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Le site français Mediapart lance une opération spéciale «Ouvrez l’Europe #OpenEurope». En partenariat avec des associations, des ONG et sept journaux tunisien et européens, dont Hulala.

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Tout l’été, les dirigeants européens vont nous imposer leurs médiocres marchandages pour se répartir 40.000 Syriens et Érythréens débarqués sur les côtes européennes. Tout l’été, ils déploreront les morts de migrants en Méditerranée (près de deux mille personnes décédées depuis le début de l’année), tout en demandant un renforcement des frontières Schengen. Une nouvelle illustration de cet égoïsme tenant lieu de politique a été donnée lors du sommet européen des 25 et 26 juin, quand les dirigeants ont parlé expulsions plutôt que procédures d’accueil, réaffirmant leur vision d’une Europe-forteresse, claquemurée et insensible.

L’Union européenne, première puissance économique mondiale, 500 millions d’habitants, ne pourrait donc accueillir quelques dizaines de milliers de migrants, assurent ces responsables, faisant fi de nos valeurs d’accueil, d’asile et de solidarité. Depuis le début de l’année, environ 100 000 personnes ont débarqué sur le vieux continent (54 000 en Italie et 48 000 en Grèce), selon le Haut-commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (HCR), contre 219 000 pour l’ensemble de l’année 2014. Il ne s’agit donc nullement de «hordes» de migrants, encore moins de «déferlement», comme veulent le laisser croire certains responsables politiques. Faut-il rappeler que la Turquie accueille à elle seule 1,7 million de Syriens ; que le Liban en reçoit 1,1 million, soit près d’un tiers de sa population?

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Face à la tragédie vécue par ces femmes, ces hommes, ces familles entières fuyant les guerres, nous, Européens, ne voulons pas être les spectateurs de nos égoïsmes nationaux. Nous ne pouvons plus accepter de laisser mourir aux portes de l’Europe les milliers d’exilés venus de la Corne de l’Afrique, de l’Afrique de l’Ouest et du Moyen-Orient dans l’espoir d’atteindre nos rivages. Nous devons refuser la honte que les États membres nous infligent en promettant de « sauver les migrants » tout en construisant des murs et en bloquant des frontières.

Nous ne voulons pas de cette « solidarité » là. Celle qui est en train de naître, en Europe, partout sur les routes migratoires, est d’une autre nature. Elle mobilise une foule de citoyens qui apportent leur aide avec les moyens du bord. Durant tout l’été, ce sont ces gestes que le projet «Ouvrez l’Europe #OpenEurope» veut raconter et valoriser. Nous avons voulu lancer cette opération en partenariat avec des ONG, des associations et des médias tunisien et européens pour mieux témoigner du drame qui se déroule et mieux relayer les nombreuses initiatives d’entraide qui se font jour.

Dans le cadre de «Ouvrez l’Europe #OpenEurope», nous publierons avec nos partenaires des reportages qui donnerons à voir les chemins empruntés et l’accueil en Turquie, dans les Balkans, en France, en Italie, en Suède, en Allemagne et ailleurs.

À ce traitement journalistique, qui prendra aussi la forme d’analyses et de photoreportages, s’ajoutera un fil d’actualité d’informations pratiques à destination des migrants, des collectifs locaux et des citoyens engagés dans des opérations de solidarité : lieux d’accueil; aide humanitaire; permanence juridique et assistance ; guides et modes d’emploi. Ce fil sera alimenté par les ONG, associations et collectifs, ainsi que par des journalistes.

Un espace participatif, enfin, regroupera les récits et les témoignages de migrants et des citoyens engagés dans des actions concrètes.

Nous pensons que cette mobilisation citoyenne est à même de s’imposer aux États membres. De les contraindre à enfin réagir. Des solutions politiques doivent être trouvées. Plus de 20.000 personnes ont péri en Méditerranée en quinze ans ! Les migrants ne prennent pas tous ces risques sans raison. Ils le font – en dépensant beaucoup plus d’argent qu’en voyageant en avion – car les voies d’asile et d’immigration légales leur sont fermées.

Les dirigeants européens se défaussent sur leurs opinions publiques nationales pour justifier leurs politiques restrictives. Pourtant, en voulant leur plaire, ils ne font que construire l’image – fausse – d’une Europe assiégée et donner des arguments aux droites et aux droites extrêmes. Les quelques centaines de milliers de migrants sont en réalité une goutte d’eau au regard des 500 millions d’Européens que nous sommes. Le Vieux continent a les moyens de les accueillir. Il en a même le besoin démographique et économique. Employons-nous à changer de regard et à les considérer comme des Européens plutôt que d’alimenter la peur et le rejet.

• Un appel à témoignages a été lancé dans Le Club de Mediapart. Racontez nous sur votre blog ou dans cette édition participative des initiatives, des situations particulières, des solidarités concrètes. C’est ici.

• Vous voulez témoigner, alerter, signaler une information, un communiqué: vous pouvez utiliser le mail openeurope@mediapart.fr

A ce jour, voici les journaux qui participent à cette opération :

Infolibre (Espagne)
Correct!v (Allemagne)
Internazionale (Italie)
Le Courrier des Balkans (Balkans)
Hulala (Hongrie)
Efimerida ton syntakton (Grèce)
Inkyfada (Tunisie)

Et voici les principales associations, collectifs et grandes ONG :

Médecins du Monde
Migreurop
La Cimade
Gisti

Tout le monde ne parle plus que de ça : de ces clandestins qui entrent en Hongrie par milliers. Plus de 60 000 depuis le début de l’année, essentiellement issus des zones de guerre en Syrie, en Afghanistan et en Irak. Ils transitent via la Turquie, la Grèce et remontent par la péninsule balkanique et la Serbie. La Hongrie n’est pour la très grande majorité d’entre eux qu’un pays de passage sur la route de l’Allemagne et de l’Ouest de l’Europe. Mais la Hongrie est un pays stratégique car c’est la frontière externe de la zone Schengen.

Le phénomène est très peu visible en Hongrie, mais le gouvernement ne se prive pas de faire son beurre dessus : grande consultation nationale sur « l’immigration et le terrorisme », plans pour construire une clôture le long de la frontière entre la Hongrie et la Serbie, et une nouvelle législation qui devrait être votée dans les jours à venir permettrait de refouler les migrants en Serbie.

Pour en parler, nous avons invité mardi soir (30 juin) dans les studios de la Tilos Rádió de Budapest :

Diana Szántó – Diana dirige la Fondation « Artemisszio ». Une fondation d’intérêt public qui fonctionne depuis 1998 à l’initiative de jeunes anthropologistes. Sa mission : encourager le dialogue et les interactions entre des groupes culturellement, ethniquement et socialement diverses, et favoriser leur intégration.

Gábor Gyulai – Gábor est coordinateur du programme pour les réfugiés au sein de la branche hongroise du « Comité Helsinki ». Une ONG internationale qui – parmi ses nombreuses missions – apporte une aide essentiellement juridique aux migrants et essaie d’éclairer autant que possible le débat public.

La Hongrie, sur la route des réfugiés by Hu_Lala on Mixcloud

La photo est issue d’un superbe reportage de Istvan Fazekas, pour HVG.hu.

ARI 33/2015 - 1/7/2015
Fernando Reinares
Un año después de que el denominado Estado Islámico impusiera su dominio sobre amplias zonas de Siria e Irak, proclamando un califato que ha ido expandiendo, evidencia capacidades y recursos para la acción terrorista fuera de esos países comparables si no ya superiores a los acumulados por al-Qaeda la pasada década.

Photo Credit: Theophilos Papadopoulos via Flickr

Greece’s far-left may have reached its day of reckoning far faster than anticipated.

As negotiations between Greece and the troika came to a screeching halt last week over the terms of a multibillion-euro bailout — a few days before the country is expected to vote on the troika’s terms and conditions for a bailout — the country’s already-weakened economy has come to a standstill. Just hours before the deadline for the country’s 1.6 billion euro debt payment on Tuesday, markets were relatively calm, but capital controls to prevent cash from flowing rapidly out of the country have been in full effect. Banks have been forced to close as well and will remain so until July 7, and withdrawals, if one can find a working ATM, are severely limited.

But for Alexis Tsipras and his party, Syriza — both of whom rode into Athens on a wave of popular frustration with Greece’s pro-austerity political establishment — what comes next will be the make-or-break moment for the party’s ability to lead in difficult times.

As far as leadership is concerned, Tspiras’ motives for backing such a referendum are clear. Putting the creditor’s offer to a vote takes some of the weight of his shoulders and opens up the opportunity for the party to lead the country through a time of trial without (presumably) as much backlash. In essence, it’s a way of saying: Whatever road we choose to take, we’re all in this together.

It’s no surprise, then, that Tsipras has presented the referendum not as a vote on Greece remaining in the eurozone, nor as a vote between the euro or the drachma. Rather, for Tsipras, the referendum is a democratic imperative — an exercise in sovereignty before all else.

“Greece, the birthplace of democracy, should send a resounding democratic message to the European and global community,” he said in his address on the referendum on June 27.

“I am absolutely confident that your choice will honor our country’s history and will send a message of dignity worldwide. In these critical times, we all have to remember that Europe is the common home of all of its peoples.”

Whether or not the referendum is a practical exercise has been the matter of some controversy. Those opposing the referendum, including a number of former Greek government officials, have framed the vote as “yes” or “no” to Europe. Even Former Prime Minister George Papandreou — who carried out a similar referendum in 2011, which he has since defended — has repeatedly condemned the July 5 referendum, referring to it as a “tactical ploy” and a sort of negotiating weapon.

Still others have argued much of the blowback comes from the fact that the European project wasn’t all that democratic to begin with. Writing in The Guardian, economist Joseph Stiglitz noted, “[W]hat we are seeing now, 16 years after the eurozone institutionalized those relationships, is the antithesis of democracy.” European leaders, Stiglitz continues, want Tsipras and Syriza out, and they want a Greek government in power that is willing to accept the terms and conditions of eurozone membership without a fight.

What happens on July 5 is up to the Greeks, and only the Greeks, to decide. No matter that outcome, it’s impossible to deny that this is the moment for Syriza. Tsipras’ government is young, but it’s already had its share of fights. They’ve already confronted the EU — but will they capitulate?

“More than ever we must be clear that there is no middle course between confrontation and capitulation,” wrote Stathis Kouvelakis, a member of Syriza’s central committee, after the party was elected in January 2015. “The moment of truth is at hand.”

Those words couldn’t be more relevant now.

Nearly half of all people living in extreme poverty are aged 18 or under. Children and young people are particularly vulnerable to social exclusion, violence and abuse. In 2014 the European Parliament called on the High Representative of the Union to report back to Parliament every year on the results of the EU's child-focused external action. The Parliament had also previously underlined the urgent need for the Union to pay special attention to the most vulnerable and socially excluded girls and boys. International commitments to improve the lives of children are reflected in various Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly the one on infant mortality. One in four children under five (162 million) remains stunted, risking diminished cognitive and physical development. The Parliament recently called on the Commission to scale up its nutrition-specific commitments. The proposed Sustainable Development Goals include numerous targets to improve the situation of children and youth and represent an important leap forward.
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On 30 June 2015, the Council presidency reached an agreement with the European Parliament on a draft directive establishing new improved rules on insurance distribution.

On 30 June 2015, the Council presidency reached an agreement with the European Parliament on a draft directive establishing new improved rules on insurance distribution.

The following by Raymond Ibrahim is reposted here with the permission of the Middle East Forum:
Where Is the Pope's Encyclical on Christian Persecution?by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPage Magazine
June 25, 2015http://www.meforum.org/5351/pope-christian-persecution

Pope Francis recently released a new encyclical. Portions of it deal with environmentalism, global warming, and climate change. Naturally, this has prompted controversy.

It's noteworthy that Francis didn't merely make a passing comment on global warming during this or that sermon, but that he issued a papal encyclical on the matter. Encyclicals are much more formal and significant than remarks made during mass. They are letters written by a pope and sent to bishops all around the world. In turn, the bishops are meant to disseminate the encyclical's ideas to all the priests and churches in their jurisdiction, so that the pope's teaching reaches every church-attending Catholic.

All this leads to the following question: Where is Pope Francis' encyclical concerning the rampant persecution that Christians—including many Catholics—are experiencing around the world, the Islamic world in particular?
To be sure, the pope has acknowledged it. On April 21, during mass held at Casa Santa Marta, Francis said that today's church is a "church of martyrs." He even referenced several of the recent attacks on Christians by Muslims (without of course mentioning the latter's religious identity). Said Pope Francis:In these days how many Stephens [early Christian martyred in Book of Acts] there are in the world! Let us think of our brothers whose throats were slit on the beach in Libya [by the Islamic State]; let's think of the young boy who was burnt alive by his [Pakistani Muslim] companions because he was a Christian; let us think of those migrants thrown from their boat into the open sea by other [African Muslim] migrants because they were Christians; let us think – just the day before yesterday – of those Ethiopians assassinated because they were Christians... and ofmany others. Many others of whom we do not even know and who are suffering in jails because they are Christians... The Church today is a Church of martyrs: they suffer, they give their lives and we receive the blessing of God for their witness.The pope is acquainted with the reality of Christian persecution around the world. So why isn't he issuing an encyclical about it? Such an encyclical would be very useful.
The pope should instruct bishops to acknowledge the truth about Christian persecution worldwide.The pope could instruct bishops to acknowledge the truth about Christian persecution and to have this news spread to every Catholic church. Perhaps a weekly prayer for the persecuted church could be institutionalized—keeping the plight of those hapless Christians in the spotlight, so Western Catholics and others always remember them, talk about them, and, perhaps most importantly, understand why they are being persecuted.
Once enough people are familiar with the reality of Christian persecution, they could influence U.S. policymakers—for starters, to drop those policies that directly exacerbate the sufferings of Christian minorities in the Middle East.
Whatever the effects of such an encyclical—and one can only surmise positive ones—at the very least, the pope would be addressing a topic entrusted to his care and requiring his attention.
As recently as 1958, Pope Pius XII issued an encyclical that addressed the persecution of Christians. A portion follows:We are aware—to the great sorrow of Our fatherly heart—that the Catholic Church, in both its Latin and Oriental rites, is beset in many lands by such persecutions that the clergy and faithful ... are confronted with this dilemma: to give up public profession and propagation of their faith, or to suffer penalties, even very serious ones. ...
Missionaries who have left their homes and dear native lands and suffered many serious discomforts in order to bring the light and the strength of the gospel to others, have been driven from many regions as menaces and evil-doers.Note that Pius does not mention the burning and bombing of churches, or the abduction, rape, enslavement, and slaughter of Christians. The reason is that Christians living outside the West in 1958 rarely experienced such persecution. In other words, today's global persecution of Christians is exponentially worse than in 1958. Pius complained about how Christianity was being contained, not allowed to spread and win over converts.

Global persecution of Christians is exponentially worse today than in 1958.Today, indigenous Christians who've been in the Middle East before Islam was conceived are being slaughtered, their churches burned to the ground, their women and children, enslaved, raped, and forced to convert. "ISIS" is the tip of the iceberg.
Even in the West, statistics indicate that Islam is set to supersede Christianity, at least in numbers.Yet there is no encyclical from Pope Francis on any of this. Instead, Francis deems it more fit to issue a proclamation addressing the environment and climate change.
If the pope doesn't think this is a priority issue, what can be expected from secular politicians in the West?Whatever position one holds concerning these topics, it is telling that the pope—the one man in the world best placed and most expected to speak up for millions of persecuted Christians around the world—is more interested in speaking up for "the world" itself.

Bear in mind, the Christian worldview is not about "saving the earth"—"where moth and rust do corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal"—but in saving souls, both in the now and hereafter. The Lord questioned Saul of Tarsus as to why he was persecuting his flock, not about the environment.
Yet here we are: if even the Catholic pope does not deem the ongoing, systematic assault on Christianity and Christians a priority issue in need of its own encyclical, what can be expected from the average secular/atheistic politician in the West?
The answer is before us: brutal persecution and slaughter of Christians on the one hand, and absolute indifference from the West on the other.
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and a Judith Friedman Rosen Fellow at the Middle East Forum. He is the author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians (2013) and The Al Qaeda Reader (2007). 
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Dans ce dossier spécial, Survie décrypte la tournée de François Hollande au Bénin, en Angola puis au Cameroun du 1er au 3 juillet. Au menu : promotion des intérêts économiques français, soutien aux dictatures les plus caricaturales au nom de la lutte contre le terrorisme, au mépris de la démocratie et des droits humains, pourtant mis en avant dans les discours. Dossier François Hollande en Afrique Le Président français se rendra pour la première fois au Bénin. Il a sans doute l'intention d'y présenter (...) - Françafrique / Cameroun, Françafrique, Angola, Eduardo Dos Santos, Communiqués de presse, Bénin, Paul Biya, François Hollande

Ha nem lesz megegyezés, nagyjából 16,3 milliárd eurós kölcsön ígéretét eresztik szélnek az európai hitelezők ma éjfélkor. A piacok valószínűleg nem fognak pánikolni, mondja egy EU-s tisztviselő.

Alexis Tsipras, the Greek prime minister, has once again changed the terms of the debate in the ongoing crisis by requesting a new third bailout from the eurozone’s €500bn bailout fund, known as the European Stability Mechanism, just hours before his current bailout expires.

According to a copy of the letter sent to the ESM and Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister who chairs the committee of his eurozone counterparts, which we’ve posted here, the loan request is for €29.1bn to cover debts maturing into 2017.

That would seem to be a pretty traditional bailout request. But it also contains some untraditional demands that may be difficult for creditors to accept. Below is an annotated version of Tsipras’ letter:

Dear Chairperson, dear President,

On behalf of the Hellenic Republic (“the Republic” or “Greece”), I hereby present a request for stability support within the meaning of Articles 12 and 16 of the ESM Treaty.

The ESM treaty is the law that now governors all eurozone bailouts. It wasn’t in place for either Greece’s first or second bailouts, but it would set the terms for its third. Articles 12 and 16 simply state the purpose of a bailout programme: to “to safeguard the financial stability of the euro area as a whole and of its Member States.” Unfortunately for Tsipras, Article 16 also happens to mention that a new programme must include a new “MoU” – or memorandum of understanding, a phrase that is politically poisonous in Greece.

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