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Allgemeines : Man könnte meinen, dass steuerrechtliche Themen nur in spezialisierten Wirtschaftsmagazinen Platz finden sollten. Das stimmt jedoch nicht, denn steuerpolitische Fragen wecken großes Interesse unter den Bürgern. Gemäß einer aktuellen Eurobarometer-Umfrage, die vom EU-Parlament in Auftrag gegeben wurde, sind 75 Prozent der EU-Bürger der Meinung, dass die EU mehr Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung von Steuerbetrug setzen solle.

Quelle : © Europäische Union, 2016 - EP

General : Only death and taxes are certain in life - as the cliché goes - but that doesn't mean you have to like either. In the case of taxes, it's made worse by not everyone paying their fair share. According to the latest Eurobarometer survey commissioned by the European Parliament, 75% of all Europeans believe the EU should do more to fight tax fraud. Read on to find what the Parliament is currently working on to address the issue.

Source : © European Union, 2016 - EP

General : Only death and taxes are certain in life - as the cliché goes - but that doesn't mean you have to like either. In the case of taxes, it's made worse by not everyone paying their fair share. According to the latest Eurobarometer survey commissioned by the European Parliament, 75% of all Europeans believe the EU should do more to fight tax fraud. Read on to find what the Parliament is currently working on to address the issue.

Source : © European Union, 2016 - EP

Général : Le scandale des LuxLeaks et plus récemment celui des Panama Papers ont mis les questions fiscales sur le devant de la scène. 75 % des citoyens européens estiment que l’Union européenne devrait agir plus qu’à l’heure actuelle en matière de fraude fiscale, selon un récent sondage Eurobaromètre réalisé par le Parlement. Consultez notre article pour en savoir plus.

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Általános : Az adóügyek sokszor szövevényes hálója miatt könnyen gondolhatjuk, hogy ez csupán a pénzügyi szakemberekre és a szaklapokra tartozik, és nem érint minket. Az Eurobarometer legfrissebb felmérése azonban mást mutat. Az európaiak háromnegyede szerint az adócsalás elleni küzdelem kell, hogy legyen a harmadik legfontosabb prioritás az EU számára a terrorizmus elleni harc és a munkanélküliség csökkentése után. A magyarok is hasonlóképp gondolkodnak.

Forrás : © Európai Unió, 2016 - EP

Offiziellen griechischen Angaben zufolge hat die Flüchtlingsbewegung von der Türkei nach Griechenland nach dem gescheiterten Putschversuch zugenommen. EurActiv Brüssel berichtet.

Manuel Valls à l'offensive. Le Premier ministre a répondu dans un entretien au «Monde» aux attaques de Nicolas Sarkozy et aux polémiques visant son gouvernement après les attentats de Nice et de Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray....

La purge s’intensifie encore en Turquie : mercredi soir, le régime de Recep Tayyip Erdogan a ordonné la fermeture de dizaines de journaux, magazines, télévisions et stations de radio. 

Face au défi du terrorisme et de ces jeunes en rupture totale, le sociologue Michel Wieviorka estime urgent que notre société reconstruise du lien social mais aussi de la conflictualité. Une manière d’explorer sereinement les fractures que notre pays rechigne à affronter.

polémique Mercredi soir, une petite phrase du cardinal André Vingt-Trois, prononcée lors de l’hommage à Notre-Dame de Paris, a provoqué un tollé légitime.

Brüssel lässt gegenüber den Defizitsündern Spanien und Portugal Milde walten, gleichzeitig verschärft die Kommission aber das Rechtsstaatsverfahren gegenüber Polen. Das schadet der EU. Wenn Schiedsrichter ein Foul sehen, sollten sie es gemäß dem Regelhandbuch ahnden. Jean-Claude Juncker ist so etwas wie der oberste Regelhüter in der EU. Die Entscheidungen, die der EU-Kommissionschef derzeit trifft, lassen […]

July 28, 2016 (EL-FASHER) - Hundreds of Sudanese staff working for the African Union – United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) went on an open-ended strike Thursday over alleged non-payment of accumulated benefits.

The head of the UNAMID National Staff Union Khalil Tkras told Sudan Tribune that they resort to the strike as means to pressure on the United Nations and UNAMID to approve the payment of due benefits and to address all the outstanding entitlements, including the risk allowance, to be consistent with the increase in salaries in the period from 2012 even in 2015

Trkas said that their demands include also the medical insurance, overtime pay, sudanization of jobs, payment of pension benefits in a short period, and to pay additional benefits to the staff members who accomplish additional tasks besides their jobs.

He added they demand the implementation of local staff training budget, especially the external training.

In the past UNAMID Sudanese staff staged similar protests, demanding to be paid in dollar or to recalculate their salaries according to the exchange rates in the parallel market.

In 2012, they went on strike for demands related to the benefit entitlements. This year also, the local workers held different protests in El-Fasher, and Zalingei for the same claims.

Last March the mission denied press reports that it had refused to pay the pensions of former Sudanese personnel dismissed for the purpose of internal reorganization

There are some 2,900 local workers in the hybrid peacekeeping mission which is deployed in Darfur since December 2007. There are nearly 22,000 international military and civil personnel with an annual budget of $1.35 billion.

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July 29, 2016 (JUBA) – Rival South Sudanese leaders' spokespersons have clashed over interpretation of how a “temporary” replacement of Riek Machar, as First Vice President, should have been handled in accordance with the Article 6 of the provision of the August 2015 peace agreement.

Riek Machar, left, first vice president of the Republic of South Sudan, and Salva Kiir, the president, at the first meeting of the new transitional coalition government in Juba, South Sudan, in April, 2016 (Jason Patinkin/AP)

This is after President Salva Kiir replaced Machar and appointed Taban Deng Gai, an ex-official of Machar's faction when a group of senior leaders of the armed opposition faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO) nominated Gai on 23 July in a process challenged as “illegal” by Machar's faction.

Gai and his group announced publicly that the nomination was “temporary” and that Gai would step down from office if Machar returned to Juba after two weeks of absence when he and his forces were forced out from the capital after clashes with forces loyal to President Kiir.

The process has attracted controversy and counter-interpretations when referred to the provisions in the peace agreement.

Ateny Wek Ateny, President Kiir's spokesperson in a live debate on Turkish TRT World TV with his rival, James Gatdet Dak, Machar's spokesperson, argued that Article 6.4 in the peace deal gives President Kiir the right to appoint a replacement for Machar.

Article 6.4 reads: “In the event that the post of the First Vice President falls vacant during the Transitional Persiod, for any reason, including mental infirmity or physical incapacity of the office holder, the replacement shall be nominated by the top leadership body of the South Sudan Armed Opposition as at the signing of this Agreement.”

Ateny argued that Machar had been away for two weeks and his whereabouts was not known, thus giving the right to his faction to nominate someone to take over the SPLM-IO party and the SPLA-IO army, and also gives the President the right appoint his replacement as First Vice President.

Machar's spokesperson, Dak, however counter-argued that the agreement did not give President Kiir to power to appoint Machar's replacement on a “temporary” basis, saying this is not there under the current circumstances.

Dak said it should have been the First Vice President who “may delegate” one of his senior officials in the party to act on his behalf until he returned, referring to Article 6.5 of the agreement.

Article 6.5 reads: “In the event of temporary absence of the First Vice President, the First Vice President may delegate a senior South Sudan Armed Opposition Minister to carry out functions and duties as stipulated in this Agreement.”

While Ateny defended the action of Taban Deng and President Kiir on the basis of Article 6.4, Dak on the other hand condemned their action on the basis of Article 6.5.

Ateny said even if Machar comes back to Juba, he will not be reinstated as First Vice President and will have to first go through reinstatement by the SPLM-IO led by Taban Deng, or else “will not be seen again” if rejected.

Dak argued that Machar was forced out of Juba and asked for deployment of a third party force so that he could return to Juba, from “around Juba”, adding that President Kiir had no power to appoint his replacement per the “temporary” absence as stipulated in the peace agreement.

He also argued that the process to nominate Taban Deng Gai, was “illegal” because Gai was dismissed from party a day before he convened the “illegal meeting” and also there was no SPLM-IO institution that sat and nominated him. He said only five officials of the top leadership nominated him with no required quorum.

“H.E. Dr. Riek Machar is "legally" still the First Vice President of the Republic of South Sudan. That "illegal" replacement in Juba - which violates the August 2015 peace agreement - will soon be deemed null and void,” Dak posted on his Facebook page on Thursday.

He also accused President Kiir of taking part in the conspiracy with Taban Deng to become the First Vice President so that he could help him “destroy the peace agreement.”

The United Nations also said the replacement of Machar was not consistent with the peace agreement.

Ateny however fired back, saying the United Nations was not “telling the truth” or those who criticized President Kiir's action did not read well the peace deal.

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Die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik (GAP) der EU nach 2020 müsse beide Säulen mobilisieren, um den notwendigen digitalen Technologien den Weg in der Landwirtschaft zu ebnen, so ein Experte für Präzisionslandwirtschaft im Gespräch mit EurActiv Brüssel.

July 28, 2016 (NEW YORK) – United Nations said it has begun relocating internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Tongping camp, near Juba airport, to Jebel camp, in the outskirts south of the capital.

The decision to relocate people was made due to inadequate humanitarian infrastructure and capacity in Tongping, which currently houses nearly 3,000 who fled to the site in the wake of recent violence in Juba. It is also intended to provide them with better conditions and humanitarian services that are already in place in the Protection of Civilians site.

"I was asked yesterday about the relocation of people from Tomping Compound in South Sudan, and I can inform you that the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) reports that the initial phase of voluntary relocations of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the Tomping Compound to the Protection of Civilians (PoC) site 3 adjacent to UN House in Juba began today,” Farhan Haq, the Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, told reporters in New York on Thursday.

He said the relocation is a coordinated effort by UNMISS and humanitarian partners, including the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which is providing logistical support.

Haq added that security forces of the government have been informed of the relocation process and will also assist in providing security on the routes the IDPs will use for the relocation to the Jebel camp.

“I was also asked about escorts from the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) yesterday. The Mission says that it had sought security assurances from the Government, National Security Service and the SPLA in order to guarantee the safe passage of the displaced people from Tomping to Protection of Civilians site 3,” he said.

He added that UNMISS will be providing force protection to the convoy from Tomping to the final destination, while the Joint Verification Monitoring Mechanism (JVMM), with support from the South Sudan National Police Service, agreed to deploy in strategic areas along the route to ensure the convoy's timely passage.

Currently, there are about 30,000 IDPs who have taken refuge in a number of UNMISS manned protection camps in the capital, Juba.

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Observers say the latest check-up of Macedonia’s electoral roll - agreed between the political parties ahead of snap polls due this autumn - will not remedy the many inconsistencies in it.

A Zagreb-based NGO has started an online letter calling for an apology to the Serb victims of the victorious 1995 'Operation Storm’, which terminated a Serb rebellion in the Krajina region.

Once a common sight, turtle doves and quails are increasingly rare in Europe - thanks partly to illegal poaching which is also rampant in Serbia.

An overwhelming majority of Bulgarian MPs backed government-proposed anti-terror legislation on Thursday, despite protests by human rights groups and some MPs who fear it will curb civil liberties.

Belgrade think tank says Balkan states must understand the reality of Islamic State’s appeal to Muslim women - if they want to stem to outflow of women there.