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C'est une «conviction» d'Emmanuel Macron qui devrait faire réagir. Invité ce mardi de la matinale d'Europe 1, le ministre de l'Economie s'est dit «tout à fait favorable» à «accroître la part de mérite»...

La ville de Suresnes va mettre en place la rémunération au mérite de ses agents municipaux à partir d'avril 2016.

La ville de Suresnes va mettre en place la rémunération au mérite de ses agents municipaux à partir d'avril 2016. Emmanuel Macron y est favorable, comme sa collègue la ministre de la Fonction publique Marylise Lebranchu.

November 9, 2015 (RUMBEK) - Authorities in South Sudan's Lakes state have demoted town local journalists in what the state government described as a case of indiscipline.

The director general in the state information ministry, Gabriel Gakmar Kuc said the move followed the outcome of a disciplinary committee set up last month to investigate an incident involving a physical fight in office by the two employees in September.

The duo, Mabor Riak Magok and John Chiec Dut worked for Radio FM-98 in Rumbek.

"The decision is to downgrade Mabor Riak Magok from grade 10 to12 and John Chiec to be totally reassigned to another ministry without access to the radio station," said Kuc.

He added, "The demotion of Mabor Riak is accompanied with a transfer from the information ministry to another ministry without journalistic related assignment. John Chiec Dut will serve for three years in the ministry of information without promotion.”

The media in Lakes state operates in hash conditions and press freedom is restricted. Many local reporters have complained of intimidation or dismissal without clear charges.

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Malgré les réticences qui subsistent en ce qui concerne la transparence, les agriculteurs italiens ne rejettent pas le Partenariat transatlantique de commerce et d'investissement (TTIP), pourtant très controversé, qui se négocie en ce moment entre les États-Unis et l’UE.

From 21 to 25 September 2015 the bi-annual Congress of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW) took place at the University of Duisburg in Western Germany. More than 800 participants attended the event. As one of these participants, three observations seemed to be of particular interest to me.

First, in comparison to the previous congress in Tübingen, in 2013, the proportion of international papers and paper-givers had hugely increased and gave the conference a much more international atmosphere than before.

Second, while grass-roots democracy is very much alive in this association, it is not always to the advantage of its membership! The elections of the new Chair and Committee of Governors was one such example where meddling behind the scenes and public anger about it clashed in the general assembly. It took six hours to get to the elections only to find two hours later that the newly elected Chair, Michael Zürn, had already resigned! Highly divisive, in this assembly the good and great of German political science dismantled each other to a degree that the new Committee of Governors, which remained in place after the resignation of the chair, decided only to stay for one year, rather than the normal three years, and use that time mainly to revise electoral procedures in the DVPW. They will surely consider online voting, such as in other big academic organisations such as the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), but one way or another it will be a lost year for making the DVPW more relevant through more internationalisation, for example.

Thirdly, during the 5 days of the congress, there was a wide thematic variety of panels, from political economy to international politics and environmental policies. Most of these panels touched in their contents on the most important political phenomenon of our time, the European Union, but hardly any mentioned it by name or saw the importance of European Union aspects in their particular analyses.There was only one silver lining on the horizon, the Working Group for (European) Integration, but with about 10 people in the audience this remained a side-line panel. Quite curious for a political science association…

The question arises whether German political science is so inward-looking now that it doesn’t even notice European integration any more. In other words: does it mean that the famous ‘re-nationalisation’ of politics in Europe is not only conducted by governments but also by researchers? It is perhaps a sign of our time in which the EU seems to drift more and more into oblivion while at the same time it is becoming increasingly needed for key policies, such as the refugee crisis.

Thomas Hoerber, EU-Asia Institute,
ESSCA School of Management

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Jean Asselborn, le ministre des Affaires étrangères luxembourgeois, met en garde les États membre sur le danger que représente leur rejet du système Schengen, dans le contexte de crise des réfugiés.

Un an jour pour jour après la « consultation » sur l’indépendance de la Catalogne interdite par le Tribunal constitutionnel, le nouveau parlement élu de Catalogne a engagé le processus de sécession de la région avec l’État espagnol.

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EU Ministers of Finance meet in Brussels on 10 November 2015 to try to reach a political agreement on the rules for bridge financing of the single resolution mechanism.

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Lors d'une réunion du Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU, Paris et Londres ont appelé à des mesures fortes afin d'éviter que le Burundi ne sombre dans un conflit ethnique. De son côté, Bujumbura assure que le pays est "calme".

Hassan Rohani, le président iranien, sera en France les 16 et 17 novembre prochain. Mais selon RTL, alors qu'un dîner aurait dû être organisé à l'Elysée, il n'aura finalement pas lieu pour une histoire...

+VIDEO Interrogé sur Europe 1, le ministre de l’Economie a estimé que l’amendement voté dans la nuit et permettant d’assouplir la loi Evin sur la publicité sur l'alcool ne contrevient pas aux objectifs de santé public.

Vis ma vie de chauffeur et de taxi. Thomas Thévenoud a voulu fêter le premier anniversaire de la loi qui porte son nom in situ. Sur un siège passager avant, décontracté en jean, moustache et bracelet brésilien...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the killing today of a peacekeeper from the United Nations mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) following a confrontation with armed elements in the town of Batangafo, amid ongoing violence in the strife-torn country where elections are set to take place before the end of the year.

UAE Major General Abdullah Al Hashimi (left) shakes hands with Saab Group Presid

November 9, 2015 (RUMBEK) - A pastoral youth killed five South Sudan army soldiers amd wounded 11 others from the military unit in Lakes state, officials said Monday.

Map detail showing South Sudan's Lakes state in red

The incident occured in Cuei-adukan, located about five kilometres from town.

Clashes erupted when armed soldier forcefully tried to seize the pastoralist's gun, which provoked the youth to attack the military barracks and cause havoc.

A criminal investigation department official confirmed the clashes, describing the incident as an unfortunate fight that left soliders dead while the killer escaped unhurt.

“We have lost five combat soldiers – we have 11 soldiers that sustained gunshot wounds and we admitted them in Rumbek hospital for treatment – those pastoralist youths are very rough and our forces have disengaged from fighting them," said Moses Dut.

Madit Bil, a youth who participated in the clashes, said the army seized his gun by force.

"The soldiers beat me and took away my gun by force – they beat me, released me and then I decided to come back as a man and I take away my gun in the same way that they seized my gun – now I have my gun with me and I will see how will take it again, said Bil.

He regretted the lootings and burning of houses allegedly carried out by soldiers, whom he advised to act as trained soldiers. Bil said that around 20 houses were set on fire by soldiers while an old man who was very sick was burnt alive.

Marial Amuom Malek, Lakes state security advisor confirmed the shooting and said that state governments had controlled the situation and normal business had resumed.

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November 9, 2015 (KHARTOUM) - The joint political and security committee between Sudan and South Sudan headed by the minister of defence in the two countries will meet in the next Monday in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

South Sudan's defence minister Kuol Manyang Juuk shakes hands with his Sudanese counterpart Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Ouf while AUHIP member Abdulsalam Abubakar applauds, after the signing of an agreement to operationalize the buffer zone between the two countries on 14 October 2015 (Courtesy photo by the AUHIP).

The members of the two delegations will discuss the implementation of the recommendations of the last extraordinary meeting between the two sides in last September.

On 14 October 2015, Sudanese defence minister Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Ouf and his South Sudanese counterpart Kuol Manyang Juuk signed an agreement providing to operationalize the demilitarized zone and to deploy the UN supported joint monitoring units.

The semi-official Sudanese media Center (SMC) Monday has reported that the meeting will discuss the activation of the implementation mechanisms according to the security arrangements agreement between Sudan and South Sudan, in addition to discuss the establishment of the demilitarized border zone between the two countries.

According to a statement by the African Union High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) which brokers the process, the 16 November meeting was supposed to discuss a report by UNFISA force commander and to take place in Khartoum.

Juba and Khartoum on 27 September 2012, signed the cooperation agreement to end the tension erupted between the two countries since the separation of South Sudan in July 2011.

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November 9, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – The European Union (EU) pledged to help establish a training center for Sudanese police that specializes in migration issues and educating refugees and IDP's.

A soldier and rescued migrants on the deck of Maltese army patrol boat in Valletta, Malta, January 2015. (Photo Reuters/Darrin Zammit Lupi)

The EU envoy in Sudan, Thomas Ulicny met with the minister of Interior Ismat Abdel-Rahman and told him that providing the necessary technical support to the Sudanese police is meant to help it fully play its role in reducing illegal immigration and combating human trafficking rings.

Ulicny said the EU extended an invitation to the Sudanese Ministry of Interior and the Sudanese police to attend EU-Africa migration conference in Malta this week.

For his part, the interior minister stressed the importance of cooperation and coordination of efforts and exchange of experiences and activating security agreements and protocols between countries to curb human trafficking and illegal migration.

The minister pointed out that Sudan has sought hard to control its borders with neighboring countries to curb the influx of refugees and human trafficking that resulted in the spread of many crimes that affected the cultures and customs of the peoples of the region.

The minister of Justice Hassan Awad al-Nur who met with the EU ambassador as well discussed the Malta summit agenda next week.

He noted his ministry's efforts in the preparation of legislation, drafting laws and training of advisers on rules related to human trafficking and smuggling with the aid of EU technical help.

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The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy – ELIAMEP is seeking a researcher-IT expert for a 5-month position (February – June 2016). The job position is part of the Research Programme LOMIGRAS: “Mainstreaming and Monitoring Immigrants’ Integration in Local Government in Greece”, which is funded by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology of Greece through the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism (EEA Grants).

 Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience 

• Post-graduate degree (Ph.D or MA) in computer sciences or statistics.
• Ability to use and apply social research data through the creation of relevant technological instruments
• Proven experience in the development of web-based applications.
• Proven experience in the analysis of quantitative data.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills in English and Greek.

Main duties

• Develop indicators and monitoring tool for assessing immigrant integration at the local level.
• Analysis of secondary quantitative data.
• Develop of web-based application on monitoring and assessment tool (MAT).
• Conduct pilot-testing of the web-based application of the MAT in the Municipality of Athens.
• Contribute to the report on a set of policy recommendations regarding the assessment of local integration tools and strategies at local, national and European levels.
• Programme’s website design and management
• Contribute to the organisation of three workshops in Athens and Thessaloniki and the final conference in Athens.
• Contribute to networking and disseminating research results of LOMIGRAS.

Deadline for application: 25 November 2015

Please submit your application electronically including cover letter and CV with «MIGR_11b.15″ in subject line, to migration@eliamep.gr.

The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy – ELIAMEP will recruit a research fellow for a 5-month position (December 2016 – April 2016).

The job position is part of the Research Programme LOMIGRAS: “Mainstreaming and Monitoring Immigrants’ Integration in Local Government in Greece”, which is funded by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology of Greece through the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism (EEA Grants).

 Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience 

• Pοst-graduate degree (M.A. or Ph.D) in political or social sciences.
• Previous experience in management and coordination of research projects.
• Proven experience with empirical research on migration.
• Proven experience and record of publications in the field of migrant integration in Greece and in Europe.
• Experience in organising workshops, networking and disseminating research results.
• Excellent IT skills and use of multimedia.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills in English and Greek.

Main duties

• Assist to the project’s principal investigator with the management and coordination of the LOMIGRAS research project.
• Conduct interviews with key informants in various municipalities in Greece.
• Engage in the analysis of qualitative data of empirical research by municipality.
• Co-authoring reports on integration of migrants in local government.
• Involvement in the organisation of two workshops in Athens and Thessaloniki and the final conference in Athens.
• Contribute to networking and to the dissemination of research results of LOMIGRAS.

Deadline for application: 25 November 2015

Please submit your application electronically including cover letter and CV with «MIGR_11d.15″ in subject line, to migration@eliamep.gr.