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Großbritannien steht am Montag (6. Februar) vor dem größten Streik, den das Gesundheitspersonal je erlebt hat. Zehntausende von Krankenschwestern und Krankenpflegern werden im Rahmen eines eskalierenden Lohnstreits streiken.

Serbie : qui est Aleksandar Šapić, le nouveau maire de Belgrade ?
Immobilier en Serbie : à Belgrade, le secrétariat pour la légalisation de la corruption
Serbie : Vučić fait le ménage au SNS et adoube un nouveau poulain
Sport : la Serbie ou le paradoxe du water-polo
Serbie : le secteur public en tête du hit parade de la corruption
Corruption en Serbie : le mauvais exemple des privatisations frauduleuses
Revue de presse • Serbie : à Belgrade, « les pavés de la corruption »

/ Vreme (Serbie), Serbie, Défense, police et justice, Vucic

Serbie : qui est Aleksandar Šapić, le nouveau maire de Belgrade ?
Immobilier en Serbie : à Belgrade, le secrétariat pour la légalisation de la corruption
Serbie : Vučić fait le ménage au SNS et adoube un nouveau poulain
Sport : la Serbie ou le paradoxe du water-polo
Serbie : le secteur public en tête du hit parade de la corruption
Corruption en Serbie : le mauvais exemple des privatisations frauduleuses
Revue de presse • Serbie : à Belgrade, « les pavés de la corruption »

/ Vreme (Serbie), Serbie, Défense, police et justice, Vucic

Grèce : à Samos, les réfugiés enfermés dans un nouveau camp hi-tech ultra-surveillé
Grèce : « Moria n'existe plus, mais rien n'a changé pour les réfugiés »
Grèce : le gouvernement conservateur emmure les réfugiés avec le soutien de l'UE
Grèce : le gouvernement attaque les ONG qui aident les réfugiés
Grèce : une journaliste néerlandaise arrêtée pour avoir hébergé un réfugié
Chantage dans les Balkans : comment l'UE externalise ses politiques d'asile

/ Courrier des Balkans, Migrants Balkans, Grèce, Populations, minorités et migrations, Questions européennes, Défense, police et justice

Albin Kurti : « Non à une Republika Srpska du Kosovo »
Contrebande dans le nord du Kosovo : le gouvernement maintient la pression
Kosovo : attaques armées contre la police dans le Nord, Pristina accuse la mafia serbe
Kosovo : la communauté serbe sous le joug de la Lista Srpska

/ Courrier des Balkans, Tensions Nord Kosovo, dialogue Kosovo Serbie, Kosovo, Défense, police et justice, Relations régionales

Albin Kurti : « Non à une Republika Srpska du Kosovo »
Contrebande dans le nord du Kosovo : le gouvernement maintient la pression
Kosovo : attaques armées contre la police dans le Nord, Pristina accuse la mafia serbe
Kosovo : la communauté serbe sous le joug de la Lista Srpska

/ Courrier des Balkans, Tensions Nord Kosovo, dialogue Kosovo Serbie, Kosovo, Défense, police et justice, Relations régionales

Der Zentrumskandidat Nikos Christodoulides gewann die erste Runde der zyprischen Präsidentschaftswahlen am Sonntag mit 32,0 Prozent und besiegte damit Andreas Mavroyiannis, der 29,6 Prozent der Stimmen erhielt und im Wahlkampf von der linken Partei AKEL unterstützt wurde.

In der südostukrainischen Stadt Cherson sind bei russischen Angriffen am Wochenende mehrere Zivilisten getötet worden. Der Ukraine-Präsident Wolodimir Selenski warnt nun davor, dass Russland am Jahrestag des Krieges eine grössere Aktion planen könnte.

Laut einer Umfrage sind roma- und frauenfeindliche Vorurteile in Kroatien stärker ausgeprägt als noch 2016. 

Washington a obtenu l'accès à quatre bases militaires supplémentaires aux Philippines, qui sont situées dans une zone clé qui lui permettra de garder un œil sur la Chine.

Die absichtliche Verbreitung von Desinformationen könnte in das tschechische Strafgesetzbuch aufgenommen werden, wie aus einem neuen Aktionsplan hervorgeht, der derzeit von der Regierung diskutiert wird.

Emmanuel Macron francia államfő és Benjámin Netanjahu izraeli miniszterelnök kifejezte azon szándékát, hogy “közösen munkálkodjanak” Irán destabilizációs tevékenységével szemben a Közel-Keleten, és Teheránnak az Oroszországnak nyújtott támogatása ellen az ukrajnai háborúban – közölte a francia elnöki hivatal.

Az Elysée-palota közleménye szerint a francia elnök vacsorán látta vendégül hivatalában csütörtök este az izraeli kormányfőt, akinek az iráni nukleáris program fejleményeit is elítélte.

“A két vezető hosszan megvitatta az iráni nukleáris veszély elleni küzdelem eszközeit. Netanjahu miniszterelnök kiemelte, hogy meg kell erősíteni az Iránnal és a meghosszabbított karjaival szembeni elrettentést a Közel-Keleten” – fogalmazott a párizsi izraeli nagykövet az AFP hírügynökségnek.

Irán a múlt év végén megkezdte az urán hatvan százalékos tisztaságú dúsítását a fordói, föld alatti atomlétesítményében, ami a fegyverminőségű anyaghoz szükséges kilencvenszázalékos tisztaság alatt van, de meghaladja a húsz százalékos tisztaságot, amelyet a nagyhatalmakkal kötött 2015-ös megállapodás előtt termelt. Ez utóbbi egyezség a dúsítást 3,67 százalékban korlátozta. Az izraeli miniszterelnök a nukleáris program katonai jellegű céljain kívül azzal is vádolta Teheránt, hogy helyi milíciákra támaszkodva destabilizálja a térség országait Libanontól Jemenig.

“A francia elnök emlékeztetett arra, hogy az Ukrajnával szembeni orosz agresszió támogatása szankcióknak és növekedő elszigeteltségnek teszi ki Iránt” – hangsúlyozta az elnöki hivatal, miközben Izrael azt reméli, hogy az iráni szerepvállalás egy európai konfliktusban arra fogja ösztönözni az európai országokat, hogy határozottabban lépjenek fel Teheránnal szemben.

Kijev és nyugati szövetségesei azzal vádolják Oroszországot, hogy iráni gyártású drónokat használ az Ukrajna elleni támadásokban, s azokkal jelentős károkat okoz energetikai és polgári létesítményekben.

Macron a találkozón kifejezte “Franciaország teljes szolidaritását Izraellel a terrorizmus elleni küzdelemben” az egy héttel ezelőtti, hét halálos áldozatot követelő kelet-jeruzsálemi merénylet kapcsán. Emlékeztetett arra, hogy “el kell kerülni minden további intézkedést az erőszak fokozódásának táplálásra” és kifejezte “határozott szembenállását a ciszjordániai zsidó telepek bővítését illetően, amelyek aláássák egy jövőbeni palesztin állam perspektíváját”.

A francia elnök üdvözölte “az Izrael és a térség több állami közötti kapcsolatok rendeződését”, de “felhívta arra a figyelmet, hogy ez a folyamat nem lehet teljes addig, amíg nem jár együtt az izraeli-palesztin konfliktus megoldásához vezető politikai folyamat újraindulásával”.

Az izraeli miniszterelnök szombat estig marad Párizsban, ahol találkozik vezető üzletemberekkel, valamint a zsidó közösség vezetőivel is.

 

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In den Tagen vor dem 151. Geburtstag von Gotse Delchev, einem Nationalhelden beider Länder, schwelten die Spannungen zwischen Skopje und Sofia an. Politiker von beiden Seiten drohten einander.

Brazil sank a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean off its northeast coast, the Brazilian Navy said, despite warnings from environmentalists that the rusting 1960s French-built ship would pollute the sea and the marine food chain.

Nelly García is 65 years old, and for 30 years she has been selling flowers at a market in Lima because she was unable to return to her profession as a nurse technician after taking a break from work to raise her children when they were young. She says sadly that “if the government does not care about children, it cares about us even less. They must think ‘let these old people die because they’re no good for anything anymore’.” CREDIT: Mariela Jara/IPS

By Mariela Jara
LIMA, Feb 6 2023 (IPS)

Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer a young region and it will be one of the regions with the largest aging populations by 2050, which poses great challenges due to the social inequalities the countries face, but also opportunities to overcome them.

“Currently in the region an estimated 8.1 percent of the population is over 65 years of age, and this percentage is projected to increase to 17 percent by 2050, higher than the global average,” said Sabrina Juran, a regional technical advisor on population and development for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

In 2022, the region was home to 658 million people, of whom some 52 million were older adults, creating great challenges for the countries in terms of work, health and pensions, in a context in which according to international organizations the economic slowdown will deepen in the region in 2023.

“I am 65 and employers already saw me as too old to hire at 35, and I did not manage to get another job as a nurse technician,” says Nelly García, who moved to the capital, Lima, with her parents when she was 10 years old from her hometown of Huancayo, a city in Peru’s central Andes highlands.

The case of García illustrates the labor problems faced by many older adults in Latin America, especially women whose job opportunities are often hindered by motherhood and their responsibilities to care for family members.

“Imagine at this age what chance of insurance or pensions exist for people like me or people who are even older and work in the informal sector,” she told IPS with bitterness, adding that “if the government does not care about children, it cares about us even less. They must think ‘let these old people die because they’re no good for anything anymore’.”

García lives in Breña, a working-class district of 75,000 people that is one of the 43 districts in the department of Lima. Since she failed to find work in any hospital 30 years ago, she has been selling flowers.

She had taken a break from her work as a nurse technician to raise her four children. When she sought to return to her profession, the doors of the hospitals slammed shut on her. “I was already seen as old at the age of 35,” she repeated several times.

She has social health insurance from her husband, who is about to retire from a book import company. “But his pension will be less than 200 soles (52 dollars); that will not even cover the electricity bill,” she lamented.

Peru, a South American country of 33 million people, is facing a severe economic, political and social crisis, with a poverty level that climbed during the pandemic to a national average of 30 percent, although in rural areas it is 45 percent.

There are more than four million people over 60 according to official figures, only one third or 35 percent of whom were in a pension system. And although 89 percent have access to public health insurance, coverage and quality do not go hand in hand

“I try to save up for when I’m older, although the truth is I don’t think I’ll reach the age of 75 because in my family we suffer from heart disease. But I’m not going back to the public health insurance system,” García said emphatically.

She talked about her experience of the system: “It’s an ordeal, you have to go to the hospital at dawn to make an appointment, they order tests for several months later and who knows when you’ll get the results back. If I go through the same thing now, I’ll surely die before they call me, so when it’s my time, I hope to leave in peace.”

García is referring to the Social Health Security, a public system that covers 35 percent of people over 60, which draws harsh criticism for its poor facilities, shortage of medical personnel and poor quality of care.

A group of Peruvian women take part in a demonstration for the rights of the elderly in Lima. Latin America and the Caribbean will become one of the regions with the most aging populations by 2050 due to advances in medicine and the decrease in the birth rate. Life expectancy at birth was 72 years in 2022. CREDIT: Wálter Hupiú/IPS

An irreversible path

On Jan. 12, the Division for Inclusive Social Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) presented the World Social Report on demographic change, which ratifies the global tendency that the population over 65 is growing faster than younger age sets and that people are living longer.

Greater life expectancy at birth due to the advancement of medicine and the decline in the fertility rate, which stands at 2.1 births per woman, are factors contributing to this trend.

Sabrina Juran of UNFPA told IPS from Panama City, where the U.N. agency’s regional headquarters is located, that the birth rate in Latin America is 1.85 and regional population growth is below 0.67 percent per year, both of which are lower than the global rates.

She said that according to the latest U.N. projections, there would be around 695.5 million inhabitants in the region in 2030 with a peak of 751.9 in mid-2050, after which the population would constantly decrease until reaching 649.2 million in 2100.

Sabrina Juran, a regional technical advisor on population and development for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), poses for a picture at the organization’s headquarters in Panama. By 2050, 17 percent of the regional population will be over 65, the agency projects. CREDIT: UNFPA LAC

Juran explained that further reductions in mortality are expected to lead to a global average longevity of about 77.2 years in 2050 and 80.6 years regionally. Life expectancy at birth in Latin America and the Caribbean was 72.2 years in 2022, three years less than life expectancy in 2019 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This scenario means governments in the region must focus on meeting greater demands for healthcare, employment, housing, and pensions.

Juran said the growth of the working-age population – from 38.7 percent in 1990 to 51 percent today – can help boost per capita economic growth, known as the “demographic dividend”, which offers to maximize the potential benefits of a favorable age distribution.

“But this increase in the working-age population will not remain constant: it will peak in 2040 at 53.8 percent before decreasing,” she said. “This means there is a window of opportunity to be taken advantage of.”

The region faces steep inequalities. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Jan. 18, 22.5 percent of the population – in other words, at least 131.3 million people – were unable to afford a healthy diet.

“Countries must invest in the development of their human capital, guaranteeing access to healthcare, quality education at all ages, and promoting opportunities for productive employment and decent work,” Juran remarked.

She added that they must take measures to adapt public programs to the growing number of older people, establishing universal healthcare and long-term care systems, and improving the sustainability of social security and pension systems.

“At UNFPA we advocate measuring and anticipating demographic changes in order to be better prepared for the consequences that arise,” said the regional advisor.

She said the commitment is “to a world where people have the power to make informed decisions about whether and when to have children, exercise their rights and responsibilities, navigate risks and become the foundation of more inclusive, adaptable and sustainable societies.”

Achieving this demographic resilience, Juran said, starts with a commitment to count not only the number of people, but also their opportunities for advancement and the barriers that stand in their way, which requires transforming discriminatory norms that hold back individuals and societies.

Written by Marcin Grajewski.

Last year’s UN Climate Change Conference, COP27, made some headway in efforts to fight climate change, but its overall progress was limited. The gathering agreed to create a loss-and-damage fund, to support poorer countries disproportionately affected by climate change while only being responsible for a small share of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Governments at COP27 also called for reform of the International Monetary Fund and the multilateral development banks, to align global public finance with the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate. However, the meeting produced barely any new initiatives on climate mitigation, which are needed to take to keep alive the Paris 1.5°C temperature-reduction goal.

The European Union is debating a response to the US Inflation Reduction Act, which provides for US$369 billion investment in energy security and combatting climate change, but may threaten to lure away from Europe some clean-tech corporate investment.

This note offers links to recent commentaries, studies and reports from international think tanks on climate issues. More papers on the topic can be found in a previous edition of ‘What Think Tanks are Thinking.

Where is the carbon premium? Global performance of green and brown stocks
Brookings Institution, January 2023

Methane comes front and center in climate change policy
Brookings Institution, January 2023

What to expect on climate change from the New Congress
Brookings Institution, January 2023

Concessional climate finance: The Bridgetown Initiative
Bruegel, January 2023

The climatization of finance
Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, January 2023

Be prepared for the polycrisis era
Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, January 2023

Military capabilities affected by climate change
Clingendael, January 2023

Where next for the Coalition of Trade Ministers on Climate?
E3G, January 2023

The EU must mitigate climate-related financial risks
E3G, January 2023

Global solidarity or collective suicide: Why we cannot abandon the Paris Agreement’s global warming target
European Council on Foreign Relations, January 2023

Synergising climate and biodiversity agendas is an imperative challenge for the century
Institute for European Environmental Policy, January 203

Impacts of climate change on global food trade networks
Stockholm Environment Institute, January 2023

Integration of short-lived climate pollutant and air pollutant mitigation in nationally determined contributions
Stockholm Environment Institute, January 2023

Can COP keep up with an evolving climate effort?
Brookings Institution, December 2022

How can we measure the impact of carbon prices on global warming?
Brookings Institution, December 2022

Climate policy curves: Linking policy choices to climate outcomes
Brookings Institution, December 2022

A Green Fiscal Pact for the EU: Increasing climate investments while consolidating budgets
Bruegel, December 2022

Europe’s Green Investment Requirements and the role of NextGenerationEU
Bruegel, December 2022

The future for global trade in a changing climate
Chatham House, December 2022

Climate change is fuelling migration. Do climate migrants have legal protections?
Council on Foreign Relations, December 2022

How will global health survive climate change?
Council on Foreign Relations, December 2022

Playing catch up: How COP27 politics are trailing economic realities
E3G, December 2022

International finance to address climate loss and damage
E3G, December 2022

If not now, when? Climate disaster and the Green vote following the 2021 Germany floods
European University Institute, December 2022

Policy challenges and policy actions for a just climate transition: Five recovery plans in comparison
Foundation for European Progressive Studies, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, December 2022

Companies at COP27: Clean air is a catalyst for climate action
Friends of Europe, December 2022

EU climate policy amid Russia’s war in Ukraine: A critical overview of key REPowerEU challenges and trajectories towards net-zero
Globsec, December 2022

Walking out of the woods: EU industrial policy between the energy crisis and decarbonisation
Istituto Affari Internazionali, December 2022

Climate change and food insecurity: Unleashing the promise and potential of agroecology in the Mediterranean
Istituto Affari Internazionali, December 2022

Taxation and ecological transition during climate and energy crises: The main conclusions of the 2022 Spanish White Book on tax reform
Real Instituto Elcano

Net-zero targets and non-CO2 mitigation
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, December 2022

Adaptation without borders: A brief to participants in COP27
Stockholm Environment Institute, December 2022

The big success and bigger failure of COP27
Atlantic Council, November 2022

Renewing global climate change action for fragile and developing countries
Brooking Institution, November 2022

The unexpected breakthroughs at COP27
Carnegie Europe, November 2022

COP27 agreed compensation for loss and damage… but the fear is we’ll just end up seeing even more loss and damage
Centre for European Policy Studies, November 2022

In a green subsidy race, the EU should not imitate the US
Centre for European Policy Studies, November 2022

COP27 didn’t make enough progress to prevent climate catastrophe
Council on Foreign Relations, November 2022

Gender, displacement, and climate change
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, November 2022

Opportunities for health engagement in European climate policies
Ecologic, November 2022

The EU: At the forefront of the climate change battle
Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, November 2022

Climate action: On track to meet agreed targets?
Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, November 2022

Read this briefing on ‘Climate change‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

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A nemzeti kiberbiztonságért felelős ügynökség (Acn) közlése szerint vasárnap "tömeges" támadás érte az olaszországi internethálózatokat, emiatt az reggel óta akadozik.

Die slowakische SMER-SD, die in den letzten Umfragen führte, ist Vorwürfen wegen Korruption auf höchster Ebene ausgesetzt. Aufgrund eines umstrittenen Paragraphen, der bereits zum Freispruch ihres Vorsitzenden geführt hat, dürfte die Anklage allerdings in Leere laufen.