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In today's edition: Contraceptives confusion, MFN, what's on this week

Le jeune homme de 22 ans a été arrêté vendredi, il est actuellement en détention et sera bientôt inculpé, selon le gouverneur de l'Utah, Spencer Cox.

A gathering of policymakers, business leaders, and consumer protection groups to discuss the future of consumer trust, business innovation, and the Single Market in Europe.

Public works programmes (PWPs) are pervasively used to tackle poverty and unemployment, and to build infrastructure and skills in low- and middle-income countries. While their impacts on poverty, food security and labour outcomes have been widely documented, there is little research focusing on the role of PWPs in supporting household climate resilience in the global context of a deepening climate crisis. To fill this gap, we propose a conceptual framework that links the different components of PWPs – wages, infrastructure, and skills development – to household capacity to cope with, and adapt to, climate-related shocks. We use this framework to guide our review of empirical experimental and quasi-experimental evidence on the multiple short-term and long-term effects of PWPs on resilience to weather shocks, such as floods, droughts and cyclones. Such evidence mostly draws from a few programmes in India, Ethiopia and Malawi. Overall, we find that, through the wage component, PWPs can be effective in enhancing household resilience through increasing savings and productive investments. However, these benefits usually only materialize in the case of regular, long-term programmes, as opposed to ad-hoc/temporal PWPs. PWPs’ infrastructure component can play a crucial role in supporting households’ long-term capacity to adapt to shocks, especially in the case of “climate-smart” infrastructure, with positive externalities beyond direct programme beneficiaries to communities. There is a key evidence gap investigating the effects of PWPs through the infrastructure component on both beneficiaries and other community members, as well as on the role of on-the-job training and its capacity to strengthen resilience in combination with the infrastructure component. Evidence from different socioeconomic contexts is also scarce. Another key gap relates to the identification of the main mechanisms through which these relationships operate. Filling these gaps will support policy makers taking decisions about when to implement PWPs (especially in comparison with other social protection interventions), and how to design them to tackle vulnerability to climate change.

In today’s edition: Friedrich Merz’s CDU wins as the far-right AfD triples its vote in a bellwether state, new French PM Sébastien Lecornu says he’ll scrap his predecessor's plan to cut two national holidays, and Belgian PM Bart De Wever backs Israeli conductor Lahav Shani after his cancellation by the Ghent festival

In today's edition: Ag-tech, pesticides, kangaroo

Plus Romania suffers Russian drone incursion as Kubilius arrives in Kyiv to discuss a drone wall

Europe urgently needs a bold, united strategy that delivers climate action and economic resilience. Amid geopolitical uncertainty, a strong forest-based bioeconomy can drive climate progress, create quality jobs, strengthen Europe’s resilience. EU policies must enable and scale the change required.

MEPs warn against rushing while Várhelyi pushes to tie biotech and health laws together in a single package

“We want to do business here,” the US energy envoy said. “And I think that EU countries as a whole want American business here.”

The 165 WTO countries have largely bent the knee to Trump’s trade bullying, acquiescing to the authoritarian “might makes right” of economic coercion. Why not follow Brazil's push back?

European Central Bank contributes to the latest warning about the cost of extreme weather to the world's fastest heating continent

The EU has committed European firms to spend $750 billion on US energy over three years - but Washington thinks this is only the beginning

Hailed for their precision, drones could make applications more targeted

Trump’s drug pricing squeeze is raising alarm in Brussels, where officials fear Europe’s pharma overhaul won’t be enough to keep investment this side of the Atlantic

The push splits EU countries between those that want a crack down and those eager to keep the holiday rubles flowing in

The northern region of Schleswig-Holstein is well on its way to moving its public administration from Microsoft software to open source alternatives

Les Nations unies constatent qu'une personne sur cinq dans le monde déclare qu'elle n'aura pas le nombre d'enfants qu'elle souhaiterait. Dans son rapport sur l'état de la population mondiale, l'agence des Nations unies chargée de la population, affirme que les contraintes financières empêchent des millions de personnes d'avoir la famille qu'elles souhaitent vraiment.

La Police républicaine a interpellé en début de semaine, un imposteur en tenue de sapeurs-pompiers à la caserne située dans le 2e arrondissement de Parakou. Faux agent, il s'est présenté dans l'unité pour prendre service.

Fait divers à la caserne des sapeurs-pompiers à Parakou. L'unité située dans le 2e arrondissement de la ville a reçu un visiteur peu ordinaire lundi 8 septembre dernier en début de soirée. Il s'agit d'un jeune homme qui s'y est présenté en uniforme de sapeurs-pompiers pour prendre service en tant qu'un adjudant nouvellement affecté à l'unité.
Sur les lieux, il a été accueilli avec « les honneurs dus à son grade supposé avant d'être conduit auprès de son supérieur ». Et c'est au cours des échanges avec le commandant de la base que l'imposture s'est révélée.
La Police aussitôt alertée s'est dépêchée sur les lieux. L'enquête a révélé tout d'abord que le mis en cause n'est pas un sapeur-pompier ; et que la motocyclette de marque HAOJUE utilisée pour se rendre à la caserne, avait été volée à Houègbo. L'engin appartiendrait à un enseignant résidant dans cette localité. Soumis à l'interrogatoire, le suspect a reconnu les faits admettant le vol tant de la motocyclette, que de l'uniforme.
L'enquête se poursuit pour déterminer les motivations derrière cette tentative d'usurpation d'identité.

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