This article is published in association with United Nations. New executive orders issued by the White House are set to further impact the cooperative, multilateral work of the United Nations, two weeks since the United States declared that it was pulling out of the UN health agency, WHO. According to President Trump’s latest directive from the […]World News in Brief: US executive orders continue, killings in Sudan, breast cancer alert in Africa, human rights in Tunisia
February 7, 2025 by 1 Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. New executive orders issued by the White House are set to further impact the cooperative, multilateral work of the United Nations, two weeks since the United States declared that it was pulling out of the UN health agency, WHO. According to President Trump’s latest directive from the […]World News in Brief: ‘Historic drought’ in southern Africa, human rights in Tunisia, accountability essential for Pakistan mineworker killings
October 16, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Nearly six and a half million people in southern Africa are starving because of an “historic drought” linked to last year’s El Niño, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. Tweet URL https://news.un.org/en/media/oembed?url=https%3A//x.com/UNGeneva/status/1846188914484150672&max_width=305&max_height=550&hash=7AljfsGmcfq7OG6PQ3T1sNyH3QmDq1PHsc2NaeSSxSA In an appeal for help, the World Food Programme, WFP, said that more than 27 million […]EBRD promotes renewable energy in Tunisia
August 7, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with EBRD. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the French development agency, Proparco, are promoting the green transition of Tunisia by financing the construction and operation of two solar photovoltaic power plants in the areas of Tozeur and Sidi Bouzid. The EBRD’s financing package consists […]Tunisia: Team Europe commits €472 million to support the ELMED electricity project and its ecosystem
June 14, 2024 by 1 Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the United Nations. The official announcement took place during the Tunisia Investment Forum (TIF) on 12th and 13th June, hosted by the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (FIPA) under the auspices of the Ministry of Economy and Planning (MEP) in partnership with the European Union Delegation in Tunisia. […]The European Union continues to implement the Memorandum of Understanding with Tunisia with the disbursement of EUR 150 million in financial support
March 6, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Union maintains its commitment to Tunisia through the disbursement of financial aid in the form of budgetary support worth EUR 150 million under the support programme for macroeconomic reforms by Tunisia (programme d’appui aux réformes macro-économiques de la Tunisie (PARME)) approved by the EU and Tunisia […]The European Union and Tunisia: political agreement on a comprehensive partnership package
July 19, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, in a Team Europe spirit, alongside the President of Tunisia, Kaïs Saied have agreed to implement the comprehensive partnership package […]The European Union and Tunisia agreed to work together on a comprehensive partnership package
June 12, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Building on our shared history, geographic proximity, and strong relationship, we have agreed to work together on a comprehensive partnership package, strengthening the ties that bind us in a mutually beneficial manner. We believe there is enormous potential to generate tangible benefits for the […]The European Commission and Tunisia have expressed the willingness to establish a stronger operational partnership on migration, anti-smuggling and the promotion of legal migration
May 2, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. On 27 April the European Commissioner for Home Affairs – Ylva Johansson – travelled to Tunisia. She met Nabil Ammar (Minister for Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians abroad), Kamel Feki (Minister of Interior) and Malek Ezzahi (Minister for Social Affairs). This visit is part of the EU and its Member States’ […]Human rights breaches in Iran, Tunisia and Cambodia
March 20, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. On Thursday, the European Parliament adopted three resolutions on the respect for human rights in Iran, Tunisia and Cambodia. Iran: in particular the poisoning of hundreds of schoolgirls Referring to numerous incidents since November 2022, where thousands of girls and women across Iran have […]Tunisia: Deep concern about the powers concentrated in the President’s hands
October 22, 2021 by 1 Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. State institutions in Tunisia must return to functioning normally, MEPs say, urging the authorities to resume an inclusive national dialogue. In a resolution on the situation in Tunisia, MEPs express deep concern that powers are too greatly concentrated in the hands of the president […]In Tunisia, budding entrepreneurs can take a year off their job
March 20, 2019 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Johnny Wood, Senior Writer, Formative Content Tunisia has introduced a law that aims to make it easier for entrepreneurs to launch, run and liquidate businesses. Part of a wider plan to turn the country into a digital hub and […]Tunisia wants to change inheritance rules to boost gender equality
December 5, 2018 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Sean Fleming, Senior Writer, Formative Content Tunisia is pushing forward with legislation that would give women equal inheritance rights, despite drawing criticism from some Islamic scholars. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, said the Tunisian […]The US + Britain trivialize mainland Europe, NATO and the EU
March 23, 2017 by Leave a Comment
After the insults the German Chancellor Angela Merkel experienced in Washington last week, the Anglo-American duo last Tuesday orchestrated new assaults on mainland Europe. It’s not only the outrageous option of the no-deal Brexit, which gains momentum in London, possibly being encouraged by Washington. It’s also a fact that Britain and the US escalate their […]Is there a chance for the West to win the war on terror?
March 24, 2016 by Leave a Comment
On the night of 13 November 2015 in Paris, after the ISIS operatives had hit almost simultaneously a concert hall, a major football stadium and some restaurants and bars leaving 130 dead and hundreds injured, the French President Francois Hollande said “we are at war”. Last Tuesday morning the same kind of ‘armed forces’ and […]The EU threatens to occupy Libya militarily; is another colonial war brewing?
April 27, 2015 by Leave a Comment
It was really deplorable to watch the 28 EU leaders who gathered in Brussels last week after the hecatombs of drowned emigrants, to solemnly discuss aggressive military operations on the soil and the sea ports of their Mediterranean neighbours. They decided to use military force and thus kill people, in order to forcefully reverse the […]
