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Le candidat de la gauche radicale à la présidentielle affiche avec constance son admiration pour des régimes qui ont tous échoué.

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Le différend frontalier entre les deux pays de la Corne de l’Afrique persiste depuis la fin du conflit en 2000 qui avait opposé les deux pays.

Quarante-trois supporteurs russes ont été placés en garde à vue mardi, dans le sud de la France, dans le cadre de l'enquête sur les échauffourées en marge du match Angleterre-Russie. Au moment de leur arrestation, ils étaient en partance pour Lille.

The statement didn't contain language drastically different from recent declarations, but was issued inside China.

‘We are inextricably part of Europe.
[No one] will ever be able to take us ‘out of Europe’,
for Europe is where we are and where we have always been.’

These words were pronounced by one of the UK’s most prominent PMs, Margaret Thatcher, on 16 April 1975. This was 2 years after the UK joined the EC: Britain consulted its population by referendum, as a fully sovereign country, seeking voters’ approval for what was a good deal.

In the 1970s when the UK joined the European Community, it was struggling economically Today, after 43 years of belonging to Europe, Britain has a dynamic economy and enjoys nearly full employment,and consults its population again, about the same issue, and again, as a fully sovereign country. The mere fact that this country is able to hold this referendum is a blatant demonstration of British sovereignty. National sovereignty is not incompatible with belonging to Europe. Any political grouping claiming in its acronym that the UK would not be an ‘independent’ country is talking nonsense. The UK expresses its sovereignty in many ways: through its international connections, through its defence, as well as within Europe, where it is in a position to encourage or to block joint decisions.

What does the UK mean for Europe? Some argue that there is incompatibility between the UK and the EU. I would argue that there is complementarity between the UK and the EU. And that each one needs the other.

Debates have focused too narrowly on benefits, from the UK’s point of view, of remaining or leaving. But there is far more at stake in the referendum. What is at stake is the Europe of tomorrow. What is at stake, is peace, democracy, and our common values. 46 million British voters will take a decision that will affect not only their country, but more than 500 million Europeans.

The British decision will occur at the worst possible time, in a context of rapid global geopolitical and technological change, affected by increased economic and financial uncertainty, rising social inequalities, an erosion of middle classes in developed economies, when we are confronted with the need to improve international cooperations in crucial areas such as currency stability, trade relations between blocs, fiscal rules, climate change, transition towards non-fossil energy sources, finance, migrations, the relative decline of Western economies, the shift of economic power towards the Asia-Pacific area. This is a unique combination of substantial challenges.

If you add to this mix the rise of anti-European nationalists, subsidised by Russia’s President Putin, and an arc of instability on Europe’s Eastern and Southern borders, stretching from Murmansk to Morocco… We are dancing on a vulcano. We are wasting time with issues of the past. The world out there is changing rapidly and is not waiting for us.

Britain has brought a lot to the European Union not just by being a net contributor to the modest EU budget. Britain has been a force for extending the Single Market, and for striking free trade agreements between the EU and other regions of the world. Britain encouraged the push for enlargement to the East and contributed to the democratic transition of these countries after the demise of soviet communism. The EU has been a springboard for the UK to promote important values which are as much British as European: parliamentary democracy; the rule of law; open markets. (Some of my fellow country citizens would even argue that the EU has become ‘too British’…’, that ‘too much English is spoken in Brussels!’) As Barack Obama put it: ‘The European Union does not moderate British influence – it magnifies it.’ In other words the UK has more impact and sovereignty as one of the three most important member states than it would on its own.

An EU without Britain would be likely to drift in a more protectionist direction. It would be a much smaller player in global affairs. It would lose one of the two countries that count in terms of defence policy. It would lose a positive force for liberalism. There is a serious risk that the European motto United in Diversity becomes Disunited in Adversity. Is this what we want at Britain’s doorstep? A fragmented mosaic of little nation-states which could so easily be bullied by Russia? Instead of having the EU as a soft power using its economic clout to put sanctions on Russia for aggressing Ukraine?

In the economic domain we have what Mario Monti calls a two-belief Europe: a group of European countries geared towards the market; and another group geared towards the consolidation of the euro area. Those believing in the market; and those believing in currency integration. Market, money. This is not incompatible: the volume of everyday transactions in euro at the City is higher than in any other international financial centre. I would daresay that the UK has the euro not as a single, but as a common currency, that de facto the euro is the second currency of the UK. This shows the extent to which we are interdependent. The challenge is to bring closer together those who believe in the market and those who believe in the currency project.

The European project, despite its shortcomings, remains the most advanced example of an economic community of countries. And it is regarded as a model in many parts of the world involved themselves in a process of regional integration. It is also envied all around the Globe by people striving for peace and democracy. Admittedly it is a ‘work in progress’ with many imperfections, but this is the best shelter that Europeans have, at a time when there is a multiplication of external and internal threats.

Who would have grounds to rejoice if, the Day After the referendum, the UK opted for a Brexit?

• A viscerally anti-European media mogul.
• A few sorcerer’s apprentices gambling on their country’s future to gain a personal political advantage.
• Unscrupulous populists.
• And Putin, who subsidises extremist parties across Europe to exacerbate its divisions.

If, however, the UK opted to remain a member of the European Union, this choice would send an unequivocal message to all the populists and new extreme-right parties across Europe - from France to Poland, from Germany to Sweden, from Hungary to the Netherlands, from Austria to Belgium – that despite disappointment about the way the Union works, and despite the UK’s relentlessly Europhobic press, even in the most Eurosceptic member state of the Union, there is no majority to abandon the acquis of the last six decades, which has become a matter of course for two generations.

One last word:

European integration is far from perfect, but it has been the indispensable cement between a huge diversity of nations and cultures which have been able to live in peace for six decades. If the gap between Europe and its citizens continues to be exacerbated by populists whose ultimate aim is the disintegration of Europe, our democracies will be threatened in their core. We take it for granted since 1945 that the ‘Never again’ of post-War times will always apply to Europe, that there will never be a war again in Europe. If the EU was disappearing tomorrow, what certainty would we have that a war between Europeans, between France and Germany, would still be unthinkable? Who would have imagined in the former Yugoslavian Federation of 1987-88, that its populations would endure ten years of civil wars, massacres and dreadful atrocities, on European soil, for absolutely nothing?

Let us not play with fire. We are in the same boat: let us not saw the boat into two!

Jean-Marc Trouille is Jean Monnet Chair
in European Economic Integration
at Bradford University School of Management, UK.

This is the text of a speech given at a public debate
held on 7 June in Ilkley.

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Le 31 mai 2016, trois Mirage 2000N de la 4eescadre de chasse ont rallié la base aérienne projetée (BAP) en Jordanie. Ils sont venus remplacer trois Mirage 2000D déployés depuis le mois de février 2016.

Rendőri védelem alá helyezték a német szövetségi parlament (Bundestag) török származású tagjait az Oszmán Birodalomban 101 éve elkezdett örményellenes vérengzéseket népirtásnak minősítő parlamenti határozatra érkezett fenyegetések miatt.

Német hírportálok vasárnapi beszámolói szerint az egyik török származású képviselő a Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) című lap értesülését megerősítve elmondta, hogy a napokban tárgyaltak a szövetségi bűnügyi hivatal (BKA), a berlini rendőrség és a Bundestag biztonságáról gondoskodó rendőri szervezet (Polizei beim Deutschen Bundestag) képviselőivel és megállapodtak abban, hogy mind a 11 érintett képviselőt személyi védelem alá helyezik. Hozzátette, hogy szombat óta csak rendőri kísérettel vesz részt nyilvános eseményeken.

A FAS beszámolója szerint a török származású német politikusokat súlyos, esetenként halálos fenyegetések érik. Például Cem Özdemirnek, az ellenzéki Zöldek társelnökének egy ismeretlen azt írta, hogy az örményellenes vérengzéseket népirtásnak minősítő határozat támogatását “német barátaid egyszer majd elfelejtik, de mi nem felejtünk”.

A június elején tartott szavazás óta előfordul, hogy a nyílt utcán szidalmazzák, sértegetik az érintett képviselőket, és vannak, akiknek a gyermekeit is megfenyegették. Többen elhalasztották tervezett törökországi útjukat. A Der Spiegel című hírmagazin értesülése alapján a külügyminisztérium tanácsolja is a 11 politikusnak, hogy kerüljék Törökországot, mert ott nem lehet garantálni a biztonságukat.

A FAS szerint a rendőrség sűrűbben járőrözik azokon a környékeken, ahol a török származású képviselők mozognak, megerősítették lakásuk és irodájuk védelmét, és a BKA egy különleges egysége esetenként személyi védelmet is biztosít.

A Bundestag a kormánypártok – a CDU/CSU pártszövetség és az SPD – és a Zöldek közös indítványára minősítette népirtásnak az 1915-ben kezdődött vérengzéseket. Az egy ellenszavazat és egy tartózkodás mellett elfogadott határozatban a Bundestag rámutatott arra is, hogy a Német Császárságnak “szégyenletes szerepe” volt a történtekben, mert diplomatái révén voltak értesülései a népirtásról, mégsem tett semmit “ezeknek az emberiesség elleni bűntetteknek” a megakadályozásáért.

A 82 milliós Németországban él a legnagyobb török közösség Törökországon kívül, létszámuk három millióra tehető.

Spécialiste dans l’entretien des pistes aéronautiques, le 25e Régiment du génie de l’air (25e RGA) est déployé depuis janvier à N’Djamena, dans le cadre de l’opération Barkhane. Leur mission est d’améliorer la bretelle aéronautique du camp Kosseï, endommagée par les conditions climatiques, en vue de pouvoir accueillir le futur avion ravitailleur A330 MRTT. Focus sur la mission de régiment, essentielle au bon fonctionnement de la force Barkhane.

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In a statement published today by the office of Gérard Deprez, a Belgian MEP and President of the Friends of a Free Iran group in the European Parliament, more than 270 MEPs call into question the democratic reforms in Iran.

“We are extremely worried about the rising number of executions in Iran. Since the ‘moderate’ President Rouhani took office in August 2013, several thousand people have been hanged in Iran. Moreover, in a public speech on Iranian television, President Rouhani described executions as a “good law” and “the law of God!” the statement says.

The MEPs urge the EU and member states “to condition any further relations with Iran” until progress on human rights improvements is reached there. Deprez, commenting on the letter from Brussels, added that “it will be a great damage to the European credibility, if EU does not insist publicly and seriously on improvement of human rights.”

“This statement as well as the support of MEPs of the Iranian opposition leader, Maryam Rajavi, shows that the elected representatives of the European people have rightly put human rights and democratic values before economic interests and ‘business as usual,” Firouz Mahvi, a representative of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran said.

Amnesty International in its report on Iran harshly condemned the situation with Human Rights in the country saying that: “torture and other ill-treatment of detainees remained common and was committed with impunity, whereas women and members of ethnic and religious minorities faced pervasive discrimination in law and in practice.”

 

 

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Aleksandar Vulin munkaügyi és szociálpolitikai miniszter tiltakozásának adott hangot az a magyarországi törvénymódosítás kapcsán, amelynek értelmében a magyar hatóságok a technikai határzáron át Szerbiába toloncolhatják azokat a migránsokat, akik Szerbia irányából illegálisan léptek Magyarország területére és akiket a hatóságok az országhatár nyolc kilométeres körzetén belül fogtak el. 

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304 députés ont voté pour le projet de loi relatif à la transparence, à la lutte contre la corruption et à la modernisation de la vie économique. 199 ont voté contre et 45 se sont abstenus.

The Tibetan Buddhist leader on climate change, his future leadership role, and Tibetan issues.

Le vieux leader de l’Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social a accordé un entretien au « Monde Afrique », le 9 juin, en plein « conclave » de l’opposition congolaise.

Le Fonds européen pour la sécurité intérieure (FSI) pour la période 2014-2020 a pour but de promouvoir la mise en œuvre de la stratégie de sécurité intérieure, la coopération policière et la gestion des frontières extérieures de l'Union. Ce fonds est composé de deux instruments : FSI frontières extérieures, visas et FSI coopération policière, prévention et répression de la criminalité, gestion des crises.

Two UK groups have been honoured today in the 2016 European Citizen’s Prize. Every year a panel of judges chooses laureates from across the member states who have made outstanding contributions to the promotion of cooperation and a better mutual understanding between the citizens of the Member States.

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