid-19 pandemic increased the number of poor in Indramayu by 13 percent.

Even before the pandemic, Indramayu was a pocket of poverty in Indonesia. The majority of people in the paddy-dominant district are not land-owning farmers but farm labourers or landless growers.

Paddy fields are labour-intensive only during planting season and harvest, which take place three times a year on average. That leaves three to four months as free time for landless farmers. Both men and women migrate to the capital Jakarta, 240 km away, to find temporary jobs, before returning to Indramayu for the harvest.

 

Labour migration decreasing

Global climate change has been disrupting these patterns — of planting, harvesting, and migration. But one silver lining of this disruption is that landless growers have begun to find alternative livelihoods without migrating to Jakarta. Fish farming is a popular choice in the coastal district.

Indramayu farmers started making ponds along the seashore to raise tiger prawns, a popular commodity. But this farming is vulnerable to incursions from the ocean, including tidal waves.

That’s why Edy Prasetyo, 46, chose to enter the catfish farming business in 2001. Twenty-one years later, Prasetyo has 69 ponds in Soge village, Kandanghaur sub-district.

In recent years catfish has become a favourite street food for middle and low-income people in almost all major cities in Indonesia. Demand is so high that in the Jakarta area, where most Indramayu catfish is sold, shortages are common. Seeing the opportunity, some young local growers have become rich quick.

It’s demanding work, Prasetyo tells an IPS reporter on a recent visit. “We have to stick to a fixed feeding schedule, including during the night and when it rains. Imagine walking around the ponds in heavy rain and throwing catfish food into them. I have 69 ponds. I need at least 10 people to do it.”

But now, new technology is making the farmers’ lives easier. In October 2020, FAO Indonesia and Bogor Agriculture University (IPB) introduced technology known as eFishery to Prasetyo’s village. After a short training he and other catfish farmers began to adopt the system, particularly a digital automatic fish feeder.

Invented by a graduate of Indonesia’s Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Gibran Huzaifah, the auto-feeder connects through the internet to farmers’ smartphones. There they can set the breed of fish, feeding schedules and the amount of food pellets to drop into the ponds.

 

Gunawan, 47, a catfish farmer in Ciseeng, West Java, has been using the auto-feeder since 2019. Credit: Kafil Yamin/IPS

 

Detects level of hunger

The auto-feeder is equipped with an in-water, vibration-based sensor that is able to read the movements of hungry versus full fish. Guided by the farmer’s feeding schedule, when the artificial intelligence detects hunger, it releases the amount of feed required. This avoids over or underfeeding the fish.

The auto-feeder connects through the internet to farmers’ smartphones. There they can set the breed of fish, feeding schedules and the amount of food pellets to drop into the ponds

The eFishery’s sensors collect and store real time data, such as feed volumes and consumption levels. Farmers can access this through eFishery’s web and mobile apps on their smartphone, tablet or computer and make any needed changes to the feeding.

“This is the kind of technology we need,” says Prasetyo. “It cuts time spent for feeding the catfish and saves a lot of energy.”

With eFishery, production has increased 25-30 percent, says the farmer, adding that he has more time to spend on other things. Additional benefits of the technology include that the size and weight of the catfish can be controlled and the water quality is monitored.

While Prasetyo spoke, several men placed buckets of catfish on weighing scales and then transferred them to a small truck, which soon drove out of the village, bound for Jakarta.

Losarang sub-district has now become Indramayu’s catfish centre, with the majority of residents farming the species. Catfish ponds dominate the landscape. “Sixty percent of Indramayu’s 200 hectares of catfish ponds are in Losarang sub-district,” said Thalib, the village head.

The technology and knowledge has spread throughout the area, and Prasetyo’s success story has drawn fishermen from other villages to learn about eFishery.

“This is what Member Nations want. This is what this project is designed for,” said Aziz Elbehri, senior economist at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization’s Regional Office in Bangkok, who leads the 1,000 Digital Villages Initiative (DVI) for Asia and Pacific.

A global initiative inspired by FAO’s Director-General Mr QU Dongyu, the DVI is being piloted in the Asia-Pacific region. Soge village is among many being showcased and sharing its advancements with other villages and areas in Asia and the Pacific, as well as other regions of the world.

“A successful undertaking in one village should be copied, or in popular terms, replicated to other villages. And this is what is happening here now,” Elbehri told IPS as he and his FAO team visited Soge village on 26 May.

“Indonesia is one of the success stories,” Elbehri said, pointing out several female catfish farmers who joined his visit. As eFishery is a national innovation, the project is also driving national excellence, he added.

 

Challenges remain

Catfish farming is not without challenges. Mardiah, 52, has been farming the species for 26 years. “Sometimes we go through lack of water during prolonged drought, which has caused many of our catfish to die. At other times, we get flooded during heavy rainfall and our ponds are destroyed,” he told IPS, adding that farmers can do little about such natural occurrences. Disease is another serious threat.

But what gives farmers their largest headache is the soaring price of catfish food. “More and more people make fish ponds, while catfish food production remain the same. This make its price soar,” Mardiah said.

Head of the Indramayu Fishery and Marine Office, Edi Umaedi, told IPS that fish ponds cover 560 hectares in his area, more than half of it is used for catfish farming. Last year, Indramayu’s catfish production reached 85,000 tonnes.

Setting up the business is not difficult, added Umaedi, and farmers prefer it because unlike rice, catfish can endure a water shortage and do not require irrigation. “Fish ponds, particularly catfish ponds, do not need a vast amount of land. One pond of 100 or 200 square metres is enough to farm catfish.”

To date, FAO and IPB have established eFishery in 30 villages in West Java and there are plans to expand to other Indonesian provinces.

 

BERICHT über das Thema „Die EU und die Verteidigung des Multilateralismus“
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
Javi López

Quelle : © Europäische Union, 2022 - EP

The body governing the Energy Charter Treaty launched Friday its "agreement in principle" over the modernisation of this controversial trade deal, ending two-year-long negotiations. The outcome of the talks was slammed by campaigners, who argue that the treaty may potentially be in breach of EU law and international commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement. Under the deal, fossil-fuel investments will be protected in the EU for decades.

Public Affairs Unit, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Katya Andrusz

The November 2021 presidential and early parliamentary elections in Bulgaria were administered efficiently, but took place in an atmosphere of disillusionment towards the political establishment and voter fatigue from two previous parliamentary elections held within the same year. The roll-out of electronic voting machines was successful despite logistical and technical challenges. While some parties commended country-wide efforts by law enforcement as effective in curbing vote-buying, others claimed that these actions aimed to intimidate their supporters.

These are some of the main conclusions from the final report on the November 2021 elections published today by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).

Key recommendations include:

• Revising the legal framework well in advance of the next election in an inclusive and transparent consultation process, to ensure a coherent and stable electoral framework;
• Providing clear rules and deadlines to carry out a count of control slips produced by the voting machines, to ensure the accountability of electronic voting;
• Implementing a strategy to reduce the number of citizens without a permanent address and conducting a nationwide campaign to issue identification documents to voters belonging to vulnerable groups;
• Removing undue restrictions on Bulgarian citizens with dual citizenship to stand for office;
• Increasing the transparency of police actions to prevent vote-buying by publicizing the criteria, the methodology and the grounds on which warning protocols are issued to potential perpetrators.
• Encouraging broadcasters to abandon the practice of directly engaging journalists in preparing paid campaign material;
• Reviewing the framework for electoral dispute resolution to allow for direct challenging of election results by the contestants and broadening legal standing for voters whose rights are violated to lodge a complaint.

ODIHR deployed an Election Assessment Mission on 25 October 2021 to observe the presidential and early parliamentary elections on 14 November and the second round of the presidential election on 21 November.

All 57 participating States across the OSCE region have formally committed to following up promptly on ODIHR’s election assessments and recommendations.

Un an après l’abandon de l’accord-cadre, le Conseil fédéral peine à convaincre. Bruxelles nous snobe, le parlement s’énerve et l’économie s’inquiète.

Le Haut-commissariat de l’ONU aux droits de l’homme a remis ses conclusions vendredi. L’intervention de Palestiniens armés est exclue. L’armée israélienne a réagi.

Le gouvernement allemand porte au «  niveau d’alerte  » son avis sur l’approvisionnement en gaz, conformément au règlement de l’UE sur la sécurité de l’approvisionnement, suite de la réduction des flux de gaz en provenance de Russie.

Le Lauréat du 1er prix du jury du concours « Ma thèse en 180 secondes » qui représentera le Bénin à la finale internationale le 6 octobre 2022 au Canada sera connu ce vendredi 24 juin 2022.
La finale du concours « Ma thèse en 180 secondes », 6è édition organisée au Bénin par le Campus numérique francophone de l'Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), se déroulera, ce vendredi 24 juin 2022, à partir de 14h30 à l'Amphithéâtre Etisalat de l'Université d'Abomey-Calavi (UAC).
Au total, treize (13) doctorants ou jeunes doctorants présenteront les travaux de leurs recherches en 180 secondes soit 3 minutes avec pour défi de faire comprendre la thèse à un public profane et diversifié et de curieux dans ce laps de temps.
Qui sera le vainqueur du concours national MT 180 2022 pour représenter le Bénin lors de la finale internationale le 6 octobre 2022, à Montréal, au Canada, tous frais pris en charge par l'Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) à l'issue du passage des treize finalistes ? Le rendez-vous est pris à l'UAC pour le savoir et voter également pour le candidat qui aura été « clair, concis » et plus convaincant. Voici quelques critères pour juger les présentations des finalistes : voix claire et assurée, présence sur scène, rythme et fluidité ; langage accessible, usage de métaphores, propos illustrés d'exemples ; enchaînement limpide d'idées claires allant de l'énoncé du contexte à la mise en lumière des travaux. Le vote du public se fera en ligne sur : http://vote.mt180.bj
LES 13 FINALISTES DU MT180 2022

After months of urging from Kyiv the big moment has come: Ukraine and Moldova were granted EU candidate status at the bloc's summit on Thursday. Georgia's candidacy was put off until a later date and there was no progress at all in talks with representatives of the Western Balkan states. Europe's press looks at whether Brussels is serious about EU enlargement.