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Une commission du National a ouvert la voie à un contre-projet à l'initiative «Pour plus de transparence dans le financement de la vie politique».

Karl Lagerfeld war durch und durch Perfektionist. So plante er gar Details, die über sein Leben hinausgingen. Der Modezar legte in einem fünfseitigen Handbuch fest, wie sich Chanel-Mitarbeiter nach seinem Tod zu verhalten haben. 

Im Südsudan sind nach Angaben der Uno zehntausende Menschen vom Hungertod bedroht. 30'000 Menschen in den Bundesstaaten Jonglei und Lakes leiden bereits unter extremem Hunger.

Vendredi 22 février, à l’occasion de la marche nationale contre un 5e mandat du Président Abdelaziz Boutefilka, la Coordination nationale des imams d’Algérie a appelé dans un communiqué à laisser les mosquées en dehors des luttes politiques et partisanes.

Afin d’éviter des débordements lors de la marche nationale prévue ce vendredi 22 février, après la prière, contre l’éventualité d’un 5e mandat du Président Abdelaziz Bouteflika, la Coordination nationale des imams d’Algérie a mis en garde contre l’exploitation des mosquées à des fins politiques, selon un communiqué officiel publié la veille. Par ailleurs, la Coordination a appelé à la création de cellules d’écoute au niveau des mosquées afin de rassembler les doléances des citoyens pour les faire parvenir aux autorités compétentes.

«En raison d’appels lancés incitant à l’exploitation et à l’utilisation des mosquées pour mobiliser les citoyens et les inciter à exprimer certaines positions politiques et à afficher clairement leurs avis, nous appelons les fidèles à faire échec aux tentatives de certains aventuriers qui mettent en danger la sécurité et la sérénité du pays, et qui veulent utiliser les mosquées comme terrain d’affrontements et de tensions pouvant mener [le pays, ndlr] vers l’inconnu», indique le communiqué.

Tout en rappelant l’évènement de la décennie noire des années 1990, les imams ont affirmé que leur appel n’avait en aucun cas pour but de limiter leur droit à une liberté d’expression politique démocratique et pacifique. Dans ce sens, tout en appelant les Algériens à la responsabilité, la Coordination des imams d’Algérie a suggéré «de créer au niveau des moquées des cellules d’écoute et de collecte des doléances des citoyens afin de les transmettre aux autorités du pays».

Suite à l’annonce de la candidature du Président Abdelaziz Bouteflika à sa propre succession à l’élection présidentielle du 18 avril 2019, des manifestations populaires dénonçant cette candidature ont eu lieu dans plusieurs villes d’Algérie. Dans le même but, deux marches nationales soutenues par les partis d’opposition sont annoncées pour les 22 et 24 février. Réagissant à ces appels, le Front de libération nationale (FLN) a décidé de contre-attaquer en appelant ses militants à une contre-manifestation en faveur du Président sortant, prévue pour ce vendredi 22 février.

Âgé de 81 ans, le Président Abdelaziz Bouteflika est à la tête de l’Algérie depuis 1999. Affaibli sur le plan de la santé après un AVC en 2013, il est candidat à sa propre succession pour un 5e mandat

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Many regions of Europe for poor medical care because there is a lack of doctors, money or infrastrcture. The Commission is now considering how the structural funds can help in a targeted way. EURACTIV France reports.

SDGs SDGs:  16 - Peace, justice and strong institutions

This report is for the media and the general public.

Summary

• Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more in Luhansk region.
• Houses sustained damage caused by gunfire in Zolote-5/Mykhailivka.
• The Mission recorded ceasefire violations inside the Petrivske disengagement area and near the Zolote disengagement area. 
• The SMM saw weapons in violation of the withdrawal lines in a non-government-controlled area of Luhansk region.
• The Mission monitored adherence to the ceasefire to enable repair works to essential civilian infrastructure in Luhansk region and demining activities in Donetsk region.
• Restrictions of the Mission’s access continued in all three disengagement areas.*

Ceasefire violations[1]

In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations, including about 140 explosions, compared with the previous reporting period (about 475 explosions). The majority of ceasefire violations were recorded in areas south and south-east of Chermalyk (government-controlled, 31km north-east of Mariupol); south-east, south and south-west of Svitlodarsk (government-controlled, 57km north-east of Donetsk); as well as in areas south, west and north of Yasynuvata (non-government-controlled, 16km north-east of Donetsk).

In Luhansk region, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations, including, however, fewer explosions (15), compared with the previous reporting period (about 135 explosions). The majority of ceasefire violations were recorded in areas south and south-west of Muratove (government-controlled, 51km north-west of Luhansk) and near the disengagement area close to Zolote (government-controlled, 60km west of Luhansk) (see Disengagement areas below).

Houses in Zolote-5/Mykhailivka sustained damage caused by gunfire

At 6 Dundycha Street, within a residential area in the south-eastern part of Zolote-5/Mykhailivka (non-government-controlled, 58km west of Luhansk), the SMM saw a broken south-facing window pane on the ground floor of a two-storey house and scorch marks to the south-facing side of the same house. It also saw remnants of ammunition, assessed as a tailfin of a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG-7) 2-4m south of the house. The SMM assessed the damage as fresh and caused by the explosion of a rocket propelled grenade (RPG-7) fired from a north-north-westerly direction.

At 4 Dundycha Street, the SMM saw three holes in a north-facing window on the ground floor of a two-storey house. It assessed the damage as fresh and caused by rounds of small-arms fire.

At 4 Poshtova Street, within a residential area on the northern edge of Zolote-5/Mykhailivka, the SMM saw two broken south-eastern-facing windows on the ground floor of a two-storey house. It also saw remnants of ammunition assessed as an infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) (BMP-1, 73mm) round about 10m south of the aforementioned windows.

Disengagement areas[2]

On the evening of 20 February, the SMM camera in Zolote recorded a burst at an assessed range of 4-5km east-south-east (assessed as outside the disengagement area).

On 21 February, positioned in Zolote-5/Mykhailivka, the SMM heard three undetermined explosions, as well as four shots and about 30 bursts of small-arms fire at an assessed range of 1-2km north-west (unable to assess whether inside or outside the disengagement area).

Positioned about 2km north of Petrivske (non-government-controlled, 41km south of Donetsk), the SMM heard ten undetermined explosions at an assessed range of 2-4km south-south-west and south-west (assessed as inside the disengagement area).[3]

Positioned inside the disengagement area near Stanytsia Luhanska (government-controlled, 16km north-east of Luhansk), the SMM observed a calm situation.

Withdrawal of weapons

The SMM continued to monitor the withdrawal of weapons in implementation of the Memorandum and the Package of Measures and its Addendum.

Weapons in violation of withdrawal lines

Non-government-controlled areas

21 February

The SMM saw:

• two self-propelled howitzers (2S1 Gvozdika, 122mm) and four towed howitzers (D-30 Lyagushka, 122mm) near Bile (22km west of Luhansk).

Beyond withdrawal lines but outside of designated storage sites

Non-government-controlled areas

• ten tanks (five T-72 and five T-64) and a self-propelled mortar (2S9 Nona-S, 120mm) in a training area near Ternove (57km east of Donetsk) (see SMM Daily Report 21 February 2019) and
• 20 tanks (T-72) in a training area near Manuilivka (65km east of Donetsk). 

20 February

The SMM saw:

• seven tanks (two T-72 and five T-64) in a training area near Myrne (28km south-west of Luhansk).

Weapons that the SMM could not verify as withdrawn

At heavy weapons holding areas in government-controlled areas of Luhansk region[4]

21 February

The SMM noted that:

• eight howitzers (D-30) were present and
• 30 self-propelled howitzers (2S1), seven towed howitzers (D-30) and 24 multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) (BM-21 Grad, 122mm) were again missing.

Weapons permanent storage site

At permanent storage sites in non-government-controlled areas of Luhansk region

21 February

The SMM noted that:

• six tanks (five T-64 and one T-72) were again missing.

At a heavy weapons permanent storage site in a non-government-controlled area of Luhansk region

20 February

The SMM noted that:

• ten towed howitzers (nine D-30 and one 2A65 Msta-B, 152mm), 14 self-propelled howitzers (2S1) and five MLRS (BM-21) were again missing.

Indications of military and military-type presence in the security zone[5]

Government-controlled areas

20 February

An SMM long-range unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) spotted:

• three IFVs (BMP variants) south-east of Marinka (23km south-west of Donetsk).

An SMM mini-UAV spotted:

• two IFVs (BMP variants) near Shchastia (20km north of Luhansk).

21 February

The SMM saw:

• an armoured reconnaissance vehicle (BREM variant) and six IFVs (BMP-1) in Popasna (69km west of Luhansk) (see SMM Daily Report of 20 February 2019) and
• an armoured reconnaissance vehicle (BRDM variant) near Novotroitske (36km south-west of Donetsk).

Non-government-controlled areas

20 February

An SMM long-range UAV spotted:

• five armoured recovery vehicles (three BTS-4A and two VT-55), six IFVs (three BMP-1 and three BMP-2), nine APCs (seven MT-LB and two BTR-70) and an armoured reconnaissance vehicle (BRDM-2) in compounds in the Leninskyi district of Donetsk city and
• an armoured personnel carrier (APC) (MT-LB) in Kalmiuske (formerly Komsomolske, 42km south-east of Donetsk).

21 February

The SMM saw:

• an IFV (BMP-1) in Luhansk city;
• an IFV (BMP variant) in Hryhorivka (68km south of Donetsk); and
• an anti-aircraft gun (ZU-23, 23mm) near Pervomaisk (58km west of Luhansk).

Presence of mines and remnants of ammunition

On 20 February, an SMM long-range UAV again spotted 11 anti-tank mines (nine TM-62 and two probable TM-62) laid across road H21 about 70m east of the bridge in Shchastia and six anti-tank mines (four TM-62 and two probable TM-62) laid across the same road 50m west of the bridge (for previous observations see SMM Daily Report 9 February 2019). 

SMM facilitation of repair works to civilian infrastructure

The SMM monitored adherence to the ceasefire to enable inspection and repair works to water pipelines of the Petrivske water pumping station near Artema (government-controlled, 26km north of Luhansk) and water pipelines in Donetskyi (non-government-controlled, 49km west of Luhansk), as well as to enable demining activities in Krasnohorivka (government-controlled, 21km west of Donetsk). The Mission continued to facilitate the operation of the Donetsk Filtration Station (15km north of Donetsk).

Border area outside government control

While at a border crossing point near Voznesenivka (formerly Chervonopartyzansk, 65km south-east of Luhansk) for about 50 minutes, the SMM saw three cars (two with Ukrainian and one with Russian Federation licence plates) and a bus entering Ukraine. The SMM also saw 11 covered cargo trucks (four with Ukrainian and four with Russian Federation licence plates, as well as three with “LPR” plates) exiting Ukraine. At the Chervona Mohyla railway station in Voznesenivka, the SMM saw at least 200 stationary empty cargo wagons. 

The SMM continued monitoring in Kherson, Odessa, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Chernivtsi and Kyiv.

*Restrictions of SMM’s freedom of movement or other impediments to fulfilment of its mandate

The SMM’s monitoring and freedom of movement are restricted by security hazards and threats, including risks posed by mines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and other impediments – which vary from day to day. The SMM’s mandate provides for safe and secure access throughout Ukraine. All signatories of the Package of Measures have agreed on the need for this safe and secure access, that restriction of the SMM’s freedom of movement constitutes a violation, and on the need for rapid response to these violations. They have also agreed that the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination should contribute to such response and co-ordinate mine clearance. Nonetheless, the armed formations in parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions frequently deny the SMM access to areas adjacent to Ukraine’s border outside control of the Government (for example, see SMM Daily Report 18 February 2019). The SMM’s operations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions remain restricted following the fatal incident of 23 April 2017 near Pryshyb; these restrictions continued to limit the Mission’s observations.

Denial of access:

Regular restrictions related to disengagement areas and mines/UXO:

• The sides continued to deny the SMM full access to the three disengagement areas, as well as the ability to travel certain roads previously identified as important for effective monitoring by the Mission and for civilians’ movement, through failure to conduct comprehensive clearance of mines and UXO.

[1] Please see the annexed table for a complete breakdown of the ceasefire violations as well as a map of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions marked with locations featured in this report. During the reporting period, the SMM camera in Svitlodarsk was not operational.

[2]Disengagement is foreseen in the Framework Decision of the Trilateral Contact Group relating to disengagement of forces and hardware of 21 September 2016.

[3] Due to the presence of mines, including a road between Bohdanivka and Petrivske, the SMM’s access to its camera in Petrivske remains limited, and thus the SMM has not been able to access observations from the camera since 22 June 2018.

[4] The SMM observed weapons that could not be verified as withdrawn, as their storage did not comply with the criteria set out in the 16 October 2015 notification from the SMM to the signatories of the Package of Measures on effective monitoring and verification of the withdrawal of heavy weapons. The SMM noted that two such sites continued to be abandoned.

[5] The hardware mentioned in this section is not proscribed by the provisions of the Minsk agreements on the withdrawal of weapons.

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Az Eurostat ma közzétett beszámolója szerint Románia 3,2 százalékos inflációt jelentett januárra, ami a legmagasabbnak számít az Európai Unió területén. Ezt követi  2,9 százalékkal Lettország. Magyarország 2,8 százalékkal a harmadik legnagyobb inflációt mutatta ki januárban az Európai Unióban. Az Európai Unió 28 tagállamában 1,5 százalékra csökkent januárban az infláció a decemberi 1,6 százalékról. Egy évvel ezelőtt, 2018 januárjában az euróövezetben 1,3 százalék, az EU-ban pedig 1,6 százalék volt az infláció.

A Liberálisok és Demokraták Szövetsége és a szenátus elnöke ma egy sajtótájékoztatón nyilatkozott arról, hogy szerinte alkalmatlan és indokolatlan Klaus Iohannis döntése, miszerint alkotmányossági kifogást emel a költségvetési törvény ellen. Az államfő a kormány tevékenységének folyamatos akadályozását választotta politizálási formaként- teszi hozzá az ALDE vezetője. Továbbá az elnök bírálatait a pártfinanszírozások növelésével kapcsolatban “demagógiának és populizmusnak” minősítette. Tăriceanu szerint a költségvetés nem tökéletes, de számos olyan fontos intézkedést tartalmaz, amely sok jelentős projektre irányoz elő pénzt.

In 2015, Romania voted against relocation quotas for refugees within the EU, though it later supported the UN’s Global Compact on Refugees. Recently, it was asked by the UNHCR to use its six-month EU presidency to mobilise member states to be more active in managing the flows of refugees. EURACTIV Romania reports.

Les températures mesurées vendredi dans le sud de la Suisse sont à la limite des records pour un mois de février.

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Drei Bundesräte bilden den Sicherheitsausschuss. Dieser diskutiert seit Monaten, was mit den Dschihadistinnen passieren soll, die von unserem Land aus zum Islamischen Staat aufgebrochen und gefangen genommen worden sind. Vor allem: Was geschieht mit deren Kindern?

Der deutsche Regisseur Michael "Bully" Herbig erhält für seinen Fluchtthriller "Ballon" den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Films "Die Brücke".

SARAJEVO, 22 February 2019 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Bruce G. Berton, the President of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) of BiH, Milan Tegeltija, and the Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, Gordana Tadić, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support the development of a digital archive of all evidence pertaining to war crimes cases in the possession of the BiH Prosecutor’s Office.

Emphasizing the valuable and consistent co-operation with the BiH Prosecutor’s Office and the HJPC, Berton said: “The Memorandum of Understanding, signed within the Project on Improving War Crimes Processing, will allow for the creation of an electronic database containing all evidence available within the BiH Prosecutor’s Office. This digital archive is an important step forward in processing war crimes cases at the state level, and it is one of the recommendations of the 2016 Report by Judge Joana Korner.”

“Activities within this project are crucial for processing war crimes, as every case file contains a large amount of evidence. It is very useful to have a digital evidence database that will enable a more expeditious and efficient overview of evidence, as well as easier sorting of evidence and preparation of highly complex cases. This will significantly facilitate and contribute to a more effective processing of war crimes cases, which is of benefit to all parties involved in the procedure”, emphasized Tadić.

Tegeltija added: “The High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina welcomes and supports any form of co-operation with international organizations aimed at strengthening the rule of law and establishing a functional system that will be of use not only to the judges and prosecutors in their work but also to the general public in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Our common goal is for war crimes cases to be finalized within an optimum timeframe, in order to, eventually, leave the heavy burden of war behind us and dedicate ourselves to the establishment of a high-quality judicial system.”

The Project on Improving War Crimes Processing, implemented by the OSCE Mission to BiH, is funded by the Government of the United Kingdom (UK).

British Ambassador to BiH Matthew Field said: “The UK Government is strongly committed to promoting the rule of law in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The prosecution of individuals responsible for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide is important for securing justice and ensuring a lasting peace. This project is a follow-up to our previous joint work with the OSCE in addressing the challenges that hinder processing of war crimes cases at the state level. That work resulted in a set of recommendations by Judge Korner, and this database is one of them.”

Ambassador Field further pointed out: “The recommendations are still highly significant, in particular the reestablishment of a geographical team structure and the introduction of a mentoring system for new prosecutors. We welcome the Chief Prosecutor’s commitment to implementing these recommendations which will ensure the more efficient prosecution of war crimes and further enhance the capabilities of the Prosecutor’s Office to focus on more complex cases involving high-level perpetrators.”

The OSCE Mission to BiH and the British Embassy in Sarajevo reiterated their commitment to providing continued support judicial institutions in BiH, in order to ensure efficient war crimes processing, thus contributing to the building of a strong, independent and effective judiciary.

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