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Elles rêvaient d'une vie meilleure, mais ont été dupées par des agences sans scrupules. Privées de leurs papiers d'identité, les employées de maison des Philippines sont exploitées au Kosovo, sans pour pouvoir faire valoir leurs droits. Enquête.

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Les activités socio-économiques ont timidement repris, mercredi 8 janvier, dans la localité de Sambia, située à 50 KM de la cité de Faradje (Haut-Uelé).

Ce retour à la normale est consécutif au déploiement dans la zone des militaires des FARDC pour stopper les violences intercommunautaires.

Selon le ministre polonais de l’Agriculture, Czesław Siekierski, les négociations sur la libéralisation à long terme du commerce agricole avec l’Ukraine devraient être associées aux discussions sur l’accord commercial entre l’Union européenne (UE) et le Mercosur.

Neuf organisations de la société civile de Beni (Nord-Kivu) ont lancé mardi 7 janvier, la « campagne de lutte contre les diplômes sans compétences ».

 Selon cette coalition de la société civile, cette initiative vise à sensibiliser les élèves dans différentes écoles de la place sur le danger d’une mauvaise orientation ou du changement d’option au degré terminal.

Les enseignants du secteur public de la province du Mai-Ndombe ont manifesté, mercredi 8 janvier dans les rues de la ville d’Inongo, chef-lieu de la province pour réclamer leurs salaires de décembre dernier.

Bihar megyében is azonosítottak HMPV fertőzöttet. A 67 éves nőt kórházban kezelik, a többi betegtől elkülönítve. Az elsősorban Kínában terjedő metapneumovírus tüdőgyulladást okozhat, de nem jelent különösebb veszélyt – mondják a szakemberek. Erről Fejér Szilárd kémikus-kutató rádiónknak elmondta nagyjából nulla százalék körül van a valószínűsége annak, hogy újabb pandémiának nézzünk elébe. A HMPV-t 25 éve […]

Articolul Nem új vírus a HMPV és nem is lesz belőle pandémia apare prima dată în Kolozsvári Rádió Románia.

The Transatlantic Periscope is an interactive, multimedia tool that brings together expert commentary, high-quality media coverage, official policy documents, quantitative data, social media posts, and gray literature. It will provide on a monthly basis a summary of the most important news concerning the Greek-US relations, as reflected in the media. Below you will find an overview for December 2024.

On 4 December, 2024, a fifteen-member delegation from the Office of Global Partnerships of the US Department of State met with representatives of Greek business groups at the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace. Discussions focused on the formation of intergovernmental business and academic collaborations in the field of the green transition and renewable energy sources. Representatives of Greek business groups outlined their plans in the RES sector, including investment plans.

With regard to the upcoming transition in the United States, President-elect Donald Trump nominated Michael Kratsios, a Greek-American with roots from the island of Chios and the northern city of Kastoria, as Assistant to the President for Science & Technology and as the new Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Kratsios’ nomination as OSTP Director will need to be confirmed by the Senate. Furthermore, Greek-American Michael J. Rigas has been nominated by President Trump as Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources.

On December 10, 2024, Trump tapped Kimberly Guilfoyle, former Fox News host and former prosecutor in San Francisco and Los Angeles, to become US ambassador to Greece. Guilfoyle’s nomination requires Senate confirmation. In an exclusive statement to ERTNews, Guilfoyle said she is excited to collaborate with the Greek government and would work to ensure that the strong relations between the two countries continue to deepen, under the leadership of President Trump.

On defence matters, according to Reuters, Athens has drafted a multi-billion, 10-year purchasing plan that includes, among others, acquiring up to 40 new F-35 fighter jets from the US. One of the officials noted that on December 13, 2024,the Government Council for National Security (KYSEA), the country’s top decision-making body on foreign affairs and defence matters, approved the procurement of US-made Switchblade drones, made by AeroVironment.

More at: https://transatlanticperiscope.org/relationship/GR#

Des miliciens de la Force Patriotique et Intégrationniste du Congo (FPIC) ont remis, lundi 6 janvier, au moins 78 vaches volées un jour avant à la communauté Mobala, en territoire d’Irumu (Ituri).

La cérémonie de restitution de ces s vaches volées s’est déroulée à Balazana en présence de toutes les couches des communautés Bahema d’Irumu et de Mobala ayant décidé de résoudre pacifiquement leurs différends pour une cohabitation pacifique.

Des affrontements ont repris ce jeudi 9 janvier dans la matinée dans le sud du territoire de Lubero (Nord Kivu), entre l’armée congolaise et les rebelles du M23.

Selon des sources locales et sécuritaires, les rebelles ont attaqué les positions des Forces armées de la RDC (FARDC) dans les villages de Kyulo et Timbo Timbo, à plus de 50 kilomètres de Lubero centre.

Le dimanche 12 janvier 2025, l’ensemble de l’Algérie célébrera avec ferveur Yennayer, le jour de l’An amazigh. Une fête durant laquelle les familles algériennes, dans […]

L’article Belux s’associe à l’université de Tizi-Ouzou pour célébrer Yennayer est apparu en premier sur .

Les autorités des wilayas de Tiaret et Constantine ont annoncé des mesures exceptionnelles pour lutter contre la propagation de la fièvre aphteuse et d’autres maladies […]

L’article Fermeture temporaire des marchés aux bestiaux dans ces wilayas est apparu en premier sur .

Face à la question d’un parlementaire sur la hausse alarmante des divorces en Algérie, le ministre de la Justice, garde des Sceaux, Lotfi Boudjemaâ, a […]

L’article Explosion des divorces en Algérie : Le ministre de la Justice pointe du doigt « les mentalités » est apparu en premier sur .

Le principal adversaire de Daniel Chapo lors de la présidentielle d’octobre avait quitté le pays il y a deux mois, disant craindre pour sa sécurité. Il dénonçait les irrégularités du scrutin et la mainmise du Frelimo, parti au pouvoir depuis 1975.

by Gilles Pittoors (KU Leuven)

To kick off 2025, the JCMS blog is highlighting some of the excellent work published in JCMS in autumn 2024. In this blog, we feature ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once? Introducing a Field-Theoretic Model for Party Politics in the European Union’  which puts forward a new approach to the European political party system.

Much like the debate on EU democracy at large, ideas about the role political parties play in the EU’s political system are caught in a dichotomy. On the one hand, those who think of the EU as a collection of national democracies consider supranational democratic politics unrealistic or even undesirable, instead contemplating the role of national parties in structuring the political debate in Member States and translating this to the European level. From this perspective, European party politics comes down to coordinating often loose networks of like-minded national parties. On the other hand, those who perceive the EU as a kind of proto-federal system put more emphasis on supranational democratic politics, banking on the polity-building capacities of strong ‘Europarties’ and a democratic praxis that will Europeanise national politics.

Both of these models are rooted in the experience of the coherent nation-state and thus neither capture the reality of European politics: the former takes too little account of the structure inherent in European party politics, while the latter creates unrealistically hierarchical expectations for what a European party (system) could be. Therefore, a new model is needed that departs from the nation-state as  ultimate reference point, and instead theorises parties as genuine multilevel actors whose behaviour can only be understood by appreciating the dynamic European context in which they operate.

Beyond the nation-state

I argue that simply applying models from the national context to the EU does not do justice to the complexity of European politics, and therefore introduce the European Multilevel Party Field (EMPF) as a novel concept to study party democracy in the EU. I argue that the EU is a polity characterised by non-domination in which politics occur simultaneously in every direction all the time — it is a situation of ‘everything everywhere all at once’. Fundamentally, the EU is not a state, but “a multi-state, multi-democracy, multi-people political order” that circumscribes Member States without itself being a state. In this messy context, structure is not characterised by constitutional hierarchy or hegemonic domination, but by a form of mutual dependence among actors that need to collaborate across levels and territories. Indeed, actors’ political activities are no longer bound to the neatly delineated territory of nation-states, but extend beyond their familiar borders and across levels of governance.

Despite excellent research on the nature of the EU’s political system and complex party politics, both scholars and practitioners continue to grapple with the question of how to capture and understand the fundamental nature of party politics in the EU. While most scholars would subscribe to Schattschneider’s assertion that “modern democracy is unthinkable save in terms of parties”, the impact of European integration on party politics remains difficult to pinpoint. Moreover, in addition to bridging citizens and politics, whose disconnect is at the core of the EU’s democratic deficit, parties in the EU could act as vehicles of cross-level linkage, transnational policy diffusion, and inter-institutional coordination. Such potential is the main motivation behind the EU’s increasing support for Europarties, hoping these would act as “transmission belts” from citizens to ‘Brussels’.

However, it is one thing to say that parties play an important role in European democracy, and quite another to consider whether the prevailing conceptual models underpinning these arguments make sense in the EU context. At the end of the day, parties have a clear task to fulfil: to represent their constituents, a task that spans from the local to the European level in a messy multilevel context that no longer reflects the neatly organised nation-state. The discussion on EU party politics has paid too little attention to this messy nature of EU politics as characterised by non-domination and far-reaching mutual dependence, which is fundamentally different from the politics of the nation-state in which most of our notions of political parties and party systems have emerged.

An alternative model

Building on organisational field theory, the EMPF presents an alternative model that acknowledges both the agency of actors and the structuring framework in which they operate, making it more suitable to capture the cross-level (multilevel) and cross-border (transnational) interactive nature of EU politics. Conceptualising the European party system as a political field and Europarties as inter-organisational alliances, the EMPF asserts that parties in the EU behave in accordance with their position in the field, interpreted in terms of dynamic and relative power relations to other actors. This position is defined by the dominant rules and norms of the field, as well as by the relative capital of each actor.

Parties act based on their interpretation of what is the best thing to do in a given circumstance, whereby the ultimate purpose is to gain competitive advantages over their rivals and achieve their political goals. In turn, each action triggers a reaction across the field, perpetuating a permanent renegotiation of the field’s balance of power, political configuration, and actors’ distribution in it across political levels and national borders. The messy nature of the EU’s political system is thus structured through the bottom-up creation of field-wide alliances that impose jointly defined rules and norms, while enabling parties to influence EU policies in a way that reflects their and their voters’ preferences.

This approach can be used to address a wide range of topics in EU party politics; from the formation and development of Europarties, to the strategic behaviour of individual actors. As such, the EMPF presents an original model that allows for capturing how EU party politics work in real life, without using the nation-state as a reference point. A key task for future research is the operationalisation of the EMPF for application to empirical (case) research: to figure out how the field’s structure can be concretely measured, which specific factors motivate actors, which variables can predict and explain outcomes, and how this has changed over time (particularly in relation to EU enlargement). This would allow for the development of the EMPF into a comprehensive theory of European party politics, enabling researchers to predict political outcomes and offering insights into what kind of policies can and cannot emerge. Furthermore, field theory has previously been used to describe parliamentary, bureaucratic and civil society networks in the EU. Future research should elaborate how the EMPF relates to these approaches, and whether integrating these into a broader field-theory of European integration would be possible.

Finally, the EMPF also opens new perspectives on EU party democracy as characterised by a dynamic and continuous interaction between mutually dependent actors across different levels and political arenas that cannot be disentangled. For instance, connecting to recent research on citizen participation in the EU, a field approach could be used to argue in favour of the bottom-up transnational engagement and socialisation of parties, civil society and individual citizens. Importantly, I do not posit the EMPF as the ultimate democratic model for the EU, but extend an open invitation to future researchers to further elaborate on this field-theoretic approach in the process of making sense of the EU as a democratic polity.

Dr Gilles Pittoors is Lecturer at the KU Leuven’s Department of Political Science and Research Associate at Ghent Univeristy. He has previously worked at the European Parliamentary Research Service, the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Groningen. His research focuses primarily on questions of transnational democratic governance and the Europeanisation of national politics.

The post Introducing: the European Multilevel Party Field appeared first on Ideas on Europe.

Döntött a koalíció: az elnökválasztás első fordulóját május 4-én, a második fordulóját május 18-án tartják. Az államfőválasztás időpontjának kitűzésekor a koalíció figyelembe vette, hogy az első fordulót egy időben tartsák a több megyében esedékes időközi választásokkal, illetve el akarta kerülni azt, hogy a szavazás napja húsvétra vagy pünkösdre essen – indokolták a döntést. A Szociáldemokrata […]

Articolul Az RMDSZ korábbi elnökválasztást szeretett volna apare prima dată în Kolozsvári Rádió Románia.

La plus haute juridiction de l’Union européenne a statué que le fait d’exiger des passagers ferroviaires qu’ils déclarent leur genre lors de l’achat d’un billet était contraire au règlement général sur la protection des données (RGPD) de l’UE.

Tout a commencé par un tweet du « génie stable » préféré de Donald Trump.

Le président français a reconnu les limites et l’échec de la politique actuelle de son pays en matière de visas. S’exprimant lors de la conférence […]

L’article Octroi des visas de séjour en France : Macron admet l’échec de la « méthode radicale » est apparu en premier sur .

Porte-parole de la 34è région militaire, basée à Goma (Nord-Kivu), lieutenant-colonel Guillaume Ndjike, a indiqué ce jeudi 9 janvier, que l’offensive lancée ces derniers jours par l’armée congolaise, répond aux violations incessantes de cessez-le feu par le M23, rébellion appuyée par le Rwanda.

Le 5 janvier 2023, le gouvernement tchadien avait affirmé qu’il venait de « déjouer une tentative de déstabilisation » visant à « porter atteinte à l’ordre constitutionnel et aux institutions de la République » alors que le Tchad était encore dans une phase de transition politique après le décès du président Idriss Déby-Itno, survenu deux ans plus tôt. « Ce...

Cet article Tchad : Le palais présidentiel a été visé par une mystérieuse attaque est apparu en premier sur Zone Militaire.