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Eduard Heger (OĽANO) miniszterelnök szerint Ján Mičovský (OĽANO) mezőgazdasági miniszter nagy igazságérzetről tett tanúbizonyságot. Heger így reagált arra, hogy Mičovský bejelentette lemondását.

Mme Koubourath Osséni est en fin de mission à la Grande Chancellerie après 12 ans de service. Au cours de son mandat, elle a procédé à près de cinq mille décorations dans divers grades de l'Ordre national.

Koubourath Osséni a passé 12 années à la tête de la Grande chancellerie du Bénin. La désormais ex Grande Chancelière a décoré 4803 personnes, tous grades confondus, de 2019 à 2021, selon des statistiques.
Nommé par l'ancien président Boni Yayi en 2009, elle a passé une dizaine d'années à la tête de l'institution. « Ça fait 12 ans que j'exerce. Ce n'était normalement prévu pour dix ans, le président a dit qu'il ne voulait pas me laisser partir, il fallait que je fasse deux ans », a expliqué Koubourath Osséni. « Quand on est resté dans une institution pendant dix ans, on n'a plus rien à démontrer. Le reste, ça devient de la routine, alors Dieu merci je m'en vais et je fais un grand ouf ! », a confié l'ex Grande Chancelière Koubourath Osséni.
Investie Grande Chancelière de l'Ordre national du Bénin, dimanche 23 mai 2021, Mariam Chabi Talata Zimé, la vice-présidente de la République succède à
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Közzétette a kormányhival a honlapján Eduard Heger (OĽANO) miniszterelnök tanácsadói testületének névsorát. Heger csapatába nem került be Berényi József, az MKP általános alelnöke, a Nagyszombat Megyei Önkormányzat alelnöke, aki Igor Matovič exkormányfőt a kisebbségekkel kapcsolatos tanácsokkal volt hivatott felvértezni.

Former Detroit Pistons player Lance Blanks compares the style of the Basketball Africa League to the team he played in known as the 'Bad Boys'.

A kedvező járványhelyzet miatt június elsejétől jelentős enyhítések várhatók Észak-Macedóniában, és várhatóan a maszkoknak is búcsút inthetnek a polgárok - jelentette ki Venko Filipce egészségügyi miniszter a SkopjeInfo.mk keddi beszámolója szerint.

Zur geplanten Übernahme von Deutsche Wohnen durch Vonovia äußert sich Claus Michelsen, Immobilienökonom und Konjunkturchef des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), wie folgt:

Deutsche Wohnen und Vonovia würden bei einer Fusion mit dann rund 570 000 Wohnungen zur Nummer 1 der Immobilienkonzerne in Europa aufsteigen. Die Marktmacht wäre aber dennoch begrenzt, ihre Tätigkeit vor allem auf Deutschland konzentriert. Hierzulande hätte der Konzern dann etwa eine halbe Million Wohnungen in der Vermietung. Dies klingt zunächst viel, würde aber mit etwa 2,4 Prozent am gesamten Mietmarkt nur einen relativ geringen Anteil ausmachen. Deutschlands Wohnungsmarkt ist auch dann noch relativ kleinteilig strukturiert, vor allem die privaten KleinvermieterInnen machen mit gut 60 Prozent Marktanteil den mit Abstand größten Teil des Mietwohnungsbestands aus.  

In Städten wie Berlin sieht das aber anders aus: Hier würde ein fusionierter Konzern einen Marktanteil von gut zehn Prozent erlangen und damit einen deutlich größeren Einfluss auf das Marktgeschehen in der Hauptstadt haben als in der Fläche. Gleichwohl: Auch hier ist mit KleinvermieterInnen, Genossenschaften und kommunalen Wohnungsunternehmen nach wie vor ein deutliches Gegengewicht vorhanden. Für MieterInnen würde dies kurzfristig kaum Änderungen mit sich bringen, zumal die Konzerne angekündigt haben, dass sie den Anstieg der Mieten in ihren Beständen in den nächsten fünf Jahren deckeln wollen.  

Allerdings sind mittelfristig durchaus Änderungen zu erwarten: Ein größerer Konzern hätte gegenüber den Bezirken eine deutlich gestärkte Verhandlungsmacht, zumal auch in Berlin der Wohnungsbestand räumlich konzentriert ist. Die Stadtplanung und -entwicklung dürfte daher durch ein solch großes Unternehmen spürbar mitgestaltet werden. Auch die Unternehmenstöchter in den Bereichen der Verwaltung und der Wohnungsbewirtschaftung würden gestärkt. Handwerksbetriebe und andere Auftragnehmer müssten sich auf härtere Verhandlungen einstellen. Gleichzeitig würde der Konzern Sanierungsvorhaben kostengünstiger umsetzen können. 

Die Fusionspläne dürften die ohnehin aufgeheizte Debatte um die Enteignung dieser Konzerne befeuern. Dabei geht es nicht nur um die Frage des Geschäftsgebarens, sondern grundsätzlich darum, wer städtischen Raum prägen und gestalten sollte. Die Folgen der Fusion wären für das Wohnungsmarktgeschehen insgesamt überschaubar, dürften die Diskussionen über die demokratische Legitimation der Stadtentwicklung aber lauter werden lassen.

Migrant labourers wait in queues in Kashmir in order to travel back to their homes. The second wave of COVID-19 in India has seen masses of people leave cities and towns to return to their rural homes. Credit: Umer Asif/IPS

By Umar Manzoor Shah
NEW DEHLI, May 25 2021 (IPS)

Last month, in the midst of New Delhi’s coronavirus lockdown, 37- year-old labourer Prakash Kumar wanted to return to his rural home in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh. But instead of travelling the usual few hours by bus, Kumar had to journey for three days.

“The firm [where I worked] was closed down and there was no work left in the city. The government had kept the busses and trains operational and that is why we decided to leave,” Kumar told IPS.

But at the main bus terminal he saw a sea of migrant workers jostling in queues to board busses that could take them back home.

Kumar ended up having to wait 24 hours to purchase a ticket.  “Due to the huge rush, I had to go by some other route which was [costly] and lengthy. I had to walk also for many miles,” he said.

The second COVID-19 wave has hit India hard. On May 5, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that India accounted for 46 percent of all new COVID-19 cases recorded worldwide and one in four of deaths. The highest daily average was on May 9 when over 400,000 new cases were recorded. Currently India has recorded just over 245,000 daily infections.

On May 24, Delhi reported 1,900 new COVID-19 cases, a reduction from last week’s 3,846 cases. It’s the lowest reported rates of cases since Mar. 27.

The total number of cases in the Indian capital stands at 1,42 million along with just over 1,37 million total recoveries and over 23,000 deaths since the pandemic’s outbreak.

On Apr. 19, in order to prevent the spread of the disease, the government imposed a lockdown in the capital. Construction activities, private firms, schools, colleges, offices, cinemas, bars and restaurants were all shut. The shutdown continues to remain in force. But with the lockdown and high infection rates in the Indian capital, migrant workers have been leaving the city in droves.

Darshana Kumari is one of them. Kumari worked as a maid in the Indian capital for over a year. However, with the resurgence of COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdown, the mother of two decided to leave the city and return to her home in Uttar Pradesh.

“My employer has asked me not to come to work anymore. Also I am worried about my children. My elder son is just 12 years old. I fear to even imagine that if anything happens to me here, what will happen to my kids,” Kumari told IPS.

She said heading back home was her only option to save herself and her children from the “dangerous disease.”

Hailing from country’s rural belt, migrant labourers amount to some 40 million people, according to government estimates. They come to the cities and towns to earn a livelihood by working in menial jobs in privately-owned firms and factories. But the various states of lockdown across the country has meant that many migrant workers have become unemployed.

According to India’s leading business think tank, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CIME), an estimated 122 million people became unemployed during India’s first lockdown, 75 percent of whom were daily wage earners.

In a recent report, CIME said that the unemployment rate increased from 6.5 percent in March to 7.97 percent in April.

“While this massive tragedy is comparable only to the mass migrations during the partition of the Indian sub-continent when British left India in 1947, the added element this time is also the plight of migrant workers, risking their lives along with livelihood,” Ram Punyani, an imminent Indian writer and civil society activist, wrote recently.

Migrant worker Siraj Alam waits to board a bus in India’s Srinagar City to return to his hometown in Bihar. The closure of factories due to COVID-19 has forced millions of labourers like him to leave the cities and return to their rural homes. Credit: Umer Asif/IPS

Suresh Kumar Yadav, 29, who had worked as a daily wage labourer in a cement factory in Delhi was waiting for a bus to take him to his village in northern Uttar Pradesh. His two-year-old child and his wife sat near to the bus stop, anxiously waiting to get out of the city as soon as possible.

“Last year, it was March when the first lockdown due to COVID-19 was imposed and we were told to go home. We came back here in September, hoping that we may now be able to earn without any anxiety but the present situation looks more frightening than that of the last year,” Yadav told IPS.

When the lockdown in Delhi was imposed, he and of the other workers at the factory were paid off and told that their services will no longer be required. Yadav went to his rented apartment dismayed and dejected. He paid the rent and asked his wife to pack their bags once again.  “I used to earn 10,000 rupees ($150) a month here. As I am going back to the village, I don’t know what would I do, what would I earn?” Yadav said.

Reports show that after the Apr. 19 lockdown in Delhi, more than 80,000 migrant workers returned to their homes.

Geeta Aiyar, a social activist based in Delhi, said the displacement of migrant workers in India was wreaking havoc on their livelihoods.

“They had all hopes that they may get some respite this year but the pandemic is showing its disastrous side and its direct impact is being felt by the poor migrant labourers in the country. There are many who have become infected and died. The hospitals are already overburdened and the shortage of oxygen is actually killing more people than those [dying] due to the virus itself. Therefore, these poor souls have no option but to flee the city with whatever little resources they have,” Geeta told IPS.

Bijay Kumar, who works as an electrician in a private firm in Delhi, was walking with 10 other men towards the railway station where he hoped to catch a train to return to his rural home.

The 35-year-old had been working to repay the bank loan he had taken out last year to pay for his wedding. But the COVID-19 pandemic shattered all his dreams and hopes of becoming a debt-free man.

“The interest on the loan is only increasing every month. With the second wave of COVID-19, everything has been shut and from this month onwards, I wouldn’t get any salary as the factory has been closed. I really have no idea what will happen to my family,” Kumar, whose wife is seven months pregnant and suffering from various health issues, told IPS.

Dr Naveed Iqbal, a New Delhi-based virologist, told IPS that the government needed to streamline the exodus of migrant workers from cities and towns as they could be carriers of the deadly virus and could spread the disease in rural areas.

“As these workers board busses and trains to reach to their villages, they could be potential carriers of the virus. The government needs to order their quarantine for at least 14 days at the borders of their states and allow them to proceed only after completion of the quarantine period. This way we can help in stopping the flow of virus to the rural parts of the country where the health care system is much more dismal than of the main cities,” Iqbal said.

 

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Le baptême d'une congrégation religieuse à Akassato dans la commune d'Abomey-Calavi a viré au drame samedi 22 mai 2021. Le nouveau converti est mort sous les eaux.

Une cérémonie de baptême a viré au drame samedi dernier dans l'arrondissement d'Akassato, commune d'Abomey-Calavi. Lors du baptême d'un jeune étudiant de 25 ans sur le site de dragage de sable d'Akassato, celui-ci a disparu sous les eaux. Le corps sans vie a été repêché par les sapeurs-pompiers après plusieurs heures de fouille.
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Volodimir Zelenszkij ukrán elnök pénteken rendeletben hagyta jóvá az ukrán Nemzetbiztonsági és Védelmi Tanács (RNBO) május 14-i döntését, amelyben a testület szankciókat hosszabbított meg 674 magánszemély és 138 vállalat ellen.

Az UNIAN ukrán hírügynökség rámutatott arra, hogy a rendelet kiadása azért vált szükségessé, mert a korábban hozott szankciós rendelkezés határideje a mostaniban érintettekkel szemben ebben a hónapban lejár.

Az Ukrajinszka Pravda hírportál jelentése szerint a szankciókkal sújtott személyek között van a Donyec-medencei két szakadár “népköztársaság” vezetője, Denisz Pusilin és Leonyid Paszicsnik, valamint az Oroszország által önkényesen elcsatolt Krím félsziget vezetője, Szerhij Akszjonov is.

A cégek közül három évre terjedően hosszabbították meg a szankciókat több orosz televízió, köztük a Zvezda, az NTV, a Pervij Kanal és a Ren TV elnevezésű csatornákkal szemben, valamint a Yandex internetes keresőoldalt üzemeltető vállalat ellen.

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A brit belügyminisztérium hétfői tájékoztatása szerint októberig használhatják személyi igazolványukat a beutazáshoz azok az EU-állampolgárok, akik nem élnek Nagy-Britanniában. A Nagy-Britanniában élő uniós polgárok ugyanakkor még legalább négy évig személyi igazolvánnyal is beléphetnek.

David Sassoli called for a strong EU response to Sunday’s forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk and the immediate release of those being held by Belarus.

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

David Sassoli called for a strong EU response to Sunday’s forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk and the immediate release of those being held by Belarus.

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

The forced rerouting of a Ryanair commercial flight has sparked outrage across Europe. The plane on route from Athens to Vilnius was forced to land in Minsk on Sunday, ostensibly because of a bomb threat. During the stopover, however, the authorities arrested Belarusian dissident and journalist Roman Pratasevich, who was on board. The EU has closed its airspace to Belarusian airlines in response, but commentators say further action is needed.