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Les dirigeants du Groupe des Sept devraient parvenir à un accord politique pour fournir à l’Ukraine une aide financière de 50 milliards de dollars en utilisant les bénéfices générés par les avoirs russes gelés par l’UE et les pays du G7.

Zamestnik-predsedatel na Darzhavna agentsia za bezhantsite
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Stateless persons of Palestinian origin registered with UNRWA should, in principle, be granted refugee status if UNRWA’s protection or assistance is considered to have ceased

Zamestnik-predsedatel na Darzhavna agentsia za bezhantsite (Statut de réfugié - Apatride d’origine palestinienne)
Espace de liberté, sécurité et justice
Les apatrides d’origine palestinienne enregistrés auprès de l’UNRWA doivent, en principe, se voir attribuer le statut de réfugié si la protection ou l’assistance de l’UNRWA est considérée comme ayant cessé

Zamestnik-predsedatel na Darzhavna agentsia za bezhantsite
A szabadságon, a biztonságon és a jog érvényesülésén alapuló térség
Az UNRWA-nál regisztrált hontalan palesztin személyek menekült jogállását főszabály szerint el kell ismerni, ha az UNRWA által nyújtott támogatást vagy védelmet megszűntnek kell tekinteni

Die G7-Staatschefs werden sich auf eine 50-Milliarden-Dollar-Finanzhilfe für die Ukraine einigen. Diese Summe soll aus den Übergewinnen aus eingefrorenen Vermögenswerten der russischen Zentralbank stammen, sagten mehrere Personen, die mit der Angelegenheit vertraut sind.

Commission v Hungary
Law governing the institutions

Asylum policy: Hungary is ordered to pay a lump sum of 200 million euros and a penalty payment of 1 million euros per day of delay for failure to comply with a judgment of the Court of Justice

Commission / Hongrie (Accueil des demandeurs de protection internationale II)
Droit institutionnel

Politique d’asile : la Hongrie est condamnée à payer une somme forfaitaire de 200 millions d’euros et une astreinte de 1 million d’euros par jour de retard pour ne pas avoir exécuté un arrêt de la Cour de justice

Bizottság kontra Magyarország
Intézményi jog
Menekültpolitika: a Bíróság arra kötelezi Magyarországot, hogy fizessen 200 millió euró átalányösszeget, és a késedelem minden egyes napjára 1 millió euró összegű kényszerítő bírságot amiatt, hogy nem teljesítette a Bíróság egyik ítéletét

By Yasmine Sherif
NEW YORK, Jun 13 2024 (IPS-Partners)

Few will disagree with the nearly universal concern that we – the human family – are once more faced with an era of darkness. An era whose burdens are mainly carried on the tiny shoulders of crises-affected children and adolescents, their teachers and families, all left furthest behind.

Two years ago, Save the Children issued a report estimating that 468 million children were living in, or fleeing from, conflict zones. The past two years have only increased this figure with new conflicts, climate disasters and forced displacement. The light of hope enshrined in international law, including human rights law and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, is slowly dying. The light of hope to arise from protracted crises and sudden disasters through an education is fading further away for millions upon millions of young people.

In the Middle East, schoolyards are turned into graveyards for Palestinian children and their teachers, others deeply traumatized, maimed or orphaned. In Sudan, 18 million children are out of school, and in Sub-Saharan Africa, 9 out of 10 children cannot read and understand a simple text by age 10. In Afghanistan, a generation of adolescent girls are prohibited from attending school beyond the 6th grade.

In Latin America, children and their families flee instability in Venezuela, disrupting their education. In Haiti, children cannot attend school and live in constant fear of brutal attacks by armed gangs. As we highlight in this month’s high-level interview with Bruno Maes, UNICEF Representative in Haiti: “The instability in Haiti continues to undermine education. Frequent disruptions in educational services have posed significant challenges in accessing schools.”

In Myanmar, the Rohingya continue to be persecuted, while the refugees across the border cannot attend the public education system. And in Europe, war rages on in Ukraine, pushing Ukrainian children into harms’ way rather than into the safety of schools.

The distance between ‘the haves and the have-nots’ continues to grow larger. According to the World Economic Forum: “The inequality gap is widening, with more than two-thirds (69%) of global wealth held by developed nations, while less than a third can be found in the developing world.”

And while millions of young people in the Global North celebrate graduations this month at high schools, colleges and universities, a quarter of a billion children and adolescents across crisis-impacted countries in the Global South are not even able to access early childhood development and the basic 12 years of education.

The darkness is creeping into every corner of our society. Still, rather than raging against the dying light, as the writer and poet Thomas Dylan once urged us to do, we sink deeper into a dark abyss by spending resources on destructive wars – rather than on the enlightenment and hope of education.

We seem bent on extinguishing the light of justice, peace and security for all – with an emphasis on all. For, as Martin Luther King Jr. said: “It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.”

We must “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Indeed, we must rekindle the light whose rays illuminate and transform. If not, what is the alternative?

Yasmine Sherif is Executive Director Education Cannot Wait (ECW)

 

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Auf dem heutigen G7-Gipfel der stärksten westlichen Wirtschaftsmächte werden die Staats- und Regierungschefs von Frankreich, Deutschland und Italien zum ersten Mal seit den EU-Wahlen aufeinander treffen. Dabei wird erwartet, dass die drei größten EU-Länder auch erste Vorverhandlungen über Spitzenposten in der EU führen werden.

Il coule en Macédoine du Nord et se jette dans la mer Égée, en Grèce. Essentiel pour l'irrigation agricole, le fleuve Vardar est aussi une source majeure d'eau potable et abritait une riche biodiversité. Sa survie est aujourd'hui gravement menacée par la pollution. Enquête.

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Il coule en Macédoine du Nord et se jette dans la mer Égée, en Grèce. Essentiel pour l'irrigation agricole, le fleuve Vardar est aussi une source majeure d'eau potable et abritait une riche biodiversité. Sa survie est aujourd'hui gravement menacée par la pollution. Enquête.

- Articles / Environnement dans les Balkans, Investigative Reporting Lab Macedonia, Macédoine du Nord, Grèce, Environnement, Relations régionales

Written by Lasse Boehm with David Kläffling.

The European Union’s (EU) climate policies, part of the European Green Deal put forward by the von der Leyen Commission, will have profound consequences for other policy areas. During the 2019-2024 legislative term of the European Parliament, the EU adopted an overarching objective to cut net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 % by 2030, and achieve climate neutrality by 2050. This entails changing the way energy is produced and consumed in the EU, with knock-on effects for individual citizens, households, and businesses.

This briefing explores and maps out some of the social consequences of the Green Deal, focusing in particular on the effect the green transition will have on labour markets. It also touches briefly on the housing and transport sectors. The briefing’s purpose is to offer an overview of the most important impacts in these areas, without pretending to be a full study. For reasons of brevity, it leaves out or touches only briefly on other important dimensions, such as education and gender.

While insufficient action in the face of climate change would lead to significant costs as well as severe consequences for human life and the natural environment, the design of climate policies poses distributional challenges for individuals, and at a systemic level for different regions and industrial sectors. While studies on the Green Deal’s labour market consequences are often limited to the aggregate level, this ‘macro’ perspective can hide significant regional and sectoral diversity.

Existing EU funds and instruments have been designed to buffer against negative social consequences, particularly by providing upskilling opportunities, but their scope and size is limited. As the EU has only relatively limited competences in the area of social policy, significant policy action at national and regional level is unavoidable. The convergence and coordination of policy and funding instruments is crucial. Success or failure of regional, national, and European responses will be determined by the ability of policymakers to set up an integrated policy framework comprising social, labour market and industrial policy elements.

Read the complete briefing on ‘Social and labour market impactof the green transition‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

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L’article France : fille d’immigrés algériens, Farida Khelfa remporte le prix Vaudeville 2024 est apparu en premier sur .

Ursula von der Leyen soll das umstrittene spanische Amnestiegesetz stoppen, das katalanische Separatisten begnadigt, forderte Dolors Montserrat, Spitzenkandidatin der spanischen Partido Popular (PP/EVP).

Die von der EU-Kommission angekündigten möglichen Handelszölle auf chinesische Elektrofahrzeuge haben tschechische Automobilhersteller beunruhigt. Sie warnen, dass diese Maßnahme die Konkurrenzprobleme nicht lösen und kontraproduktiv sein könne.

Marine Le Pen und die ID-Partei lehnten am 12. Juni eine Wiederaufnahme der AfD in die Fraktion im Europaparlament ab. Die AfD war zuvor wegen zahlreicher Skandale kurz vor den Europawahlen von der rechten EU-Fraktion ausgeschlossen worden.

An Israeli airstrike which hit an UNRWA-run school in Nuseirat, Central Gaza. June 2024. Credit: UNRWA

By Jake Johnson
NEW YORK, Jun 13 2024 (IPS)

A United Nations commission tasked with conducting an in-depth investigation of Israeli military actions in the occupied Palestinian territories has concluded that Israel’s government is responsible for multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip, including “extermination,” torture, forcible transfer, and the use of starvation as a weapon of warfare.

The U.N. inquiry began on October 7, the day of a deadly Hamas-led attack on southern Israel. The U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory found that Palestinian armed groups committed war crimes during their attack on Israel, including the deliberate killing and torture of civilians.

Israel’s massive military response—launched hours after the Hamas-led attack—has caused “immense numbers of civilian casualties in Gaza and widespread destruction of civilian objects and infrastructure,” outcomes that “were the inevitable result of a strategy undertaken with intent to cause maximum damage, disregarding the principles of distinction, proportionality and adequate,” the U.N. commission said Wednesday.

“The intentional use of heavy weapons with large destructive capacity in densely populated areas constitutes an intentional and direct attack on the civilian population,” the commission added. Many of the weapons Israel has used in Gaza were supplied by the United States.

The new report also points to public statements by top Israeli officials as evidence that Israel’s goal in Gaza was to inflict “widespread destruction” and kill a “large number of civilians.” The U.N. panel specifically cited Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s October announcement of a “total siege” on the Gaza Strip that would prevent the entry of water, fuel, food, and other necessities.

The International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor has applied for arrest warrants for Gallant and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over war crimes committed in Gaza.

Navi Pillay, the chair of the U.N. commission, said in a statement Wednesday that “Israel must immediately stop its military operations and attacks in Gaza, including the assault on Rafah, which has cost the lives of hundreds of civilians and again displaced hundreds of thousands of people to unsafe locations without basic services and humanitarian assistance.

“Hamas and Palestinian armed groups must immediately cease rocket attacks and release all hostages,” Pillay added. “The taking of hostages constitutes a war crime.”

The commission’s findings come less than a week after U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres informed the Israeli government that it was added to an annual “list of shame” that condemns nations for killing and wounding children in wars.

Children have suffered horrific physical and psychological impacts from Israel’s eight-month assault on Gaza, which has killed around 15,000 children. Earlier this year, the U.N. Children’s Fund estimated that around 1,000 kids in Gaza had lost one or both of their legs as a result of Israeli attacks.

Dozens of children were among the more than 270 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces over the weekend during a raid on Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp. The military operation resulted in the freeing of four Israeli hostages, but the U.N. Human Rights Office said Tuesday that “the manner in which the raid was conducted in such a densely populated area seriously calls into question whether the principles of distinction, proportionality, and precaution—as set out under the laws of war—were respected by the Israeli forces.”

Doctors Without Borders, known internationally as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said Tuesday that Israeli forces have killed more than 800 people in Gaza and wounded more than 2,400 since the beginning of June.

“How can the killing of more than 800 people in a single week, including small children, plus the maiming of hundreds more, be considered a military operation adhering to international humanitarian law?” asked Brice de le Vingne, the head of MSF’s emergency unit. “We can no longer accept the statement that Israel is taking ‘all precautions’—this is just propaganda.”

“Since October (and certainly before), the dehumanization of Palestinians has been a hallmark of this war,” de le Vingne added. “Catch-all phrases like ‘war is ugly’ act as blinders to the fact that children too young to walk are being dismembered, eviscerated, and killed.”

Jake Johnson is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.

Source: Common Dreams

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Aujourd’hui dans L’Expresso : Eric Ciotti refuse de quitter la présidence des Républicains, fronde chez les eurodéputés de Reconquête! et exclusion de Marion Maréchal, l'industrie automobile allemande inquiète des droits de douane de l'UE sur les véhicules électriques chinois.

Entre janvier et mai de cette année, un total de 5  504 migrants — soit près de 33 décès par jour, ou un migrant toutes les 45 minutes — sont morts en tentant de rejoindre l’Espagne par la périlleuse traversée de la mer Méditerranée, a révélé mercredi le rapport d’une ONG espagnole.