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Le maire de Vierzon (Cher) a annulé la cérémonie du 10 mai, et les députés RN se montrent peu à cette cérémonie annuelle. Si Marine Le Pen reconnaît désormais la culpabilité de la France, l’extrême droite aime aussi souligner l’ampleur de la traite arabo-musulmane.

L’affaiblissement du régime de Bamako est une mauvaise nouvelle pour Rabat, qui avait tiré parti ces dernières années des déboires d’Alger au Sahel.

A delegation of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) visited Seoul and Tokyo from 31 March to 2 April, led by Committee Chair David McAllister (EPP, Germany).
During the visit, MEPs discussed how to further strengthen the EU's strategic cooperation with South Korea and Japan, two of its key like-minded partners in the Indo-Pacific region. Discussions focused on issues of mutual interest against the backdrop of a rapidly shifting global landscape and challenges to the rules-based international order, shaped by evolving dynamics across the Indo-Pacific region, Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, and conflict in the Middle East.
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DRAFT REPORT on EU-Syria political relations
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Nathalie Loiseau

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Clara Schäper, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in der Abteilung Staat sowie der Forschungsgruppe Gender Economics des DIW Berlin und Doktorandin an der Universität Potsdam, hat am 12. Mai 2026 ihre Dissertation mit dem Titel “The Personal is Political: Five Essays in Labor and Family Economics” ...

La condamnation à trois ans et demi de prison de l’ancien collaborateur de Canal+, pour « blanchiment d’argent » et « évasion fiscale », a été confirmée en appel, mardi 12 mai, par la justice tunisienne.

We are proud to share that our PhD student Gökhan Ider (Freie Universität Berlin) and Hedda Thorell from Stockholm University were awarded the Lamfalussy Research Fellowship 2026 by the European Central Bank. They are among five fellows and will work on their paper "News-driven fluctuations and ...

Consultation lays out plans to help creatives get paid

La cour d’appel doit rendre son arrêt le 30 novembre. Commencé le 16 mars, le procès s’achèvera dans deux semaines, après les plaidoiries des avocats des dix prévenus.

The EU executive warned a binding law could take years

Ebranlé par les attaques de djihadistes et d’indépendantistes le 25 avril à Bamako et dans différentes régions du pays, le pouvoir militaire n’a jamais semblé aussi fragile. La capitale est soumise à un blocus.

Fertiliser producers could retain free pollution permits for longer

EPP chief seeks centrist compromise on car emissions rules

The plan also foresees tackling health and vaccine disinformation abroad

Cyprus, Greece and Romania suggest Europe's energy transition can wait

Longtemps conseiller officieux de l’Elysée pour les affaires africaines, l’avocat parisien a révélé comment Dominique de Villepin avait reçu deux coûteuses statuettes lorsqu’il était ministre des affaires étrangères. Son nom apparaît pour la première fois dans les colonnes du journal le 1ᵉʳ mars 1990 et, déjà, il était question d’argent et de polémique.

Une centaine de civils auraient été tués par l’armée nigériane et des bandes criminelles, dimanche, dans le nord-est du Nigeria.

Ce « Robin des airs », comme il se surnommait, s’est éteint le 9 mai, à l’âge de 82 ans, en Ardèche. Il s’était fait le promoteur d’un tourisme équitable en Afrique, en particulier au Sahel.

Le sommet « Africa Forward » qui se tenait lundi 11 et mardi 12 mai à Nairobi, marque la volonté de rompre avec une forme de tutelle politique implicite qui a longtemps nourri le sentiment antifrançais sur le continent africain.

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres launched the UN80 Initiative in March 2025. Faced with the US government’s increasingly hostile approach to the UN, UN80 was presented as a reform geared towards making the UN system “fit for purpose”. However, this policy brief argues that both the UN bureaucracy and member states have missed key opportunities to turn UN80 into a tool for reconfiguring UN multilateralism and providing space for multilateral cooperation that – despite rising geopolitical tensions – effectively addresses transnational challenges. The UN Secretariat, on the one hand, has pushed for a rushed reform agenda through an avalanche of bureaucratic reshuffling and technocratic ideas that are driven primarily by the logic of efficiency gains. Despite investing considerable efforts, it has failed to develop a coherent organisational and governance vision for the future of the UN that would help the organisation adapt to shifts in global power and policy preferences. Although welcoming reform efforts in principle, member states – on the other hand – have neither provided proactive guidance on desired reform outcomes, nor offered strategic input on the reform proposals put forward by the UN bureaucracy. They have failed to take up their role as political reform governors of a UN system in need of adapting to new geopolitical realities. Although the trajectory of UN80 to date has been far from ideal, the Initiative could still serve as a first step towards more fundamental reform efforts that address member states’ diverging preferences and attempt to tackle multilateral governance deficits. Inorder to highlight what is at stake, the policy brief outlines three scenarios of how post-UN80 dynamics might unfold, helping stakeholders identify what kind of UN system they would like to see and which steps might be necessary to get there.

Scenario 1. Faltering momentum: the phase-out of UN80 contributes to UN fragmentation and decline. Member states and the UN bureaucracy continue working through the UN80 Initiative’s to-do list until everything is either proclaimed done, watered down or silently abandoned. This leaves major challenges unaddressed, contributing to increasing levels of fragmentation and dysfunction across the UN system.

Scenario 2. Bold moves: strategic UN reform ambitions supersede technocratic logics. Member states leave decisions about efficiency gains to UN chief executives while prioritising and spearheading more ambitious reforms. They task the new Secretary-General with designing a high-level debate on the purpose(s) and the future governance of the UN system that reaffirms the UN as the multilateral centre of world politics.

Scenario 3. Muddling through: a combination of technocratic and governance reforms keeps the UN afloat. Cost-cutting reforms continue while a coalition of reform-oriented small and medium-sized member states pushes for a selective reform of multilateral governance. The result is a somewhat smaller UN system that, while not fundamentally transformed, is better equipped to navigate geopolitical tensions.