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ENTWURF EINES BERICHTS über den Bericht 2025 der Kommission über Albanien - PE784.259v01-00

ENTWURF EINES BERICHTS über den Bericht 2025 der Kommission über Albanien
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
Andreas Schieder

Quelle : © Europäische Union, 2026 - EP

How do we Navigate Asia-Pacific’s Climate-Cyber Polycrisis?

Africa - INTER PRESS SERVICE - Tue, 03/03/2026 - 10:52

The effects of Typhoon Odette in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, Philippines, 2021. Credit: Unsplash/Carl Kho

By Anne Cortez
MANILA, Philippines, Mar 3 2026 (IPS)

Communities globally are increasingly exposed to overlapping threats. Extreme weather, health emergencies and cyberattacks are occurring more frequently and simultaneously, often interacting in ways that amplify risks and strain response systems.

Experts describe this as a polycrisis, where threats converge, creating a complex pressure point for governments, businesses and communities.

Today, a polycrisis is brewing at the intersection of climate change and cybersecurity. The latest Global Risks Report by the World Economic Forum ranks extreme weather and natural disasters among the top global threats, while risks linked to digital and artificial intelligence have climbed up the list.

Over the next decade, these environmental and technological dangers are expected to dominate, underscoring how deeply intertwined they have become.

Asia and the Pacific is increasingly becoming a hotspot for these twin threats. The world’s most disaster-prone region, it faced the highest number of disasters and deaths in 2023, with 66 million people affected and annual losses reaching an estimated US$780 billion. At the same time, the region has become the new ground zero for cybercrime, fuelled by rapid digital transformation during and after the pandemic.

In 2024, it accounted for over one-third of all global cyber incidents, including roughly 135,000 ransomware attacks in Southeast Asia alone, costing the region an average of US$3.05 million per attack. The Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam were among the most affected.

Asia’s geographic exposure and rapid digital growth have turned its climate vulnerability into a growing cyber vulnerability, especially across critical infrastructure and information systems.

As essential services including health, communications and energy depend on digital networks, climate-driven disruptions such as typhoons and floods can force systems into manual workarounds or less secure channels, creating openings for digital breaches at the worst possible moment.

The 9.1 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011 provided an early glimpse into the interconnected climate-cyber risks. In weeks following the earthquake, cyber criminals exploited the chaos with phishing and malware schemes disguised as disaster relief efforts, stealing data and hindering recovery.

So far, cases in the region have largely involved natural hazards, but climate change is intensifying these events, increasing their frequency and severity and placing sustained stress on digital infrastructure, which in turn creates more openings for cyber attacks.

Some researchers suggest that, contrary to prevailing beliefs, climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in addition to other extreme weather events, and all of these events have been linked to spikes in cyber incidents.

Research shows that the likelihood of cyberattacks increases dramatically during natural disasters, as defensive systems and attention are compromised. In the United States, for instance, government agencies and researchers have warned the public of heightened digital threats including scams following hurricanes and wildfires, demonstrating how climate hazards can create openings for malicious actors.

When these vulnerabilities are exploited, response and recovery efforts can be paralysed at the very moment they are most needed.

This convergence of vulnerabilities changes the nature of disaster risk. The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction now includes cyber threats in its hazard taxonomies because losses of connectivity and cyber incidents reshape exposure and coping capacity. Treating these threats separately leaves significant gaps in preparedness and response.

Across the Caribbean, interest in the climate-cyber convergence has grown, with governments and partners conducting assessments, dialogues and scenario planning to strengthen shared resilience and ensure that physical and digital systems can withstand compounded shocks. In Europe, researchers are drawing lessons from environmental law to inform and strengthen cybersecurity policies.

Given these global developments, it is concerning that the recent COP30 focused heavily on how technology can support climate adaptation, yet paid less attention to how the same systems become vulnerable during climate-driven disruptions.

Even more worrying is that Asia and the Pacific, despite being highly exposed to both disaster and cyber risk, has not yet shown the same level of integrated response or public alarm seen elsewhere.

The region has robust frameworks for disaster and climate resilience under the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, implemented through regional action plans, financing facility and cooperation programs.

At the same time, ASEAN and its partners have cybersecurity policy guidelines that cover digital governance, data management and response to transboundary cyber threats. However, these tracks largely operate in parallel, missing opportunities for integration.

Reports highlight gaps in how climate and cyber risks are managed and financed. Agencies still work in silos, with little joint analysis or shared data, and insufficient tools, financing and capacity to manage combined climate-cyber risks.

Asia and the Pacific has the institutions and expertise to respond, but what is missing is a mindset that treats climate and cyber threats as interconnected. As climate extremes and cyberattacks accelerate, the region cannot continue fighting on two fronts with divided defences.

Building climate-cyber resilience in the region requires integrated planning, strengthened continuity systems and regional cooperation.

First, joint climate-cyber assessments and exercises are needed to map interdependent failures and strengthen coordinated response.

Second, critical services need strong backups, diversified connectivity and tested recovery plans that anticipate physical damage to digital infrastructure, ensuring continuity even during disasters.

Third, financing and cooperation should harmonise reporting for compound events, require safeguards and build pooled insurance, supported by development banks and donors.

The convergence of climate and cyber risks is changing the nature of crises worldwide. Future disasters are likely to involve multiple, interacting shocks rather than isolated events. As this reality enters discussions in platforms such as Davos and ASEAN 2026, attention is turning to the Asia and Pacific region to advance integrated resilience as a policy priority. Delaying action will only compound impacts and put far more lives and futures at risk.

This article was originally published online at Devpolicy Blog. The Blog is run out of the Development Policy Centre housed in the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.

Anne Cortez is a knowledge and communications consultant for the Asian Development Bank’s climate and health portfolio. She also advises the APAC Cybersecurity Fund, an initiative of The Asia Foundation, on strategic communications and policy priorities. Learn more about her work here.

IPS UN Bureau

 


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Categories: Africa, European Union

Mobilising and scaling local climate action

As the world approaches global warming tipping points, local climate engagement aims at climate actions that are equitable, effective and aligned with local needs. Strengthening and scaling up these initiatives can amplify impact, though efforts are often fragmented and require strengthened coordination. This policy brief identifies barriers and enablers of local climate action, how it is best scaled up, and how international actors – donors, policymakers, city and research networks, businesses and others – can support this process. 
Building on these insights, the following points outline key conditions for strengthening, scaling up and sustaining locally led climate action:
•    community-centred co-creation – investing in participatory, culturally grounded processes that map local needs, integrate diverse knowledge, and establish a common language;
•    predictable, flexible funding – providing long-term resources for locally led climate action, and planning additional finance to scale up solutions, including those involving knowledge sharing platforms and coordi-nation capacity;
•    private-sector engagement – creating incentives aligned with climate and community priorities, such as collaboration in the development of green products, in facilitating their market access and assisting with certification and value-chain regulations.
•    multilevel coordination and data sharing – establishing clear institutional pathways, monitoring mechanisms and interoperable data platforms to connect local action with national and international policies, leveraging synergies, and increasing accountability; and
•    just international partnerships – supporting local and Southern priorities through green development opportunities, ensuring fairness and co-benefits for the partners involved.

 

Mobilising and scaling local climate action

As the world approaches global warming tipping points, local climate engagement aims at climate actions that are equitable, effective and aligned with local needs. Strengthening and scaling up these initiatives can amplify impact, though efforts are often fragmented and require strengthened coordination. This policy brief identifies barriers and enablers of local climate action, how it is best scaled up, and how international actors – donors, policymakers, city and research networks, businesses and others – can support this process. 
Building on these insights, the following points outline key conditions for strengthening, scaling up and sustaining locally led climate action:
•    community-centred co-creation – investing in participatory, culturally grounded processes that map local needs, integrate diverse knowledge, and establish a common language;
•    predictable, flexible funding – providing long-term resources for locally led climate action, and planning additional finance to scale up solutions, including those involving knowledge sharing platforms and coordi-nation capacity;
•    private-sector engagement – creating incentives aligned with climate and community priorities, such as collaboration in the development of green products, in facilitating their market access and assisting with certification and value-chain regulations.
•    multilevel coordination and data sharing – establishing clear institutional pathways, monitoring mechanisms and interoperable data platforms to connect local action with national and international policies, leveraging synergies, and increasing accountability; and
•    just international partnerships – supporting local and Southern priorities through green development opportunities, ensuring fairness and co-benefits for the partners involved.

 

Mobilising and scaling local climate action

As the world approaches global warming tipping points, local climate engagement aims at climate actions that are equitable, effective and aligned with local needs. Strengthening and scaling up these initiatives can amplify impact, though efforts are often fragmented and require strengthened coordination. This policy brief identifies barriers and enablers of local climate action, how it is best scaled up, and how international actors – donors, policymakers, city and research networks, businesses and others – can support this process. 
Building on these insights, the following points outline key conditions for strengthening, scaling up and sustaining locally led climate action:
•    community-centred co-creation – investing in participatory, culturally grounded processes that map local needs, integrate diverse knowledge, and establish a common language;
•    predictable, flexible funding – providing long-term resources for locally led climate action, and planning additional finance to scale up solutions, including those involving knowledge sharing platforms and coordi-nation capacity;
•    private-sector engagement – creating incentives aligned with climate and community priorities, such as collaboration in the development of green products, in facilitating their market access and assisting with certification and value-chain regulations.
•    multilevel coordination and data sharing – establishing clear institutional pathways, monitoring mechanisms and interoperable data platforms to connect local action with national and international policies, leveraging synergies, and increasing accountability; and
•    just international partnerships – supporting local and Southern priorities through green development opportunities, ensuring fairness and co-benefits for the partners involved.

 

A New World Order Where Might is Right

Africa - INTER PRESS SERVICE - Tue, 03/03/2026 - 08:18

Credit: Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 3 2026 (IPS)

As the build-up for a proposed “new world order” continues, a lingering question remains: will the country with the most powerful military reign supreme?

The United Nations remains politically impotent. The UN charter is in tatters. The sovereignty of nation states and their territorial integrity have been reduced to political mockery. And the law of the jungle prevails—be it Palestine, Ukraine, Venezuela or Iran.

What’s next: Colombia? Cuba? Greenland? North Korea?

The widespread condemnation of the ongoing conflicts – including charges of war crimes and genocide— has continue to fall on deaf ears.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council that under Article 2 of the UN Charter, all member states shall “refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.”

But is anybody out there listening?

Norman Solomon, executive director, Institute for Public Accuracy and national director, RootsAction.org, told IPS killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground can’t match. Far from its victims, air power remains the height of modernity

Reliance on overwhelming air power is key to what the U.S. is doing in tandem with Israel. Bombing from the skies while not attacking with ground forces is the ultimate way of killing without suffering many casualties.

This reduces political blowback at home in a political and media culture that values American lives but sees the lives of “others” as readily expendable, he pointed out.

“This flagrant war of shameless aggression, launched by the United States and Israel, cannot be contained — much less rolled back — by the typical diplomatic euphemisms and caution.”

The U.S. and Israeli governments, said Solomon, are too completely run by psychopathic leaders who adhere only to the “principle” that might makes right. If ever there were a time that the vaunted “international community” should step up and confront an alliance of reckless outlaw governments, this is it.

The European allies of the United States, he said, should stop their cowardly vagueness and finally step up to demand a halt to this aggression that is setting the Middle East tinderbox on fire. The EU should be threatening huge countermeasures against the United States and Israel unless that pair of sociopathic governments immediately halts their assault on Iran.

“Playing evasive games with Washington makes the leaders in London, Paris, Berlin and elsewhere accomplices to methodical ongoing war crimes”, declared Solomon, author of “War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine”

According to the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, the US-Israeli act of aggression against Iran was undertaken in violation of international law and the UN Charter, as they exercised use of force without authorization from the UN Security Council (UNSC) or without a demonstrated threat to their security that would trigger the right to self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter.

“The attack came amid ongoing nuclear talks between the US and Iran and just hours after Oman’s Foreign Minister – a key mediator in the negotiations – shared details on progress achieved and announced that a breakthrough was near. The attack also mirrors the recent unlawful actions undertaken by the US in Venezuela on 3 January, culminating in the kidnapping of the head of state and setting in motion profound uncertainty for the region and the global order.”

Meanwhile, the Geneva-based UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, said it is deeply concerned about the escalation of conflict in the Middle East and its impact on civilians and further displacement in the region.

“Many affected countries already host millions of refugees and internally displaced people. Further violence risks overwhelming humanitarian capacities and placing additional pressure on host communities”.

“We echo the UN Secretary-General’s urgent call for dialogue and de-escalation, respect for human rights, the protection of civilians and full adherence to international law”.

James Jennings, President of Conscience International, told IPS the joint US-Israeli attack on Iran was misguided, illegal, and based on lies. It will retard, not advance, any future nuclear agreement, perhaps for decades.

It was illegal, he pointed out, because it violates both the US constitution and international law as enshrined in the UN Charter. It was based on lies because the nuclear watchdog groups have clearly indicated in essence that “There’s nothing to see here.”

“Trump regularly claims that June’s joint “Operation Midnight Hammer” obliterated Iran’s nuclear capability, yet his weak case for the current “Operation Epic Fury” war rests on the idea that perhaps someday in the future Iran might get a bomb. Several US administrations have worked diplomatically to prevent that, yet Trump tore the agreement up”.

Trump claims to be limited by no law, constitution, or the UN Charter. Guided only by his own morality, as he said recently, he followed Israel obediently in launching a massive war against a sleeping country of 92 million people, said Jennings.

“All the while, his amateur diplomats were negotiating deceptively for a compromise like Imperial Japan did in the run-up to the WW II Pearl Harbor attack. Ask the parents of the more than l00 schoolgirls killed on the first horrifying day of joint US-Israel bomb attacks at Minaj, Iran, and they will probably not see Mr. Trump as particularly moral”.

George W. Bush called himself “The Decider, so he foolishly decided to take the US into two unwinnable wars that most politicians in Washington, and even Trump himself, now consider monumental mistakes. Trump campaigned vigorously on keeping the US out of mistaken Middle East wars that became “Forever Wars,” said Jennings.

“Yet here he is being pulled around by the nose by Mr. Netanyahu. According to a classic rule when launching a war, one must recognize that two things cannot be changed: one is history and the other is geography. It is stunning that the leader of the United States is cavalier about going to war without understanding that or clearly stating the mission’s purpose or end game.”

Pundits and TV reporters are calling the attack on Iran “a war of choice,” said Jennings.

“Why not call it what it really is–a war of naked aggression? Nobody knows when will it end. Trump’s claim that the war will be over in a few days is a cruel joke. The other side gets a vote. Iran celebrated its 2,500th anniversary in 1971. Maybe people who have been around so long know a few things about survival,” declared Jennings.

IPS UN Bureau Report

 


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Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on developments in the Middle East

European Council - Tue, 03/03/2026 - 07:50
The EU issued a statement on developments in Iran and the Middle East.
Categories: Africa, European Union

Attaque américano-israélienne : où sont la Russie et la Chine, les alliés de l'Iran ?

BBC Afrique - Tue, 03/03/2026 - 07:17
Traditionnellement considérés comme des alliés de Téhéran, la manière dont les deux pays ont réagi pourrait donner un aperçu de la nature réelle de leurs relations avec l'Iran.
Categories: Afrique, European Union

Press release - International Women’s Day: women’s rights and democracy in the digital age

European Parliament (News) - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 18:43
To mark International Women’s Day, national and European parliamentarians will meet on Thursday to discuss stereotypes, disinformation and online gender-based violence.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

Press release - International Women’s Day: women’s rights and democracy in the digital age

European Parliament - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 18:43
To mark International Women’s Day, national and European parliamentarians will meet on Thursday to discuss stereotypes, disinformation and online gender-based violence.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP
Categories: Africa, European Union

South African TV personality who planned to take his life dies aged 61

BBC Africa - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 18:00
Ian von Memerty had documented his choice to die in a 15-part Facebook series.
Categories: Africa, European Union

Klub klärt auf: Darum spielte Wil gegen Xamax in Xamax-Trikots

Blick.ch - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 17:30
Sportlich wird das 0:0 zwischen Xamax und Wil nicht in Erinnerung bleiben. Zu reden gibt einzig, dass Wil in Xamax-Trikots spielen muss. Nun erklärt der Klub, wie es dazu gekommen ist.
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

Bénin de 2016 à 2026, Ce que je retiens

24 Heures au Bénin - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 17:29

Lorsque, en décembre 2022, je consignais quelques réflexions sur la situation socio-économique et politique du Bénin, il ne s'agissait point d'assigner au réel une direction qu'il n'aurait pas encore empruntée, mais d'observer, avec la prudence qu'impose toute exigence intellectuelle, les manifestations initiales d'un processus dont la pleine intelligibilité ne pouvait relever que de la durée. Car il est dans la nature même des transformations nationales de ne se révéler qu'à ceux qui acceptent de les contempler avec le recul nécessaire, c'est-à-dire à distance des passions immédiates et des impatiences superficielles.
Or, la décennie qui s'étend désormais sous notre regard présente cette singularité d'avoir conjugué la persistance de l'ordre constitutionnel avec l'accélération d'une recomposition économique, institutionnelle et symbolique dont les effets excèdent déjà les contingences qui les ont vu naître.
Cette trajectoire ne s'est nullement déployée dans l'abri d'un environnement régional stable. Bien au contraire, les années récentes ont été marquées, en Afrique de l'Ouest, par des ruptures institutionnelles, des reconfigurations sécuritaires et des incertitudes dont l'onde de choc n'a épargné aucune conscience politique attentive. L'événement du 7 décembre 2025, qui porta un instant l'ombre de la discontinuité sur l'édifice républicain béninois, doit être appréhendé avec la gravité qu'exigent ces moments où l'histoire hésite. Que cette tentative ait trouvé sa résolution dans le maintien de la légalité constitutionnelle n'est pas un fait anodin : il atteste que l'État béninois, loin d'être une abstraction fragile, est devenu une réalité suffisamment intériorisée pour opposer à la tentation de la rupture la force silencieuse de sa propre légitimité.
De l'économie comme langage de la permanence :
Les mutations les plus profondes des nations se lisent rarement dans les proclamations ; elles se discernent dans la structure même de leurs équilibres économiques. À cet égard, les analyses de la Banque mondiale indiquent que la croissance du produit intérieur brut béninois, établie à 3,3 % en 2016, s'est élevée à 7,5 % en 2024, avec des perspectives de consolidation à un niveau supérieur à 7 %. Plus révélateur encore est le niveau de l'investissement, désormais supérieur à 35 % du produit intérieur brut, signe d'un État qui n'a point choisi la facilité de la préservation, mais l'exigence de la construction. Cette orientation a trouvé son prolongement naturel dans l'accès renouvelé aux marchés financiers internationaux, notamment à travers l'émission d'un Sukuk souverain de 500 millions de dollars, dont la portée excède sa seule dimension budgétaire — car emprunter avec crédibilité, pour une nation, c'est attester qu'elle inspire confiance au-delà d'elle-même.

La dette publique, qui s'établit autour de 50 % du produit intérieur brut, doit être comprise à l'aune de cette logique : non comme le signe d'une dérive, mais comme l'empreinte comptable d'une volonté d'édification.
De la transformation du territoire comme expression de la souveraineté :
L'autorité d'un État se manifeste également dans sa capacité à organiser son propre espace et à inscrire sa présence dans la géographie qu'il administre. Les infrastructures réalisées ou engagées au cours de la décennie écoulée — axes routiers, corridors logistiques, modernisation portuaire — participent pleinement de cette entreprise de structuration territoriale, qui est, au fond, une manière pour la puissance publique de rendre le territoire plus intelligible et plus habitable.
Le dédoublement de la liaison Sèmè-Porto-Novo, accompagné d'un nouvel ouvrage d'art destiné à abolir les lenteurs anciennes, constitue, à cet égard, un soulagement tangible pour nombre de béninoises et de béninois qui, par nécessité professionnelle ou par attachement légitime, empruntent quotidiennement cet itinéraire longtemps éprouvant. Il représente, par ailleurs, une opportunité historique pour Porto-Novo, dont l'accessibilité accrue crée les conditions préalables à un développement économique, administratif et symbolique plus conforme à son rang institutionnel.
Le Centre hospitalier international de Calavi, par l'ambition de son plateau technique et la portée de sa vocation, marque une étape supplémentaire dans l'affirmation d'une capacité sanitaire autonome, réduisant progressivement la dépendance extérieure en matière de soins spécialisés. Dans le même mouvement, les logements sociaux de Ouèdo traduisent l'effort de conciliation entre l'expansion urbaine, désormais irréversible, et l'exigence fondamentale de dignité résidentielle, qui demeure l'un des fondements silencieux de la stabilité sociale.
Il serait cependant intellectuellement périlleux de taire les tensions inhérentes à toute transformation d'envergure. La réorganisation du marché Dantokpa, l'un des plus importants pôles commerciaux de la sous-région ouest-africaine, a suscité des inquiétudes légitimes et des épreuves humaines qu'aucune analyse sérieuse ne saurait ignorer. Mais l'histoire économique enseigne, avec constance, que toute mutation structurelle suppose, à un moment donné, de substituer à l'ordre spontané, souvent saturé par sa propre croissance, un ordre repensé, conçu et structuré.
La véritable interrogation ne réside donc pas dans le principe de cette modernisation, mais dans sa pleine réussite. Les nouveaux marchés modernes, conçus comme instruments de désengorgement et de rationalisation — notamment le marché dit de « Gros », appelé à accueillir une part substantielle des activités commerciales — devront impérativement atteindre un niveau de vitalité économique au moins équivalent à celui des espaces qu'ils remplacent, et, au-delà, les surpasser. Car la légitimité ultime d'une réforme ne procède ni de son intention ni de son architecture, mais de sa capacité effective à recréer, dans un cadre renouvelé, les conditions de la prospérité qu'elle entend organiser.
De la culture comme réappropriation de soi, Du ciel retrouvé : Amazone
La renaissance culturelle observée à Ouidah, notamment à travers les Vodun Days et la restitution des 26 œuvres royales, procède d'une démarche plus profonde qu'une simple politique événementielle. La construction du musée internationale du Vodun à Porto-Novo n'est pas anodine — il s'agit de restaurer une culture, non un culte, culture longtemps jetée aux pilories. En clair, cette renaissance participe d'une réconciliation avec l'épaisseur historique de la nation, condition préalable à toute projection sereine dans l'avenir.
Retrouvé sa culture, oui, le Bénin veut retrouver également son ciel. L'accréditation d'une compagnie aérienne nationale « Amazone » s'inscrit dans cette même logique d'affirmation. Le retour d'un pavillon béninois dans l'espace aérien international ne saurait être réduit à une simple opération économique. Il constitue l'une de ces manifestations discrètes mais essentielles par lesquelles un État affirme sa continuité symbolique.
De la jeunesse comme dépositaire du temps à venir :
Toute œuvre politique véritable ne trouve sa pleine justification que dans sa capacité à se transmettre, c'est-à-dire à survivre à ceux qui l'ont initiée pour devenir un bien commun durable.
La perspective de l'élection présidentielle de 2026, organisée dans le respect scrupuleux du principe constitutionnel de limitation des mandats, ouvre à cet égard une séquence nouvelle, dont l'importance excède la seule alternance des personnes pour toucher à la continuité même de l'État. La figure de Romuald Wadagni, dont la responsabilité dans la conduite des finances publiques s'est exercée au cœur de cette décennie de transformation, incarne, pour une part significative de la jeunesse béninoise, la possibilité d'une continuité éclairée par le renouvellement, c'est-à-dire d'une fidélité aux acquis conjuguée à la promesse d'une intensification lucide des réformes.
Les résultats des élections législatives et municipales de janvier 2026 s'inscrivent, du reste, dans cette dynamique générationnelle. L'émergence de jeunes maires à la tête de collectivités majeures, notamment à Parakou et à Abomey-Calavi, ainsi que l'entrée de jeunes députés au sein de la représentation nationale, contribuent à faire naître une espérance nouvelle : celle d'un État dont la continuité ne serait pas la répétition du passé, mais son approfondissement conscient.
À l'examen des orientations esquissées par les deux candidats à l'élection d'avril 2026, il m'est permis de former, avec gravité mais sans réserve, l'espérance que le candidat Romuald Wadagni saura proposer un programme étoffé, à la mesure des fondations déjà posées, et capable de porter davantage encore le Bénin, monde de splendeurs — ce pays dont l'histoire, la culture et la stabilité composent déjà les linéaments d'une singularité ouest-africaine.
Car les nations qui s'élèvent durablement sont celles qui savent, au moment décisif, confier leur continuité à des mains capables d'en comprendre à la fois l'héritage et l'exigence.

En somme, la gouvernance Talon aura marqué des esprits, au Bénin comme au delà de nos frontières . Elle juxtapose routes neuves et controverses démocratiques, ratios budgétaires maîtrisés et dettes accrues, croissance rapide et inclusion graduelle. Presque dix ans après, le Bénin apparaît transformé — mais toujours traversé par cette interrogation fondamentale : comment convertir cette transformation en horizon collectif partagé ? C'est peut-être là que réside la substance véritable de la décennie : dans cette tension féconde entre l'élan et l'équilibre, entre la mesure des chiffres et l'épaisseur humaine qu'ils tentent — imparfaitement de raconter.

Me Mickaïl Jr BADAROU

Categories: Afrique, European Union

Furcht vor Flächenbrand – Exporteure schon wieder in Not: «Der Nahe Osten ist ein wichtiger Markt für Schweizer Industrie»

Blick.ch - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 17:29
Der Kriegsausbruch im Nahen Osten ist für die Schweizer Industrie ein neuer Schlag. Lieferketten sind blockiert und die Energiepreise steigen. Swissmem-Direktor Stefan Brupbacher erklärt, wie einschneidend die Auswirkungen sind.
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

Speed-Star ist endlich zurück an der Weltspitze: Suter machte vor Sieg Odermatts Fasnachts-Trick

Blick.ch - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 17:23
Corinne Suter strahlt wieder. Zu recht. Nach schwierigen Monaten fährt sie wie befreit. Wie ist es dazu gekommen? Körper und Kopf waren entscheidend.
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

At least 169 people killed in South Sudan 'surprise' attack

BBC Africa - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 17:11
Peacekeepers are sheltering about 1,000 civilians near their base and providing emergency care.
Categories: Africa, European Union

Stefan Büsser sitzt in Abu Dhabi fest: «Die Druckwellen fahren einem schon ziemlich ein»

Blick.ch - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 17:03
Tausende Schweizerinnen und Schweizer sitzen im Nahen Osten fest, darunter der Komiker Stefan Büsser. Am Sonntag soll er «Late Night Switzerland» moderieren. Ob er bis dahin zurück ist?
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

Ex-Präsident unterwegs: Joe Biden auf stinknormalem Linienflug

Blick.ch - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 17:00
Reisende am Flughafen Ronald Reagan in Washington haben den ehemaligen US-Präsidenten Joe Biden am Freitagmorgen beim Warten auf einen Linienflug nach South Carolina gesehen. Wegen dichten Nebels verzögerte sich der Abflug um rund eine Stunde.
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

Einfach Claudio fragen: Was ist der Unterschied zwischen Bufala, Burrata und normaler Mozzarella?

Blick.ch - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 17:00
Mozzarella gibt es in verschiedenen Arten, jede mit einzigartigen Eigenschaften. Von der traditionellen Büffelmilch-Variante bis zur cremigen Burrata bietet dieser italienische Käse vielfältige Genussmöglichkeiten für unterschiedliche Gerichte.
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

Bittere News aus Basel: FCB-Stürmer reisst sich im Training das Kreuzband

Blick.ch - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 16:57
Der FC Basel muss in den nächsten Monaten auf Kaio Eduardo verzichten. Der Stürmer hat sich schwer verletzt.
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

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