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Council negotiators and the European Parliament provisionally agreed on an update of an EU law that deals with legal migration to the EU labour market.

Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on the alignment of certain third countries with Council Decision (CFSP) 2023/2792 of 11 December 2023 amending Decision (CFSP) 2023/1532 concerning restrictive measures in view of Iran’s military support to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.

The Council agreed its negotiating mandate on a proposal for a regulation on environmental, social and governance ratings, with the aim of boosting investor confidence in sustainable products.

The Council has agreed a negotiating mandate on benchmarks regulation. The proposal concerns the scope of the rules for benchmarks, the use in the EU of benchmarks provided by an administrator located in a third country, and certain reporting requirements.

Cyber solidarity act: member states agree common position to strengthen EU cyber security capacities.

The Council and the European Parliament have reached a deal on the main political building blocks of a reform of the EU’s legal framework on asylum and migration.

Bár a karácsony közeledtével az embereknek az otthon nyugalma, a meghitt családi összejövetelek jutnak eszébe, az orvosok arra a meghökkentő tudományos kutatásra hívták fel a figyelmet, hogy ebben az időszakban megnő a pénisztörés valószínűsége – közölte a Telex.hu.

Le 21 décembre 2023, le Ministre des Affaires étrangères et de la Communauté nationale à l’Etranger, Ahmed ATTAF, a convoqué l’Ambassadeur du Mali en Algérie, […]

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Ce week-end, les projecteurs du cinéma Garden City s’allumeront une fois encore pour une programmation cinématographique éclectique qui ravira tous les amateurs de films. De […]

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LG Algérie, leader dans le domaine de l’électroménager, a présenté fièrement sa gamme essentielle de téléviseurs intégrant les dernières avancées technologiques. Lors d’une rencontre récente […]

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French Senators criticised the government's stance in the AI Act negotiations, pointing towards lack of copyrights protection and the influence of a lobbyist with alleged conflicts of interests: former digital state secretary Cédric O.

In an interview with Euractiv, French Secretary of State for Biodiversity Sarah El Haïry reflected on the EU's progress this year, following the COP28 summit in Dubai, the adoption of France's national biodiversity strategy as well as the EU's pesticides directive and nature restoration law.

It comes after Opec's decision to further slash oil production in 2024 to prop up volatile global prices.

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From 11 to 22 December 2023, the OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department and the OSCE Presence in Albania delivered in Tirana, Albania a training programme for 40 junior analysts from the Albanian State Police Intelligence and Criminal Archives Directorate.

The analysts learned about the OSCE model of intelligence-led policing and basics of criminal intelligence analysis, focusing on the practical application of a wide range of analytical tools.

"The Albanian State Police considers intelligence-led policing key to success in the fight against crime and intelligence analysis as one of the most important elements in its police operations. This is why, within the framework of the criminal police reform, we focus on the capacity-building of the police personnel,” said Neritan Nallbati, Director of the Criminal Police Department.

The training programme not only laid a solid foundation for improved intelligence-led policing capabilities within the Albanian State Police, but also paved the way for future initiatives. To ensure sustainable capacity-building and consolidate the participants’ knowledge, the OSCE will organize two more advanced courses for the same group in early 2024. They will focus on strategic risk assessment and advanced criminal intelligence analysis, and provide participants with specialized skills essential to their roles.

This multi-stage capacity-building initiative aligns with the recent restructuring of the Albanian State Police Intelligence and Criminal Archives Directorate. The restructuring resulted in the creation of the information analysis sector, consisting of junior analysts operating at central and local levels who required specialized training.

The training programme was part of the OSCE extrabudgetary project "Building intelligence-led policing capacities at regional and national levels in the OSCE area", funded by Germany.

Nouveau rebondissement dans l’affaire de la mort de l’adolescent Nahel, âgé de 17 ans, tué, le 27 juin dernier, par un policier après un refus […]

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Le supercalculateur MareNostrum5 a été présenté ce jeudi (21 décembre) au Supercomputing Center de Barcelone (BSC-CNS), en Espagne. Il vient compléter la première série de huit supercalculateurs européens de milieu de gamme du consortium EuroHPC.

As the Trump-Biden rematch looks increasingly certain, the debate about the old age of the candidates is rising.

Welcome to EU Politics Decoded, where Benjamin Fox and Eleonora Vasques will bring you a round-up of the latest political news in Europe and beyond every Thursday.

The ruling from the German constitutional court in Karlsruhe, declaring the transfer of 60 billion Euros in Covid-related debt to the Klima- und Transformationsfond (KTF) unlawful, has cast a shadow of uncertainty over Germany's economic security agenda, argues Tobias Gehrke.

Development finance is at a turning point, as the macroeconomic environment has changed profoundly and the financing gap for low- and middle-income countries has widened. The events that led to this new situation are the multiple crises that the global economy is facing, such as the climate crisis, the COVID-19 crisis and the war in Ukraine. As a result, interest rates have risen sharply over the past year and are not expected to decline anytime soon. High interest rates further restrict low- and middle-income countries’ access to international financial markets by making borrowing more expensive. At the same time, debt levels in several countries are rising to levels that are almost impossible to repay. Poorer countries find themselves in a trap where financing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) becomes a distant goal for them.
To “get back on track” in financing the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs, a number of reform proposals have been put forward within several processes and initiatives, including the Financing for Development (FfD) process, the Bridgetown Initiative and the Macron-led Paris Summit. Despite being initiated by different actors, these proposals all highlight the importance of reforming the international financial architecture in view of the changed macroeconomic environment. The Hamburg Sustainability Conference in June 2024, the United Nation’s Summit of the Future in 2024 and the next FfD Conference in 2025 should be used to strengthen and accelerate ongoing reform processes and come up with new, innovative and bold proposals to reshape development finance in these challenging times. Against the background of the multiple crises and its effects, our key recommendations for the reform of development finance are as follows.
First, new initiatives and frameworks are needed to provide urgent debt relief and restructuring for highly indebted countries. The international community should promote a reformed G20 Common Framework for debt restructuring and discuss a green Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)-like initiative for debt relief for low-income countries as a solution on a case-by-case basis, integrating short-term shock remedies with long-term sustainable development finance. Debt and climate risks should be addressed simultaneously by better incorporating climate risks in debt sustainability analyses conducted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, and by considering the volume of investments in climate adaptation because these investments reduce the risks associated with climate change.
Second, tax revenues – the most important source of development finance – need to increase and countries need to expand their fiscal space by reforming their tax administrations and policies. Building fiscal buffers can help countries to become more resilient to future crises. In the short run, eliminating unnecessary tax expenditures such as fossil fuel subsidies is the lowest-hanging fruit to increase tax revenues, while in the long run, more green fiscal reforms (e.g. carbon pricing and environmental taxes) are needed, as well as more effective international tax cooperation. In addition, donor funds should be increased to provide technical assistance and capacity-building to tax and customs administrations.
Third, the Development Assistance Committee member countries should at least halve the gap between their current contributions and the official development assistance (ODA) contribution target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income by 2026, and reach the full attainment of the target by 2030. In particular, donors need to provide ODA in addition to (not as a substitute for) climate finance and channel more ODA to the poorest countries. In this regard, donors should report climate and development finance separately to mitigate the risk of over-reporting.
Fourth, we recall the need to reform multilateral development banks (MDBs). The multiple crises have made the role of MDBs in closing the development financing gap even more important than before. As attracting private capital is becoming more difficult for low- and middle-income countries, MDBs should harness their proven ability to leverage private finance for financing the SDGs. MDBs should substantially increase their lending capacity, for example by lowering their equity to loan thresholds and raising additional capital from shareholders or private investors. MDBs should be reformed to include in their vision the provision of global public goods, such as tackling the climate crisis and preparing for pandemics. Development banks and private creditors should include clauses on natural disasters and pandemics in their financing instruments.