Agrégateur de flux

David Cameron veut abroger la loi sur les droits de l’Homme durant les 100 premiers jours de son mandat afin de « rompre le lien formel » entre les tribunaux britanniques et la Cour européenne des droits de l'Homme. Un projet qui soulève de nombreuses protestations.

In der Hängepartie zwischen Griechenland und seinen Gläubigern warnt Deutschland die Griechen vor einem Spiel auf Zeit.

Unions-Fraktionschef Volker Kauder hat der SPD vorgeworfen, mit ihren Attacken gegen Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel und das Kanzleramt in der BND-Affäre dem gemeinsamen Bündnis zu schaden.

Minister und Beauftragte aus etwa 35 Staaten kommen am Montag in Berlin zum Petersberger Klimadialog zusammen. Gut ein halbes Jahr vor der UN-Klimakonferenz in Paris wollen die Teilnehmer Möglichkeiten für das dort angestrebte weltweite Klimaschutzabkommen ausloten.

Die EU-Außen- und Verteidigungsminister beraten heute über die Flüchtlingskrise und Europas geplanten Militäreinsatz gegen Schlepper im Mittelmeer. Der Einsatz des Militärs zur Zerstörung von Schmugglerbooten an der libyschen Küste ist umstritten. Neben rechtlichen Fragen ist auch unklar, wie die Boote erkannt werden sollen.

Die EU hat die Todesstrafe gegen den früheren ägyptischen Staatschef Mohammed Mursi und mehr als hundert weitere Islamisten kritisiert. EU-Außenbeauftragte Federica Mogherini äußert die Erwartung, dass das Urteil gegen Mursi aufgehoben werde.

Kínai gazdasági elemző szerint Peking arra készül, hogy végső csapást mér a dollárra. Nem tudni, pontosan mennyi aranytartalékuk van, de egy részét felhasználhatják a dollár kiütésére.

Le bras de fer se poursuit entre le gouvernement et l’opposition macédonienne qui a réussi son pari en rassemblant plus de 50 000 personnes dimanche dans les rues de Skopje.

Der Wirtschaftsweise Peter Bofinger hält eine Abschaffung des Bargelds für sinnvoll. Es erschwere den Zahlungsverkehr "ungemein".

 

A Kossuth Rádió Ütköző című műsorában Csáky Pál, az MKP európai parlamenti képviselője az Európai Bizottság nemrégiben elfogadott új menekültügyi és bevándorlási stratégiájáról nyilatkozott.

Le Secrétaire général de l'ONU, Ban Ki-moon, a exprimé lundi sa préoccupation concernant la condamnation à mort en Egypte de l'ancien Président Mohamed Morsi et de 105 autres personnes.

Le Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies a condamné l'escalade de la violence et les violations du cessez-le-feu au Soudan du Sud, se disant prêt à imposer des sanctions à ceux qui menacent le processus de paix dans le pays.

Le Haut-Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) a indiqué lundi avoir pris des mesures d'urgence, en collaboration avec les autorités de Tanzanie, pour contenir la propagation d'une épidémie de diarrhée aqueuse sévère chez les réfugiés burundais arrivés dans ce pays, alors que sept personnes sont mortes depuis mercredi.

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Americas

• The Air Force is reportedly set to award a contract for the next-generation Long Range Strike Bomber “within one to two months”. The competition between Northrop Grumman and a Lockheed Martin/Boeing team will lead to a program valued at between $44 and $55 billion, with this equating to between 80 and 100 bombers. The LRS-B program will realign from from Air Combat Command to Air Force Global Strike Command from October.

• General Electric and Pratt & Whitney were both awarded $105 million modifications on Friday to cover a potential contract award for the Adaptive Engine Technology Development order, with the Air Force also reportedly looking to open future competition for F-35 upgrades.

• The Navy announced Friday that it has achieved Initial Operating Capability with the Block II Rolling Airframe Missile aboard the USS Arlington (LPD 24). The joint program with Germany was recently included as part of a $1.6 billion overhaul package by the US Navy intended to provide improved protection to carriers and amphibious ships.

• In other Navy news, the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) has been successfully “no-load” tested on CVN-78. The system – manufactured by General Atomics – uses electricity as a propulsion system, as opposed to current steam-based catapults. The new system will offer improved performance, reduced stress on aircraft and other benefits. EMALS will be complemented by the Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) – also manufactured by General Atomics – with this system seeing schedule delays and reportedly likely to miss its March 31st deadline next year.

• On Friday, 21 firms were awarded a $7.9 billion IDIQ contract for Network-Centric Solutions-2 (NETCENTS-2) network operations and infrastructure solutions, with an initial period of 3 years.

• Peru and Russia are reportedly in talks regarding potential modernization of the South American state’s approximately 200 T-55 main battle tanks. With previous reports suggesting that the Russians would be willing to sell the more advanced T-90S to the Peruvians, the reports regarding the T-55s also stated that Peru is not considering any new procurement contracts.

Europe

• The German Defense Ministry has reportedly selected the MEADS system as a replacement for its existing Patriots. The Defense Ministry has neither confirmed nor denied the reports circulating in German media, with an official decision expected to be announced in June. MEADS – Medium Extended Air Defense System – has been jointly developed by Lockheed Martin and MBDA, with funding received from three partner nations; the US, Germany and Italy. If the system has been selected over competitor Raytheon – who are offering upgrades to the in-service Patriots – then this would be a much-needed boost to the MEADS consortium, which urgently needs a buyer having failed to impress the US Army owing to cost and schedule overruns.

• Latvia has installed a NATO air defense system to improve air surveillance over the Baltic states. The TPS-77, manufactured by Lockheed Martin, is a mobile Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA), with the new system set to complement two existing systems currently in operation in order to monitor the entirety of Latvia’s eastern border. Those were ordered in 2007.

• Turkey is reportedly looking to equip its domestically-produced UAVs with indigenous Bozok missiles, set for serial production by Tubitak SAGE. The Turkish Aerospace Industries Anka UAV is the most likely candidate for the new missiles.

Asia

• India’s fourth Komrota-class ASW corvette is set to be launched on Tuesday, with the INS Kavaratti the last of the Indian Navy’s Project 28 ships. The ships – built by Garden Reach Ship Builders and Engineers (GRSE) – have been designed to succeed the Kora-class. Russia also recently unveiled a new destroyer design – the Project 23560E Shkval destroyer.

Today’s Video

• The Anka UAV in action…