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There have been several efforts to make UN peace operations mandates more realistic, effective, and achievable over the past two decades. Most notably, the 2015 report of the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (HIPPO) recommended that the council “make use of sequenced and prioritized mandates as a regular practice.” However, several challenges have inhibited efforts to make mandates more fit for purpose, and the extent to which mandates have become more prioritized and sequenced varies. In parallel, the council has sought to move away from lengthy “Christmas tree” mandates in favor of greater streamlining. However, while streamlining is intended to make mandates more focused, these changes have implications for missions’ budgets and operational capabilities, and mission leaders’ decision making.

In this context, the International Peace Institute (IPI), the Stimson Center, and Security Council Report cohosted a roundtable discussion on May 14, 2024 to reflect on UN Security Council efforts to prioritize, sequence, and streamline mandates. This roundtable brought together representatives from the UN Secretariat and member states as well as external experts.

Overall, participants agreed that, over the past ten years, the council’s decisions to prioritize and sequence mandates have impacted missions’ work and resource allocation. Participants expressed differing opinions over whether and how the council should prioritize and sequence mandates in the future. Participants also identified the budgetary and operational opportunities and risks presented by streamlining mandate language moving forward.

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La 11e édition du festival Mirëdita, Dobar dan, prévue du 27 au 29 juin à Belgrade, a été annulée. Comme tous les ans, ce festival qui veut rapprocher Serbie et Kosovo grâce à la culture a fait couler beaucoup d'encre. Cette fois, les autorités ont même décidé de l'interdire.

- Le fil de l'Info / Serbie, Courrier des Balkans, Culture et éducation

In this press kit, you will find a selection of the European Parliament’s press releases reflecting MEPs’ priorities for topics on the summit agenda.

Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

In this press kit, you will find a selection of the European Parliament’s press releases reflecting MEPs’ priorities for topics on the summit agenda.

Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

Haus Jacobus
Einer schwangeren Arbeitnehmerin muss eine angemessene Frist eingeräumt werden, um ihre Kündigung vor Gericht anfechten zu können

Haus Jacobus
A pregnant worker must be afforded a reasonable time limit in order to be able to bring an action against her dismissal

Lupin/ Kommission
Wettbewerb
Der Gerichtshof entscheidet über die Frage, ob auf dem Markt für Perindopril Kartelle gebildet wurden und eine beherrschende Stellung missbräuchlich ausgenutzt wurde

Lupin v Commission
Competition
The Court of Justice rules on the existence of agreements, decisions and concerted practices and of abuse of a dominant position on the perindopril market

C'est une affaire de corruption visant le régime Rama pourrait coûter très cher au pays. L'Office européen de lutte antifraude demande le blocage de nouveaux fonds de préadhésion destinés à soutenir le développement de l'agriculture albanaise.

- Le fil de l'Info / Courrier des Balkans, Albanie, Défense, police et justice, Questions européennes

Americas Australia has sent its first team to Pearl Harbor to train in sustainment for the government’s upcoming AUKUS submarines. The AUKUS program is a trilateral cooperation between Australia, the UK, and the US to protect allies and interests across the Pacific with a dedicated underwater fleet. For the maintenance training, Canberra sourced around 30 skilled workers from Western and South Australia affiliated with local shipbuilder ASC Pty Ltd. This group includes electricians, mechanical fitters, safety engineers, and battery crew specialists, most of which have “decades of combined experience” with the Royal Australian Navy’s existing Collins-class submarines. Oshkosh Defense has received a $27.3-million contract to deliver 57 medium equipment trailers (METs) for the US Army. The MET is a six-axle drop deck trailer measuring 21.3 meters specifically designed to deploy with the company’s M1300 enhanced heavy equipment transporter system tractor. It can transport tactical vehicles up to 60 tons and is certified under European Highway Network Accessibility for 45-ton payloads. The vehicle can navigate under overpasses with a 13-foot (4-meter) clearance and is equipped with hydraulically adjustable suspension to address varying requirements across obstacles and water crossings. Middle East & Africa India has reportedly been exporting weapons and military equipment to Israel […]

Italian Eurofighters (click to view full) The multi-national Eurofighter Typhoon has been described as the aerodynamic apotheosis of lessons learned from the twin engine “teen series” fighters that began with the F-14 and F-15, continued with the emergence of the F/A-18 Hornet, and extended through to the most recent F/A-18 Super Hornet variants. Aerodynamically, it’s a half generation ahead of all of these examples, and planned evolutions will place the Eurofighter near or beyond parity in electronic systems and weapons. The 1998 production agreement among its 4 member countries involved 620 aircraft, built with progressively improved capabilities over 3 contract “tranches”. By the end of Tranche 2, however, welfare state programs and debt burdens had made it difficult to afford the 236 fighters remaining in the 4-nation Eurofighter agreement. A 2009 compromise was found in the EUR 9 billion “Tranche 3A” buy, and the program has renewed its efforts to secure serious export sales. Their success will affect the platform’s production line in the near term, and its modernization plans beyond that. Eurofighter: Design & Evolution Eurofighter, Spain (click to view full) The Eurofighter program emerged out of a long and conflicting set of multinational efforts to design a new […]

Les initiatives pour pallier le manque de représentation féminine dans le sport se multiplient à l'approche des Jeux Olympiques. Journalistes et anciennes athlètes croates se mobilisent, à l'image d'Antonija Dujmović, journaliste sportive engagée pour la promotion du sport féminin.

- Articles / Courrier des Balkans, Croatie, Sports

La Macédoine du Nord a un nouveau Premier ministre, Hristijan Mickoski, le chef des nationalistes conservateurs du VMRO-DPMNE, alliés pour l'occasion avec la coalition albanaise VLEN. En pleine relance des tensions avec la Grèce, quelle sera la ligne de la coalition ?

- Articles / Courrier des Balkans, Politique Macédoine, Macédoine du Nord, Politique, Nom de la Macédoine

Americas Boeing won a $210 million ceiling-priced delivery order under previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00383-22-G-YY01) for procurement of nine various configurations of flight control surface spares used on the F/A-18E/F and E/A-18G aircrafts. The delivery order does not include an option period. Work will be performed in Hazelwood, Missouri (85%); and St. Louis, Missouri (15%), and work is expected to be completed by July 2032 with no options. The announcement contains purchases under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity. Boeing has revealed the construction of a new engineering center in Daytona Beach, Florida, to boost support for military aircraft programs. The center will be built within the Cici & Hyatt Brown Center for Aerospace Technology area of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. It will encompass 65,000 square feet (6,038 square meters) of space at the campus, including a 40,000-square-foot (3,716-square-meter) zone for a hangar. Middle East & Africa According to Defense News, the US will have fully cleared out of one air base in Niger as it continues to move personnel and equipment from the African country ahead of a September deadline to complete its withdrawal, according to the […]

Breakthrough… (click to view full) The US Navy flies the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet fighters, and has begun operating the EA-18G Growler electronic warfare & strike aircraft. Many of these buys have been managed out of common multi-year procurement (MYP) contracts, which aim to reduce overall costs by offering longer-term production commitments, so contractors can negotiate better deals with their suppliers. The MYP-II contract ran from 2005-2009, and was not renewed because the Pentagon intended to focus on the F-35 fighter program. When it became clear that the F-35 program was going to be late, and had serious program and budgetary issues, pressure built to abandon year-by-year contracting, and negotiate another multi-year deal for the current Super Hornet family. That deal is now final. This entry covers the program as a whole, with a focus on 2010-2015 Super Hornet family purchases. It has been updated to include all announced contracts and events connected with MYP-III, including engines and other separate “government-furnished equipment” that figures prominently in the final price. Hornet MYP: Aircraft Types Hornet vs. Super Hornet (click to view full) Super Hornets are flown by the US Navy, replacing the service’s retired F-14 Tomcat fighters, and by Australia’s RAAF. […]

Ilva u. a.
Umwelt und Verbraucher

Der Betrieb des Stahlwerks Ilva muss ausgesetzt werden, wenn er schwere und erhebliche Gefahren für die Umwelt und die menschliche Gesundheit mit sich bringt

Ilva and Others
Environment and consumers

The operation of the Ilva steelworks must be suspended if it poses serious and significant threats to the environment and human health

Ils sont originaires des Balkans, vivent en France et s'inquiètent du risque d'une victoire de l'extrême droite parce qu'ils se souviennet de ce que le nationalisme a produit dans l'ancienne Yougoslavie. Témoignages.

- Articles / Courrier des Balkans, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Croatie, Serbie, Populations, minorités et migrations, Politique

Ils sont originaires des Balkans, vivent en France et s'inquiètent du risque d'une victoire de l'extrême droite parce qu'ils se souviennet de ce que le nationalisme a produit dans l'ancienne Yougoslavie. Témoignages.

- Articles / Courrier des Balkans, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Croatie, Serbie, Populations, minorités et migrations, Politique

Americas Austal USA, Mobile won a $47 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price, and cost-only modification for Littoral Combat Ships class design support, and integrated data and product model environment support. Work will be performed in Mobile, Alabama  and Pittsfield, Massachusetts and is expected to be completed by June 2025. Fiscal 2019 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of will be obligated at time of award. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, DC, is the contracting activity. Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks will deliver over 1,500 Zetros logistics trucks to the Canadian Armed Forces. The delivery includes 1,000 light Zetros (two-axle vehicles with all-wheel drive, 4×4) and approximately 500 heavy Zetros (four-axle vehicles with all-wheel drive, 8×8). The vehicles will be used for off-road transportation of goods and personnel.  “This contract reflects the level of confidence one of the largest NATO countries has in our partner network – in our experience, reliability and technical competence,” Head of Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks Franziska Cusumano said. Middle East & Africa According to Defense News, Virginia-based defense contractor Artis is forming a joint venture with the United Arab Emirates’ company Bin Hilal Enterprises to offer its system overseas. Artis and BHE signed a memorandum of understanding the Eurosatory international […]