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The Council adopted a set of conclusions at the start of the 14th WTO ministerial conference, outlining the EU's expectations and position for the conference, including on WTO reform.

The EU and Nigeria issued a joint communiqué following the 8th EU-Nigeria ministerial meeting on Monday 23 March 2026 in Abuja, Nigeria.

Malgré les attentes suscitées, le président américain s'est abstenu de fixer des délais précis pour la fin du conflit.

This chapter examines China’s engagement with the United Nations (UN) development work through a comparison with Sweden. Both countries are UN member states, but differ on most indicators, including development experiences and trajectories as development cooperation providers. The chapter provides an overview of China’s and Sweden’s general profiles and compares funding practices, strategic priorities and approaches to multilateral cooperation. From a Swedish perspective, the features of China’s approach relative to Sweden’s engagement point to areas of concern, particularly regarding China’s challenge to the relative autonomy of UN bureaucracies and the human rights agenda. At the same time, there might be potential opportunities for closer coordination – notably with regard to the two countries’ complementary funding practices – in a moment of extraordinary upheaval at the UN.

This chapter examines China’s engagement with the United Nations (UN) development work through a comparison with Sweden. Both countries are UN member states, but differ on most indicators, including development experiences and trajectories as development cooperation providers. The chapter provides an overview of China’s and Sweden’s general profiles and compares funding practices, strategic priorities and approaches to multilateral cooperation. From a Swedish perspective, the features of China’s approach relative to Sweden’s engagement point to areas of concern, particularly regarding China’s challenge to the relative autonomy of UN bureaucracies and the human rights agenda. At the same time, there might be potential opportunities for closer coordination – notably with regard to the two countries’ complementary funding practices – in a moment of extraordinary upheaval at the UN.

Les politiques de l'agriculture, de la cohésion, des affaires sociales et des migrations se livrent une concurrence directe pour l'obtention des ressources allouées au méga-fonds proposé par la Commission 

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Dix ans après le scandale des « Panama Papers », Oxfam publie, ce jeudi 2 avril, une nouvelle analyse dénonçant l’ampleur et la persistance de l’évasion fiscale à l’échelle du monde. « La fortune non imposée dissimulée dans les paradis fiscaux par les 0,1 % les plus riches est supérieure à la richesse totale de la moitié la plus pauvre de l’humanité (4,1 milliards de personnes) », pointe l’ONG qui formule une série de mesures à l’intention des gouvernements.

Une coalition de pays menée par la France et la Grande-Bretagne tiendra jeudi une réunion d’urgence des ministres des Affaires étrangères afin de discuter de la réouverture du détroit d’Ormuz. Ces discussions interviennent alors que l’on craint de plus en plus que les États-Unis ne se retirent des efforts internationaux visant à rouvrir cette voie […]

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Le pouvoir serbe revendique un « 10 à 0 » aux élections locales partielles. Mais observateurs indépendants et opposition dénoncent pressions, violences et irrégularités, tandis que la police multiplie les interventions contre les opposants et les étudiants.

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Le pouvoir serbe revendique un « 10 à 0 » aux élections locales partielles. Mais observateurs indépendants et opposition dénoncent pressions, violences et irrégularités, tandis que la police multiplie les interventions contre les opposants et les étudiants.

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XIV. Leó pápa első alkalommal vezeti a nagyhét szertartásait, és a Vatikán közlése szerint több eddigi egyházi gyakorlatot módosít: Ferenc pápával ellentétben nagycsütörtökön paptársainak mossa meg a lábát, nagypéntek este pedig személyesen viszi a keresztet a Colosseumnál.

Az állam működését tették próbára az önfeljelentéssel, miközben Komáromban és Nyitra megyében is fontos döntések születtek. Többlettámogatást kap a Jókai Színház, intézmények költözhetnek, iskolák egyesülnek, és új fejlesztések is körvonalazódnak. A Magyar Szövetség három megyei képviselője: Bauer Ildikó, Andruskó Imre és Orosz Örs megtartotta aktuális sajtótájékoztatóját.

De nouveaux partenariats de défense entre l'Ukraine et les pays du Golfe pourraient renforcer le soutien aux efforts de guerre de Kiev

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Also known as the Normandy Index, the Peace and Security Index ranks 138 countries and the 27 European Union Member States as a whole, based on specific threats to peace in each. Eleven indicators gather data on the security, economic and social situation. The indicators are identified using the EU global strategy and strategic compass, a tool EU policymakers use to assess countries at risk and in need of EU assistance.

In her foreword to the latest edition of the Index, President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, said ‘a clear understanding of the threats to peace, security and democracy around the world is crucial. This makes the Normandy Index a valuable tool for navigating today’s world’.

The results of the 2025 exercise suggest the level of threats to peace in the world is the highest in the seven years since the index began, confirming declining trends in global security resulting from the war in Ukraine, multiple crises, conflicts and geopolitical rivalry, including those linked to economic, digital and energy dimensions. Among the top three most peaceful countries are Switzerland, Iceland and Norway.

The most fragile countries are the Central African Republic, Afghanistan and Somalia. Geopolitical crisis in the European neighbourhood resulted in a fall in the EU‑27’s overall global ranking of 3 places in 2024. In 2025, the EU‑27 ranking remains the same as the previous year (10th globally). After a slight improvement from 2019 to 2022, the global peace profile (5.74 average in 2023‑2024) has also declined in the past year to 5.79 – unsurprisingly given current geopolitical tensions (10 is the highest mark).

According to the Index’s lead author, Branislav Stanicek, the 2025 edition also reflects the changed dynamics of today’s international conflicts, which particularly affect energy security and fiscal policies. He stresses: ‘International actions such as restrictive measures against Russian Federation clearly affected governmental revenue and suggests a tightening of the Russian government’s fiscal stance’. In 2025, Russia fell 16 positions down the Index, to 124th globally. However, increased sovereign debt, measured by economic indicator, also demonstrates a certain vulnerability within EU‑27 and Western democracies. Nevertheless, Professor Steve Hanke of Johns Hopkins University argues ‘Public debt is just a deferred tax. It will be paid by future taxpayers, either through an explicit tax increase or by inflation’.

Derived from the Index, 63 individual country case studies provide a picture of the state of peace in the world today. An online, interactive version of the Index allows data comparison across countries, regions and timeline. In 2023, the Index won the Forbes Social Communication Award (in the domain of public communication of peace and security).

The Normandy Index differs from other indices in that it adopts an approach tailored by and to EU action. It also defines conflict and the numerous stages between perfect peace and total war as a product of factors linked to the main threats identified by the EU in its external action strategy. The EU global strategy identifies the following 11 threats as the current main challenges to peace and security.  

Trends towards inflation, trade, energy disruption and weaker economies, underway since 2021, continued in 2025. Global GDP growth slowed in 2022 to 3.2 %, more than 1 percentage point less than expected at the end of 2021, mainly weighed down by Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine. Following 2.6 % growth in 2023 and sub-trend global growth of 2.8 % in 2024, global growth is projected to reach 3.2 % in 2025 and 3.1 % in 2026. At the same time, Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued a stark warning in October 2025 about the mounting risks facing the global economy: ‘buckle up: uncertainty is the new normal’.

Read the complete study on ‘Mapping threats to peace and democracy worldwide: Normandy Index 2025‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

Également dans l'édition de jeudi : le CFP, Jörgen Warborn, Euronews, Pfizer, l'économiste en chef de la FAO, la réglementation européenne en matière de technologie

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Powerful blasts destroyed homes and sparked panic in the city of Bujumbura on Tuesday night.

Peter Pellegrini szerint nem szabad alábecsülni annak a veszélyét, hogy az ország területére téved egy idegen drón vagy rakéta. Közlése szerint a fegyveres erők kérésére megnyitotta az ún. fenyegetettségi állapot törvénybe iktatásának témáját és jövő hétre kerekasztalt hívott össze.