Le parcours meurtrier aura duré de longues minutes pendant lesquelles le tireur s’est filmé. Dans sa voiture, il transportait un arsenal impressionnant. Selon les autorités, l’homme serait un ressortissant australien se présentant comme un certain Brenton Tarrant. Sur son compte Twitter, on distingue des inscriptions en blanc, des noms d’autres auteurs de tuerie. Comme ses modèles, l’assaillant serait imprégné d’une idéologie raciste et anti-musulmane. Sur internet, il a publié un manifeste de 73 pages intitulé “Le grand remplacement”. Il se présente comme “juste un homme blanc ordinaire, de 28 ans. Né en Australie dans une famille d’ouvriers avec des bas salaires” qui a décidé de “prendre position pour assurer le futur de [son] peuple”.Son parcours de radicalisationLe tireur décrit les raisons de sa radicalisation en évoquant l’attentat de Stockholm (Suède) en 2017 et sa déception lorsqu’Emmanuel Macron l’emporte face à Marine Le Pen. Mais ce qui le décide à commettre cette attaque, ce sont ses impressions lors d’un voyage en France : “Le déclic final fut l’observation de l’état des villes et villages français. Où que j’aille, les envahisseurs étaient là.” Brenton Tarrant explique avoir préparé son geste pendant deux ans, il a été inculpé pour meurtre.Le JT
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“J’ai vu des gens qui avaient du sang sur leur corps” : des rescapés des attentats de Christchurch racontent
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Attentat en Nouvelle-Zélande : un pays à très faible criminalité sous le choc
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Attentat en Nouvelle-Zélande : l’assaillant présumé aurait séjourné en France, des investigations sont en cours
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Roubaix : retrouvé dans le coma après 24 heures sans nouvelles
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Naufrage du “Grande America” : les professionnels de la mer se préparent à une marée noire
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“Grande America” : le travail des navires antipollution ralenti par les conditions météo
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Inondations dans l’Aude : un quart des sinistrés toujours pas indemnisés
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Près de 1 000 personnes seraient concernées par une vaste arnaque aux prêts immobiliers
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Consultations citoyennes : ces Français tirés au sort
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Crédit immobilier : des conseils pour récupérer de l’argent
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L’heure du bilan pour le grand débat national
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Climat : des enfants défenseurs de l’environnement reçus à l’Assemblée nationale
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Innovation : à l’aéroport de Lyon Saint-Exupéry, les robots garent les voitures
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Espagne : de mystérieux billets dans des boîtes aux lettres
A l’occasion de la sortie de “Twixt”, AlloCiné a rencontré le maître Francis Ford Coppola, qui explique sa façon de faire du cinéma aujourd’hui. Interview.
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Synopsis : Un écrivain sur le déclin arrive dans une petite bourgade des Etats-Unis pour y promouvoir son dernier roman de sorcellerie. Il se fait entraîner par le shérif dans une mystérieuse histoire de meurtre dont la victime est une jeune fille du coin. Le soir même, il rencontre, en rêve, l’énigmatique fantôme d’une adolescente prénommée V. Il soupçonne un rapport entre V et le meurtre commis en ville, mais il décèle également dans cette histoire un passionnant sujet de roman qui s’offre à lui.
Aaron Cross contre Byer, ou plutôt Jeremy Renner contre Edward Norton : le face à face ! Voici la première image d’Edward Norton dans “Jason Bourne : l’héritage”. L’acteur joue le nouveau méchant de la saga…
Nouvel épisode, nouveau héros, nouveau méchant ! Après trois films portés par Matt Damon, la saga d’espionnage s’offre un semi-reboot avec Jason Bourne : l’héritage, réalisé par Tony Gilroy. Jeremy Renner incarne le mystérieux agent Aaron Cross, mais jusqu’à présent, son ennemi était resté dans l’ombre… Dans la peau du vilain de service, voici donc Edward Norton alias Byer, qui succède à Brian Cox et Edgar Ramírez. Rien que ce premier cliché annonce une confrontation musclée ! Pour en savoir plus, il faudra se contenter du teaser, révélé en février dernier…
Un geste symbolique, pour soutenir la communauté musulmane meurtrie par les attentats de Christchurch. Des Néo-Zélandaises se sont photographiées voilées, vendredi 22 mars, et ont diffusé la photo sous le mot d’ordre “un voile pour l’harmonie”. Il y a une semaine, Brenton Tarrant avait ouvert le feu dans deux mosquées de la ville, tuant 50 personnes.Selon l’agence Reuters, l’idée est venue d’une médecin d’Auckland, Thaya Ashman. “Je voulais dire : ‘nous sommes avec vous, nous voulons que vous vous sentiez ici chez vous, nous vous aimons, nous vous soutenons et nous vous respectons”, a-t-elle expliqué. Une initiative dans la lignée de celle de la Première ministre Jacinda Ardern, qui portait un voile noir lors de ses rencontres avec des membres de la communauté musulmane après l’attaque.”Un simple geste de soutien”L’appel de Thaya Ashman a été entendu, comme le montrent ces photos postées sur les réseaux sociaux. Certaines se disent “aux côtés des musulmans”, d’autres évoquent “un geste de soutien et de solidarité”.
I stand with our Muslim community today and against hate and violence of any kind #HeadScarfforHarmony pic.twitter.com/30bKnm2S2s — Julie Hills (@julesnz35) March 22, 2019
Supporting my Muslim sisters and brothers today as we come together @WaitemataDHB to show our aroha and ongoing support for #Christchurch #kiakaha #headscarfforharmony #weareone #TheyAreUs pic.twitter.com/xrEcgrxnvV — Tamzin Brott (@TamzinBrott) March 22, 2019
I stand with my Muslim sisters and brothers ✌❤️#headscarfforharmony pic.twitter.com/byEAO7zST5 — Christina (@gingeezus) March 22, 2019
Wearing a headscarf to uni as a show of support and solidarity with the many Muslim women who are routinely harassed for the act of following their faith. I will work hard to help raise up your voices in any way I can #HeadScarfforHarmony #scarvesinsolidarity #TheyAreUs pic.twitter.com/jIxaklYOBq — Kate Mills Workman (@MillsWorkman) March 21, 2019
Wearing the hijab today as a simple gesture of support for our Muslim communities grieving the loss of 50 amazing mothers, fathers, children, friends and colleagues in the terrorist attack last Friday.#headscarfforharmony #ChristchurchTerrorAttack Kia kaha pic.twitter.com/oXaUCiKeZS — رواء (@Rawaasalman) March 22, 2019
Ce geste a cependant suscité quelques critiques. Sur Twitter, une ancienne journaliste américaine, Asra Nomani, a demandé aux femmes de ne pas suivre ce mouvement : “C’est un symbole de pureté antithétique des valeurs féministes. Des femmes ont été emprisonnées et tuées pour avoir refusé cette lecture de l’islam dont vous faites la promotion”, a-t-elle dénoncé.Please don’t wear a #headscarfforharmony in “Solidarity” with Muslim women. At @freefromhijab #FreeFromHijab we are women from Muslim families who have faced shame, abuse, jailing for wanting to feel the wind in our hair. Please read this https://t.co/qPiWg2KML1 — Asra Q. Nomani, PI (@AsraNomani) March 20, 2019
The European Commission has completed negotiations with the US on sharing information on bank transfers. The SWIFT dossier – named after the banking organisation that carries out bank transfers (and which had been passing information to the Americans) – put Dutch Liberal MEP Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert into the spotlight.
She took the chance, just as her fellow Dutch Liberal Sophie in ’t Veld had done with the issue of air passenger name records. It was Hennis-Plasschaert who drafted the Parliament’s response on SWIFT and was instrumental in the Parliament’s vote – using powers given by the Lisbon treaty – to reject earlier, temporary arrangements agreed between the Commission and the US authorities.
But 37-year-old Hennis-Plasschaert last week won a seat in her national parliament and so will be leaving the European Parliament. So who takes up the SWIFT dossier for the Parliament? Step forward German Liberal MEP Alexander Alvaro – a 35-year-old in a hurry.
Managing directors for Middle East and Asia named.
Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, announced today (21 December) the appointment of two departmental heads for her new diplomatic service, the European External Action Service.
Hugues Mingarelli, currently a deputy director-general for external relations in the European Commission, is to be managing director for the Middle East and north Africa. Viorel Isticioaia Budura, Romania’s ambassador to China, is to be the EEAS’s managing director for Asia.
Their appointments mean that, less than three working days before the EEAS is to begin operations on 3 January, four of the six vacancies at the level of managing director – the level immediately below the executive board – have been filled. One post, the managing director for thematic issues, is being re-advertised. A further announcement, the appointment of Nicholas Westcott, Britain’s ambassador to Ghana, as managing director for Africa is expected in the coming days.
Ashton said: “Both Hugues and Viorel bring with them long experience of the countries and issues covered by their new portfolios. I look forward to working with them in the new service.”
Mingarelli is a 56-year-old French national who has spent most of the past two decades working for the European Commission. Isticioaia Budura is a 58-year-old Sinologist who entered Romania’s foreign service – then under the Communists – in 1978 and who held posts in Korea, Japan and the United Kingdom.
Barroso announces reshuffle of senior Commission officials.
European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has announced the first major reshuffle of senior Commission officials since the start of his second mandate.
As European Voice predicted last week, the current directorate-general for justice, liberty and security is being split in two.
Stefano Manservisi is to be director-general at the head of the newly created home affairs department. An Italian national who is currently director-general for development, he was head of the private office of former Commission president Romano Prodi in 2001-04. His department will takeresponsibility for migration and other security issues that are important to Italy.
Françoise Le Bail, who was Barroso’s spokeswoman when he first became president and is now deputy director-general for industry will become director-general of the justice department. Viviane Reding, the European commissioner for justice, realises her objective of having a woman director-general and the number of French directors-general is restored to five, having fallen by one after the retirement of Odile Quintin on 1 May.
The transfer of Jonathan Faull, who is currently the director-general for justice, freedom and security, to become director-general for the internal market had already been announced by Barroso in November. The appointment of the Briton was then intended to appease the UK government at the same moment that he announced that Michel Barnier, a Frenchman, would be the European commissioner for the internal market.
Jörgen Holmquist, the current director-general for the internal market, becomes a special adviser and will take up a post at Harvard University. David Wright, a deputy director-general for the internal market, will leave the Commission to take up a post at Oxford University.
Fokion Fotiadis, a Greek national, had to be moved from the post of director-general for fisheries and maritime affairs (DG Mare) because he is the same nationality as the commissioner, Maria Damanaki. He will take over from Manservisi at the development department.
In turn, Fotiadis is replaced at DG Mare by Lowri Evans, a British national, who has been a deputy director-general for competition since May 2006. Her move means that there are no British officials in the competition department at director level or above, following Philip Lowe’s move to become head of the energy department in February this year.
Robert-Jan Smits, a Dutchman who is deputy director-general of the Joint Research Centre, has been promoted to be director-general at the research department.
He replaces José Manuel Silva Rodríguez, who becomes a special adviser.
Manservisi and Faull were due for rotation because they have been in their current posts longer than five years. But the reshuffle announced yesterday does not move all managers due for re-assignment.
Koos Richelle has been head of the EuropeAid Co-operation Office since November 2004. Karel Kovanda has been deputy director-general for external relations since April 2005. But the posts in the family of foreign policy departments are blighted by uncertainties over the European External Action Service and the appointment of heads of delegations. The reshuffle creates vacancies at deputy director-general level in the industry and competition departments and the Joint Research Centre.
The European Commission will warn tomorrow (7 September) that the haphazard way in which member states are introducing levies on their banking sectors risks destabilising the internal market, and making it difficult for governments to co-operate in the event of another financial crisis.
Michel Barnier, the European commissioner for internal market, will urge governments to commit themselves to following common principles in the design of their levies, including that money from them should flow into funds dedicated to helping banks in financial difficulties.
National governments, with the exception of the Czech Republic, agreed in June to introduce levies on their banking sectors. Governments believe that the levies should be imposed on their banks in return for the taxpayer support the financial sector received during the crisis.
Since then, the UK, Germany and Hungary have taken legal steps to introduce levies, while France is expected to follow suit this month. Sweden has had a levy in place since 2009.
A Commission working paper, to be circulated tomorrow at a meeting of the EU’s finance ministers, warns that plans adopted by governments are conflicting, presenting serious dangers.
These dangers include that the differing size of national levies could lead to distortions of competition, and that banks could be subject to “double or even multiple taxation” (a problem already identified in the case of the levies planned by the UK and Germany).
“The differences already identified between the bank levies that have been recently introduced at national level make it urgent for the EU to adopt a co-ordinated approach on the issue,” the paper says.
“Problems are likely to increase as more member states develop their own separate approaches,” it adds.
A particular concern for the Commission is that only two member states, Germany and Sweden, have come out in favour of paying proceeds from the levies into so-called resolution funds to assist banks in crisis. Other governments prefer to put the proceeds in their general budgets. The Commission, a strong advocate of resolution funds, warns in the working paper that it will be more difficult for national supervisors to co-operate to wind up large banks if only some member states have resolution funds.
The paper includes common principles that should be used when designing levies. These include that the levies should be raised against a banks’ liabilities, rather than assets or capital, and that their scope should be dictated by which banks each member state supervises. The Commission plans to flesh out the principles in a policy paper next month.
Commission president will address MEPs but Van Rompuy will not take part in debate.
European Commission President José Manuel Barroso will make the first “State of the Union” speech to the European Parliament next week. The speech, which Barroso will deliver to MEPs on 7 September during the plenary session in Strasbourg, will set out the EU’s political priorities for the next 12 months.
The speech is still being finalised by Barroso’s advisers, but he is expected to highlight work on financial market regulation, improvements to economic governance rules, structural reforms included in the Europe 2020 strategy, and the upcoming review of the EU’s budget. The importance of preparing to move to a low-carbon economy will also feature prominently. Barroso’s remarks will cover elements of the detailed work programme for 2011, which he will present formally to the parliament in October.
Not speaking up
Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, will not take part in the debate that follows the address. EU sources said that he was unhappy that he would be placed below the leaders of the political groups in the speaking order. One source said that Van Rompuy had suggested giving the state of the union address himself, but that this idea was turned down by the Parliament.
Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign policy chief, was also planning to speak in the debate but she will still be on a visit to China. Olivier Chastel, Belgium’s Europe minister, will speak on behalf of the rotating presidency of the Council of Ministers.
Barroso agreed with MEPs that he would make an annual State of the Union address as part of a new framework for relations between the Commission and the Parliament, finalised in July. Barroso is promoting this “special partnership” to achieve maximum co-operation on the political agenda.
The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) is expected to use the debate to question Barroso on how the EU will finance the Europe 2020 strategy for growth and jobs. Its MEPs are concerned at member states’ reluctance to fund the strategy’s main initiatives adequately.
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Brainstorming session gives commissioners a say in speech
Members of the European Commission have been taking part in a seminar to prepare the content of the “State of the Union” speech to be given by European Commission President José Manuel Barroso.
The commissioners went yesterday (1 September) to the Val Duchesse chateau in Brussels for two days of talks on the main political challenges of the coming months – including a review of the EU’s budget for 2014-20 and the changes caused by the entry into force of the Lisbon treaty.
The seminar started with a discussion of the institutional and political changes introduced by the Lisbon treaty. The main issues were the Commission’s relations with other EU institutions, and the effects on international treaties.
The Lisbon treaty gave the Parliament the power to block international treaties and it has used this power forcefully, most notably by rejecting a deal on sharing bank-transfer data with US authorities.
There have also been disagreements with the Council of Ministers over which institution takes the lead role in negotiations, which has implications for the climate-change talks to be held in Cancún, Mexico, starting in November.
The second session yesterday focused on the Commission’s political priorities, with each of the commissioners given a chance to express their views on what Barroso should include in his State of the Union speech.
Commissioners also discussed industrial policy, based on a number of papers presented by Antonio Tajani, the European commissioner for enterprise and industry.
Today (2 September) commissioners were to debate the forthcoming review of the EU’s budget for 2014-20 – a discussion extending to questions of how the budget is financed and which policy areas to spend it on.
The Commission is planning to present an options paper by the end of September. Janusz Lewandowksi, the European commissioner for budgets, has indicated that the paper will include ideas for a direct tax to finance the budget – a suggestion strongly criticised by several member states, including Germany and the UK.
Negotiations on the future budget will be very tough as the member states that are net contributors will want to limit their contributions, while net beneficiaries will seek to maintain their share of receipts. The Commission will present formal proposals for the 2014-20 budget next year.
A spokeswoman for Barroso said the seminar was a chance to “take a fresh look at the priorities” of the next months and the year ahead. She said that the budget review would be “difficult” and needed to be prepared “thoroughly”.
On the Lisbon treaty, she said the seminar would look at how the new improved institutional set-up was working to ensure that the Commission was “making the most” of the new arrangements.
The Socialists and Democrats group will accuse the Barroso Commission of insufficient action on jobs and on supporting recovery. Its MEPs will question EU member state moves to introduce austerity measures, and will urge Barroso to push for more progress in international talks on climate change.
Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, will request greater pressure from Barroso on member-state implementation of the Europe 2020 agenda and on securing sufficient resources for the EU budget after 2013.
Rebecca Harms, co-president of the Greens, will seek a more pro-active Commission role in ensuring good economic governance and in getting climate change talks back on track. And in a reference to the expulsion of Roma in France, she will insist that Barroso should “defend fundamental rights and not stand idly by when those rights are being flouted by member state governments”.
The EU can help find finance without issuing bonds itself.
What is the difference between a ‘Euro-bond’ and an ‘EU project bond’? This is a question that has become pressing since José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission’s president, used his ‘State of the Union’ speech to the European Parliament this month to promote the idea of ‘EU project bonds’.
As a targeted response to a specific challenge facing Europe’s economy, it is an idea that merits study. But it has, instead, elicited a hostile response in some quarters.
The challenge is this: over the next decade, Europe will need to invest enormous sums into its infrastructure, from ‘smart’ power grids to urban transport systems. Around €450 billion will be needed just for trans-European transport networks. But, as a result of the financial crisis, nearly all European countries face budgetary constraints.
In the past, the private sector was heavily involved in financing infrastructure projects. Banks provided loans. Long-term institutional investors (such as pension funds and insurance companies) invested in bonds issued by the companies involved in projects. Virtually all of these bonds were guaranteed by insurers, so-called monolines, that kept the risks for bond subscribers at acceptable levels.
Many of the same projects now struggle to get off the ground. Substantially less long-term finance is available than before the crisis. Loan syndication has dried up. Monoline insurance for project bonds is practically non-existent.
International financial institutions can help bridge the gap. Indeed, at the request of its shareholders, the EU’s 27 member states, the European Investment Bank (EIB) – the EU’s financial institution – last year increased its total lending by nearly 40% to a record €79bn, of which €26bn was for major energy and transport projects.
But even that exceptional level of activity is modest in relation to Europe’s total infrastructure finance needs. Europe needs therefore to find ways to encourage other long-term investors, such as pension funds or sovereign funds, to help shoulder the burden.
The ‘EU project bond’ initiative could be part of the solution. It is best described as a mechanism for enhancing the credit rating of bonds issued by project companies themselves. There are various ways this could be achieved: one possibility is for the EIB to provide higher-risk subordinated debt finance. This could be done under a risk-sharing arrangement with the EU budget, similar to that already used to guarantee certain risks associated with transport projects. Whatever the means of credit enhancement, the final objective is the same: to create a class of high-quality bonds that institutional investors would feel comfortable buying.
So why has the reaction in some quarters been hostile? I think this is due to confusion between ‘project bonds’ and the various types of ‘Euro-bonds’ that have been proposed at EU level in recent years.
As way to achieve the internal market, the Commission’s then president, Jacques Delors, proposed in 1993 that the EU use the backing of its own budget to borrow money for large infrastructure projects by issuing bonds on capital markets. As a means of creating more flexibility in the use of the EU’s multi-annual budget, the idea may return again in the context of negotiations on the next EU budgetary period, starting 2014.
Another, entirely different use of the term ‘Euro-bonds’ is applied to the idea that eurozone countries could pool some of their national debt to improve borrowing conditions.
Unlike these concepts, ‘project bonds’ would not be issued by a sovereign or EU entity. The EU’s role would be limited to providing credit-enhancing instruments for bonds issued by project companies themselves. This is an important distinction.
Institutional investors are looking for long-term assets in which to invest. But they often lack the capacity to appraise projects and they are relatively risk-averse. EU project bonds could help match the needs of these investors with the EU’s own infrastructure needs.
Philippe Maystadt is the president of the European Investment Bank.