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Am Mittwoch um 18 Uhr kreuzen SP-Vizepräsident David Roth (38) und der Zuger SVP-Finanzdirektor Heinz Tännler (63) im Blick-«Abstimmungs-Kampf» die verbalen Klingen.

Der Disney-Zeichentrick-Klassiker «Arielle, die Meerjungfrau» von 1989 wurde neu verfilmt, dieses Mal mit Darstellerinnen und Darstellern aus Fleisch und Blut. Dass der Cast neu divers ist, freut die Hauptdarsteller, wie sie Blick erzählen.

Honda kehrt in der Saison 2026 nach kurzer Abstinenz als Motorenlieferant für das Aston-Martin-Team in die Formel 1 zurück.

Produkte des täglichen Bedarfs sind in Frankreich und Deutschland günstiger als in Belgien. Dies geht aus einer Studie von Gondola und der Preisvergleichsberatung Daltix hervor.

France reaffirmed last week that it does not want to choose between nuclear and renewables, saying it is taking action to promote both. Yet, its last-minute objection to the adoption of the EU’s renewable energy directive tells a different story.

Ukraine accused Russia on 23 May of cutting the Ukrainian port of Pivdennyi out of a deal allowing safe Black Sea grain exports as Russia complained that it had been unable to export ammonia under the pact.

Die Präsidentin der Rechtspartei Rassemblement National und ehemalige französische Präsidentschaftskandidatin Marine Le Pen wird heute Rede und Antwort zu ihren Verbindungen zu Russland stehen müssen.

Emmanuel Macron túlélő üzemmódba kapcsolt. Túl szeretne élni a nyárig, lehetőleg úgy, hogy a rendkívül népszerűtlen nyugdíjreform addigra lekerüljön a napirendről.

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Oroszország Ukrajna elleni háborúja azzal ér véget, hogy Oroszország veszít, Ukrajna pedig az Európai Unió teljes jogú tagja lesz – jelentette ki Olaf Scholz német kancellár.

A kormányfő pártja, a Német Szociáldemokrata Párt (SPD) alapításának 160. évfordulójára rendezett ünnepség fő szónokaként elmondott beszédében kiemelte, hogy Oroszország Ukrajna elleni háborúja egyben háború „minden elv és érték ellen, amely mellett pártunk 160 éve kiáll”.

Oroszország „nem nyerheti meg, és nem is fogja megnyerni ezt a háborút” – jelentette ki a német kancellár, megerősítve, hogy hazája továbbra is „teljes erővel” támogatja Ukrajnát „a szabadság és az önrendelkezés védelmében európai nemzetként folytatott küzdelmében”.

Az európai történelemnek az orosz elnök, Vlagyimir Putyin „imperialista őrülete” által kibontakozott „keserű fejezete azzal ér véget, hogy a szabad Ukrajna teljes jogú tagként csatlakozik az Európai Unióhoz” – mondta Scholz.

Az 1863-ban alapított SPD – amely 1890 óta viseli jelenlegi nevét – a legrégebbi német párt és a világ első szociáldemokrata pártja. Tevékenységének fő jellemzőiről Scholz azt mondta: „kormányzunk, döntünk és cselekszünk, pragmatikusan, határozottan és megbízhatóan”, méghozzá nemcsak szövetségi szinten, hanem tartományi, városi, járási és települési szinten, „az egész országban mindenütt, nap mint nap”.

A következő időszak legnagyobb feladatai közül Ukrajna pénzügyi, humanitárius és katonai támogatása mellett kiemelte a globális klímaváltozást és a technológiai átalakulást is.

Mint mondta, meg lehet teremteni a „klímasemleges és jó jövőt”, amelyben van gazdasági növekedés, vannak beruházások és van „sok-sok jó új munkahely”, de csak akkor, ha ezt a hatalmas, az élet minden területét érintő átrendeződést „társadalompolitikai feladatként” fogják fel, vagyis az összetartozáson és összefogáson alapuló folyamatként szervezik meg.

 

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Manou Gounou, a volunteer trainer for food security, stands with a moringa plant at Gbegourou Epicenter in Benin in 2021. The moringa plant is highly nutritious and The Hunger Project is a strong advocate for its use in communities throughout Africa.

By Elodie Iko
PORTO-NOVO, Benin, May 24 2023 (IPS)

This upcoming weekend, on May 28, we are commemorating World Hunger Day. The day serves as a reminder that more than 800 million people around the world are living with hunger and malnutrition. That number is staggering, but there is hope.

World Hunger Day also celebrates the fact that hunger can end. We can create sustainable food systems, to ensure that everyone has access to nutritious and affordable food, both now and in the future.

I see it every day in my role as the Country Director of The Hunger Project-Benin.
So, what does it take? In my experience, the single greatest change that a community can make to end hunger and improve nutrition is a shift in mindset around gender equality.

In Benin, in West Africa, the government has put in place many policies to improve access to drinking water and sanitation, improve healthcare and increase access to nutritious food.

Yet high child mortality and morbidity rates reveal the existence of important underlying factors that catalyze malnutrition, but are generally minimized in policymaking. One of these factors is gender inequality.

When looking at the distribution of resources and responsibilities in the household, particularly between men and women, the negative influence of gender inequality on household nutrition becomes quite evident.

In our patriarchal society, men are seen as the heads of households. They have the social responsibility of making resources available to the household to provide meals. It is expected that women then use these resources to ensure household nutrition.

In today’s world, where the price of food and agriculture inputs has skyrocketed, feeding a family is becoming challenging for many. It is often falling to women to find extra sources of income to guarantee their family has food, though many face barriers like a lack of education, lack of resources and little time due to household tasks, like childcare, fetching water, and tending to livestock.

Though she may be the one closing the gap and ensuring the family has food on the table, in the service of the meal, both in quantity and in quality, priority is given to men. Women usually ensure that others have eaten first.

They then eat what is left, which often does not meet their daily nutritional needs, particularly for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. Undernutrition and hidden hunger have specific consequences for the health and safety of women and girls, as they increase the risk of life-threatening complications during pregnancy and childbirth, weaken their immunity to infections, and reduce their learning potential. This is how malnutrition becomes multi-generational.

These are the challenges we face in our work to end hunger. They are deeply entrenched societal norms but they can change.

At The Hunger Project, we work with women and men, girls and boys to identify these mindsets and shift them. A proven way to overcome many systematic barriers to a woman’s success has been increased participation by women in local, regional and national legislation as empowered change agents.

So, we work with women to take on leadership roles in the community and raise their voices in public settings to demand change and accountability. Over 38,600 women and 28,000 men in 22 communities in Benin have undergone training in Women’s Empowerment.

Over 3,000 community leaders (about 50/50 women to men) have been trained to conduct THP’s Women’s Empowerment workshops in their communities, guaranteeing that the work to shift mindsets can continue even after The Hunger Project leaves a community.

We also facilitate women’s entrepreneurship and literacy courses, so that women have the agency and confidence to start and manage a business. Since 2008, over 32,500 women have gone through THP training on income generation in Benin. Through these trainings, women are able to increase their incomes to purchase nutritious foods for themselves and their families.

We are working with these local leaders to re-envision the local food system to make it work for the millions of women living with chronic hunger and malnutrition, so that they can break the cycle of malnutrition among women and girls.

This includes working with communities to plant diverse household gardens with nutritious staple foods, investments in infrastructure to process these foods adequately to preserve their nutritional value, and strong local distribution channels that ensure availability of nutritious foods throughout the year.

Women are key to ending hunger and breaking the cycle of malnutrition. To do so, they need an enabling environment around them and a belief in themselves that they can create a future for themselves and their families.

Elodie Iko became the Country Manager for The Hunger Project-Benin, in 2022. She has over 15 years of professional experience in the field of development and management of projects and human resources, with a specific focus on gender and women’s empowerment. Elodie joins the team having worked for Plan International Benin as a Gender and Inclusion Advisor. Prior to that, Elodie worked for The Hunger Project-Benin from 2013 to 2020, first as a gender program officer, then adding inclusive finance, the coordination of the ‘’Her Choice’’ program against child marriage and ”leadership and governance in the epicenters of THP-Benin” program to her responsibilities. Her creativity and collaboration on these and other projects have worked to improve the status and position of women/girls, and thereby, strengthen gender inclusion and equality across Benin.

Founded in 1977, The Hunger Project is a global non-profit organization whose mission is to end hunger and poverty by pioneering sustainable, community-led, women-centered strategies and advocating for their widespread adoption in countries throughout the globe. The Hunger Project is active in 23 countries, with global headquarters based in New York City.

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Chinese hackers targeted Kenya's government in a widespread, years-long series of digital intrusions against key ministries and state institutions, according to three sources, cybersecurity research reports and Reuters' own analysis of technical data related to the hackings.

Es geht wieder gegen den Erzrivalen. Vor zwei Jahren scheiterte die Nati im WM-Viertelfinal an den Deutschen. Der deutsche Stürmer Marcel Noebels zündelt: «Ich freue mich auf das Spiel und glaube nicht, dass sich die Schweizer auch freuen.»

Written by Guillaume Ragonnaud (1st edition).

The required deployment of clean energy technologies to support the achievement of Europe’s 2030 and 2050 climate targets is considerable. Europe already largely imports these technologies, and many third countries have stepped up their efforts to expand their clean energy manufacturing capacity. On 16 March 2023, the Commission put forward a proposal for a ‘net-zero industry act’ that aims to expand the manufacturing capacity of net-zero technologies in the EU and enhance the resilience of its energy system.

The proposed regulation would set up enabling conditions for the manufacturing of 10 net-zero technologies (through streamlined administrative processes and access to regulatory sandboxes and European net-zero industry academies). Eight ‘strategic’ net-zero technologies would gain additional benefits (even shorter administrative processes, facilitated access to markets, and administrative support to access finance). The proposed regulation would aim to ensure that, by 2030, the manufacturing capacity in the EU for these strategic net-zero technologies reaches an overall benchmark of at least 40 % of the EU’s annual deployment needs. It would also set an EU‑level target for annual CO2 injection capacity by 2030 (50 million tonnes).

The proposal is now in the hands of the co-legislators. In the European Parliament, the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) is responsible for the file.

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• May 2023: Net-zero industry act (1st edition)

Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing a framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act) Committee responsible:Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)COM(2023)161
16.3.2023Rapporteur:Christian Ehler (EPP, Germany)2023/0081(COD)Shadow rapporteurs:Tsvetelina Penkova (S&D, Bulgaria)
Christophe Grudler (Renew, France)
Damien Carême (Greens/EFA, France)
Evžen Tošenovský (ECR, Czechia)
Paolo Borchia (ID, Italy)
Marc Botenga (The Left, Belgium)Ordinary legislative procedure (COD)
(Parliament and Council on equal footing
– formerly ‘co-decision’)

Next steps expected: Publication of draft report

Der jüngste jährliche Sicherheitsbericht der Niederlande, in dem China als „größte Bedrohung" für die niederländische Sicherheit dargestellt wird, hat scharfe Kritik des chinesischen Außenministers Qin Gang hervorgerufen.

Le ministre délégué aux Transports Clément Beaune a exposé mardi le scénario qu'il négocie avec la Commission européenne pour éviter une faillite de Fret SNCF, menacée par une enquête de Bruxelles qui soupçonne cette filiale du groupe ferroviaire public d'avoir bénéficié d'aides illégales.

Seit Dienstag kann man bei Apple-Pay auch mit einem Postfinance-Konto bezahlen. Apple Pay funktioniert mittlerweile auch mit der Debitkarte. Aber noch nicht alle Schweizer Banken haben nachgezogen.

Polizeibeamte haben 15 Gebäude der «Letzten Generation» durchsucht. Das Bayrische Landeskriminalamt ermittelt wegen der Bildung und Unterstützung einer kriminellen Vereinigung gegen sieben Beschuldigte.

La Russie a affirmé mardi avoir fait décoller l'un de ses avions de guerre pour aller à la rencontre de deux bombardiers américains au-dessus de la mer Baltique, qui s'approchaient selon elle de sa frontière.

Der Vorschlag der Europäischen Kommission für den Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) erhielt am Montag breite Unterstützung von den für Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zuständigen EU-Ministern. Ungelöste Konflikte über Atomkraft und die Finanzierung auf EU-Ebene könnten die anstehenden Verhandlungen jedoch erschweren.

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