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Jeudi 3 décembre 2015, un hommage national a été rendu sur la base aérienne 123 d’Orléans au sergent-chef Alexis Guarato, membre du commando parachutiste de l’air n°10 (CPA 10) décédé jeudi 26 novembre, des suites de ses blessures. 

Près de la moitié des autoentrepreneurs ont fait le choix de ce régime pour l’indépendance, selon un sondage, mais l’écrasante majorité critique le manque de couverture sociale.

Görögország honvédelmi minisztere, Panosz Kammenosz egy televíziós interjú során kifejtette Görögország hivatalos álláspontját az orosz-török vadászrepülőgép-incidens ügyében. Mint kiderült, nem a NATO hivatalos állásfoglalását képviselik.

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Le 13 novembre, les militaires du 54e régiment d'artillerie, basés au fort de Nogent, sont déployés sur les lieux des attentats dans le 11e arrondissement de Paris.

Ce sont les 12e et 13e pays membres de l'institution financière et les premiers États d'Afrique de l'Est à rejoindre le capital d'AFC.

Cet article Le Rwanda et l’Ouganda entrent au capital de Africa Finance Corporation est apparu en premier sur JeuneAfrique.com.

Au Burkina Faso, dans la province du Boulgou, la petite ville de Béguédo est parfois surnommée 'Little Italy'. Depuis les années 80, des milliers d'hommes de la communauté Bissa ont migré vers l'Europe. Mais beaucoup d'épouses sont restées au pays, et att

A great fuss is being made over the speech by Labour shadow foreign secretary Hillary Benn in yesterday’s House of Commons debate over bombing in Syria. Watch for yourself, if you like, or I’ll paraphrase:

Islamic State is bad, super bad, Mussolini bad.

We should do something. Not something adequate. But something.

If we don’t then we’ll look stupid and weak and our friends will be sad.

Now face the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station…err, well maybe a dozen or so 30 year old RAF Tornados!

I can’t fathom the acclaim for it.

First, attacking Islamic state in Syria does nothing to prevent attacks here in Europe. This argument has been so comprehensively debunked that I can hardly believe anyone still tries it on.

Second, yes, sure we are at war with a mood in the Islamic world of sullen resentment that we might as well call Islamic fascism, though really I’m not sure that Benn really grasped that this was the phrase he was resurrecting. Next up: it’s a crusade? But you can’t go name check Hitler and Mussolini and wax lyrical about this island’s brave stand against tyranny and then pretend that a few more British  bombers in the Middle East is any sort of proportionate response. People may be somnolent and distracted but they’re not so stupid as to miss the giant gap between rhetoric and action.

Third, going to war against an enemy in this desultory fashion that by design can never lead to victory just puts them under a natural selection pressure that insures that they evolve into something more nasty and resilient. Have we literally learned nothing from the last 15 years? How many times does it have to be said that you can’t fight wars amongst the people without being actually amongst them?

Fourth, why does it not seem to worry everyone who voted for bombing that the countries of the region that have more than enough power to deal with Islamic state actually don’t seem to care all that much about it? They’re more concerned with Houthi militiamen allegedly propped up by Persian bogeymen.

So, let’s take stock of the situation. We have no plausible aim. Therefore there is no meaningful strategy. In any event the means available are inadequate. We have very little knowledge of those whom we’ll be killing. And we have very little knowledge of those upon whose supposed behalf we’ll be doing it. The commitment of our friends to the effort is as guarded and ambiguous as our own while the commitment of our enemies is seemingly quite total. Meanwhile, every country in the region is playing a double or triple game. Basically everybody is lying to everyone else but the biggest dummies are lying to themselves.

I’m sure it will all work out great.

I do suppose though it makes bad war it’s probably good political theatre in a junior school sort of way. Jeremy Corbyn’s forced to sit on a tack. Haha! And when it comes Britain’s turn to suffer a Beslan-Mumbai-Nairobi-Utoya-Paris style attack, as it inevitably will, Westminster will claim it did all it could.

*actually, I don’t know. We’ve had a lot of wars, many quite stupid but this one really ranks up there.

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This week, Chief Executive Jorge Domecq updated the European Parliament’s security and defence subcommittee on the outcome of the recent EDA Ministerial Steering Board, the current security situation, the future of the European Defence Agency (EDA) and the Global Strategy.

Against the background of the atrocious terrorist attacks in Paris, Mr. Domecq emphasised the need to further develop European defence integration, “We need the right capabilities, a sound European armament policy supporting our defence industries, enhanced civil-military synergies and EU-NATO relations to make a quantum leap.”

In his update, Mr. Domecq stressed that the upcoming Global Strategy as well as the European Commission’s European Defence Action Plan were opportunities to address crucial elements for defence cooperation, the development of capabilities as well as strengthening of the European Defence and Industry Technological Base to safeguard Europe’s strategic autonomy.

Mr. Domecq also briefed Members of Parliament on the progress of the four capability programmes (air-to-air refuelling, cyber defence, Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems and governmental satellite communications) as well as on future cooperative programmes recently approved by Ministers of Defence (deployable bio-laboratory, Medevac and anti-tank weapons).

Other initiatives in which the Agency has made progress in recent months include incentives for defence cooperation and mainly the VAT exemption for EDA projects, barter mechanisms, hybrid warfare. The Agency continues to working closely with the European Commission on the Preparatory Action on defence-related research as well as on facilitating access to EU instruments and funds for European companies working on dual-use technologies. Chief Executive Domecq also gave an update on the Agency’s work on wider EU policies and mainly on SES/SESAR, REACH and Energy.

He concluded his intervention by discussing the future role and direction of the Agency. The EDA is at the service of Member States and he insisted that there are five areas where Member States could and should make greater use of the Agency: 1) to use the Capability Development Plan as a real tool for defence planning, 2) systematic use of enablers, 3) the Preparatory Action on CSDP-related research should be the catalyst for greater engagement in cooperative defence R&T, 4) systematic harnessing of civil-military synergies, 5) using the EDA to make better use of available EU funding.

 

More information:

• Mr. Domecq's intervention is available here.
• European Parliament defence and security subcommittee

Általános : Több mint két hét eltelt a párizsi terrortámadás óta, az Iszlám Állam elleni fellépés egyre intenzívebb, a terrorizmus elleni küzdelem meghatározó eleme marad a Parlament napirendjének is. Hétfőn és kedden az állampolgári jogi szakbizottság arról vitázott, hogy uniós szintű stratégia szükséges a terrorfenyegetettség kezelésére.

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A nemzetközi bűncselekmények és a terrorizmus mindnyájunkra fenyegetést jelent, ezek megelőzésében és felderítésében nyújt segítséget a tagállamoknak az Európai Rendőrségi Hivatal, az Europol. Az egyre növekvő fenyegetettség miatt az uniós országok úgy döntöttek, hogy megnövelik az Europol szerepét és hatáskörét a terrorizmus elleni küzdelemben. Az állampolgári jogi szakbizottság hétfőn szavazott erről, cikkünkben áttekintjük mi pontosan az Europol feladata.
Állampolgári Jogi, Bel- és Igazságügyi Bizottság

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La maire socialiste de Paris et neuf maires de grandes villes du monde ont vanté, jeudi, les mérites du C40, le réseau des grandes villes de la planète auquel la capitale française est associée.

Général : Plus de deux semaines après les attentats de Paris, la question de la lutte contre le terrorisme reste au cœur de l'agenda du Parlement européen. Lundi 30 novembre et mardi 1er décembre, les membres de la commission des libertés civiles se sont penchés sur plusieurs mesures visant à façonner la réponse de l'Europe au terrorisme.

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Le 1er décembre 2015, le général Pierre de Villiers, chef d’état-major des armées (CEMA), est venu à la rencontre des militaires déployés sur une base aérienne projetée (BAP) en protection de la conférence de Paris sur le climat (COP 21), organisée au Bourget. Il était accompagné du général André Lanata, chef d’état-major de l’armée de l’air (CEMAA).

Après le feu vert de la chambre des Communes, la Royal Air Force a procédé la nuit dernière à des frappes contre Daech en Syrie. Qui est son chef ? 

Mit »negativen Emissionen« sollte der Treibhauseffekt gemildert werden

Le mercredi 02 décembre 2015 en début d’après-midi, des avions de chasse français ont frappé un site de stockage d’armement et de fabrication d’engins explosifs improvisés (IED) exploité par Daech dans la région de Tall Afar en Irak.