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Aujourd’hui dans Les Capitales : ce qu’il faut savoir sur le prochain budget septennal de l’UE, le gouvernement Meloni fête ses 1 000 jours au pouvoir, les Tchèques craignent une ingérence de l’UE dans leurs élections, et le Royaume-Uni et l’Allemagne concluent un traité d’amitié.

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Le chancelier allemand Friedrich Merz et le Premier ministre Keir Starmer ont signé jeudi 17 juillet à Londres un traité d’amitié historique qui prévoit une collaboration plus étroite entre les deux pays en matière de sécurité, notamment en matière de dissuasion nucléaire.

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Ministers are holding a series of meetings in parliamentary committees to present the priorities of the Danish Presidency of the Council.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Committee on Culture and Education
Committee on Development
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Committee on International Trade
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
Committee on Legal Affairs
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Committee on Fisheries
Committee on Regional Development
Committee on Public Health
Committee on Security and Defence
Committee on Transport and Tourism

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Ministers are holding a series of meetings in parliamentary committees to present the priorities of the Danish Presidency of the Council.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Committee on Culture and Education
Committee on Development
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Committee on International Trade
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
Committee on Legal Affairs
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Committee on Fisheries
Committee on Regional Development
Committee on Public Health
Committee on Security and Defence
Committee on Transport and Tourism

Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Ministers are holding a series of meetings in parliamentary committees to present the priorities of the Danish Presidency of the Council.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Committee on Culture and Education
Committee on Development
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Committee on International Trade
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
Committee on Legal Affairs
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Committee on Fisheries
Committee on Regional Development
Committee on Public Health
Committee on Security and Defence
Committee on Transport and Tourism

Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Ministers are holding a series of meetings in parliamentary committees to present the priorities of the Danish Presidency of the Council.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Committee on Culture and Education
Committee on Development
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Committee on International Trade
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
Committee on Legal Affairs
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Committee on Fisheries
Committee on Regional Development
Committee on Public Health
Committee on Security and Defence
Committee on Transport and Tourism

Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Ministers are holding a series of meetings in parliamentary committees to present the priorities of the Danish Presidency of the Council.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Committee on Culture and Education
Committee on Development
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Committee on International Trade
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
Committee on Legal Affairs
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Committee on Fisheries
Committee on Regional Development
Committee on Public Health
Committee on Security and Defence
Committee on Transport and Tourism

Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Ministers are holding a series of meetings in parliamentary committees to present the priorities of the Danish Presidency of the Council.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Committee on Culture and Education
Committee on Development
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Committee on International Trade
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
Committee on Legal Affairs
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Committee on Fisheries
Committee on Regional Development
Committee on Public Health
Committee on Security and Defence
Committee on Transport and Tourism

Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Other planned changes include introducing automated voter registration and making UK-issued bank cards an accepted form of ID at polling stations, which could see a huge rise in voter numbers.

Climate extremes like prolonged droughts or excessive flooding disrupt the intertwined lives of rural women with agriculture in the Global South, especially those dependent on traditional practices like shifting cultivation or rain-fed irrigation. Agriculture is not just food production or a livelihood for these women but an extension of the care work that helps them feed their families. On the other hand, traditional hetero-patriarchal social norms continue to disempower them to make choices related to agriculture and food production as they often lack the decision-making and ownership rights on the land they toil. Women belonging to marginalized tribal communities facing compound intersectional challenges due to gender, caste, ethnicity, illiteracy, poverty, and language find it even harder to define their life goals and act upon them. This chapter shows how specific gender-transformative adaptation measures, such as promoting women’s land rights, providing access to climate-resilient seeds, and offering training in climate-smart agricultural practices, can bring in, albeit small, transformative changes. Based on ethnographic research, semi-structured interviews, and focus group discussions with Mal Pahariya women and NGO workers in Jharkhand, India, this chapter shows how these measures, if designed effectively, can tackle the root causes embedded in the existing social, political, economic, and cultural context that aids gender inequality and injustice to persist. The study also shows that food and nutrition security, leadership, economic decision-making, and capacity building by learning new skills can emerge as co-benefits that can help them address other daily challenges.

Climate extremes like prolonged droughts or excessive flooding disrupt the intertwined lives of rural women with agriculture in the Global South, especially those dependent on traditional practices like shifting cultivation or rain-fed irrigation. Agriculture is not just food production or a livelihood for these women but an extension of the care work that helps them feed their families. On the other hand, traditional hetero-patriarchal social norms continue to disempower them to make choices related to agriculture and food production as they often lack the decision-making and ownership rights on the land they toil. Women belonging to marginalized tribal communities facing compound intersectional challenges due to gender, caste, ethnicity, illiteracy, poverty, and language find it even harder to define their life goals and act upon them. This chapter shows how specific gender-transformative adaptation measures, such as promoting women’s land rights, providing access to climate-resilient seeds, and offering training in climate-smart agricultural practices, can bring in, albeit small, transformative changes. Based on ethnographic research, semi-structured interviews, and focus group discussions with Mal Pahariya women and NGO workers in Jharkhand, India, this chapter shows how these measures, if designed effectively, can tackle the root causes embedded in the existing social, political, economic, and cultural context that aids gender inequality and injustice to persist. The study also shows that food and nutrition security, leadership, economic decision-making, and capacity building by learning new skills can emerge as co-benefits that can help them address other daily challenges.

Climate extremes like prolonged droughts or excessive flooding disrupt the intertwined lives of rural women with agriculture in the Global South, especially those dependent on traditional practices like shifting cultivation or rain-fed irrigation. Agriculture is not just food production or a livelihood for these women but an extension of the care work that helps them feed their families. On the other hand, traditional hetero-patriarchal social norms continue to disempower them to make choices related to agriculture and food production as they often lack the decision-making and ownership rights on the land they toil. Women belonging to marginalized tribal communities facing compound intersectional challenges due to gender, caste, ethnicity, illiteracy, poverty, and language find it even harder to define their life goals and act upon them. This chapter shows how specific gender-transformative adaptation measures, such as promoting women’s land rights, providing access to climate-resilient seeds, and offering training in climate-smart agricultural practices, can bring in, albeit small, transformative changes. Based on ethnographic research, semi-structured interviews, and focus group discussions with Mal Pahariya women and NGO workers in Jharkhand, India, this chapter shows how these measures, if designed effectively, can tackle the root causes embedded in the existing social, political, economic, and cultural context that aids gender inequality and injustice to persist. The study also shows that food and nutrition security, leadership, economic decision-making, and capacity building by learning new skills can emerge as co-benefits that can help them address other daily challenges.

Comme émergeant d'un égrégore insondable, les mémoires de figures marquantes nées en 1925, optées selon une loi insondable sont remontées tour à tour à la conscience depuis le début de cette année 2025. Vérifier que la naissance de chacune des figures rappelées selon un processus particulier à nos souvenirs remonte bien à 1925 comme Patrice Lumumba s'est avéré à chaque fois comme une formalité dont le résultat s'est imposé d'avance. Synchronicité, coïncidence répétitive ? Peu importe.
L'on a voulu effacer la mémoire de Lumumba, mais elle reste omniprésente parmi les vivants comme dans l'ombre qui s'éclaire au milieu de ses « co-naissants ». « Ecoute plus souvent les choses que les êtres … Ecoute dans le vent le buisson en sanglots : c'est le souffle des ancêtres … », rappelait le poète Birago Diop.
Nous évoquons ces mémoires par rang d'aînesse et non selon l'ordre où elles ont émergé à la conscience.
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra né le 31 Janvier1925 au Dahomey (actuel Bénin) est « généralement considéré comme le premier cinéaste d'Afrique subsaharienne ».
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra — Wikipédia

Malcom X né le 19 mai 1925 aux USA est un militant politique, défenseur des droits de l'homme afro-américain.
Malcolm X — Wikipédia

Patrice Emery Lumumba né le 2 juillet 1925 au Congo, figure majeure de l'indépendance de son pays, il est le premier Premier ministre de la république démocratique du Congo.
Patrice Lumumba — Wikipédia

Frantz Fanon né le 20 juillet 1925 en Martinique est une figure majeure de l'anticolonialisme, fortement impliqué dans les luttes de l'indépendance de l'Algérie.
Frantz Fanon — Wikipédia

Celia Cruz née le 21 octobre 1925 à la Havane, s'est érigée comme la reine de la musique afro-cubaine Salsa.
Celia Cruz — Wikipédia
Félix Roland Moumié né le 1 novembre 1925 au Cameroun est considéré comme une figure majeure de la lutte pour l'indépendance du Cameroun.
Félix-Roland Moumié — Wikipédia

Claude Meillassoux né le 26 décembre 1925 en France est un sociologue africaniste considéré comme une figure majeure de l'anthropologie économique d'inspiration marxiste.
Claude Meillassoux — Wikipédia
Evocation de Claude Meillassoux Pilier et relieur de civilisations. - 24 HEURES AU BENIN

Tassinon de Kokoyè
A l'époque, durant les premières décennies après l'indépendance, dans le centre-ville de Porto-Novo, au quartier dit Place Kokoyè, la mémoire garde le souvenir d'une restauratrice née vers 1925 qui de l'aube à la tombée de la nuit alimentait ses concitoyens petits et grands. Nos souvenirs sont marqués par l'attention spéciale qu'elle mettait à stimuler ses aides cuisiniers afin que nous les écoliers et les élèves soyons servis promptement et prioritairement pour nous préserver des retards à la reprise des classes ou pour nous renvoyer à nos études de maison en fin de journée. C'était une dame de peu de paroles ; concentrée, comme en communion permanente avec les gestes qu'exigeait l'accomplissement de sa mission. Elle était connue sous le surnom de « Tassinon ». Je ne puis dire si c'était pour désigner la tante de haut rang < ou si c'était pour nommer « A'tassi non », la vendeuse de riz aux haricots, mets qu'elle servait le matin avant la sauce et la pâte de maïs Akassa à midi, en attendant les beignets de haricot, d'igname et de patate douce à la tombée du jour. Nos mères et pères étaient occupés à gagner des sous pour soutenir la famille, mais nous avions une tante de haut rang qui énergisait nos jeunes physiologies de bon matin avec le riz aux haricots nappé de sauce tomate dja.
Que grâce lui soit rendue. En même temps que la force et la puissance, Tassinon de Kokoyè symbolise à nos yeux l'abnégation, le dévouement, le sacrifice au service de la communauté.
Kofi Gnonnui Fanigbodjè

The joint pledge aligns with Merz’s controversial push to extend the Anglo-French nuclear deterrent to the rest of Europe.

Une délégation de fonctionnaires du Parlement béninois a effectué, du 30 juin au 7 juillet 2025, une mission dans les parlements français, à la Chambre des représentants de Belgique et la Chambre des députés du Luxembourg. L'objectif est de s'enquérir du fonctionnement de ces parlements afin d'améliorer les pratiques au Bénin.

Des fonctionnaires à l'Assemblée nationale dans la dynamique de rendre l'administration parlementaire béninoise plus performante. Une délégation conduite par le Premier Questeur, l'honorable Labiou AMADOU DJIBRIL, a effectué à cet effet, une mission d'études au sein du Parlement français, la Chambre des représentants de Belgique et la Chambre des députés du Luxembourg. L'objectif visé est de s'imprégner du fonctionnement de l'administration au niveau de ces parlements, de relever les bonnes pratiques afin de les adapter aux réalités du Bénin.

A chacune des étapes de la mission, la délégation béninoise a eu des séances de travail avec les responsables des services chargés des relations publiques, des infrastructures, la questure, la comptabilité, les ressources humaines, et les responsables en charge de la communication.
Les échanges qui se sont déroulés dans une ambiance très conviviale et de causeries, ont facilité le partage d'expériences entre ces institutions parlementaires.
Les participants une fois de retour au pays, entendent partager les notions acquises avec leurs collègues qui n'ont pas pu effectuer le déplacement.

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La Commission a présenté son projet de cadre financier pluriannuel (CFP) pour 2028–2034, un budget de 2 000 milliards d’euros qualifié de « plus ambitieux jamais proposé » par Ursula von der Leyen. Mais derrière les grandes annonces (chaotiques), des négociations difficiles s’annoncent.

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"All the necessary procedures for approving her candidacy with Washington as Ukraine's ambassador to the United States are underway," the Ukrainian president wrote on social media.

Az Új Európai Bauhaus vagy New European Bauhaus (NEB) az Európai Unió egyik innovatív kezdeményezése, amely 2020-ban indult el azzal a céllal, hogy összehozza a fenntarthatóságot, a dizájnt és a társadalmi befogadást egy új, élhetőbb jövő érdekében. 

Sixth-grade students perform harvesting work in the Pedagogical school garden of the Mixed Rural Official School, located in El Horizonte, a small village in the municipality of Tejutla, San Marcos department, in southwestern Guatemala. Credit: Pep Bonet / FAO

By Máximo Torero
SANTIAGO, Jul 17 2025 (IPS)

In a region where hunger has cast a persistent shadow for generations, from the debt crises of the 1980s through the volatility of the 1990s to the recent shock of COVID-19, an unexpected and powerful development is now emerging: Latin America and the Caribbean is making significant progress in the global fight against hunger.

After years of fragile and uneven progress, the region is now showing, for the first time in over a decade, a clear and sustained trend: undernourishment has declined from 7% in 2021 to 6.2% in 2023, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 report by FAO and its partner agencies.

This outcome is no accident. It is the result of bold decisions, innovative public policies, and strong regional cooperation. The region is showing that with political will, social investment, and a forward-looking vision, hunger is not inevitable. It is a choice

This means that 4.3 million people are no longer suffering from hunger, and more than 37 million have overcome moderate or severe food insecurity. For the first time, Latin America and the Caribbean are below the global average on this key indicator.

This outcome is no accident. It is the result of bold decisions, innovative public policies, and strong regional cooperation. The region is showing that with political will, social investment, and a forward-looking vision, hunger is not inevitable. It is a choice.

During the pandemic, Latin American countries put their capacities to the test: over 460 social protection measures were activated to cushion the impact of economic collapse. Around 60% of the regional population received some form of assistance, from cash transfers to direct food distribution.

And when inflation severely impacted basic food prices, many governments reactivated these safety nets. Latin America did not merely endure—it learned, adapted, and protected.

One emblematic example of this transformation is the School Feeding Programs. More than 80 million children receive meals at school thanks to a policy that integrates nutrition, education, and rural development.

Through the Sustainable School Feeding Network (RAES), promoted by FAO and Brazil, more than 23,000 schools have been transformed into spaces of food security. Over 9,000 family farmers have been integrated into public procurement systems, strengthening local economies. This is not just social policy—it’s smart economic policy.

Initiatives like Hand-in-Hand also reflect a new way of thinking about development: identifying territories with agricultural potential that are trapped in poverty and building public-private investments to unlock that potential. It’s a commitment to ensure that no one, and no territory, is left behind.

Of course, challenges remain. The Caribbean continues to show high levels of undernourishment. Women and rural populations still face persistent inequalities. But this time, the region is not merely reacting—it is anticipating, planning, and executing. It is taking the lead.

And it is not alone. The G20 Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty, led by Brazil with technical support from FAO, offers a platform to bring these regional solutions to the world. Latin America is no longer just a recipient of aid—it is a source of global solutions.

In a world with enough resources to feed everyone, hunger is a tragedy that has been created. Latin America and the Caribbean are proving that it can be dismantled.

Today, the most unequal region in the world is delivering one of the most powerful lessons: with determination, innovation, and cooperation, Zero Hunger by 2030 is not a utopia. It is an achievable commitment. It is a future that has already begun.

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Máximo Torero Cullen is the Chief Economist of FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative ad interim for Latin America and the Caribbean

La Commission européenne a proposé mercredi 16 juillet de consacrer 131 milliards d’euros aux différents programmes de l’UE dans les domaines de la défense et de l’espace dans le prochain cadre du cadre financier pluriannuel (CFP).

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