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Despite their life-changing potential, innovative treatments based on genetically modified cells are still not fully accessible to all patients.

Alors que la proposition de l’exécutif européen en faveur d’un espace européen des données de santé avance, les experts et les commissaires ont souligné qu’elle ne sera pas réalisable sans un niveau de confiance important des citoyens.

A Parlament az 1952-es első közgyűléstől kezdődő európai demokrácia 70 éves fennállását ünnepli, mely most, a kihívásokkal teli időkben erősebb, mint valaha.

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Szlovákiában még mindig erősek a sztereotípiák az LMBTQ-közösséggel szemben, és az elmúlt időszakban agresszív támadások is érték a melegeket. Kövessük az északi országok példáját, és változtassunk ezen! Összegyűjtöttünk néhány filmet, amit identitástól és szexuális beállítottságtól függetlenül mindenkinek érdemes lenne megnéznie.

Auf brutalste Art tötet der Serbe Edmir R. 2019 seine Ehefrau. Dafür muss er ins Gefängnis. Nun stand er erneut vor Gericht.

Après des mois de stagnation des débats sur le règlement « vie privée et communications électroniques » (ePrivacy Regulation), les eurodéputés et les diplomates de l’UE ont entamé les discussions sur la question sensible du traitement des données, métadonnées et contenus des communications électroniques.

The European Parliament is marking 70 years of democracy in action - from its first assembly in 1952 to being stronger than ever during challenging times today.

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The European Parliament is marking 70 years of democracy in action - from its first assembly in 1952 to being stronger than ever during challenging times today.

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La Ministre de l'Industrie et du Commerce, Shadiya Alimatou Assouman a présenté, mardi 15 novembre 2023, aux députés membres de la Commission budgétaire, le projet de budget 2023 de son ministère.

Le montant du projet de budget 2023 du Ministère de l'Industrie et du Commerce pour l'année 2023 s'élève à 7.000.983.000 FCFA.
Le Ministère de l'Industrie et du Commerce entend mettre en œuvre au cours de l'année 2023, trois (03) programmes soutenus par un (01) projet.
Il s'agit du Programme Pilotage et soutien aux services du ministère d'un montant de 1.812.652.000 FCFA pour assurer le pilotage et la coordination du ministère, renforcer la gestion des ressources humaines, matérielles et financières du ministère, renforcer le système de planification, de programmation et de suivi-évaluation.
Le Programme Industrie d'un montant de 623.993.000 FCFA pour la promotion des entreprises industrielles et le renforcement de la compétitivité des produits locaux et le Programme Commerce estimé à 4.564.338.000 FCFA pour renforcer les capacités d'intégration du Bénin au commerce international et renforcer les activités commerciales.
Ces trois programmes sont soutenus par le projet de mise en place d'infrastructures marchandes transfrontalières pour une dotation de 3.513.268.000 FCFA dont 3.035.989 FCFA de dons.
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Die Post startet diese Woche in die Hochsaison. Black Friday, Cyber Monday – und dann gehts direkt in die Weihnachtszeit. Rund eine Million Päckli pro Tag werden erwartet. Wie die Post mit dieser Belastung umgeht, erklärt Johannes Cramer, Leiter der Logistik-Services.

Le président de la Cour Spéciale des Affaires Foncières (CSAF) est connu. Victor FATINDE est nommé mercredi 16 novembre 2022 en Conseil des ministres.

On connait désormais le président de la Cour Spéciale des Affaires Foncières au Bénin. Le magistrat Victor FATINDE est nommé ce mercredi en Conseil des ministres. Il est le tout premier président de la CSAF. C'est un magistrat de haut niveau qui a occupé le poste de président au tribunal de première instance de première classe de Cotonou. Il a également exercé les fonctions de magistrats au tribunal de Ouidah.
Victor FATINDE est l'auteur du livre ‘'Dans les couloirs du pouvoir'' paru en 2008.

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Az Európai Bizottság számba vette a schengeni szabályok alkalmazása terén elért eredményeket, és megállapította, hogy Bulgária, Románia és Horvátország készen áll arra, hogy teljes jogú tagjává váljon a határok nélküli szabad uniós mozgást biztosító övezetnek - közölte belügyekért felelős uniós biztos szerdán.

Der SCB landet einen Coup und raubt dem Deutschen Eishockey-Bund den Cheftrainer. Da lacht auch die Schweizer Nati.

Joko Winterscheidt (43) und Klaas Heufer-Umlauf (39) stoppen Barrieren während Morgenverkehr, um eine Challenge zu gewinnen. Dabei setzen sie ihre Unschuldsmienen auf. Mit wütenden Arbeitern werden sie kreativ in ihren Lügen.

Encore une fois, une compagnie aérienne risque de faire face à un mouvement de grève. En effet, durant la saison estivale, de nombreuses grèves ont eu lieu dans de différents pays dans le monde qui ont impacté le trafic aérien dans des différents aéroports internationaux. Le mois dernier, c’est la compagnie aérienne espagnole qui a […]

L’article Vols vers l’Algérie: Air France menacée par une grève de son personnel est apparu en premier sur .

On connaît à peu près les partis politiques qui pourront participer à l'élection législative du 08 janvier 2023 au Bénin. La Commission électorale nationale autonome (CENA) au terme des 72 heures de rallonge pour complément de dossiers a délivré des récépissés définitifs à 06 partis politiques ce mercredi 16 novembre 2022.

Sur les 08 partis politiques ayant déposé leurs dossiers de candidature pour les législatives de 2023, 06 ont déjà en possession, leurs récépissés définitifs. La CENA leur a délivré le précieux sésame ce mercredi 16 novembre 2022. Il s'agit de :
- Bloc Républicain (BR) ;
– Force Cauris pour un Bénin Emergent (FCBE) ;
– Mouvement des Elites Engagées pour l'Emancipation du Bénin (MOELE-BENIN) ;
– Mouvement Populaire de Libération (MPL) ;
– Union Progressiste le Renouveau (UPR),
– Union Démocratique pour un Bénin Nouveau (UDBN).
Le parti Les Démocrates pour défaut de quitus fiscal est recalé. 04 candidats du principal parti de l'opposition au régime du président Patrice TALON doivent 1,5 milliards FCFA d'impôts.
La Nouvelle Force Nationale (NFN) quant à elle, a saisi la Cour constitutionnelle. Pour des motifs de doublons, la CENA a rejeté sa candidature. La décision de la haute juridiction est attendue dans les prochaines heures.

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Újraindult a kőolajszállítás Szlovákiába a Barátság vezetéken. A szállítást kedd este óta szüneteltették. Erről a gazdasági minisztérium és a Transpetrol tájékoztatott.

Selon Curafutura et Helsana, 20 médicaments coûtent plus de 1,7 milliard à l’assurance de base. Avec une tendance forte à la hausse.

Experts have warned that the Commission's proposed European Media Freedom Act may face further obstacles as it enters consultation with member states. 

By Jan Lundius
STOCKHOLM, Nov 16 2022 (IPS)

Like most armed conflicts the Ukrainian war intends to establish hegemony over a certain area, in rivalry with other usurpers. Russian propaganda pinpoints the US and EU as Russia’s main adversaries, while Ukraine is portrayed as a pawn in these nations’ international yearnings. Such a scenario is not new.

The Great Game was a political and diplomatic confrontation between British – and Russian Empires, which continued for most of the 19th and parts of the 20th centuries. Britain’s role was eventually taken over by the US. The Great Game mainly affected Mesopotamia (Iraq), Persia (Iran), and Afghanistan, though it had, and still has, repercussions on a wide range of neighboring territories.

Britain originally feared that the Russian Empire’s ultimate goal was to dominate Central Asia and reach the Indian Ocean through Persia, thus threatening Britain’s Asian trade links and its domination of India.

Britain posed as the World’s first free society, declaring its adherence to Christian values, respect for private property, and democratic institutions. Claims bolstered by an advanced industry, fueled by steam power and iron, as well as an ever increasing use of oil. English leaders assumed their nation had a God-given task to spread “civilization” and that such a worthy cause permitted them to exploit the earth’s natural resources, as well as the world’s labor force. Similarly to the Brits, the Russians, the Yankees, and the French considered themselves to be “civilizing forces”.

The quest for dominion was carried out in a traditional manner – pitching internal fractions against each other and let them do most of the fighting. Nevertheless, this strategy eventually led to direct clashes between “world powers”. Britain strived to convince the Russian army that it did not have a chance against the British war machine. The UK, France and Italy felt threatened by a growing influence of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires. Accordingly, these nations supported an increasingly weakened Ottoman Empire, intending it to remain a buffer zone blocking Russia’s expanding war fleet from the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean.

As part of this policy, Britain and France provided arms and money to anti-Russian insurgents in Chechnya, thus contributing to an enduring tradition of Chechen terrorism against Russia. After a minor scuffle between the Russian – and Ottoman Empires, Russia occupied the Principate of Wallachia (Romania), prompting France and Great Britain to attack Crimea with a huge military force.

The Crimean War (1853-56) proved that the Tsar’s army was no match for the allied forces. Russia was humiliated and its expansion towards the European mainland and meddling in Persia and Afghanistan were halted. Instead people living on the steppes of Central Asia and Siberia continued to be subdued and forced to join the Russian Tsardom.

The Crimean disaster had exposed the shortcomings of every institution in Russia – not just the corruption and incompetence of the military command, the technological backwardness of the army and navy, or the inadequate roads and lack of railways that accounted for the chronic problems of supply, but the poor condition and illiteracy of the serfs who made up the armed forces, the inability of the serf economy to sustain a state of war against industrial powers, and the failures of autocracy itself.

The meddling of imperialists in other nations’ affairs was gradually worsened by efforts to secure fossil fuels for their own benefit. Refined petrol was originally used to fuel kerosene lamps and became increasingly important when street lighting was introduced. After 1857, oil wells drilled in Wallachia became very profitable, inspiring a search for new oilfields in the east. In 1873, the Swede Robert Nobel established an oil refinery in Azerbaijan, adding Russia’s first pipeline system, pumping stations, storage depots, and railway tank cars. At the same time, Calouste Gulbenkian assisted the Ottoman government to establish the oil industry in Mesopotamia. Gulbenkian eventually became the world’s wealthiest man.

Profit from these endeavors increased through assembly-line mass production of motor vehicles, introduced by Henry Ford in 1914. However, the main reason for gaining control of oil was belligerent. The English First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, realized that if the British navy was fuelled by oil, instead of coal, it would be irresistible: “We must become the owners or at any rate the controllers at the source of at least a proportion of the supply of natural oil which we require.” In 1914, Churchill feared that this could be too late – the Germans were already on their way to conquer the Middle Eastern oil fields. Together with the Ottomans they were finishing the Berlin-Baghdad railway line, which would it make possible for the German army to transport troops to the Persian Gulf and onwards to Persian oilfields.

Germany and its allied Ottoman Empire lost World War I and the Berlin-Baghdad railway never reached the Persian Gulf. In accordance with the so-called Sykes-Picot Agreement Arab territories of the former Ottoman Empire were divided into French and British “spheres of influence”. In 1929, the newly formed Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), a joint endeavor of British, French and American oil interests, brokered by Gulbenkian, received a 75-year concession to exploit crude oil reserves in Iraq and Persia, and eventually in what would become the United Emirates.

Access to oil continued to be a major factor in World War II. The German invasion of USSR included the goal to capture the Baku oilfields, which had been nationalized during the Bolshevik Revolution. However, the German Army was defeated before it reached the oil fields.

The Germans had pursued a relatively benign policy towards the USSR’s Muslim population of Caucasus and neighboring areas. This was after the war taken as an excuse for Stalin’s treatment of “treacherous ethnic elements”. Forced internal migration had begun already before the war and eventually affected at least 6 million people. Among them 1.8 million kulaks, mainly from Ukraine, who were deported from 1930 to 1931, one million peasants and ethnic minorities were driven from Caucasus between 1932 to 1939, and from 1940 to 1952, a further 3.5 million ethnic minorities were resettled.

Nearly 8,000 Crimean Tatars died during these deportations, while tens of thousands perished subsequently due to the harsh exile conditions. The Crimean Tatar deportations resulted in the abandonment of 80,000 households and 360,000 acres of land. From 1967 to 1978, some 15,000 Tatars succeeded in returning legally to Crimea, less than 2 percent of the pre-war Tatar population. This remission was followed by a ban on further Tatar settlements.

In 1944, almost all Chechens were deported to the Kazakh and Kirgiz Soviet republics. Accordingly, the Russian presence in Caucasus and Ukraine increased and so was Russian control of these areas’ natural resources, including wheat, coal, oil and gas.

After World War I, Britain had first tried to halt the Bolshevik penetration of Iran and did in 1921 support a coup d’état placing the UK-friendly general Reza Shah as leader of the nation. When Britain and USSR eventually became allies against Nazi Germany they did together attack Iran and replaced Reza Shah with his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Reza Shah had become “far too Nazi-friendly.”

Following a 1950 election, Mohammad Mosaddegh became president of Iran. He was committed to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, AIOC (successor of the IPC mentioned above). In a joint effort the Secret Intelligence Services of the UK and the US, MI6 and CIA, organized and paid for a “popular” uprising against Mosaddegh, though it backfired and their co-conspirator, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, fled the country. However, he did after a brief exile return and this time a coup d’état was successful. The deposed Mosaddegh was arrested and condemned to life in internal exile.

Mosaddegh’s internally popular effort to remove oil revenues from foreign claws inspired other Middle East leaders to oppose Britain and France. In 1956, the Egyptian president Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Company, primarily owned by British and French shareholders. An ensuing invasion by Israel, followed by UK and France, aimed at regaining control of the Canal, ended in a humiliating withdrawal by the three invaders, signifying the end of UK’s role as one of the world’s major powers. The same year, USSR was emboldened to invade Hungary, quenching a popular uprising.

In 1960, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded in Baghdad. This was a turning point toward national sovereignty over natural resources. The US Iranian protégé, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, eventually came to play a leading role in OPEC where he promoted increased prices, proclaiming that the West’s “wealth based on cheap oil is finished.” The US was losing its ability to influence Iranian foreign and economic policy and discretely began to support the religous extremist Khomeini, who initially claimed that American presence was necessary as a counterbalance to Soviet influence. However, after coming to power in 1979 Khomeini revealed himself as a fierce opponent to the US. The US and some European governments thus ended up supporting the brutal Saddam Hussein’s war on Iran. The Iraqui leader, heavily financed by Arab Gulf states, suddenly became a ”defender of the Arab world against a revolutionary Iran.” The war ended in a stalemate,with approximately 500,000 killed.

Ukraine is one last example of how a country has ended up in a siutaion where a superpower use its military force to impose its will upon it, while implying that other nations have similar intentions. Times are constantly changing and hopefully Russia will realise, like the UK once did, that it cannot maintain its might and strength through armed invasions, but instead have to rely on diplomacy and peaceful negotiations.

Russia seems to be stuck in a time capsule where foreign greed and meddling in other nations’ internal affairs resulted in ruthless wars and immense human suffering. As the German philosopher Hegel stated in 1832:

What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

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