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Siemens will receive warrants allowing it to acquire Alstom shares representing two percentage points of its share capital that can be exercised earliest four years after closing. The businesses of the two companies are largely complementary. The combined entity will offer a significantly increased range of diversified product and solution offerings to meet multi-facetted, customer-specific needs, from cost-efficient mass-market platforms to high-end technologies. Customers will significantly benefit from a well-balanced larger geographic footprint, a comprehensive portfolio offering and significant investment into digital services.
The combination of know-how and innovation power of both companies will drive crucial innovations, cost efficiency and faster response, which will allow the combined entity to better address customer needs. The Board of Directors of the combined group will consist of 11 members and will be comprised of 6 directors designated by Siemens, one of which being the Chairman, 4 independent directors and the CEO.
In order to ensure management continuity, Henri Poupart-Lafarge, will continue to lead the company as CEO and will be a board member. The corporate name of the combined group will be Siemens Alstom. The French State also supports the transaction based on undertakings by Siemens, including a standstill at The French State confirms that the loan of Alstom shares from Bouygues SA will be terminated in accordance with its terms no later than October 17, and that it will not exercise the options granted by Bouygues. Bouygues has committed to keep its shares until the earlier of the extraordinary general meeting deciding on the transaction and July 31, The transaction is also subject to clearance from relevant regulatory authorities, including foreign investment clearance in France and anti-trust authorities as well as the confirmation by the French capital market authority AMF that no mandatory takeover offer has to be launched by Siemens following completion of the contribution.
Closing is expected at the end of calendar year Yannis Ritsos - Surtout quand de puissants personnages restent impunis. Ou quand nos dirigeants se font mener par le bout du nez par madame Merkel. On peut y parvenir. Nicolas Sarkozy hier, avec ses gouvernements du centre, de la droite et des transfuges du PS, est coupable.
Ne laissons pas leurs anciens ministres et premier ministre continuer leurs politiques! Nous votons le 23 avril et le 7 mai, nos voisins allemands en septembre. Mettons-nous donc au travail. Micheline Croonen-Lenaerts overleden. Micheline was de echtgenote van Louis Croonen. Prix chez Arte Editions: For that, he funds shell companies to run the fuel line for these networks and even pours in cash from a secret stash of state discretionary funds using the diplomatic pouch.
It is not surprising to see that some European politicians including several EU lawmakers were hooked by this. Some have already been exposed by name and shamed publicly, while others are waiting their turn as confidential investigations close in. There are hundreds of other NGOs clustered around these big boys that move in unison when given orders. In addition to raising funds and local recruitment, they are well financed by the Turkish government and supported diplomatically and politically. To volunteers they offer perks such as facilitation of their business and family dealings in the motherland, or positions in the Turkish government or government-linked institutions for their relatives.
Turkish government officials are encouraged to spare time to meet and attend events organized by the UETD when they go to Europe. Among its members are controversial charity groups such as International Humanitarian Relief IHH , accused of arms smuggling to rebels in Syria, and the Ensar Foundation, which was involved in a spree of rapes of dozens of children in the conservative Turkish district of Karaman. In an email dated Jan. Using the front NGOs and transformed grassroot networks, his intelligence operatives have stepped up their intel collection efforts, run clandestine schemes, plan false flags and even plot assassinations and murders of dissidents and critics.
It is not hard to imagine what he is planning secretly. En ce moment, plus de journalistes sont en prison. Un dernier mot avant le 1er mai: As of 24 October , journalists had been charged and were in pre- trial detention; at least 8 others were detained without charge and others were in police custody under investigation. The Turkish authorities have shut down more than media outlets, censored at least 30 news websites, and stripped more than members of the press of their credentials; 29 publishing houses have been ordered closed and there have been reports of wide-spread ill-treatment in custody.
Over 70, people have detained, placed under investigation, suspended or fired, including teachers, civil servants, academics and others. The extension came into effect on 19 October and will last for an additional 90 days, and could be renewed. On August 16, my apartment was busted by special forces policemen… I spent 72 hours in custody, in a cage. I hope to be released as soon as I face the real trial. Ferguson names 20 important subjects that are underrated in history classes in Stanford, Yale and Harvard.
All periods in British History 2. The scientific revolution 4. The American Revolution 6. The French Revolution 7. The US Constitution 8. The Industrial Revolution 9. The American Civil War World War I The Russian Revolution The Great Depression The Rise Of Fascism The Third Reich World War II The Cold War The history of Israel European Integration Comment LT: Media freedom and pluralism are crucial components of the right to freedom of expression, as guaranteed by Article 10 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ETS No.
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They are central to the functioning of a democratic society as they help to ensure the availability and accessibility of diverse information and views, on the basis of which individuals can form and express their opinions and exchange information and ideas. The media play essential roles in democratic society, by widely disseminating information, ideas, analysis and opinions; acting as public watchdogs, and providing forums for public debate.
In the present multi-media ecosystem, these roles continue to be fulfilled by traditional media, but are also increasingly performed by other media and non-media actors, from multinational corporations to non-governmental organisations and individuals. Pluralist democratic societies are made up of a wide range of identities, ideas and interests.
It is imperative that this diversity can be communicated through a range of independent and autonomous channels and outlets, thus creating an informed society, contributing to mutual understanding and fostering social cohesion. Different types of media, along with different genres or forms of editorial content or programming contribute to diversity of content. Although content focusing on news and current affairs is of most direct relevance for fostering an informed society, other genres are also very important. Examples include cultural and educational content and entertainment, as well as content aimed at specific sections of society, such as local content.
In the present multi-media environment, online media and other internet platforms enable access to a growing range of information from diverse sources. This transformation in how media content is made available and used creates new opportunities for more and more people to interact and communicate with each other and to participate in public debate. This technological evolution also raises concerns for media pluralism.
While variety in media sources and types can be instrumental in enhancing diversity of media content and exposure to such diversity, it does not of itself guarantee it. Individuals still have to select what media to use and what content to watch, listen to or read among vast quantities of diverse content distributed across various media.
This may result in them selecting or being exposed to information confirming their existing views and opinions, which can, in turn, generate fragmentation and result in a polarised society. While limited news resources and self-imposed restrictions on the choice of content are not new phenomena, the media and internet intermediaries may amplify their inherent risks, through their ability to control the flow, availability, findability and accessibility of information and other content online. This is particularly troubling if the individual users are not aware of these processes or do not understand them.
As new actors enter the evolving online market, the ensuing competitive pressures and a shift in advertising revenues towards the internet have contributed to an increase in media consolidation and convergence. Single or a few media owners or groups acquire positions of considerable power where they can separately or jointly set the agenda of public debate and significantly influence or shape public opinion, reproducing the same content across all platforms on which they are present.
Convergence trends also lead to cost-cutting, job losses in journalism and media sectors, and the risk of financial dependencies for journalists and the media. These developments may cause a reduction in diversity of news and content generally and ultimately impoverish public debate. Fresh appraisals of existing approaches to media pluralism are called for in order to address the challenges for pluralism resulting from how users and businesses have adapted their behaviour to technological developments. New policy responses and strategic solutions are needed to sustain independent, quality journalism and diverse content across all media types and formats.
There is a need for an enhanced role for independent public service media to counteract on-going processes of concentration and convergence in the media. By virtue of their remit, public service media are particularly suited to address the informational needs and interests of all sections of society, as is true of community media in respect of their constituent users. It is of utmost importance for public service media to have within their mandates the responsibility to foster political pluralism and awareness of diverse opinions, notably by providing different groups in society — including cultural, linguistic, ethnic, religious or other minorities — with an opportunity to receive and impart information, to express themselves and to exchange ideas.
In light of the increased range of media and content, it is very important for individuals to possess the cognitive, technical and social skills and capacities that enable them to critically analyse media content, and to understand the ethical implications of media and technology. Media literacy contributes to media pluralism and diversity by empowering individuals to effectively access, evaluate and create diverse types of content; by reducing the digital divide; facilitating informed decision-making, especially in respect of political and public affairs and commercial content, and by enabling the identification and countering of false or misleading information and harmful and illegal online content.
The adoption and effective implementation of media-ownership regulation plays an important role in respect of media pluralism. Such regulation should ensure transparency in media ownership; it should address issues such as cross-media ownership, direct and indirect media ownership and effective control and influence over the media. It should also ensure that there is effective and manifest separation between the exercise of political authority or influence and control of the media or decision making as regards media content.
Transparency of media ownership, organisation and financing help to increase media accountability. Transparency and media literacy are therefore indispensable tools for individuals to make informed decisions about which media they use and how they use them, to search for, access and impart information and ideas of all kinds.
This makes them practical instruments of effective pluralism.
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Against this background, the present Recommendation reaffirms the importance of existing Council of Europe standards dealing with different aspects of media pluralism and transparency of media ownership and the need to fully implement them in democratic societies. The Recommendation builds further on those standards, adjusting, supplementing and reinforcing them, as necessary, to ensure their continued relevance in the current multi-media ecosystem.
Under the terms of Article Appendix to Recommendation Guidelines In the context of this Recommendation, unless otherwise specified, the media are generally understood as including print, broadcast and online media. A favourable environment for freedom of expression and media freedom 1. The principles of freedom of expression and media freedom, as grounded in the Convention, must continue to be developed in a way that takes full account of the features of the present multi-media ecosystem, in which a range of new media actors have come to the fore.
States have a positive obligation to foster a favourable environment for freedom of expression, in which everyone can exercise their right to freedom of expression and participate in public debate effectively, irrespective of whether or not their views are received favourably by the State or others. States should guarantee free and pluralistic media for their valuable contribution to robust public debate in which societal diversity can be articulated and explored. National legislative and policy frameworks should safeguard the editorial independence and operational autonomy of all media so that they can carry out their key tasks in democratic society.
The frameworks should be designed and implemented in such ways as to prevent the State, or any powerful political, economic, religious or other groups from acquiring dominance and exerting pressure on the media. Relevant legislation should ensure that the media have the freedom at all times to provide accurate and reliable reporting on matters of public interest, in particular concerning vital democratic processes and activities, such as elections, referenda and public consultations on matters of general interest. Adequate safeguards should also be put in place to prevent interference with editorial independence of the media in relation to coverage of conflicts, crises and other sensitive situations where quality journalism and reporting are key tools in countering propaganda and disinformation.
In a favourable environment for freedom of expression, media regulatory authorities and other authorities or entities entrusted with responsibility for regulating or monitoring other media service providers or media pluralism must be able to carry out their remit in an effective, transparent and accountable manner. A prerequisite for them to be able to do so is that they themselves enjoy independence that is guaranteed in law and borne out in practice. The independence of the authorities and entities referred to in the previous paragraph should be guaranteed by ensuring that they: States should ensure transparency of media ownership, organisation and financing, as well as promote media literacy, in order to provide individuals with the information and critical awareness that they need in order to access diverse information and participate fully in the present multi-media ecosystem.
Media pluralism and diversity of media content General requirements of pluralism 1. As ultimate guarantors of pluralism, States have a positive obligation to put in place an appropriate legislative and policy framework to that end. This implies adopting appropriate measures to ensure sufficient variety in the overall range of media types, bearing in mind differences in terms of their purposes, functions and geographical reach. The complementary nature of different media types strengthens external pluralism and can contribute to creating and maintaining diversity of media content.
States are called upon to ensure that there is periodic independent monitoring and evaluation of the state of media pluralism in their jurisdictions based on a set of objective and transparent criteria for identifying risks to the variety in ownership of media sources and outlets, the diversity of media types, the diversity of viewpoints represented by political, ideological, cultural and social groups, and the diversity of interests and viewpoints relevant to local and regional communities. States are further urged to develop and enforce appropriate regulatory and policy responses effectively addressing any risks found.
Specific requirements of pluralism Diversity of content 3. States should adopt regulatory and policy measures to promote the availability and accessibility of the broadest possible diversity of media content as well as the representation of the whole diversity of society in the media, including by supporting initiatives by media to those ends. States should encourage the development of open, independent, transparent and participatory initiatives by social media, media stakeholders, civil society and academia, that seek to improve effective exposure of users to the broadest possible diversity of media content online.
Wherever the visibility, findability and accessibility of media content online is influenced by automated processes, whether they are purely automated processes or used in combination with human decisions, States should encourage social media, media stakeholders, civil society and academia to engage in open, independent, transparent and participatory initiatives that: States should make particular efforts, taking advantage of technological developments, to ensure that the broadest possible diversity of media content, including in different languages, is accessible to all groups in society, particularly those which may have specific needs or face disadvantage or obstacles when accessing media content, such as minority groups, children, the elderly and persons with cognitive or physical disabilities.
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Diversity of media content can only be properly gauged when there are high levels of transparency about editorial and commercial content: This also applies to user-generated content and to hybrid forms of content, including branded content, native advertising and advertorials and infotainment. Institutional arrangement of media pluralism 6. States should recognise the crucial role of public service media in fostering public debate, political pluralism and awareness of diverse opinions.
States should accordingly guarantee adequate conditions for public service media to continue to play this role in the multi-media landscape, including by providing them with appropriate support for innovation and the development of digital strategies and new services. The supervisory and management boards of public service media must be able to operate in a fully independent manner and the rules governing their composition and appointment procedures must contain adequate checks and balances to ensure that independence.
States should also ensure stable, sustainable, transparent and adequate funding for public service media in order to guarantee their independence from governmental, political and commercial pressures and enable them to provide a broad range of pluralistic information and diverse content.
This can also help to counterbalance any risks caused by a situation of media concentration. States should encourage and support the establishment and functioning of community, minority, regional and local media, including by providing financial mechanisms to foster their development. Such independent media give a voice to communities and individuals on topics relevant to their needs and interests, and are thus instrumental in creating public exposure for issues that may not be represented in the mainstream media and in facilitating inclusive and participatory processes of dialogue within and across communities and at regional and local levels.
States should facilitate access to cross-border media, which serve communities outside the country where they are established, supplement national media and can help certain groups in society, including immigrants, refugees and diaspora communities, to maintain ties with their countries of origin, native cultures and languages. Support measures for the media and media pluralism For the purpose of enhancing media pluralism, States should develop strategies and mechanisms to support professional news media and quality journalism, including news production capable of addressing diverse needs and interests of groups that may not be sufficiently represented in the media.
They should explore a wide range of measures, including various forms of non-financial and financial support such as advertising and subsidies, which would be available to different media types and platforms, including those of online media. States are also encouraged to support projects relating to journalism education, media research and innovative approaches to strengthen media pluralism and freedom of expression.
Support measures should have clearly defined purposes; be based on pre-determined clear, precise, equitable, objective and transparent criteria, and be implemented in full respect of the editorial and operational autonomy of the media. Such measures could include positive measures to enhance the quantity and quality of media coverage of issues that are of interest and relevance to groups which are underrepresented in the media. Support measures should be administered in a non-discriminatory and transparent manner by a body enjoying functional and operational autonomy such as an independent media regulatory authority.
An effective monitoring system should also be introduced to supervise such measures, to ensure that they serve the purpose for which they are intended. Regulation of media ownership: In order to guarantee effective pluralism in their jurisdictions, States should adopt and implement a comprehensive regulatory framework for media ownership and control that is adapted to the current state of the media industry. Such a framework should take full account of media convergence and the impact of online media. Ownership and control 2. Those thresholds may be based on a number of criteria such as capital shares, voting rights, circulation, revenues, audience share or audience reach.
States should set criteria for determining ownership and control of media companies by explicitly addressing direct and beneficial ownership and control. Relevant criteria can include proprietary, financial or voting strength within a media company or companies and the determination of the different levels of strength that lead to exercising control or direct or indirect influence over the strategic decision-making of the company or companies including their editorial policy.
As the key democratic tasks of the media include holding authorities to account, legislation should stipulate that the exercise of political authority or influence is incompatible with involvement in the ownership, management or editorial decision-making of the media. The incompatibility of these functions should be recognised as a matter of principle and should not be made conditional on the existence of particular conditions. The criteria of incompatibility and a range of appropriate measures for addressing conflicts of interest should be set out clearly in law.
States are also encouraged to develop and apply suitable methodologies for the assessment of media concentration. In addition to measuring the availability of media sources, this assessment should reflect the real influence of individual media by adopting an audience-based approach and using appropriate sets of criteria to measure the use and impact of individual media on opinion-forming.
Media ownership regulation should include procedures to prevent media mergers or acquisitions that could adversely affect pluralism of media ownership or diversity of media content. Such procedures could involve a requirement for media owners to notify the relevant independent regulatory authority of any proposed media merger or acquisition whenever the ownership and control thresholds, as set out in legislation, are met.
The relevant independent regulatory authority should be vested with powers to assess the expected impact of any proposed concentration on media pluralism and to make recommendations or decisions, as appropriate, about whether the proposed merger or acquisition should be cleared, subject or not to any restrictions or conditions, including divestiture.
Decisions of the independent authority should be subject to judicial review. Transparency of media ownership, organisation and financing 1. States should guarantee a regime of transparency regarding media ownership that ensures the availability of the data necessary for informed regulation and decision-making and enables the public to access those data in order to help them to analyse and evaluate the information, ideas and opinions disseminated by the media.
Such obligations should, as a minimum, include the following information: Beneficial shareholding applies to natural persons who ultimately own or control shares in a media outlet or on whose behalf those shares are held, enabling them to indirectly exercise control or significant influence on the operation and strategic decision-making of the media outlet. High levels of transparency should also be ensured with regard to the sources of financing of media outlets in order to provide a comprehensive picture of the different sources of potential interference with the editorial and operational independence of the media and allow for effective monitoring and controlling of such risks.
To this end, States should adopt and implement legislation that sets out enforceable disclosure of the following information: Legislation should set out clear criteria as to which media are subject to these reporting obligations. The obligations may be limited with regard to factors such as the commercial nature of the media outlet, a wide audience reach, exercise of editorial control, frequency and regularity of publication or broadcast, etc. Legislation should also determine the timeframe within which reporting obligations must be met. Those databases should be kept up to date on a rolling basis and they should be available to the public free of charge.
They should be accessible and searchable; their contents should be made available in open formats and there should not be restrictions on their re-use. Reporting requirements relating to media ownership should include the provision of: Legislation should provide for the publication of reports on media ownership to be accompanied by appropriate explanations of the data and the methodologies used to collect and organise them, in order to help members of the public to interpret the data and understand their significance.
States should issue clear, up-to-date guidance on the interrelationship and implications of the different regulatory regimes and on how to implement them correctly and coherently. That guidance could take the form of user-friendly guidelines, handbooks, manuals, etc. States should also facilitate inter-agency cooperation, including the relevant exchange of information about media ownership held by media regulatory authorities, competition authorities and company registers.
Similarly, the exchange of information and best practices with other national authorities, both within their own jurisdiction and in other jurisdictions, should be facilitated. States should introduce legislative provisions or strengthen existing ones that promote media literacy with a view to enabling individuals to access, understand, critically analyse, evaluate, use and create content through a range of legacy and digital including social media.
States should also develop a national media literacy policy and ensure its operationalisation and implementation through multi- annual action plans. A key strategy for that purpose could be to support the creation of a national media literacy network comprising a wide range of stakeholders, or the further development of such a network where it already exists.
In the multi-media ecosystem, media literacy is essential for people of all ages and all walks of life. Any measures adopted should be developed in consultation with teachers and trainers with a view to ensuring a fair and appropriate integration of relevant activities in work-flows. Any measures adopted should not interfere with the academic autonomy of educational institutions in curricular matters. States should encourage all media, without interfering with their editorial independence, to promote media literacy through policies, strategies and activities.
They should also promote media literacy through support schemes for media, taking into account the particular roles of public service media and community media. States should ensure that independent national regulatory authorities have the scope and resources to promote media literacy in ways that are relevant to their mandates and encourage them to do so.
States are encouraged to include in their national media literacy programmes focuses on media pluralism and transparency of media ownership in order to help citizens to make an informed and critical evaluation of the information and ideas propagated via the media. To this end, States are called upon to include in their strategies for ensuring transparency in the media sector educational content which enables individuals to use information relating to media ownership, organisation and financing, in order to better understand the different influences on the production, collection, curation and dissemination of media content.
En juillet dernier, la juge turinoise en charge de l'affaire a saisi la Cour constitutionnelle. Iran eist schadevergoeding van USA voor acties sinds De toespraak van Angela Merkel is van historisch belang voor Europa. Het zou verkeerd zijn Merkel lichtvaardig te veroordelen. Immers, haar stellingname is een waardige en strenge terechtwijzing lees: De draagwijdte van Merkels toespraak zal in de volgende dagen duidelijk worden. Journalisten moeten daarbij hun analyse verstandig onderbouwen. Naar onze mening zou het NIET volgen van de bepalingen van het Strafwetboek afbreuk hebben gedaan aan de boodschap die men wil geven: Duitsland is een rechtstaat waar niet de toevallige politieke meerderheid bepaalt wat recht en wat krom is.
Net die overweging maakt het verschil tussen een dictatuur en een rechtstaat. De aankondiging van een wijziging van paragraaf van het SWB wijst zeer bewust in die richting. Let u vooral op de ademhaling van Merkel en de nadrukkelijkheid van haar intonatie: Ik heb het eerder geschreven: Erdogan is volgens mij niet op zoek naar een toenadering tot Europa; hij streeft naar de vestiging van een allesomvattend dictatoriaal Middenrijk waarin hij zijn eigen positie kan consolideren, ten koste van mensenrechten en vrijheid. Het is een typische strategie van dictators 'in the make'.
Formeel is Turkije nog een parlementaire democratie, in de realiteit is er geen gesprek meer mogelijk tussen de politieke fracties, er is nog slechts 'vijand-denken'. Hier de volledige tekst zoals vrijgegeven door de Bundesregiering: Im Rechtsstaat sind Grundrechte wie die Meinungsfreiheit, die Kunstfreiheit und die Pressefreiheit elementar. In ihm ist garantiert, dass die Verfahrensrechte des Betroffenen gewahrt werden. In ihm gilt die Unschuldsvermutung. Wir werden deshalb einen Gesetzentwurf zu seiner Aufhebung vorlegen.
Der Gesetzentwurf soll noch in dieser Wahlperiode verabschiedet werden und in Kraft treten. April Wij hebben voor u de teksten opgezocht waarop de stellingname van Merkel gebaseerd is. Eine Zensur findet nicht statt. Hieronder de tekst van het Strafwetboek die de Bundesregierung zal wijzigen: Den Antrag auf Bekanntgabe der Verurteilung kann auch der Staatsanwalt stellen. Het gaat om volgend gedicht: Follow the Money - laatste aflevering van deze reeks op Canvas.
In deze aflevering wordt het energiebedrijf Energreen failliet verklaard. Het middle management wordt 'opgeofferd' en gaat de gevangenis in of pleegt zelfmoord. De officier van justitie van de fraudecel wordt door de minister gemaand het verdere strafonderzoek stop te zetten. De ultratop ontspringt de dans. Niet zo maar een serie Norway's integration minister has called for tighter immigration policies — to avoid the country becoming like Sweden.
Sylvi Listhaug used Sweden as the cautionary tale when speaking about recent terror attacks in Europe, as well as a package of asylum reforms due before the Norwegian parliament shortly. It shows how important it is to succeed with integration and that is again connected to how many come to Norway. In the aftermath of the terror attacks in Brussels, there has been a debate in Norway on so-called parallel societies and neighbourhoods where the police don't dare to patrol. Listhaug acknowledged that the problem exists. We should not stick our heads in the sand and say that everything is good here.
It was revealed earlier this month that a man with suspected links to radical group Isis, who was shot dead in a Brussels raid just days before the terror attack, had previously lived in Sweden. Sweden has attempted to crack down on foreign fighters, with the security service saying that up to Swedes are believed to have travelled to Syria or Iraq to fight in the past three years.
Around 40 are thought to have died in battle and around are understood to remain in the Middle East. New anti-terror legislation is set to come into effect on Friday, with Sweden criminalizing trips abroad, or the financing of such travels, to participate in acts of terrorism. From April 15th the country is also tightening restrictions on passports, with people only being able to apply for three passports in a five-year period, to prevent the use of forged identity documents. But Sweden has struggled to cope with the record , asylum claims it received last year, and is seeing increasing divides between different ethnic communities in troubled suburbs in the big cities.
Listhaug said that a major reason that Norway doesn't have the same ghetto problems as its Nordic neighbour is that asylum seekers in Norway cannot decide for themselves where they should live. But she also stressed that Islamists were not responsible for the terror that struck the nation in , when far-right sympathizer Anders Behring Breivik shot dead several dozens of teenagers on Utoya island. March 29, Mumbai: The Tata Steel board today reviewed the recent performance of the European business of the company, more specifically, of Tata Steel UK. It noted with deep concern the deteriorating financial performance of the UK subsidiary in the last twelve months.
While the global steel demand, especially in developed markets like Europe has remained muted following the financial crisis of , trading conditions in the UK and Europe have rapidly deteriorated more recently, due to structural factors including global oversupply of steel, significant increase in third country exports into Europe, high manufacturing costs, continued weakness in domestic market demand in steel and a volatile currency.
These factors are likely to continue into the future and have significantly impacted the long term competitive position of the UK operations in spite of several initiatives undertaken by the management and the workers of the business in recent years.
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The Tata Steel board also reviewed the proposed restructuring and transformation plan for Strip Products UK, prepared by the European subsidiary in consultation with an independent and internationally reputed consultancy firm. Based on the review conducted, the Tata Steel board came to a unanimous conclusion that the plan is unaffordable, requires material funding support in the next two years in addition to significant capital commitments over the long term, the assumptions behind it are inherently very risky, and its likelihood of delivery is highly uncertain.
Therefore, the board concluded that it would not be able to support the investment necessary to proceed with the proposed Strip Products UK transformation plan. The company has also been in deep engagement with the UK government in recent months seeking its support to achieve the best possible outcome for the UK business, within the restrictions of State Aid Rules and other statutory limits.
These discussions are ongoing and will continue. The UK government is also involved in the latter discussions. Following the strategic view taken by the Tata Steel board regarding the UK business, it has advised the board of its European holding company ie Tata Steel Europe, to explore all options for portfolio restructuring including the potential divestment of Tata Steel UK, in whole or in parts. Given the severity of the funding requirement in the foreseeable future, the Tata Steel Europe board will be advised to evaluate and implement the most feasible option in a time bound manner.
L'invasion de l'Irak en continue de tuer. C'est une guerre hybride. L'Europe de l'Ouest va au-devant de jours difficiles. Mais la force seule ne suffira pas. De grondstof voor die serie waren romans en novellen van Ernest Claes De schrijver, zelf geboren in Zichem, overleed kort voor de opnames begonnen. Op zijn oude dag poseerde Ernest Claes graag als de eeuwig minzame, monkelende verteller, die in zijn leven alleen maar goede mensen was tegengekomen.
Maar hij behoorde tot de generatie die twee wereldoorlogen onderging.
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Behalve schrijver van geliefde volksboeken als De Witte keer herdrukt! Hij zocht zich als Vlaams-nationalist een weg in de woelige twintigste eeuw, langs de afgrond van het fascisme. Foreign Aid In Every year, the United States supports over foreign governments with billions of dollars worth of aid funding. According to the U. Considered vital to U.
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On the face of it, you can hardly ignore such things, since they constantly reshape your environment and your way of life. Even without resorting to statistics, you are bound to perceive, out of day-to-day experience, what the current balance is between younger and older people, how many kids are to be found at an average home, and the ethnicity or religion of your neighbors, or the people you relate to at work or in business. The French elites, both on the right and left, managed for five decades at least to dismiss the drastic demographic changes that had been taking place in their country, including the rise of Islam, since they clashed with too many political concepts — or fantasies — they had been brainwashed into accepting: Until , compilation of ethnic, racial, and religious statistics was prohibited under French law.
One way for the elites to deny demographics was to reject ethnic-related investigation on legal or ethical grounds. Until , ethnic, racial, and religious statistics were not allowed under French law — ostensibly to prevent a return of Vichy State-style racial persecutions. Even as the law was somehow relaxed, first in and again in , many statisticians or demographers insisted on retaining a de facto ban on such investigations.
The irony about his accusation against Tribalat is that, while intent to discuss the issue of immigration, she is an extremely cautious and conservative expert when it comes to actual figures. She has always tended to play down, in particular, the size of the French Muslim community. Sheikh Abbas, head of the Great Mosque in Paris, in spoke of twice as many — 6 million. Journalists usually adopt an estimate somewhere in the middle: The Catholic Church, a reliable source of information on religious trends in France, also estimates 4 million.
Arabies, a French-Arab journal published in Paris, provides the following breakdown: This brings the total to 4. One can state with reasonable certainty that the Muslim population of France numbers over 3 million about 5 percent of the total French population and quite probably over 4 million 6.
Nineteen years later, accuracy has hardly improved in this respect. All sources agree that France as a whole underwent a moderate demographic growth: Throughout the same period of time, the U. All sources agree also that there was a much sharper increase in French Muslim demographics — and that, accordingly, the moderate national growth may in fact just reflect the Muslim growth.
For all that, however, there are still no coherent figures about the Muslim community. Pew concluded in a figure of 7. This is respectively almost two times, three times, or six times the French average population growth. An impressive leap forward, whatever the estimation.
But even more impressive is, just as was the case in , the discrepancy between the estimates. Clearly, one set of estimates, at least, must be entirely erroneous. And it stands to reason that the lowest estimates are the least reliable. First, we have a long-term pattern according to which, even within the lowest estimates, the Muslim population increase is accelerating.
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One explanation is that the previous low estimates were inaccurate. Second, low estimates tend to focus on the global French population on one hand and on the global French Muslim population on the other hand, and to bypass a generational factor. The younger the population cohorts, the higher the proportion of Muslims. According to the first ethnic-related surveys released in early , fully a fifth of French citizens or residents under twenty-four were Muslims.
Proportions were even higher in some places: A more recent survey validates these numbers. Once proven wrong, deniers do not make amends. They move straight from fantasy to surrender. An investigation of the French youths' religious beliefs was conducted last spring by Ipsos. The data was released on February 4, , by L'Obs, France's leading liberal newsmagazine. Here are its findings: Such figures should deal the death blow to demographic deniers. Except that once proven wrong, deniers do not make amends. Rather, they contend that since there is after all a demographic, ethnic, and religious revolution, it should be welcomed as a good and positive thing.
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