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KYIV, 8 May 2015 – The Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan today urged all sides to ensure a lasting ceasefire during the commemoration events scheduled for this weekend.

"I urge all sides to mark the  commemoration of the events 70 years ago by intensifying efforts to support a sustainable ceasefire – one that endures not only through the holiday period, but also in the coming days and future,” Apakan said.

“I call on all sides to exercise restraint, adhere to full and comprehensive ceasefire and ensure that peace prevails during upcoming weekend and beyond.”

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DRAFT OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1236/2005 concerning trade in certain goods which could be used for capital punishment, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Barbara Lochbihler

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Az amerikai kormány kikényszerítette; orosz műholdas helymeghatározó rendszer Nicaraguában, elektronikus felderítés Kubában. Jöhet az orosz rakétavédelmi rendszer Kanadában, Mexikóban?

Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping "achieved a unity of views on a wide range of issues" during their meeting on Friday.

Über den Ausgang der Wahl in Großbritannien sprachen wir mit dem deutschen Diplomaten Wolfgang Ischinger. Ischinger, der den Vorsitz der Münchener…

Russian ex-Defense Ministry official Evgeniya Vasilyeva was immediately taken into custody in the courtroom.

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Eurozone Ministers meet on 11 May 2015 in Brussels, to discuss the economic situation, growth and jobs.

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EU Ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries meet on 11 May 2015 in Brussels, to discuss the development of organic production in the EU and the simplification of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

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Általános : „Reményt hoztatok erre a sötét helyre. Annak a reményét, hogy együtt felléphetünk az antiszemitizmus, a rasszizmus, az intolerancia és ultranacionalizmus visszatérése ellen” – mondta az EP elnöke fiatalok előtt beszélve Auschwitz-Birkenauban a „Train 1000 to Auschwitz” program keretében május 8-án. Az eseményre 1000 fiatal érkezett Európa különböző részeiből, akik Brüsszelből vonattal tették meg a szimbolikus utat Krakkóig.

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Yesterday was a long night on both sides of the Channel. With the final results of UK general elections imminent, the option of a popular referendum on the UK’s EU membership is likely to soon become a reality.

Against this backdrop, FleishmanHillard is examining what an exit might hypothetically mean for the institutional set-up in Brussels – starting with the EP. Have a look at the implications for Parliament in our in-depth analysis posted here.

With 73 British MEPs currently in the European Parliament, a UK exit would significantly disrupt current political group dynamics and impact policy choices. Important questions would be raised over the impact on parliamentary group dynamics and changes to current coalition formations.

Key amongst these changes would be the potential emergence of the ALDE group as a ‘kingmaker’ for political agreement, increasing its influence vis-à-vis the larger political groups.   

 

Additional headline implications of a UK exit

• The Grand Coalition of the EPP and S&D would become more fragile, with a possible return to the traditional left v. right alliances
• With the EFDD no longer a viable group, Marine Le Pen’s Front National delegation might give the formation of a new Eurosceptic group another try.
• The S&D’s centre of gravity might move further towards the left, without its 20 MEP strong Labour delegation.
• Any UK exit would likely necessitate a widespread reallocation of senior EP positions
• Larger Member States might not push for a reallocation of vacated seats

We hope you find this analytical insight interesting, and we will follow up with an analysis of a UK exit on the Council’s political dynamics in the coming days.

Stay tuned!

 

The Institutional Research Unit

 

 

Már beszámoltunk Olvasóinknak arról, hogy 2015. április 16-án bemutatták Kijevben az új Antonov An-178-as katonai teherszállító repülőgépet, melynek nagy jövőt jósol a gyártó. Az An-12, An-26, An-32 típusok leváltására szánt repülőgép 2015. május 7-én teljesítette első repülését, melyről egy képgalériát állítottunk össze Olvasóink számára. Az An-158-ason alapuló, Progress D-436-148FM hajtóművekkel szerelt új An-178-as a Kijev melletti Gostomel repülőtérről emelkedett a levegőbe! Kérjük, tekintsék meg galériánkat!

A HungaroControl Magyar Légiforgalmi Szolgálat Zrt. Kutatás-fejlesztési és Innovációs Platform létrehozásáról 2015. május 8-án együttműködési megállapodást írt alá tizenegy felsőoktatási intézménnyel, a KTI Közlekedéstudományi Intézettel és a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Számítástechnikai és Automatizálási Kutatóintézetével. Az együttműködés célja a léginavigációs tevékenységgel szorosan összefüggő K+F és innovációhoz kapcsolódó területek feltárása, közös projektek koordinációja, az oktatók, hallgatók kutatómunkájának, nemzetközi kapcsolatépítésének támogatása, valamint európai uniós pályázati lehetőségek kiaknázása.

General : Martin Schulz paid tribute to young people during a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau: "You have brought hope into this dark place that together we can and will fight the return of anti-Semitism and racism, intolerance, and ultra-nationalism every step of the way." The Parliament President was talking to them as part of the ”Train 1,000 to Auschwitz” commemorative event on 8 May, bringing together 1,000 young people from all over Europe who took a train journey from Brussels to Krakow.

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General : Martin Schulz paid tribute to young people during a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau: "You have brought hope into this dark place that together we can and will fight the return of anti-Semitism and racism, intolerance, and ultra-nationalism every step of the way." The Parliament President was talking to them as part of the ”Train 1,000 to Auschwitz” commemorative event on 8 May, bringing together 1,000 young people from all over Europe who took a train journey from Brussels to Krakow.

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Russia has changed beyond recognition during 15 years of Putin's stay in power. It is hard to deny the fact that Putin has shown an enormous influence on the country and the world. Despite the tense relations with the West and the current economic decline in Russia, Putin's rating is higher than that of any other Russian leader before him

Május 7-én reggel 8 órakor megnyílt majd néhány órával később le is zárult a  buszbeszerzési pályázat, és annak 2. célterülete.  ( az 1., falugondnoki célterület még nyitva van)

Unser Rückblick auf die wichtigsten politischen Ereignisse der vergangenen Tage steht diesmal im Schatten des unerwartet hohen Sieges der britischen…

According to Defense Ministry, Russia will show off its latest designs in military unmanned ground and aerial vehicles at the inaugural Army-2015 international forum.

The spectre of a British exit from the European Union has begun to recede, although it has far from vanished.

The surprise result of the UK general election that is returning the governing Conservative party to power for another five years suggests that Britain’s voters prefer the devil they know to the devil they don’t. That may well apply to EU membership too.

The question-mark over the UK’s future within the EU had been widely seen throughout continental Europe as key to this election, yet it figured hardly at all as an issue. It posed too many awkward issues for the country’s mainstream political parties, and was therefore pushed aside by their focus on domestic economic and social problems.

The main message of the UK election result is that British voters do not welcome the fragmentation of the political system and the birth of smaller parties leading to a new era of coalition governments. That doesn’t mean that the debate over shifting to some form of proportional representation is over, but it does suggest that the British electorate favours the stability of its traditional ‘first past the post’ system that favours the Conservative and Labour parties.

The clear loser in this election has been UKIP, the anti-EU ‘independence’ party that within only a few years has been threatening to alter the British political landscape. Despite gaining some 12-13% of the overall vote, its representation in the House of Commons has been halved to just a single MP. Nigel Farage, UKIP’s charismatic leader, has been denied the parliamentary seat he so desperately sought, and the party’s bandwagon appears to be slowing and perhaps going into reverse.

None of this should be taken as an end to the ‘Brexit’ threat. The next major political test for prime minister David Cameron will be the ‘in-out’ referendum on EU membership that he has pledged by, or before, 2017. The number of votes cast yesterday for UKIP candidates still points to a hard fight by the government to keep Britain in Europe.

Cameron’s first reaction to exit polls indicating that the Conservatives would be able to govern without a coalition partner was to call for a return of his Tory party to the ‘One Nation’ policies of 50 years ago that emphasised the reduction of social and economic inequalities. The major issue, though, is whether his party will also embrace a ‘One Europe’ policy.

David Cameron has long insisted that he and his government will campaign for a ‘Yes’ vote when the British people take part in a referendum on whether to stay in the EU. But the rank-and-file of his MPs seem increasingly eurosceptic, and there are now reckoned to be at least 60 die-hard anti-European MPs out of the Conservatives’ total of 300-plus seats.

This parliamentary arithmetic suggests that while Cameron’s personal stature and authority will have received a strong boost, he will be very vulnerable to pressure from his own eurosceptic MPs. Unless he agrees to water down the new government’s pro-EU stance, runs the argument, he could very well suffer a rebellion and even the collapse of his majority.

Because the Europe issue figured so little in the UK’s pre-election campaigns, it’s hard to gauge the country’s mood on EU membership. Business leaders have of late swung belatedly into action with warnings of the serious economic consequences of a ‘Brexit’, but voting intentions – as this general election has plainly demonstrated – are opaque.

Cameron sees himself as an internationalist who is at odds with the ‘Little Englanders’ who are a force to be reckoned with in the Tory party. His best policy now will be to capitalise on his surprise election victory and set a very early date for the referendum. He has been repeatedly advised that his promised “re-negotiation” of Britain’s UK membership cannot yield any substantial results, so he should opt for a vote before the end of this year that would pre-empt the humiliation of Britain’s demands being rejected by almost all the other EU governments.

For British voters, this election was all about Britain; whether the sacrifices of tough austerity measures are now being rewarded by economic growth that outstrips the eurozone has been a constant theme, and the outcome has endorsed that view. But the view of many European politicians and commentators that this election was about much more than the UK is also true.

Europe can heave a sigh of relief that the UK’s membership of the EU will not be a political football to be kicked around in an unruly melée of coalitions, and that British voters apparently favour the status quo rather than the unknown. But David Cameron will still face a tough fight over Britain’s future in Europe.

 

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