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Roughly six weeks after the deadly knife attack against mayor Paweł Adamowicz the people of Gdańsk have elected Aleksandra Dulkiewicz as his successor by a large majority. She was already deputy mayor, and served as acting mayor after his death. What does her election portend?

A year ago the Russian ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned in the English city of Salisbury with the chemical nerve agent novichok. Moscow refutes any involvement in the attempted murder even though it has been proven that Russian agents were in the city on the day the poisoning occurred. It wasn't just the former agent and his daughter who suffered as a result of the poisoning, commentators conclude.

After three years in opposition the liberal Reform Party won Estonia's parliamentary elections on Sunday with just under 29 percent of the vote. Its leader Kaja Kallas is now set to become the country's first woman prime minister. Journalists discuss not just Kallas' victory but also the rise of the national conservative party Ekre, which came third with almost 18 percent of the vote.

Le bilan de l’attentat djihadiste d’Aguelhok, dans le nord-est du pays, qui s’est déroulé le 20 janvier dernier, s’est alourdi après la mort d’un casque bleu tchadien des suites de ses blessures. Le bilan se porte désormais à 11 morts. En parallèle, l’armée malienne a indiqué ce jeudi 14 février, qu’une opération conjointe avec la force française ...

A majority of the 15 municipalities from the United Kingdom granted a €15,000 EU subsidy to set up free wireless internet voted to leave the EU.

Le Conseil national charge ce mardi le gouvernement de mettre en oeuvre un plan d'action contre les poids lourds qui utilisent l'additif Adblue.

Il a satisfait son désir sexuel sur une fillette. Agé 45 ans, un homme aurait tenu des rapports intimes avec une fillette âgée de 5 ans environs. La scène a lieu dans la journée de ce lundi 4 mars au quartier Hindé à Cotonou. La victime a été appelée par son bourreau alors que celle-ci vendait de l'eau glacée communément appelée « Pure Water ». Il a payé un sachet d'eau de 25 FCFA et lui a remis 100 FCFA. La fille n'ayant pas trouvé de monnaie pour remettre son reliquat après quelques minutes de recherche infructueuse, le monsieur propose à la fillette une autre issue. Elle doit le suivre dans une concession non loin de la gare routière de Hindé, afin de récupérer ses 25 FCFA. Une fois à destination, il traîne la petite dans une chambre de la concession et la viole.
La démarche un peu bizarre de la fillette à la sortie de cette concession a permis aux voisins de comprendre la situation. Très rapidement, ils ont interpellé le monsieur qui n'a pas tardé à passer aux aveux. Il a été confié aux autorités de la police pour la suite de l'enquête. Quant à la petite, elle serait admise dans un centre de santé pour des examens cliniques.

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Chaque ménage en Suisse jette entre 500 et 1000 francs de déchets alimentaires chaque année. Sans parler des 200'000 tonnes jetées par la restauration.

Committee and political group meetings, Brussels

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A 49 éves Keith Flintre hétfőn reggel találtak rá holtan dunmow-i otthonában, ahol öngyilkosságot követett el. Most az is kiderült, mi vezethetett a tragédiához.

Un mort et un blessé grave, c'est le bilan d'un accident de circulation survenu dans la matinée de ce lundi 04 mars 2019 à Cana, commune de Zogbodomey, dans le département du Zou.
Dans sa course, le conducteur du véhicule a percuté un motocycliste. Sur place, il a été dénombré un mort et un blessé grave. Après son forfait, le conducteur du véhicule a pris la fuite. L'excès de vitesse, renseigne les témoins, serait à l'origine de cet accident.

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Quelle : © Europäische Union, 2019 - EP

The Additive Manufacturing Techniques for Energetic Materials (AMTEM) project, for which the programme arrangement was signed last December by six participating EDA Member States (Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden) as well as Norway, was officially launched at a kick-off meeting on 12/13 February. 

The event, which took place at the French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL), brought together 15 European organisations working in the field of Energetic Materials, namely: ISL, Ariane Group, EURENCO, NEXTER Group, Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT), The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), NAMMO, Chemring Nobel, Polish Military Institute of Armament Technology (MIAT), Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Finish Defence Research Agency (FDRA), Oy Forcit AB, Raikka OY and Aalto University.

Additive manufacturing (AM) - or 3D-Printing - technologies have been identified as a major enabling technology to improve Europe’s industrial competitiveness. The defence sector is also exploring the potential offered by AM technologies to further develop military capabilities. Within EDA’s CapTech Ammunition Technologies, a group of Member States agreed to join forces and develop a multinational research project on the use of Additive Manufacturing for the production of Energetic Materials to be used both as propellants as well as warheads. It was this initiative that led to the AMTEM project. 

Over the next four years, the AMTEM project team will investigate and assess appropriate materials and related Additive Manufacturing production techniques, in particular with a view to producing new types of warheads and propellants with enhanced performance and ensuring faster and cheaper production processes for short series as well as rapid prototyping. The research project is also expected to help develop new munitions and missiles systems concepts with increased operational performance and further strengthen the European industrial competitiveness.
 

More information:

• R&T project launched on 3D printing of energetic materials (EDA webnews, 13 December 2018) 
• CapTech Ammunition Technologies (EDA project page)