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The Venezuelan displacement crisis has become a defining moment in South-South migration dynamics across Latin America. Since 2015, severe food shortages, medicine scarcity, soaring inflation and widespread human rights violations have driven a massive exodus from Venezuela. By June 2024, the deepening humanitarian and economic collapse under Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian government – in power since 2013 – had forced at least 7.7 million Venezuelans to leave the country. Of these, 6.5 million remain in Latin America and the Caribbean, with nearly 3 million residing in Colombia.
This situation has posed a significant challenge for the Colombian government over the past decade. On the one hand, Colombian institutions were not equipped to manage large numbers of refugees. On the other hand, host communities have had to deal with long-standing structural socioeconomic issues such as poverty and job informality. Additionally, recent US policy shifts and immense aid cuts have further deteriorated the situation in Colombia. 
This policy brief focuses on social cohesion dynamics in the Colombian context of the displacement of Venezuelans and Colombian returnees. It shows that negative narratives about Venezuelans have declined over the past ten years. Both communities have learned to live jointly in relative harmony despite the ongoing economic and social challenges they face. This policy brief offers recommendations 
for improving social cohesion in host communities that receive displaced Venezuelans in Colombia.
Key policy messages:
• Continue regularisation programmes, ensure equal access to basic services and support socioeconomic and cultural inclusion efforts from governments at the local level for Venezuelans and host communities, especially regarding access to the labour market. 
• Engage with local peacebuilding actors, both non-state and state, to develop a shared understanding of violence in Colombia and the State’s assistance pathways for affected Venezuelans and their host communities. Many Venezuelans struggle to understand the long-standing Colombian conflict and how the violence permeates society and their host communities. 
• Build on the local efforts to tamp down xenophobia and discrimination by women community leaders who have helped address these jointly with Venezuelans and Colombians. Issues of xenophobia and discrimination, particularly towards women and LGBTQ+ persons, harm social cohesion. 
• Address negative narratives that are spread mostly through mainstream media, and, in some cases, by local politicians, with fact-checking and positive messages around migration. 

Stéphanie López Villamil is an IDOS research partner and independent researcher.

 

The Venezuelan displacement crisis has become a defining moment in South-South migration dynamics across Latin America. Since 2015, severe food shortages, medicine scarcity, soaring inflation and widespread human rights violations have driven a massive exodus from Venezuela. By June 2024, the deepening humanitarian and economic collapse under Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian government – in power since 2013 – had forced at least 7.7 million Venezuelans to leave the country. Of these, 6.5 million remain in Latin America and the Caribbean, with nearly 3 million residing in Colombia.
This situation has posed a significant challenge for the Colombian government over the past decade. On the one hand, Colombian institutions were not equipped to manage large numbers of refugees. On the other hand, host communities have had to deal with long-standing structural socioeconomic issues such as poverty and job informality. Additionally, recent US policy shifts and immense aid cuts have further deteriorated the situation in Colombia. 
This policy brief focuses on social cohesion dynamics in the Colombian context of the displacement of Venezuelans and Colombian returnees. It shows that negative narratives about Venezuelans have declined over the past ten years. Both communities have learned to live jointly in relative harmony despite the ongoing economic and social challenges they face. This policy brief offers recommendations 
for improving social cohesion in host communities that receive displaced Venezuelans in Colombia.
Key policy messages:
• Continue regularisation programmes, ensure equal access to basic services and support socioeconomic and cultural inclusion efforts from governments at the local level for Venezuelans and host communities, especially regarding access to the labour market. 
• Engage with local peacebuilding actors, both non-state and state, to develop a shared understanding of violence in Colombia and the State’s assistance pathways for affected Venezuelans and their host communities. Many Venezuelans struggle to understand the long-standing Colombian conflict and how the violence permeates society and their host communities. 
• Build on the local efforts to tamp down xenophobia and discrimination by women community leaders who have helped address these jointly with Venezuelans and Colombians. Issues of xenophobia and discrimination, particularly towards women and LGBTQ+ persons, harm social cohesion. 
• Address negative narratives that are spread mostly through mainstream media, and, in some cases, by local politicians, with fact-checking and positive messages around migration. 

Stéphanie López Villamil is an IDOS research partner and independent researcher.

 

Europe faces critical choices about its relationship with the rest of the world as it begin to negotiate the post 2028 EU budget. The broad consensus sees strength and prosperity of the Union in terms of its competitiveness, with research, innovation and skills at the heart of the European economy. As such, even actions focused on the needs and opportunities in Europe are defined in relation to other countries and global regions. This underscores the importance of ensuring the novel Global Europe funding instrument is designed correctly. Europe’s capacity to cooperate with the world, especially with low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), will be shaped by the funding allocations and spending rules decided upon in the next months. However, there are questions about how research, innovation and higher education fits into this global outlook: will these aspects of cooperation with LMICs remain peripheral, or can they be recognised as a strategic enabler of European competitiveness and better implemented to address shared global challenges?

Europe faces critical choices about its relationship with the rest of the world as it begin to negotiate the post 2028 EU budget. The broad consensus sees strength and prosperity of the Union in terms of its competitiveness, with research, innovation and skills at the heart of the European economy. As such, even actions focused on the needs and opportunities in Europe are defined in relation to other countries and global regions. This underscores the importance of ensuring the novel Global Europe funding instrument is designed correctly. Europe’s capacity to cooperate with the world, especially with low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), will be shaped by the funding allocations and spending rules decided upon in the next months. However, there are questions about how research, innovation and higher education fits into this global outlook: will these aspects of cooperation with LMICs remain peripheral, or can they be recognised as a strategic enabler of European competitiveness and better implemented to address shared global challenges?

Europe faces critical choices about its relationship with the rest of the world as it begin to negotiate the post 2028 EU budget. The broad consensus sees strength and prosperity of the Union in terms of its competitiveness, with research, innovation and skills at the heart of the European economy. As such, even actions focused on the needs and opportunities in Europe are defined in relation to other countries and global regions. This underscores the importance of ensuring the novel Global Europe funding instrument is designed correctly. Europe’s capacity to cooperate with the world, especially with low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), will be shaped by the funding allocations and spending rules decided upon in the next months. However, there are questions about how research, innovation and higher education fits into this global outlook: will these aspects of cooperation with LMICs remain peripheral, or can they be recognised as a strategic enabler of European competitiveness and better implemented to address shared global challenges?

Le Parti populaire européen (PPE) d’Ursula von der Leyen est contraint de s’allier avec l’extrême droite pour faire passer une réforme visant à simplifier les formalités administratives entourant les chaînes d’approvisionnement. Une alliance embarrassante, que l’extrême droite veut rendre « publique ».

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2018 májusában egy tengerészgyalogos hamvaival és hagyatékával egy amerikai üzletember érkezett Budapestre. Utazásával a tengerészgyalogos kívánságát teljesítette, akit gyerekkora óta barátjának mondhatott, és akinek kérése az volt, hogy a végső nyughelye szülőföldjén legyen.

Az 1956-os forradalom és szabadságharc leverése után külföldre emigráló magyarok a legkülönbözőbb életutat futották be. A többség beilleszkedett az új környezetbe, voltak, akik visszatérhettek eredeti mesterségükhöz, mások új szakmát tanultak, és abban igyekeztek boldogulni, néhányan pedig a befogadó ország fegyveres erőinél találtak megélhetést. Utóbbiak közé tartozott Szabolcs István is, aki az Egyesült Államok tengerészgyalogságának (US Marine Corps) légierejénél szolgált. Hosszú út vezetett Budapestről egy F-4 Phantom II-es vadászbombázó hátsó üléséig. Mivel a személyes találkozó és beszélgetés már nem jöhet létre, a Szabolcs István – vagy, ahogy Amerikában nevezték, Steven Szabolcs - által bejárt útnak csak egy-egy szakaszát ismerhetjük meg visszaemlékezések, fotók és dokumentumok segítségével.

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Les membres de la commission des Droits de la femme du Parlement européen ont voté mercredi 5 novembre en faveur d’un fonds européen visant à aider les femmes à se rendre à l’étranger pour des avortements lorsque la procédure leur est refusée dans leur pays.

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Willkommen bei Rapporteur! Jeden Tag liefern wir Ihnen die wichtigsten Nachrichten und Hintergründe aus der EU- und Europapolitik. Das Wichtigste: Budget: Parlament drängt nach ergebnislosen Verhandlungen über 865-Milliarden-Euro-Paket auf Neuauflage des Mehrjährigen Finanzrahmens Ukraine: EU arbeitet an alternativen Finanzierungsmodellen, nachdem 140-Milliarden-Euro-Reparationskredit ins Stocken geraten ist Wirtschaft: EVP erwägt Unterstützung durch rechte Parteien, nachdem Plan zum […]

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