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Nemzetközi Magyar Fotópályázat 2016

PAFI - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 22:32
A kiíró fotópályázatot és kiállítás sorozatot rendez a magyar és a határainkon túl élő és alkotó, magukat magyar nemzetiségűnek valló fotográfusok részére. A tárlat célja bemutatni és népszerűsíteni mindazon magyar alkotók munkásságát, akik a Kárpát-medencében, vagy azon is túl, gazdagítják az egyetemes fotókultúrát, ugyanakkor művészeti tevékenységükkel kapcsolatokat teremtenek a különböző országok, népek és kultúrák között.
Categories: Pályázatok

Fenntartható városi közlekedésfejlesztés / TOP-6.4.1-15

PAFI - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 22:31
Magyarország Kormányának felhívása megyei jogú város önkormányzatok részére a fenntartható közlekedési módok további térnyerése érdekében.
Categories: Pályázatok

Ablakon Bedobott Pénz Program

PAFI - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 22:31
Az Ablakon Bedobott Pénz (ABP) Program keretében a kiíró összegyűjti azokat az intézkedéseket, projekteket, beruházásokat, amelyek környezeti és gazdasági szempontból is előnyösek.
Categories: Pályázatok

Otthon Melege Program - Családi házak energia-megtakarítást eredményező korszerűsítésének, felújításának támogatása alprogram / ZFR-CSH/2016

PAFI - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 22:31
A családi házak elavult fűtés-, melegvíz- és energiaellátó rendszerei, továbbá a gyenge minőségű hőszigetelés jelentős energiaveszteséget - és ezáltal többlet széndioxid kibocsátást - okoznak. Az energiatakarékosság fokozását és az üvegházhatású gázkibocsátás csökkentését szolgáló épületenergetikai korszerűsítéseket célzó beruházások megvalósítása költséges, emiatt gyakran kivitelezhetetlen a családi házban lakó magánszemélyeknek megfelelő támogatás nélkül.
Categories: Pályázatok

Otthon Melege Program - Háztartási nagygépek (hűtő és fagyasztó készülék) energia megtakarítást eredményező cseréje alprogram / HGCS/2016

PAFI - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 22:30
A Nemzeti Fejlesztési Minisztérium pályázatot tesz közzé cselekvőképes nagykorú természetes személyek részére, a háztartások energiahatékonyságának növelése érdekében, meglévő háztartási nagygépek (hűtő és fagyasztó készülék) magas energiahatékonyságú, új berendezésekre történő cseréjének támogatására.
Categories: Pályázatok

Nagyvállalati Beruházási Támogatási program

PAFI - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 22:30
A kiíró gazdaságpolitikai célkitűzéseinek meghatározó eleme az újraiparosítás, az iparfejlesztés. Ennek megvalósítása érdekében szükséges azon tőkehiányos hazai nagyvállalatok beruházásainak támogatása, amelyek jelentős mértékben járulnak hozzá a magyar gazdaság - ezen belül is a feldolgozóipar - növekedéséhez és a foglalkoztatás bővüléséhez, ugyanakkor ezen kapacitásbővítő fejlesztéseik tekintetében nem célcsoportjai az uniós forrásból kiírt pályázatoknak.
Categories: Pályázatok

Trump, Who Promises To Win At Everything, Just Lost a Golf Tournament to Mexico

Foreign Policy - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 22:27
The PGA is moving a marquee event from a Trump course in Florida to Mexico.

Students Who Cheat on Indian State Exams Should Not Agree to Be Quizzed on TV

Foreign Policy - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 22:27
Two students who scored at the top of their class were unable to answer basic questions about the material in a TV interview.

China’s New Silk Road Into Europe Is About More Than Money

Foreign Policy - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 22:18
Beijing is spending billions on new ports and rail lines, but its ambitions for Europe are as much about geopolitics as commerce.

Elkezdődött a fürdőidény Pacséron

VajdaságMA (Szerbia/Vajdaság) - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 22:03
Ma délelőtt nyitotta meg kapuit a fürdőzők előtt a pacséri sós, termálvizes gyógyfürdő.

Burkina : six individus liés à l’attentat de Ouagadougou ont été interpellés

LeMonde / Afrique - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 21:37
Ces arrestations interviennent alors que se multiplient les attaques contre des postes de gendarmerie dans le pays.
Categories: Afrique

Australian Lawmaker: I Shot and Ate an Elephant — and I Liked It

Foreign Policy - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 21:26
Australian lawmakers sparred over elephant meat, and one of them said he liked eating it.

Guess Who Fortune 500 CEOs Want As the Next President? Hint: It’s Not Trump.

Foreign Policy - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 21:06
There's broad support for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump among the leaders of the world's largest firms.

Mali: Ban ‘outraged’ by latest attack on UN mission; urges authorities to investigate

UN News Centre - Africa - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 20:52
In two separate incidents that took place yesterday in the Gao area of Mali’s restive north, terrorists attacked an outpost of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission (MINUSMA), as well as the services of a local provider for the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS), the most recent in a string of deadly attacks against the UN in the country.
Categories: Africa

Quand les femmes surpassent les hommes

BBC Afrique - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 20:02
Autrefois pratiquée par les hommes, la fantasia marocaine est devenue une affaire de femme.
Categories: Afrique

Complacency is a killer

Ideas on Europe Blog - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 19:48

Insert metaphor about how toasters can kill if you’re not careful, apply to referendums

One of the most interesting aspects of the EU referendum campaign so far has been the extent to which things haven’t changed.

Six weeks into the official period, we still have polling that gives no clear advantage to either side, nor even an indication that attitudes have changed at all: the don’t knows still make a solid 10-15% and have done for months. As we’ve been reporting on our social media monitoring, there’s no big explosion of public interest that can be detected.

All the lines of attack taken by either side have been ones that were long apparent and all have been countered (broadly speaking) almost immediately.

There’s been no big shock (unless you though Boris Johnson was actually doing the donuts himself), either within the UK or outside.

In short, things looks very much like they did: close.

Which makes this week’s sounds from the Remain camp all the more perplexing.

To read the Telegraph, following a poll that showed a big lead for Remain, was to read a worldview that said ‘job done’: the swing had come in, the messages had got through and now it was time to just cross ‘t’s and dot ‘i’s.

Regardless of what politics might be going on behind this, this looks at best irresponsible and at worse, damaging.

If last year’s General Election taught us anything, it’s that polling has a problem and for all the remedial work done by the industry since, they still have a problem, as evidenced by the continued divergence of telephone and online polling results. If even if they didn’t have a problem, then to take one of two polls as hard and fast evidence for a swing is bad practice (as Tuesday’s ICM poll neatly demonstrated).

If that’s irresponsible, then it’s equally important to stress the scope for damage to Remain’s case.

One of the more robust findings we have to date is the ‘enthusiasm gap‘ (Leavers are noticeably more committed to their cause than Remainers, as so more likely to turn out). Remain’s big challenge has always been to convince people that they need to get excited enough about the (roughly) status quo option to go and vote. As one Remain campaigner put it to me last week, “what do we want? the same” isn’t a great rallying cry.

In such a situation, one way to get the vote out is precisely to focus on the closeness of the campaign: Austria’s Presidential elections has provided a nice demonstration that one’s vote does actually count for a lot. But if Remain try to play up a swing (whether or not it exists), then the urgency and importance of voting drops, to Leave’s benefit. With all modelling suggesting that turnout is the crucial factor, any message that plays down the importance of mobilisation is going to hurt Remain.

To be clear, there’s no suggestion that the Telegraph (or any of the other outlets that ran with the story) are trying to work to engineer a Leave vote. Instead the issue is one that has been endemic in other referendums on European issues.

Where governments have lost such votes, in every case one of the key factors has been complacency. In the case of treaty ratifications, that has been driven by the weight of other member states’ ratifications and by the impression that the government’s hard bargaining on the text will be enough to carry the day. In the case of joining policy areas, the difficulty of the government reaching agreement to get to a vote in the first place does the same.

Here we have something a bit different. The government clearly didn’t expect to be holding this vote and it has recognised that the ‘new settlement’ agreed by Cameron in March isn’t enough to make the case, so it hasn’t gone in with its eyes shut. However, the capacity to bring many big guns to bear – international leaders, all but one party leader, most economists – and the subsequent command of the rational agenda has lent the impression that things must come right. Tony Blair is the purest expression of this sentiment to date.

This is very much to miss the dynamics of what is happening. As Janan Ganesh wrote yesterday, the EU ‘debate’ looks and feels a lot like the elite talking with itself, rather than actually engaging the wider public. With old notions of deference long gone and the lure of populism hanging nearby, it seems all too possible to envisage a situation where the referendum is determined more by the alienation of the public from the political sphere than by any substantive issue.

I’ve framed this mainly as an issue for Remain – which it is – but it’s also something that Leave have to address too: if they win, then some of them will be stepping into the corridors of power very soon and they will have to make good on their promises if they are not to generate another cycle of disillusionment and disengagement.

The fight for this referendum is still very much on, but so too is the ability of politicians and other elites to speak for the people: ultimately, that matters more than any outcome on 23 June. And that’s why we have to recognise that this matters not just in-of-itself, but also as a marker of our democratic lives.

The post Complacency is a killer appeared first on Ideas on Europe.

Categories: European Union

Saint-Gothard, le plus long tunnel au monde

BBC Afrique - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 19:45
Inauguration en Suisse du plus long tunnel au monde: le Saint-Gothard. Angela Merkel et François Hollande étaient du voyage.
Categories: Afrique

Why Russia's 'Pivot to China' Was All Talk and Little Action

The Moscov Times - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 19:38
So, is Russia pivoting to China or not? This question took on ideological importance when the Kremlin stepped up its propaganda, touting China as an alternative to Moscow's partnership with Europe.
Categories: Russia & CIS

No, You Apologize: Russia and Turkey Struggle to Mend Fences

The Moscov Times - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 19:36
Eight months after the dramatic falling out with Russia, the Turkish elite is sending mixed messages.
Categories: Russia & CIS

Les enfants, boucliers humains de l'EI

BBC Afrique - Wed, 01/06/2016 - 19:33
L'Unicef tire la sonnette d''alarme. 20.000 enfants sont bloqués dans la ville de Falloujah. Selon l'organisation, le groupe Etat islamique les utilisent comme bouclier humain.
Categories: Afrique

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