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On 25 January the Subcommittee on Human Rights, in association with the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries, will hold a public hearing on the human rights situation in Syria. The invited speakers will focus on human rights abuses against civilians committed by the Syrian regime and other parties of the Syrian conflict.
Location : Meeting room ASP A1G-3 from 15.30 - 17.30
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Martin Stropnicky cseh védelmi miniszter Twitteren jelentette be, hogy nyártól kezdve a Cseh és a Szlovák Légierő vadászgépei együttműködve védhetik a két ország légterét.

The Policy Department of the Directorate General for External Policies is holding a workshop for the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) and the Delegation for relations with Iran(D-IR) on 24 January 2017, 14.00-15.30. Chaired by Elena Valenciano, Chair of DROI and Janusz Lewandowski, Chair of D-IR, the workshop will focus on the recent trends in the human rights situation in Iran and in particular on the way the EU could promote change.
For further information please contact : Poldep-expo@europarl.europa.eu
Location : Meeting room ASP 5E2, BRUSSELS
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Longtemps évoqué comme un graal, le niveau des 77.000 militaires doit être atteint à la fin du mois,
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Au lendemain du premier débat de la primaire de la gauche, les réactions ont été nombreuses. Et que ce soit du côté des candidats eux-mêmes ou chez leurs adversaires de droite, peu en sont satisfaits.

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A Somali town tries limits the cost of weddings, saying married young men are less likely to migrate.

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EU Foreign Affairs ministers meet in Brussels on 16 January 2017 to examine developments in Syria, and to discuss the Middle East Peace Process and the situation in Egypt as well as in Libya.

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Former guerrilla commander turned Kosovo MP Fatmir Limaj pleaded not guilty at the start of his trial to accusations that he was responsible for the murder of two Kosovo Albanian civilians in October 1998.

À la frontière croate, la Slovénie érige une barrière anti-migrants
Slovénie : les migrants, l'État islamique et la peur de l'autre
Réfugiés : les peurs et les rumeurs de la « Slovénie profonde »
La Slovénie et les réfugiés : « Nous défendrons les frontières Schengen »
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A new EDA project aimed at setting a roadmap for future activities designed to transpose the ‘Circular Economy’ concept into the defence sector has been launched this Friday 13 January. During a kick-off meeting held at the EDA premises, the first steps of this ambitious project were discussed with experts from the ‘Circular Economy Research Initiative’ of the Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS) which is the contractor for this project. The project will result in a study scheduled to be finalized by end of October 2017.

The CJBS researchers will be working closely with the EDA project team in order to perform the initial assessment of possible constraints and opportunities that could derive from applying the Circular Economy concept and principles to the defence sector. Both teams will then establish a roadmap for follow-on actions and propose suitable alternatives in areas where problems may arise.

Circular Economy is a new policy domain that was launched by the European Commission in late 2015 with a communication entitled “Closing the loop: Commission adopts ambitious new Circular Economy Package to boost competitiveness, create jobs and generate sustainable growth”. Then, on 30 November 2016, the European Commission adopted the European Defence Action plan which paved the road for the Circular Economy principles to be applied to the defence sector. As Commission Vice-President Jyrki Katainen wrote in EDA’s European Defence Matters magazine recently, “the transposition of the circular economy principles in the defence sector can benefit the European industry and economy in many ways.”

Indeed, the Circular Economy’s underlying principles are not unfamiliar to the defence sector which has managed to follow a similar path over the years, for instance by applying a through-life management approach. Therefore, it was deemed important that a proactive step be taken in view of assessing the possible alignment or gaps between the flagship initiative of the European Commission and the defence framework. In this respect, the EDA thinks that an assessment of the feasibility of a transposition of the Circular Economy concept into the defence sector could be beneficial. In particular, introducing the Circular Economy principles at an early stage of the research and technology (R&T) phase could produce more systematic and structural benefits. A positive outcome from project study could be highly beneficial for the Member States. The benefits for the defence industry (of which a large part are small and medium enterprises) will be also be explored.

The EDA expects that this initial assessment will shed some light on the potential benefits and challenges of applying the Circular Economy package to the defence sector. Moreover, it should allow to identify topics, opportunities and areas that require further assessment and analysis. These topics will be dealt with in the follow-on actions that EDA will take for establishing the work strand in the area of Circular Economy in defence and enable a smooth and beneficial transition.

The project team of the Circular Economy Research Initiative of the University of Cambridge Judge Business school consists of Dr Khaled Soufani, Dr Mark Esposito and Dr Tse Terence. The EDA project team is composed by Dr Panagiotis Kikiras, Mr Giorgos Dimitriou and Ms Patricia López Vicente.

Il n’y a pas si longtemps, les relations entre Moscou et Ankara étaient extrêmement tendues, notamment à cause du dossier syrien et du bombardier tactique Su-24 Fencer russe abattu en novembre 2015 par l’aviation turque. Depuis, il n’est plus question d’invectives entre ces deux capitales. Par pragmatisme, la Russie et la Turquie, très critique à […]

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The Serbian government urged France to send former Kosovo Liberation Army commander and ex-PM Ramush Haradinaj to Belgrade to face war crimes charges, threatening retraliation if he isn’t extradited.

Le premier débat de la primaire de la gauche a réuni 3,8 millions de téléspectateurs, soit 18,3% de part d’audience. Un chiffre sensiblement inférieure au premier débat de la primaire de la droite qui...

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UN Secretary General Antonio GUTERRES, European Commission president Jean-Claude JUNCKER, EU Commissioner for Foreign Affairs Federica MOGHERINI, and the foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, Greece, and Turkey, join President Nicos ANASTASIADES and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa AKINCI in Geneva for talks on security and guarantees, the so-called ‘international’ aspect of the Cyprus problem.

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Le premier des trois débats télévisé entre les sept candidats de la primaire à gauche a eu lieu jeudi.

Statements by US secretary of state-designate Rex Tillerson have revealed that his views on relations with Russia, Nato membership and climate policy differ from those of president-elect Donald Trump. Some commentators hope Tillerson will get his way. For others, the new administration is facing its first crisis even before Trump takes office.