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Un militaire âgé de 25 ans a été tabassé samedi vers 23h30 dans une rame du tramway, à une station proche de la gare SNCF Saint-Roch, après une violente altercation verbale. À cause d’une bousculade, le militaire et sa compagne ont été pris à partie par trois individus fortement alcoolisés.   Les trois hommes âgés ...

Politikai döntés született a Maros megyei önkormányzatban arról, hogy a megye százkét közigazgatási egysége között egyenlően osszák el a központi büdzséből érkezett pénzösszeget.
Kategória: Aktuális/Marosszék

EXCLUSIF. Les pays baltes et l’Inde grimpent en flèche dans le classement annuel des budgets militaires. L’UE sera doublée par la Chine vers 2020. Les budgets de la défense dans le monde ont fortement augmenté en 2016, atteignant 1 570 milliards de dollars, selon le rapport annuel Jane’s du cabinet IHS Markit, que nous avons ...

Minden valószínűség szerint két szenátort és három képviselőt küldhet a bukaresti törvényhozásba a Maros megyei RMDSZ. Az eredménnyel mindenki elégedett lehet: a szövetség visszanyerte a második szenátori helyét.
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À vrai dire, on s’y attendait. Quelques jours après sa menace d’annuler le contrat attibué à Boeing pour l’acqusition de deux avions B-747-8 destinés à renouveler la flotte présidentielle, Donald Trump, qui se préparer à succéder à Barack Obama, s’en est pris à l’avion F-35, développé par Lockheed-Martin, d’abord dans un entretien diffusé le 11 […]

Cet article Le programme F-35 est « hors de contrôle », dénonce Donald Trump est apparu en premier sur Zone Militaire.

Pour la ministre de l’éducation nationale, l’ancien premier ministre est le seul qui lui « semble en capacité d’incarner le sursaut ».

In Luxemburg hat das Berufungsverfahren im sogenannten Luxleaks-Prozess begonnen.

Egyik, csaknem százmillió eurós pályázatát még be sem fejezte az Aquaserv Regionális Szolgáltató, de már javában folynak az előkészületek a második, még annál is nagyobb, mintegy 140 millió eurós pályázat leadása érdekében.
Kategória: Aktuális/Marosszék

Banking sector outlooks for CIS and Georgian banks for 2017 are diverging, reflecting how far recent recessions and currency devaluations will continue to affect lender performance, Fitch Ratings says.

Une délégation des chefs d'État d'Afrique de l'Ouest, conduite par la présidente libérienne Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, se rend en Gambie mardi 13 décembre pour exhorter Yahya Jammeh, le président sortant, de "quitter le pouvoir".

Jugée insuffisante actuellement, la formation des imams a été au cœur de la troisième réunion de "l'instance de dialogue avec l’islam". L’enjeu ? Contrer les "discours sectaires".

In Baku and the Absheron Peninsula on December 13, the weather will be changeably cloudy and mostly rainless, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources told APA on December 12.

Suivez la 1re compagnie du 16e bataillon de chasseurs (16e BC) lors d’un exercice de tir dynamique dans la campagne anglaise de la Stanford training area dans l’Est du pays. Intégrés au 4e bataillon du Royal regiment of Scotland (4 SCOTS), les chasseurs ont expérimenté une manœuvre à tirs réels pour le moins dépaysante.

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Hétfőn tette le a magyar állampolgársági esküt a százezredik vajdasági magyar kérelmező a Szabadkai Magyar Főnkonzulátuson.

After its overwhelming win in Sunday's elections, the PSD is set to nominate a Prime Minister, although President Klaus Iohannis is refusing to accept its leader, Liviu Dragnea, owing to his two-year suspended jail sentence.

Betlehemi békelángot hoztak Bécsből vasárnap a csíki cserkészek, akik részt vettek az osztrák lángátadó ünnepségen. A láng több csíki településen is átvehető lesz majd.
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Több éves huzavona után hétfőn ideiglenesen átadták a forgalomnak a Csiba és Oltfalu felé vezető megyei úton található csicsói Olt-hidat. A munkálatokat tavasszal folytatnák.
Kategória: Aktuális/Csíkszék

The mass-casualty attacks in Paris in 2015 and Brussels in 2016, as well as the plethora of self-starter plots uncovered in countries like Germany, Denmark and the United Kingdom over the last few years, have highlighted the extent of the terrorist threat across Europe.

Terrorism has illustrated that it is borderless, and the cooperation between the European Union’s 28 member nations has to seamlessly confront that reality. But the EU’s counter-terrorism strategy has not reached its full potential and significant challenges still remain despite the great steps taken since 2002.

The EU first established a mutually-agreed definition of terrorism in 2002. This was a significant moment in cooperation as up to that moment only five member states – the UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy – had detailed legislation on terrorism. As the threats evolved, the EU updated its list of terrorism-related offences to include public provocation, recruitment and training for terrorism.

Another step forward was the EU’s current counter-terrorism policy, agreed in November 2005. It has four principal aims, to be achieved by cooperation on both domestic and international levels. These include preventing the radicalisation of individuals, protecting the public from attacks, pursuing terrorists within the EU and, finally, responding to terrorist attacks whenever they occur.

Another important element has been the European Arrest Warrant, which was introduced in 2002 but has been operational only since January 2007. Under the previous extradition procedure, the process could last more than a year. Now the average length is between 16 and 48 days.

The procedure is better at extraditing suspected terrorists such as Salah Abdeslam, accused of plotting the November 2015 attacks in Paris. During the attack, Abdeslam fled to Belgium. He was eventually captured by police on 18 March 2016 and extradited to France within six weeks.

But the words of the EU and its member states are often not matched with action. This is largely illustrated by the unwillingness of member states to share intelligence and exchange information on security issues within the EU framework, including through institutions such as Europol. Instead, some nations opt for bilateral agreements to share intelligence outside EU structures.

The G6 group – an unofficial group of interior ministers from Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and Poland – works closely together and shares information due to its dissatisfaction with the workings of the Justice and Home Affairs Council.

Although Europol, which doesn’t have powers of arrest, has attained significant support from member states to facilitate the exchange of information, its operational role is limited. This, in turn, results in a restricted role and less influence for the EU institutions.

In 2014, Europol launched the Focal Point Travellers scheme, which is designed to hold information about individuals suspected of traveling across borders to participate in terrorist activities. The intention was to help European countries by collecting, analysing and sharing information on the recruitment and movements of outgoing and returning terrorists. But Europol never received across-the-board support, with only half of the EU’s 28 members registering their respective nationals on the Europol Information System database by the day of the Paris attacks.

Another problem has been that Europol principally interacts with national and federal police forces rather than intelligence agencies. This restricts access to potentially significant information. To try to mitigate this, in 2016 Europol announced the formation of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC) to combat terrorism in Europe, act as a central information hub and boost cooperation. Its success will take time to judge and assess.

The Schengen Agreement preserves the principle of no checks on internal borders across 26 countries, 22 of which are within the EU. However, if ever there is a serious threat to internal security, such as the one resulting from the November 2015 Paris attacks, internal border controls can be temporarily re-introduced for a limited period of time. Two of the suicide bombers behind the Stade de France attack used the migrant route from Turkey, Greece and the Balkans and continued across western Europe to orchestrate the attack. Both had falsified Syrian passports. Several of the individuals involved in the Brussels attacks on 22 March 2016 had also travelled across Europe using the migrant trail.

The threat of foreign terrorist fighters, either as returnees or from countries outside the EU, makes in-depth real-time exchange of information on individuals entering and leaving the Schengen zone essential. Frontex, the European border agency, is responsible for the supervision of operational cooperation on EU member states’ external borders. Although Frontex is not a counter-terrorism organisation, it needs to become an information provider and exchange intelligence with other EU agencies and national authorities.

In April 2016 the European Parliament and the Council adopted the European Air Passenger Name Record proposal, which had been under discussion since 2011. It will allow EU agencies and national law enforcement authorities to identify individuals whose methods of travel are unusual and unconventional, and to monitor their itineraries and contacts should they be suspected of involvement in terrorist activities.

Achievement of the EU’s counter-terrorism goals is beset by slow bureaucratic progress and tends to only take a degree of momentum in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. Because of the reluctance of member states to transfer sovereignty to the EU’s supranational institutions, and factoring in Brexit, a more effective and practical response could be achieved by continuing national policies, with bilateral agreements on information-sharing.

To achieve practical cooperation, the EU should assist and coordinate national efforts − not to replace them.

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