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Relations between the EU and Georgia started in 1992. Bilateral relations have further intensified since the 2003 rose revolution which brought to power a new Georgian administration committed to an ambitious programme of political and economic reforms.
Le député européen Aymeric Chauprade a annoncé lundi qu'il quittait le Front national et le groupe créé par Marine Le Pen au Parlement de Strasbourg tout en conservant son siège de député européen.
November 9, 2015 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's opposition coalition, National Consensus Forces (NCF), Monday denounced a travel ban against its delegation to a meeting with rebel groups and tasked its chairman who is outside the country with its representation.
The Sudan Call forces are to meet on 10 November in the French capital Paris within the preparation of the opposition forces for a pre-dialogue meeting that will follow talks between the government and armed groups on security arrangements in Blue Nile, South Kordofan, states and Darfur region.
Leaders of the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) Mohamed Mokhtar al-Khatib and the Sudanese Congress Party (SCoP) on Monday told reporters that the security authorities barred al-Khartib, another SCP member Tariq Abdel Majid, and the leader of a Democratic Unionist Party's faction, Jala al-Azhari from leaving the country and confiscated their passports.
They further said this new ban represents "a serious violation" and proves once again that the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) has absolute power without regard to the constitution.
Al-Khatib said the ban confirms the rightness of NCF's position on the need to cancel laws restricting freedoms and to implement the other confidence building measures before to engage in the national dialogue.
The communist leader also directed sharp criticism to the Popular Congress Party (PCP) of Hassan al-Turabi and accused it of supporting the regime of president Omer al-Bashir.
Al Sheikh also held similar statements against the PCP which backs the National Congress Party (NCP) led process of the national dialogue despite the lack of conducive environment and continued restrictions political freedoms.
He further told the press conference that the leader of the opposition alliance Farouk Abu Issa who is in Cairo since several months for health reasons will represent them and reflects their vision and proposal to the meeting which will include the National Umma party (NUP) and the armed factions of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF).
he also said they did not receive an invitation from the AUHIP to take part in the pre-dialogue meeting that the mediation plans to hold after the talks on a cession of hostilities agreement between the government and the rebel groups.
The Sudanese government says only ready to meet the armed groups and the NUP in a national dialogue preparatory meeting to be held in Addis Ababa.
Officials in Khartoum explain that the internal opposition forces have being invited to join the internal process and they have the freedom to express their positions in the media and public meetings.
Observers say Paris meeting aims to give those who will not be included in Addis Ababa meetings the opportunity to determine a joint position with the participants in the AUHIP brokered process in away to pave the way for an inclusive solution.
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November 9, 2015 (RUMBEK) - Authorities in South Sudan's Lakes state have demoted town local journalists in what the state government described as a case of indiscipline.
The director general in the state information ministry, Gabriel Gakmar Kuc said the move followed the outcome of a disciplinary committee set up last month to investigate an incident involving a physical fight in office by the two employees in September.
The duo, Mabor Riak Magok and John Chiec Dut worked for Radio FM-98 in Rumbek.
"The decision is to downgrade Mabor Riak Magok from grade 10 to12 and John Chiec to be totally reassigned to another ministry without access to the radio station," said Kuc.
He added, "The demotion of Mabor Riak is accompanied with a transfer from the information ministry to another ministry without journalistic related assignment. John Chiec Dut will serve for three years in the ministry of information without promotion.”
The media in Lakes state operates in hash conditions and press freedom is restricted. Many local reporters have complained of intimidation or dismissal without clear charges.
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Malgré les réticences qui subsistent en ce qui concerne la transparence, les agriculteurs italiens ne rejettent pas le Partenariat transatlantique de commerce et d'investissement (TTIP), pourtant très controversé, qui se négocie en ce moment entre les États-Unis et l’UE.
From 21 to 25 September 2015 the bi-annual Congress of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW) took place at the University of Duisburg in Western Germany. More than 800 participants attended the event. As one of these participants, three observations seemed to be of particular interest to me.
First, in comparison to the previous congress in Tübingen, in 2013, the proportion of international papers and paper-givers had hugely increased and gave the conference a much more international atmosphere than before.
Second, while grass-roots democracy is very much alive in this association, it is not always to the advantage of its membership! The elections of the new Chair and Committee of Governors was one such example where meddling behind the scenes and public anger about it clashed in the general assembly. It took six hours to get to the elections only to find two hours later that the newly elected Chair, Michael Zürn, had already resigned! Highly divisive, in this assembly the good and great of German political science dismantled each other to a degree that the new Committee of Governors, which remained in place after the resignation of the chair, decided only to stay for one year, rather than the normal three years, and use that time mainly to revise electoral procedures in the DVPW. They will surely consider online voting, such as in other big academic organisations such as the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), but one way or another it will be a lost year for making the DVPW more relevant through more internationalisation, for example.
Thirdly, during the 5 days of the congress, there was a wide thematic variety of panels, from political economy to international politics and environmental policies. Most of these panels touched in their contents on the most important political phenomenon of our time, the European Union, but hardly any mentioned it by name or saw the importance of European Union aspects in their particular analyses.There was only one silver lining on the horizon, the Working Group for (European) Integration, but with about 10 people in the audience this remained a side-line panel. Quite curious for a political science association…
The question arises whether German political science is so inward-looking now that it doesn’t even notice European integration any more. In other words: does it mean that the famous ‘re-nationalisation’ of politics in Europe is not only conducted by governments but also by researchers? It is perhaps a sign of our time in which the EU seems to drift more and more into oblivion while at the same time it is becoming increasingly needed for key policies, such as the refugee crisis.
Thomas Hoerber, EU-Asia Institute,
ESSCA School of Management
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Jean Asselborn, le ministre des Affaires étrangères luxembourgeois, met en garde les États membre sur le danger que représente leur rejet du système Schengen, dans le contexte de crise des réfugiés.
Un an jour pour jour après la « consultation » sur l’indépendance de la Catalogne interdite par le Tribunal constitutionnel, le nouveau parlement élu de Catalogne a engagé le processus de sécession de la région avec l’État espagnol.
EU Ministers of Finance meet in Brussels on 10 November 2015 to try to reach a political agreement on the rules for bridge financing of the single resolution mechanism.