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Le 2 mars, à l’Île-Longue, après avoir rappelé que les intérêt vitaux de la France [qui ne sont jamais précisés] avaient une dimension européenne, le président Macron a défini le concept de «dissuasion avancée», lequel vise à permettre aux pays du Vieux Continent qui le souhaitent de participer aux exercices menés par les forces stratégiques...

Cet article Dissuasion : La France et l’Allemagne ont déjà mis en place un «groupe de pilotage nucléaire de haut niveau» est apparu en premier sur Zone Militaire.

Moteur économique de la métropole grenobloise, le secteur de la tech constitue un enjeu majeur sur lequel les positions du maire écologiste Éric Piolle avaient suscité la polémique.

«Wir müssen Sie bitten, sich in Geduld zu üben», teilt die Direktorin der Konsularischen Direktion den Gestrandeten mit.

In response to Trump’s strikes, European leaders have created an alternate reality to escape their hypocrisy.

Les États-Unis en Algérie ont désormais un nouveau chef de mission par intérim. Désigné chargé d’affaires par le président américain Donald Trump, Mark Shapiro est […]

L’article États-Unis – Algérie : le chargé d’affaires Mark Shapiro de retour à Alger est apparu en premier sur .

OPINION on the Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report – annual report 2025
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Adrián Vázquez Lázara

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

OPINION on the Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report – annual report 2025
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Adrián Vázquez Lázara

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

DÉCRYPTAGE - Favorite dans les sondages, la candidate de l’union de la gauche hors LFI est la cible de l’ancien maire RPR de la ville, minée par l’insécurité.

As conflict unfurls across the Middle East, Asian countries – U.S. friends and foes alike – are watching carefully.

More than 10,000 pro‑regime Iranians reside in the Turkey-occupied part of Cyprus, Euractiv has learned

Contraints de se positionner face à la guerre au Moyen-Orient, les pays européens jouent pour l’instant la prudence, de peur d’être entrainés dans le conflit. C’est plus particulièrement vrai au Royaume qui a proposé ses bases aux États-Unis pour des opérations défensives. Le Premier ministre britannique est doublement sur la sellette. Washington lui reproche de ne pas s’impliquer davantage.

Written by Ivana Katsarova.

Food contact materials (FCMs) include all materials that come into physical contact with food during its production, processing, packaging and storage. They contain thousands of chemicals, some of which can migrate into food, especially at high temperatures, during long contact times or with certain food types.

Scientific evidence shows that such migration is common and may contribute to human exposure to hazardous substances, including endocrine disruptors, carcinogens and reproductive toxicants. Well-known examples include phthalates, bisphenols and PFAS, which remain authorised in some applications despite links to adverse health effects. Current risk assessments often consider substances individually and may underestimate combined or cumulative exposure.

The EU’s core legislation is Regulation (EC) 1935/2004, which sets out general safety and labelling rules, supported by the Good Manufacturing Practice Regulation (EC) 2023/2006. However, only four material types – plastics, ceramics, regenerated cellulose film and active/intelligent materials – are subject to fully harmonised EU rules. The remaining materials (paper, inks, coatings, rubber, metal, etc.) rely mostly on national rules, leading to regulatory fragmentation, uneven safety standards and unclear requirements for industry. In addition, existing rules focus largely on known intentionally added substances, while non‑intentionally added substances (NIAS), impurities and degradation products remain insufficiently addressed.

A 2022 Commission evaluation found the framework only partially effective, with gaps in enforcement, control of NIAS and harmonisation. The Commission has recently reiterated its commitment to further harmonising EU legislation on FCMs.

The European Parliament has pushed for stronger rules, contributing to recent EU‑wide bans on BPA and PFAS in food packaging.

Citizens and stakeholders broadly support a comprehensive revision establishing clearer standards, harmonised testing and stronger consumer protection.

Read the complete briefing on ‘Food contact materials in the EU: State of play‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

The war on Iran sounds the death knell for the old-school idea of “you break it, you own it.”

So far, EU defence projects remain more buzzwords than action

Incoming tech sovereignty package could also set minimum performance standards for new data centres by 2030, per a draft strategy obtained by Euractiv

Das Parlament beendet eine Debatte, die fast zwanzig Jahre dauerte –doch es gibt immer noch eine Unsicherheit.

OPINION on the proposal for a Council regulation laying down the Multiannual Financial Framework for the years 2028 to 2034
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Dan Barna

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

OPINION on the proposal for a Council regulation laying down the Multiannual Financial Framework for the years 2028 to 2034
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Dan Barna

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

The institutional machinery driving the Beijing summit is already too far advanced to reverse, and the Iran crisis has made holding it more urgent, not less.

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IPI, together with the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations, co-hosted a public discussion on “Peace Operations and Peacebuilding: Supporting Effective UN Transitions for Sustaining Peace” on March 3rd.

Mission transitions represent an important opportunity for the UN to reconfigure its presence and strategy to support peacebuilding objectives, as articulated in Resolution 2594, adopted unanimously in 2021. Well-planned and integrated transition processes that place peacebuilding at the center require strong coordination and coherence between host governments, missions, resident coordinators, country teams, and civil society. In addition, both the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) and the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) can play valuable roles in supporting national and inclusive ownership in transition processes. To that end, the twin resolutions adopted in November 2025 on the review of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture encourage the secretary-general to consider how the PBF can further enhance its support to countries undergoing transitions from peace operations and to strengthen cooperation between the Security Council and the PBC on transition processes.

Over the past two decades, the Secretariat has developed policies and guidance aimed at promoting more effective transitions that support peacebuilding objectives. However, many transitions take place amid political and security challenges that make it difficult to implement the good practices outlined in the guidance. Against this backdrop, IPI and the Permanent Mission of Japan to the UN hosted a panel discussion on how peacebuilding gains can be sustained during and after mission transitions.

Overall, the discussion identified ways to strengthen coordination and coherence between partners on transition processes, both within and outside the UN, to bridge gaps between humanitarian, development, and peace activities. Panelists also explored opportunities to enhance the roles of the PBC and the PBF in supporting effective UN transitions.

Several speakers discussed the critical importance of ensuring that peacebuilding processes are inclusive, consultative, and nationally owned. Noting the ambiguity of the term “national ownership,” one speaker shared their view of the essential elements that constitute nationally owned peacebuilding, highlighting the centrality of a social contract that narrows the gap between legitimacy and legality, strong national capacity, a locally determined definition of a successful peace process, and financial resources, including national resource mobilization. Others echoed this point, underscoring the importance of integrating lived experiences in decision-making and recognizing that institutional reforms alone cannot sustain peace.

During the discussion, speakers also addressed the UN’s capacity to support transitions. In a context of limited resources, speakers emphasized the need to enhance planning and coordination to more effectively sustain peacebuilding gains during and after UN mission transitions. Many highlighted the role of UN agencies, funds, and programs, which often leverage greater in-country capacity to support peacebuilding efforts before, during, and after transitions. There was also broad consensus on the importance of leveraging the UN peacebuilding architecture, namely the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), Peacebuilding Fund, and Peacebuilding and Peace Support Office. Encouraging the PBC to hold more regular dialogue on transition contexts, speakers and participants stressed the need to integrate the peacebuilding architecture into UN mission mandates from their inception. While pointing to these different UN instruments, some highlighted the need to develop a common operational framework to advance work on the ground in a coherent manner.

Welcoming Remarks:
Jenna Russo, Director of Research and Head of the Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations and Peacebuilding, International Peace Institute

Opening Remarks:
H.E. Yamazaki Kazuyuki, Permanent Representative of Japan to the UN

Panelists:
Adedeji Ebo, Director and Deputy to the High Representative, UN Office for Disarmament Affairs
Turhan Saleh, Deputy Director, Crisis Bureau, UN Development Programme
Robert Pulver, Chief, Justice and Corrections Service Branch, UN Peacebuilding and Peace Support Office
Ai Kihara-Hunt, Professor at the Graduate Program on Human Security and Deputy Director of the Research Center for Sustainable Peace, University of Tokyo (VTC)
Cedric de Coning, Research Professor, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (VTC)

Moderator:
Lauren McGowan, Policy Analyst, International Peace Institute

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