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La Flandre mise sur des « toilettes pour vaches » pour lutter contre la pollution liée aux déchets d’élevage.

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La Commission européenne a confirmé avoir tenu des discussions « exploratoires au niveau technique » avec les autorités de facto talibanes, en coordination avec le Service européen pour l’action extérieure (SEAE), sur la question des retours en Afghanistan.

The post Migrations : la Commission européenne annonce que des discussions avec les talibans sur les retours sont en cours appeared first on Euractiv FR.

À leur arrivée lundi 20 octobre à une réunion à Luxembourg, les ministres des Affaires étrangères de l’UE sont apparus divisés sur les négociations qui se dérouleront à Budapest entre Vladimir Poutine et Donald Trump au sujet de la guerre en Ukraine.

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Härtere Sanktionen, Leistungsentzug, weniger Vermögensschutz: Die neue Grundsicherung wird die Hoffnungen enttäuschen. Es drohen mehr Arbeitslose und höhere Kosten., Viele setzen große Hoffnungen in die geplante Reform des Bürgergelds und die Umbenennung in Grundsicherung. Doch wird die neue Grundsicherung wirklich die Beschäftigung erhöhen, Kosten reduzieren und mehr Gerechtigkeit schaffen? Diese Hoffnungen dürften größtenteils enttäuscht werden. Die große ...

Le retour imminent d’Andrej Babiš au poste de Premier ministre tchèque ravive les accusations de conflit d’intérêts liées à son entreprise Agrofert — l’une des principales bénéficiaires des subventions agricoles et régionales européennes —, alors que les États membres négocient le prochain budget septennal de l’UE.

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La nouvelle législation pharmaceutique de l'UE est l'une des plus importantes opportunités à venir, selon Emer Cooke, directrice exécutive de l'Agence européenne des médicaments (EMA).

The post Emer Cooke, directrice exécutive de l’Agence européenne des médicaments : l’UE doit « continuer à défendre la science » appeared first on Euractiv FR.

Euractiv a obtenu un projet de document du Conseil de l’UE montrant que les capitales poursuivent leurs travaux sur la proposition de cadre fiancier pluriannuel (CFP) 2028-2034 de la Commission européenne. Les eurodéputés, eux, restent divisés sur le futur budget.

The post Le Conseil avance sur le prochain budget de l’UE alors que le Parlement est dans l’impasse appeared first on Euractiv FR.

Malgré les réserves exprimées en dernière minute par la France, l’Italie et l’Espagne, liées à des questions de sécurité juridique et au nouveau mécanisme de contrôle des cargaisons de GNL, un consensus semble se dessiner parmi les États membres. Les Vingt-Sept devraient entériner une échéance fixée à 2028 pour mettre fin à toute importation de gaz russe.

The post Les Vingt-Sept s’orientent vers une interdiction totale du gaz russe d’ici 2028 appeared first on Euractiv FR.

Bienvenue dans Rapporteur. Je suis Eddy Wax au Luxembourg, avec Nicoletta Ionta à Bruxelles. Vous avez une info à nous communiquer ? Écrivez-nous, nous lisons tous les messages. À savoir : Bruxelles : les diplomates de l’UE se réunissent pour discuter du 19ᵉ paquet de sanctions contre la Russie après la levée du veto de […]

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La Commission a annoncé vendredi 17 octobre l’ouverture de la procédure de candidature pour accueillir la future autorité douanière de l’UE — un organisme encore en cours de création, chargé de coordonner les services nationaux des douanes dans le cadre d’une réforme visant à lutter contre l’afflux de marchandises à bas prix en provenance des plateformes de commerce en ligne chinoises.

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Le Premier ministre slovaque Robert Fico s’est dit « fier » de l’exclusion officielle de son parti du Parti socialiste européen (PSE) jeudi 16 octobre.

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Im November und Dezember 2025 kehrt unsere Online-Seminarreihe "SOEPcampus: Learn to use the SOEP over lunch" mit einem letzten Online-Workshop zurück. Der Workshop bietet eine umfassende, praxisnahe Einführung in die Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP). Die Teilnehmenden lernen den Inhalt ...

Le Parti nationaliste de centre-droit auquel appartient la présidente du Parlement européen, Roberta Metsola, mise sur la jeunesse pour reconquérir le pouvoir après douze années passées dans l’opposition. À sa tête, Alex Borg, 30 ans.

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Les start-ups européennes tirent la sonnette d’alarme sur le « 28e régime », projet de création d’une entité juridique à l’échelle de l’UE. Elles dénoncent le choix d’une directive plutôt qu’un règlement, qui risque, selon elles, de multiplier les règles nationales divergentes et de compliquer le développement des jeunes entreprises.

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Les députés européens devraient rejeter mardi 21 octobre la proposition de loi de l’UE sur la surveillance des forêts, le Parti populaire européen (PPE) et les groupes d’extrême droite s’étant alliés pour la bloquer en séance plénière.

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À Bruxelles, Donald Tusk est perçu comme le symbole du retour de la Pologne dans l’UE. Mais, alors qu’il arrive à la moitié de son mandat, au niveau national, son gouvernement fait face à un mécontentement croissant parmi la population, à des tensions internes et à des critiques sur des promesses non tenues.

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At its meeting on 25 of September the Subcommittee on Human Rights presented a study on Environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs) to highlight their courageous work in an increasing difficult environment.

The study "Environmental human rights defenders: New developments and their implications for the European Union and the European Parliament" reports on recent vital breakthroughs, driven partly by EHRDs, including recognition of the right to a healthy environment by the United Nations, as well as progress from voluntary guidelines to binding provisions on human rights and sustainability due diligence.

At the meeting MEPs discussed how current initiatives as the revision of the Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive could threaten these advancements. It's recommended for the EU to strengthen the realisation of EHRDs' rights and their role as custodians of the right to a healthy environment, not only for themselves but also for others who cannot raise their voices.

Study "Environmental human rights defenders: New developments and their implications for the European Union and the European Parliament"
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On 20 October 2025 (19:00–20:30), DROI and JURI will jointly hold an extraordinary meeting on the protection of lawyers worldwide, with a focus on the recently adopted Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer. Speakers include representatives of the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe, as well as a testimony by Ramla Dahmani on Tunisian lawyer Sonia Dahmani.

The exchange will centre on the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer, adopted on 12 March 2025 and open to all States. As the first international treaty dedicated to safeguarding the legal profession, it addresses admission to practice, professional rights and duties, freedom of expression, disciplinary guarantees and specific protective measures for lawyers and their associations.

Against reports of harassment, threats and interference with defence work, including obstacles to client access, the discussion will explore how the Convention can strengthen rule-of-law safeguards and support implementation. The meeting forms part of the European Week of Justice (around 25 October) and will include a testimony by Ramla Dahmani, sister of Tunisian lawyer Sonia Dahmani, detained since July 2024.
Draft programme
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Constantinos Capsaskis, Research Fellow, ELIAMEP

The Pact for the Mediterranean is being brought forward at a very difficult juncture for the region, and especially so in the Eastern Mediterranean, and its implementation seems to present even greater challenges. Both international upheavals and regional developments continue to widen the gap between Europe and its Mediterranean partners. The increasingly transactional nature of the Union’s foreign policy on key issues such as energy and migration is also exacerbating the situation, creating an even more challenging backdrop for the development of closer relations.

For Greece, the Pact could prove to be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it is natural that any European emphasis on a region directly related to Greece’s interests could be seen as a positive development. However, Greek diplomacy must remain vigilant, since any institutional EU engagement with the Mediterranean also threatens the capacity for self-determination which the country’s geographical position provides. Greece’s regional diplomacy with countries like Egypt is founded on Athens’ role as a mediator in Brussels.

If the Cairo-Athens-Brussels link-up becomes a direct Cairo-Brussels one, Greek diplomacy will have to obtain some guarantee, primarily from the EU, that Greece’s vital regional interests will not be adversely affected, and that it will not be deprived of its role in the region. Athens will also have to offer its regional partners alternative motives —in the form of opportunities and gains—for deepening bilateral relations.

Triantafyllos Karatrantos, Research Associate, ELIAMEP

The Pact for the Mediterranean arrives at a time of intense geopolitical change, but also of armed conflicts in the Middle East that have created new factors of instability and insecurity. In this context, it really matters whether the Pact will be able to function as a political institutional arrangement for cooperation, or as a loose agreement in specific sectors with an emphasis on trade and transport. Organized crime and terrorism cannot be, and radicalization prevented, without the cooperation of the countries of the wider Mediterranean region. The same applies to both migration management and maritime security. This is why the EU has been investing for years in externalizing its activities in these areas. However, the results have generally been fragmented and achieved in the context of bilateral cooperation. It is therefore important that the Pact includes actions in its security priority that both ensure sustained cooperation with concrete and measurable milestones, and foster a culture of common threat perception and cooperative responses. The EU-Western Balkans framework for cooperation in the fight against terrorism, for example, could serve as a useful model. Finally, it would be especially useful to extend cooperation beyond environmental policy and establish a framework for jointly managing and responding to natural disasters.

Cleopatra Kitti, Senior Policy Advisor, ELIAMEP

The Mediterranean region is the EU’s frontline to Africa.  

It is a region of 500 million people (as large as the EU’s internal market),  producing 10% of global GDP but only 1/4 of its trade is intra regional.  

It is the least inter connected region in the world.  

In the 10 years we are tracking trade and socio-economic data –  UNCTAD, IMF, national statistics agencies’, Eurostat and World Bank’s 1500 socio-economic indicators, – for each country the Mediterranean region (EU and non EU), – where we aggregate, analyze and compare data – there has been no significant progress to report on interconnectivity and on materially socio-economic collaboration for growth and prosperity.  

To make this a meaningful Pact, it must ensure: 

* Data: Evidence based policy making. 

* Governance: establish benchmarks of success with checks and balances, review mechanisms and authentic projects that ensure socio-economic progress for the citizens and businesses of non EU countries. 

* Leadership: the governance model of the Pact should include organisation and institution leaders with integrity and with governance knowledge not only politicians. These individuals must have the ability to embrace evidence based policy making, travel through the region including to the most challenged areas to understand the situation that they need to remediate, bolster and interconnect.    

Otherwise it is doomed to the same results as those of the last decade, which neither the EU nor Non EU countries can afford. The world order and global financial architecture are changing fast, it is not an option to be left behind.  

George Tzogopoulos, Senior Research Fellow, ELIAMEP

It depends on what the scope of the new Mediterranean deal is. If it encompasses issues the European Union can handle—such as trade, energy transition, education, culture and, possibly, migration—then it will be a positive initiative that can deliver results. However, if its scope includes foreign policy and security issues, it is highly unlikely the new Pact for the Mediterranean will have any impact. Generally speaking, the European Union tends to present plans for the Mediterranean at intervals, and then fail to implement them. In 2020, for example, the idea of a multilateral conference on the Eastern Mediterranean was mooted, but no action was taken towards its realization. The current situation—with the war in the Middle East just one of multiple problems—does not provide much grounds for optimism about the future.

 

The community gets together to repair a school in the city of Saraqib, located south of Idlib, that was destroyed by bombing during the Assad regime. Credit: Sonia Al Ali/IPS

By Sonia Al Ali
IDLIB, Syria, Oct 16 2025 (IPS)

The war has deprived thousands of Syrian children of their right to education, especially displaced children in makeshift camps. Amidst difficult economic conditions and the inability of many families to afford educational costs, the future of these children is under threat.

Adel Al-Abbas, a 13-year-old boy from Aleppo, northern Syria, was forced to quit his education after being displaced from his city and moving to a camp on the Syrian-Turkish border. He says, “I was chasing my dream like any other child, but my family’s poverty and the harsh circumstances stood in my way and destroyed all my dreams.”

Adel had hoped to become an engineer, but he left school and gave up on his goal. He replaced books and pens with work tools to help his impoverished family secure life’s necessities. He adds, “We are living in extremely difficult conditions today; we can’t even afford food. So, I have to find a job to survive and help my family, especially after my father was hit by shrapnel in the head, which caused him a permanent disability.”

Adel’s mother is saddened by her son’s situation, saying to IPS, “We need the income my son brings in after my husband got sick and became unable to provide for our family. In any case, work is better than an education that is now useless after he’s been out of school for so long and has fallen behind his peers.”

Reem Al-Diri, an 11-year-old, left school after her family was displaced from rural Damascus to the city of Idlib in northern Syria. Explaining why, she speaks with a clear sense of regret: “I loved school very much and was one of the top students in my class, but my family decided I had to stop my education to help my mom with the housework.”

The young girl confirms that she watches children on their way to school every morning, and she wishes she could go with them to complete her education and become a teacher in the future.

Reem’s mother, Umayya Al-Khalid, justifies her daughter’s absence from school, saying, “After we moved to a camp on the outskirts of Idlib, the schools became far from where we live. We also suffer from a lack of security and the widespread kidnapping of girls. So, I feared for my daughter and preferred for her to stay at home.”

Causes of school dropout

Akram Al-Hussein, a school principal in Idlib, northern Syria, speaks about the school dropout crisis in the country.

“School dropouts are one of the most serious challenges facing society. The absence of education leads to an unknown future for children and for the entire community.”

Al-Hussein emphasizes that relevant authorities and the international community must exert greater efforts to support education and ensure it does not remain a distant dream for children who face poverty and displacement.

He adds, “The reasons and motivations for children dropping out of school vary, ranging from conditions imposed by war—such as killings, displacement, and forced conscription-to child labor and poverty. Other factors include frequent displacement and the child’s inability to settle in one place during the school year, as well as a general lack of parental interest in education and their ignorance of the risks of depriving a child of schooling.”

In this context, the Syria Response Coordinators team, a specialized statistics group in Syria, noted in a statement that the number of out-of-school children in Syria has reached more than 2.5 million, with northwestern Syria alone accounting for over 318,000 out-of-school children, with more than 78,000 of them living in displacement camps. Of this group, 85 percent are engaged in various occupations, including dangerous ones.

In a report dated June 12, 2024, the team identified the key reasons behind the widening school dropout crisis.

A shortage of schools relative to the population density, a shift towards private education, difficult economic conditions, a lack of local government laws to prevent children from entering the labor market, displacement and forced migration, and a marginalized education sector with insufficient support from both local and international humanitarian organizations are seen as the causes.

The team’s report warned that if this trend continues, it will lead to the emergence of an uneducated, illiterate generation. This generation will be consumers rather than producers, and as a result, these uneducated children will become a burden on society.

Initiatives to Restore Destroyed Schools

The destruction of schools in Syria has significantly contributed to the school dropout crisis. Throughout the years of war, schools were not spared from destruction, looting, and vandalism, leaving millions of children without a place to learn or in buildings unfit for education. However, with the downfall of the Assad regime, several initiatives have been launched to restore these schools. This is seen as an urgent and immediate necessity for building a new Syria.

Samah Al-Dioub, a school principal in the northern Syrian city of Maarat al-Nu’man, says, “Syria’s schools suffered extensive damage from both the earthquake and the bombings. We have collected funds from the city’s residents and are now working on rehabilitating the school, but the need is still immense and the costs are very high, especially with residents returning to the city.” She explained that their current focus is on surveying schools and prioritizing which ones need renovation the most.

Engineer Mohammad Hannoun, director of school buildings at the Syrian Ministry of Education, states that approximately 7,400 schools across Syria were either partially or completely destroyed. They have restored 156 schools so far.

Hannoun adds, “We are working to rehabilitate schools in all Syrian regions, aiming to equip at least one school in every village or city to welcome returning students. The Ministry of Education, along with local and international organizations and civil society, are all contributing to these restoration efforts.”

Hannoun points out that the extensive damage to school buildings harms both teachers and students. It leads to a lack of basic educational resources, puts pressure on the few schools that are still functional, and causes a large number of students to drop out, which ultimately impacts the quality of the educational process.

As part of their contingency plans, Hannoun explains that the ministry, in collaboration with partner organizations, intends to activate schools with the available resources to accommodate children returning from camps and from asylum countries. This effort is particularly focused on affected areas that have experienced massive waves of displacement.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in 2025, 16.7 million people, including 7.5 million children, are in need of humanitarian support in the country, with 2.45 million children out of school, and 2 million children are at risk of malnutrition.

The phenomenon of school dropouts has become a crisis threatening Syria’s children, who have been forced by circumstances to work to earn a living for their families. Instead of being in a classroom to build their futures, children are struggling to survive in an environment left behind by conflict and displacement.

 

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