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A la veille de la finale de la Coupe de France dans laquelle #Nice doit affronter #Lens, de violents affrontements impliquant des supporters de l'#OGCNice ont éclaté dans l'est de la capitale. Le maire de #Paris a dénoncé les agissements de "groupuscules d'extrême-droite."

Policy coherence is widely regarded as essential for achieving sustainable development, climate targets, and reducing inequality, as reflected in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Recent scholarship has moved beyond technocratic approaches, drawing on comparative politics, particularly the “3 I's” of ideas, interests, and institutions, to highlight the inherently political nature of coherence. Yet even these studies often treat coherence as binary, easily observable, and intrinsically beneficial. Building on a coherence literature focused on discourses and frames, this paper challenges these assumptions by examining how policy (in)coherence is constructed and contested. Focusing on policy implementation in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's coal heartland, we analyse two cases before and during the 2022 energy crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine: the commissioning of the Datteln IV hard coal plant in 2020, and the clearance of the village of Lützerath for mining in 2023. Drawing on 28 semi-structured interviews with German energy, climate, and environmental experts, alongside policy and media analysis, we find that (in)coherence is greatly constructed and contested under shifting political and economic pressures, instrumentalised and legitimisatised by different actors to advance their interests, and profoundly shaped by temporal dynamics. Given recent findings that challenge the 2030 Agenda's assumption that policy coherence reduces inequalities, we also explore how (in)coherence is perceived to shape multidimensional inequality in the Energiewende more broadly. Here, we find that (in)coherence is most prominently perceived to cause delays in climate mitigation, disproportionately affecting youth, low-income households, migrants, and activists. In this context, (in)coherence is not merely technical, political nor constructed, but fundamentally a matter of justice, shifting the analytical focus from whether policies and their implementation are coherent to how, and for whom, coherence matters.

Several strategic aerospace and defense projects were initiated recently in this southern Indian state.

Depending indefinitely on remittances to conceal structural weaknesses is neither viable nor an appropriate approach from a long-term resilience perspective.

Sanctions américaines, intérêts russes et recomposition politique en Hongrie : l'avenir du pétrolier serbe NIS se joue ces jours-ci dans un contexte géopolitique plus incertain que jamais.

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Undersecretary of State Jacob Helberg's comment came days after Philippine officials shot down a U.S. proposal that the 1,260-hectare zone be placed under U.S. jurisdiction.

Une enveloppe supplémentaire d’un milliard d’euros pour le plan quantique du gouvernement, issus du programme d’investissements France 2030, va être annoncée par Emmanuel Macron vendredi, annonce l'Élysée. Le président devrait aussi s'engager à mobiliser une autre enveloppe en faveur d’un futur programme européen pour les semi-conducteurs.

After spending much of her career observing Iran and its proxies from Middle East stations, MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli has [...]

Despite persistent rumours of her imminent dismissal and growing tensions with the CIA under John Ratcliffe, the US Director of [...]

"In France, Chinese interference is less visible in electoral processes than in a diffuse, long-term strategy of influence embedded in [...]

US President Donald Trump's trip to Beijing last week ultimately failed to yield any progress on Iran's enriched uranium, one [...]

The vulnerability of Dalit and Adivasi communities has been historically produced through land dispossession and forced settlement on hazard-prone slopes and riverbanks.

An account bearing the name “Sultan Ibrahim Ismail" allegedly disseminated AI-generated videos and manipulated images that defamed the monarchy.

Trois animateurs dans le périscolaire parisien seront présentés à un juge vendredi pour "des gestes à caractère sexuel" commis sur une vingtaine d'enfants de trois écoles de la capitale. Selon le parquet de Paris, des dizaines d'enquêtes restent en cours concernant d'autres établissements. 

Le président français a soutenu jeudi l’abrogation symbolique du Code noir, estimant que son maintien constituait "une forme d'offense" à la République. À l'occasion du 25e anniversaire de la loi reconnaissant la traite et l'esclavage comme un crime contre l'humanité, Emmanuel Macron a aussi jugé que la question des réparations ne devait pas être éludée, mais que sa "réflexion" et ses "décisions" sur le sujet étaient "encore inachevées".

Internships are mandatory for the roughly 4 million children who graduate from secondary vocational schools each year. But some internships involve hazardous conditions – and even death.

The creation of five new districts has observers worried that New Delhi is trying to break Buddhist-Muslim solidarity in the restive region.

Les aides ciblées ​mises en place en France pour amortir l'envolée des prix des carburants résultant de la guerre au ​Moyen-Orient seront reconduites pour les mois à venir et, pour certaines, jusqu'à l'automne, a annoncé jeudi le Premier ministre Sébastien Lecornu, estimant que cette guerre allait "durer". De nouvelles mesures viennent compléter les dispositifs existants.

Aujourd'hui, la santé des présidents est difficilement gardée secrète : une fatigue visible et voilà que s’ouvre aussitôt la chasse aux rumeurs. Sous les années Pompidou, c’était l'inverse : le pouvoir contrôlait le silence et même si les journalistes savaient, ils se taisaient.

One summit was all symbolism; the other was all substance. China made it clear who its true friend is.