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En parvenant à un accord sur la directive révisée sur les énergies renouvelables le 30 mars, les législateurs européens ont clos un chapitre clé du Green Deal européen, le programme politique phare de la Commission européenne.

A political deal paving the way for the formal adoption of the Chips Act was struck at a negotiation session between the EU’s main institutions on Tuesday (18 April). The European Commission proposed the Chips Act in February 2022 during...

Vertreter*innen der Europäischen Union (EU), wie Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen und der Präsident desEuropäischen Rates Charles Michel haben sich frühzeitig dafür ausgesprochen, dass die EU einen gewichtigen finanziellen Beitrag zum Wiederaufbau des Landes leisten sollte. Durch den Beschluss des Europäischen Rates vom 23. Juni 2022, der Ukraine den Status eines Beitrittskandidaten zu gewähren, ist die EU-Mitgliedschaft der Ukraine zum wichtigen Zielhorizont für den Prozess des Wiederaufbaus geworden. Um die Planungen für den langfristigen EU-Beitrag zum Wiederaufbau der Ukraine voranzutreiben, sollten die EU-Institutionen und Mitgliedstaaten möglichst schnell folgende drei Herausforderungen angehen: die Klärung der Finanzierung des EU-Beitrags zum Wiederaufbau, die Reform des EU-Beitrittsprozesses, und eine transparente und proaktive Kommunikation der Aufgabe des Wiederaufbaus an die europäische Öffentlichkeit.

Vertreter*innen der Europäischen Union (EU), wie Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen und der Präsident desEuropäischen Rates Charles Michel haben sich frühzeitig dafür ausgesprochen, dass die EU einen gewichtigen finanziellen Beitrag zum Wiederaufbau des Landes leisten sollte. Durch den Beschluss des Europäischen Rates vom 23. Juni 2022, der Ukraine den Status eines Beitrittskandidaten zu gewähren, ist die EU-Mitgliedschaft der Ukraine zum wichtigen Zielhorizont für den Prozess des Wiederaufbaus geworden. Um die Planungen für den langfristigen EU-Beitrag zum Wiederaufbau der Ukraine voranzutreiben, sollten die EU-Institutionen und Mitgliedstaaten möglichst schnell folgende drei Herausforderungen angehen: die Klärung der Finanzierung des EU-Beitrags zum Wiederaufbau, die Reform des EU-Beitrittsprozesses, und eine transparente und proaktive Kommunikation der Aufgabe des Wiederaufbaus an die europäische Öffentlichkeit.

Vertreter*innen der Europäischen Union (EU), wie Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen und der Präsident desEuropäischen Rates Charles Michel haben sich frühzeitig dafür ausgesprochen, dass die EU einen gewichtigen finanziellen Beitrag zum Wiederaufbau des Landes leisten sollte. Durch den Beschluss des Europäischen Rates vom 23. Juni 2022, der Ukraine den Status eines Beitrittskandidaten zu gewähren, ist die EU-Mitgliedschaft der Ukraine zum wichtigen Zielhorizont für den Prozess des Wiederaufbaus geworden. Um die Planungen für den langfristigen EU-Beitrag zum Wiederaufbau der Ukraine voranzutreiben, sollten die EU-Institutionen und Mitgliedstaaten möglichst schnell folgende drei Herausforderungen angehen: die Klärung der Finanzierung des EU-Beitrags zum Wiederaufbau, die Reform des EU-Beitrittsprozesses, und eine transparente und proaktive Kommunikation der Aufgabe des Wiederaufbaus an die europäische Öffentlichkeit.

Thousands of residents fled Sudan's capital Wednesday (19 April) as fighting between the army and paramilitaries -- which has killed around 200 people -- raged for a fifth day after a 24-hour truce collapsed.

The German government has adopted a law that would see new fossil heating installations banned from 2024, following a month-long row over the level of state support and pushback from business-friendly FDP lawmakers.

The IMF has made some encouraging improvements in paying attention to social protection, health, and education, but it needs to do much more to avoid, in its own words, “repeating past mistakes”, says new report. Credit: Charles Mpaka/IPS

By Baher Kamal
MADRID, Apr 19 2023 (IPS)

As many as 45 African countries –out of the Continent’s 54 nations–, all of them grouped in what is known as Sub-Saharan Africa, have now been further squeezed to their bones, as funding shrinks to lowest ever levels, and as a portion of the so-called aid goes back to the pockets of rich donor countries.

See what happens.

In its April 2023 World Economic Outlook, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) talks about a rocky recovery. In its reporting on that, it lowers global economic growth outlook as ‘fog thickens.’

“Donors have turned their aid pledges into a farce. Not only have they undelivered more than 193 billion dollars, but they also funnelled nearly 30 billion dollars into their own pockets by mislabeling what counts as aid"

It says that the road to global economic recovery is “getting rocky.’ And that while inflation is slowly falling, economic growth remains ‘historically low,’ and that the financial risks have risen.

 

Squeezed

Well. In its April Outlook, the IMF devotes a chapter to Sub-Saharan Africa, titled “The Big Funding Squeeze”.

It says that growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to slow to 3.6 percent as a “big funding squeeze”, tied to “the drying up of aid and access to private finance,” hits the region in this second consecutive year of an aggregate decline.

If no measures are taken, “this shortage of funding may force countries to reduce fiscal resources for critical development like health, education, and infrastructure, holding the region back from developing its true potential.”

 

Some arguments

According to the IMF:

• Public debt and inflation are at levels not seen in decades, with double-digit inflation present in half of countries—eroding household purchasing power and striking at the most vulnerable.
• The rapid tightening of global monetary policy has raised borrowing costs for Sub-Saharan countries both on domestic and international markets.
• All Sub-Saharan African frontier markets have been cut off from market access since spring 2022.
• The US dollar effective exchange rate reached a 20-year high last year, increasing the burden of dollar-denominated debt service payments. Interest payments as a share of revenue have doubled for the average SSA country over the past decade.
• With shrinking aid budgets and reduced inflows from partners, this is leading to a big funding squeeze for the region.

The giant monetary body says that the lack of financing affects a region that is already struggling with elevated macroeconomic imbalances.

 

Unprecedented debts and inflation

In a previous article: The Poor, Squeezed by 10 Trillion Dollars in External Debts, IPS reported on the external debt of the world’s low and middle-income countries, which at the end of 2021 totalled 9 trillion US dollars, more than double the amount a decade ago.

Such debts are expected to increase by an additional 1.1 trillion US dollars in 2023, thus totalling 10.1 trillion US dollars.

Now, the IMF reports that “public debt and inflation are at levels not seen in decades, with double-digit inflation present in about half of the countries—eroding household purchasing power and striking at the most vulnerable.”

In short, “Sub-Saharan Africa stands to lose the most in a severely fragmented world and stresses the need for building resilience.”

Like many other major international bodies, the IMF indirectly blames African Governments for non adopting the “right” policies and encourages further investments in the region, while some insist that the way out is digitalisation, robotisation, etcetera.

 

The big contradiction

Here, a question arises: are all IMF and other monetary-oriented bodies’ recommendations and ‘altruistic’ advice the solution to the deepening collapse of a whole continent, home to around 1,4 billion human beings?

Not really, or at least not necessarily. A global movement of people who are fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice, grounded in the commitment to the universality of human rights: Oxfam, on 13 April 2023 said that multilateral lender’s role in helping to insulate people in low- and middle-income countries from economic crises is “incoherent and inadequate.”

For example, “for every $1 the IMF encourages a set of poor countries to spend on public goods, it has told them to cut four times more through austerity measures.”

 

Countries forced to cut public funding

Then the global civil society movement explains that an important IMF initiative to shore up poor people in the Global South from the worst effects of its own austerity measures and the global economic crisis “is in tatters.”

New analysis by Oxfam finds that the IMF’s “Social Spending Floors” targets designed to help borrowing governments protect minimum levels of social spending— are proving largely powerless against its own austerity policies that instead force countries to cut public funding.

“The IMF’s ‘Social Spending Floors’ encouraged raising inflation-adjusted social spending by about $1 billion over the second year of its loan programs compared to the first year, across the 13 countries that participated where data is available.”

 

IMF’s austerity policies

By comparison, the IMF’s austerity drive has required most of those same governments to rip away over $5 billion worth of state spending over the same period, warns Oxfam.

“This suggests the IMF was four times more effective in getting governments to cut their budgets than it is in guaranteeing minimum social investments,” said incoming Oxfam International interim Executive Director, Amitabh Behar.

“This is deeply worrying and disappointing, given that the IMF had itself urged countries to build back better after the pandemic by investing in social protection, health and education,” Behar said.

“Among the 2 billion people who are suffering most from the effects of austerity cuts and social spending squeezes, we know it is women who always bear the brunt.”

 

A fig leaf for austerity?

In its new report “IMF Social Spending Floors. A Fig Leaf for Austerity?,” Oxfam analysed these components in all IMF loan programs agreed with 17 low- and middle-income countries in 2020 and 2021.

Oxfam’s report: “The Assault of Austerity” found inconsistencies between countries. There is no standard or transparent way of tracking progress and many of the minimum targets were inadequate.

The IMF has made some encouraging improvements in paying attention to social protection, health, and education, the report goes on, but it needs to do much more to avoid, in its own words, “repeating past mistakes”.

 

The farce of aid budget

In another report titled “Obscene amount of aid is going back into the pockets of rich countries,” Oxfam informed that on 12 April 2023 the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. (OECD DAC) published its preliminary figures on the amount of development aid for 2022.

According to the OECD report, in 2022, official development assistance (ODA) by member countries of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) amounted to USD 204.0 billion.

This total included USD 201.4 billion in the form of grants, loans to sovereign entities, debt relief and contributions to multilateral institutions (calculated on a grant-equivalent basis); USD 0.8 billion to development-oriented private sector instrument (PSI) vehicles and USD 1.7 billion in the form of net loans and equities to private companies operating in ODA-eligible countries (calculated on a cash flow basis), it adds.

Total ODA in 2022 rose by 13.6% in real terms compared to 2021, says the OECD.

“This was the fourth consecutive year ODA surpassed its record levels, and one of the highest growth rates recorded in the history of ODA…”

 

The rich pocketing ‘obscene’ percentage of aid

In response, Marc Cohen, Oxfam’s aid expert, said: “In 2022, rich countries pocketed an obscene 14.4 percent of aid. They robbed the world’s poorest people of a much-needed lifeline in a time of multiple crises.

“Donors have turned their aid pledges into a farce. Not only have they undelivered more than 193 billion dollars, but they also funnelled nearly 30 billion dollars into their own pockets by mislabeling what counts as aid”.

 

Rich countries inflating their aid budgets

“They continue to inflate their aid budgets by including vaccine donations, the costs of hosting refugees, and by profiting off development aid loans. It is time for a system with teeth to hold them to account and make sure aid goes to the poorest people in the poorest countries.”

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Building a career in the police means building yourself, a team and a community that works for the safety of Montenegro and its citizens. In order for as many young people as possible, especially girls, to see themselves in this role, the Ministry of Interior’s Police Directorate and the Police Academy, with the support of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, are launching the "I choose the police" campaign.

This initiative will contribute to the further development of the police into a professional, responsible, diverse and efficient service that the Montenegrin public trusts.

"The Montenegrin police needs professional, educated and competent staff who can adequately prepare for police work by attending the Police Academy." We are launching the campaign ‘I choose the police’ because we want to strengthen our team with young people who want to, through dynamic work, contribute to the continuous development of the police organization and the improvement of the security of the state and citizens," said acting Director of the Police Directorate, Nikola Terzić.

On the way to a career as a police officer, the first step is the Police Academy, which for many years has been providing quality education, according to modern standards, with professional teaching staff.

"The mission of the Police Academy is the improvement of the security education system and the modern organization of education and thus the creation of young forces that, choosing the police profession, will establish a tradition of tolerance, expertise, responsibility, critical perception of reality, creativity, moral behaviour, optimism, empathy, authenticity and humanity,” said the director of the Police Academy, Vladimir Stanišić.

Dominique Waag, Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, stated that young people are the driving force in any profession, and that they can bring positive change to the workplace when they are truly reflecting the society and its diversity.

“By engaging young people and showing them the positive aspects of police work, we can recruit a new generation of police officers that will bring fresh perspectives, new values and enthusiasm in the police, which will further help create safer communities and better protect the country from crime,” said Ambassador Waag.

In the next month, everyone interested in a police career will be able to learn about the advantages of working in the police community, ways to become a police officer and what kind of career development those who become part of the police can expect. Information will be available through the media, social networks, and lectures will be organized in high schools throughout Montenegro, so that young people can get answers to everything they are interested in through direct communication with police representatives.

This year’s campaign builds on the achievements of the previous campaigns that targeted women and contributed to a significant increase the number of qualified female applicants accepted into the Police Academy.

All information will be available on the websites:

Police Directorate - Policija - Ministarstvo unutrašnjih poslova (www.gov.me)

Police Academy - Policijska akademija

Facebook page - Biram policiju | Facebook.

La Commission européenne envisage de diviser par deux le montant alloué à son projet de fonds d’achat commun à court terme de matériel de défense pour l’Ukraine et prévoit de donner la priorité à la modernisation à long terme de l’industrie de la défense en Europe.

Az EU igazságos energiaátmenetet akar. Részletek arról, hogyan segítene a Szociális Klímaalap azoknak, akik leginkább ki vannak téve az energiaszegénységnek.

Forrás : © Európai Unió, 2023 - EP

EU countries have drawn up sanctions targeting Moldovan oligarchs trying to overturn the pro-Western government in Chișinău.

The Council's latest draft of the EU anti-SLAPP directive is significantly watered down and does not go far enough to protect journalists from lawsuits designed to harass and intimidate them, director of Article 19 Europe Sarah Clarke told EURACTIV in an interview.

La présidence suédoise a fait circuler un nouveau texte de compromis sur la directive européenne relative aux travailleurs des plateformes, qui ne comporte que des modifications mineures. Un accord pourrait se profiler.

Le 20 avril 2023, l'Alliance africaine de fact-checking (AFCA) organise une conférence en ligne pour renforcer la lutte contre la més/désinformation en Afrique
L'événement est centré sur le thème « Accroître la sensibilisation des parties prenantes pour renforcer l'efficacité de la lutte contre la més/désinformation en Afrique ».
Il est attendu que les assises aboutissent à une série de recommandations à l'intention des parties prenantes, pour prévenir et contenir la diffusion de la més/ désinformation en Afrique

Décideurs politiques, représentants d'organisations non gouvernementales et de la société civile, journalistes, vérificateurs de faits et plusieurs autres acteurs majeurs africains se réuniront en ligne, ce 20 avril 2023, à partir de 11h00 temps universel, pour réfléchir sur les meilleures approches pour une lutte plus efficace contre la més/désinformation sur le continent.
À l'initiative de l'Alliance africaine de fact-checking (AFCA), la réunion de deux heures vise à « Accroître la sensibilisation des parties prenantes pour renforcer l'efficacité de la lutte contre la més/désinformation en Afrique ».
Mise en place par Code for Africa en 2020, l'AFCA est un réseau de plus de 370 salles de rédaction de vingt-neuf (29) pays d'Afrique subsaharienne, qui vise à tirer partie de la collaboration entre ses membres pour lutter efficacement contre la més/ désinformation.
Dans un contexte où la més/désinformation prend des ampleurs démesurées en Afrique, exacerbant les effets néfastes des crises et autres éléments perturbateurs qui sapent les efforts de développement des pays, ce forum offre une plateforme de dialogue aux décideurs politiques, aux professionnels des médias et aux autres parties prenantes, pour débattre des solutions prospectives, dans le but relever le défi de ce fléau et de permettre aux décideurs et aux populations d'avoir les bonnes informations et de prendre des décisions éclairées, basées sur des preuves probantes.
De façon spécifique, la conférence réunira les parties prenantes pour : Présenter l'état de la vérification des faits dans la région couverte par l'AFCA, en mettant l'accent sur les principales tendances ; Discuter et examiner les dispositifs existants nationaux et régionaux qui encadrent la vérification des faits et déterminer s'ils sont efficaces et s'ils contribuent à l'intérêt public et au développement ; Examiner les actions nécessaires pour renforcer l'efficacité de la vérification des faits dans la lutte contre la més/désinformation ; et Partager les enseignements tirés et identifier les domaines prioritaires communs.
Plus de 120 personnes participeront à cette rencontre continentale. Elle s'articulera autour d'une session d'échanges avec un panel de haut niveau, qui sera suivie de discussions en plénière qui permettront aux participants de s'accorder sur un certain nombre de recommandations pour renforcer l'efficacité de la lutte contre la més/désinformation en Afrique.
Il est attendu que les recommandations issues des discussions fassent l'objet d'une Déclaration finale.

Pour participer à l'événement, veuillez cliquer sur le lien suivant : https://bit.ly/42PbhYx.

Selon les experts cités dans l’article, si nous essayons de prendre une décision difficile, parler de nous à la troisième personne peut aider à neutraliser les émotions qui pourraient détourner notre pensée, nous permettant ainsi de trouver une solution plus sage à notre problème. Cette technique ancestrale se nomme l’iléisme.

L'ex ministre de la justice Sévérin Quenum a passé le témoin au nouveau Garde des Sceaux Yvon Détchénou, mardi 18 avril 2023. Voici les mots de l'ex ministre à l'occasion de la passation de charge.

« Il est des souhaits que l'on formule quelques fois par convenance. (…) Et souvent sans grande conviction. Et puis lorsqu'ils se réalisent, on est surpris et on se découvre en train d'avoir une prophétie heureuse pour soi. Je suis rentré ici il y a 5 ans environ avocat, j'en sors tel quel, avec la même foi et la même conviction. », a indiqué Sévérin Quenum, l'ex Garde des Sceaux à la cérémonie de passation de charge, mardi 18 avril 2023.
L'ex ministre a adressé ses remerciements à l'endroit des « membres du comité des directeurs pour ce compagnonnage fécond qui m'a permis à moi aussi d'écrire quelques pages en lettre d'or dans l'œuvre réformatrice entreprise depuis 2016 ».
L'avocat Me Yvon Détchénou est le Garde des Sceaux entrant. Il a été nommé, lundi 17 avril 2023, à la suite du remaniement ministériel du gouvernement du président Patrice Talon.
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