Agrégateur de flux

A basic concept of international relations is under unprecedented strain.

DÉCRYPTAGE - Ce mardi a lieu l’ultime lecture du budget de la « Sécu » à l’Assemblée avant une commission mixte paritaire sur le projet de loi de finances, vendredi.

Tavaly Szamosújváron, az Epreskerti Majálison találkoztunk Kovács Nórival, aki a széki Kovács Józsi bácsival együtt lépett színpadra. De szeretném a világot… és Szerelem, szerelem kezdetű dalaikat is előadták, előtte voltak kihelyezett stúdiónk vendégei. A Magyar Kultúráért Díjas népdalénekes, akinek a nevéhez a Motiva zenekar és a Balkan Fanatik is szorosan kapcsolódik, most ismét itt velünk […]

Articolul Rádiós premier: Kovács Nóri új dalával hangolódtunk az ünnepekre apare prima dată în Kolozsvári Rádió Románia.

Le gouvernement français a promis une "accélération" de la vaccination contre la dermatose nodulaire contagieuse (DNC) qui touche les élevages. Quelque 750 000 bovins supplémentaires seront vaccinés et des vétérinaires militaires participeront à l'opération.

Le groupe armé AFC/M23, soutenu par l'armée rwandaise, a déclaré mardi qu'il allait retirer ses forces d'Uvira, ville de l'est de la République démocratique du Congo, à la demande des États-Unis.

Nem kerek, de nem mehetünk el mellette: ’89 decemberének története továbbra is tartogat meglepetéseket, új elemeket, másfajta értelmezési lehetőségeket. Gazda Árpád átélte élesben, majd újságíróként ledokumentálta mindazt, ami számára a legmeghatározóbb. Az is kiderül, hogy Dózsa György miként kerül képbe, és hogy miért kell igyekezni a további kortanúk vallomásainak rögzítésével. Házigazda: Rostás-Péter István

Articolul Újra kell fogalmazni az emlékezéspolitikai keretet apare prima dată în Kolozsvári Rádió Románia.

L'Agence Béninoise pour le Développement du Tourisme lance un appel à projets pour la conception, la production et la fourniture des goodies officiels de la marque-pays du Bénin « Un Monde de Splendeurs ». Le but est d'identifier des prestataires disposant à la fois d'une capacité créative solide et d'une compétence technique éprouvée pour transformer les attributs visuels et symboliques de la marque en objets attractifs et de haute qualité. La date limite de dépôt des dossiers et des échantillons est fixée au 26 décembre 2025. Lire l'appel à projets.

La société KENEBA INTERNATIONAL MARKET (KIM) Sarl a été condamnée par le Tribunal de commerce de Cotonou à payer 5,6 millions de francs CFA à un opérateur économique dans une affaire de commande de pommes de terre non livrée, selon un jugement rendu le 4 décembre 2025.

En 2024, un opérateur économique a passé une commande de pommes de terre auprès de KIM Sarl, représentée par son gérant, pour un montant de 5,5 millions de francs CFA. Pour garantir l'opération, un véhicule de marque Lexus RX 350 avait été remis à titre de sûreté.

La marchandise n'a jamais été livrée malgré le paiement effectué et les engagements pris par le fournisseur.

Après des démarches amiables restées infructueuses, l'opérateur économique a saisi la justice en juin 2025.

Les sommations de payer adressées en mai 2025 étant restées sans effet, l'opérateur économique a obtenu une ordonnance de saisie conservatoire sur le véhicule donné en garantie.

Une décharge datée du 22 août 2024, versée au dossier, faisait état d'une reconnaissance de dette. « Cette décharge traduit une reconnaissance de la créance », relève le tribunal, précisant que le gérant de la société KIM Sarl s'était engagé à rembourser la somme au plus tard le 22 septembre 2024. La situation s'est ensuite compliquée lorsque les clés du véhicule ont été emportées par le gérant, rendant le déplacement du véhicule impossible.

Le tribunal souligne que « le déplacement du bien était indispensable à sa sauvegarde », justifiant l'autorisation judiciaire accordée pour l'ouverture forcée du véhicule et la fabrication d'une nouvelle clé. Ces frais, établis à 100 000 francs CFA, ont été jugés nécessaires et utiles, et mis à la charge de KIM Sarl. En revanche, les frais de gardiennage ont été rejetés, estimés ni contractuellement prévus ni suffisamment justifiés.

Les dommages-intérêts, réclamés à hauteur de 10 millions de francs CFA, ont également été écartés. « Le demandeur ne justifie d'aucun préjudice distinct et indépendant du retard dans le recouvrement de sa créance », indique le jugement.

Concernant la responsabilité personnelle du gérant, le tribunal a rappelé un principe fondamental du droit des sociétés : « La débitrice principale de l'obligation est la personne morale ».

Au terme de la procédure, la société KENEBA INTERNATIONAL MARKET Sarl a été condamnée à payer à l'opérateur économique 5,6 millions de francs CFA, tous frais compris, ainsi qu'aux dépens, selon le jugement N°203/2025/CJ2/S2/TCC du 4 décembre 2025.
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Les éléments de la police républicaine ont procédé à plusieurs interpellations à Godomey et environs dans le cadre de l'opération "Coup de Poing".

Des opérations de la police républicaine menée du 1er au 15 décembre ont permis d'interpeller 82 personnes. Parmi elles, 32 individus ont été arrêtés lors du démantèlement de 7 « ghettos ». 28 autres ont été interpellés pour des faits de vol. Les autres interpellations concernent diverses infractions constatées lors des patrouilles et contrôles. L'une des personnes interpellée est soupçonnée de meurtre de son ami.

Les forces de l'ordre ont mis la main sur une quantité importante de substances prohibées, notamment 305 boulettes de chanvre indien, des comprimés psychotropes ainsi que d'autres produits assimilés. 5 kilogrammes de faux médicaments ont également été saisis.

Les opérations ont aussi permis d'importantes saisies matérielles. 25 motos ont été mises en fourrière pour défaut de pièces, tandis que deux engins déclarés volés ont été retrouvés.

La police a aussi récupéré 51 téléphones portables, 55 kilogrammes de barres de fer, un sac de sel, un bidon d'essence, ainsi que divers effets vestimentaires et pièces de véhicules volés.

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Le président de la République, Patrice Talon, Grand maître des Ordres nationaux, a élevé les 77 maires de la mandature 2020-2025 dans l'Ordre National du Bénin. La remise des décorations a été effectuée au Palais des de Cotonou, lundi 15 décembre 2025, par la vice-présidente de la République, Mariam Chabi Talata, en présence de plusieurs autorités politiques et administratives, ainsi que des heureux récipiendaires.

L'engagement des maires de la mandature 2020-2025 dans la mise en œuvre des politiques publiques et leur rôle central dans la gouvernance locale ont été reconnus. Les 77 maires ont été élevés dans l'Ordre National du Bénin. Une distinction accordée par le président de la République, Patrice Talon, Grand maître des Ordres nationaux.

S'exprimant au nom des élus, le président de l'Association nationale des communes du Bénin (ANCB), Luc Sètondji Atrokpo, a rendu un hommage appuyé au chef de l'État, saluant sa vision et son engagement en faveur des collectivités territoriales. « Je voudrais, avant toute autre considération, rendre un hommage respectueux et appuyé à Son Excellence Monsieur Patrice Talon, Président de la République, Grand maître des Ordres nationaux », a déclaré Luc Atrokpo, lundi 15 décembre 2025 lors de la cérémonie de remise.

Selon lui, l'action du président Talon a permis de consolider durablement la gouvernance locale, notamment à travers des politiques publiques ambitieuses et un dialogue institutionnel soutenu avec les élus communaux.

La remise des décorations a été effectuée au Palais des congrès à Cotonou par la vice-présidente de la République, Mariam Chabi Talata.
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ENTRETIEN EXCLUSIF - Vidéosurveillance, policiers municipaux armés… La ministre de la Culture et candidate LR à la mairie de Paris dévoile son plan « sécurité pour Paris » et dénonce « vingt-cinq ans de déni idéologique ».

Près de sept ans après l'imposition de sanctions par les États-Unis, les exportations pétrolières du Venezuela semblent s'être considérablement redressées grâce à la contribution de la « flotte fantôme ».

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the high-level pledging event on the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) 2026. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten

By Oritro Karim
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 16 2025 (IPS)

2025 has been an especially turbulent year for humanitarian aid operations as global aid budgets have experienced record declines in funding. As conflicts, environmental disasters, and economic crises intensify and disproportionately impact the world’s most vulnerable communities, the resources available in global emergency funds are falling far short of rapidly growing needs.

For 2026, humanitarian agencies project that even more people may be left without critical support if funding gaps continue to widen. In response, the United Nations (UN) and its partners are urgently calling on the international community to mobilize increased support for its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) at an annual pledging event to commemorate the fund’s 20th anniversary on December 12.

“The humanitarian system’s tank is running on empty – with millions of lives hanging in the balance,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres. “This is a moment when we are asked to do more and more, with less and less. This is simply unsustainable.”

According to figures from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA ), the UN aims to save 87 million lives next year, which will require approximately USD 23 billion in funding. In addition, the agency seeks to raise about USD 33 billion to support 135 million people across 50 countries through 23 national aid operations, along with six additional operations dedicated to refugees and migrants.

Despite the urgent global need for increased support, funding for humanitarian appeals has faltered more steeply than ever before, with contributions for budgets at the lowest levels recorded in decades. The appeal for 2025, which called for USD 12 billion, reached roughly 25 million less people than the previous year.

OCHA recorded a multitude of immediate consequences around the world– including an exacerbation of the global hunger crisis, increasingly strained health systems to the point of near collapse, the erosion of critical education programs, and a considerable blow to protection services for vulnerable displaced communities facing protracted armed conflicts. In some contexts, it has been increasingly dangerous for aid workers, with more than 320 killed this year amid what officials describe as an “utter disregard for the laws of war”.

“So when we’re needed at full strength, the warning lights are flashing,” said Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. “It’s not just a funding gap – it’s an operational emergency. And if the CERF falters, then the world’s emergency service will falter. And the people who rely on us will suffer.”

With resources in desperately short supply, the UN and its partners have been forced to scale back certain lifesaving services to prioritize others, leaving urgent humanitarian crises critically underfunded. Due to these strategic allocations, the UN has been largely unable to assist numerous displaced communities fleeing from conflict in Darfur, Sudan– which has been described as “the epicenter of human suffering.”

“As you’ve heard and as you know, the brutal cuts that we’re experiencing have forced us to make brutal choices, a ruthless triage of human survival,” Fletcher added. “This is what it means when we put power before solidarity and compassion.”

UN officials also underscored the extreme importance of CERF, as the fund has acted as a lifeline for vulnerable communities around the world for decades, delivering over USD 10 billion worth of aid in more than 110 countries since 2006. Through these efforts, CERF has acted as a “rapid and strategic” source of financing that reached struggling civilians before other sources, saving countless lives.

According to Guterres, “in many places, CERF has made the difference between life-saving help and no help at all.” Earlier this year, when humanitarian operations were allowed to resume in the Gaza Strip, CERF helped deliver vital fuel supplies to hospitals, restore water and sanitation systems, and reinforce other essential lifesaving services.

In 2025, CERF invested nearly USD 212 million to sustain relief efforts across underfunded crises. The UN also announced an additional allocation of USD 100 million to meet critical needs—including those of women and girls—in severe crises in Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Haiti, Myanmar, Mozambique, Syria, among others.

To date, CERF has supported millions of people across 30 countries and territories through a total allocation of USD 435 million. These funds have ensured the scale-up of humanitarian efforts in Gaza following the implementation of the ceasefire, and provided critical assistance to those fleeing armed conflict in Darfur.

These efforts by CERF solidify the center of the “humanitarian reset” that the UN foresees for 2026. “And that’s why the Humanitarian Reset matters: not a slogan, but a challenge to us all,” added Fletcher. “A mission, but also a survival strategy for the work we do and for so many people. It’s about being smarter, faster, closer to the communities we serve, more honest about the difficult trade-offs that we face. Making every dollar count for those we serve.”

The UN’s largest individual humanitarian response plan in 2026 will focus on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which requires roughly USD 4.1 billion to assist roughly 3 million people who have experienced catastrophic levels of violence and destruction. Other response efforts will target Sudan—the world’s largest displacement crisis—which requires USD 2.9 billion to assist 20 million people, and Syria, which requires USD 2.8 billion to help 8.6 million people.

With funding for CERF at its lowest projected levels in over a decade, the UN seeks a funding target of USD 1 billion, and will begin appealing to its member states for support. Countries are also being urged to use their influence to bolster protection measures for civilians and humanitarian workers, as well as to reinforce accountability mechanisms for perpetrators of armed violence.

“We have to imagine, even now, in this tough moment for humanitarian funding, what the next 20 years could look like with a fully funded CERF,” said Fletcher. “A fund that makes the UN faster, smarter, more cost-effective, greener, more anticipatory, more inclusive. A fund that amplifies the voices of communities and proves that solidarity still works. Backed by a movement of citizens who believe in that solidarity.”

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Tuesday 16 December

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Tuesday 16 December

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Tuesday 16 December

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Europe’s push to shift asylum procedures to third countries risks outsourcing not only refugees, but also its moral and political responsibility.

By Judith Kohlenberger
VIENNA, Austria, Dec 16 2025 (IPS)

The debate on reforming the European asylum system has gained significant momentum following the agreement reached by EU interior ministers last week. Alongside questions of solidarity and distribution, the possibility of establishing ‘return hubs’ outside the EU was at the heart of the meeting.

Outsourcing asylum procedures – or at least those concerning rejected asylum seekers – has long been a desire of many heads of state and government, and the European Commission now aims to make this possible by creating the necessary legal foundations, for example by scrapping the so-called connection criterion. In future, rejected asylum seekers would therefore no longer need to demonstrate a personal link to the third country to which they are transferred.

Previously, such links included earlier stays or family members living there. Yet the EU remains a long way from concrete implementation.

One reason is the high cost of such outsourcing projects. According to the UK’s National Audit Office, the British Rwanda deal cost the equivalent of more than €800 million, with limited effect: only four asylum seekers were relocated over two years.

Under Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the plan was shelved for good due to excessive costs and minimal benefit. And despite the heated migration debate in the United Kingdom, a revival appears unlikely. Denmark faced a similar situation with its own Rwanda plans, which the country put on hold in 2023 due to unfeasibility. And then there is the much-cited Italy–Albania agreement, whose original idea – conducting asylum procedures under Italian law on Albanian soil – was never implemented.

Practical implementation remains doubtful

What third countries gain from allowing such outsourcing on their territory is obvious: money, and even more importantly, political capital. Speaking on a panel at the ‘Time to Decide Europe’ conference organised by the Vienna-based ERSTE Foundation, Albania’s Prime Minister and Socialist Edi Rama stated openly that his small country of just under three million people must join any alliance willing to take it in.

This includes – and above all – the EU. For Albania, which is an EU candidate country, it therefore makes sense to appear accommodating to a not insignificant member state with which it is also historically closely connected, and to help solve its unpopular ‘migration question’, at least to the extent that refugees arriving in Italy do receive protection, but, in practice, ‘not in my backyard’.

So far, however, this principle has not been put into action due to objections raised by Italian courts. That is also why – and to put the costly asylum camps built in the Albanian towns of Shëngjin and Gjadër (construction and operations are believed to have already cost hundreds of millions of euros) to some use – the European Commission created the option of return hubs, which were formally adopted last week at the meeting of EU ministers.

Italy can therefore repurpose the facilities originally intended for asylum procedures as deportation centres for asylum seekers who were already on Italian territory and whose applications have been legally rejected. Here too, the number of cases remains limited, and it is unclear on what legal basis those transferred there could be held for extended periods to prevent them from re-entering the EU via Montenegro and Bosnia. De facto detention, however, would present yet another legal complication, even if the connection criterion and other EU-law barriers are removed.

Anyone striving for ‘fair burden-sharing’ would have to redistribute towards Europe, not away from it.

There is, therefore, still a long way to go before any concrete return hubs become reality. Not only because, in the usual trilogue process, the European Parliament must also give its approval — and some MEPs, including Birgit Sippel of the Socialists and Democrats group, have already announced their opposition.

But even if a parliamentary majority can be secured, the practical implementation remains doubtful: where are the trustworthy and willing third countries; how can infrastructure be built there; how can respect for human rights standards be monitored and enforced from Europe (which proves difficult even within an EU member state such as Hungary); and how should looming legal disputes be handled?

Among the countries mentioned so far are several that themselves regularly appear among the places of origin of refugees arriving in Europe. Alongside Rwanda, the East African state of Uganda is frequently cited; it already hosts the largest number of refugees from other parts of Africa, especially from Sudan, South Sudan, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Like Rwanda, it lies directly next to regional conflict zones; the protection rate for Ugandan nationals in European host countries stands at around 60 per cent.

The country is considered authoritarian — and precisely for that reason, it has an interest in striking an outsourcing deal with EU member states, such as the one it has already concluded with the Netherlands. Such an agreement implicitly acknowledges and legitimises the Ugandan government.

The notorious EU–Turkey Statement of 2016 demonstrated how refugees accommodated in third countries can repeatedly be used as leverage in foreign policy disputes, for example when Prime Minister Erdoğan had them bussed to the Greek border to put pressure on the EU. EU strategists may euphemistically call this ‘migration diplomacy’, but for the layperson, it is simply blackmail.

The example of Uganda illustrates not only how Europe, through deals with third countries, outsources not just refugees but also bargaining power and control; it also reflects the fundamental imbalance in a one-sided debate on externalisation.

Already today, 71 per cent of all refugees find protection in developing and emerging countries, with 66 per cent hosted in neighbouring countries in the Global South or the Middle East and North Africa. Anyone striving for ‘fair burden-sharing’ would therefore have to redistribute towards Europe, not away from it.

Europe’s answer cannot, under any circumstances, be to emulate the Trump administration by resorting to ever-tougher asylum policies.

This leads to the fundamental questions that EU policymakers appear increasingly unwilling to ask, let alone answer: How does Europe want to position itself in future with regard to global refugee protection? How will people in need of protection from persecution – whose numbers are rising in an ever more unstable world – gain access to that protection?

How can the liberal post-war order be preserved, including and especially the Geneva Conventions, which were created in response to the lessons of the two World Wars and the Shoah? How should Europe position itself vis-à-vis an increasingly illiberal, in parts authoritarian United States, which now tends to view Europe more as an adversary than a partner?

A confident response to the new US national security strategy – which claims that migration threatens Europe with ‘civilisational erasure’ – must lie in emphasising Europe’s civilisational achievements since 1945. These include, above all, the prohibition of torture enshrined in Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights: it applies absolutely, and therefore also to asylum seekers who are obliged to leave and who may not be deported to countries where they risk inhuman treatment. This is precisely where the line between civilisation and barbarism lies.

Furthermore, a united Europe that wants to stand its ground against attacks from former allies must recognise societal diversity as one of its strengths, and acknowledge the indispensable contribution that migrants – from guest workers and refugees to highly skilled expats – have made to Europe’s reconstruction and prosperity.

Europe’s answer cannot, under any circumstances, be to emulate the Trump administration by resorting to ever-tougher asylum policies that effectively validate the American assessment.

For that would indeed amount to an obliteration — an obliteration of the founding idea of a united, open and liberal Europe which, let us not forget, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012 and stands for a rules-based order that has ensured decades of peace as well as economic prosperity. In short: for the very life that we are fortunate enough to enjoy day after day, in diversity, security and freedom.

Dr Judith Kohlenberger heads the FORM research institute at WU Vienna and is affiliated with the Austrian Institute for International Affairs, the Jacques Delors Centre Berlin and the Einstein Centre Digital Future. Her book Das Fluchtparadox (The Flight Paradox) was named Austrian Science Book of the Year in 2023 and nominated for the German Non-Fiction Prize. Her most recent publication is Migrationspanik (Migration Panic) (2025).

Source: International Politics and Society (IPS), Brussels, Belgium

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Le gendre de Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, a renoncé au projet de complexe hôtelier de luxe sur le site du Généralštab à Belgrade, alors que la justice serbe engage des poursuites pour la suppression du statut de bien culturel de cet ensemble détruit en 1999 et que la contestation s'intensifie.

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