El hombre que lucha por la paz en Líbano (Spanish Edition)

Incluso el gobierno egipcio tuvo que suavizar su hostilidad instintiva. En todo el mundo se produjo una oleada de actividades y de apoyo a la causa palestina. El futuro de Gaza sigue siendo incierto. Desde entonces, Israel hace todo lo posible para hacer de esta independencia palestina dolorosa. Al ser reacios a dar algo a los palestinos, e impulsado por el deseo incontrolable de acabar con los asentamientos y apropiarse de las tierras, concentra sus esfuerzos en hacer un infierno la vida en Gaza.

Pero la lucha no es por Gaza: Tags Corte de Nazaret , Dareen Tatour , el juicio de la poetisa. Yoni Mendel en el juicio de Dareen Tatour. Guerra contra las drogas en los EE. Oslo map — dividing the West Bank. The masses in Tahrir Square, Cairo. Leaders deposed by the Arab Spring. All in all, what is necessary today, while we are still learning from the past, is to be actively engaged and look towards the future. Between and the organization focused on showing a wide variety of experimental works in Belgium, while acting as a distributor of Belgian audiovisual productions to foreign festivals, cultural centres, museums and television networks.

In , Argos had its first presentation space, presenting and coproducing exhibitions by the likes of Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Garry Hill and David Claerbout. In , the video conservation programme started with a project that aimed to preserve the most important Belgian videotapes from the s.

From to , five editions of the Argosfestival proposed a wide spectrum of activities—including lectures, concerts, screenings and performances—and offered a platform for various forms of artistic expression in the domain of audiovisual media. In , Argos was recognised by the Belgian authorities as an arts centre. Since then, Argos has combined this function with a fully-fledged collection programme. From , the collection became the focus of the organization and Argos has sought to stimulate and articulate it as a constantly evolving whole.

At present, Argos is the largest audiovisual archive in Belgium, including over 5, audiovisual works, a documentation centre and media library, an audiovisual works distributor, and an arts centre with a challenging public programme that addresses a diverse public with whom Argos permanently engages. We barely notice the prehistoric traces and the contours of the space, but we hear better: The cave becomes a mental world where several histories and temporalities merge.

It's a living space with its minimal architecture populated by discoverers, prehistoric peoples, animals and tourists. A journey through time and space. In school, we learn to remember to live, but in life, we learn to forget to enrich living. The image ages with the passage of time, and it still has room to let in unwanted information. Frozen from the film-propaganda against the student movement, Let the student study , by Jean Manzon, made in the pre-coup-d'etat context, a frame is photocopied, stretched and dipped in the cave of time.

The original video is a precarious video where I performanced an advertising proposal, as a pitch fictitious for the new institutional image of the FARC party. I uploaded the video to Youtube and in the same night I tweeted it to the relevant Colombian media. The next day the video went viral and it really came out in the news from Colombia. What I am interested in showing with this video is that the channel where the video is presented begins to play a representative role, not only as an art but also as a suspicion and post-truth proposal. Yichq'an, Root of Heaven, talks about the participation of women in the Guatemalan guerrilla conflict during the s.

The man's trajectory is a grievous one: It would be absurd to start from the idea that man can learn to be good. To leave a house. To film the trees before leaving, the light that one takes with oneself. To go, with the measure of that light, towards an unknown place. To film the distance between one house and another, a path made of dreams, a place as an abyss. To film fragments of reality in tension with that light. To film that spiral of time, time itself. Found footage short that uses images from the documentary El Grito Mexico, The student movement of in Mexico ends with a State crime that has gone unpunished to this day.

The degraded images of Closer to Our Time reflect on the old wounds that remain open: Celeste, a young photographer, finds in her childhood home garbage bags with thousands of negatives that belonged to her father, a photographer who in the s and 80s fought against the dictatorship in Chile before going into exile in Ecuador. The photos, the only survivors from thousands of missing images, reveal an unknown world, where clandestinity blends with the living emotion of a past, where the idea of making a different future seemed possible.

In the light of the present, the archive images seem to offer a space between documentary and fiction, where the unrepresentable part of memory might materialize. The script, a central component of the piece, is a narration developed from a reflection on the past and death. Where and when a person ends, and whether we carry the weight of our ancestors with us, are also a part of that reflection. It is a question about the place where the people who have disappeared exist, and if the experience of a domestic familiar space is informed and altered by the way others before us inhabited a home. A story that is kept alive in Vieques, Puerto Rico, like the hot embers of the resistance to the colonial status of the island.

The result of this experience is this short film, which takes an epistolary form as she tells her mother about her impressions of the country, just as President Barack Obama visited for the first time, the first Chanel fashion show was held, and shops were opening with brands like Adidas and Clarins. The film reflects the impressions of a foreigner amid the imminence of major transformations and of what will remain of the socialist revolution of Abubakar is 46 years old and participates in the zikr, ritual dances performed by Chechen Sufi Muslims.

In each zikr he reaches a state of ecstasy and for Abubakar this is an exorcism, a form of liberation from everything that his people have suffered over so many years of occupation. The presence of his mother, his wife and his nine children make ghosts reappear from the past and present: All of this brings memory to life, mixing it with reality. This is the everyday encounter of one Chechen with two pillars of his society, faith and culture, embodied in the zikr where the sacred merges with the profane.

A specter is haunting the cinema: If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if it is a Devil, then we must cast it out. But we cannot know what it is until we have met it face to face. We are driving alongside a middle-aged couple, Katja and Torsten Fiedler, on their way to pick up their son, Daniel, from a rural train station. Daniel is apparently returning from a deployment in Afghanistan.

In , when Continuity was made, Germany was slowly coming to terms with its real involvement in Afghanistan where troops had been fighting for over eight years. However, in September , a German commander called an airstrike near Kunduz that killed and wounded approximately people, including civilians. This was the bloodiest action involving the German army since and the loudest of a sequence of events that brought to light the reality of its involvement, forcing the government to acknowledge their role in the war.

In many ways, Continuity mimics that slow unfolding, playing up memory and temporality, perception and imagination. Structured in three loops and a discovery shot, Continuity creates a distorted temporality of inconsistency between vision and recognition, concluding in a scene where Katja and Torsten are confronted with the camel wandering down the middle of the road, follow it into the woods, and find a crater staged with the outcome of a battle.

They stand, speechlessly looking into another cinematic zone from above, the camel operating as transitioning device between two constructed realities. What they, and we, see at the climax, echoes a photograph by Jeff Wall entitled Dead Troops Talk A vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter The film concludes by confronting us with the reenactment of a reenactment of images of war, revealing multiple layers of mediation by referencing another work of art that references yet other representations of war. Slowly, the uncanny invades the real as we realize that the boys are being killed after their role has been enacted.

Like Wall in his photograph, Fast mines the well digested language of thriller and horror movies to make direct reference to the way we consume horror. For the structuralists, content was peripheral to filmic form. For Fast, content is complicit with the structure; storytelling devices like repetition and reenactment are used as means of referencing content that invariably involve the residues of war. These structural devices also function to direct our attention to questions of filmic construction, shifting the focus from the story to the methods used for its retelling.

Fast builds a specific relationship to reality where the ethics of the documentary interview are intertwined with over-performed fiction, with no clarification of where one ends and the other begins. The question of what is an interview is in itself problematized. The interviewees are usually shown to us through a veil - the dynamic between filmmaker and interviewee follow the conventions of representation and simultaneously betray them by re-representing them in the same space. In Feet is the Best, the real drone operator is blurred as if to protect his identity, the actors playing him and Fast exist in the same diegesis and yet, are hyper-realistically represented in more filmic color grading.

In other words, the fictitious drone operator and the fictitious Fast are more realistic than the real-life characters. Ultimately, by looping us in the landscape of collective experience that Walter Benjamin described as the true training ground of modern perception, Fast is making portraits. The portraits that emerge are not of the interviewees and their tales but of the viewer and their relationship to the medium.

Commissioned for Documenta 13, Continuity follows a young German soldier returning home after serving in Afghanistan.

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A familiar domestic environment with emotional parents soon gives way to a series of anomalies that gradually become perverse and uncanny. A total of three different sons spend the night at the house. Each disappears under mysterious circumstances. Originally premiered in the 52nd Venice Biennale, Feet is the Best is based on conversations with a U.

Predator drone operator, which were recorded in a hotel in Las Vegas. On-camera, the drone operator discussed the technical aspects of his job and his daily routine. Off-camera and off-the-record, he briefly described incidents in which the unmanned plane fired at both militants and civilians.

Narcisa Hirsch, Tomas Rautenstrauch. Outside, a meadow in Patagonia turns from daylight to dusk to darkness. Inside the cabin, lights turn on; the great windowpane reflects the inside of the living room. While the outside disappears, a man and a woman sit down to read and listen to music.

A film whose theme is waiting, recording it in its most varied manifestations. Waiting in line, mystical waits, the waiting of an actor to get into a scene, the harrowing wait for sleep, the wait for the hormonal effects in a gender identity adjustment. The waiting time is mixed with the time of our own lives, at a time that we are unlearning how to wait. In this video piece I approach these power figures, kissing history, my heroes, my men, cold and erect by the city inviting me to love them.

With these subtle gestures I metaphorically attempt to suspend the historical and patriarchal weight they carry. The discussion and provocation I seek in the video work, not in the place of execution. The kiss for me represents a great sentimental affection, a mutual concession that both parties allow.

In this piece the kisses that I give are intense, passionate, in a sexual-erotic tone and maybe a little violent. Ultimately, each character I choose has a powerful historic value for the construction of my Latin American identity, from the pre-Hispanic to the political. Harry Alan Potamkin, born , was a film critic and poet. In , at age 33, he died of complications relating to starvation in a hospital in New York City.

He was beloved in communist circles as a writer of film criticism that charted the simultaneous evolution of formalism and socialism in cinema. In the mids, Potamkin was an acolyte of Pound and Eliot, a devoted poet working through the vortex of competing forms and ideologies that followed the challenge of Imagism. He was also a community-builder whose passions extended to the editing of little magazines and the committee work of American labour organizations. While likeminded poets were forming the Objectivist school, Potamkin moved toward the cinema, which he perceived as a new form of poetry.

For Potamkin this was an art form in which the impulse to modern poetry, to explore new perceptions, was combined with the ambition of social revolution, to stir the common soul of man to justice. And while there are no images of him, every image herein was a part of his experience of cinema. For it is assembled from fragments of films that he reviewed—those still extant—to compose a singing out into the hereafter. These images are distressed through chemistry.

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Caligari himself, appears as Kenneth Rexroth. It plays as a shot list, isolated to a few frames per image. It plays backwards and forwards, and even alternates in both directions at the same time. And when at last it plays backward in full, the horror is impotent: In his writings, he advocated a cinema that would simultaneously embrace the fractures and polyphony of modern life and the equitable social vision of left radical politics. This film-biography is assembled out of distorted fragments of films on which he had written, an impression of erupting consciousness.

At the Odessa steps, trampling gives breath to the child. The bullet miraculously reforms the face. The carriage is set upright. Throughout the animation, visual and narrative elements generate analogies between the sun and electronic displays, culminating in the following statement: In Brief History of the Sun it is posed as a question what is the human relationship with the digital screens to be used as tools for the production of immaterial and affective labor. Similarly, it evidences screens as the main window for corporate control over our bodies and desires through the use of algorithms.

The Dora Case aims to carry out a practical investigation situated on the border between documentary and fiction, taking as its main reference the film La Chinoise by Jean-Luc Godard. The title refers to the first case study published by Freud, in , which to this day is considered a paradigmatic text for presenting the central tenets of his theory of hysteria.

Taking advantage of the coincidence between the pseudonym assigned by Freud to his hysterical patient and the first name of the director of the film, The Dora Case proposes an autobiographical reflection commenting on the position of the artist in the present day. In mid November, the corpses appeared, floating in the Strait of Magellan. The dead bodies of Yan Cumbao, Wang Hao and Sung Chungman were tied up with life vests, cellular phones, computers and passports.

Two of them were found malnourished, another with typhus. Some labors do without a name Video I and II correspond to the micro story of A and E, both self-employed workers and those who have a direct relationship with the economy they produce, distribute and consume their product. Video II, in the form of a recipe, emphasizes the non-visible production processes behind the product.

Video III frames everyday tasks, where the working day is camouflaged with unpaid domestic work. Camelia puts the economic chain into circulation by connecting the three videos, altering the language with a nod to the national debt and the time of the image in movement in contrast with the real time of the production of labor and merchandise. I have replaced the word "object" with the word "labor.

Eviction was imminent and I had a run in with the law. Whatever happened to Josefa, the owner of the apartment, is a well-kept and mysterious secret. Then came two years of court battles that were lost before they even began. The goodbye lasted just as long: I reconstructed each memory through my eyes and the beauty of that refuge.

I wish I could have covered my ears. Can film and video coexist in the same film? Here, 16mm film and VHS video tapes need each other in order to exist. Thanks to the transparent clear leader of 16mm acetate film, we can visualize in movement the materiality of the analogue video support, glued on top of the film, serving as skeleton and structure of the VHS tapes intervened. Both and none at the same time Jeff Zorrilla, Ignacio Tamarit. A defacing of the image of normality sold to the public en masse.

We manipulate these images to express our visceral reaction as filmmakers and artists to the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States, the disastrous yet logical conclusion of a system that is finally imploding before our eyes. Pokhot is the story of two people who do not know each other but at the same time have some things in common.

One is a Venezuelan sex worker, and the other is Ukrainian and an Orthodox Christian. Along the way the film focuses on the abundant life all around. A child's dream is indecipherable, we can only embrace that mystery without wanting to solve it and cinema gives us the privilege of trying tometaphorize that bewilderment. With brief descriptions, Mollenhauer examines how our inability to establish contact with the non-human has historically led us to take geological monuments as passive entities, ready to be occupied or used.

Taking into account this inability, the film uses the act of speculation as a method to uncover geological agencies in action. The film has a structure in which all the scenes have equal duration. In this way, the recording apparatus is converted into a measuring tool to explore transfigurations of time as a result of the encounter between the different trajectories that define the place.

An investigation into time, its passing and its perception. Composition made from fragments of the recorded image and the space; a space made possible upon the screen. A series of videos. Founded in , the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is one of the major international meeting places for the short form, unique in the range of forms and genres it presents to the public, and particularly well known for its spotlight on experimentation. Oberhausen also operates a well-stocked video library, a non-commercial short film distribution branch and a unique archive of short films from over sixty years of festival history.

In the festival received over 7, competition submissions from around countries. The festival screened a total of around films and registered around 1, accreditations and some 18, entries. The political films in the Resistance programme, ranging in date from to , often present quite an unpolished view of the world. In the works, which occupy a continuum from documentary to essay and animation, filmmakers intervene, take a stand and protest on behalf of human rights, freedom and life itself.

The programme is conceived as a journey through time, via the history of the festival and its film archive. It includes some of the most important award-winning political works shown in Oberhausen. The programme Despite Everything focuses on films which deal with harsh realities in very different artistic ways. In the Jiu Valley, once a traditional Romanian industrial area, parents now make long journeys to the West wherever they find work. They return too rarely.

Their children are a lot like orphans. The film gives us access to the demilitarised zone and immerses us into the heart of the personal memory of a soldier who tells us about his experience in a reconnaissance mission. A group of peasants enters La Estancia in search of their missing relatives.

Some survivors of the massacre hide in the forest wandering around in shock. Images of stones thrown and beatings blend in with humorous digressions, cinematographic critiques, and the obligatory tea ritual of Arab hospitality. The Labour Reform for the super wealth of businessmen. A World Coup in Brazil. This project explores through my family history the political parallelism between Spain and Guatemala during the 20th century, with their respective wars and post wars.

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The thread for this exploration is given by the madness due to the case of schizophrenia of my brother and delirium due to the alcoholism of my father. The approach of this political history was made as a victim and as a victimizer, having in mind how easy is to go from one side to the other and the terrible and corrosive apathy from the society. Quehuaya is the story told by a fisherman on Lake Titicaca, about an island that only exists once a year, during the rainy season.

His story transports us to the origins of the lake, the customs of its people, their language and the close relationship they have had with the water for centuries. A warlock reads the future of the water in the coca leaves. He alerts us to what the future holds for a civilization that refuses to disappear. Using found footage, The Space Shuttle Challenger connects the Challenger disaster, Guantanamo Bay, the Pinochet coup and the experience of being sixteen. It reflects on the personal impact of major events in world history, and the small moments of hope that survive.

Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes. I know it's false, an induced error, but This video was made with footage collected from the CD-ROM for the Encarta 98 encyclopaedia and footage made especially for the piece.

Un colombiano es el último monje ermitaño que eligió la soledad de las montañas del Líbano

It narrates and confronts two logics or forms of storytelling. One is the information from the Encarta 98 with which I used to play as a child. The other is a dream. My voice narrates the video in Spanish, while subtitles in English are provided. The English subtitles intentionally omit part of the information given by the voiceover. The video plays with language hierarchies, changing the role of those who read the subtitles, delivering less information to non-Spanish speakers, making them aware of the lack of information delivered.

The work also emphasizes the history of science as a form of hegemonic storytelling. Starting from a series of weekly meetings with a group of people from the Villa slum in Buenos Aires, this project became a documentary, bringing out a rich variety of points of view, mostly from the slum inhabitants themselves.

With the purpose of bringing audiovisual production closer to them, these individual stories are intermingled in a series of images that build as a whole and from what is missing a search for identity and collective memory. Watching cinema, we spend half the time in complete darkness without being able to perceive it because of the effect of retention of images in our brain. Exercises in Disappearing is a brief questioning about the gaze, its limits, what we show, what others hide from us, what lives behind the curtain, out of frame, or just disappears from our field of vision.

The colours on the screen turned red and magenta. As far as they were concerned, it was still functioning perfectly. This anecdote gave the name to Life in Red, a project begun in , which takes as its starting point the private and political life of my family. It is an artistic investigation into the history of communism in the twentieth century, the use of personal documents to reflect on history, and the change of representation of images and words in different times and contexts.

This video-essay functions as a mirror of the different parts of the project and narrates, over three generations, the search for that treasure called revolution. The Origin of Stones questions the ideals of the past and their validity in the present through the decay and fall of monuments built to preserve a historic memory. With a text based on a debate that puts in doubt the effectiveness of a scale used to document the proportion and appearance of archaeological remains, this work looks to ruins as elements of living content connected to the present and emphasizes the powerful yet fragile nature of the narratives of history.

Thus, it mirrors the impossibility of imagining the promises of a future in the ruins of the recent past, representing in this way a model of a failed utopia. A dialogue about archival footage turns into a language class. A language class turns into a perspective on a country and its history. A perspective of a country and its history turns back into fiction. The piece was made from intervening discarded news reports from Corela TV authors not identified, The Forces follows a group of jockeys as they learn their craft.

In their analogue practices, simulation reproduces a future experience and a face becomes strange with a new gesture. Under a school logic, with methods and forms of evaluation, the material to be modelled is the body. A body that is complemented by another, a small body that should not grow, of a latent fragility, always at breaking point. Three years later the same ship sank in the Mediterranean. An experimental making-of, Film catastrophe investigates the case. The moment is an indefinite measure of time into which almost all experience falls.

It is the conclusive present and it permeates all written past. It forms in our vision and consciousness. History enters as the moment fleeting, but the moment, in and out of time, the present moment, is our epiphany, when eternity reaches into our time and into us. Eternity carves its expression into us. It comes to us to build. Film has allowed the artist to tame the moment, to record and possess it, to suspend it in a representation that pretends to permanence.

The moment, as inscribed on film, becomes an elastic interval. In this raw form, it opens onto the many possibilities for further creation, be they achieved by distortion and obscurity, by the heightened clarity that comes in the movement study, by the divergent gestures of alternating patterns, and by other operations played on the visual field. Our mastery over the moment and its contents invites us deeper inside of the instant and eternity.

That moment of insight, formed in the improvisatory gesture or tempered and realized by later contemplation, might be transformed to damn out old motions, to make them new; to give polyrhythmic integrity to both moment and memory itself; to reach for the essential energy of experience. The Commission started to prepare a recast of the decision in but has not yet come up with a proposal. How will it ensure that the final steps in the enforcement chain are carried through and help to improve road safety?

The Commission reiterates its commitment to continue improving road safety. An impressive decline of road fatalities can be observed over the last two decades. Much of this success can be credited to an effective enforcement of road safety rules put in place by Member States to prevent and prosecute traffic offences, which include both administrative and criminal penalties. However, any new actions at EU level concerning the enforcement of road safety rules require an in-depth evaluation that has yet to be carried out.

During the course of the current legislature, the Member States have demonstrated unwillingness, possibly even inability, to act together in a number of policy areas, notably on the Syrian crisis.

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It is also the legislature that will be remembered for the eurozone crisis, and crippling austerity measures that have contributed to rising unemployment and other social ills. These factors are seen to have contributed to a highly disturbing rise in support for the far-right political parties across Europe. The failed attempt to agree an association agreement with Ukraine has triggered a chain of events that has brought Europe to the brink of war, with a dramatic escalation of military presence in that region. The Commission does not agree with you. As first step a methodology for the gathering of comparable and reliable data on these injuries was developed in close consultation with the Member States during , including study visits for exchange of best practices between Member State experts.

The first results are expected to become available in , when also the target can be set. As regards speed limits, the attention of the Honourable Member is drawn to the fact that the decisions to set speed limits on road network lay in the exclusive competence of the Member States concerned. However, apart from , the hotline for missing children, there is no strict legal requirement for Member States to render their service operational. Concerning the organisation of services, Member States are vested with the task of establishing the rules on the assignment and operation of these services as well as their promotion.

The resulting action framework, foreseen for early , could include the recommendation to operate support helplines. These carers will become even more important due to demographic change. The EU has adopted legislation which enables citizens to reconcile their professional and private life and also to enhance gender equality.

Respective initiatives need to keep pace with the development of our societies in order to reflect an ever growing integration of women into the labour market and the demographic changes as well as evolving business needs. The Commission proposal for an amendment to the maternity leave Directive, still under negotiation, is an initiative pursuing that objective.

As a follow-up the Commission has supported the Social Protection Committee in preparing a report on long-term care which should become available in summer The Commission always consults with civil society on its various initiatives and organises regular events actively involving civil society. Will the Commission address the issue of the cost of training as part of this review? When does the Commission expect to issue calls for proposals that would be of interest and relevance to these organisations?

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IF also received a grant in in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme. The call for the first year of programme implementation is expected to be launched shortly see http: The Programme aims in particular at promoting equity and inclusion by facilitating access to learners with disadvantaged backgrounds and fewer opportunities compared to their peers. Slum residents threw stones at gas company workers who had tried to disconnect households that failed to pay their bills, leading the police to charge an entire family with attempted murder, including Musa.

Lawyers say that the Pakistani police have often lodged exaggerated complaints against poor families as a form of collective punishment. Is it considering withdrawing the trade benefits granted to Pakistan until such time as these treaties are complied with? The Commission is regularly informed by civil society groups and human rights defenders on issues concerning human rights abuses, including arbitrary detentions and the behaviour of the police.

The story of Musa Khan is emblematic of the challenges facing the government of Pakistan in tackling reform of law and order in the country. It is essential that the Pakistani people should have a police service in which they can have confidence. Concerning Musa Khan, the case which was brought against him was dismissed: Civil society also participates by providing data and supporting information.

The conclusions and recommendations of the international monitoring bodies constitute the main source of information for Commission monitoring. Pakistan has to show a positive record of compliance of all conventions. In addition to the conclusions of the relevant international monitoring bodies, the Commission can consider information submitted by civil society provided that it is accurate and reliable. These facts indicate the current importance of the marine and coastal areas and of the maritime economy for the European Union. However, they will play an even more important role in the future.

There will be a further increase of human and economic activities within these regions and sectors. The EU should play a leading role in strengthening marine and maritime research and innovation, and fostering growth of the maritime sectors. European ports, the maritime shipping routes and the shipping industry play a major role in ensuring the supply chain, and in connecting European companies and the European market with the other economies all over the world.

What are the on-going projects to help protect the oceans and seas from pollution? It aims to achieve Good Environmental Status GES of the EU's marine waters by and to protect the resource base upon which marine-related economic and social activities depend. What is the Commission doing to provide more information for the public regarding melanoma? As regards the total number of deaths, the most affected Member States were Germany 28 deaths , the United Kingdom 22 , France 15 , Italy 15 , Poland 12 and Spain 9 Malignant melanoma incidence rates have overall increased in the European Union since the mids.

For men, European Adjusted Standard incidence rates were around seven times higher in than in For women the increase is smaller but rates have quadrupled between and The European Code Against Cancer developed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer with support from the Commission, specifically recommends to avoid excessive sun exposure. New psychoactive substances, which may have numerous commercial and industrial uses as well as scientific uses, can pose health, social and safety risks when consumed by humans.

Consumption of new psychoactive substances appears to be increasing in Europe and use is predominant among young people. The consumption of new psychoactive substances can cause harm to the health and safety of individuals and can pose risks to and place burdens on society, as it may lead to violent behaviour and crime.

The rapid emergence and spread of these substances have led national authorities to subject them to various restrictive measures. Hundreds of such substances or mixtures of substances have been subjected to different restriction measures in the Member States in recent years. Can the Commission estimate how much it costs each Member State to mitigate and help people get out of the vicious circle of drug and substance abuse? Can the Commission give a breakdown of female drug users for each Member State and their ages, and state whether the proportion of female users of psychoactive substances is higher than that of male users or vice versa?

What projects does the Commission intend to launch in the next five years to mitigate the impact of drug abuse? The Commission does not have a break down by Member State on the cost of substance abuse. The European Drug Report provides gender breakdowns for the persons in treatment who have consumed cannabis, cocaine, amphetamines and heroin across Europe. This of course also means equality between women and men. Economic development in a green economy therefore takes place within the context of what nature can tolerate, and ensures a fair distribution of resources between people, between men and women, and between generations.

Can the Commission give a detailed account of statistical data on women in the green economy? Can the Commission list the jobs and employment opportunities for women in this field? Can the Commission give statistical data on training courses developed through EU programmes and on how many women benefited from said courses?

Research findings show that the green economy is more likely to provide employment opportunities in occupations traditionally dominated by men, such as professional and associate professional occupations. Furthermore, new and emerging green occupations, such as air quality control specialists, brownfield redevelopment specialists or carbon trading analysts that are less influenced by gender segregation should be used to ensure that both men and women benefit from employment opportunities of a green er economy.

In the UK today, half of people with lung cancer die within six months of diagnosis, according to a report from Macmillan Cancer Support, which looked at variations in cancer survival rates. Those who survive lung cancer for five years are then ten times more likely to get another cancer. Macmillan said improving early diagnosis was key. It is no coincidence that survival rates are so much greater for the likes of breast cancer, given that the amount of research funding allocated to such areas has long dwarfed the amount set aside for lung cancer research. Does the Commission have any plans to channel more funding into lung cancer research given these shocking statistics?

This has included calls for proposals specifically addressing research on poor-prognosis cancers, including lung cancer. Four paralysed men have been able to move their legs for the first time in years after electrical stimulation of their spinal cords, US doctors report. They were able to flex their toes, ankles and knees, but could not walk independently. A report in the journal Brain suggests the electricity makes the spinal cord more receptive to the few messages still arriving from the brain.

The spinal cord acts like a high-speed rail line carrying electrical messages from the brain to the rest of the body. But if there is any damage to the track, then the message will not get through. People with spinal cord injuries can lose all movement and sensation below the injury. They investigated electrochemical stimulation and microelectronics for smart control interfaces to restore motor functions and investigated the development of therapeutic approaches combining electric stimulation with stem cell replacement or pharmacological therapies.

Other supported research relevant for spinal cord injury involves modelling communication between neurons and locomotion circuits, modelling and better understanding processes underlying spinal cord injury and axonal regeneration, improving diagnostics methods, developing safe and effective therapies, and developing computer assistive technologies. It states that investment fell for the second year in a row because of cheaper technology, but also as a result of uncertainty surrounding energy policy.

However, falling costs meant that renewables accounted for 8. What mechanisms does the Commission have in place to promote and help ensure future investment in renewable sources? Under this directive support schemes for renewables are national competence mostly feed in tariffs, feed in premiums and quotas schemes. Out of cases recorded in Guinea so far, at least 80 patients have died, with a further four deaths in Liberia. What is the Commission doing to help contain the spread of this deadly virus and formulate a vaccine for it? The European Union is supporting the affected countries to contain the spread of the outbreak.

Since the beginning of the outbreak, the Commission supports health operations, experts and risk assessments, including by sending humanitarian experts on the ground and is contributing with medical equipment to help accelerate diagnosis and the putting in place of health measures to respond to the event. A new study covering 17 EU countries says that far more honeybees are dying in the UK and other parts of northern Europe than in Mediterranean countries.

Winter mortality was especially high for bees in Belgium The mortality percentages are national estimates based on representative samples. The report says that all 17 countries applied the same data collection standards. Yet there is also much concern about death rates among wild bees, which are vital pollinators too. Some of the actions mentioned above may also provide support for wild bees threatened by habitat fragmentation and loss, intensive agriculture, pollution from chemicals and invasive alien species.

Smart selection of non-productive EFA should also enhance their status. It is however for the national authorities to make use of these or meet the biodiversity targets. Men are underdiagnosed and undertreated for anorexia and other eating disorders despite making up about a quarter of cases, a UK study suggests.

Researchers from the University of Oxford and the University of Glasgow interviewed 39 young people aged 16 to 25, including 10 men, about their experiences of diagnosis, treatment and support for eating disorders. What is the Commission doing to raise awareness of eating disorders among young men across the EU? Prostate cancer tests, which predict how aggressive a tumour is, underestimate disease severity in half of cases, scientists say.

In a study of men with prostate cancer, out of the who were initially told their cancer was slow-growing were found to have a more aggressive form of the disease. And for almost a third of the men, it had spread around the body. What steps is the Commission taking in terms of promoting and funding research in this area? In the Council Recommendation on cancer screening was adopted setting out the fundamental principles of best practice in early detection of cancer. Based on accepted scientific criteria, organised population-based screening programmes for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer are currently promoted at EU level.

In order to be recommended for population-based screening, malignant tumours must meet certain scientific criteria: As such, when it comes to prostate cancer, current evidence does not point to an appropriate balance between benefit and harm of population-based screening. However, screening would also lead to diagnosis and unnecessary treatment of asymptomatic cancers that will not emerge during life. The Commission will continue to follow closely the scientific discussion on this issue. Profiling and evaluation of ncRNA that explored the role of key regulators in prostate cancer initiation and progression.

Members will be aware of companies and websites within their own Member States and beyond, that have been hit by the Heartbleed cyber bug. This has seen data belonging to a significant number of citizens harvested by criminal elements. Can the Commission detail what is being done on a European level to assist the improvement of cyber security for citizens, companies and other agencies operating within our borders or on our behalf, and to raise awareness of potential threats?

The Commission considers Heartbleed a potentially serious risk to the confidentiality of citizen's data on the Internet. The extensive publicity that Heartbleed received in the press led to remedial action by the vast majority of Internet sites and services. The exposure to the threat posed by Heartbleed is therefore in steady decline as Internet sites and services continue to update their systems.

The Commission is closely monitoring the situation as recovery efforts continue. The incident has illustrated the increasing need for such EU-wide cooperation. The ECSM aim is to promote cyber security awareness among citizens, to modify their perception of cyber threats and to provide updated security information through education, good practices and competitions. Will the Commissioner advise what, if any, revisions to technical conservation regulations in the Irish Sea have been brought to her attention by Member States?

Since agreement on the reform of the common fisheries policy CFP , no revisions to the technical conservation regulations in the Irish Sea have been requested by the Member States. Following the reformed CFP, a public consultation on a new framework on technical measures has been published, which contemplates the possibility that Member States could in the future make revisions to the technical conservation measures in force through regional recommendations.

However, the government has denied and continues to deny that such things could happen in Burma. The persistent use of rape and sexual violence by the army is a real problem in Burma. This is a highly topical issue. Does the European Union plan any response to this state of affairs? Will the Burmese Government be questioned about the sexual violence perpetrated by its army? Does the European Union propose to address this set of issues during the UN debate? The EU continues to implement its dedicated policy on women, peace and security, adopted in , including through close cooperation with other international and regional organisations.

Prevention of sexual violence has been defined as a priority area for EU action in this regard for All European policies should reflect general interest objectives such as better living and working conditions, the quality of jobs and combating discrimination.

In the context of the many European laws with a direct influence on employee rights and the regulation of work, in what way does the Commission involve the European Trade Union Confederation ETUC in its legislative proposals? The social partners may respond individually or jointly and, if they so wish, may negotiate agreements on the issues in question, including agreements to be implemented through EU legislation.

La Commission peut-elle indiquer quels taux de cofinancement elle appliquera pour les projets relatifs aux autoroutes de la mer? During the negotiations on the Connecting Europe Facility the European Parliament advocated higher co-financing rates for the motorways of the sea, which, by taking up a share of freight transport, could alleviate road and rail congestion.

Could the Commission say what co-financing rates it will offer projects involving the motorways of the sea? The European Union has long been searching for a strategy for harmonising the national university systems. One particularly important issue facing young people is that of university fees.

The differences from one Member State to another are striking. Does the Commission have an action plan for achieving uniformity of study costs in Europe and developing, in the longer term, a genuine European public service for higher education? Therefore, the Commission has no competence on the issue of tuition fees charged for higher education other than ensuring that there is no discrimination on grounds of nationality between domestic students and students from another EU Member State.

Evidence from higher education systems in Europe and elsewhere in the OECD shows no clear correlation between the existence of tuition fees, on the one hand, and levels of participation and completion in higher education, on the other, including among those from low income backgrounds. It is important to ensure adequate investment to create the conditions for higher education institutions to provide high quality and relevant education and it makes sense for institutions to draw funding from a diversity of sources.

The Commission has consistently argued that where tuition fees do exist in higher education, adequate support must be provided to those from low income and other disadvantaged backgrounds. The voluntary sector in the European Union is booming. The economic and social crisis has led to an enhanced role for clubs and associations, which are taking on an increasing number of tasks in the public interest.

However, while progress has been made, the European legal framework does not afford them the best possible conditions in which to carry out these tasks. There is still a degree of legal uncertainty as to which matters are covered by the public interest and which by the market. Furthermore, there is no legal status for associations at European level. European rules treat a large number of activities as forming part of the market, and this makes it harder for the voluntary sector to take the initiative, because there is no legal status for associations at European level.

The Commission has taken several initiatives to support volunteering and to recognise its relevance. The Social Investment Package promotes involvement of the private sector in addressing deeper social challenges, including with the voluntary sector. The Commission promotes employee volunteering through corporate social responsibility, and organised a seminar in on youth, entrepreneurship, volunteering and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Work is ongoing to refine the way Europass can document experience, and so further improve the recognition of volunteering. Greece has the highest flu mortality rate in Europe, and its drastic cuts in public healthcare spending could be responsible. The number of flu-related deaths is much higher in Greece than in any other European country. Does the Commission intend to develop specific health policies for Greece to help it deal with pandemics of this kind?

The Commission is aware of the epidemiological situation of seasonal influenza in Greece. According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, there is no indication that in Greece, in the current season, more people are affected than in previous seasons, nor that seasonal influenza in Greece is more intense than in other Member States.

A key aspect of these activities will be the strengthening of coordination in preparedness and response planning as foreseen in the decision. Pour contrer la crise de l'industrie, l'Europe doit devenir un espace de l'innovation. To counteract the crisis in industry, Europe needs to become an area of innovation. One means to achieve that end might be to set up an innovation and reindustrialisation agency, backed up by the EIB. What role does the Commission envisage for the European Investment Bank in this connection?

The Commission has had constructive cooperation with the European Parliament in the development of its industrial policy. EIB support to industry has been substantial: In particular, financing for key enabling technologies has so far benefited from this cooperation. Celle-ci couvre tous les domaines d'action, y compris le droit de la concurrence.

Several Member States have adopted legislation to permit class actions. However, these class actions are not recognised under EU competition law. Class actions would have positive effects even outside the competition sector, as they can help draw attention to malfunctioning in the internal market and increase consumer confidence in cross-border trade. Is the Commission considering making any legislative proposals with a view to recognising class actions in matters relating to competition law?

Such mechanisms should ensure fair, equitable, timely and not prohibitively expensive procedures and should respect basic principles set out in the recommendation. The recommendation covers all policy fields, including competition law. As part of this assessment, the Commission will also consider whether further measures to consolidate and strengthen the horizontal approach reflected in the recommendation should be proposed. To the extent that Member States have already adopted legislation introducing collective actions which are horizontally applicable or designed specifically for the competition field, these can naturally be used also for the purposes of enforcing EU competition law.

A proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on measures to reduce the cost of deploying high-speed electronic communications networks requires network operators to grant all reasonable requests for access to their physical infrastructure under fair terms and conditions.

The proposal stipulates that any refusal must be based on objective criteria, such as protecting the environment and public health, security of vital national infrastructure, integrity and security of any existing networks, risk of serious interference to other services over the same physical infrastructure caused by the planned electronic communications, and many others. In this connection, how does the Commission intend to verify whether network operators are genuinely upholding the aforementioned obligation?

The final text allows for the possibility to refuse access on the basis of objective, transparent and proportionate criteria and includes an indicative list of reasons to refuse access to the physical infrastructure. While the content of this list is not exhaustive, the directive does impose an obligation for the network operator to substantiate these reasons in its reply within a short deadline. It also empowers the access seeker to challenge this refusal in front of the dispute settlement body designated by the Member State, which must be able to decide in view of the specific facts at stake.

This balanced mechanism for the binding resolution of dispute ensures that the network operators cannot manipulate these objective reasons to refuse access. In case of unjustified refusal to meet reasonable requests for access, or in case of abusive terms and conditions, the dispute resolution body will have the power to impose access on reasonable terms and conditions, including price. Finally, the text provides further indications in this respect in its recitals on which the dispute resolution authority may rely in order to decide on the access request and on the relative terms and conditions.

The decision of the dispute resolution body is binding upon the parties and subject to an appeal before the national judge, while the dispute resolution procedure is without prejudice to the right of each party to refer the case to a national Court. Limiti ai tassi di interesse nel mercato comune e introduzione dell'usura anche per gli istituti bancari europei.

La politica dei prestiti rientra tra le decisioni commerciali degli amministratori delle banche. The squeeze on lending to businesses and households is a major obstacle to the recovery of the European economy, yet, despite the measures taken in recent years by the European Central Bank to breathe life into the real economy, there does not appear to be an end to the credit crunch in sight.

At the end of , the ECB launched two refinancing operations with a cash injection of over one trillion euro, with the aim of pumping liquidity to the European financial system and boosting access to credit. However, these resources have not been used by the banks to kick-start the real economy, but instead have been invested in financial assets that have guaranteed the banks themselves an easy, risk-free path to recovery.

Currently — and herein lies the Italian paradox — whereas the ECB rate has fallen to 0. There is therefore a clear discrepancy between the rates charged by the banks and the rate granted to them by the ECB to help with refinancing, which allows the banks an unacceptable margin of discretion, ensured by the rising usury threshold rate, in setting the rates to be charged to customers.

The situation is similar in other European countries. Thus, the higher lending rates, by and large, did not translate into higher profit margins for banks. Banks' lending policy falls within the remit of commercially-driven decisions by the management of each institution. Difesa dei diritti umani in Nigeria. Che tipo di azioni intende intraprendere a tutela dei sopraenunciati diritti, che devono andare ben oltre i confini della sola Unione europea?

Gli episodi di violenza che si verificano attualmente in Nigeria destano grande preoccupazione. Tale approccio deve comprendere riforme socioeconomiche, la creazione di posti di lavoro e l'erogazione di servizi, il buon governo e lo Stato di diritto. Similar acts have been recorded in the same region, for example an incident in when 20 women were killed in their homes at Maiduguri. A state of emergency has been declared by the Nigerian President in three north-eastern States because of serious guerrilla warfare.

It is frequently the weaker sections of society, such as women and children, who suffer most from instability in a country. What type of action does it intend to take to safeguard the above rights, which should be understood to extend well beyond the confines of the European Union?

The European Union is working with the Nigerian authorities to help bring an end to the cycle of violence. It does so through many actions including continuous political dialogue and targeted aid interventions focusing on the underlying root causes of violence. In our political dialogue with the Nigerian authorities we emphasise the need for Nigeria to address the current security crisis with a comprehensive approach to avoid and prevent alienation.

Such a comprehensive approach should include socioeconomic reforms, job creation and provision of services, good governance and the rule of law. The Instrument for Stability is supporting several peace and mediation programmes and projects contributing to security and the reform of the criminal justice system.

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The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights funds actions to protect human rights, in particular targeting the most vulnerable of society. In Germania e in Austria, dove i padri non sposati non vedono riconosciuti i propri diritti naturali sui figli in maniera automatica come nei restanti paesi dell'Unione, i figli naturali subiscono per questo un pregiudizio e un trattamento discriminatorio rispetto ai figli nati all'interno di un matrimonio.

I bambini risultano portare un cognome nel paese di nascita e un altro in Germania e Austria. Non esiste attualmente alcun atto legislativo dell'UE su tali materie, che sono disciplinate dal diritto interno di ogni Stato membro, ivi comprese le rispettive norme di diritto internazionale privato. In Germany and Austria, unmarried fathers are not automatically accorded natural rights over their children as in the remaining countries in the Union. Such children therefore suffer prejudice and discriminatory treatment compared with children born within a marriage. We have also received documented reports that the surnames of bi-national children born outside Germany and Austria are being changed in these countries.

This means the paternal surname is being replaced with the maternal surname without the knowledge of the father and the identity documents changed accordingly. The outcome is that children carry one surname in their country of birth and another in Germany or Austria. Does it agree that, although supported by the family law of the two countries concerned, this practice is a breach of the right to a name and personal identity enshrined in the European judicial system? If so, does it not consider it necessary to ask the two Member States concerned to adhere to the principles of non-discrimination and the right to personal identity, in particular in the case of minors, shared throughout the Union?

The question asked by the Honourable Member potentially concerns matters such as the law applicable to filiation, parental responsibility and the attribution and change of a child's name. Under this Convention, the attribution, extinction and exercise of parental responsibility is governed by the law of the State of the child's habitual residence. Otherwise, it is for Member States to ensure that fundamental rights are protected in accordance with their national legislation and international human rights obligations.

Citizens who believe that their fundamental rights have not been respected may seek redress at national level through the competent authorities, such as an ombudsman or the courts. The level of borrowing rates offered to consumers is not regulated by Union law. The Commission believes that transparency of information and comparability of offers as provided for in the abovementioned Directives should allow consumers to make an informed decision whether to enter in a given credit contract or not and enable them to compare offers.

In the area of financial services, Member States are allowed to adopt more prescriptive rules with a view, for instance, to prohibit in all circumstances usurious credit. In this respect they are free to set the level of usurious rates. Daugiau nei mln. Daugiau nei 17 mln. These diseases are the most common infectious diseases in children and the leading cause for visits to emergency departments and hospitalisation. Allergic diseases have a negative impact on professional and educational abilities, especially in children, causing social and economic inequality.

Does the Commission intend to promote cooperation and coordination of actions between Member States in order to: The Commission is aware of the burden of disease associated with asthma and allergies in the European Union. Moreover, the European Commission is addressing the key risk factors for this group of diseases in its policies on tobacco control and air quality through legislative action and awareness raising actions.

The Summit called for a coalition involving all relevant sectors across society, patients and citizens, to address chronic diseases, and the Commission intends to work in this direction. In het artikel in Kan de Commissie aangeven welke feiten in het artikel op waarheid berusten en welke niet? Kan de Commissie aangeven welke maatregelen het heeft getroffen of zal treffen om de in het artikel beschreven misstanden te rectificeren? De Commissie geeft geen commentaar op dergelijke volstrekt ongefundeerde beweringen. Deze bijdrage bevatte geen voorwaarden die verband hielden met de steun die Parex had ontvangen.

Parex was de tweede grootste bank van Letland, die om de in de besluiten vermelde redenen systeemrelevant was. Hierdoor besloten de Letse autoriteiten goedkeuring te vragen voor het verlenen van staatssteun. Can the Commission indicate which facts in the article are true and which are not? Can the Commission indicate what measures it has taken or intends to take in order to rectify the abuses described in the article?

The Commission does not comment on such completely unsubstantiated claims. The article fosters confusion on the source of financial aid received by Latvia and how the funds were used. National authorities are responsible for identifying those banks that pose a systemic threat to financial stability and asking for Commission approval for any state aid granted.

Parex was the second largest bank in Latvia, with systemic relevance for the reasons presented in the decisions, so the Latvian authorities decided to ask for state aid approval. Benetton en nasleep van Rana Plaza ramp. De firma Benetton, die in het verleden, al dan niet via onderaannemers, producten uit ateliers in het ingestorte gebouw had besteld, tekende het akkoord pas na een grootschalige online petitie.