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Six députés du principal parti d'opposition Les Démocrates ont adressé, mardi 28 octobre 2025, un message au duo candidat conduit par le Ministre Romuald Wadagni pour l'élection présidentielle de 2026

« Le processus électoral vient de passer un cap qui consacre définitivement l'élimination du duo de notre parti », ont reconnu les députés membres du parti d'opposition Les Démocrates.

Dans la déclaration lue ce 28 octobre 2025 par l'ancien député Yves Patrick Djivo, les six députés ont évoqué « les dysfonctionnements internes et les guerres de leadership » qui ont fragilisé leur camp.

Les parlementaires ont également adressé un message de responsabilité au duo conduit par le ministre d'État Romuald Wadagni, favori du scrutin. Ils l'ont invité à « conduire le destin du pays durant les cinq prochaines années » avec un sens aigu de la justice sociale et du bien commun.

« Nous souhaitons que le processus en cours aille à son terme dans la paix et la concorde, et que le duo en tête ne perde pas de vue les attentes sociales du plus grand nombre », ont indiqué Chantale Adjovi, Elise Aïhe, Do-Rego Léansou, Joël Godonou, Denise Houmènou, et Akim Radji.
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600298 Public Affairs Unit, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Katya Andrusz

Romania’s May repeat presidential election was efficiently managed, and recent efforts by the authorities to improve electoral integrity were notable. However, the repeat presidential election was marked by insufficient oversight of key aspects of the campaign and concerns over the widespread use of inauthentic behaviour by candidates online. The fundamental freedoms of association and assembly were respected, and voters had a genuine choice of political alternatives. At the same time, the use of eligibility requirements based on court rulings rather than clear legal provisions undermined the inclusivity of candidate registration. Oversight of the online space remained fragmented, and the lack of transparency in the handling of reported violations discouraged public engagement and resulted in self-censorship.

These are some of the main conclusions from the final report, published today by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). The report offers recommendations to bring elections in Romania closer in line with OSCE commitments and international standards for democratic elections.

Key recommendations include:

• Making greater efforts to promote women’s political participation

• Increasing legal clarity by considering adoption of a unified electoral code for all election types

• Ensuring legal certainty by formalizing amendments introduced through Government Emergency Ordinances or Constitutional Court rulings through the regular parliamentary process with public consultation

• Enhancing transparency and confidence by opening election administration sessions to observers and media

• Protecting the right to stand for election by ensuring candidate eligibility is assessed based on clear, objective criteria established by law rather than Constitutional Court rulings

• Reviewing regulations to ensure social networking platforms implement effective measures against coordinated inauthentic behaviour and disinformation while safeguarding space for genuine political debate online

• Ensuring full transparency of political parties’ media expenditures to enable the public to understand the final beneficiaries

• Reviewing the electoral dispute-resolution framework to allow adequate time for the preparation and adjudication of complaints in order to guarantee effective remedy and due process.

The ODIHR Limited Election Observation Mission to Romania, headed by Eoghan Murphy, started work on 23 March and remained in the country until 25 May.

ODIHR assessed Romania’s efforts to implement previous recommendations. Many previous recommendations remain unaddressed, including those on consolidating the electoral legislation, ensuring transparency and equitable political representation in the election administration, and establishing clear procedures for the verification of support signatures. A full list of recommendations can be found on pages 28-31 of today’s report.

All 57 OSCE participating States have formally committed to follow up promptly on ODIHR’s election assessments and recommendations. The ODIHR Electoral Recommendations Database tracks the extent to which recommendations are implemented across the region.

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Written by Sidonia Mazur, updated on 23 October 2025.

On 22 October 2025, Parliament voted on amendments to the Council’s position and thus adopted its reading of the Union budget for 2026, aiming at a higher budget that better matches the EU’s key priorities than the European Commission’s draft. Parliament proposes an overall level of commitments at €193.9 billion and €192.6 billion in payments, including special instruments such as the Ukraine Facility or European Solidarity Reserve. To reach an agreement, a 21-day conciliation period runs until 17 November 2025. These negotiations aim at finding a compromise between Parliament and Council, without which the Commission will need to present a new budget proposal.

Background – 2026 budget procedure

The European Parliament is one of the two arms of the European Union’s budgetary authority, the Council being the other. The two institutions, assisted by the European Commission, decide on the budget in the annual EU budget procedure, within the limits of the long-term EU budget – the multiannual financial framework (MFF). Although it is the Commission’s right and duty to propose a draft budget for the upcoming year, the two arms of the EU budgetary authority, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, play their part in the run-up to its presentation by submitting their views. The Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) agreed on its guidelines for the 2026 EU budget on 18 February 2025. The European Parliament adopted its guidelines for the preparation of the 2026 budget, Section III, on 2 April 2025.

On 9 July 2025, the Commission adopted the 2026 draft EU budget (DB). The Commission proposed 2026 EU budget commitments of €193.26 billion, and €192.20 billion in payments. The Commission in its General introduction to the DB underlined that ‘the draft budget 2026 will continue to provide the necessary funding for the agreed priorities of the Union, but the limited remaining availabilities leave virtually no space for any further unforeseen events or new initiatives’.

The Council adopted its position on the 2026 draft budget on 5 September, proposing to cut the proposed commitments by €1.3 billion and payments by €696.7 million.

Parliament’s rapporteur for the 2026 budget, Andrzej Halicki (EPP, Poland), presented his analysis of the Commission’s proposals and his assessment of the Council’s position in two working documents.

Parliament’s Committee on Budgets (BUDG) adopted amendments to the Council’s position on 6 October, and adopted an explanatory motion for a resolution on 13 October. BUDG set the overall level of commitments at €193.9 billion and payments at €192.6 billion, thereby restoring the 2026 draft budget appropriations on all lines cut by the Council. Moreover, BUDG proposed specific increases ‘to boost research, competitiveness, and defence’ for:

• Horizon Europe;
• transport and energy networks;
• support for small and medium-sized enterprises;
• health (EU4Health);
• education and youth (Erasmus+);
• Creative Europe;
• the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme;
• the European Social Fund Plus;
• young farmers;
• the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund, including the wine sector;
• the LIFE programme;
• the Civil Protection Mechanism;
• the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund;
• the Border Management and Visa Instrument;
• military mobility;
• the Southern Neighbourhood;
• the Eastern Neighbourhood; and
• humanitarian aid.

The BUDG committee drew attention to the fact that repayment of the EU Recovery Instrument (EURI) borrowing costs is a legal obligation for the Union and a non-discretionary expenditure item in the EU budget; and stressed that the Council cuts in sub-heading 2b are particularly disconcerting, as the only motivation is to use the money to cover the financing cost of the Recovery Instrument. The committee also remarked that the most affected programmes – Horizon Europe, CEF digital and Erasmus+ – are flagship Union programmes.

The Commission published Amending letter No 1/2026 on 8 October, lowering draft 2026 budget expenditure by €386.1 million in commitments and by almost €1.89 billion in payments. On 22 October 2025, Parliament voted on amendments to the Council’s position and thus adopted its reading of the Union budget for 2026 in line with the Committee on Budgets’ position.

Next steps

Parliament’s adoption of amendments to the Council’s position has triggered a conciliation procedure. The Conciliation Committee will seek to reach a compromise between Parliament and Council. The 21-day conciliation period will run until 17 November 2025, with the first conciliation meeting scheduled for 4 November. If conciliation fails to result in an agreement, the Commission is obliged to present a new draft budget.

Further reading

• For Parliament’s reading of 2026 budget see: Parliament’s reading of the 2026 EU budget
• For key issues in EU budget see the EPRS flagship publication: Budgetary Outlook for the European Union 2025
• For key dates see: Timeline for the three key EU budgetary procedures in 2025
• For Parliament’s guidelines for the 2026 budget: Parliament’s guidelines for the 2025 EU budget; Section III – European Commission
• For more on Parliament’s role in the EU annual budgetary procedure see: Annual EU budgetary procedure: An introduction to the steps in the European Parliament

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This blogpost is an update of a publication of 23 June 2025.

Die Juso-Volksinitiative zur Erbschaftssteuer will die verlangten Steuergelder gleich wieder ausgeben. Die Zweckbindung von Steuererträgen ist für Lobbyisten so populär, wie sie für das Gemeinwohl schädlich ist.

With just five years left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, the global financing gap has widened to $4.3 trillion per year. The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD), held in Sevilla in July 2025, sought to renew multilateral consensus around mobilizing resources for sustainable development.

This issue brief by David Mulet analyzes the Compromiso de Sevilla—the conference’s negotiated outcome—and the Sevilla Platform for Action (SPA), a voluntary registry of 130 coalitions and initiatives. It highlights how new mechanisms on sovereign debt, blended finance, and climate-linked instruments are translating commitments into action. 

At the same time, the brief underscores persistent gaps in systemic reform, including of the international debt architecture, international tax cooperation, the large-scale reallocation of special drawing rights, governance of the multilateral development banks, and climate finance. It argues that closing the global financing gap requires bridging intergovernmental commitments with voluntary innovation to ensure that experimentation accumulates into structural change. 

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The World Organisation for Animal Health called on Europe to avoid alarmism

Créé en mai 1998, l’organe était chargé d’organiser les élections dans le pays. Le ministre de l’administration territoriale, Emile Zerbo, a fait savoir que son ministère assumera désormais cette fonction.

EU energy bureaucrats stand ready to make controversial proposals to boost power market integration soon

Ce mardi, une importante cérémonie diplomatique s’est tenue au Palais d’El Mouradia. En effet, le président de la République, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, a officiellement remis les […]

L’article Tebboune remet les lettres de créances à six nouveaux ambassadeurs est apparu en premier sur .

Le Parlement européen a continué de verser des indemnités à Ioannis Lagos, ancien eurodéputé grec du parti Aube dorée, plusieurs mois après sa condamnation pour appartenance à une organisation criminelle. Une situation rendue possible par un vide juridique.

The post EXCLUSIF : Un eurodéputé néonazi grec a perçu des milliers d’euros du Parlement européen après une condamnation pénale appeared first on Euractiv FR.

Face à une surproduction record de pommes de terre, les agriculteurs algériens redoutent désormais des pertes considérables. Les chambres froides débordent, les prix menacent de […]

L’article Un trop-plein qui secoue le marché : faut-il lever le gel sur l’export de pommes de terre ? est apparu en premier sur .

Alors que la Cour constitutionnelle a validé, lundi 27 octobre, le rejet de la candidature de Renaud Agbodjo, décidé par la Commission électorale le 22 octobre, ce dernier a décidé d’arrêter la course à la présidence.

Background Many Sub-Saharan African countries have shifted from fiscally unsustainable free healthcare models to contributory national health insurance schemes, which rely on payments from informal sector workers. Yet, enrolling these workers remains a key barrier to achieving universal health coverage. Using the case of Kenya’s Afya Care free healthcare pilot, this paper investigates whether earlier exposure to free healthcare influences informal sector workers’ later decisions to enrol and contribute to the national health insurance scheme (NHIS). Methods We used nationally representative household survey data from 2018 and 2020, collected before and after the Afya Care pilot. The analysis focused on 6,900 informal sector workers, applying a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences approach to estimate the effect of exposure to the free healthcare pilot on subsequent NHIS enrollment. Results Before the pilot, no significant differences existed between treatment and control groups. After the intervention, NHIS enrollment was 10.5% higher in intervention counties (p < 0.001). Informal sector workers exposed to Afya Care were 65% more likely to enrol in the NHIS compared to those in control counties (odds ratio = 1.65; 95% CI = 0.96–2.83). Heterogeneity analysis showed that the policy’s impact was stronger among the least educated (30% higher enrollment) and the poorest workers (18% higher). Conclusions Exposure to the Afya Care pilot positively influenced informal sector workers’ willingness to join the NHIS and improved equity in enrollment. However, overall participation remains low. To expand coverage, the government should intensify information campaigns to raise awareness, extend subsidies to make premiums more affordable, and fully finance those unable to contribute. Strengthening these measures will be crucial for advancing Kenya’s progress toward universal health coverage.

Background Many Sub-Saharan African countries have shifted from fiscally unsustainable free healthcare models to contributory national health insurance schemes, which rely on payments from informal sector workers. Yet, enrolling these workers remains a key barrier to achieving universal health coverage. Using the case of Kenya’s Afya Care free healthcare pilot, this paper investigates whether earlier exposure to free healthcare influences informal sector workers’ later decisions to enrol and contribute to the national health insurance scheme (NHIS). Methods We used nationally representative household survey data from 2018 and 2020, collected before and after the Afya Care pilot. The analysis focused on 6,900 informal sector workers, applying a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences approach to estimate the effect of exposure to the free healthcare pilot on subsequent NHIS enrollment. Results Before the pilot, no significant differences existed between treatment and control groups. After the intervention, NHIS enrollment was 10.5% higher in intervention counties (p < 0.001). Informal sector workers exposed to Afya Care were 65% more likely to enrol in the NHIS compared to those in control counties (odds ratio = 1.65; 95% CI = 0.96–2.83). Heterogeneity analysis showed that the policy’s impact was stronger among the least educated (30% higher enrollment) and the poorest workers (18% higher). Conclusions Exposure to the Afya Care pilot positively influenced informal sector workers’ willingness to join the NHIS and improved equity in enrollment. However, overall participation remains low. To expand coverage, the government should intensify information campaigns to raise awareness, extend subsidies to make premiums more affordable, and fully finance those unable to contribute. Strengthening these measures will be crucial for advancing Kenya’s progress toward universal health coverage.

Background Many Sub-Saharan African countries have shifted from fiscally unsustainable free healthcare models to contributory national health insurance schemes, which rely on payments from informal sector workers. Yet, enrolling these workers remains a key barrier to achieving universal health coverage. Using the case of Kenya’s Afya Care free healthcare pilot, this paper investigates whether earlier exposure to free healthcare influences informal sector workers’ later decisions to enrol and contribute to the national health insurance scheme (NHIS). Methods We used nationally representative household survey data from 2018 and 2020, collected before and after the Afya Care pilot. The analysis focused on 6,900 informal sector workers, applying a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences approach to estimate the effect of exposure to the free healthcare pilot on subsequent NHIS enrollment. Results Before the pilot, no significant differences existed between treatment and control groups. After the intervention, NHIS enrollment was 10.5% higher in intervention counties (p < 0.001). Informal sector workers exposed to Afya Care were 65% more likely to enrol in the NHIS compared to those in control counties (odds ratio = 1.65; 95% CI = 0.96–2.83). Heterogeneity analysis showed that the policy’s impact was stronger among the least educated (30% higher enrollment) and the poorest workers (18% higher). Conclusions Exposure to the Afya Care pilot positively influenced informal sector workers’ willingness to join the NHIS and improved equity in enrollment. However, overall participation remains low. To expand coverage, the government should intensify information campaigns to raise awareness, extend subsidies to make premiums more affordable, and fully finance those unable to contribute. Strengthening these measures will be crucial for advancing Kenya’s progress toward universal health coverage.

Das 28. Regime ist eine geplante einheitliche EU-Gesellschaftsform, die Unternehmensgründungen und -expansion über Ländergrenzen hinweg erleichtern soll.

Le parcours d’Ijeoma Uchegbu vers la science n’a pas été conventionnel, mais sa carrière a été illustre et son travail, révolutionnaire.

Le parcours d’Ijeoma Uchegbu vers la science n’a pas été conventionnel, mais sa carrière a été illustre et son travail, révolutionnaire.

Le spectaculaire retour du centre-droit sur la scène politique néerlandaise, à l’approche des élections législatives du mercredi 29 octobre, pourrait bien avoir été compromis par une controverse autour de propos tenus par le chef du parti sur les droits d’un élève homosexuel.

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