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The Polish Ministry of Defence is seeking to modernise its fleet of Leopard 2A4 tanks with a contract likely to be signed in late 2015, according to

Ahead of the Naval Combat Systems conference (28-29 July 2015, London, UK), which will  explore the value and advantages o

Italy primed for first international F-35 flight Italy will conduct the first F-35 flight outside the US in October, according to Lockheed Martin. The first test flight will be followed by a transatlantic crossing in early 2016 to Luke Air Force Base in Arizona wher

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• A US Senate committee approved a bill funding dozens of new aircraft, including Super Hornets, Growlers, F-35s and Reaper UAVs, passing an appropriations spending bill last week. The Navy listed Super Hornets, Growler EW aircraft and F-35s in a list of unfunded priorities sent to Congress back in March, with the Senate’s bill echoing a similar House bill earlier last week. The bill will now move to the full Senate, with this an attempt to sidestep sequestration funding caps.

• Northrop Grumman has partnered with General Dynamics, Gulfstream and L-3 to compete for work on the Air Force’s Joint STARS (JSTARS) recap program. In March the Air Force opened up the competition to European firms, with other US competitors including a Raytheon/Lockheed Martin team, with the JSTARS replacement program pushed back in February to a revised deadline of 2023. The newly-announced team will most likely base their replacement platform on the Gulfstream G550 business jet.

• The Navy awarded a $737 million contract on Friday for one Advanced Arresting Gear and Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System shipset in support of CVN-79 (the future USS John F. Kennedy). Testing of the EMALS system aboard CVN-78 (Pre-Commissioning Unit Gerald R. Ford) has been underway for several weeks, with dead-load testing taking place last week. Manufacturer Huntington Ingalls was awarded a $3.35 billion fixed-price contract earlier in June for the construction of CVN-79. The Ford-class of carriers has recently been criticized for being overly expensive, with a Congressional cost-cap of $11.5 billion.

• The Navy also christened its tenth Littoral Combat Ship on Saturday at the Austal USA shipyard in Alabama. The USS Gabrielle Giffords is scheduled for delivery in 2017, flanked on either side by the Lockheed Martin-manufactured Little Rock (LCS-9) and Sioux City (LCS-11). The keel of LCS-12 was also recently laid by Austal, the sixth Independence-class vessel.

• Raytheon was awarded its first production order for the Small Diameter Bomb II, with a $30.9 million Air Force contract announced on Friday. The contract covers low rate initial production of 144 bombs, as well as auxiliary equipment. This is the first of three LRIP contracts to be awarded before the SDB II moves into full rate production, with the weapon passing Milestone C last month. The total US procurement buy is expected to be at least 17,000 units.

• The Air Force is intending to soon release a $7.5 million demonstration program for low-cost high-speed unmanned aerial vehicles, intended to operate in areas with little or no forward operating footprint.

Europe

• On Friday, France successfully test-fired [French] an ASMP-A nuclear-capable cruise missile, launching the supersonic ramjet-powered missile from a Rafale fighter. The new missile is an upgrade to the ASMP (Air-Sol Moyenne Portee – medium range air to surface) missile, with the new model boasting a longer range. All Rafales in the F3 configuration are capable of carrying the missile, with this representing all jets delivered from 2008.

• Spain’s defense ministry has authorized Airbus to restart flight tests of its previously grounded A400M fleet, following a crash in early May. International operators of the transport aircraft have retained their grounding orders, with the company’s Seville facility recently becoming clogged with the grounded aircraft.

• Poland’s defense ministry has reportedly begun the process of arranging upgrades for the country’s fleet of Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks, with a contract expected within months. Two Polish firms have been invited to tender for the program, which was originally planned for 2013. In that year Poland ordered 105 2A5-model Leopards, without investing in bringing their existing 2A4 model tanks up to spec. As such, the Poles are now playing catch-up to equalize their fleet’s capabilities.

• The Saab/Diehl RBS15 Mk3 anti-ship missile has been successfully launched from a German corvette, completing an operational test in order to secure qualification. The missile is sub-sonic, with customers including Poland, France, Sweden and Finland.

Asia

• China’s Ministry of National Defense has reportedly confirmed that the country carried out a test of a hypersonic glide vehicle, the WU-14. The Mach-10 delivery system was successfully tested for a third time in December last year, following earlier tests in August and January.

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Emirates classification society Tasneef has signed an agreement with Lockheed Martin to issue classification certificates and carry out inspections for its new military naval vessel.

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India and Australia are reportedly set to conduct their first joint naval exercise later this year as part of efforts to strengthen the military relationship between the countries.

French shipyard group DCNS has delivered the French Frégate européenne multi-mission (FREMM) frigate Provence to the French Navy.

In dem Seminar „Videojournalismus“ erhielten Stipendiaten die Möglichkeit, den beruflichen Alltag eines Videojournalisten kennenzulernen. Dazu führten sie Interviews mit der Kamera, schnitten Material und produzierten daraus einen eigenen Videobeitrag.

The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) in May 2016 will be the culmination of a global consultation process. The three-year initiative responds to the need to adapt the humanitarian system in order to make humanitarian action more efficient and effective in keeping pace with the rapidly changing context of emergencies. Consultations leading up to the Summit have provided the opportunity to gain perspectives from different regions of the world. As a result, three main priorities have been highlighted: the need for humanitarians to protect and preserve the dignity of people affected by conflict and disaster; a call to find innovative and sustainable ways of meeting people's needs; and a demand from the global South to 'localise' humanitarian response by strengthening local, national and regional capacities to prevent, manage and respond to crisis. There is potential for the European Union (EU) to take a leadership role in the process and influence the WHS outcome. ECHO´s new need assessment tools and the Linking Relief Rehabilitation and Development (LRRD) as well as Resilience approaches offer a framework for responding to the challenges posed by protracted crises. This study recommends that the European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid should be applied as a model for a 'Global Consensus on Humanitarian Action' or a 'Global Compact' recognising the diversity of today's humanitarian response system while taking advantage of all actors' complementary role. Furthermore, the EU and member states must commit to placing protection at the centre of humanitarian action and ensure that the EU´s humanitarian aid is not regarded as a crisis management tool, and allowed to become an instrument of its foreign policy.
Source : © European Union, 2015 - EP

The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) in May 2016 will be the culmination of a global consultation process. The three-year initiative responds to the need to adapt the humanitarian system in order to make humanitarian action more efficient and effective in keeping pace with the rapidly changing context of emergencies. Consultations leading up to the Summit have provided the opportunity to gain perspectives from different regions of the world. As a result, three main priorities have been highlighted: the need for humanitarians to protect and preserve the dignity of people affected by conflict and disaster; a call to find innovative and sustainable ways of meeting people's needs; and a demand from the global South to 'localise' humanitarian response by strengthening local, national and regional capacities to prevent, manage and respond to crisis. There is potential for the European Union (EU) to take a leadership role in the process and influence the WHS outcome. ECHO´s new need assessment tools and the Linking Relief Rehabilitation and Development (LRRD) as well as Resilience approaches offer a framework for responding to the challenges posed by protracted crises. This study recommends that the European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid should be applied as a model for a 'Global Consensus on Humanitarian Action' or a 'Global Compact' recognising the diversity of today's humanitarian response system while taking advantage of all actors' complementary role. Furthermore, the EU and member states must commit to placing protection at the centre of humanitarian action and ensure that the EU´s humanitarian aid is not regarded as a crisis management tool, and allowed to become an instrument of its foreign policy.
Source : © European Union, 2015 - EP

The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) in May 2016 will be the culmination of a global consultation process. The three-year initiative responds to the need to adapt the humanitarian system in order to make humanitarian action more efficient and effective in keeping pace with the rapidly changing context of emergencies. Consultations leading up to the Summit have provided the opportunity to gain perspectives from different regions of the world. As a result, three main priorities have been highlighted: the need for humanitarians to protect and preserve the dignity of people affected by conflict and disaster; a call to find innovative and sustainable ways of meeting people's needs; and a demand from the global South to 'localise' humanitarian response by strengthening local, national and regional capacities to prevent, manage and respond to crisis. There is potential for the European Union (EU) to take a leadership role in the process and influence the WHS outcome. ECHO´s new need assessment tools and the Linking Relief Rehabilitation and Development (LRRD) as well as Resilience approaches offer a framework for responding to the challenges posed by protracted crises. This study recommends that the European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid should be applied as a model for a 'Global Consensus on Humanitarian Action' or a 'Global Compact' recognising the diversity of today's humanitarian response system while taking advantage of all actors' complementary role. Furthermore, the EU and member states must commit to placing protection at the centre of humanitarian action and ensure that the EU´s humanitarian aid is not regarded as a crisis management tool, and allowed to become an instrument of its foreign policy.
Source : © European Union, 2015 - EP

A cseh külügyminiszter nem lát okot arra, hogy az Egyesült Államok az ukrajnai válsággal összefüggésben felmerült állítólagos orosz fenyegetés miatt katonákat vagy nehézfegyvereket helyezzen el Csehország területén. "Katonai szempontból a Cseh Köztársaságban nem látok okot az elhelyezésre" - jelentette ki Lubomír Zaorálek egy vasárnapi televíziós vitában.

Ugyan komoly erőszakos cselekményeket még csak a bíróság előtt láthattunk a madagaszkári fővárosban, Antananarivóban, de rendkívüli módon feszült patthelyzet alakult ki az országban (főként mondjuk szerencsére tényleg csak politikai színtéren), hiszen június 13-án a madagaszkári Alkotmánybíróság elutasította a Hery Rajaonarimampianina elnök ellen előző hónapban benyújtott keresetet, amellyel az ellenzéki erők által uralt parlament az elnök eltávolítását kérte – arra hivatkozva, hogy az ország 16 hónappal ezelőtt megválasztott vezetője többször megsértette a madagaszkári alaptörvényt. Az ellenzék egyöntetűen elutasította a bírósági döntést, amely mindenféle jogalapot nélkülöző beadványnak minősítette a keresetet, hangsúlyozva, hogy Rajaonarimampianina nem sértette meg az alkotmányt – utóbbi egyébként pont az ellenzéket vádolta meg ezzel, hiszen a 151 tagú törvényhozás szükséges kétharmada szavazta meg állítólag a beadványt, miközben Rajaonarimampianina szerint többségük nem is volt az ülésteremben a szavazás időpontjában.

A támadások hátterében egyébként a legtöbb politikai szakértő az ország két egykori (és mai) erős emberét, Andy Rajoelinát és Marc Ravalomananát sejti, hiszen mindkettőjüknek vissza kellett lépniük attól a választástól, amelyet a mostani elnök nyert meg (és hát azt látjuk, hogy mindketten a mai napig ott sertepertélnek a hatalom közelében, készen állva arra, hogy bármikor ismét a színpadra lépjenek) – egy biztos, ne számítson senki arra, hogy itt végetérnek a csatározások, egyrészt Rajaonarimampianina kezében ott van a lehetőség a parlament feloszlatására, míg utóbbiak most már sokadszor azzal fenyegetőznek, hogy az utcára vonulva erőszakkal fogják kikényszeríteni az előrehozott elnökválasztást. Akármelyik opció is válik valóra (talán utóbbinak van nagyobb esélye) nem igazán jobb napok jönnek a sáskajárással, élelmiszerproblémákkal küzdő szigetországban.

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Több mint 20 év kihagyás után újra Oroszországban vendégszerepelt a héten a Magyar Állami Népi Együttes. A három orosz nagyvárosban vastapssal köszönte meg a közönség a fergeteges műsort. Nyizsnyij Novgorodban, Moszkvában és Kazanyban az Oroszországi Magyar Kulturális Napok keretében rendezték meg az előadásokat.

Pour comprendre ce qui se joue au travail, il est bon de se pencher sur le cadre de l'emploi. Sophie Robin-Olivier, professeure de droit à la Sorbonne, s'y est attelée dans un ouvrage austère mais éclairant . En mettant en regard plusieurs pays européens ainsi que les Etats-Unis, cette spécialiste (...) / Allemagne, États-Unis, Europe, France, Italie, Automobile, Entreprise, Idées, Idéologie, Jeunes, Protection sociale, Santé, Service public, Télécommunications, Travail, Médecine - 2015/06