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Almost 60 years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon, our closest celestial neighbour continues to amaze, inspire and turn ambition into reality. For Europe, the Moon is not about a race or a question of dominance. It is about its #Moon #SpaceExploration #Inspiration #EU

As #AI transforms justice systems, judicial capacity is key to protecting human rights and the rule of law. Proud to see @UNESCO and #Tanzania’s Institute of Judicial Administration develop a national curriculum on AI & the Rule of Law, with EU support. https://t.co/G8Hu0k4Tjc https://t.co/HmW2XH3iuD #AI #HumanRights #RuleOfLaw #TZ #EU

João Moreira Rato, presidente do Instituto Português de Corporate Governance, afirma que não observa uma reforma profunda do Estado em Portugal, destacando a necessidade de uma verdadeira transformação na gestão de recursos humanos e na execução pública, além de criticar a falta de eficácia nas mudanças propostas. #ReformaDoEstado #GestãoDeRecursosHumanos #Governação

Um tribunal na Indonésia condenou 19 membros de uma rede de tráfico humano que vendia bebés, com a líder do grupo recebendo uma pena de sete anos, enquanto outros réus enfrentaram penas entre três e seis anos e meio, após descobrir que pelo menos 34 bebés foram traficados por preços que chegavam a 700 euros, com muitos tendo o seu destino incerto. #Indonésia #TráficoHumano #Crime

Intensas chuvas no Chile causaram pelo menos 10 mortes e isolaram mais de 104 mil pessoas, levando à declaração de estado de catástrofe em várias regiões, enquanto as autoridades mobilizam ajuda humanitária e alertam para os riscos de inundações e deslizamentos de terra. #Chile #TempestadeIntensa #CatástrofeClimática

El presidente de Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, ha descartado la posibilidad de futuras elecciones en el país, afirmando que su régimen no permitirá procesos electorales que amenacen su control, en un contexto de acusaciones de crímenes de lesa humanidad por parte de expertos de la ONU y críticas internacionales a la reciente reforma constitucional que otorga poder total a su gobierno. #Nicaragua #DanielOrtega #Elecciones

| JULY 2026 | The Guard State How the largest Arab nation became a security contractor at the gates of its own people By Adham Hasanin Egyptian journalist and political writer, based in the Netherlands In June 2025, hundreds of activists from forty countries landed at Cairo airport. Doctors from France, lawyers from Australia, students from the United States, pensioners from the Netherlands. They carried no weapons and no banned slogans; they carried backpacks, walking shoes, and a single intention: to march from Arish to the Rafah crossing — entirely on Egyptian soil — to demand that food be allowed through to a people starving behind the gate. Not one of them reached Rafah. More than two hundred were detained before the march could begin. Around five hundred foreign nationals were deported from airports, hotels, and checkpoints. Passports were confiscated, activists were pulled out of downtown Cairo cafés, and the Global March to Gaza was cancelled on 16 June without taking its first step. And the world watched. This was no secret operation in a dark basement; it happened in the open, documented by the deportees’ own phone cameras, carried by every international news agency. The world watched an Arab state arrest Europeans, Americans, and Africans for wanting to walk towards Palestine. A state guarding the gate of a siege — from the side that was supposed to be the side of rescue. Hold that image, because it is the key to everything that follows. This was not an aberration in Egyptian policy, nor an isolated security decision. It is the function — the complete function around which the Egyptian state has been redefined over the past decade, and which it is time to call by its proper name: the Guard State. I. The Name — What Do We Mean by the Guard State? Political economy has long described states that live off the rent of their location rather than the production of their people. But what has crystallised in Egypt over the past decade goes beyond traditional geographic rent — the Suez Canal, say — into something far graver: the conversion of sovereignty itself into a commodity for hire. The Guard State does not sell its location; it sells its function. It collects its wages not for what it produces, but for what it prevents: it prevents the refugee from reaching Europe, the activist from reaching Gaza, its own people from reaching politics, and the resistance’s weapons from reaching their destination. Four gates, guarded by a single machine, whose wages are paid in loans, deposits, and perpetually renewed rescue packages. This is not a rhetorical metaphor; it is an economic structure with numbers attached. When the Egyptian economy collapsed in 2024, it was rescued not by productive reform but by a single deal whose subject was location: Ras el-Hekma — thirty-five billion dollars for a stretch of coastline. And whenever negotiations with the IMF stall, the tranches are unlocked by explicit European pressure whose subject is migration: nine billion euros from the European Union in the 2024 “Strategic Partnership,” whose own documents place “migration management” at its core. Europe does not pay Egypt to prosper. It pays Egypt to guard. Thus the model is complete: income in exchange for prevention, external legitimacy in exchange for guarding, and international silence about domestic tyranny in exchange for keeping the gates controlled. To see how the model works on the ground, consider the bloodiest gate of all: the gate of Gaza. II. The Gaza Gate — The Guard Who Is Himself Searched The first paradox must be nailed down with facts: Egypt is not a sovereign guard of its own crossing; it is a searched guard. Egyptian relief trucks — ninety-two thousand food parcels in a single convoy this month — are subject to Israeli inspection before entering the Strip: from Egyptian soil, through a crossing that bears an Egyptian name. The state that guards the gate does not hold its key. It owns the threshold, but not the door. Then the October 2025 truce added a new layer to the function. Under the fifteen-point roadmap sponsored by the international envoy together with the “guarantor states” — Egypt foremost among them — Cairo is to train the civilian police force that will replace Hamas in administering the Strip, under the slogan of “one authority, one law, one weapon.” Let us call things by their names: the state that could not — or would not — deliver a loaf of bread without Israeli permission is now qualifying to graduate the security apparatus that will oversee the disarming of the resistance. From guarding the siege to administering what comes after the siege — a promotion within the same project. And meanwhile, what is happening behind the guarded gate? Since the truce, more than one thousand one hundred Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire — the latest, just two days ago, a ten-year-old boy named Motaz Abu Shaar, carried to his grave in Khan Younis by his mother, Warda. A United Nations commission of inquiry has concluded that Israel is “deliberately targeting children in an ongoing genocide.” This is what the guarantors’ official language calls a “ceasefire.” What meaning is left in the word “guarantor”? A guarantor that the gate stays firmly shut — however high the dead pile up behind it. III. The Mediterranean Gate — The Guard Europe Pays For The second gate faces north. Since 2016, Cairo has boasted — through its officials at every European forum — that “not a single irregular migration boat has departed from Egyptian shores.” This is very nearly true. But the forbidden question is: at what political price has this “efficiency” become an instrument of mutual blackmail? Europe — which condemns Egypt’s human rights record in its parliamentary resolutions — is the same Europe that signed the nine-billion-euro partnership, and the same Europe that stays silent about sixty thousand political prisoners because the alternative, in its calculations, is boats that never stop. And Cairo understands the game and has mastered it: whenever human rights pressure intensifies, the official discourse turns up the volume on “Egypt hosts millions of refugees” and “the last line of defence.” The result is a perfect structure of mutual blackmail: Europe buys its conscience’s silence, the regime sells its location, and the people — Egyptian and refugee alike — are the commodity in the transaction. The democracies that lecture on values are financing the guard who keeps the victims from knocking on their doors. This is not passing hypocrisy; it is a structural partnership in the Guard State model — one that makes Brussels and Berlin shareholders in everything this state produces, from domestic repression to external siege. IV. The Interior Gate — Guarding the People Against Politics But the most dangerous gate is not on any border; it is inside. The Guard State cannot perform its external function unless it first guards an internal gate: the people’s gate to politics. The function requires a people that does not ask: why are we guarding the siege of our brothers? Why are our trucks searched on our own soil? Why are guests deported for coming to walk in peace? To guarantee the question is never asked, the largest silencing machine in the country’s history was built: sixty thousand prisoners of opinion, a press ranked 166th out of 180 worldwide, and a state security case number waiting for anyone who writes. I write these lines from experience, not from reading reports. When I continued writing from my Dutch exile, the machine reached me across continents: accounts shut down by coordinated mass-reporting campaigns, documented threats, a family harassed inside Egypt as leverage — and my name entered into Case 1282 of 2024, not for any act I committed, but for opinions written from free European soil. This is not a personal complaint; it is a job description: the Guard State guards even beyond its borders, because the free word — wherever it is written — threatens the entire contract of guardianship. The logic is perfectly self-consistent: a regime that sells “stability” abroad cannot tolerate a voice revealing that the stability on offer is the stillness of graveyards. This is why the arrest of the foreign activists in June 2025 was inevitable, not incidental: a peaceful march reaching Rafah would have revealed, before the world’s cameras, that the gate opens when it is wanted open — and that the one keeping it shut is a partner, not a mediator. V. What Has Egypt Lost? — The Guard’s Bill An apologist might argue: what is the harm? A state monetising its location as Norway monetises its oil. The answer lies in the essential difference: Norway sells a resource; Egypt leases its will. And the difference between the two is the difference between trade and bondage. Let us tally what Egypt has paid for this model, in bare facts. It lost its water sovereignty: the Renaissance Dam was completed and filled without the state — owner of “the largest defence headquarters in the world” — daring anything beyond statements of concern; for the guard does not make trouble for the international order that employs him. It lost its regional standing: in the Iran–America war halted just weeks ago, Cairo was neither party nor mediator nor even consultant — Pakistan brokered the deal, while Egypt absorbed the economic shrapnel of Hormuz’s closure like a bystander caught in a battle whose parties it does not know. It lost its place in the conscience of its nation: the state that liberated its land in 1973 and led the Arab world for a century has become, in the eyes of the Arab street from the Atlantic to the Gulf, the gatekeeper of the siege. This loss, specifically, no loan or deposit can repay — because it is the only capital that cannot be printed. And it lost — here is the crux — the very national security in whose name the guarding is justified. The model proved its fragility at the moment of testing: when Israel feared an Iranian response last year, it cut off Egypt’s gas by unilateral decision within hours. The guard who believed himself a partner discovered he was merely a hireling whose wages stop the moment danger arrives. VI. The Alternative Is Not a Slogan — It Is the Recovery of the Original Function I will not close with an essay on “the solution lies in Arab unity”; worn-out words kill more surely than silence. The alternative is specific, and it begins with redefining the function. The state is not a guard; the state is the agent of its people’s will. Every foreign policy not derived from that will is — by definition — functional servitude, however it is wrapped in the language of wisdom and moderation. And the Egyptian will is known and needs no referendum: no people in this region accepts that its country serve as warden of the siege of Gaza, or as Europe’s border post. Practically, the recovery begins with three measurable steps. Open the Rafah crossing fully and sovereignly, by purely Egyptian decision — that alone would overturn the equation of the siege. Break the negotiating bondage by linking any cooperation on migration to concrete European positions on Palestine, not statements of concern. And open the interior gate — release the prisoners and lift the hand from the written word — because a state that fears an article will never dare face an occupier. I know the current regime will do none of this; guarding is its founding contract and its financial artery. But this article is not written for the regime. It is written for memory, and for the generation that will inherit the gates — so that it knows that what is presented to it today as “the fate of geography” is no fate at all. It is an employment contract, signed by a regime without a mandate from its people. And contracts, however long they run, end when one of their parties does. And the world — I return to where I began — is a witness that requires no further proof. It watched the deportees at Cairo airport; it watched the searched trucks; it watched Warda Abu Shaar carry her son to his grave behind a firmly guarded gate. The question is no longer: what is happening? The only question left is: who dares to name it? This article is a naming. Adham Hasanin is an Egyptian journalist and political writer based in the Netherlands, covering Arab and European political affairs.

Ein wichtiges Herzensprojekt 🚨 Eine deutsche Krankenschwester, von Islamisten entführt, seit 8 Jahren in deren Gefangenschaft! Wir müssen für Sonja Nientiet kämpfen, wir dürfen nicht zulassen, dass sie von Politik und Gesellschaft vergessen wird! FREE SONJA! Sonja Nientiet kam als Krankenschwester des Internationalen Roten Kreuzes nach Somalia, um dort vor Ort zu helfen. Sie wurde von Islamisten entführt und befindet sich nun bereits seit acht ! langen Jahren in deren Gefangenschaft. Ihr Schicksal rührt mich zutiefst, und es darf nicht sein, dass wir Sonja Nientiet vergessen, dass wir sie aufgeben! @HeinischAnnette, @Birgit_Kelle und ich möchten gemeinsam mit Euch die deutsche Regierung unter @bundeskanzler @cducsubt daran erinnern, dass sich in Somalia seit acht Jahren eine deutsche Geisel befindet, die verzweifelt auf ihre Freilassung hofft. Wir bitten Euch um Eure Unterstützung: Unterschreibt die Petition: https://t.co/a87OZR58IM Teilt die Petition! Teilt den Podcast! https://t.co/vt7yDHAj45 FREE SONJA! Von Herzen: DANKE ❤️ #FreeSonja #HumanRights #Kriegsgefangene

Robin Williams, jedan od najvećih komičara i dramskih glumaca svih vremena, ostavio je neizbrisiv trag u filmskoj industriji svojim nezaboravnim ulogama i humanitarnim radom, dok je njegova borba s mentalnim zdravljem i prerana smrt 2014. pokrenula važnu raspravu o psihološkim bolestima. #RobinWilliams #mentalnozdravlje #glumac

Η Human Rights Watch (HRW) αναφέρει ότι οι ΗΠΑ ενδέχεται να έχουν συμμετάσχει σε επιθέσεις εναντίον αλιευτικών σκαφών στον Ισημερινό μεταξύ Ιανουαρίου και Μαρτίου, οι οποίες οδήγησαν σε θάνατο και εξαφάνιση, παρά τις διαψεύσεις της Ουάσιγκτον, τονίζοντας ότι οι εν λόγω επιθέσεις περιλάμβαναν εξωδικαστικές εκτελέσεις και βασανισμούς στο πλαίσιο στρατιωτικής συνεργασίας με το Ισημερινό. #ΗΠΑ #Ισημερινός #ΑνθρωπίνωνΔικαιωμάτων

Dans une interview, Sean Penn exprime son engagement humanitaire en Ukraine, soulignant que ce pays représente un puissant symbole de liberté à travers son courage face à l'invasion, tout en partageant ses réflexions sur sa carrière et son malaise dans le milieu hollywoodien. #SeanPenn #Ukraine #Liberté

Diena Nr.37 premjera krēslā = sagurums pēc neparedzēti garā futbola fināla Šodien jūtams nogurums, bet darbi negaida. Pētījumi un valsts finansējums Šodien izbrīnīja, cik sensitīvi JV uztver jautājumu par NVO un valsts finansēto pētījumu lietderības izvērtēšanu. Varbūt tāpēc, ka vairāki viņu labi zināmie deputāti ir cieši saistīti gan ar dažādu NVO darbību, gan valsts finansētiem pētniecības projektiem. Tomēr valdības pozīcija šajā jautājumā ir skaidra jau kopš 2026. gada 16. jūnija. Ministru kabinets, izskatot valsts pētījumu programmu "Digitālās humanitārās un sociālās zinātnes", uzdeva visām ministrijām nodrošināt, ka valsts finansējums tiek piešķirts tikai tādiem pētījumiem, kuri: ➖nedublē jau esošus pētījumus; ➖tiem Ir skaidri definēti mērķi un sasniedzamie rezultāti; ➖ieguvums ir izmērāms un praktiski izmantojams nozares attīstībā. Zinātnei finansējums ir nepieciešams, taču arī sabiedrībai ir tiesības zināt, kādu labumu valsts par šo naudu iegūst. Galvenais princips ir vienkāršs – ministrijām jāpasūta pētījumi, kas atbilst valsts prioritātēm un palīdz pieņemt labākus lēmumus. Valdības rīcības plāns Valsts kanceleja sadarbībā ar Finanšu ministriju valdības rīcības plānu samazinājusi no 215 līdz 150 darbiem, no kuriem 61 ir prioritārs, tostarp 17 ar būtisku finanšu ietekmi. Plāns ir gatavs apstiprināšanai valdībā. Par ministriju apvienošanu Jūtams, ka tuvojas vēlēšanas. KEM, EM un VARAM apvienošana šobrīd nav valdības prioritāte, un šīs valdības laikā to kvalitatīvi paveikt nepaspēsim. Vispirms nepieciešams nopietns finanšu un funkciju izvērtējums. Šo diskusiju turpināsim Nacionālā attīstības plāna izstrādes laikā un pēc vēlēšanām, kad katra partija varēs nākt ar savu redzējumu par efektīvāku valsts pārvaldi. Valsts nekustamie īpašumi (VNĪ) Jau 2006. gadā tika pieņemts lēmums, ka valsts īpašumi pakāpeniski jānodod VNĪ pārvaldībā. jūnijā uzdevu divu nedēļu laikā sagatavot pilnu apkopojumu. Ir pienācis laiks šo procesu beidzot pabeigt – ministrijām nav jātur savā pārziņā kapitālsabiedrības, kuru vienīgā funkcija ir apsaimniekot nekustamos īpašumus. ES fondu pārdale Pēc koalīcijas partneru ierosinājuma tiek atjaunota struktūrfondu koalīcijas darba grupa. 6. augustā Finanšu ministrija iepazīstinās ar aktuālo situāciju, un kopīgi izvērtēsim, kur tiek novirzīti Eiropas Savienības fondu līdzekļi un kā tos izmantot efektīvāk. #Zinātne #Finansējums #Politika

Mas gente, não dá pra mensurar a crueldade que foi esse Rodrigo Godoy ter feito o que fez com a Preta Gil durante o tratamento de câncer. O cara que era pra ajudar, piorou a situação, que era delicadíssima! É surreal pensar que o ser humano pode ser tão ruim e nojento assim. #Crueldade #Solidariedade #Justiça

“Avergüenza un gobierno y un congreso que acepte una relación diplomática con quien ha asesinado con misiles a 22 mil bebés”: Petro hace momentos en la instalación del 20 de julio. Total verdad. Un sector del Senado y Cámara de ultraderecha critican al progresismo cuando ha reducido como nunca la mortalidad infantil, salvando a miles de mujeres y niños, y aplaude a Abelardo que estrecha lazos con los genocidas de Palestina que han arrasado a la niñez y han atentado contra la humanidad exterminando a más de 70 mil personas. #Diplomacia #DerechosHumanos #Justicia

Os irmãos Andrew e Tristan Tate estão a contestar a sua extradição para o Reino Unido após serem acusados de múltiplos crimes sexuais, incluindo violação e tráfico humano, e esperam que uma juíza distrital dos EUA decida sobre o caso nas próximas semanas. #CrimesSexuais #TráficoHumano #Violação

Vergessen wird, dass Jens Spahn sehr wahrscheinlich auch #Eizellen für die Befruchtung der #Leihmutter gekauft hat. Prof. Sigrid Graumann ist Biologin, Humangenetikerin und war Mitglied im deutschen Ethikrat. Sie findet: Auch die Eizellspende muss verboten bleiben! Aus guten Gründen. https://t.co/opd9bbr4fP #Eizellen #Leihmutterschaft #Ethik

Ei ole sattumaa, että SDP on vastustanut lähes joka ikistä hallituksen maahanmuuttopolitiikkaan tekemää kiristystä. Puolueiden ja poliitikkojen korkein intressi on lisätä kannatustaan ja varmistaa uudelleenvalintansa. Eli toisin sanoen saada lisää äänestäjiä. Kun äänioikeutetuista ja kantansa kertovista vieraskielisistä 45% äänestäisi SDP:tä, on täysin selvää, että vieraskielisten määrän kasvattaminen palvelee puolueen intressejä. Eduskuntavaaleissa pienetkin marginaalit vaikuttavat ratkaisevasti valtatasapainoon. Suurten kaupunkien pormestaripuolueiden paikoista käydään tiukkoja kisoja. Tästä muodostuu epäterve intressi. Puolueen etu – eli humanitäärisen maahanmuuton kasvattaminen – ei ole Suomen etu. #maahanmuutto #politiikka #SDP