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Le discours anticapitaliste d'un pape venu du Sud ; une lettre de l'ancienne ministre de la culture du Mali Aminata D. Traoré à propos des migrants perdus en mer ; l'industrie des « prêteurs rapaces » aux Etats-Unis ; la géopolitique de l'Arctique au prisme de l'ours polaire : voici une sélection (...) / États-Unis, Animal, Capitalisme, Inégalités, Migrations, Pauvreté, Religion, Arctique, Frontières - La valise diplomatique

Magyarország 2014 és 2020 közötti időszakra vonatkozó, 1300 milliárd forintos vidékfejlesztési programja nemcsak agrárfejlesztésről szól, hanem a források biztosításáról is az önkormányzatok és a gazdálkodók számára, illetve a környezetvédelemre - jelentette ki a Miniszterelnökség agár-vidékfejlesztésért felelős államtitkára.

Le 1er septembre 2015, le général Thierry Caspar-Fille-Lambie a fait ses adieux aux armes sur la base aérienne 123 d’Orléans, après 35 années consacrées au service de la France. La cérémonie d’adieu était présidée par le chef d’état-major de l’armée de l’air (CEMAA), le général Denis Mercier.

La ligne de front entre Daech et les forces de sécurité intérieures reste stable en Irak.

Les 1er et 2 septembre 2015, les bases aériennes 123 d’Orléans, 942 de Lyon Mont-Verdun et 126 de Solenzara ont accueilli leur nouveau commandant.  

Angesichts der dramatischen Zuspitzung der Flüchtlingskrise hat der Präsident des Europäischen Rates, Donald Tusk, die Mitgliedsstaaten zu mehr…

Le 1er septembre 2015, le CEAM est officiellement devenu le centre d’expertise aérienne militaire (anciennement appelé le centre d’expériences aériennes militaires), sous la présidence du général Denis Mercier, chef d’état-major de l’armée de l’air (CEMAA).

Depuis plusieurs années les routes migratoires des Balkans sont réactivées par des migrants originaires du Proche et Moyen-Orient, d'Asie et d'Afrique. En 2015, le phénomène s'accentue : sur le premier semestre de l'année, on estime par exemple à un millier le nombre de migrants qui transitent chaque jour par la Serbie. À la même période, 80 000 demandes d'asile sont enregistrées en Hongrie, contre 43 000 sur l'ensemble de l'année 2014.
Dans le même temps, plusieurs dispositifs de renvois gouvernementaux (...)

Un double attentat a fait plusieurs dizaines de morts et une centaine de blessés, jeudi matin, près d'un camp de l'armée camerounaise à Kerawa, dans le nord du pays.

Egy kiszivárogtatás szerint Görögország és Olaszország mellett Magyarországról is máshová helyezhetnek át menekülteket. Összesen 160 ezret osztanának szét.

More than 13 million children across the Middle East and North Africa cannot attend schools as a result of armed conflicts, says a new UNICEF report, that includes countries such as Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya.

The study also looked at Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, countries neighboring Syria where large numbers of refugees live, as well as Sudan and Palestine.

Schools have become places no longer safe for children. In 2014 alone, there were 214 attacks on the schools in these regions. Many schools were completely destroyed, damaged or have become occupied by a militant group. Even the routes to and from school are now considered extremely unsafe for children in these countries.

“I heard the noise, everyone was running. I saw my mother waiting at the corner. We ran together. I was happy to be home. This is all what I can remember,” described Rasha, fourth grade student from Syria, to UNICEF.

In Iraq, 700 children were killed and another 500 injured last year. In the Gaza Strip, 551 Palestinian children were killed only during 51 days of last summer’s conflict.

In Syria, more than 2 million children are out of school and almost half a million are at risk of dropping out. Many of them have to work instead and can be easily recruited into armed groups. 20% of those still attending school risk their life by crossing active lines of conflict to take their school examinations. They often have to learn in overcrowded classrooms, because of many internally displaced pupils from other schools. A similar situation is also found in countries neighboring Syria, where Syrians have sought refuge, especially in Turkey and Lebanon. These school are often very far from children’s homes, which means their parents cannot afford to pay for the transportation and they are forced to quit. Children attending school in Turkey need to also cope with the Turkish language as the institutional language.

“I had one ten year-old Syrian student who kept skipping Turkish class. It took a long time until he was convinced that he needed to learn the language,” Ra’ed, a teacher in a refugee camp in Turkey told UNICEF.

In times of conflict, the role of teachers requires added dedication and even physical courage. Many of them has left their job and fled the country as many of their colleagues were killed or injured.  In Syria almost one quarter of the country’s teaching personnel, some 52,000 teachers, have left their posts. That means that it is up to the remaining staff to cope with the limited number of teachers and provide children with at least a little education.

 

 

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The Commission has approved, under the EU merger regulation, the sale of BG Group to Royal Dutch Shell, and in the process made Royal Dutch Shell one of the strongest oil and gas companies in the world. The Commissions investigation centered around analyzing both groups areas of operation, whether the sale would allow for competitive prices, and to ensure that after the sale the market would still be ruled by strong competition. In a statement on the merger Commission stated:

The Commission concluded that the takeover would not lead to Shell benefiting from market power in a number of markets, namely oil and gas exploration, the liquefaction of gas and the wholesale supply of liquefied natural gas.

Complex approval process 

Due to the size and nature of the acquisition, the approval by the European Commission is only the third hurdle out of five that Shell must get through, having already gained approval from the United States and Brazil Shell now awaits the final hurdles.  Per Shell CEO Ben van Beurden suggested the merger will make Shell more competitive and allow for durability in a low priced oil market right now, he said:

Receiving clearance from the European Commission underlines the good progress we are making on the deal. The transaction is on track for completion in early 2016. The recommended combination with BG is a springboard to change Shell into a simpler and more profitable company, making Shell more resilient in a world where oil prices could remain low for some time.

Now, Beurden must guide the merging companies through China and Austrialia’s anti-trust departments, which should be done by early 2016.

Reasons for Merger

The primary motivation for this merger is for Shell to get involved in the natural gas industry, in which BG has been able to carve out a significant market niche. With global oil prices so low, Shell felt that an acquisition of a natural gas company would allow them to boost production of energy in another sector, allowing them to wait out the low oil profits until the market went back up. Now, Shell has identified two new focuses, deep water oil and integrated gas, and the work done at BG makes this expansion possible. The hope for Shell is that they can eventually challenge petrol giant Exxon Mobil for supremacy in the energy market, but at a 150 billion dollar value they are still only half of what Exxon is worth.

Energy sector changes

Historically Shell has stayed away from large mergers and acquisitions, and there was some skepticism about whether or not they could handle such a high profile, 70 billion dollar merger. However, the details of the merger have been smooth thus far, and points to the future of the use of fossil fuel for energy. With anticipated high regulations against carbon emissions, the current low price of oil, and the lack of future viability for the resource, companies are beginning to opt for liquified natural gas which is likely the future of fossil fuels. The energy landscape is changing, and acquisitions like Shell and the BG Group will only become more common.

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Sociedad Anónima de Electrónica Submarina (SAES) will be exhibiting its products and solutions in Poland this week, one of the most influential fairs of the sector in Europe.

Accusé de "salir l’image" de l’armée congolaise, le documentaire consacré au docteur congolais et militant des droits de l’Homme, Denis Mukwege, ne sera pas diffusé en RDC. Thierry Michel, co-auteur du film, dénonce une décision "disproportionnée".

iOra's Geo-Replicator technology provides the bandwidth optimisation that makes the updating of the 'Distance Support' portal possible across the entire fleet via satellite, enabling the navy to run an up-todate portal on all of its ships and substan…

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You don’t happen to see the Su-30SM that close too often.

The Su-30SM is a special variant of the thrust-vectoring Su-30MKI and MKM produced by the Irkut Corporation for the Russian Air Force (that should operate 60 jets of this type by 2016).

It’s a 4+ Generation twin-engine, two seat supermanuverable multi-role aircraft equipped with improved avionics, the Bars-R radar and a wide-angle HUD (Head Up Display).

And, no matter how it is effective in a WVR (Within Visual Range) or BVR (Beyond Visual Range) scenario, it’s quite cool.

H/T Lasse Holmstrom for the heads-up

 

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Plenary sessions : Technology can help people to express themselves, but it can also be used to violate their human rights. On Tuesday 8 September MEPs vote on a report on the impact of intrusion and surveillance systems on human rights in countries outside the EU. Report author Marietje Schaake, a Dutch member of the ALDE group, told us that the EU should lead by example and that European technologies should not contribute to human right violations.

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Plenary sessions : Technology can help people to express themselves, but it can also be used to violate their human rights. On Tuesday 8 September MEPs vote on a report on the impact of intrusion and surveillance systems on human rights in countries outside the EU. Report author Marietje Schaake, a Dutch member of the ALDE group, told us that the EU should lead by example and that European technologies should not contribute to human right violations.

Source : © European Union, 2015 - EP