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Chaque année, les pays africains augmentent leurs budgets, peut-être en raison de la dépréciation de leurs monnaies.

Chaque année, les pays africains augmentent leurs budgets, peut-être en raison de la dépréciation de leurs monnaies.

A delegation of seven Members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), led by Chair David McAllister, travelled to Uruguay and Argentina from 26 to 29 May 2025. Members engaged in high-level discussions regarding the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement which was concluded last December in Montevideo, Uruguay. The findings from this visit will contribute to the preparatory work for the consent procedure on the political and cooperation aspects of the Agreement, for which AFET is responsible.
More broadly, this mission allowed to exchange views on bilateral, regional and multilateral cooperation, as well as geopolitical issues such as Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, the situation in the Middle East, and China's expanding influence in Latin America.
Location : Uruguay and Argentina
Press announcement
Mission report
Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Un tribunal tchèque a rejeté mercredi 25 juin une plainte déposée par le groupe français EDF contre l’attribution par Prague d’un contrat de construction de deux réacteurs au Sud-Coréen KHNP, une décision aussitôt saluée par le gouvernement.

The post Réacteurs nucléaires tchèques : la plainte d’EDF rejetée appeared first on Euractiv FR.

Parfois, des enchaînements insondables ramènent à notre conscience des mémoires de figures marquantes dans des circonstances qui relèvent de coïncidence ou de synchronicité d'événements divers. Ainsi en est-il de quelques récentes actualités relatives à l'avenir énergétique des nations africaines et plus spécifiquement les perspectives – salutaires, je dirais - du développement de centrales nucléaires, actualités qui me portèrent vers le souvenir de l'éminent scientifique et enseignant que fut le Professeur Abdou Moumouni Dioffo dont l'université nationale du Niger reçut le nom en hommage. Moumouni naquit le 26 juin 1929 au Niger. Ancien diplômé de l'école William Ponty de Dakar, il poursuivit ses études dans le système français jusqu'au doctorat d'état en sciences physiques en 1967. Il compte parmi les membres fondateurs de la FEANF (Fédération des étudiants d'Afrique noire en France). Enseignant, il s'investit dans la recherche scientifique et technique, notamment dans le domaine de l'énergie solaire.
Je garderai toujours une conviction personnelle qui est que le professeur Abdou Moumouni, scientifique théoricien autant que praticien, aurait été une ressource à même d'encadrer le déploiement de l'énergie nucléaire dans l'espace économique ne serait-ce qu' ouest-africain bien des décennies en avance si l'histoire et ses contingences l'avaient permis. C'est cette réflexion qui refit surface en lisant cet entrefilet de presse en annexe qui notait « la levée de l'interdiction du financement du développement de l'énergie nucléaire par la banque mondiale. »
L'évocation du souvenir du Professeur Abdou Moumouni nous rappelle que bien souvent des destins œuvrent bien en dessous des potentialités qu'ils portent parce que l'histoire n'est pas au rendez-vous. Le Niger qui a vu naître Abdou Moumouni Dioffo et tant d'autres scientifiques et ingénieurs compétents aurait pu dans un cadre coopératif se poser depuis bien des décennies comme un prospère pourvoyeur d'énergie électrique fiable pour le développement industriel de toute une sous-région africaine au lieu d'être classé comme un des pays les plus pauvres de la planète.
Puissent les générations montantes s'en souvenir pour infléchir et forcer l'histoire, en vue de maximiser leurs énergies dans l'accomplissement de leurs missions au sens où Frantz Fanon le stipulait.

G. Théophile Nouatin

https://24haubenin.info/?L-Afrique-doit-miser-sur-le-nucleaire-modulaire-Pr-Lassina-Zerbo

La présidente de la Commission a appelé la Hongrie à autoriser la tenue de la Pride dans sa capitale hongroise ce samedi 28 juin. Une prise de position qui a suscité la réplique du Premier ministre Viktor Orbán.

The post Ursula von der Leyen appelle la Hongrie à autoriser la Pride de Budapest, Viktor Orbán répond appeared first on Euractiv FR.

Les dirigeants de l’UE se retrouvent ce jeudi 26 juin à Bruxelles pour un Conseil européen dominé par les dossiers du Moyen-Orient, de la guerre en Ukraine et des migrations. Les discussions devraient mener à peu de résultats concrets.

The post Sommet européen : les thèmes à l’ordre du jour appeared first on Euractiv FR.

For streetside sellers of artificial jewelry and for recyclers toiling under the increasingly torrid temperatures caused by climate change, innovative insurance means not all is lost when their wares are ruined or it is too hot to work. But is this a panacea or an opportunity for the authorities to ignore their responsibilities to the poorest workers of India?

In today’s edition of The Capitals, read about France calling to rethink the 2040 climate target, Hungary threatening Pride-goers, and a bid to bring down the Commission rattling the ECR.

IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said Iran has reported no increase in radiation levels outside Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites. After surprise US bombing raids on Iranian uranium enrichment facilities over the weekend, the head of the UN-backed nuclear watchdog on Monday appealed for immediate access to the targeted sites to assess the damage that is likely “very significant”. 23 June 2025. Credit: Dean Calma/IAEA

By James E. Jennings
ATLANTA, USA, Jun 26 2025 (IPS)

Chest thumping “Mission Accomplished” claims by President Trump that he ordered the world’s biggest conventional bombs to be dropped on a sleeping nation of 90 million people, were premature. To top it off he bragged that Iran’s nuclear capacity was devastated and that the whole nation fired “not a single shot” back.

That rosy scenario was greatly tempered a couple of days later when the US Defense Intelligence Agency reported that Iran’s nuclear program was set back only a few months. And the New York Times listed the doppelganger effect of echoing the Bush Administration’s claim of “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq, when in fact years of struggle and loss followed.

The US withdrew from Iraq not with a bang but a whimper. Saddam Hussein never had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) as Bush alleged.

At least George W. Bush had the decency to wait awhile before making his widely mocked “Mission Accomplished” claim after invading Iraq, which proved to be ten years premature. The US attack on Iran on June 21 was based on the same kind of hallucinatory paranoia about a non-existent nuclear bomb threat as had fueled the Iraq War hysteria in Washington in 2003.

Both the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the President’s own Director of National Intelligence denied that Iran has either a nuclear weapons program or enough high-grade uranium to produce a bomb.

Even the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Trump’s pal in Jerusalem, Bibi Netanyahu, admit that 60% enrichment is not 90%, the percentage required to make a bomb.

Administration advocates are therefore reduced to claiming that the US bombed Iran solely on “suspicious intentions,” which is exactly what the George W. Bush Administration used as a pretext to attack a practically defenseless Iraq in 2003.

A criminal charge based on a that claim would get the plaintiff tossed out, if not laughed out, of every courtroom in the United States.

The marvelously choreographed US stealth attack on Iran, long urged by Israel, was based on protecting not just Israel’s security, but its total domination of the Middle East with US backing. There are two things wrong with that policy. Neither a secure ally in Jerusalem nor a steady partner in Washington supports it.

Israel is a tiny country in a vast area and cannot hope to forever dominate the countries around it, as a glance at the map will demonstrate. The thin margin in the Israeli Knesset is sure to be unstable. Then too, American support is variable, depending on public attitudes, budget constraints, a volatile Congress, and events and political parties that change over time.

The main reason for the 2003-2011 war, that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, was false. The claim of the G.W. Bush Administration that the US faced the threat of a “mushroom cloud” over Washington was a wild fantasy. Vice President Cheney went so far as to say that there is “no doubt” that Iraq already has WMD.

The idea that Iraq somehow supported the 9/11 attacks against the US was also untrue. None of the reasons given for the war were true—all were lies. The evidence was available and plain to see, but the war was started anyway.

The world was shocked when Israel went ahead and attacked Iran, presumably with a green light from Mr. Trump, only a few days before diplomatic talks were scheduled to begin. That deception is reminiscent of the deadly Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into WW II while diplomacy was being simultaneously offered in Washington.

The fact is that this war has been advocated and planned for decades by Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu. If you use the WW II test for which side is guilty of blatant aggression, Hitler and his Axis allies in Tokyo or Roosevelt, you would say Hitler and Tojo.

Today the shoe is on the other foot. Israel and the United States, acting in concert, have indeed launched an illegal war of aggression (which defenders call “choice”) against Iran. No matter how many talking heads and newspapers cheer the attack, it was still illegal.

The UN charter has been breached and the American Constitution violated. What are US citizens going to do about it?

Violence cannot make friends, bring peace with 90 million Iranians whose sovereignty has been violated, or enable Israel to rule the Palestinian people. Their watchword is sumud, steadfast resistance.

IPS UN Bureau

 

Excerpt:

James E. Jennings, PhD is President of Conscience International

Les Alliés se sont accordés pour porter les dépenses de défense à au moins 3,5 % de leur PIB national, avec 1,5 % supplémentaires pour les infrastructures. Mais l’exploit réel, côté européen, aura peut-être été d’avoir su composer avec Donald Trump.

The post Donald Trump quitte le sommet de l’OTAN sur une note positive, l’Europe soulagée appeared first on Euractiv FR.

Europe’s biomethane capacity reached 7 bcm annually in Q1 2025, up 9% from 2024. Growth is slowing despite strong investor appetite, underscoring the urgent need for clear policies, binding targets, and swift regulation to maintain momentum.

La Commission européenne a dévoilé mercredi 25 juin sa loi spatiale tant attendue, qui vise à positionner l’Union européenne comme un acteur mondial de référence dans ce secteur.

The post La Commission présente sa proposition de règlementation spatiale appeared first on Euractiv FR.

Documents seen by Euractiv expose key claims in one of the most significant EU corruption probes ever.

EU leaders meet in Brussels for talks on the Middle East, Ukraine, migration and more. Follow along live.

"Daddy sometimes has to use tough language,” said Rutte of the US president, capping a fawning display in the Hague.

Americas The US Missile Defense Agency has successfully conducted its first flight test of the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) at the Clear Space Force Station in Alaska, around two years after its original schedule.  In the Flight Test Other-26a (FTX-26a), the LRDR and the Upgraded Early Warning Radar tracked a live intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) representative target that traveled over 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) off Alaska’s southern coast. Saab has selected Anduril to produce solid rocket motors (SRMs) for the Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB), a system developed in partnership with Boeing. Anduril’s new solid rocket motor will replace the legacy M26 Multiple Launch Rocket System in the GLSDB while adding improved manufacturing and safety features. The company has started development and qualification and expects to enter full-rate production by 2026. Middle East & Africa Iranian lawmakers voted Wednesday in favor of suspending cooperation with the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, state TV said, after a 12-day war that saw Israeli and US strikes on nuclear facilities. “The International Atomic Energy Agency, which refused to even marginally condemn the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, put its international credibility up for auction,” Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said, according to state TV. Europe […]

Europe's socialists and liberals should "consider again what is going on outside of this Brussels bubble" when defending the EU's green agenda, the powerful conservative leader told Euractiv in an exclusive interview.

The campaigners want governments to ditch all market mechanism supporting fossil fuels and back clean flexibility options instead.

Poland’s top court faces mounting pressure over contested election results, as thousands of protests flood in and EU-criticised judges prepare to rule.