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La wilaya de Blida, située à 25 kilomètres d’Alger, a été secouée aujourd’hui par un tremblement de terre. L’annonce a été faite, ce mercredi 7 décembre 2022, par le Centre de recherche en astronomie, astrophysique et géophysique (CRAAG). Selon ce dernier, il s’agit d’une secousse tellurique de magnitude 4.0 degrés sur l’échelle ouverte de Richter. […]

L’article Tremblement de terre à Blida: secousse ressentie à Alger et Tizi Ouzou est apparu en premier sur .

Les rebelles du M23, l'un des principaux groupes de combat dans l'est de la République démocratique du Congo, ont déclaré qu'ils étaient prêts à se retirer des territoires de la région, conformément aux résolutions adoptées lors d'un sommet tenu en novembre dans la capitale angolaise, Luanda.

The next AFET Committee meeting is scheduled to take place on 23-24 January 2023 in Brussels.


Other meetings

• AFET-SEDE extraordinary committee meeting on Thursday 8 December 2022 - 11.00-12.00 - Spinelli 5G3

The meeting will be web-streamed.
AFET-SEDE-DROI meetings 2022
AFET-SEDE-DROI meetings 2023
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ENTRETIEN. À l’heure où se pose la question de la politique industrielle de l’Europe face à l’IRA américain, l'UE a d’ores et déjà les cartes en main pour mettre en place une politique industrielle verte, selon le président de la commission Environnement du Parlement européen, Pascal Canfin.

Euronews: Elítélték Donald Trump ingatlanvállalkozását adócsalás miatt. A cég topmenedzserei ugyanis rendszeresen nem fizettek személyi jövedelemadót különböző luxusajándékaik után.

On 12 December, the Committees on Foreign Affairs and Development and the Subcommittee on Human Rights, in association with the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee and the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly will hold a joint exchange of views with the representatives of the 2022 Sakharov Prize laureates, the brave people of Ukraine.
They will be represented by Yulia Pajevska, founder of the evacuation medical unit "Angels of Taira"; Yaroslav Bozhko, Valentyn Havryshchuk and Dmytro Nakonechniy from the Yellow Ribbon Civil Resistance Movement; Oleksandra Matviychuk, Chair of the Center for Civil Liberties; Ivan Fedorov, Mayor of Melitopol; and Serhiy Kruk from the State Emergency Service (tbc).

The meeting will take place from 19.00-20.30 in Strasbourg, room WEISS N1.4.
The Sakharov Prize award ceremony will take place during the Plenary on Wednesday, 14 December.
Sakharo Prize
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Zwei private Fernsehsender in Serbien - N1 Srbija und Nova, die als äußerst regierungskritisch bekannt sind - haben am Dienstag aus Protest gegen die beschädigte Medienfreiheit ihren Sendebetrieb für 24 Stunden eingestellt.

Die Regierung hat einen 1,2 Milliarden Euro schweren Plan vorgestellt, um den von der Energiekrise am stärksten betroffenen Unternehmen zu helfen, unter anderem mit Maßnahmen wie Subventionen für Strom, Gas und Dampf, einem staatlichen Subventionsprogramm für Urlaub und Teilzeitarbeit sowie Liquiditätskrediten.

Das neu errichtete Kernkraftwerk Mochovce, das dritte Kernkraftwerk des Landes, muss die Stromproduktion wegen eines technischen Defekts, der den Eigentümer des Kraftwerks in finanzielle Schwierigkeiten bringen könnte, verschieben.

La Haute-Savoie, frontalière à Genève, est l’un des départements français où les prix des produits alimentaires et d’hygiène sont les plus élevés dans l’Hexagone, selon une enquête.

Inmitten wachsender politischer Spannungen im Vorfeld der für Dezember 2023 angesetzten Parlamentswahlen beging Spanien am Dienstag den 44. Jahrestag der Verfassung des Landes.

Le gouvernement de Nicolás Maduro a été le premier de la région à rendre public le fait qu'il détient des drones dotés de capacités offensives ; le partenariat avec l'Iran a débuté vers 2006 et a pris son essor en 2011.

A view of houses, a water tank, a pump and a Warao meeting center in Janoko, a community that is home to 22 families of this Venezuelan indigenous people who migrated to Brazil. Together they acquired 13.4 hectares in Cantá, a municipality in the northern border state of Roraima, and with that land they have begun a process of insertion and autonomy in the host country. CREDIT: Mario Osava/IPS

By Mario Osava
BOA VISTA, Brazil , Dec 7 2022 (IPS)

A group of Warao families are, through their own efforts, paving the way for the integration of indigenous Venezuelans in Brazil, five years after the start of the wave of their migration to the border state of Roraima.

“It’s a model to follow,” said Gilmara Ribeiro, an anthropologist with the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), linked to the Catholic Church, which since 2017 has been helping indigenous immigrants from Venezuela, most of whom have refugee status.

Fifteen families acquired a 1340 square meter plot of land in the municipality of Cantá, population 20,000, and joined seven other families to form the Warao community of Janoko, inaugurated in May 2021. “Janoko” means house in their native language, while “Warao” means people of the water or of the canoe.

Makeshift dwellings made of wood or still under construction make up the village in which the Venezuelan indigenous people are trying to rebuild a little of the community life they had in the Orinoco delta on the Atlantic ocean, their ancestral land in the impoverished northeastern Venezuelan state of Delta Amacuro.

They are now creating a community like their old ones, in a wooded area 30 kilometers from Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima, population 436,000.

The vast majority are Waraos, but there are also a few families of the Kariña people, who come from several northern Venezuelan states. Many of them traveled the 825 kilometers that separate the Orinoco delta from the Brazilian border of Roraima, in an almost straight line to the south, partly on foot and partly in buses or by hitchhiking.

Pintolandia ceased to be one of the shelters of the Brazilian Army’s Operation Welcome and the UNHCR and since March has become an unofficial camp for 312 Venezuelan indigenous people, lacking food and services, on the outskirts of Boa Vista, capital of the state of Roraima, in the extreme north of Brazil. CREDIT: Mario Osava/IPS

Janoko is the dream that Euligio Baez and Jeremias Fuentes, “aidamos” or leaders in the Warao language, want to imitate in Pintolandia, where they were hosted by the Brazilian Army’s Operation Welcome with the support of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Precarious, unsanitary camp

Pintolandia, in a neighborhood on the west side of Boa Vista, has now become a precarious, unsanitary camp where 312 indigenous Venezuelans live. It was an official shelter in somewhat better conditions until March, when Operation Welcome decided to transfer the Venezuelan natives to another camp, Tuaranoko.

The population of the camp has continued to grow with the arrival of new migrants and it has become an irregular occupied zone, because almost half of its nearly 600 refugees refused to relocate and remain in the facility, a multi-sports stadium, where the indigenous people set up their tents and traditional woven “chinchorros” or hammocks.

“The new shelter is very far from the schools, and the children there have stopped studying. The 46 children here are still going to school. That was the first reason we refused to go,” Baez explained to IPS in a building without walls in Pintolandia, where health professionals from Doctors Without Borders provide care to the people in the camp.

In addition, Operation Welcome “does not respect our customs, does not consult us when making decisions” and does not allow anyone to enter the camp, he explained.

Euligio Baez, one of the “aidamos” or leaders, in the Warao language, of Pintolandia, on the outskirts of the Brazilian city of Boa Vista, is opposed to the relocation of members of the Venezuelan Warao people to a new shelter, because it would take the children away from their schools, without offering possibilities of economic and social insertion for indigenous immigrants and refugees in Brazilian society. CREDIT: Mario Osava/IPS

This is the case even if they are relatives or people from the organizations that help the refugees, such as CIMI and the Indigenous Council of Roraima, an organization made up of 261 communities from 10 indigenous peoples from the state.

Roraima is the Brazilian state with the highest proportion of indigenous people, 11 percent of the total population, who occupy 46 percent of its surface area in lands reserved for their communities.

Indigenous Venezuelans complain of threats and pressure to force them to move to the new shelter. Since September, they have been suspended from receiving food, which continues to be provided in Tuaranoko.

They collect aluminum cans, cardboard and other recyclable materials, and receive occasional help from social organizations and individuals, to have an income that allows them to eat and survive, according to Baez.

Leany Torres (R) and her daughter stand in front of the house in the Warao community of Janoko, where she is one of the ”aidamos” or leaders, in Warao, on this collectively acquired land in the state of Roraima, in the extreme north of Brazil. Her husband, Francisco Flores, is now building his father-in-law’s house next to theirs. The indigenous Venezuelan Warao people live in extended families that can exceed 100 members. CREDIT: Mario Osava/IPS

No jobs or economic inclusion

“I’ve been here for six years, and nothing has been done to offer us an alternative for a better future, to support our projects. Those in charge know that we want land, they know our ideas and the anthropologists’ assessment of the situation,” Fuentes, a 32-year-old father of three, complained to IPS.

“A piece of land is essential. We are farmers,” he added.

“We want land to build a house, to grow food and plants for our traditional medicine, to raise chickens and pigs. A piece of land is the best solution for us,” said Baez, 38, who has seven children, after an eighth child died in Boa Vista.

The criticisms voiced by both leaders are strongly directed at the UNHCR, which assumed more direct management of the reception of Venezuelans, in view of the relative withdrawal of the Brazilian Army.

Operation Welcome and the UNHCR justified the relocation due to “irreparable infrastructure problems” affecting water and hygiene in the old shelters. And they argue that there was sufficient consultation with the Venezuelan indigenous people themselves before the move.

Diolinda Tempo, one of the few Venezuelan Kariña people in this majority Warao community, settled in the Cantá municipality in northern Brazil, where she produces casabe, a crunchy, thin, circular bread made from cassava flour, which she makes with a small mill invented by her father, Diomar Tempo. His cassava is the family’s source of income. CREDIT: Mario Osava/IPS

“Operation Welcome played a positive role in its initial assistance, offering documentation and food to Venezuelans arriving in Roraima, but it does not help people integrate in the broader community. There are almost no public policies to provide work and income alternatives” for the immigrants, said Gilmara Ribeiro in an interview with IPS at the local headquarters of the Catholic Social Pastoral.

But a good part of the responsibility falls on the municipal and state governments, “which have been totally absent” from an issue that directly affects their territories, she said.

The chaos has been overcome, but not the exclusion

Even so, the situation today is calmer and more stable than it was five or six years ago, when a wave of immigration hit Roraima, with many Venezuelans living on the streets and a rise in violence.

At that time, it was the civil society, indigenous, human rights and migrant and refugee organizations that mitigated the effects of the wave of Venezuelans fleeing hunger and alleged political persecution.

The meeting center is fitted with solar panels that provide electricity to the Janoko community of 22 Venezuelan families of Warao indigenous people. As the batteries store little energy and two of the eight are damaged, the electricity only lasts until 8 PM. CREDIT: Mario Osava/IPS

Francisco Flores, a 26-year-old Warao Indian, lived on the streets of Paracaima, a city of 20,000 people on the Venezuelan border, for the first few months after his arrival in Brazil three years ago, before being taken into a shelter.

At that time a policeman approached him, suspicious of his intentions. He then ordered him to leave using the Portuguese word “embora”, but with the local pronunciation which leaves out the first syllable. For the Warao people, “bora” is a plant that provides a fiber used in handicrafts. So Flores answered “I don’t have any bora” and the policeman attacked him with pepper spray.

It was not until his second year of living in the shelter that Flores managed to get a job in Boa Vista that has enabled him to save some money to build, on his days off, his house and that of his father-in-law in the Warao community of Janoko, where his wife, Leany Torres, 32, is an aidamo and lives with her daughter, niece, mother and father.

Janoko is home to 68 people from 22 families, 15 of whom have the right to the land, which, divided, means just 89.3 square meters for each family. There is little left over to grow cassava, fruit trees and vegetables, but the indigenous people manage to feed themselves and survive.

Their beaded handicrafts, made by Torres and her mother, or vegetable fiber baskets, a specialty of William Centeno, a 48-year-old father of three, are a source of income.

Diolimar Tempo, a 38-year-old Kariña indigenous mother of three, who was a primary school teacher in Venezuela, earns some money making “casabe”, a thin, crunchy circular cake made from cassava flour. Her father, Diomar Tempo, 58, invented the little machine that grinds the cassava to make the flour.

The mothers are pleased that their children attend the schools in the city of Cantá, where the local government provides a bus to transport the students.

They are pioneers in recovering some features of their way of life among the 8200 indigenous Venezuelans registered as immigrants in Brazil, 10 percent of whom are recognized as refugees, according to UNHCR figures.

Nothing warms the heart of a wannabe kleptomaniac like sneaking all the shampoo bottles from a hotel room into your suitcase at the end of an overpriced stay. But thanks to the EU, we will soon say adieu to our light-fingered dreams of bank-robbing grandeur.

SVP-Bundesratskandidat und Konkurrent von Albert Rösti trifft im Bundeshaus an. Er ist sehr entspannt und freut sich auf die Wahl heute - egal, wie sie auskommt.

Bundesrat Ueli Maurer verabschiedet sich in einer Rede im Parlament. Dabei betont der SVP-Politiker, dass er den Job als Finanzminister sehr gern ausgeübt hat und auch stolz darauf sei.

La situation sur le marché du travail s’est toutefois améliorée par rapport à 2021. Le taux de chômage avait atteint 2,5% à la même période, contre 2% cette année.

Eine Klima-Aktivistin will sich auf der Autobahn A9 im Bundesland Bayern festkleben. Als ein Polizist auftaucht, fackelt er nicht lange. Er packt die Frau und zerrt sie bis zur Leitplanke. Auf der Autobahn könnten Rettungsfahrzeuge mit schnellem Tempo durchfahren.

Volodimir Zelenszkij ukrán elnököt választotta az év emberévé a Financial Times – jelentette be a lap szerkesztősége.

A londoni üzleti napilap online kiadásában megjelent indoklás szerint Zelenszkij az ukrán nép által az orosz agresszió elleni harcban tanúsított bátorság és ellenállás megtestesítőjévé, az önkényuralom elleni szélesebb, globális küzdelemben – amely meghatározhatja az egész XXI. század irányvonalát – a liberális demokrácia zászlóvivőjévé vált.

A Financial Times szerint az ukrán hadsereg és a nép ellenállásra buzdításának szempontjából a háború egyik legfontosabb döntése volt, hogy Zelenszkij az orosz offenzíva kezdetén elutasította a kimenekítésére szóló amerikai ajánlatot, és Kijevben maradt.

Ez meglepte az ukránokat és a nyugati szövetségeseket is, akiknek nem voltak vérmes várakozásaik az ukrán politikai vezetőkkel szemben – írja a brit lap.

A Financial Times hangsúlyozza ugyanakkor azt is, hogy a 2018-ban földcsuszamlásszerű többséggel, 73 százalékos szavazataránnyal elnökké választott Zelenszkij első két és fél hivatali évének mérlege “a legjobb esetben is vegyes”. Jóllehet sikerült fontos reformtörvényeket elfogadtatnia, az oligarchák befolyása vagy a korrupció elleni fellépésben ugyanakkor csekély eredményeket ért el.

Zelenszkij megbízható, ám gyakran nem megfelelő felkészültségű munkatársak szűk körén keresztül gyakorolta az elnöki hatalmat; közülük sokan régi barátai közül kerültek ki, vagy még szórakoztatóipari karrierje során szegődtek mellé – áll a cikkben.

A lap szerint azonban az orosz támadás nyomán elenyésztek az ukrán elnök háborús vezetői képességeivel kapcsolatos kételyek. Julija Mendel, Zelenszkij volt sajtótitkára úgy fogalmazott a Financial Timesnak, hogy az államfő “a káosz embere, a háborúban pedig káosz van, így (Zelenszkij) most otthonosan érzi magát”.

A Financial Times szerint amikor majd elhallgatnak a fegyverek, Zelenszkij kemény kérdésekkel szembesül azzal kapcsolatban, hogy miért nem sikerült elégséges mértékben felkészíteni Ukrajnát a támadásra. A biztonsági szolgálatok nem létesítettek aknamezőket és nem robbantottak fel hidakat az orosz támadás északi és déli csapásirányaiban, így lehetővé vált, hogy az orosz erők gyorsan és könnyen nagy területeket foglalhassanak el.

Zelenszkij azonban a brit lapnak elmondta: Kijev soha nem kapott olyan hírszerzési értesüléseket, amelyek alapján felkészülhetett volna a küszöbönálló orosz támadásra.

“Senki nem mutatott nekünk olyan konkrét anyagokat, amelyekből kiderült volna, hogy (a támadás) ebből vagy abból az irányból várható” – mondta a Financial Timesnak az ukrán elnök.

Zelenszkij elmondta: a támadás előtt többször próbálta hívni Vlagyimir Putyin orosz elnököt, hogy kifejtse neki, mekkora hiba, mekkora tragédia lenne a háború, de Putyin nem fogadta a telefonhívásokat.

“Elmebetegek ellen harcolunk” – fogalmazott az ukrán elnök az orosz vezetésre utalva.

 

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Die Niederlande haben in einem Dokument, das an die EU-Hauptstädte verteilt und von EURACTIV eingesehen wurde, eine neue Idee zur Vermeidung von Gaspreisspitzen in der EU vorgeschlagen.