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25.03.2008 British and French leaders Gordon Brown and Nicholas Sarkozy will this week sign up to an entente atomique and herald a new era of cross-Channel cooperation.

18.03.2008

13.03.2008 Although many people claim to be in favour of tackling climate change, few have passed the acid test whereby they are required to pay for it themselves.
From: Eco worldly

11.03.2008 President Bush rallied rich nations last week to join the the U.K., Japan, and the United States in committing billions of dollars for developing countries to expand their renewable energy capacity.

10.03.2008

07.03.2008 'What is a good car? ask activists at the Geneva car show. Branding the cars as ‘Engines of Climate Destruction’, Greenpeace is demanding that car makers, politicians and the public rethink what makes a good car.

19.02.2008 La Svizzera lo scorso anno ha esportato armi e materiale bellico per complessivi 464,5 milioni di franchi (oltre 290 milioni di euro) con un aumento del 16,8% rispetto al 2006. Se i cinque principali clienti sono sono stati la Germania (62 milioni di franchi), l'Irlanda (51 milioni), gli Stati Uniti, la Danimarca (42 milioni di franchi ciascuno), e la Gran Bretagna (40 milioni) al sesto posto vi è il Pakistan al quale sono stati forniti sei sistemi di difesa antiaerea per un importo di 38 milioni di franchi. Ma lo scorso novembre il Consiglio federale ha sospeso le autorizzazioni di esportazione e ogni ulteriore consegna di materiale bellico al Pakistan. Una richiesta di sospensione delle forniture al Pakistan era stata avanzata lo scorso novembre anche in Italia dalla Rete Disarmo, ma non è stata resa nota alcuna decisione da parte del Governo italiano.

28.01.2008 Eurooppalainen oikeusistuin päätti Hollannissa ensimmäistä kertaa historiassa, että julkisissa hankinnoissa saa vaatia reilun kaupan kriteerien täyttämistä.

18.01.2008 NEW YORK, Jan 18 (OneWorld) - London and Paris were given a prestigious award this week for their innovative citywide programs to improve public transit and reduce traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions.

26.12.2007 Six French aid workers have been sentenced to eight years of forced labour for attempting to kidnap more than 100 African children, who they said were Darfuri orphans.
From Earth Times

30.11.2007 Sweden tops a new Humanitarian Response Index, followed by Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the European Commission.
From: Dara International

15.11.2007 Thirty years after the Baader-Meinhof Group rocked West German democracy with a series of terrorist attacks, an ICA film season takes a look at the role of women in the revolutionary struggle, both politically and personally.

13.11.2007 Ranskalaisen Zoén arkki -nimisen järjestön työntekijöitä pidätettiin Tšadissa epäiltynä 103 lapsen sieppaamisesta ja yrityksestä lennättää heidät Ranskaan.

05.11.2007 Chad's release of two French journalists arrested in a controversy over an attempt to transport 103 African children to France has been welcomed by international media organisations.

04.11.2007 A piece of verbatim theatre based on the words of prisoners and guards from Nazi concentration camps has been given a twist in a current London production - it is performed by Rwandans and Congolese who bring to the stage their closeness to a more recent genocide.

31.10.2007 Spain's new electronic ID cards will reach 30 million citizens soon. The Interior Ministry has already distributed 1.2 million chip-based cards and expects to issue at least 800,000 more by the end of the year.

30.10.2007 Three French journalists have been charged in Chad with kidnapping minors and fraud for covering the alleged attempt by Arche de Zoé (Zoé’s Ark) to evacuate 103 African children to France.

29.10.2007 NEW YORK, Oct 29 (OneWorld) - Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. secretary of defense, is facing criminal charges in France for ordering the torture of prisoners in Iraq and at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

29.10.2007 Spain and France have sent diplomats to Chad where 16 of their nationals are still under arrest accused of child trafficking after being caught on Thursday trying to fly 103 young children out of the country to France.
From: EuroNews

27.10.2007 The UN Children's Fund has criticised an attempt to separate more than 100 young Chadian children from their parents and take them to France for adoption as “illegal and totally irresponsible".