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Le nombre de migrants arrivés en Italie depuis le début de l'année est en forte hausse par rapport à la même période de l'année dernière selon une note récente de l'Organisation internationale pour la migration (OIM). Une augmentation de l'ordre de 30%. Cette hausse est confirmée à la fois par les Italiens et les Libyens. Le ministre italien de l'Intérieur ne voit d'autre solution pour stopper ce phénomène que d'intervenir en Libye.

Pas de nouvelles sources de financement pour le Thatcher de la Sarthe, qui veut frapper encore plus durement les allocataires les plus modestes.

Après avoir organisé le suspense et même publié un livre-programme, le président du Modem ne se risque pas à une quatrième candidature à la présidentielle et fait une « offre d’alliance » à Macron, dans l’espoir d’une recomposition politique.

Le candidat PS mise avant tout sur la création de son revenu de base. Mais son idée de fusionner l’impôt sur le revenu et la CSG pourrait être fatale au régime.

Plus d’une centaine de députés ont déposé hier une saisine demandant « un examen détaillé de la compatibilité » de l’accord de libre-échange avec la Constitution.

Le Conseil national des barreaux a envoyé un questionnaire à tous les candidats pour remettre la justice au cœur du débat politique.

Le candidat porte une conception solidaire du système qui s’inscrit dans la lignée des propositions de sécurisation professionnelle partagées à gauche et dans le champ syndical. Il propose d’étendre l’indemnisation des privés d’emploi.

L'élue frontiste refuse de rembourser au Parlement européen plus de 300.000 euros de salaires "indûment versés" pour avoir fait salarier par le Parlement européen deux de ses collaborateurs qui, en fait, travailleraient pour son parti. L'enquête s'est accélérée cette semaine, avec une perquisition lundi au siège du parti à Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), puis les gardes à vue ce matin du garde du corps et de la cheffe de cabinet de Marine Le Pen.

TF1 organisera le 20 mars prochain un débat inédit avec les principaux candidats à la présidentielle. Un mois plus tard, France 2 les conviera tous.

DRAFT RECOMMENDATION on the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the Union and its Member States, of the Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Cristian Dan Preda

Source : © European Union, 2017 - EP

DRAFT RECOMMENDATION on the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the Union and its Member States, of the Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Cristian Dan Preda

Source : © European Union, 2017 - EP

Des citoyens français réclament la candidature de l'ancien président américain à l'élection de 2017. Une pétition a même été lancée.

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The ability of the United Nations to successfully reform itself and deliver on promises to sustain peace will ultimately depend not only on the primacy of politics but also on effective management of and support to a full spectrum of peace operations in the field. This was the view shared by experts and practitioners at a recent IPI Seminar on UN Field Support for Peace Operations, opened by Olivier Landour, from the Directorate general for International Relations and Strategy (DGRIS) of the French Ministry of Defense, and Atul Khare, Under-Secretary-General for Field Support at the United Nations.

There is broad consensus that the UN currently has a unique window of opportunity to undertake reforms, and that the new Secretary-General is committed to moving towards greater decentralization, simplification, flexibility, transparency, and accountability. Participants from across the Secretariat, UN member-states’ missions, and academia convened for a closed-door discussion (under the Chatham House rule of non-attribution) on the nature of the challenges faced and the objectives reforms should aim at, and to suggest what steps could be taken to ensure UN field support becomes better “fit for purpose.”

In introducing the seminar, Arthur Boutellis, Director of IPI’s Center for Peace Operations, noted that the 2015 High Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (HIPPO) had stressed the need for more agile field support. “The HIPPO Report pointed to the fact that mission requirements are still treated as exceptions to headquarters-focused policies, even though field missions account for over 80 % of UN Secretariat spending, 55 % of its staff, and 90 % of its procurement,” he said. He also quoted Secretary-General António Guterres saying that “the United Nations needs to be nimble, efficient and effective. It must focus more on delivery and less on process; more on people and less on bureaucracy.”

The four sessions of this day-long seminar delved further into specific aspects of field support, starting with a session framing the “broader picture” by asking the question, “What does UN field support fit for purposes look like?” This was followed by sessions on human resources and staffing, UN field support to African Union and other non-UN operations, and the role of key enablers such as medical, engineering, and aviation capabilities.

The ambassadors from Canada, the United States, Norway, Ethiopia, the Republic of Korea, and France guided the conversations throughout the day. Fabrizio Hochschild, Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Coordination in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG) delivered a lunchtime keynote speech highlighting how effective leadership and field support are two of the most needed resources in field missions.

A consistent theme to emerge from these discussions was the need to learn from past attempts to reform the UN system, many of which were undertaken in response to concerns regarding issues such as recruitment, terms of service, and collaborative delivery. In particular, more than one speaker emphasized that the UN is ultimately a political body comprised of member-states, whose cooperation is as essential to the adoption and implementation of reform as that of Secretariat and field staff. Accordingly, the Secretary-General and senior UN staff can play a key role in generating and presenting options for reform that can align the interests of states, UN staff, and the individuals and communities that field missions are intended to serve.

Participants endorsed the idea that field support needs to be accountable for outcomes, rather than exclusively for compliance with rules, many of which were set up when the UN was primarily a conference-servicing organization with negligible field presence. In sequencing reforms to bring about such changes, key speakers emphasized the idea that “form should follow function.” Bureaucracies tend to address problems by expanding and undertaking structural reorganizations; instead, the UN today will be best served by a focus on people and delivery.

The seminar was organized with support from the French Ministry of Defense’s Department for International Relations and Strategy (DGRIS), as part of a three-year “New Issues Observatory” project. Ongoing research undertaken as part of this project was presented on a number of panels, and discussions will inform policy reports which will be published in coming months on different field support themes. Previously, as part of the New Issues Observatory project, IPI hosted various seminars including “UN Peace Operations in Violent and Asymmetric Threat Environments,” and “UN Peace Operations Reform.”

The Centre for Security Governance (CSG) is looking for talented academics, practitioners, analysts, and researchers to contribute to our dynamic blog. Entries should focus on security sector reform and security governance in fragile, failed and conflict-affected countries, including related issues such as disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR), transitional justice, etc. This is a great opportunity to discuss your work/insights and contribute to the blog’s growing collection of great articles.

The CSG Blog is an informative and interactive forum for peacebuilding, statebuilding and security academics, researchers, analysts and practitioners. It provides an innovative place to discuss key issues of security governance, security sector reform (SSR) and security assistance as well as a space to debate new approaches to security and justice programming, including 2nd generation approaches to SSR.

The CSG is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank dedicated to the study of security and governance transitions in fragile, failed and conflict-affected states. Based in Canada, the CSG maintains a global, multi-disciplinary network of researchers, practitioners and academics engaged in the international peace and security field.

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L’écrivain russe Zakhar Prilépine vient de s'engager comme commissaire politique dans le Donbass. Il fait également la promotion de son dernier livre « Peloton - officiers et rebelles de la littérature russe », qui traite justement des écrivains qui se sont engagés dans l'armée. Son engagement dans le Donbass déchaîne les passions en Russie.

Le candidat libéral veut éjecter les syndicats de la gestion du régime et substituer l’impôt de tous aux cotisations payées par les entreprises.

Jean Rodriguez, « Tiery » de son nom de Résistance, est décédé à l’âge de 89 ans. Né le 4 octobre 1928 à Graissessac (Hérault) au quartier les Bâtisses (genre de petits corons), il adhère à la CGT dès son entrée à la mine. Son père, immigré espagnol, décédé à 40 ans de la silicose à la même mine de Graissessac, sans aucune pension, il doit travailler à 13 ans, en 1941, pour soutenir sa mère et ses sœurs. Il s’engage dans la Résistance à 15 ans, et sera de tous les coups durs des hauts cantons.

Pour parer aux menaces de guerre commerciale de Washington, Pékin et Bruxelles tentent d’apaiser des relations jusqu’alors tendues.

Impasse parlementaire, crise économique, corruption endémique… Trois ans après la chute du président Viktor Ianoukovitch, le système oligarchique et ultralibéral domine toujours.

Visszalép Magyarország a budapesti olimpiai pályázattól - értesült az M1 aktuális csatorna szerdán.