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Israel killed Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri in a drone strike in Lebanon's capital Beirut on Tuesday (2 January), Lebanese and Palestinian security sources said, raising the potential risk of war in Gaza spreading well beyond the Palestinian enclave.

En ce début d’année, le ciel déploie son manteau azuré et offre des premiers jours baignés de clarté. Pour ce mercredi, une large partie du […]

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Americas Raytheon Missiles & Defense Naval Surface & Undersea Systems won a $34 million contract action for production and engineering support for common parts related to the MK 54 Lightweight Torpedo. This contract will purchase parts for the Navy. Work will be performed in Portsmouth, Rhode Island; and Poulsbo, Washington, and is expected to be […]

M1A2 SEP (click to view full) America’s M1 Abrams tanks come in a number of versions. In addition to the M1A1 that is now standard, the US Army is beginning to field its M1 TUSK for urban warfare. It also operates the M1A2 System Enhancement Program (SEP), currently the most advanced standard variant. This Spotlight […]

The president waged a nationalist campaign, while the opposition was divided.

Wegen der Hochwasserkatastrophe in Niedersachsen und anderen Bundesländern wird aktuell diskutiert, die Schuldenbremse auszusetzen. DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher kommentiert diesen Vorschlag wie folgt:

Die Hochwasserkatastrophe in Teilen Deutschlands wird wohl eine Ausnahme von der Schuldenbremse, sowohl für den Bund als auch für einige Länder wie Niedersachsen, notwendig machen. Diese Katastrophe wird den Staat voraussichtlich einen erheblichen Milliardenbetrag kosten, der nicht aus den laufenden Haushalten gedeckt werden kann. Die Alternative zu einer Ausnahme der Schuldenbremse wäre ein noch härterer Sparkurs, der die deutsche Wirtschaft in eh schon schwierigen Zeiten weiter schwächen und Wohlstand kosten würde.

Die Hochwasserkatastrophe in Niedersachsen zeigt die Unsinnigkeit der Schuldenbremse, so wie sie nun durch das Bundesverfassungsgericht noch weiter eingegrenzt wurde. Es wird voraussichtlich künftig kein Jahr in Deutschland ohne Naturkatastrophe oder eine andere Notsituation vergehen, die erhebliche Ausgaben des deutschen Staates erfordert. Ein Festhalten an der Schuldenbremse wird daher bedeuten, dass der deutsche Staat künftig fast jedes Jahr eine Ausnahme von der Schuldenbremse erklären muss. Eine so definierte Schuldenbremse ist kontraproduktiv und schädlich, weil sie Unsicherheit schafft und immer wieder zu politischen Konflikten führen wird.

Wenn in Zukunft nicht fast jedes Jahr eine Ausnahme von der Schuldenbremse erklärt werden soll, dann muss der deutsche Staat erhebliche Überschüsse einplanen, damit er den nötigen finanziellen Spielraum hat, um auf Krisen reagieren zu können. Alternativ könnte der Staat versuchen, vorbeugend ein Sondervermögen für Naturkatastrophen zu schaffen mit Verfassungsrang – so wie das Sondervermögen für die Bundeswehr –, um schnell und flexibel auf künftige Krisen reagieren zu können. Allerdings gibt es viele andere Notsituationen und besondere Finanzierungsbedarfe für den Staat, so dass dies letztlich die Schuldenbremse sinnlos macht. Daher sollte die Politik dringend die gegenwärtige Schuldenbremse reformieren und bis dahin weitere Sondervermögen schaffen, um notwendige Ausgaben finanzieren und vor allem auch schnell und flexibel auf Notsituationen reagieren zu können.

Elektromos autó pályázatból – mi a támogatás célja?

A pályázat célja egyszerű: elősegíteni a tiszta közlekedést. Ezen keresztül lehetőség nyílik tisztán elektromos meghajtású személyautók, kishaszonjárművek és kisbuszok beszerzésére.

A pályázatra gazdasági társaságok és egyéni vállalkozók jelentkezhetnek, akik rendelkeznek…:

• Magyarországi vagy Európai Gazdasági Térség területén székhellyel és magyar fiókteleppel,
• Legalább 2021.12.31-ig alapított vállalkozások,
• Gazdasági társaságok esetén a pályázó nettó árbevétele meghaladja a projekt költségeit,
• Egyéni vállalkozók esetén 2023. december 1-ig bejegyzett Taxis személyszállítás tevékenységgel VAGY legalább 2 alkalmazottal.

Az egész országban elérhető lesz a támogatás, így budapesti vállalkozások is pályázhatnak.

Mit támogat a pályázat?

Kizárólag elektromos gépjárművek beszerzése lehetséges – tehát hibrid autó vásárlása nem támogatott! Fontos, hogy a gépjármű megfeleljen a közúti járművek műszaki megvizsgálásáról szóló rendelet előírásainak.

A támogatás összege minimum 2 800 000 Ft és maximum 64 000 000 Ft között mozoghat. Ez függ attól, hogy az adott vállalkozás milyen típusú, és mekkora akkumulátor kapacitással rendelkező járművet szeretne beszerezni.

Ez egyedülálló lehetőség a vállalkozásoknak, hogy zöld lépéseket tegyenek a közlekedés terén!

Forrás: Goodwill Consulting

VALLETTA/VIENNA, 2 January 2024 - The Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade of Malta Ian Borg and OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid made the following statement on the continuing and intensifying aerial attacks by Russia in its war against Ukraine:

“The new year has depressingly begun in the same way that the last one ended. Death and destruction have stolen the lives of women, men, boys and girls and destroyed essential infrastructure.

Every day, it is civilians who consistently pay the price in this terrible conflict. They should never be the victims of deadly drone and missile attacks.

Together, we deplore in the strongest possible terms these ongoing attacks and urgently call for an immediate end to the unrelenting violence that does nothing but propagate a vicious cycle of misery and suffering. We call for this war to end now.” 

Le président de la République, Abdelmadjid Tebboune a signé, hier, le dimanche 1er janvier 2024, un décret présidentiel portant la nomination de Sami Medjoubi, wali […]

L’article Tebboune nomme Sami Medjoubi wali de cette wilaya est apparu en premier sur .

Vous n’êtes pas sans savoir qu’au mois de décembre de l’année en cours, l’Algérie organisera des élections présidentielles. Un événement politique majeur depuis l’instauration des […]

L’article L’Algérie est concernée : 2024, l’année des élections présidentielles en Afrique est apparu en premier sur .

Les premières indications montrent que cet environnement spécialement adapté permet aux personnes de rester plus longtemps en bonne santé et plus heureuses.

South Africa accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, triggering Israeli outrage.

À partir de jeudi, les régions nord du pays seront impactées par une perturbation atmosphérique, apportant des pluies abondantes et des chutes de neige sur […]

L’article Météo Algérie : retour de la pluie, de la neige et du froid dès ce jeudi est apparu en premier sur .

Le centre de traitement des demandes de visa, pour la France, VFS Global, revient dans un nouveau communiqué, pour annoncer la révision de ses frais […]

L’article Visas France pour Algériens : VFS Global revoit ses frais de service est apparu en premier sur .

At risk of flooding are 372 out of the country’s 744 local government areas.
 
Climate disasters are happening at frightening rates in Nigeria, and the administration now says it will prioritize efforts to counter the effects of climate change.

By Leon Usigbe
ABUJA, Nigeria, Jan 2 2024 (IPS)

In 2022 alone, flooding killed at least 662 people, injured 3,174, displaced about 2.5 million, and destroyed 200,000 houses individuals.

As far back as 2012, the World Bank reported that erosion was affecting over 6,000 square kilometres of land in the country, with about 3,400 square kilometres highly exposed.

Back then, gully erosion was doing an estimated $100 million worth of damage each year, according to the team behind the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP).

Under the NEWMAP, the country began working with the World Bank to rehabilitate degraded lands and reduce erosion and climate vulnerability in 23 states. The project had four work streams:

1. Investing in erosion and watershed management infrastructure to reduce land degradation,
2. Developing information services to strengthen erosion and watershed monitoring and disaster risk management,
3. Strengthening Nigeria’s strategic framework for climate action to promote low carbon development, and
4. Supporting project management at federal and state levels with financial, social and environmental safeguards and oversight, outreach, and project monitoring and evaluation.

The outcomes reported in 2021 were positive: the project benefitted 35,000 people directly and more than 100,000 indirectly through small grants to community interest groups. The team trained 185,058 persons, 42 percent of them women.

On the first work stream, the project more than doubled the land under sustainable management, completed nearly five dozen participatory surface water management plans and reduced gully erosion considerably.

On the second, it made drafted environmental impact assessment guidelines and launched over a hundred automated hydrology and meteorology and flood early warning systems in the region.

The government is restoring lands in the northern states of Bauchi, Jigawa and Sokoto by planting thousands of tree seeds and seedlings.

On the third, the country issued green bonds to spark private investment in climate smart projects, such as distributing fuel-efficient cookstoves and developing solar-based electricity generators for rural health centers.

On the fourth, the team tested the use of remote sensing, geographic information system techniques, and 360-degree cameras and drones for remote supervision and grievance resolution.

Overall, NEWMAP showed Nigeria’s appetite for action and results.

Calls for accelerated action

Currently, about 178 local government areas (LGAs) in 32 of 36 states in Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory fall within the highly probable flood risk areas, according to the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA). Another 224 of the country’s 744 LGAs fall within moderately probable flood risk areas, and 372 fall within probable flood risk areas.

Nigeria’s more than 830 kilometres of coastline are increasingly threatened by floods, erosion, water and air pollution. Communities in the Niger Delta states bordering the Atlantic Ocean have lost or fear losing their homes and farmlands due to the eroding bedrock shielding the shoreline.

Forests are disappearing because of desertification. According to Action Against Desertification, only half the forests that existed in 2007 remain in the area where it operates.

Suleiman Hussein Adamu, minister of water resources through May 2023, had warned that floods would take a high toll on life and livelihoods, agriculture, livestock, infrastructure and the environment.

The frequency of natural disasters in the country links to climate change, according to Alhaji Musa Zakari, director of human resource management at the National Emergency Management Agency, responsible for managing disasters in Nigeria.

“Nigeria may need to re-examine some fundamentally new and more efficient approach to disaster management,” Mr. Zakari said in an interview.

New approaches

In August, Nigeria’s National Defence College (NDC) presented the government with its research findings, “Building Climate Resilience for Enhanced National Security: Strategic Options for Nigeria by 2035.” It recommended adopting strategies to achieve the short-, medium- and long-term objectives in climate adaptation programmes.

Vice President Kashim Shettima said the current administration was prioritizing climate change interventions to address desertification, coastal erosion and flooding by collaborating with relevant individuals and institutions.

The government shares the “concerns for the security implications of underestimating the devastations of climate change,” he said, while receiving the NDC report.

Part of the government’s strategy is to inform the public of preventive measures that save lives and reduce damage to property and infrastructure.

In addition, through the Great Green Wall initiative, which aims to increase the size of arable land in the Sahel, the government is restoring lands in the northern states of Bauchi, Jigawa and Sokoto by planting thousands of tree seeds and seedlings.

Said Vice President Shettima, “It is heartening to witness the alignment between [research] findings and our government’s policy objectives, reinforcing our belief that a holistic and comprehensive approach is essential to tackling these challenges effectively.”

Source: Africa Renewal, a United Nations digital magazine that covers Africa’s economic, social and political developments.

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Nandre Burger laughs off criticism from Kevin Pietersen that he is too smiley on the cricket pitch.

In an angry reaction, Somalia says the Ethiopia-Somaliland deal is a violation of its sovereignty.

Les éléments de la police algérienne, à l’aéroport international d’Alger, ont annoncé, en ce mardi, l’arrestation de trois voyageurs au départ de la France. Malgré […]

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