If Israel were to end its existence as the nation-state of the Jewish people — as Beinart advocates — and become a Jewish “homeland” in a single binational, bi-religious state, a demographic war would become inevitable, in which Jews and Muslims would compete to become a majority. As soon as a Muslim majority materialized, the Jewish “homeland” would become precisely the kind of “Bantustan” that Beinart has railed against in the context of South Africa.
It’s time for us to stop denying the facts – Serbia funded and armed the Bosnian Serb regime that massacred thousands of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995.
Any peace agreement concluded between Kosovo and Serbia should not undermine efforts to hold wrongdoers accountable for atrocities during the 1998-99 conflict, said ex-prosecutor Clint Williamson, a former US ambassador for war crimes.
The announcement that war crimes charges had been filed against Hashim Thaci and Kadri Veseli caused a political storm, but questions persist about whether prosecutors in The Hague were justified in making the accusations public.
The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group is currently working on recruiting new members from rich people, warned the Egyptian monitoring unit of Dar al-Ifta’s Observatory of Takfiri Fatwas and Extremist Views in a statement on Saturday.
După două zile fără rezultate notabile, şefii de stat şi de guvern ai UE şi-au continuat astăzi dezbaterile pe tema unui buget de 1,8 bilioane de euro.
UPDATE
Reuniuni la vârf pe tema bugetului Uniunii Europene pe şapte ani, care să dureze trei zile, sunt mai degrabă ceva obişnuit decât o excepţie. Faptul că de astă dată şefii de stat şi de guvern europeni dezbat şi un a doilea buget, cel de redresare economică, destinat ţărilor cel mai grav afectate de criza coronavirus, şi că sub acest aspect poziţiile partenerilor UE sunt foarte diferite, reprezintă un motiv în plus ca negocierile să dureze. O spun şi unii diplomaţi UE, care au participat şi la legendarul summit de la Nisa, care s-a întins chiar pe durata a patru zile pline.
In May 2011, the G8 launched the Deauville Partnership as a response to the historical changes underway in several countries in the Middle East and North Africa region. The Deauville Partnership was launched as a long-term, global initiative that provides Arab countries in transition with a framework based on technical support to: (i) strengthen governance for transparent, accountable governments; and (ii) provide an economic framework for sustainable and inclusive growth.
To support the countries in transition to formulate policies and programs and implement reforms, the Deauville Partnership set up the MENA Transition Fund.
The Transition Fund demonstrates a joint commitment by G8 members, Gulf and regional partners, and international and regional financial institutions to support the efforts of the people and governments of the Partnership countries as they overhaul their economic systems to promote more accountable governance, broad-based, sustainable growth, and greater employment opportunities for youth and women.
The Transition Fund has been designed to be rapid, flexible, and responsive so that Partnership countries can quickly call on it in support of a combination of diagnostic analyses, technical advice, and implementation of targeted policy initiatives. Through the Transition Fund, a modest amount of official finance can catalyze much larger changes that will help enable transitions to new, sustainable economic models.
The Transition Fund is a broad-based partnership providing grants for technical cooperation to help transition countries strengthen their governance, social and economic institutions by developing and implementing home-grown and country-owned reforms.
Consistent with its knowledge-sharing and transformational objectives, the Transition Fund emphasizes funding for technical cooperation proposals that leverage and complement support from other partners where relevant, in particular, bilateral donors, academic institutions and policy research institutions, regional and international organizations, industry and labor associations, and other civil society organizations.
South-South partnerships are encouraged (i.e. those between developing/transition countries) including from outside the MENA region, as well as institutions with regional experience focusing on technical cooperation or knowledge sharing.
The Transition Fund focuses on cross-cutting, multi-year projects as well as projects with short-term impacts that are country-owned.
“Technological and human-centred solutions to protect public spaces against terrorist threats”
How to assess technologies to protect public spaces? The PRoTECT Technology Assessment Framework. Public announcement of the selected solutions for demonstration in the five PRoTECT partner cities
