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Video einer Ausschusssitzung - Donnerstag, 10. September 2026 - 07:00 - Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten

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Categories: Europäische Union

Video of a committee meeting - Thursday, 10 September 2026 - 07:00 - Committee on Foreign Affairs

Length of video : 30'

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Categories: European Union

Will this do?

Ideas on Europe Blog - Thu, 10/09/2026 - 09:08

I’ve been spending the week at the UACES conference in Prague, talking about lots of things to do with European Studies. However, one the things that didn’t come up very much was UK-EU relations. It’s almost as if most people don’t have it on their minds.

The moment it did come up was during the panel I took part in on the post-Brexit UK, where I talked about the instability of the relationship with the EU, something I’ll be returning to presently. My basic argument was that whatever happens, there isn’t a resilient foundation on which to rest and from which to act.

One question that did come up was whether the current relationship – low-key and benign, if unexciting – wasn’t in fact serviceable enough for our needs. After all, neither side seem that bothered about either a return to the fun times of the Brexit years or starting up a journey to re-accession. London and Brussels have got back in the habit of talking to, and listening to, each other, so can we not just assume that we can work it out as we go? Indeed, in a purely practical sense, if the relationship is as it is, does it not just to suffice, since we’ve not got another one to use instead?

My response to this fits my usual diagnosis of the failings of UK-EU relations, namely that an absence of clear strategic objectives on either side of the relationship mean that the dominant mode is a mix of neglect and bursts of crisis management. Put differently, the absence of obvious problems doesn’t mean that everything’s fine.

For a recent example, consider the mini-fuss over marmalade labelling earlier this year.

As part of the (generally pretty smooth) negotiations on an SPS agreement, DEFRA released a list of EU legislation that UK businesses would have to comply with once the deal is done; a rare example of useful forward planning.

That list got almost no media interest at the time, but some weeks later a story dropped on GB News about how the deal would mean that henceforth marmalade would have to be labelled with which fruit it was made of, and this would be a terrible imposition on already hard-done-by companies.

That almost all marmalade currently on sale in the UK already has such labelling was no barrier to a little (but still much larger than the previous) pile of media pieces appearing. Bendy bananas redux, if you will.

In short, the level of public, media and political interest is low, leaving everyone exposed to silly season pieces (and ill-intentioned actors, should they feel so inclined).

A more serious version of this appeared just as I was putting this piece together.

Politico reported that November’s summit won’t see agreement on ‘Burnham’s big new Brexit deal’, which as readers of this blog will know shouldn’t be news, since Burnham has no deal, big, new or otherwise.

That anyone, including the reporter who definitely knows better, should think that this was the case points to the non-management of expectations by either side and the substantial risk of relations entering into vicious circles of briefings and counter-briefings.

In short, the absence of strategic visions for the relationship in either London or Brussels means that there is no master narrative for politicians to cleave to and to smooth out the small bumps in the road.

As much as technical relations seem to be pretty functional, even these evidently rely on a cadre of people who have built up enough experience of working together out through the original Brexit negotiations, but who are liable to be churned by their respective employers with no robust mechanisms for preserving institutional memory.

None of these issues should be a surprise to anyone, since they have been evident for a long time, and indeed much flagged by the small number of people still focused on the matter. But the concern has to be that the current model of getting by will not have the resilience to cope with the next crisis, whatever that might be.

 

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Categories: European Union

George Afriyie: Ghana have "no business" missing 2027 AFCON spot

ModernGhana News - Thu, 10/09/2026 - 09:03
Former Ghana Football Association (GFA) vice-president George Afriyie says the Black Stars have no business failing to qualify for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) as they prepare to begin their campaign against C ocirc;te d 39;Ivoire later this month.
Categories: Africa

A Spectre is Haunting Europe — the Spectre of Ultra-Nationalism

Africa - INTER PRESS SERVICE - Thu, 10/09/2026 - 09:02

An AfD election poster with the message: “Youth come to us”, reminiscent of both Nazi and Communist propaganda.

By Jan Lundius
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sep 10 2026 (IPS)

During summer months there is a certain news drought. Nevertheless, this year social media has been crowded with news from wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, while customary tales about grisly murders have not been neglected. In Sweden it is election year and summer reporting has been supplemented by a debate about “hate speech against ethnic groups”. If individual tragedies connected with murders upset people, many seem to be indifferent to the fact that entire population groups are targeted by politicians. Swedish social media is overloaded with outcries about “Muslim” immigration and concerns about Sweden becoming “Islamized” and in danger of being transformed into a new Afghanistan.

Prominent in this hyped propaganda are the Sweden Democrats. A nationalist, social conservative, and populist political party finding its roots in neo-Nazism. In the 2010 elections, this party entered the Swedish parliament with 5.7 percent of the national votes and it now reigns the nation in coalition with other right-wing parties. With 22 percent of current approval, Sweden Democrats has become Sweden’s second largest party, after the Social Democrats, with 34 percent.

The Sweden Democrat’s chief ideologist is a former high school teacher, Richard Jomshof, who together with three comrades by the turn of the last century managed to steer away Sweden Democrats from the White Power Movement and neo-Nazism, while maintaining the party’s nationalist and anti-immigrant tenor. After the 2022 parliamentary elections the Sweden Democrat’s became part of the Government. Jomshof left his post as party secretary and became chairman of the Parliamentary Justice Committee, which prepares cases connected with the Swedish judicial system – courts, the prosecution service, the police and correctional services, as well as cases and laws related to the Criminal Code.

Jomshof used his position to propagate for a tougher stance against criminals with a “non-Swedish background” and to promote restrictions on immigration. One of Jomshof’s goals has been to warn Swedes about the “Islamization of our Homeland”. After publishing anti-Islamic cartoons on his website Jomshof was close to be removed from his position as chairman of the Justice Committee. However, committee members sided with him while one of them characterized the accusations of “discrediting an entire population group” as nothing more than a common “political yap”. Nevertheless, a year ago, Jomshof left the Justice Committee in protest after it had decided to forbid private acquisition and use of semi-automatic weapons.

After that Jomshof dedicated much of his time to write an “analysis” of Islam and recently published a book called Kafir, a Muslim word for “infidel”, which has become a bestseller. Jomshof’s political stance and career as an “expert” on Islam is one example of the polarization that currently characterizes much of European politics – a tendency to turn any individual into a representative of an entire ethnic and/or religious group and throw her/him into one big pot where s/he becomes part of a one single problem – immigration.

Jomshof is an extreme nationalist representing an anti-immigrant political party, but that does not mean that every supporter of Sweden Democrats is a reformed Nazi and stout believer in Jomshof’s generalisations, likewise not every Muslim is a supporter of the extremist Islam Jomshof depicts. It is dangerous to bundle together individuals and label them all as extremists. Recently a young man equipped with sword and helmet entered a Swedish school and killed one pupil while gravely wounding three. He had apparently been inspired by the Norwegian Behring Breivik, who in 2011 massacred 77 people as a gesture to “combat multiculturalism and Muslim immigration”. In 2015, the Swede Anton Lundin-Pettersson murdered three persons for the same reason.

Gaining political advantages through xenophobia is just one ingredient in a larger European political landscape. That a small, marginal political party with Neo-Nazi roots after less than fifteen years ended up in the Swedish government re-confirms a phenomenon present all over Europe. On 15 September, there are general elections in Sweden and next year in France, Spain, Greece, Poland and Italy. All these countries have powerful parties with a nationalistic/xenophobic agenda. In France, the predecessor of National Rally was in 1972 founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen, a former member of the Nazi Waffen-SS. The Spanish Vox was established in 2013, benefitting from donations by ultra-conservative lobbies, such as HazteOír and CitizenGo. The Greek Golden Dawn was in 2020 annulled by the nation’s Supreme Court after members of its top echelons had been convicted for serious crimes, though a plethora of smaller parties have taken up its agenda. The Polish Law and Justice Party is a conservative outbreak from the labor movement Solidarność, with a huge following and an agenda based on political Catholicism, strong conservatism, anti-liberalism, nationalism, and Euroscepticism. Brothers of Italy finds its roots in MSI, Movimento Sociale Italiano, a fascist party founded after the death of Mussolini. Through the general elections in 2013, Brothers of Italy gained nine seats in the Parliament, after obtaining two percent of the votes. It is currently Italy’s largest party (with 27 percent approval in the latest polls) and after the 2022 elections its leader, Giorgia Meloni, is Prime Minister of Italy. How could those originally small parties, some with a quite sordid background, in such a short time become so powerful?

One reason might be that by exposing outrageous and extreme opinions, which a political establishment would be ashamed of uttering, fringe parties might obtain attention from a generally liberal press. While warning the general public about such “fanatics”, liberal media spread their ideas and create an increasing interest. In a well calculated moment before the Swedish elections, Richard Jomshof published his untrustworthy and generalizing book about Islam. Although it was issued by a small and quiet unknown publisher it received extreme attention by Swedish media – TV, newspapers and the web – and thus became an immediate bestseller. As Oscar Wilde once stated: “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about”.

A similar phenomenon is currently under way in Italy. In 2023, the general Roberto Vannacci self-published a book on Amazon, Il mondo al contrario, The Upside-Down World, sparking a furious backlash and drawing heavy criticism for its contents. The Italian Armed Forces quickly distanced themselves from General Vannacci’s ideas. The defence minister stated that he had “discredited the Army, the Defence and the Constitution.” Vannacci, grateful for all attention, continues to spread his homophobia and misogyny, attacking immigration policies and environmentalism, while defending Russia’s war on Ukraine. He is now a welcome guest on TV, participates in debates with reputed politicians and academicians, while he recently has founded a political party.

The recent landslide election victory of the AfD, Alternative for Germany, in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt has sent shock waves through liberal Europe. While being part of the larger Federal Republic of Germany, Saxony-Anhalt hosts just three percent of the nation’s entire population and has its second lowest GDP per capita. Nevertheless, the victory of its Saxony branch now fuels AfD’s hope to conquer the reigns of the entire German Republic. AfD’s ultra-nationalistic agenda claims that Germany has had enough of guilt feelings about the repression and mass killings of the Nazi Regime. The past has to be reinterpreted and the party now asserts that Germany is in need of “less Hitler and more Bismarck”, i.e. the Chancellor who in the 19th century united Germany under the slogan “Blood and Iron”.

AfD has accordingly re-introduced the concept of Völkisch, folksy, used by the Nazis to denote a battle against “radicalism” in the form of modern art and foreign influences, while fomenting pride in everything the Party deemed as “German”. AfD’s Saxony-Anhalt party programme intends to purge ”slander” of Germany from school education. No funding will be granted to organisations maintaining sites of Nazi terror – AfD’s leadership has condemned Berlin’s Holocaust Monument as a “national disgrace” – and the party has also demanded that the world-famous Bauhaus school in Dessau has to be shut down. This learning centre was in the 1920s a highly influential focus of innovative approaches to art and architecture. The Saxony-Anhalt branch of AfD is furthermore a representative of what has been called eastalgia, i..e. nostalgia for the times when Saxony-Anhalt was part of the Communist, Soviet dominated East Germany. Consistent with this perception and displeasure with the central government’s spending on Ukraine’s defence, AfD is a stout supporter of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Before the 1990 reunification of West and East Germany , Saxony-Anhalt was an important centre for a polluting heavy industry. One of East Germany’s most famous authors, Monika Maron, wrote a novel called Flugasche, Flying Ashes, in which she described the bleak, contaminated land of Saxony. Since then, the German Federal Republic has successfully cleaned up the traces of a ruthless industrialization and gradually transformed Saxony into an increasingly green state. However, this initiative came at the cost of the shutting down of several large industries, resulting in increased unemployment. Since 1990, Saxony-Anhalt has lost 750 000 inhabitants, mainly skilled young people, who has moved to the “West”, a fourth of the state’s population. Left is an aging population and unskilled, unemployed young people, while the state has been partly repopulated by immigrants coming from foreign countries. They now constitute a tenth of the population. This has left a fertile ground for a populist party attracting disappointed old people and depressed youngsters, presented with the chimera of a happy pre-war Germany and/or Communist East Germany, which in reality are now forgotten and probably never existed.

A general sense of insecurity, reduced GDP and increasing unemployment harass several Europeans, not least young people. An embellished nostalgia for an actually forgotten past, assumed to have been annihilated by hordes of immigrants and corrupt liberals, has made Europeans affected by ultra-conservative parties, promulgating hazardous and divisive ideas. Representatives of murky ideologies are by media provided an attention they do not deserve. Excessive media interest, especially when marginal fanatics begin to spread their poisonous seed, might strengthen their outreach. Critical analysis, research and education are despised by dark forces who deliberately divulge their message through easy-to-understand, diluted and digestible propaganda and fake news. An ominous development that demands urgent action.

IPS UN Bureau

 

 

 

 

Categories: Africa

Black Stars: Carlos Queiroz given AFCON qualification task by GFA after 2025 absence

ModernGhana News - Thu, 10/09/2026 - 09:00
Carlos Queiroz rsquo;s immediate task is to guide Ghana back to the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), according to Ghana Football Association (GFA) Communications Director Henry Asante Twum. The 73-year-old Portuguese coach has been handed a contract extension after leading the Black Stars to the knockout stage of the 2026 World Cup in North .
Categories: Africa

Humanoïdes : révolutions agricoles et alimentaires ?

IRIS - Thu, 10/09/2026 - 09:00
Tenir compte du contexte global

Pour comprendre en quoi l’irruption des humanoïdes dans l’univers agricole et alimentaire n’est pas à sous-estimer, prenons le soin de rappeler certaines dynamiques actuellement à l’œuvre, en se limitant à cinq d’entre elles qui nous paraissent déterminantes :

D’abord, un constat. Nourrir la planète constitue le premier secteur d’emploi mondial. Près de 1,4 milliard de personnes travaillent dans les systèmes agricoles et alimentaires, soit environ quatre actifs sur dix. L’agriculture primaire en mobilise à elle seule près de 900 millions, auxquels s’ajoutent les métiers de la pêche et de l’aquaculture, de la transformation, de la logistique, de la distribution ou encore de la restauration. C’est massif en valeur absolue, même si la part de l’agriculture dans l’emploi mondial recule progressivement : supérieure à 40 % au début des années 1990, elle se situe désormais autour du quart. Imaginer l’arrivée de robots humanoïdes dans ces secteurs, c’est donc se pencher sur l’avenir du travail, des compétences et des revenus de centaines de millions d’êtres humains.

Ensuite, une tendance. La population mondiale vieillit et les secteurs agricoles et alimentaires, dans toutes leurs composantes, n’échappent pas à la tendance. Complétons par l’érosion de l’attractivité, depuis de nombreuses années, pour les métiers productifs agricoles et ceux de l’industrie. Nous avons encore beaucoup de monde dans l’agriculture et l’agroalimentaire, comme indiqué au point précédent, mais ces personnes prennent de l’âge, ne sont pas souvent valorisées sur le plan sociétal et des salaires alors qu’elles exercent des métiers indispensables et difficiles, et leurs compétences ou savoir-faire peinent de plus en plus à être transmis ou renouvelés. Parler des humanoïdes en agriculture et dans l’agro-industrie, c’est inévitablement évoquer le défi du rapport au travail, dans des secteurs exigeants et pour lesquels peu de jeunes gens se tournent désormais…

En outre, un rappel. La technologie, le numérique et l’intelligence artificielle sont depuis longtemps très présents dans les secteurs agricoles et alimentaires. Pour entrer en détail dans ce jeu relationnel et en saisir à la fois l’amplitude et l’intérêt, il suffit de se pencher sur quelques travaux globaux récents[2] ou même certaines publications pédagogiques à l’échelle de la France[3]. Se projeter avec les humanoïdes, c’est anticiper le passage d’une intelligence artificielle (IA) qui assiste l’agriculteur ou le salarié d’une usine à une IA qui potentiellement agira seule, de manière autonome et pourrait même décider des tâches à accomplir. C’est aussi une IA qui oriente et structure les comportements alimentaires, avec pourquoi pas des robots en cuisine qui combinent recommandations nutritionnelles et capacités à préparer la juste ration pour servir les personnes…

Par ailleurs, une demande. Les attentes envers l’agriculture et l’alimentation sont immenses à l’heure des grandes transitions écologiques à mener. Préservation et régénération des écosystèmes, optimisation et résilience des rendements, décarbonation des activités, économie circulaire, réduction des pertes et des gaspillages sont autant de cadres stratégiques avec lesquels les acteurs agricoles et alimentaires doivent composer. Introduire la perspective d’humanoïdes dans ce registre, c’est se demander s’ils seraient plus à même que les humains à conduire ces transitions, accepter les changements et savoir s’y adapter. Ils pourraient travailler lorsque les températures deviennent difficiles, modifier instantanément leurs pratiques, optimiser l’usage de l’eau et de l’énergie ou appliquer sans résistance des protocoles nouveaux. Dit autrement, faire parfois mieux, plus vite et plus systématiquement ce que les humains, attachés à leurs habitudes, leurs intérêts et leurs contraintes économiques ou sociales, peinent à accomplir.

Enfin, la compétition géopolitique constitue la cinquième dynamique qui conditionne notre réflexion générale sur le sujet. Derrière les humanoïdes se cachent des jeux de puissance entre la Chine et les États-Unis notamment, mais pas uniquement. Le Japon, confronté à des virages sociodémographiques et agricoles considérables, ou encore l’Arabie saoudite, soucieuse d’investir le futur avec de l’IA et d’avoir une armée de travailleurs à domicile, participent d’ores et déjà, et à leur manière, à cette grande aventure technologique en cours. Pékin semble augmenter la cadence pour industrialiser sa production d’humanoïdes[4]. Tesla effectue un mouvement important pour passer de l’automobile aux robots. L’IA physique, avec des humanoïdes déployés, sera à la fois un bouleversement dans le monde du travail mais également un terrain majeur de compétition entre puissances, États comme entreprises. D’ailleurs, Bill Gates vient de souligner combien l’essor fulgurant de l’IA bouleversera les sociétés en profondeur, au point de plaider pour que certains emplois demeurent réservés aux humains. Il liste néanmoins le potentiel incroyable de l’IA dans certains secteurs stratégiques, dont l’agriculture[5].

De la curiosité à l’anticipation

Démographie, emploi, climat, technologie et rapports de force suffisent pour cadrer l’essentiel des enjeux qui gravitent autour de l’arrivée d’humanoïdes dans nos existences, à court et à moyen terme. Il serait conseillé de s’y préparer. Pour l’agriculture et l’alimentation, cinq domaines balisent potentiellement le champ des réflexions : la recherche, la production, la transformation, la distribution et la consommation.

L’IA dope les capacités scientifiques. Pour la recherche agronomique et végétale, pour la performance des biotechnologies, pour la santé du Vivant et le bien-être animal, pour la fertilisation raisonnée des sols, les progrès pourraient s’avérer significatifs. Réduire le temps de l’expérimentation, accélérer l’analyse des résultats, favoriser le développement de solutions plus rapidement applicables sur le terrain : autant d’avancées concrètes d’ores et déjà constatées. L’arrivée des humanoïdes pourrait ouvrir une étape supplémentaire. Capables de manipuler, tester, observer, mesurer et répéter des expérimentations, éventuellement en continu, ils pourraient contribuer à rapprocher davantage l’IA du travail physique de laboratoire ou de terrain. Que deviendront les stratégies de recherche et développement (R&D) lorsque l’IA ne se contentera plus d’analyser les résultats des expériences, mais pourra aussi participer physiquement à leur réalisation ? Entreprises, instituts techniques et organismes scientifiques seraient alors concernés. Après l’automatisation du calcul scientifique pourrait ainsi venir celle d’une partie du geste scientifique. Si les humanoïdes permettent aux laboratoires de fonctionner plus longtemps, de multiplier les expérimentations et de raccourcir les cycles de R&D, alors la compétition géopolitique sur la robotique devient aussi une compétition sur la vitesse de production de l’innovation. Celui qui possède les meilleurs modèles d’IA et les meilleures capacités physiques d’expérimentation pourrait apprendre plus vite que ses concurrents.

En matière de production, le secteur agricole affiche déjà de fortes connexions avec les machines et les robots. Ne revenons pas sur la mécanisation (dont le tracteur est le symbole) qui sur le temps long aura été l’un des moteurs des révolutions agricoles passées, et qui reste encore attendue dans de nombreux pays, où la précarité technique prive de nombreux agriculteurs de meilleurs rendements et de solutions à même de réduire la pénibilité du travail. D’ailleurs, à ce sujet, soyons attentifs au développement des exosquelettes, qui permettent de soulager des douleurs, de faciliter des tâches et de prolonger l’effort dans l’agriculture. Il s’agit d’innovations regardées de près dans des sociétés où le vieillissement des producteurs s’accroît. Au Japon, leur moyenne d’âge frôle désormais les 70 ans ! Pas étonnant que le conglomérat Panasonic, via sa filiale Atoun, s’était activé sur ce registre dès la décennie 2010, comme le font désormais des universités et des start-ups nipponnes. Si le Japon semble vouloir habiller l’homme en robot avant d’envisager de mettre le robot à sa place, ce modèle questionne l’efficacité d’un tel dispositif et son coût. Car in fine, pour effectuer des activités difficiles, potentiellement dangereuses et surtout répétitives, le robot l’emportera. Au Japon, comme ailleurs. À noter aussi que si les grandes cultures (céréales, oléagineux, etc.) sont déjà très équipées en machines et robots, d’autres filières misent sur ces dynamiques pour aller de l’avant. Ainsi notamment du secteur des fruits et légumes, où beaucoup de choses restent à faire. La fragilité de ces productions, en plein champ ou sous serres, explique en partie cette situation. Mais la concentration des récoltes sur de courtes périodes, où des mois de culture se jouent, exige de pouvoir compter sur une main d’œuvre disponible, compétente et capable d’efforts fournis sur quelques jours. Nul doute que des innovations robotiques y seront déployées, surtout si le recours à des travailleurs étrangers s’estompe et qu’il faille maintenir des volumes sur les étals de consommateurs avides de végétal. Nul doute que l’entreprise Unitree Robotics sera aux aguets à ce sujet, à moins qu’elle ne le soit déjà.

Au niveau de la transformation, la robotisation progressera certainement plus nettement dans les dédales des usines agroalimentaires ou agro-industrielles. Reste à déterminer quelle place spécifique y prendront les humanoïdes. Leur avantage ne résidera probablement pas dans la répétition d’un geste standardisé, où le robot industriel classique excelle déjà, mais dans leur polyvalence et leur capacité à évoluer dans des espaces conçus pour les humains. Mais à la différence de ces derniers, ils auront sans doute l’avantage de ne jamais devoir s’arrêter, sauf pour changer de batteries ou les recharger…Vaste question donc quant à l’automatisation accrue demain dans ces usines, quand bien même les femmes et les hommes n’y disparaitront pas, mais seront davantage dans la supervision, le contrôle et la gestion. Nous aurons une coexistence, robots et humains, où chacun devra trouver sa place, son rôle et sa valeur ajoutée. C’est là aussi le défi : savoir identifier les moments, les lieux et les actions où la décision humaine restera primordiale, ou décisive, alors que l’IA physique et des humanoïdes seront à la manœuvre. Mais comme l’ont bien expliqué deux spécialistes de ces enjeux[6], l’essentiel du débat devrait surtout se polariser sur la faisabilité d’une part, et l’acceptabilité d’autre part. Dans le cas d’industries agroalimentaires, où les produits transformés proviennent du Vivant et dans lesquelles les problématiques de sécurité et traçabilité sanitaire sont immenses, serons-nous tous à l’aise si ce qui deviendra nourritures ne passe plus du tout dans les mains des êtres humains ? Certains y verront peut-être une rassurance, là où d’autres seront à l’inverse contrariés. Comme dans la santé et la médecine, les puissances de calcul, l’IA et les robots améliorent des diagnostics, des cadences et des rapidités d’exécution dans l’univers de l’agroalimentaire. Mais l’imbrication avec l’espèce humaine s’avère nécessaire, encore, sauf à concevoir que tout est remplaçable progressivement, y compris la responsabilité. Or dans le champ alimentaire, le consommateur est-il prêt à ne plus pouvoir connaître les origines, les processus et les interlocuteurs si les machines brouillent les cartes, rendent peu de comptes et ne répondent pas aux services après-ventes ?

Autant de défis que les acteurs de la logistique et de la distribution alimentaire auront aussi à préparer, vu la vitesse avec laquelle pour eux aussi les dynamiques d’IA embarquée se déploient. Forçons la fiction : des humanoïdes demain partout en magasin ? Après tout, les caisses sont devenues de plus en plus automatiques, scannant seules et efficacement les produits du client, tout heureux parfois de ne pas devoir échanger un mot avec l’interface machine qui froidement identifie les achats, présente l’addition et propose plusieurs modes de paiement. Nous avons encore néanmoins des personnes dans les rayons…même si en Chine ou ailleurs, des géants du numérique ont déjà mis en place des supermarchés sans présence humaine. Est-ce le souhait de tous les consommateurs ? Jusqu’où cette tendance peut-elle aller ? Allons-nous voir des humanoïdes s’installer en caisse, pour redonner un peu d’âme à ce passage obligé ? Ou allons-nous surtout les voir aller faire les courses, pour celles et ceux qui n’aiment pas cela, n’ont pas le temps et cherchent à diversifier leurs canaux d’approvisionnement à la maison ? Les livraisons à domicile explosent depuis quelques années, notamment pour les jeunes générations, mais aussi pour des personnes ou des couples qui veulent optimiser leur quotidien sans devoir cuisiner ou sans devoir aller acheter à manger. Osons même renverser le raisonnement : remplacer l’humain par la machine est-il toujours synonyme de déshumanisation ? Les conditions de travail parfois très précaires des livreurs des plateformes numériques invitent à nuancer cette évidence[7]. Un robot effectuant une tâche pénible, dangereuse ou socialement dévalorisée ne détruit pas nécessairement de l’humanité. Tout dépend de ce que la société fait des femmes et des hommes ainsi libérés de cette tâche. En tout cas, il sera assurément intéressant de voir comment les entreprises de la distribution comme celles de la restauration se comporteront avec la révolution humanoïde. Imaginons la plus grande enseigne mondiale de repas rapide, d’origine états-unienne, présente sur tous les continents, employant 2,5 millions de personnes actuellement, dont 75 000 en France, faire le choix de tout numérique, du tout robotique et d’un Ronald humanoïdisé à l’accueil du restaurant ou à la fenêtre du passage en drive…

Quant à la maison…faut-il encore des espaces pour cuisiner ou manger diront certains ? Si tout est livré et si plus personne ne partage de repas en même temps, dans une pièce dédiée, les architectes ont de belles conceptions inédites à envisager. Avant cela, constatons avec lucidité que les appareils électroménagers ont envahi nos cuisines bien avant l’invention du smartphone, mais que des robots sans cesse plus performants y prennent une place grandissante depuis quelques années ! Ne citons que le Thermomix pour ne pas y aller par quatre chemins, dont chaque nouvelle édition est augmentée de fonctions numériques. Qui sait, les prochaines versions proposeront peut-être un Thermomix à deux pattes, deux bras, à la fois capables de cuisiner, servir, ranger, nettoyer et commander en ligne tous les produits alimentaires qui commencent à manquer au domicile du propriétaire. À moins que cela soit cela le projet de Tesla avec Optimus, son humanoïde censé apporter une aide inédite à la maison. Que dira-t-il de nos sociétés, de nos relations sociales qui souvent s’animent autour d’un repas et qu’enregistra-t-il de nos vies les plus intimes, si tant est qu’il en existe encore. D’ailleurs, publier la photographie de son assiette constitue déjà l’une des images les plus abondantes sur Instagram. Alimentation, santé et assistance vont alors converger. Le robot connaîtrait nos goûts, nos allergies, nos objectifs nutritionnels et éventuellement certaines données médicales. Il pourrait adapter les portions, réduire le sel, surveiller le sucre, limiter le gaspillage ou ajuster un menu à l’activité physique de chacun. Nous passerions alors de l’alimentation personnalisée à l’alimentation personnellement administrée. Sinon des frais supplémentaires pour se soigner ou s’assurer, faute de comportements appropriés !

Ouvertures en conscience

Jusqu’à présent, nous avons surtout adapté l’environnement aux machines : chaînes de production, entrepôts automatisés, robots de traite, tracteurs autonomes ou bras robotisés. Avec l’humanoïde, la logique peut s’inverser. Nous cherchons désormais à fabriquer une machine capable de s’adapter à un monde conçu pour le corps humain. Peu de secteurs permettent d’observer cette révolution aussi bien que l’agriculture et l’alimentation. Pour nous nourrir, il faut semer, observer, récolter, traire, soigner, pêcher, porter, trier, découper, transformer, transporter, stocker, cuisiner et servir. Bref, mobiliser presque toute la palette des gestes humains.

La robotisation agricole est déjà une réalité. C’est également vrai dans l’élevage. Ces technologies répondent à plusieurs défis simultanés : productivité, manque de main-d’œuvre, pénibilité, réduction des intrants ou adaptation au changement climatique. À ce titre, et si les robots s’adaptaient plus vite que nous ? Les systèmes agricoles et alimentaires doivent simultanément réduire leurs émissions, économiser l’eau, protéger les sols, limiter certains intrants, préserver la biodiversité et maintenir une production suffisante. Or le paradoxe des transitions est connu : nous savons souvent ce qu’il faudrait modifier, mais les choses changent… lentement. La machine, le robot et l’humanoïde ne craindront pas de modifier des habitudes. Cela ne signifie évidemment pas qu’ils résoudront la crise climatique, d’autant que leur fabrication et leur utilisation seront énergivores… Mais ils pourraient devenir de puissants accélérateurs d’adaptation. La question écologique rejoindrait alors celle de la délégation : sommes-nous prêts à laisser les machines effectuer plus rapidement certaines transformations que nous n’arrivons pas collectivement à accomplir ?

Alors oui, le futur de l’agriculture robotisée ne sera pas nécessairement humanoïde. Pourquoi donner deux jambes à une machine lorsqu’un système roulant est plus stable ? Pourquoi reproduire une main humaine lorsqu’un outil spécialisé est plus efficace ? Dans une parcelle céréalière de plusieurs centaines d’hectares, le tracteur autonome conservera probablement longtemps l’avantage. Mais dans une serre, un élevage, une cave, un laboratoire, un atelier ou une exploitation horticole conçus autour des déplacements humains, la polyvalence de l’humanoïde pourrait faire sens, plus rapidement sans doute que ce que l’on pense. Et pourquoi s’arrêter à la terre ? Pêche et aquaculture connaissent elles aussi une automatisation croissante : surveillance des poissons, alimentation automatisée, inspection des cages, robots sous-marins, tri, manutention ou transformation. Dans une ferme aquacole ou un port, les environnements difficiles et parfois dangereux constituent un puissant moteur de robotisation. L’expérience en mer, sur un navire, peut s’avérer en revanche moins favorable, sauf si les humanoïdes font preuve d’un pied marin inattendu…

Après l’agriculture de précision pourrait ainsi venir l’agriculture de délégation. Dans l’industrie agroalimentaire, l’IA incarnée devrait également s’exprimer. Les robots servent déjà des plats et des boissons dans certains restaurants et l’humanoïde se prépare à entrer dans le domicile. Préparons tout cela, si nous voulons trouver le bon équilibre, car il ne s’agit pas de refuser l’évolution technique, mais bien d’anticiper au mieux ces ruptures potentielles et de définir les contours de la responsabilité future. C’est d’ailleurs le message principal de l’Encyclique du Pape Léon publiée cette année[8], à lire sans hésiter même si l’on n’est pas croyant. Le Pape y rappelle que les systèmes d’IA, aussi performants soient-ils, ne possèdent pas de conscience morale et ne peuvent « assumer le poids des conséquences » (paragraphe 99). Les humanoïdes ne vont pas envahir demain matin nos champs, nos usines, nos magasins et nos cuisines. Mais ils nous obligent dès aujourd’hui à poser une question essentielle : non pas seulement ce que nous accepterons de leur faire faire, mais ce que nous accepterons de leur laisser décider. Car produire, transformer, transporter ou préparer notre alimentation engage toujours une responsabilité. À mesure que les machines deviendront plus autonomes, il faudra donc déterminer où s’arrête la délégation et où doit demeurer la décision humaine.

Sur le terrain géopolitique, la course est lancée entre une Chine qui se veut championne mondiale de la robotique industrielle et entend distancer les États-Unis sur la gamme d’humanoïdes performants et peu coûteux. Quid de l’Europe, qui voudra assurément moraliser ces sujets tout en explorant les avantages de ces innovations technologiques pour les secteurs qu’elle jugera stratégiques. Sans doute sera-t-elle tentée de vouloir mettre en œuvre une robotique humaniste et tracer des frontières hermétiques pour limiter le champ d’action des humanoïdes. Une question de souveraineté se posera également. Qui maîtrisera les données captées par ces machines, les modèles d’IA qui les pilotent, leurs composants, leurs mises à jour et éventuellement leur contrôle à distance ? La souveraineté alimentaire pourrait donc demain intégrer la maîtrise des machines intelligentes qui concourent à nous nourrir. Quant à l’Afrique, allons-nous robotiser un continent jeune, où l’agriculture reste le premier employeur et où des millions d’emplois seront à créer dans les prochaines années au regard de la dynamique socio-démographique ? Les robots et les humanoïdes n’y seront pas une réponse à la raréfaction de la main-d’œuvre. S’ils se déploient là-bas, préparons-nous en Europe à devenir plus humanistes.

[1] L’édition 2028 du Déméter, ouvrage annuel de prospective sur les questions agricoles et alimentaires, réalisé et édité conjointement par le Club DEMETER et IRIS Éditions, portera précisément sur la dialectique humanités / humanoïdes. Cet ouvrage paraîtra en février 2028.

[2] FAO, The State of Food and Agriculture, Leveraging automation in agriculture for transforming agrifood systems, SOFA Report, 2022 ; Drew Ashton, AI-Powered Agriculture : the next green revolution, eBookklt, 2024 ; Alka Arora, Rajender Parsad, Rajni Jain, Sudeep Marwaha, Harvesting Intelligence: The AI Revolution in Agriculture. From Fields to Algorithms, Cultivating Future Harvests, Springer, 2026.

[3] Manon Longvixay, François Brun, Christian Germain, Nouha Jeema, Guy Waksman, Intelligence Artificielle Générative en agriculture Enjeux, principes et applications, Rapport conjoint de l’Académie d’Agriculture de France, ACTA et Chaire AgroTic, 2026 ; Karine Cailleaux-Breton, David Joulin et Hervé Pillaud, L’IA des champs. Les graines d’un futur possible, La France Agricole Editions, 2026.

[4] The Economist, « China is training up thousands of humanoid robots », 23 August 2026.

[5]  Bill Gates, « The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical », Blog, Gates Notes, 26 August 2026.

[6] Eric Hazan et Olivier Sibony, Faut-il encore décider ? La décision humaine à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle, Flammarion, 2026.

[7] Marwân-Al-Qays Bousmah, Kevin Poperl, Anne Gosselin, Katy Fenech, Ana Rivadeneyra, et al., Santé et conditions de vie et de travail des livreurs des plateformes numériques en France : rapport de l’enquête Santé-Course, Ined, CoopCycle-Association, Maison des Coursiers, Maison des Livreurs, Médecins du Monde, Ville de Paris, 2026.

[8] Pape Léon XIV, Magnifica Humanitas, Lettre encyclique sur la protection de la personne humaine à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle (Édition française, Artège, 2026).

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Credit: UNESCO

By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 10 2026 (IPS)

First, it was the mass deportations of undocumented aliens, then a crackdown on liberal-minded academics from prestigious US Universities, and now, restrictions on foreign journalists based in the US.

The proposed restrictions may also affect scores of journalists covering the UN, including those who are part of national delegations scheduled to arrive in New York next week for the high-level segment of the 81st session of the General Assembly, with over 130 world political leaders in attendance.

According to the UN’s Media Accreditation and Liaison Unit (MALU), close to 5,000 media representatives are accredited by the UN,, including long term and temporary IDs, (the latter mostly for the annual General Assembly sessions).

The Foreign Press Association (FPA), the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have jointly expressed strong opposition to the July 2026 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposed regulation that heavily restricts foreign media “I” visas.

“Together with the SPJ and the CPJ, we have drafted a letter to congress setting out our case against the impending changes and asking them to intervene promptly. We thank our sister organization, the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association AMEJA, for its prompt and effective support in getting attention on the Hill”.

These restrictions are an arbitrary and unilateral tariff wall against the exchange of ideas and information, says Ian Williams, FPA President.

“We ask all our members to enlist other signatories to the letter and to approach legislators who can help stop these pernicious proposals. We have been here before. Last time such proposals were raised, FPA and SPJ led the battle to thwart the proposals – but they are back, and we are pleased this time to be backed by so many other organizations.”

At a press briefing August 31, UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric was asked whether the Secretary-General is aware of the proposed visa restrictions due to go into effect on 15 September that will impact international journalists.

“Is he concerned that this could impact coverage – not only of the United States, but of the United Nations, given it limits journalists to 240 days and many journalist’ organizations are very concerned about the impact that this will have on journalists?”

In his response, Dujarric said: “Look, of course, countries have the right to decide on visa policies. But we would hope that we see here in our (UN) host country a policy that allows for the maximum number of international journalists to cover, including to cover the UN. “

Despite the 1947 Headquarters Agreement between the US and the UN, which calls on Washington to facilitate the functioning of the UN, the US has denied visas to several heads of governments planning to visit the UN, or those accredited as diplomats.

The US State Department says: “Our mission is to enhance the United States’ global influence by helping foreign journalists develop a deeper understanding of U.S. policy, society, and values through programs and services that connect them with authoritative American information sources. Our mission reflects a commitment to fostering informed global dialogue, ensuring that international coverage of U.S. affairs goes beyond the surface and captures the complexity of American life.”

With over 1,500 accredited foreign journalists in the U.S., “our offices connect U.S. policy and cultural experts with audiences worldwide. Journalists credentialed with us are leading voices in their home countries, thus amplifying with their own credibility the access we curate and facilitate.”

    • Every year, US Foreign Press Centers host dozens of experts from the private, public, and academic sector for on-the-record briefings on a variety of relevant topics.

According to the FPA, the US proposals also have broader implications for free speech and movement beyond just journalists; they also affect academics, students and other skilled professionals, so it is heartening to see a growing list of organizations from other sectors joining in opposition.

These proposed regulations will restrict both the numbers and the freedoms of international reporters in the US. We urge you persuade colleagues to join the FPA to help us to combat the proposals and assist colleagues who might be affected, said Williams.

Last week U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor called out the Trump administration for imposing new restrictions on the duration of visas impacting international journalists and students. The changes impact F, J, and I visas and change how long students or journalists can stay, adding massive barriers if they need to extend their time in the United States.

“I think that the uncertainty point in terms of the impact of the potential irreparable harm is enormous,” Judge Saylor said.

Williams told Inter Press Service (IPS): “It is good that our issue is tied with other educational and work visas, so there are some influential litigants fighting this in the courts. The administration seems prejudicially impervious to reality”.

All our sources suggest that they did not consult with relevant officials in the State Department, which issues the visas, he said. “It’s apparent that the framers of the visa restrictions ignored the overwhelming majority to the request for feedback which opposed the proposals.”

As a result, the foreign press are caught in a “very Imperfect Storm.” The MAGA operatives making the moves combine ignorance and arrogance. They are profoundly suspicious of ALL media and of foreigners making the foreign press a dual target, and these people have no idea how the media work beyond recycling corporate and White House press releases.

In effect they are telling journalists whose beat is STEM, Wall Street, Media, Art, American politics and industry, that they can amass all the expertise all they need to know in less than 240 days – and that they face the chance of being excluded if their work does not reflect the administration’s view, declared Williams..

The joint letter said It is good that our issue is tied with other educational and work visas, so there are some influential litigants fighting this in the courts. The administration seems prejudicially impervious to reality.

All our sources suggest that they did not consult with relevant officials in the State Department, which issues the visas.

It’s apparent that the framers of the visa restrictions ignored the overwhelming majority to the request for feedback which opposed the proposals.

As a result, the foreign press are caught in a “very Imperfect Storm.” The MAGA operatives making the moves combine ignorance and arrogance. They are profoundly suspicious of ALL media and of foreigners making the foreign press a dual target, and these people have no idea how the media work beyond recycling corporate and White House press releases.

In effect they are telling journalists whose beat is STEM, Wall Street, Media, Art, American politics and industry, that they can amass all the expertise all they need to know in less than 240 days – and that they face the chance of being excluded if their work does not reflect the administration’s view.

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Lawmakers Need to Grapple With the ‘Human Story’ of the Aged, Youth, Women and Girls when Making Policy

Africa - INTER PRESS SERVICE - Thu, 10/09/2026 - 07:08

Kamikawa Yoko, MP for Japan and Chair of AFPPD at the opening of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) annual conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Credit: APDA

By Cecilia Russell
KUALA LUMPUR & JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Sep 10 2026 (IPS)

“As parliamentarians, we should understand that behind every demographic indicator is a human story,” Kamikawa Yoko, MP Japan and Chair of AFPPD, reminded lawmakers in her opening address to the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) annual conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The conference, with the theme of ‘Parliamentary Leadership for the Future: An All-of-Society Approach to the Care Economy and Demographic Resilience,’ took place in the shadow of the devastating floods in Nepal, which Dr. Toshima Karki, MP Nepal, described as an “alarm from the roof of the world.” The impact of climate change on women, the elderly, and youth underpinned the concerns of many of the parliamentarians over the two-day conference.

Alexander Nanta Linggi, Minister of Works, Malaysia, opened with a strong statement about what parliamentary leadership means for the future.

“An all-of-society approach to the care economy and demographic resilience is ultimately about people,” he said.

“Parliamentarians have a unique role. We are not merely lawmakers. We are voices for our communities. We see the struggles of families caring for aging parents. We hear the concerns of young people uncertain about their future. We witness the inequalities that still affect women and vulnerable groups. This is why parliamentary leadership matters. We have the responsibility to translate lived realities into meaningful policy,” Linggi elaborated, adding that “a caring society is not a cost to be borne; it is an investment in social stability, economic resilience, and national well-being.”

Pio Smith, Deputy Executive Director of UNFPA and UN Assistant Secretary-General, noted the stark reality of fewer resources and the growing global polarization that parliamentarians were caught in.

“Doing more with less cannot mean doing less for those who need us most. It means making smarter choices, strengthening systems, improving efficiency, and ensuring that limited resources are directed toward investments that deliver lasting impact,” Smith said.

Dr. Toshima Karki, a member of Nepal’s House of Representatives, speaking at the AFPPD annual conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Credit: APDA

Officially opening the conference, the President of the Senate of Malaysia, Dato Awang Bemee Awang Ali Basah, argued that “Demographic resilience requires an all-of-society approach. No single ministry or government can solve these challenges—we need government, parliament, the private sector, civil society, academia, communities, families, and individuals working together.”

During the two-day conference, there were many powerful presentations, intertwining social challenges of youth, women, and the elderly and climate change.

Howard Lee Chuan How, MP Malaysia and Secretary-General of AFPPD Global, said the organization’s move to Kuala Lumpur should mark a new phase of globalization. AFPPD’s 30 national committees represent countries with a combined population of more than 4.3 billion people, over half of humanity.

“The stories of our people are therefore not peripheral to the global debate. They are a major part of the human story. The solutions we develop across our region, from aging and fertility to youth, gender, care, and climate resilience, have the potential to help shape solutions for the world,” Lee said.

For Syerleena Abdul Rashid, MP Malaysia, this is deeply personal. She started her speech by telling the conference that her mother, aged 81, grew up without air conditioners and weather apps.

“She now also lives with dementia, so when the temperature rises, I cannot simply just send her a text message saying, ‘Mom, please drink more water.’ She may not read it, she may not remember it, and she may not recognize that she’s becoming dehydrated or unwell.”

Syerleena listed the issues.

By 2030, 15% of Malaysians will be 60 or older.

In Malaysia, floods in November and December 2024 affected over 137,000 people, including 40,000 displaced families.

Older persons face specific risks such as loss of medication, mobility challenges during evacuation, and the inability to access digital warnings.

Then she reminded parliamentarians of the policy gaps, including age-unfriendly disaster relief centers, which lack ramps, quiet spaces for dementia, or proper medical storage, and lack of data around age groups and specialized welfare checks for the elderly during heatwaves, and challenged them to fix these.

But it is not only the elderly that are affected.

Dolores Devesi, Director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Sub-Regional Office for the Pacific, reminded the audience that the impact of a loss of time in school could have lifelong impacts.

“Schools become more than a place of learning. They connect girls to peers, and they also become a center of information sharing amongst peers… When these connections are interrupted, risks rise, and we already know… that gender-based violence, sexual exploitation and abuse, unintended pregnancy, STIs, early marriage, and so forth, also come into play.”

Counting the cost of young girls and adolescents is crucial, she says.

“When a cyclone destroys a school, when flooding cuts off a community, when families are displaced, we naturally count the infrastructure and the economic cost, but the questions we need to be asking ourselves are how many young girls stop going to school, how many adolescent-age children have stopped going to school, why, how come they haven’t returned to school, and why are they still not in school? What happened to them and to their safety while they are away?”

Sahibzada Sibghatullah, MP Pakistan, said it was crucial to count the youth in the impacts of climate change; making up 64% of the country’s population, they bear the brunt of lost education and economic stability.

“A flood closes a school, and a child loses a year of learning that she or he may never recover back. A flood destroys a small shop, and a young man loses the only job he had. A flood cuts a road, and a young mother cannot reach a health center. And when a family loses everything, it is very often the daughter who is taken out of school first and married early. These are climate impacts. We must call them by that name.”

And he noted—it was the youth that rebuilt after the floods too.

“Let me end with this: In Pakistan, when a flood takes a village, it is the young who rebuilt it. They do not ask whose factory caused the warming. They do not ask who failed to cut emissions. They only ask to be counted. Let us count them. Let us fund them. Let us legislate with them, and not merely about them.”

A group photo of parliamentarians and delegates at the recent Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) annual conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Credit: APDA

It was during question time that Karki said she could barely conceal the anger she felt about the floods that left at least 1,300 people and more than 5,500 missing.

“Today I come with a warning from the Himalayas. I’m here to tell you the snow is disappearing. The snow is disappearing, and with it, the safety of my people.”

She listed the impact on roads, bridges, homes, schools, health posts, businesses, and hydropower projects that took decades to build and were destroyed in minutes.

“However, this is not simply a disaster. This is an alarm from the roof of the world.”

She continued, “Nepal contributes only around 0.03 percent of the global greenhouse emissions. Yet it is among one of the highly vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change.”

“We did not build the smokestacks. We did not burn the coal. Yet our children are compelled to bury their parents and parents to their children under the debris of a crisis authored elsewhere.”

“Climate crisis for Nepal for us is not only an environmental crisis; it’s a developmental crisis. It’s an economic crisis, a food crisis, a public health crisis, and ultimately, it’s a crisis of justice.”

The meeting was organized by the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) and the Asian Population and Development Association (APDA). It was supported by the Japan Trust Fund (JTF), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), AFPPD Malaysia, and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).

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À Avignon, Olivier Galzi lance son mouvement politique malgré les « sabotages » de « l’extrême gauche »

Le Figaro / Politique - Thu, 10/09/2026 - 06:15
RÉCIT - Le nouveau maire de la Cité des papes s’apprête à lancer son mouvement politique centré autour des territoires. L’occasion pour certains partisans de la gauche radicale d’ajouter leur grain de sel en guise de provocation.
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Russia/Sri Lanka/UAE : Colombo held talks to buy armoured vehicles from sanctioned Streit Group

Intelligence Online - Thu, 10/09/2026 - 06:00
Sri Lanka's ministry of defence held procurement talks through May to July this year with representatives of Streit Group, the Ras Al Khaimah-based armoured vehicle manufacturer, six months after it was sanctioned by the European Union for equipping Russian forces [...]
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Saudi Arabia : The big winners from the latest Saudi defence industry shake-up

Intelligence Online - Thu, 10/09/2026 - 06:00
Intelligence Online understands that SAMI Emerging Technologies, a sub-division of the state-backed Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI), the Saudi state-backed [...]
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France : Special funds budget for France set to reach nearly €100m for 2027

Intelligence Online - Thu, 10/09/2026 - 06:00
The final deliberations are currently underway regarding France's 2027 budget, ahead of its presentation by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu. France's [...]
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France/Russia/Ukraine : French intelligence officer turned pro-Russian blogger targeted by Kyiv and returning fighters

Intelligence Online - Thu, 10/09/2026 - 06:00
Several French nationals who have returned from fighting in Ukraine are trying to track down Nicolas Cinquini, a former French [...]
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