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Une opération de la Police Républicaine a permis de mener un contrôle intensif sur le territoire béninois.

Dénommée « L'opération Screen » 2025, elle s'est déroulée au niveau des points d'entrée stratégiques du Bénin. Selon BIP Radio, les éléments de la Police Républicaine se sont rendus aux postes frontaliers terrestres de Hillacondji et Hounsahoué, au passage de Sèmè-Kraké, au port maritime, à l'aéroport international de Cotonou, et sur la lagune de Porto-Novo.
Le bilan de la période du 7 au 20 septembre 2025 fait état de saisie d'un faux passeport américain, d'un pistolet automatique, de 19 voitures à 4 roues volées au Canada, ainsi que 3 motocyclettes.

Le Commissariat de Sèmè-Podji a saisi plus d'une demi-tonne de cannabis. Des vérifications systématiques ont été effectuées sur environ 18 000 personnes et 4 500 véhicules. Une dizaine de navires ont été aussi inspectés.

Le Président de la Haute Autorité de l'Audiovisuel et de la Communication du Bénin (HAAC), Édouard Loko a défendu ce mercredi 26 novembre 2025 devant la Commission des finances de l'Assemblée Nationale du Bénin, un budget de 3,46 milliards FCFA.

Conformément au Cadre de Dépenses à Moyen Terme, l'enveloppe proposée s'élève à 2,85 milliards FCFA, soit une réduction de 8,12 % par rapport à 2025. Devant la Commission, le. Président de la HAAC a souligné que les ressources nécessaires pour les actions de l'institution en 2026 sont chiffrées à 3,46 milliards FCFA, soit un déficit de 606,6 millions FCFA.

Actions menées en 2025

Au 30 septembre de l'année en cours, 57,6 % des crédits ont été engagés et 81,4 % ordonnancés. Les ressources ont permis la tenue des sessions statutaires, le renouvellement des conventions avec les médias, les contrôles techniques, l'entretien des infrastructures, les activités scientifiques ainsi que la participation aux rencontres internationales.

Edouard Loko a noté des difficultés. Elles concernent les lenteurs des procédures de commande publique et l'insuffisance de moyens pour les équipements de monitoring. La HAAC a soimis des besoins additionnels évalués à 625 millions FCFA. Le président a sollicité un appui pour une dotation complémentaire de 606,6 millions FCFA afin que la HAAC puisse mener convenablement ses actions en 2026.

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In today's edition: Pharma Package, tobacco and Europe's silent HIV crisis

Une recommandation du médiateur fédéral belge a été émise afin de réexaminer la nécessité de la révision de l’actuelle procédure de demande de visa Schengen […]

L’article Visa Schengen pour la Belgique : la procédure de demande remise en question est apparu en premier sur .

Critical minerals (CMs) have become a strategic priority for the European Union (EU) amid the green and digital transitions. These resources – including lithium, cobalt, rare earths and nickel – are essential for clean energy technologies, defence systems and electronics. Yet, their processing and refining are highly concentrated in a few countries, leaving the EU especially vulnerable to supply disruptions and fuelling geopolitical tensions.

Recent shocks, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, have further exposed the fragility of supply chains. At the same time, extracting and trading CMs pose severe environmental and social challenges, from high carbon footprints to local community impacts. EU trade policy is therefore confronted with a trilemma: how to safeguard economic competitiveness, ensure en­vironmental sustainability and enhance security of supply.

This policy brief summarises research tracing how the Euro­pean Commission’s trade discourse on CMs has evolved to address the trilemma (Laurens, 2025). Initially, com­muni­cations focused narrowly on free trade and market access for raw materials. Gradually, sustainability and security considerations entered the narrative. Most recently, the EU has embraced a hybrid framing, simultaneously highlighting economic, environ­mental and security objectives in its trade discourse on CMs.

Although this hybrid discursive approach can help build broader support for CM policies and agreements by appealing to diverse stakeholders, it also demands careful policy design to minimise trade-offs and deliver on its promises. Without credible implementation and genuine integration of economic, environmental and security objectives, hybrid framing risks remaining largely rhetorical and failing to steer policy in practice.

Key policy messages:

• The EU should adopt an integrated approach that effectively addresses economic, sustainability and security goals together while anticipating trade-offs to support more robust CM policies. This requires strong coordination across trade, industry, environ­ment and security-related directorates-general to align CM strategies, avoid policy conflicts and maximise synergies. It may also require short-term economic sacrifices for long-term resilience.
• Early and meaningful engagement with research institutions, civil society, local communities and industry should move beyond formal consultation and enable genuine co-creation of solutions. Dialogue should begin before key decisions on CMs are finalised, incorporate stakeholder input trans­parently, and respond to concerns about sustain­ability and security of supply.
• CM policies and agreements should provide for binding obligations and concrete implementation plans to ensure environmental and labour pro­tection, local value addition, skills development and technology transfer in resource-rich but eco­nomically vulnerable regions. Listening to partner governments and local communities as well as investing in the knowledge of local political, social and environ­mental contexts are essential for building trust and long-term partnerships.
• International cooperation on CMs should be strengthened through inclusive arrangements that involve both major consumers and producing countries. Clubs composed primarily of resource-poor but wealthy economies risk being perceived as exclusionary.

Critical minerals (CMs) have become a strategic priority for the European Union (EU) amid the green and digital transitions. These resources – including lithium, cobalt, rare earths and nickel – are essential for clean energy technologies, defence systems and electronics. Yet, their processing and refining are highly concentrated in a few countries, leaving the EU especially vulnerable to supply disruptions and fuelling geopolitical tensions.

Recent shocks, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, have further exposed the fragility of supply chains. At the same time, extracting and trading CMs pose severe environmental and social challenges, from high carbon footprints to local community impacts. EU trade policy is therefore confronted with a trilemma: how to safeguard economic competitiveness, ensure en­vironmental sustainability and enhance security of supply.

This policy brief summarises research tracing how the Euro­pean Commission’s trade discourse on CMs has evolved to address the trilemma (Laurens, 2025). Initially, com­muni­cations focused narrowly on free trade and market access for raw materials. Gradually, sustainability and security considerations entered the narrative. Most recently, the EU has embraced a hybrid framing, simultaneously highlighting economic, environ­mental and security objectives in its trade discourse on CMs.

Although this hybrid discursive approach can help build broader support for CM policies and agreements by appealing to diverse stakeholders, it also demands careful policy design to minimise trade-offs and deliver on its promises. Without credible implementation and genuine integration of economic, environmental and security objectives, hybrid framing risks remaining largely rhetorical and failing to steer policy in practice.

Key policy messages:

• The EU should adopt an integrated approach that effectively addresses economic, sustainability and security goals together while anticipating trade-offs to support more robust CM policies. This requires strong coordination across trade, industry, environ­ment and security-related directorates-general to align CM strategies, avoid policy conflicts and maximise synergies. It may also require short-term economic sacrifices for long-term resilience.
• Early and meaningful engagement with research institutions, civil society, local communities and industry should move beyond formal consultation and enable genuine co-creation of solutions. Dialogue should begin before key decisions on CMs are finalised, incorporate stakeholder input trans­parently, and respond to concerns about sustain­ability and security of supply.
• CM policies and agreements should provide for binding obligations and concrete implementation plans to ensure environmental and labour pro­tection, local value addition, skills development and technology transfer in resource-rich but eco­nomically vulnerable regions. Listening to partner governments and local communities as well as investing in the knowledge of local political, social and environ­mental contexts are essential for building trust and long-term partnerships.
• International cooperation on CMs should be strengthened through inclusive arrangements that involve both major consumers and producing countries. Clubs composed primarily of resource-poor but wealthy economies risk being perceived as exclusionary.

Critical minerals (CMs) have become a strategic priority for the European Union (EU) amid the green and digital transitions. These resources – including lithium, cobalt, rare earths and nickel – are essential for clean energy technologies, defence systems and electronics. Yet, their processing and refining are highly concentrated in a few countries, leaving the EU especially vulnerable to supply disruptions and fuelling geopolitical tensions.

Recent shocks, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, have further exposed the fragility of supply chains. At the same time, extracting and trading CMs pose severe environmental and social challenges, from high carbon footprints to local community impacts. EU trade policy is therefore confronted with a trilemma: how to safeguard economic competitiveness, ensure en­vironmental sustainability and enhance security of supply.

This policy brief summarises research tracing how the Euro­pean Commission’s trade discourse on CMs has evolved to address the trilemma (Laurens, 2025). Initially, com­muni­cations focused narrowly on free trade and market access for raw materials. Gradually, sustainability and security considerations entered the narrative. Most recently, the EU has embraced a hybrid framing, simultaneously highlighting economic, environ­mental and security objectives in its trade discourse on CMs.

Although this hybrid discursive approach can help build broader support for CM policies and agreements by appealing to diverse stakeholders, it also demands careful policy design to minimise trade-offs and deliver on its promises. Without credible implementation and genuine integration of economic, environmental and security objectives, hybrid framing risks remaining largely rhetorical and failing to steer policy in practice.

Key policy messages:

• The EU should adopt an integrated approach that effectively addresses economic, sustainability and security goals together while anticipating trade-offs to support more robust CM policies. This requires strong coordination across trade, industry, environ­ment and security-related directorates-general to align CM strategies, avoid policy conflicts and maximise synergies. It may also require short-term economic sacrifices for long-term resilience.
• Early and meaningful engagement with research institutions, civil society, local communities and industry should move beyond formal consultation and enable genuine co-creation of solutions. Dialogue should begin before key decisions on CMs are finalised, incorporate stakeholder input trans­parently, and respond to concerns about sustain­ability and security of supply.
• CM policies and agreements should provide for binding obligations and concrete implementation plans to ensure environmental and labour pro­tection, local value addition, skills development and technology transfer in resource-rich but eco­nomically vulnerable regions. Listening to partner governments and local communities as well as investing in the knowledge of local political, social and environ­mental contexts are essential for building trust and long-term partnerships.
• International cooperation on CMs should be strengthened through inclusive arrangements that involve both major consumers and producing countries. Clubs composed primarily of resource-poor but wealthy economies risk being perceived as exclusionary.

The bloc should urgently rethink its testing strategies, warned the ECDC

Europe’s industrial base is at risk of collapse. Out of 18 sectors analyzed, only aerospace/defence remains competitive. Automotive, steel, chemicals, telecom, solar—all are losing ground to global rivals.  This is not fate; it is the result of corporate and political choices, from the creation of global overcapacities to austerity measures. This is the stark message […]

The first CAP simplification package followed a wave of farmer protests across the EU and was deemed politically urgent by the Commission

Plus Omnibus compromise, a sneak-peek on Monday's defence Foreign Affairs Council, and dispatches from the European Space Agency summit in Bremen

In today's edition: Donazzan's Space Act, CSAM file moves, Shein RFI

Heßler v Commission
Staff Regulations of Officials
EU officials: entitlement to a tax abatement for a child receiving training ends at the latest on the child’s 26th birthday

Heßler kontra Bizottság
Tisztviselõk személyzeti szabályzata
EU officials: entitlement to a tax abatement for a child receiving training ends at the latest on the child’s 26th birthday

Heßler / Commission
Statut des fonctionnaires
Fonctionnaires de l’Union européenne : le droit à un abattement fiscal pour un enfant en formation prend fin au plus tard au 26e anniversaire de l’enfant

Au moins 55 personnes ont été tuées dans cet immense incendie.

Les « safaris humains » attirant de riches « chasseurs » étrangers qui venaient tirer sur des civils dans Sarajevo assiégée étaient connus dès la fin de l'année 1993. Alors que l'enquête ouverte par la justice italienne relance le dossier, les explications d'un ancien agent des renseignements militaires bosniens.

- Articles / Une - Diaporama - En premier, Une - Diaporama, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, Siège sarajevo, Défense, police et justice

Les « safaris humains » attirant de riches « chasseurs » étrangers qui venaient tirer sur des civils dans Sarajevo assiégée étaient connus dès la fin de l'année 1993. Alors que l'enquête ouverte par la justice italienne relance le dossier, les explications d'un ancien agent des renseignements militaires bosniens.

- Articles / Une - Diaporama - En premier, Une - Diaporama, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, Siège sarajevo, Défense, police et justice

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