It assures that it is "the first" French metropolis to adopt such a text. On closer inspection, Lille and Toulouse have already done the same thing, but who cares. At the end of the year, the elected representatives of Rennes Métropole voted in favor of the adoption of a first “metropolitan charter of citizen participation”. This document has the particularity of having been designed by a citizen jury drawn by lot. For several months, 86 inhabitants chosen at random began...
STORY: (NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS WITHOUT SPEAKER TEXT) Robert Habeck (Die Grünen), Federal Minister of Economics on Wednesday in Berlin: "The Energy Charter Treaty has proven to be an obstacle to change in the past. It follows a logic that questions raises. That namely against state decisions, resolutions that are made and implemented by parliaments and governments, can be sued against the states before private arbitral tribunals. We experienced that with the German nuclear phase-out. And we experienced it with...
Clémentine Autain wants the left-wing alliance Nupes to adopt a "charter" allowing it to improve its response to cases of sexual and gender-based violence within it, said MP LFI this Sunday, commenting on the case of her colleague Adrian Quatennens."It's complicated to have a political response that is refined, because the #metoo movement is recent, and I believe that our political movements have not worked hard enough to have a fair, proportionate, graduated response that meets to the range of...
It's going to be a journey into the cold: This Tuesday, the 53 governments that signed the controversial Energy Charter Treaty are meeting in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia. Temperatures there are between minus 17 and minus four degrees Celsius; November is not exactly the best time to travel to the Asian country. The reward for the effort should actually be that the states decide on a comprehensive reform of the agreement. But that will not happen because EU...
This is, according to its creators, a first. The City of Paris will adopt a charter to be exemplary in terms of labor law, and intends to introduce a social law clause "which favors socially and ecologically virtuous companies". In any case, this is the intention displayed by a deliberation carried out by the communist group, which must, according to our information, be validated by the executive and adopted on Wednesday in the Council of Paris.“The City of Paris has...
Status: 11/11/2022 10:25 p.m The Energy Charter has long been criticized by environmentalists. According to the will of the traffic light groups, Germany should now withdraw from the agreement in order to advance the energy transition and thus climate protection. The factions of the traffic light government want Germany to withdraw from a controversial international energy agreement in order to promote climate protection. Members of the Bundestag from the SPD, Greens and FDP announced that they planned to withdraw from...
The text, signed in 1994, is accused of hindering climate ambitions.After France, Spain and the Netherlands, Germany will in turn pull out of the 30-year-old Energy Charter Treaty, accused of hindering climate ambitions, the German government announced on Friday. ."We are consistently orienting our trade policy towards climate protection and are therefore withdrawing from the Energy Charter Treaty", says State Secretary at the Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection , Franziska Brantner, in a press release.A treaty signed in 1994"This...
climate crisis Traffic light factions want to get out of the Energy Charter The leader of the Greens, Katharina Dröge, describes the exit from the Energy Charter as a "milestone". photo © Kay Nietfeld/dpa An international energy agreement has long been the subject of criticism. According to the will of the traffic light, Germany should now withdraw from the so-called Energy Charter in order to advance climate protection. The traffic light coalition wants to get out of a controversial international...
President Emmanuel Macron during a press conference after an exchange on the second day of the European Council in Brussels on Friday October 21, 2022. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP The President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, announced Friday, October 21, at the end of the European summit in Brussels, the withdrawal of France from the treaty on the energy charter (TCE), ratified in 1994. The president is thus following the recommendations of the High Council for the Climate (HCC),...
Not compatible with the objectives of the Paris agreement... For this main reason, France will withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT)announced Emmanuel Macron, this Friday, at the end of a summit of the European Council, in Brussels, relates the francetvinfo website. The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) is an international trade and investment agreement aimed at promoting cooperation in the energy sector. It was signed by France in 1994 and then ratified in 1999. Deemed incompatible with the Paris AgreementIt...
